Comments on: The Graphics Card Saga http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2006/08/24/the-graphics-card-saga/ Life on other planets is difficult Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:47:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Endie http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2006/08/24/the-graphics-card-saga/#comment-2156 Endie Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:19:18 +0000 http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2006/08/24/the-graphics-card-saga/#comment-2156 16k? Thee were looky, lad. I have no idea how I wrote stuff on that 1k ZX81 but by golly I did. By the time I got my milk-cooled (a pint of milk from the fridge had a nice, high specific heat capacity) 16k Ram Pack it was only a few months til i became a Little Lord Fauntleroy and received a BBC Micro Model B. I do remember a flight sim for the 16k ZX81, though: you flew a 747 (nice move: couldn't roll fast so no quick redraws needed) and the graphics were: the horizon (a line) the runway (a rectangle) and two beacons (dots). The leap to Aviator on the Beeb was huge. As a matter of interest, since you are the only person I know still playing SWG, what is it like these days? My impression is still train-wreck but I like to keep an open mind. I'm watching the equally accident-prone SWGemu project with a mixture of vague hope and pessimism. Endie 16k? Thee were looky, lad. I have no idea how I wrote stuff on that 1k ZX81 but by golly I did. By the time I got my milk-cooled (a pint of milk from the fridge had a nice, high specific heat capacity) 16k Ram Pack it was only a few months til i became a Little Lord Fauntleroy and received a BBC Micro Model B.

I do remember a flight sim for the 16k ZX81, though: you flew a 747 (nice move: couldn’t roll fast so no quick redraws needed) and the graphics were: the horizon (a line) the runway (a rectangle) and two beacons (dots). The leap to Aviator on the Beeb was huge.

As a matter of interest, since you are the only person I know still playing SWG, what is it like these days? My impression is still train-wreck but I like to keep an open mind. I’m watching the equally accident-prone SWGemu project with a mixture of vague hope and pessimism.

Endie

]]> By: Lyle http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2006/08/24/the-graphics-card-saga/#comment-2155 Lyle Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:39:29 +0000 http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2006/08/24/the-graphics-card-saga/#comment-2155 Yeah, ZX81 flight-sim. Now there was something impressive in its day. Totally shit now, of course, but a flight sim in 16K - and the added tension of the wobbly ram-pack that might just kill everything at the slightest twitch? Heavy duty gameplay stress action! Yeah, ZX81 flight-sim. Now there was something impressive in its day.

Totally shit now, of course, but a flight sim in 16K - and the added tension of the wobbly ram-pack that might just kill everything at the slightest twitch? Heavy duty gameplay stress action!

]]> By: Matt http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2006/08/24/the-graphics-card-saga/#comment-2154 Matt Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:33:08 +0000 http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2006/08/24/the-graphics-card-saga/#comment-2154 I *heart* Half-Life2. I also loved my Speccy 48k, with the 32k "upgrade" card in it. A friend of my Dad's still has his ZX81. It powers his garage-door opener now. I *heart* Half-Life2.

I also loved my Speccy 48k, with the 32k “upgrade” card in it.

A friend of my Dad’s still has his ZX81. It powers his garage-door opener now.

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