"Justified and Ancient" - brilliant track. Is that saying something about WOSsers though?
Great stuff these.
And my LEGO calendar gave me a lady pirate today, complete with bra straps showing, eye-patch and telescope. What a day. And Buzzsaw now has a loading screen.
I'm enjoying the calendar too. Admittedly, I manage to contain my enthusiasm a bit better than my five-year-old does with her calendar, but it is still lots of fun to see what retro-memories will be revealed each day. Today's mention of VU-3D shows how far things have come. I remember the Speccy struggling to rotate that wine glass. Now my phone can throw more polygons around in a second than could fit in 1,000 spectrums.
I'm enjoying the calendar too. Admittedly, I manage to contain my enthusiasm a bit better than my five-year-old does with her calendar, but it is still lots of fun to see what retro-memories will be revealed each day. Today's mention of VU-3D shows how far things have come. I remember the Speccy struggling to rotate that wine glass. Now my phone can throw more polygons around in a second than could fit in 1,000 spectrums.
Aye - I'm currently throwing around handmade meshes (never again...) and whilst I'm no Pixar, the end results aren't too bad.
I'm still LOVING these, Nick :)
You see, it's the small details that really make these special. Things like
'For some reason each of us had full-length toweling dressing gowns, and for some reason I remember my Saturdays would consist mainly of waiting for my father to return from the weekly food shop before grabbing a couple of fresh baps and making salami sandwiches for breakfast, chomping on them whilst waiting for the games to load.'
I'm still LOVING these, Nick :)
You see, it's the small details that really make these special. Things like
'For some reason each of us had full-length toweling dressing gowns, and for some reason I remember my Saturdays would consist mainly of waiting for my father to return from the weekly food shop before grabbing a couple of fresh baps and making salami sandwiches for breakfast, chomping on them whilst waiting for the games to load.'
Just make them so special.
Hope you are ok, mate :)
Brilliant - that's precisely what I was aiming for. Glad I hit the bullseye :)
Tomorrow is the start of the finale, and I think the entries from now till Christmas are the strongest from a writer's point of view, quite personal, and will hopefully resonate surprisingly well with the reader. My old memories won't be shared by everybody, but I think there's plenty in there for everyone.
Where on EARTH did you get thoes pages from the old Argos catalouge from?!
Also, I see you grew up in Essex. Which part (and don't say all of me!!)? I was born and bread in Essex and still live here.
Where on EARTH did you get thoes pages from the old Argos catalouge from?!
Also, I see you grew up in Essex. Which part (and don't say all of me!!)? I was born and bread in Essex and still live here.
Someone scanned in the 1984 Autumn/Winter catalogue and put it on CD - some great stuff in there :) I spent a lot of time growing up in Saffron Walden and plotting an escape route out of it.
I didn't think you were too hard on Crash at all. It was a bitter end for them. I had read Crash since 1984 and when I think back to what they became I could weep :(
Such a shame...
Nice read today. Totally agree about Crash, those early Xmas covers really give me goose bumps. I wasnt a fan of tapes on the front cover (and the magazine sadly thinning). Due to having a fair few friends with Speccys i had most of them anyway ;)
Todays was okayish. Yesterdays was bloody AMAZING!
Ha ha, yeah! I was also delighted. Some guy- can't remember his name- said his favourite Christmas song was Frosty The Snowman by The Ronettes, which of course I produced back in '63. Whoever he was, he looked like a moron, but he's got good taste... :D
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Great stuff these.
And my LEGO calendar gave me a lady pirate today, complete with bra straps showing, eye-patch and telescope. What a day. And Buzzsaw now has a loading screen.
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I'm pretty proud of it!
Aye - I'm currently throwing around handmade meshes (never again...) and whilst I'm no Pixar, the end results aren't too bad.
And you know what? It's possible. In monochrome, but it's possible. Remember the moving advert that was in Rolling Stone or Esquire or some such mag?
That'll probably be done once I have the documentary DVD done in 2012 ;)
You see, it's the small details that really make these special. Things like
'For some reason each of us had full-length toweling dressing gowns, and for some reason I remember my Saturdays would consist mainly of waiting for my father to return from the weekly food shop before grabbing a couple of fresh baps and making salami sandwiches for breakfast, chomping on them whilst waiting for the games to load.'
Just make them so special.
Hope you are ok, mate :)
Brilliant - that's precisely what I was aiming for. Glad I hit the bullseye :)
Maybe I ought to go into writing non-fiction?
Also, I see you grew up in Essex. Which part (and don't say all of me!!)? I was born and bread in Essex and still live here.
Someone scanned in the 1984 Autumn/Winter catalogue and put it on CD - some great stuff in there :) I spent a lot of time growing up in Saffron Walden and plotting an escape route out of it.
Small world...
Keep reading to find out who ;)
Who is it? Go on, tell us!!
Wait and see... you'll know within a week ;)
Can't wait!
Such a shame...
But those early Xmas issues, just amazing !!!
Ha ha, yeah! I was also delighted. Some guy- can't remember his name- said his favourite Christmas song was Frosty The Snowman by The Ronettes, which of course I produced back in '63. Whoever he was, he looked like a moron, but he's got good taste... :D
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