Bonus materials add-ons?
Very first impressions about Andrew's superb book are just started to come in and we are all very happy about it. We all also get a brief note included alongside book with Andrew's appreciation for all of us who waited for it for so long. And in the post scriptum there is also something which caught my eye. Hint about bonus materials to be added to http://www.zxgoldenyears.com/. I wonder what else is in the works?
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Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
It's a surprise...
Actually, depending how my current inquiries go, it may be better than I thought... but that's a different thing entirely... Well, it's related, but it's different, if you get my meaning...
Anyway... I'm about to start some of it... How that develops will depend on the results of my inquiries :o
Good call. When I sell out, I'll probably put the book up for free download... probably. Well, maybe... We'll see... It depends ;-)
Huzzah indeed... I'll be updating it with the next batch of nice comments soon... On a related note, you've no idea what a relief/delight it is to have nothing but positive comments... and they're generally even more positive that I could have hoped for... :-D
(But I guess I'm too close to the thing to see anything but warts right now.) :roll:
Andrew
/ smiley overload
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
Glad I could help! :D
Andrew
let me be the first to say it's crap then ;-)
(trouble is, it's rather quite good, honestly, i only want to be on record as the first actually saying it's crap ;-)
when's number two coming out then?
I like surprises! :)
Well, actually, I would love to see second volume. Sometime in the future. With even more games covered and also those which are not in now (Turbo Esprit, Bomb Jack etc.).
yeah, but in a funky skillo kind of way...
dunno... i keep squeezing and checking the bowl... but nothing's there!
Andrew
I do actually have a minor thing to say about the book - Chuckie Egg and one of the other pages (round about 100) weren't printed quite right - the white is a bit thinner than on the other pages. Still very readable though (if you're not using a crap bedside lamp ;-) ) and that very minor niggle was well out of your hands.
I'm all the way to Match Day so far. Simply un-put-downable (in both senses of the word)
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
perhaps u should syndicate it in ZXF and ZXSHED - start a bidding war :)
or even better - do a revised version with covertape :o
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
It would be funnier just to do an image of a cassette stuck on with shit sellotape...
Andrew
Actually, that's a very good idea - put all of the denied games on there, from Ultimate, Codemasters etc. They'll get the book banned, and you can sell the books for far more than their normal price, as when something's banned, it sells far more and for a far higher price than otherwise.
Hmmm... Was the C64 ever banned, come to think of it? It's the only way to explain anyone ever buying one ;-)
But serious, that would be a true interactive journey through Speccy games history. Without great classics, of course (Ultimate & Codies). And with Spectaculator emulator included (just look at page 244 where are endnotes and you will see why!). ;)
meh... dangerous territory... I can write about games without asking for permission... but to include the actual snapshots on the cd.. I think not...
Still you could view the book as a 'google treasure hunt' and go through it page by page looking for the denienced games.
Andrew
Yeah, we all know that... black territory... We can only hope that someday also Ultimate and Codies games will be available.