Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Shaughnessy Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: About as cool as cool can be.... Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 04:13:32 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 45 Message-ID: <365F786C.6E91@manc.u-net.com> References: <7322ko$ekm1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <1disd5a.dlefr5eaguuiN@a1-88-115.a1.nl> <365CB0A7.9EB1E480@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk> <365D9833.2995D1D0@hinge.mistral.co.uk> Reply-To: james@manc.u-net.com NNTP-Posting-Host: manc.u-net.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) JTait@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk wrote: > To go off at a slight tangent, one or two computers have been > mentioned in this thread and I was wondering just what > computers/consoles people have owned or still do own. Machines, (and what limited amount I did on them programming-wise) : Pong type videogame system: Videomaster or something or other.. More fun than Starsky and Hutch. Well, maybe not. Commodore VIC-20 (a bit young then to program) Commodore 64 (Simon's Basic with some POKEing and PEEKing) Atari ST (STOS -- how Basic was supposed to be; sold it for an Amiga) Commodore Amiga A500 (AMOS + various 8-bit emulators were on the scene (speccy, BBC etc) plus the best "demo" scene I ever witnessed) GameBoy (if I knew how to write for it I would've) 486DX2/66 (Borland C++ 3.0 ugh made me want to "go postal") Intel Pentium P133 (same monitor+HDD etc as 486.. not made of money!) Nintendo 64 (pure social-gaming excellence. pro-gram-ming?) Net Yaroze PlayStation (er... I think it's called "C") GameBoy Color (I really need to think about learning ASM) Nintendo 2000 (with a professional Dev Kit and a Ferrari 355) I may mave dreamt that last one. Or did I. > > to on the PSX now). Even the old Dragon32 3D tutorial I had > > used matrix maths....and that's a long long time ago (not that > > I understood it at the time, I just never throw techie mags away). I still have "The Home Computer Course" (two volumes) and four volumes of "Input" -- brilliant 80's multi format reading for the young wannaby nurd! (both Marshall-Cavendish I think, covered Dragon32/64, BBC/Acorn, Speccy/ZX81, VIC20/CBM64, MSX, Oric, TI1/99.. etc.) Blimey, I can remember seeing pictures of a "mouse" and thinking, "interesting idea!" Merde, back then the CBM64 was a BUSINESS MACHINE (CBM - Commodore Business Machine). I guess its from machines like that that WYSIWYG became something to get excited about! Although I STILL don't know where the VIC-20 got that "20" figure from.. 20 minute attention-span perhaps ;-) Jim "Free binder with part one!" -- ----------------------------------------- James Shaughnessy james@manc.u-net.com http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~shaughnj -----------------------------------------