Re: [Algorithms] FPS Questions

[gl <gl...@nt...>]

Hey - leave the Spec alone!  Pick on a computer your own size.  (i dunno,
maybe a Cray or something)...

I liked the loading feedback - always nice to see a good real-time
visualisation of what goes on inside these strange boxes (you wouldn't
believe how hard I tried to figure out how to change the two colours for my
loaders ;)  Of course nothing ever loaded when you wanted it to, usually
failing at the last second... and the quickloaders, well, let's not talk
about those (remember adjusting your tape head alignment endlessly)?  Ah,
memories...
--
gl


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Baker" <st...@li...>
To: <gda...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 5:15 PM
Subject: RE: [Algorithms] FPS Questions


> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Tom Forsyth wrote:
>
> > Kim, you'll find that if you spend enough time in the pubs, the movies
won't
> > bother you any more. :-)
>
> It'll bother you - you just won't *remember* that it bothered you :-)
>
> > And yes, I think they can be trained. Maybe it's from years of sitting
> > staring at a bright white ZX Spectrum(*) screen while coding in basic
that
> > I've become allergic to low frame rates.
>
> Your memory is leaky.  The Spectrum was BLACK.  You're thinking of the
> ZX80 and ZX81.
>
> > (*) Home computer, contemporary (and clear superior, obviously) of the
C64.
> > I think it was called a TRS80 on the other side of the pond?
Fantastically
> > popular here in Britland.
>
> No!  TRS-80 (Pronounced 'Trash-Eighty') was a Tandy/Radio-Shack machine
> with a *real* keyboard, *real* display, etc, etc. V.Superior to anything
> Sinclair produced.  I owned three of them at one time!
>
> In the US, the ZX-80/81 was called "Timex 1000" or something like that,
> I didn't think the Spectrubbish was ever marketted in the US.
>
> Hmmm - Sinclair computers - the memories...
>
> The wobbly RAM pack - the BlueTac to stop it sliding around
> the desk - the 'dead flesh' feel to the so-called "keyboard" (on the
> Spectrum).  That the display was generated in software (on the ZX80)
> - so the screen went blank whenever you ran a program or hit a key
> or something.
>
> The adverts that said that you could control a nuclear power plant
> with it. (That same advert showed the Spectrum displaying a Union
> Jack - which it cannot do because it's graphics 'cells' could only
> contain two colours per cell).
>
> The migrane-simulation it displayed as it loaded stuff from tape.
>
> The *requirement* that you use short-cut keys for all BASIC reserved
> words - so their interpreter wouldn't have to actually parse the
> source code!  Having to use THREE shift keys to get to some of the
> more "unusual" BASIC operators...unusual like '<' and '>' :-)
>
> <shudder>
>
> I remember the ZX80/ZX81 and Spectrum *very* well.  Each was
> truly a complete piece of shit - even by the low standards of
> the time!
>
> You thought it was better than C64?!?  I *don't* think so.
>
> Still - you could always upgrade to the Sinclair QL (Quick-Lashup)
> with it's infamous 'microdrives'.  (If you had two microdrives,
> drive A couldn't read tapes written by drive B and vice-versa!)
>
> Clive Sinclair made an "Electric Car" too...can you say "Death Trap" ?
>
>   :-)
>
>
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