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Post by madjack on Oct 18, 2022 7:11:51 GMT
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Post by blahzor on Oct 18, 2022 7:17:33 GMT
Colors. Who needs them?
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Post by cu on Oct 18, 2022 8:14:22 GMT
Oh, I didn't know Mr. Siddell was a fellow fossil. The Speccy had 8 colors, actually, but they could only be applied to 8x8 pixel blocks in pairs of foreground and background. As a matter of fact, it took a while for the newer, swankier PCs to catch up with that level of colorfulness. Who needs disks when you have cassette tapes? Beeeeeeeeeeeeep... beeeeeeeeeepgurglygurglgurgly... Now, for some 80s teenager nostalgia: torinak.com/qaop/games |
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Post by philman on Oct 18, 2022 10:19:12 GMT
Ah yes, so a gamer comic parody all the way through. Can't tell yet if it is going to just be a parody the whole 2 weeks, or if it is working up to some big meta joke in the end
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Post by arf on Oct 18, 2022 10:45:36 GMT
Tom could have called this filler 'Sinclair Simone' (with dog, even)
Beep for razberry tunz...
They left out red and blue.
Mind you, CGA of the IBM XTs only had black, white, cyan, and magenta.
Trying to imagine how GC would have looked...
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 18, 2022 13:29:34 GMT
Way to go, Tom. Startup a 64 vs Speccy war in the comments. You walked right into that obvious and topical fight.
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Post by Nnelg on Oct 18, 2022 13:38:08 GMT
Are we going to keep going backwards in time, like Jones' chapter?
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Post by bedinsis on Oct 18, 2022 20:32:17 GMT
I only heard of the Speccy after a developer I follow made a game(Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt) meant to emulate the limitations of that system. After that I had a period where I was curious of system and the titles released for it.
Regarding the t-shirts:
I know that Skool Daze was a game for that system about being a student at a school. I think Dizzy is meant to reference Fantasy World Dizzy, a series released for several of the computers released in that era, the Speccy presumably included.
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Post by speedwell on Oct 19, 2022 9:06:10 GMT
I remember when we didn't even have colours, when I was in high school. Then my best friend (and crush) got something, for his birthday, with a tape drive, that could do colours. He made little circles, blue on red, green on purple, that hurt your eyes, but what fun.
My dad had worked for a company that made pacemakers before he went to work for Hayes when they were practically a startup, so he had modems around a lot. But it wasn't until a year or two after my friend "made colours" that they became affordable for everyone, and a further year or so before Internet chat started to be a thing people did who weren't in the military or in a university.
I was going to say "fun times", but honestly? The late 80s? 😅
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 19, 2022 13:46:32 GMT
Ah yes, so a gamer comic parody all the way through. Can't tell yet if it is going to just be a parody the whole 2 weeks, or if it is working up to some big meta joke in the end Maybe the last page shows Kat drawing the comic and Annie saying that she doesn't understand any of the jokes. |
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Post by rimwolf on Oct 19, 2022 21:46:18 GMT
Ah yes, so a gamer comic parody all the way through. Can't tell yet if it is going to just be a parody the whole 2 weeks, or if it is working up to some big meta joke in the end Maybe the last page shows Kat drawing the comic and Annie saying that she doesn't understand any of the jokes. You mean "Blood Dex Build" Annie?? |
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 20, 2022 13:20:07 GMT
Maybe the last page shows Kat drawing the comic and Annie saying that she doesn't understand any of the jokes. You mean "Blood Dex Build" Annie?? I would call myself a gamer and I still don't understand most of the jokes. That Annie is good at one single game doesn't mean much in this context, unless one of the strips shows an Elden Ring joke. |
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