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[Pat Vegas]

if it's ok to still play Tetris?

Can Wrestling have Russian bad guys again?

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

if it's ok to still play Tetris?

Can Wrestling have Russian bad guys again?

I remember when Tetris first came out on the C64. Cos the game was so simple, it used very little RAM, so they had loads of free memory for a 25 min long bit of music by Rob Hubbard {who was the best.}

It was genius because the C64 SID chip that made the music only had 3 channels. But Hubbard found that every time you moved the vol up or down one, it made a click, and he could change the waveform of the click. So 25 times a second, he'd set the waveform of the click, move the vol up from 97 to 98, then reset the waveform and move the vol back down one.

This allowed a form of sampling on a 4th channel. Look. Genius.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny743c32gPg

Sorry, I'd a bit geeky on this. Wrote for Games Computing, Computer Gamer and Your Commodore between the ages of 11 and 15 in the '80s. I was the computer expert on Junior Watchdog one episode in the school hols.

So in short, it's ok to still play Tetris as long as you're playing on a Commodore 64, pref using a Quickshot 2 joystick. {Though I personally had a very rare Quickshot 9 joyball. As opposed to it being like a willy you grabbed in your wrist with a finger trigger button, it was like a tit you put the palm of your hand on, and used your other hand to press the fire buttons on the side.}

[Pat Vegas]

I remember when Tetris first came out on the C64. Cos the game was so simple, it used very little RAM, so they had loads of free memory for a 25 min long bit of music by Rob Hubbard {who was the best.}

It was genius because the C64 SID chip that made the music only had 3 channels. But Hubbard found that every time you moved the vol up or down one, it made a click, and he could change the waveform of the click. So 25 times a second, he'd set the waveform of the click, move the vol up from 97 to 98, then reset the waveform and move the vol back down one.

This allowed a form of sampling on a 4th channel. Look. Genius.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny743c32gPg

Sorry, I'd a bit geeky on this. Wrote for Games Computing, Computer Gamer and Your Commodore between the ages of 11 and 15 in the '80s. I was the computer expert on Junior Watchdog one episode in the school hols.

So in short, it's ok to still play Tetris as long as you're playing on a Commodore 64, pref using a Quickshot 2 joystick. {Though I personally had a very rare Quickshot 9 joyball. As opposed to it being like a willy you grabbed in your wrist with a finger trigger button, it was like a tit you put the palm of your hand on, and used your other hand to press the fire buttons on the side.}

I watch quite a lot of things about this on youtube. not really my area of expertise but find it quite relaxing. i like the 8 bit guy

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

I watch quite a lot of things about this on youtube. not really my area of expertise but find it quite relaxing. i like the 8 bit guy

I don't know 8-bit guy, I'll have a look.

When I was on Junior Watchdog, I guess their researcher just rang 'round the magazines until they found one with a writer under the age of 16. They let me have a can of lager in the BBC canteen - when I had a press pass for the Commodore Exhibition in the Hammersmith Novatel, I got free beer in the press bar aged 15, too - and at lunch John Stapleton said that I was an impressively coherent speaker.

I guess that after a week of them talking to 10-15 year olds who would just answer "umm" and "er", it made a change for them to have a kid who could string a sentence together.

So I got a call from the BBC a couple of weeks later asking if I'd be prepared to do another JWD. They needed an under-16 year old to go 'round the West End buying weapons like butterfly knives and the like. So I did. I bought knives hidden in lipstick and pens etc. I'd speak to camera before and after going into the shops.

I got paid for that one, too, though not for when I was the computer expert in the studio. Maybe you only got paid if you filmed outside?