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Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Sat May 09, 2015 4:33 pm

looks good!
I like the colours

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Sat May 09, 2015 5:40 pm

Thanks :) Middle-grey backgrounds are surprisingly pleasant to the eye.

Unread post by **Dr_Chroot** » Sat May 09, 2015 5:40 pm

Fantastic!

Unread post by **simgin** » Sun May 10, 2015 7:11 am

Amazing colours Julius, and thank you for posting them as well +1!
cheers
simon

Unread post by **bones** » Sun May 10, 2015 2:27 pm

Nice. Haha, at first glance, I thought the escalator signage was some crazy floating toolbar/panel. :)

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Sun May 10, 2015 3:48 pm

^ Me, too :D

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Mon May 25, 2015 7:33 am

Quite exactly 30 years today, the Amstrad CPC664 was released. So, today is yellow on blue day for me :)

Unread post by **simgin** » Mon May 25, 2015 9:19 am

Nice tribute mate :)
I have always liked Amstrads, well and Atari, but no flame war here today on it's birthday :D
Fuck 30 years, o.O, we are getting younger and younger aren't we...
Thanks for sharing.

simon

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Mon May 25, 2015 9:35 am

Ooh so that's what colour it was!
We only had this greenmachine:

Unread post by **rhowaldt** » Mon May 25, 2015 10:28 am

i dont remember what we had but the screen was orange for sure :)

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Mon May 25, 2015 11:46 am

wux, mine was a GT65 too, but I later got the MP2 TV adapter and could enjoy all 27 colours :) The green scheme was less tiring for the eyes, to be honest. But yeah, dark blue bg with yellow fg was the looks!
Btw, your pic is a 464, with tape. Looks like the old model with the old logo. The 664 already had the damned 3" disk drive (like the 6128 and the Joyce, IIRC), where one disk was the same price like ten of the 3.5" disks... Probably this was also a reason that CPC's never really sold exceptionally well, except in France maybe.

rhowaldt, not sure which computer has an orange screen, maybe you mean a P3 amber monochrome screen? They were damned nice :)

Unread post by **rhowaldt** » Mon May 25, 2015 12:08 pm

i really dont remember Jules, this is so long ago and i smoked most of my memory of those times away. i just remember the screen being orange, having a text interface, writing in WordPerfect or something, and playing games like Test Drive from big floppy disks. Test Drive did come in purple/blue/grey/black/white, which was damn sexy back in the day. so the monitor was apparently able to do more than just the orange.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Mon May 25, 2015 12:33 pm

^ Haha, I sure remember the purple-gray-cyan test drive, so that's a CGA card in it :D Other terms of the day those days: EGA, Hercules, Tandy, DOS, config.sys, autoexec.bat :D

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Mon May 25, 2015 12:53 pm

I think we followed the same upgrade path, and had the TV thing wasn't that a separate unit? I remember just barely watching star trek TNG on it, through the snow/static :)
no idea if it was the tape or the disk, remember having both, I think. (wasn't actually mine - so to speak)
we had a sad orange display PC in the corner, while we used Acorn Archimedes (decent colour) ... I recall being astounded someone had hacked the prompt to display the date! and rebooting didn't make it go back to just "C:/>"
Back when BYOD was getting a lift into school with a TV, amiga and box of diskettes (I think the fastest reboot i've ever seen was when a guy was entertaining the crowd with some joystick game where, err, the actions of two sweaty pixellated digitised actors could be controlled... then the IT teacher walked in...)
what is this the nostalgia thread? :)

Unread post by **simgin** » Mon May 25, 2015 1:05 pm

^ Hmm, maybe we should have a nostalgia thread in /null?
Crikey, I haven't seen the word Tandy for freaking years, and EGA, I feel older and older, thanks guys XD

Unread post by **ChefIronBelly** » Mon May 25, 2015 1:12 pm

also toss in there the 'Timex Sinclair 1000' it was black and white, 1k vidram, 8 bit, 16k w/Z80 chip using cassette tapes to store on. I remember how happy a day it was when I got a Atari 400 with a basic programming module with it, was a 8080 with vga 640x480 16 bit color. All prior for me to the Tandy, Commodore Vic's and Amiga's.

what is this the nostalgia thread? :)

ha

I have never seen that Amstrad CPC664

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Mon May 25, 2015 1:13 pm

^^^ the TV thing was indeed a separate unit with two cables plus mains, one was the power supply for the computer and one was the DIN-style round connector. possible you had a 464 with external floppy drive, that was quite common.

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Main_Page great site for Amstrads.

nostalgia thread ftw! z80 ftw!

^ yeah, Sinclair, Spectrum ZX81, Commodore VC20, I get a boner :D BASIC was a great tool!

Unread post by **simgin** » Mon May 25, 2015 2:32 pm

BASIC kicked butt, full stop. Those were the days my friend :)
I remember my father made a geography quiz for me when i was 5 in BASIC, I am still grateful for it and still mention it from time to time.It was just a temporary hobby back then for him, but still to this day he loves technology. He will get Linux too, this summer :D

PS Thanks for the link master julius :D
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/SymbOS <--- wow

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Mon May 25, 2015 4:27 pm

^ We used to have some emulator spins, by the way:
- http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=598
- http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=342
- http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=788
- http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=975
- http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=766

Unread post by **simgin** » Mon May 25, 2015 6:21 pm

^ Oh my lord, Julius I wondered why I had never seen these before. I was on holiday on "clamydia island" at that point :D
Thank you so much for picking the cool stuff up again, much appreciated :) +1

cheers
Simon

PS: Gambas is a language I have looked at recently actually :)

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