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RE: Phill from GCHQ - page 68 - Message from Mr. P
That reminds me of myself at around 15 playing with my home computer (BBC Micro, aka Beeb) hooked up to a TV. I considered it superior to a Spectrum, but they did have some good games.
Built-in assembler for extra nerdiness, like the Acorn Atom 8-).
I did some assembler. BBC Basic was pretty good.
Oh, yes, me too. Basic at home on the Commodore 64 and Comal80 in School! But I have been very inspired by this funny run through. You might see a connection between the way I portray the poor, streamlined Americans in the comic as adversaries of the weird and motley, but resourceful Brits, and the way the Youtuber portrays the computer war between Sinclair and Commodore :)
I loved my commodore 64 and basic too. I remember buying computer mags like the little nerd I was and meticulously copying the code over to write 'games', ah, the 80s...it seems a thousand years ago.
It does...
Imagine what we could have done with a modern game engine! On the other hand. Here we are.
Only just watched this. I actually never had much exposure to the C64, but later on I had a couple of Amigas that were a lot of fun.
We were only aware of the Spectrum and Amstrad etc. because of the computer magazines. Denmark was very much a Commodore country.
I saw some of these computers in shops and I went to some computer shows where they would all be on display with the latest games. I used to got to a computer club too. We didn't have 'on-line' and got our news through buying magazines. It was a very different time.
When I look at the things my own children use as entertainment is is as if a whole century has passed.