Date   : Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:30:33 +0100
From   : mfirth@... (Michael Firth)
Subject: BBC News - Retro computers on display to fans at

  On 05/07/2010 14:56, Rick Murray wrote:
> On 05/07/2010 15:29, Tim Matthews wrote:
>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8782344.stm
> When's this programme actually on (so I can video it...)?
>
Sadly, I think both showings of it were yesterday.

Certainly a DigiGuide search for "Click" only comes up with showings of 
other episodes, on Sundays in the future.

>> Sadly no direct mention of Acorn / Beebs,
In the VCF intro the presenter says that "in 1984" "I was getting to 
grips with the best present I'd ever been given, a brand new Acorn 
Electron Microcomputer" - doesn't get much more direct than that, and 
surprisingly positive!
> Depends if you use your ears or your eyes. Frame #1, that's an A3000
> right there in the middle. Those lovely red keys make it stand out!
>
The whole pre-titles bit was obviously also fairly Beeb centric, and 
quite a few of the people they interviewed (Sophie Wilson and Hugo Tyson 
historically, plus Charlie Robson from these days) were Beeb related.

The "getting a Spectrum to say 'We love the BBC!'" trick, was (to me at 
least) a pro-Acorn idea.
> And, sadly, yes. Back when world+kitten attempted to write some code, we
> had a vague idea about efficiency, and didn't so stupid things like
> assign a massive (16 bit) int array to hold a bunch of flippin' binary
> states, or nonsense like that.
>
> I still can't get over the spec of modern graphics cards and such. Okay,
> yes, the quality of the graphics might lead to icky-sticky biological
> reactions... but how's the gameplay *really*? There have been few games
> I've bothered to see through to the end since Chuckie Egg. Even the
> likes of Quake II in God Mode... great for relieving stress (esp. with
> sv_gravity 150 so those body chunks booouuuunnnccee!) but actual serious
> interest levels quickly fade.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Rick.
>
Regards

Michael