It's the things from your childhood thread - The Bear and Badger

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I never really knew what was going on with this one, but I watched it anyway:

[Deleted User]

Ulysses always makes.me think of Interstella 5555.

beano

H. R. PUFNSTUF, davyK you ledge'.

adkm1979

AJ wrote:

I can see all the videos properly, Andy, not my fault you've got a shit phone.

iPad. I'm clearly going to have to read this thread on my computer. It mostly looks like this:

Blue Swirl

Ah, the TV from your childhood thread. So good it's worth having two tabs for it.

Brooks

Only Lego mattered, matters, will matter.

M0stly harm13ss

Outlaw

I've never seen that advert before, I like it

Lord_Griff

Will Quack Quack.
Finger Mouse.
Button Moon.

And some cartoon set inside someone's body where all the cells were little people etc.

davyK

AJ wrote:

davyK wrote:

There were all sorts of board game versions of video games - Pacman , Frogger, Space Invaders - worth a few bob now if complete.

Oh, yeah, I remember playing a Pac-Man one with it's little plastic Pac-Men who "ate" marbled by being pushed down onto them.

The thing I'm thinking of was like the actual computer game, only entirely done with a physical display and wind-up innards. Bloody impressive, I thought.

The Space Invaders video game was itself based on a mechanical arcade game so there is a chance a home version of that was possible.

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[quote="Lord_Griff" And some cartoon set inside someone's body where all the cells were little people etc.[/quote]

davyK

M0stly harm13ss wrote:

Jesus - I remember that ad. Cooper was the business.

Mal0wner

I've just reinherited all of my old 70's Lego back from my nephews. There's about 10 large ice cream tubs full of bricks. I've not opened them all but I'm hoping I still have all of my railway track pieces. I'm going to have to tread barefoot on a brick or two to get the full Lego experience.

Lord_Griff

Liveinadive wrote:

[quote="Lord_Griff" And some cartoon set inside someone's body where all the cells were little people etc.

[/quote]

Yeah, that's the one. Good job.

AJ

davyK wrote:

The Space Invaders video game was itself based on a mechanical arcade game so there is a chance a home version of that was possible.

Most interesting thing I've heard today, thanks.

Gonna go investigate that later.

davyK

AJ wrote:

davyK wrote:

The Space Invaders video game was itself based on a mechanical arcade game so there is a chance a home version of that was possible.

Most interesting thing I've heard today, thanks.

Gonna go investigate that later.

Wikipedia mentions a Taito machine called Space Monsters as a partial inspiration...would be cool to have a look at that.

mk64

Not sure if they've been mentioned but

Pigeon Street - great soundtrack
You and Me - for young'uns
Pole Position - boy racersssss meets knightrider
Willy Fogg
Cities of Gold
POB
Boy Meets World
The wonder years
Happy Days
Mork and Mindy
Eerie Indiana
Dungeons and Dragons
The Flinstones
Dreamstone
Jason and the wheel worriors
He-Man
She-Ra

Adverts
The yellow pages adverts

Games
Munchman (image search it)
Bankraid
Pass the pigs
Sky/Shark/Tank attack (the 3d hold infront of your eye games)
Yo-yos (mainly coke/fanta/sprite)
Pogs

Moot_Geeza

AJ wrote:

There were some proper random things on early on 4, IIRC.

I'm going off on a tangent, since it's still from my childhood. My first PDA:

Wow. Was that the one that had a game where you could move up or down (two rows total) to avoid a block moving quickly from right to left? If so, my dad had that, and I played it for HOURS.

AJ

Yes, indeed it was. It didn't come with that game, but it was a common programming example. I used to sit and tap the entire thing in line by line on the alphabetic keyboard. Then my dad showed me how to use the transfer cable, so I could do it on the PC.

superflyninja

Some incredible stuff on here. The likes of cockleshell bay triggers memories. I live in Ireland so a lot of the older uk stuff would have been shown here possibly a couple of years later. Soooo many memories lol. Some of the shows were garbage though. The american ones mostly. Sabrina the teenage Bitch. Jiminy Cricket she was a fucking mare. Complete arsehole.
Eerie Indiana was great though.

I programmed my text adventures on one of these bad boys:

AJ

superflyninja wrote:

FTFY

Wow, I don't even know what that is. Only one line of text too. But still, querty keyboard.

Seems oddly familiar, though...

davyK

If you want to compare old hardware for coding on ....I coded on these not THAT long ago...

epson_HX-20.12.jpg

It has non-volatile memory - note the 32K expansion on the side...

Used the ROM based Microsoft BASIC v1.0 (apparantly coded by Mr Gates!!) But we had some assembler routines to write too - it was used in public libraries to swipe in and out books and worked on when the 4800baud lines went down and transmitted the data once the line came back up.

The version we had used little tapes from answrphones to store data as a backup but they were practically bullet proof - they were connected to a VAX cluster and there were all sorts of horrible VAX OS system calls to communicate with these things (to the point we had to align variables in the COBOL source code to word boundaries - it was truly horrific - it got to a point were we couldn't add new variables for changes without breaking it - so had to do all sorts of nightrmarish reuse of variables....

The assembler (6502) was used to control the light pen and I had to code the UK PLESSEY check digit logic - the documentation for which was an ancient typewritten 3 page pamphlet that only explained the maths of it - based of dividing high order polynomials and using the remainder to generate the check digits. Had to produce VAX COBOL, Visual BASIC and assembler versions of that bloody algorithm. Happy days indeed.

superflyninja

@AJ it had some basic learning games etc on it and ran version of basic. So i used to get BASIC library books from the local library and try and code up some of the example games. However those books were mostly geared toward the BBC etc so not sure if i ever got anything meaningful running. But yeah ONE LINE OF LCD MONO DISPLAY. Unreal. That was in the nineties. And now the processor on my shitty old Samsung Galaxy Ace in my pocket is more powerful than the PC i used in college. Crazy how fast its all moving.

@davk lol gotta love the brown!

Sasukekun

adkm1979 wrote:

AJ wrote:

I can see all the videos properly, Andy, not my fault you've got a shit phone.

iPad. I'm clearly going to have to read this thread on my computer. It mostly looks like this:

I think this is where the video is from a pasted link and not using the Youtube embedder that the formatting bar provides.
I get it all the time on my iPad too.

AJ

Ooh, that's a nice looking artefact, davy. Reading what you had to deal with makes me realise just how lucky I was to start my experience of coding on an 8086. Very interesting read, thanks.

beano

Pass-the-fucking-pigs.

Love it when they 'makin' bacon'!

Good call.

tigersgogrrr

Omfg Portland Bill!! Well played, Roujin.

Brooks

High tier pastime that pigs game.

While I'm here I'm going to suggest that while iOS's new cosmetics' general idea is sound there's summat a bit off about it. I don't know what that is.

tin_robot

Stuff from my youth that used to freak me out... (All of which I was subjected to at school.)

The terrifying Mr Nosybonk:

Hartley the Hare (and Pipkins in general):

And then of course there were the public information films:

Including the epic Apaches - which was basically remade as Final Destination:

adkm1979

Sasukekun wrote:

I think this is where the video is from a pasted link and not using the Youtube embedder that the formatting bar provides. I get it all the time on my iPad too.

Earlier...

adkm1979 wrote:

I'll do what I'm told when you... get people to post videos properly here using the [video ] tag so we can all see them proper like.

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