01/05/2013 03:00

RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition 2013 (United Kingdom)

Event type: Standalone Compo

Held on: 1 May - 30 November 2013
 

13/05/2013 03:00

Release the Cheese

- Only the strongest survive!

Event type: Standalone Compo

Held on: 13 May - 31 July 2013
 

13/05/2013 03:00

FatFrost's Friday the Fearteenth Compo!!

- Scare us please!!

Event type: Standalone Compo

Held on: 13 May - 13 July 2013
 

28/06/2013 03:00

Schlimeisch 2013 (Czech Republic)

Event type: 8 bit Party

Held on: 28 - 30 June 2013
 

28/06/2013 03:00

Edison 2013 (Sweden)

- stockholm digital underground art festival

Event type: Demo Party

Held on: 28 - 30 June 2013
 

05/07/2013 03:00

Hackerence Summer Party 2013 (Sweden)

Event type: Demo Party

Held on: 5 - 7 July 2013
 

05/07/2013 03:00

Arok 2013 (Hungary)

- One love

Event type: Demo Party

Held on: 5 - 7 July 2013
 

05/07/2013 03:00

Silesia Party 7 (Poland)

- the 8 bit minty C64 demoparty

Event type: Demo Party

Held on: 5 - 7 July 2013
 

12/07/2013 03:00

CHCC in the Sun 2013 (Denmark)

- BBQ, pilsner, dataslacking

Event type: Copy Party

Held on: 12 - 15 July 2013
 

12/07/2013 03:00

Solskogen 2013 (Norway)

Event type: Demo Party

Held on: 12 - 14 July 2013
 

19/06/2013 10:37

Fun Forum • Re: IGNORE! Machine did this instead of 'reply to thread'

What the forum posters here look like.Statistics: Posted by Dumper — 19/06/2013 - 10:37 

18/06/2013 22:52

General Conversation • Re: Land Of Future Past

So what exactly were you kids training for? Maintenance of other peoples' programs, working closed networks or coding commercial programs? What I meant was that as GUI operating systems and powerful little desktop units took over the professions, I thought there would have been diminishing call for complicated command-line network systems. I just imagined educators had already long decided the way computers were going. I know Steve Jobs certainly appeared to agree.



And for that matter, how many different 'categories' of computer enthusiast were there in college? I know vaguely about 'phreakers' and hobbyist applet coders. Were they all really that different?

Statistics: Posted by Commie_User — 18/06/2013 - 22:52 

18/06/2013 20:41

General Conversation • Re: Land Of Future Past

"I'm surprised people still worked like that towards the end of the Eighties. Did people still see any future in that?"

Its was 1987, and don't forget Computers were still thought of as either business or techy toys. Programming was programming, both in theory and practice. Courses were still in their infancy, with certain caveats to whittle out those who just fancied 'a laugh' ( IQ tests were part of the entry requirements ), and resources were slim as local education boards tried to work out which direction this new computer thing was going. So basically they used what they had.

Looking at the same college wing now.. it's all glass and steel with bright open computer suites housing the latest and greatest tech toys.. Us? yeah it was a 20X20 room with a 4 foot glass box where the mini was kept and 4 rows of cheap woodgrain desks with the terminals attached. Timeshare baby, timeshare!! It did the job.

Oh and Chris... yeah baby, ZAP, PING, SHOOT and EXPLODE!!.. The only reason I wanted the Atmos in the first place as well heh .. ( it looked kinda cool too eh )Statistics: Posted by AndyUK — 18/06/2013 - 20:41 

18/06/2013 19:34

Work In Progress, remix suggestions, and musicians talk • Re: Razmo's Gear rambling thread

Splendid stuff.

When are you going to record it? And which keyboards and synths will it go best with?


___________________

And as a further note, would you dare even dream of upping the ante by owning this beast?



http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/conbrioads200.php


That would be a holy grail though.Statistics: Posted by Commie_User — 18/06/2013 - 19:34 

18/06/2013 12:37

General Conversation • Re: Land Of Future Past

..we got to use the mighty Honeywell BULL mini computer, where people in white coats flitted round typing in the code you provided on paper because the damn thing didn't have enough runtime to share itself with all the class members..


I'm surprised people still worked like that towards the end of the Eighties. Did people still see any future in that?





Bull: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... l-bull.jpg

Reminds me of an SX64. Wonder if it was as much fun for the users.












I'm interested to note this division between serious and popular computing back then, with the serious people looking down on the popular users and their machines as too frivolous. Ian McNaught Davis said that games were a waste of good computers on the BBC's Computer Programme. But the popular users brought the money in and drove developments of multimedia and stuff. I'm glad the Amiga and ST rivalled some workstations at a fraction of the cost as things wouldn't have become more fabulous just for the hell of it.

So I'm humbled to think about things like that and how building on the capability of toys gave us the thrilling apps we have now.







And I'm also humbled at the turbo rate of progression in just five years even then. Just three years after the fabulous Intellivision, groundshaking 64 and price-busting Spectrum came the mindblowing awesomeness of the ST and Amiga classes.




Lovely ads: http://www.stformat.com/page_scans/stf15_ad_atari.jpg

http://www.stformat.com/page_scans/index.html

http://www.retroexperience.com/#/printe ... 4557520441

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/08/0 ... .html#more

http://oldmagazineads.blogspot.com/2010 ... chive.html

http://www.papergreat.com/2012/01/adver ... ue-of.html

http://gigan.livejournal.com/136664.html

http://www.jeuxvideovintage.com/categor ... 9rence__70

Includes some nice synthy ones too: http://www.boogie80.com/gallery/80s-vintage-ads/

Dammit, a whole Google Images list: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=atari+st+advert&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=P7PAUYyDNpSQ0QWHuIDgBQ&ved=0CDkQsAQ&biw=1152&bih=773#tbm=isch&sa=1&q=1980+computer+adverts&oq=1980+computer+adverts&gs_l=img.3...19517.37651.0.38156.25.25.0.0.0.0.131.2216.17j8.25.0...0.0.0..1c.1.17.img.vRQ5HN7zNWI&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47883778,d.d2k&fp=db05b879a3b2e969&biw=1152&bih=773







Little bit of hubris mate, just a little.








I think there were other crossovers too. This page lists an incredible mountain of BBC Micro add-ons, proving you could do egghead, multimediary and full networky stuff, even with a pixelly, brash fun machine: http://www.8bs.com/seedrives.htm




An unusual crossover was of Bill Gates endorsing the Tandy: http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/compute ... -ads-1980s



And I think type-in listings were something of a crossover, as kids felt it would help knowing more about their machines to have extra fun. Though I'm certainly glad habits like that died a death. Life's too short to have to do your own routines for computing nowadays.


At the end of the interview for Retro Gamer magazine, Andy asked "What was your worst experience with a type-in listing magazine?"


It was Sportscene (Your Spectrum) garbling part 2 of the Zip Compiler series. I got lots of angry letters, and I'd bust a gut to produce the article so I was really upset when that - and various other typos introduced in production - happened. Still, it probably boosted sales of the optimised tape version (about 1,600, first time around - rather more for various updates, since), as noted on the commercial page.


http://www.simon.mooli.org.uk/AF/article/magazine.html





Though one thing the serious machines had going for them was the sheer horsepower needed for such monster numbercrunching. Not to mention the uncompromised storage and comms equipment. Even the terminals would have seemed jet-propelled, though overly cumbersome to run. How Vic or Spectrum users must have sometimes dreamed of having computers with 8 meg hard drives, 256K RAM and processors clocking in at over 4 megs. (But then again, perhaps not. Software was designed to keep within the limits, though cooler games could have been written.)






And I wonder how many devices will continue to become icons.




Woodgrain floppy drive.

The WINCHESTER: http://ns1758.ca/winch/winche02.html

1980 computer shop guide. Little did they do what came next: http://archive.org/details/Affordable_C ... _ComputersStatistics: Posted by Commie_User — 18/06/2013 - 12:37 

18/06/2013 10:56

General Conversation • Re: Reaping the Ebay harvest

And more for my own reference, DVDs in a sale. I'll probably miss it as I don't have cash for everything.


1980s though:



http://www.moviemail.com/film/dvd/Lady- ... st-Series/

http://www.moviemail.com/film/dvd/Lady- ... nd-Series/

http://www.moviemail.com/film/dvd/Mr-Pa ... stminster/





http://www.moviemail.com/film/55247/Jack-the-Ripper/

http://www.moviemail.com/film/61641/Flo ... gale-(1985)/





http://www.moviemail.com/film/dvd/The-C ... ollection/

http://www.moviemail.com/film/dvd/The-N ... ollection/




There are some other good-uns I've already got like the Alf Garnetts or Yes Minister. So take a look yourself.Statistics: Posted by Commie_User — 18/06/2013 - 10:56 

18/06/2013 09:38

General Conversation • Re: Space's 7

Very inspired by. Statistics: Posted by Steve B — 18/06/2013 - 9:38 

18/06/2013 07:32

General Conversation • Re: Land Of Future Past

I remember REALLY wanting an Oric because of the "Zap" and "Ping" commands in its BASIC. I was _that_ shallow! In the end, I was lucky my first computer was the Atari 400.Statistics: Posted by Chris Abbott — 18/06/2013 - 7:32 

18/06/2013 02:00

Re: New Back in Time Live - Sep 15th, Manchester

Well time is ticking down to the 10th anniversary of Back in Time Live 2013........
This concert, well a full day of gaming comps - beeeeeeeeeeeeeers - then the night concert is going to be a VERY SPECIAL EVENT

So if you want to come along and enjoy one fantastic C64 RETRO DAY where you could not only win a Oscar trophy but also enjoy some amazing live performances....
Then head over to http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A ... GIaAD3&s=1 for your tickets.....

If you have not already viewed the promo video then head over to hear..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIoefJvUmyo

This is going to be one amazing live event guys...... J - Tel LIVE .....
This is going to be one of the best B.I.T Live events ever.....

Day event,

Play classic games to win an amazing Oscar C64 trophy !!!!
Lots of beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer..... free food !!!!

Then around 6pm ish we kick start the night event, and what a line up we have for you guys.....

I promise this is going to be one of the BEST B.I.T LIVE EVENTS EVER !!!!!!!!!........

Well first off, I've been working my arse off doing my brand new 45 minute C64 mix..... frickin hard I TELL THEE But it will be worth it.....
We have J - Tel with an amazing C64 mix, plus 8 - BIT Wepeon - plus others on the day.....


ONE AMAZING WEEKEND WHEN YOU TAKE IN SUPERBYTE 2013 ON THE THURSDAY - FRIDAY & SATURDAY........

GO buy your ticket guys........ http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A ... GIaAD3&s=1

See u all soon for a FRICKIN AMAZING C64 CONCERT

PaulStatistics: Posted by Danceaway — 18/06/2013 - 2:00 

18/06/2013 00:37

General Conversation • Re: Land Of Future Past

Our local Secondary had the single ZX80/zx81 setup, before funding gave way to a specialized "Computer Room", where the Economics teacher was propelled into the legendary role of "Computer teacher". We all turned up one day expecting more zx81's to be confronted with banks of Link480z's and a big black 380z at the front, hooked up to a winchester drive running the whole setup. Then a bit later the BBC turned up and a lone Model B took up residence. CP/M was order of the day with limited graphics, virtually no sound, and ooh.. Access to Wordstar! heh..

It might seem bad , but hey it got me into college.. ( bearing in mind this was 1987 ), where we got to use the mighty Honeywell BULL mini computer, where people in white coats flitted round typing in the code you provided on paper because the damn thing didn't have enough runtime to share itself with all the class members heh.. You pretty much got to run your code in sequence.. write the code out, hand it to tech, come back in an hour, run it.. etc etc etc.. Sighhh hehe How we ever got anything done was something else..

Oh and not forgetting the day of the mighty Hard disk crash ( no self parkers on this baby ). A speck of dust or something must have got into the HD caddy..



The thing crashed like a 707, and came out looking like a 33 1/3rd.. heh Ahh the good old days! ( okay sort of.. heh not sure we REALLY needed to 'rediscover' Bresenham's method of drawing lines and circles by ourselves.. Damn you Bresenham, DAMN YOU!! )

But you know what, aside from all of the crappy things we remember, and nostalgia can be a little rose tinted, it truly WAS an amazing time to be alive. Spectrum, C64 became social items, the Xbox/PS3 of it's time.. The kid you never noticed who lived down the road until his parents bought a 2600 for Christmas. Forget Electro!! Their was only ONE reason for a double tape deck with high speed dubbin'.The unwrapping of the C60 ( or the C15's from WHSmiths if you needed it fast ), graph paper and pencil crayons. Returning Mastertronic games back to the local garage saying they didn't work and getting a different game in it's place. The whole kit and caboodle.. Yep.. awesome times.!!

Though I STILL say NOT getting an Oric Atmos for Christmas because of my Uncle who actually DID research was a good thing hehe



Chris Abbott wrote:
I went to a private school (paid for by Maggie Thatcher and a reasonable brain!) and they actually had a computer room with 8 Pet 4032s in it, all connected to a single double disk drive. A cut off bit of pipe was called "The Flag" and was used to control who had access to the disk drive. Pet 8 had a hi-res graphics board, so we all used it for creating Moire patterns

Later they bought BBC Micros. Z80 was a dirty word, apparently!

The most impressive thing I ever played on a Pet (apart from Pet Invaders) was the "unofficial" Hitch Hiker's guide to the Galaxy text adventure game (later on this was changed when the copyright holders got wind of it, but we had the "real" version!): my first introduction to hacking was in breaking into this game to change my location. Since games were frowned upon in the computer room, we had to program our own, favourites being "guess the number", and the one where you have a guy at the bottom of the screen and have to get the right key before the increasing lines of text hit you on the head...

Since the Pet had the awesome machine code monitor, it was also fun to hack the interrupts to put message on the screen that couldn't be erased. And I still think I remember the SYS for the reset (SYS 64738? Actually, is that the C64 one?)

Couple of years later I got my Atari 400 and the fun really began...
Statistics: Posted by AndyUK — 18/06/2013 - 0:37 

19/06/2013 19:00

2013-06-19 20:00 - Leoni and Boz - Wednesday Willies

What's this? Leoni and Boz on a Wednesday? Yep, Him and Her are here to prop up the Taint of the Week with their unique car-crash radio. Your requests played in between high-brow intellectual conversations. Wednesday Willies: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Catchphrase!™ 

20/06/2013 19:00

2013-06-20 20:00 - kraxxultima - The Ultimate Crack

Kraxx will continue his little Amiga tunage adventure every Thursday night (if nothing stops him from doing so, like thunder or such :) So tune in for some fun and Amiga music and the average craziness. No requests taken in the show, but probably in future shows. Cheers! 

23/06/2013 19:00

20:00 - Cozy Corner with Ziphoid

Trying to make the CC's more frequent, this time it's cut down to 2 hours to make it less of a hassle to prepare. There'll still be enough smoothiness for you guys and gals out there to get relaxed on this midsummer weekend... 

09/07/2013 19:00

20:00 - The Arrogant Bastards look for the real Killers in a box of chocolates. with OJ Simpson and Tom Hanks

What it says. 

22/06/2013 19:00

19:00 GMT LIVE! With Fritske

29/07/2012 20:50

Episode 020 - 30 Years Of The C64 - A Symphonic Celebration

This episode of OMAHM was produced to celebrate 30 years of the Commodore 64! For this show I have selected my favourite symphonic remixes of classic C64 tunes. It includes stunning orchestral remixes of famous C64 themes by Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, Ben Daglish, Richard Joseph and Peter Clarke etc. It also features a stunning symphonic remix of the theme from the 2012 Psytronik Software C64 game 'Soulless' by K8-bit. 

10/08/2012 18:08

Episode 051: Has it been 30 years already?

Introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1982, and available to the public in August of 1982 – it’s everyone’s favourite computer: The C64. To coincide with the “C64 Month” campaign (Twitter + Facebook), here’s my contribution in the form of a new episode of the C64 Take-away. As usual the mix consists of [...] 

26/05/2013 22:00

BitJam Episode #173 - Waste Da Wax Flip Da Trax

Episode #173 - Waste Da Wax Flip Da Trax Continuing their hostile take-over of the BitJam Podcast, UpRough return with the second in their series of DJ sets. This time Optiroc steps up to the plate for "Waste Da Wax - Flip Da Trax". Optiroc gives us an education in how House and Techno should be mixed, quick, layered and precise. He storms through UpRoughs 4x4 catalogue like a cheeta on speed, effortlessly blending between soulful house and grinding techno to create an ever changing textured sound. Although it's short, it's to the point. Mixing and compiling by Optiroc, logo #173 and cover design by Spot, illustration by Raquel Meiers 

13/05/2013 22:00

BitJam Episode #172 - UpROUGH In The Jungle

Episode #172 - UpROUGH In The Jungle To celebrate 15 years of demoscene dominance, UpRough are taking over the BitJam Podcast for a series of DJ sets. First in the series is "UpRough In The Jungle" mixed by Hoffman. This mix really demonstrates the diverse output which gives UpRough their legendary status. Starting in the smooth soundscapes of the mid 90's Jungle, travelling through to the dark head nodding Tech-Step with a quick jaunt into the Jazz Lounge then ending in the modern realms of Drum n Bass. It plays out like a history of the dance music scene and works as an education to the uninitiated. Mixing and compiling by Hoffman, logo #172 and cover design by Spot, illustration by Jakob Feltsen Check Hoffman's previous mix: BitJam Podcast #153 - Big Beats 

05/05/2013 22:00

BitJam Episode #171 - Flower Power

Episode #171 - Flower Power Flowers are nice. They give many people positive feelings, make them happy. Here's some damn fine flower power music, perfect for a cold winter's day or a hot summer afternoon. Mixing by Vincenzo, logo #171 by Raist, compiled by Bobic 

14/04/2013 22:00

BitJam Episode #170 - 2012 In The Mix - Demo Tunes

Episode #170 - 2012 In The Mix - Demo Tunes You can only cook 1st class food by using the best ingredients. Our chef, Salinga visited the market Sunday morning and bought 16 fresh, healthy, delicious tracks from the most outstanding local farmers. Then he cut, boiled, mixed, cooked, baked them together for You: 45 minutes of demoscene lasagne. Enjoy your meal! Mixing and compiling by Salinga, logo #170 by KF 

07/04/2013 22:00

BitJam Episode #169 - Full Throttle

Episode #169 - Full Throttle The race fever hit me! BitFellas - We are the speed freaks - VROOOOOOOOM! Mixing by Vincenzo, logo #169 by Forcer, compiled by Bobic 

19/05/2013 15:24

SLAY Radio Gathering 2013

It's back again - another SLAY Radio Gathering! Occurring on the first weekend of August, we have the main day on Saturday August 3 consisting of a barbecue at Keillers Park in the daytime and we have the private room at the back of Kville Biljard in the evening. We also have the Unofficially Official Pre-Gathering Gathering on Friday evening for the early birds :) Come join us for a bit of a get-together of SLAY Radio broadcasters and listeners! For maps, hotel info and so forth, see the <a href="gathering.2013.php">Gathering 2013</a> page! We also have a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/455000061251512/" target="_new">Facebook Event</a>. 

08/04/2013 13:36

RKO Q2013-Q1 Torrent

It's that RKO Torrent time again! As usual, get your latest remixes on <a href="http://http://remix.kwed.org/">RKO</a> and go get the RKO-2013 Q-1 <a href="http://tracker.slayradio.org/">here</a>. Do remember to keep seeding for a while after download. Enjoy 

30/03/2013 21:22

Firewall problems.

Hi all, As it happens, the old firewall at SLAY HQ is getting tired and from the sound of it will most likely crash any day now. The hard drive sounds like it's doing its last rounds. There is a new firewall in place but it is not yet fully active so there might be an unexpected drop-out at some point that will last longer than I would expect. Anyhoo, Happy Easter everyone! May the egg be with you. :) 

03/01/2013 04:52

Healthiness for 2013 and torrent update.

Happy 2013!! To kick things of I updated the RKO 2012-Q4 torrent and also uploaded the RKO-2012 Complete torrent to <a href="http://tracker.slayradio.org/"> Slacker</a>. As read in my previous news item (http://www.slayradio.org/home.php?news_item=165) I also added the 2005-2006 Show torrents made by HiSpeed. These are for review purpose at the moment, see if slacker handles them and also see if they are wanted. Questions about the torrents, missing shows, corrupt files should be directed to HiSpeed on irc. M *edit* Added the mastering Swedish torrent also. It's still avaiable for download on the main download page but saves a few clicks :) PS. HiSPeed # is not accepted by Slacker, so removed those :) 

08/12/2012 02:30

Show and torrents

Hmm CET time I should be asleep for hours it seems but I have some news. Ruud (IImmortal) is doing his 2nd live show The RetroToGO in about 14 hours. He's the latest DJ to join SLAY Radio and opted for the hard to fill time slot on Saturday. Show Blur: Need some extra energy to get your Saturday evening started? Let me serve you a high protein mix of RetroTunes to kickstart your mind for a great Saturday night! <-- protein and kickstart? that at least makes me curious enough to listen in. On the torrent side of things, I'm keeping up with q4 and complete 2012. Highspeed off for most IRC 'fame' has been working hard on quarterly show torrents. Downloading a few of them and checking them to see if <a href="http://tracker.slayradio.org/"> Slacker </a> can handle them. Meanwhile you can check out <a href="http://nethack.no-ip.biz/temp/sr-torrents/">His personal SLAY Radio Shows torrents link</a> which is his personal tracker. 

14/06/2013 23:00

NVitia left Arkanix Labs

14/06/2013 23:00

AgentFriday left Arkanix Labs

11/06/2013 23:00

Pievspie joined Commodore Is Awesome as Graphician

08/06/2013 23:00

HJE left Genesis Project

03/06/2013 23:00

Alien joined Genesis Project as Graphician