[kj] [OT] Please...

[folk devil]

can he use a slide rule, or is that way too old hat?
 
also, just saw this in the NME, yikes!
 
'The hugely-successful Rock Band video game is taking its cover band concept to the next level with the news that players can now buy full albums to play through the game.The game, which was created by MTV, will now feature entire albums from the likes of the Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ and The Cars self-titled debut. The first album to be made available will be metallers classic ‘Screaming For Vengeance’. '
http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/36034


From: bq at soundgardener.co.nzTo: gathering at misera.netDate: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:20:51 +1200Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Please...








Out-geeked ME? All you said was “hmmm” and you didn’t even use speech marks!
 
Right…I’ll see you in the library motherfucker, bring your scientific calculator. Old-school rules.
 




From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of adeSent: Saturday, 19 April 2008 10:17 a.m.To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Please...
 

Totally out-geeked you there dude. Ahem. I'll get me cape...

-----Original Message-----From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of Brendan QuinnSent: 18 April 2008 23:08To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Please...
Geek fight!! Okay, as I had a sneaking suspicion when I wrote it, it actually pre-dates the 8086 and was made by an ex-Intel employee to be binary-compatible with the 8080, and actually took over that market segment because it was far superior.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z80#Background_-_the_Datapoint_2200_and_Intel_8008
 
The chip is still used in embedded applications all over the place, from fax machines and printers, to hard-disks, mp3 players, midi sequencers etc. 




From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of adeSent: Saturday, 19 April 2008 9:53 a.m.To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Please...
 


> the Speccy was just a PC – 8086 - clone, albeit faster and more popular…


 

Hmmm...

-----Original Message-----From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of Brendan QuinnSent: 18 April 2008 22:35To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Please...
You can download the vast majority of those arcade games, there’s various programs called ROM emulators, I think, that play them. MAME32 is one I’ve used (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)…being so basic the games run fine on any old PC. It’s a Windows program…just download and install it, then download the games and throw them in the ROM folder and you’re away.
 
Then there’s emulators for various other platforms like Atari, SNES, probably the Speccy and all that…(the Speccy was just a PC – 8086 - clone, albeit faster and more popular…)
 




From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of sade1Sent: Saturday, 19 April 2008 9:21 a.m.To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Please...
 

   I walked into a video arcade in Hollywood a good while ago and all the way 

in the back they had these games from the, i think, the 1660s 1680s or so, games 

like Missile Command, Defender, and Galaga. I played them and i had the most fun 

i've had gaming in a long time. 

I also like that AfterBurner game.

 

Wait: trend?

 

GAME TITLES

Asteroids

Afterburner

Empire (song)

 

...all are KJ song titles.

 

 

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