[kj] [OT] Please...

[ade]

Wow - I don't know what to say. Is it akin to wiping ones arse on the Pixies, et al, or will it introduce
people to music they didn't know? Maybe a bit of both?

-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of folk devil
Sent: 18 April 2008 23:25
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Please...


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 <http://www.nme.com/artists/pixies> ’ ‘Doolittle’ and The Cars self-titled debut. The first album to be made available will be metallers  <http://www.nme.com/artists/judas-priest> classic ‘Screaming For Vengeance’. '
http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/36034





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From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:20:51 +1200
Subject: 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.

 


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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of ade
Sent: 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...

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of Brendan Quinn
Sent: 18 April 2008 23:08
To: '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. 


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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of ade
Sent: 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 Quinn
Sent: 18 April 2008 22:35
To: '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…)

 


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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of sade1
Sent: 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.

 

 



folk devil <folkdevil_23 at hotmail.com> wrote:

mate, i remember space invaders, pong, but not Horace....he looks like a bloody mutant!


> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:12:56 +0100

> From: praest76 at gmail.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Please..

> 

> On 18/04/2008, folk devil <folkdevil_23 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> >

> > but wtf is this?

> >

> > http://www.clive.nl/images/10457.jpg

> 

> Horace. He's Hungry.

> 

> He's also been known to go skiing.

> 

> He's what's known as a computer sprite. They look a bit weird because

> the world they lived in back then was old and crap and limited to

> about eight colours in low res.

> 

> Count yourself lucky that you live in Super-Hi-Res Real Colour [tm].

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