Re: To the Brotherhood of the Consoles (Warning contains Wibble)

Tarquin Mills wrote:

> The reason is that the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (and us) beat the C= 64
> and their owners hollow, we need to take on the Xbox 365.25 because
> they might just be able to just match where we were in 1987, though
> will not come close to 1993 standards, never mind where things are
> now. A console with a computer OS, that is the worst of both worlds,
> like a car with 2 wheels, it will do both things badly and as for the
> graphics, do not even go there. Whats the point of a Windows console
> which is only available from one manufacturer. The Xbox 365.25 looks
> like an out of date Dell desktop case turned on it's side and reduced
> in size. While it still eats electricity, thats why it has a large
> transformer that gets too hot. Nearly no one bought a DVD player just
> to view still photos from their camera. The Spectrum is stylish in
> black (always a cool colour), and completely silent, has no licence

Yes, this Black on the Speccy is Unique. I have polished the
Metal-Parts on the Speccy with B2000 (Car-Politur). It´s shining and
protects the lacquer from sweat and small scuffs.

> and artwork by John Harris. It is well documented with an open source
> OS, this makes game writing easier as does the availability of cheap
> development tools. Even a classic game like JSW had it source
> available the year it was launched.
> Say what you like about the Speccy being cheaper than the Xbox
> 365.25 but at least it does not crash in the middle of a game just
> when you were on the way to that really good score. Some of the
> Sinclair ZX Spectrum programmers produced very efficient code, why,
> oh why does it take over 1GHz of PPC to run a Super Mario clone and
> even then it's struggling. Psi Chess is more than strong enough for
> me already. 365.25 has handfuls of games for it unlike the Spectrum,
> WoS has thousands of games to download, there are more JSW games
> alone. If you are a game company you cannot waste money trying an
> original game for the launch so it will be Halo 2, Quake 5, Street
> Fighter 2186, Race Game 4.5.1 patch 12 and FIFE 2005 available on the
> 11th January 2006 with 1% better graphics. The "new" thing we are
> told it has, is poker, whereas the humble speccy managed gambling and
> porn in one game. Why play a copy, why not play the original the way
> it was meant to be played. Manic Miner, JSW, Ant Attack, Jet Pac,
> Chaos, Bubble Bobble, Rough Justice, Atic Atac, Elite, Gauntlet, SF
> II, Nigel Mansell World Championship, Bored of the Rings, Dizzy
> games..................If you have not played these you have missed
> out! The Xbox Three Shitty as it is being called is already more
> disliked than the ZX Spectrum has ever been, with an anti-xbox
> website buying and smashing the console at midnight in the US on it's
> launch in front of fanboys. One of the reasons for this is that
> MicrosOFT is trying to end choice in the home gamimg market like
> other parts of the electronics industry. The 365.25 is subsidised by
> over 30% according to research analysis iSupply (info from VNU). This
> does not help buyers, as 3/4 of a door with a 50% discount is still
> useless. What do we think is better value for games, a Tandy 16 with
> a third off running MS Xenix or a 48K Spectrum? If car buyers took
> this attitude the only model on sale would be a supped up Ford
> Prefect (Ed. oh no), but at least the Vogons would stop this
> happening ;-). The Xbox does not even have a hand held version,
> surely one of the points of having a large company produce something
> is they can design several different versions. Spectrum emulators run
> on PDAs (most computers) and even calculators, more fun than
> Pythagoras and something to do in the lunch hour. The Xbox 365.25
> does not have a joystick, and supports HDTVs that virtually no one
> has. Wireless joypads will eat batteries which was one reason people
> did not buy the light gun produced by Amstrad. The Xbox has limited
> backwards compatibility, losing owners investment in games. From
> astronomy software to word processors the speccy has it covered. The
> Spectrum can also run emulators and other operating systems opening
> up thousands more titles. Where is Xbox 360 equivalent to School
> Daze, Millionaire, Chaos, Hobbit etc. Who would you prefer Uncle
> Clive or Bill Gates to get the money. Magazines like Your Spectrum,
> Crash, Your Sinclair and Sinclair User have their own following
> thanks to how good they are, except for SU. The gave away multiple
> commercial quality free games each issue. They had a humour that
> others have tried to copy and failed, or something. My advice to
> parents, do not bother wasting money on a 365.25 which may not even
> arrive in time for Christmas leaving your child heart broken (Ed. who
> launches a console in December? .... ooooh just remembered who
> produces the Xbox, enough said.). While if you live in New Zealand,
> Australia and many other place you will have to wait until at least
> March. Buy your son or daughter (who will be much better catered for)
> a Spectrum, they can learn programming and even run educational
> software, not that anyone would want to. It's something you can also
> relate to, and enjoy with them, so making it better for the both of
> you (if you have several children buy one for each). The Spectrum +3
> and +2/2A/2B have 6 free games. Spectrum games on average are more
> moral acceptable Horace Goes Sking v Halo 2 (which is more like real
> life?), and the are harder, so take longer to complete. In 25 years
> time no one will remember either Xbox, look at 386s,486s, and early
> Pentiums, they are binned while Spectrums costing under 150 pounds

I have not binned. I am still using a 386 (w/o any caches) and 486 for
older (abandoned) DOS Games.

> originally, now sell for large amounts on ebay.

:)

The Spectrum does not

> have the problems of hard disc chuntey "my ex-box broke mum when I
> moved it playing SF". Warning hard discs do not like recoil, and
> going online has security problems like viruses. The Spectrum boots
> instantly and a single keypress will load a game in as little as
> about 5 seconds. It's software is available from millions of outlets
> worldwide at a price that cannot be beat. In short the Spectrum is a
> classic, millions of users are not wrong (Ed. and it's good for the
> environment).
>
> So forget the IBM based PS/3 and Nintendo Revolution the Sinclair ZX
> Spectrum is your real competition and we will win.
>
> P.S. Even the name of the new Xbox (which is to replace the failed
> first one) has a bug in it. Xbox fanboys start supporting the
> games machine with street creed.



Don´t forget a digital receiver, you need implicitly. Making another
hundreds of electric Watts. And all that for being more identical to
the natures being, as computer-games are doing (Soldier of fortune,
DX9.1 etc...OpenGL 2.0.x?) today. Not to say about digital TV, which is
in my eyes nothing (maybe good for channel-diversity, but the picture
and animation is not better as it has been applied to - The positives
are directly opposite. Not to mention "THE WAIT", swapping channels,
buuuaahhh , boring.) Win Win situation, eh? Not with me. They can
play with words in the nursery school. They started a wrong advertising
campaign, took the good from the other and stashed the bad, where the
other is good as well.

I just need a Word (in a game) and I can see this. Though, I like the
graphic (Dragons Bane, Journey´s End) games more than text-adventures.
I would also accept B/W TV if it would do somthin´ good. But PAL and
PAL+ is absolutely brilliant (depends to the TV-Station). I would miss
it compared to BW, though BW is also making very deep and absolutely
sharp pictures, even it is older (long durability - obviously).

HDTV?? What is this. My TV-Set (80´s Technique) with analog broadcasted
(U-Matic, or Beta-CAM) picture is better than my DVD (800 bucks),
connected to the same TV-Set. Sure.
Well, sound is more clear with DVD, but even that, the analog sound is
more synchron and not so incommodious as the digital. Who cares about
arabic numbers, showing something like 20000 40Khz 20bit 12 bit 16bit
4times oversampling etc etc... Tis´ do net get to my ears. Though I
have to mention, that a Record can have up to 70000 of arabic number
Hertz, hehe .-9 Only beaten by MP3. On the saying-basis, less is
often more......., but please pay a little more :-)))

I remember Micky Mouse Monitors 15" LCD for over 1500bucks. I could buy
three 22" and have nice, fast, colorful and big picture for the next
Twenty-Five Years. This is just 4 or 5 Years before--- I know today you
get it cheaper. But holding out some years with an ol´ Moni could have
allowed you the situation, that you can buy 3 22" for 1500bucks.


Is DVD not better than HDTV?





Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
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