Radio – Anorak 02/05/11

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May 042011

Anorak 02/05/2011
198 mins / Direct Download Link —>http://slayradio.org/discuss.php?what=show&ID=1058

Good evening,
It’s Monday,
A jolly holiday.
In England,
Not Norway,
They’re toiling,
I kontorer og supermarkeder.

So sing a song of jollity,
Micro beeps are coming soon,
It’s Auntie Anna and her 64,
Full of retro tunes!

Join Anna LIVE from Kilburn, London for 3.25  hours of retro micro computer comedy fun and owl based chat on SLAY Radio (the home of Commodore 64* remixes)

In this spellbimping show*** we spin multitudes of new releases from remix.kwed.org, SID’s galore**,there is a fab exclusive from putzi, and also news of the recent “Grodan” incident! There is also chit about the upcoming retro computer museum event and the SLAYRadio Gathering in August :D Hoopla!

* Commodore 64 = a home computer from the 1980/90′s which contains a most impressive sound chip

** SID = Sound Interface Device (the aforementioned most impressive sound chip and also shorthand for a tune prepared on the aforementioned Commodore 64)

*** this show contains singing and/or extra bees…

 

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Commodore 64 Link of the Day – No/223

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Aug 092010

http://tinyurl.com/39ys8re Target Renegade Case Comp Winner in Zzap!64 *SOLVED* #C64 #C64Link #fb

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Retro Micro Computer Link of the Day

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Aug 052010

Retro Computer Museum http://www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk #micro #retro #fb

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Colossal Adventure

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Jul 302010

http://www.annablack.com/colossal-adventure Came across this beautiful 1983 copy of the Level 9 text adventure game for the BBC yesterday. It appears to be complete including the “hint envelope” :D

“Colossal Adventure is a full scale version of the original, classic, mainframe game “Adventure”: with added 70 locations. All crammed into your micro. This massive, pure text adventure has over 200 locations and a wealth of puzzles which may take months to solve.”

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Attaining Hampstead…

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Mar 142010

Many of you will know I am a complete retro computer geek. Specifically Commodore 64 and 16, but I collect other systems like ZX Sinclair Spectrum, Atari, Coleco, etc. Back in the day I used to program games and adventures and do all sorts of fun things with them. Easy tiger.

Anyway, back in the mid 80′s a company called Melbourne House released a text adventure called “Hampstead”. For the uninitiated a text adventure is a game where you type in a series of commands and you try and solve puzzles and pick up objects and find treasure, etc. It’s very much like reading a book. You create the locations in your imagination :)

The aim of Hampstead was not just to reach Hampstead, but to attain it. Questions and answers posed on the advert below included:

Questions people ask about Hampstead:
Q: Is there life after Hampstead?
A: No, Only before and during…

Q: Why do dustbins have no lids in Hampstead?
A: In order that passers-by may see the week’s completed Guardian
crosswords stacked neatly within…

As I now live not far away from Hampstead I am determined to complete this classic game and therefore attain my own version of Hampstead and hopefully my own bicycle with a basket ;)

Check out Hampstead on World of Spectrum and get yourself an emulator to attain Hampstead with me :)

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