Simon Forrester in pre-final CF issue
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:39 am
just a general nit-pick here... apologies for being a total bod about things
Commodore Format, issue 60, page 3... simon forrester giving his intro speech entitled "STILL HERE"... seemed a little harsh with faster machines naturally taking over anyway. if mr forrester reads this...oh well, what can i say?
i sort of understand the point he was making but did sort of get the impression of a little generalisation... and what with the remaining loyal readers/c64 owners left, i remember it left the CF legacy on a slightly sour note, an influential, popular uk national magazine ... not sure how he thinks now< maybe it was just one of them momentary lapse of reasons, or didn't elaborate it well enough... or maybe it's the david brent with that realised p45 feeling coming lol.
back then (like now with more powerful consoles/pc's), most 8/16-bit owners were just gameplayers with no real interest in the programming aspects (i had some interest and a little knowledge then but couldn't figure much of it out)... most people just eventually (with all the commercial hype) upgraded to a faster computer/console and eventually i did also... me and the other remaining c64 owners that were left scattered in the latter years during the run-up to the c64's final demise in the computer hardware/software/magazine market had little to no choice of new products, we started to rely more on re-releases and bargains until the shelves became totally empty... then onto the bootsales.
right through with owning a c64, the only pirated games i owned were disk backups from my rather large legit tape collection... i bought all issues of CF which has now probably been sold on ebay since i did lose the lot (somehow)... now i own the dvd version and have just re-read the article properly again after ten years, it's it's left me a little perplexed now lol... a rather ironical c64 moment... considering the c64 has been the most successful long-running 8-bit machine ever.
but he was half-right about the world-wide-web... although the c64 proved it was cut out for it... the potential is here again and in a bigger way than i first originally thought.
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Commodore Format, issue 60, page 3... simon forrester giving his intro speech entitled "STILL HERE"... seemed a little harsh with faster machines naturally taking over anyway. if mr forrester reads this...oh well, what can i say?
i sort of understand the point he was making but did sort of get the impression of a little generalisation... and what with the remaining loyal readers/c64 owners left, i remember it left the CF legacy on a slightly sour note, an influential, popular uk national magazine ... not sure how he thinks now< maybe it was just one of them momentary lapse of reasons, or didn't elaborate it well enough... or maybe it's the david brent with that realised p45 feeling coming lol.
back then (like now with more powerful consoles/pc's), most 8/16-bit owners were just gameplayers with no real interest in the programming aspects (i had some interest and a little knowledge then but couldn't figure much of it out)... most people just eventually (with all the commercial hype) upgraded to a faster computer/console and eventually i did also... me and the other remaining c64 owners that were left scattered in the latter years during the run-up to the c64's final demise in the computer hardware/software/magazine market had little to no choice of new products, we started to rely more on re-releases and bargains until the shelves became totally empty... then onto the bootsales.
right through with owning a c64, the only pirated games i owned were disk backups from my rather large legit tape collection... i bought all issues of CF which has now probably been sold on ebay since i did lose the lot (somehow)... now i own the dvd version and have just re-read the article properly again after ten years, it's it's left me a little perplexed now lol... a rather ironical c64 moment... considering the c64 has been the most successful long-running 8-bit machine ever.
but he was half-right about the world-wide-web... although the c64 proved it was cut out for it... the potential is here again and in a bigger way than i first originally thought.
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welcome to silicon heaven