Wikipedia is your friend.stevep said:while I can remember at least parts of lots of episodes not in great detail or to relate those memories to a title.
An interesting question. I recall liking "Piece of the Action" when I was younger, thinking the idea was a good one; now, I still kind of like the "gangster nation" idea, but I'm not as enamored of the episode itself.stevep said:How much has people's views changed with age?
Computer Space was also a lot harder to learn to play. It was nothing like as intuitive as Pong. (BTW, the concept of Pong goes back to 1958...)Brainbin said:That Pong was the greater success is not considered surprising in retrospect; Computer Space may have been more ambitious, but this allowed it to become more dated, more quickly, in technological terms
Does the arcade version help finance this? And does Syzygy still have the OTL trouble in translating arcade success into home success? (BTW, I can't help wishing they'd called it Dreadstar Gaming. Or Sable Games. {Yes, Sable Games is pretty inside.})Brainbin said:provided Syzygy with some of the valuable seed money they needed for expansion into this home market on a permanent, consistent basis.
In this terms of "unlicensed games" does that mean the video game crash of 1983 will still occur?
Am I understanding you correctly to mean a number of competitive consoles? So, if TTL Syzygy could be a touch more dominant, you'd solve it?jpj1421 said:The large number of games and consoles will still be a problem it seems, so that will still be an issue from day one.
I don't see it has to, tho. Why, TTL, can't Syzygy parlay its arcade/console profits into a *Commodore-style PC? One capable of gaming, but with more capability? One that plays all the popular games...yet has better graphics, more speed, & more features?jpj1421 said:once computers become accessible to the average American, that will hurt gaming.
So suppose TTL Syz (Oh, Vanth...?) says from the outset, "We'll let you design games, but we want a cut"? With the objective of increasing sales of consoles.jpj1421 said:led to Atari losing control over the games produced for their hardware.
Am I understanding you correctly to mean a number of competitive consoles? So, if TTL Syzygy could be a touch more dominant, you'd solve it?
I don't see it has to, tho. Why, TTL, can't Syzygy parlay its arcade/console profits into a *Commodore-style PC? One capable of gaming, but with more capability? One that plays all the popular games...yet has better graphics, more speed, & more features?
So suppose TTL Syz (Oh, Vanth...?) says from the outset, "We'll let you design games, but we want a cut"? With the objective of increasing sales of consoles.
Yeah, to some up your questions...if Syzygy can get a hold on game production, and ensure a reasonable market, it could weather the 80's. That's the biggest problem right there. Then, yes, if they could come up with a Commodore-style PC they could keep up with the PC market. And...I don't know what they can do about the Syzygy knockoff consoles.
Can I throw you an entirely OT question? Why were they named 6502, Z80, & 8080?Andrew T said:6502 to a different line of microprocessors; in the late 1970s, the only real alternative is the Zilog Z80.
Can I throw you an entirely OT question? Why were they named 6502, Z80, & 8080?
Can I throw you an entirely OT question? Why were they named 6502, Z80, & 8080?
No Bruce Lee story would be complete without mentioning the fact that a stupid challenger to Bruce thought it would be a good idea to break into Bruce's house and scare his young children, Brandon and Shannon.
Bruce then sent the guy to the hospital. With. One. Kick.
Good update on the technological advances of this world, Brainbin.
Keep up the good work and Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Thx. The Z80 I had halfway guessed. I was presuming the numbers on the others were part of an internal numbering system of some kind, identifying type of chips & such; from what you're saying, not so?There was 4004 chip used in eg my Seiko watch from ?1972?, which was a 4bit chip. The 8bit expansion was the 8008. Then someone said, hey if we tweak this we'll have a full computer cpu. That was the 8080. There were various related support chiips with names like 8082, etc.
So, when a company named Zilog made their own, improved version, they called Z for zilog, 80 for the 8080 it was an enhancement of. So Z80.
Electronics chips had names like that - 43xx might be a might be a series of programmable logic arrays, say, or memory chips.
It just happened that motorolas microprocessors were 68xx and ?mos?'s were 65xx, while intel's were 80xx. Well, intel or whoever had started, as i said above, with a 4004, so that wasnt random, but they obviously had space in their naming system for 80xx chips at the time.
Thx for that. This is the kind of thing I was thinking was usual for all designators.Andrew T said:Chuck Peddle designed the MC6800 while at Motorola. When he and his engineering team left Motorola to found MOS, they ripped off the 6800 design and called it the 6501. The '6' was to show that it was the same family of chips; the '5' was to show that it was significantly cheaper than the Motorola chip; and the -01 (and later -02) was to show that the 6501/6502 had new features.