Comments on: Getting Lamp

By: cray-

cray- — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:47:54 +0000

http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/18/essential-viewing/ The above blog entry introduced me to the wonderful Tim Hunkin. If you aren't already familair with him I suggest you read the entry and grab copies of the material mentioned therein. On Tim's site you can find a short low res video of a clip he made for the BBC regarding old arcade machines: http://www.timhunkin.com/a112_arcade_film.htm I just thought that perhaps he may be of some interest to you for the ARCADE doco if you want to go in that direction. If not, the The Secret Life Of Machines series still makes for some very interesting viewing. Good Luck.

By: DJetson

DJetson — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:56:07 +0000

Hey, want to know how much the same person I am as thousands of other people?
I came here from digg.
I thought the prank was outstanding.
I’m adding the site to my bookmarks, cause I really enjoy your style of writing.

Also, just want to say thanks for the warning about the goatse picture. I took it to heart and didn’t look at it. Strangely enough because of a horrifying, and unexpected run-in that I had with some rotten.com video clips some years ago, that still haunts me late at night.

Come to think of it, since you used to work at rotten.com, and I sort of partially blame them for the horrible knowledge of what the insides of Bud Dwyer’s head look like smeared on a wall. So really, let’s just call this one a wash.

In all seriousness though, it was a nice courtesy to those of us who have a hard time carrying around images like that in our brains. Thanks.

By: Flack

Flack — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:04:08 +0000

Unfortunately I have little to add to LAMP other than a gamer’s perspective. I started on text adventures with Scott Adams’ adventures on the TRS-80. On the Apple I saw the genre change from “text-only” to “text and graphics” — remember that weird mode that only allowed like four lines of text or something with graphics at the top? Infocom adventures ruled on the C64. I remember downloading a walk-thru to “Farmer’s Daughter” for the C64 and marching through the game, line by line. For the PC I played a few. Rambo comes to mind (you would get killed if you didn’t hide your parachute within so many moves). I remember one where you were a judge, or an attorney, or something … wow, that memory’s hazier than I thought. Anyway, eventually one day I got King’s Quest and the text-world was never the same after that.

By: Stacia

Stacia — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:31:04 +0000

I have two things to say:

1. The docs sound awesome, and I cannot wait to see them.

2. LEATHER GODDESSES OF PHOBOS! SQUEE!!! I enjoyed the hell out of that game when I was in high school, and one of the “cool kids” even invited me over to help him figure out how to win. And get to the good parts, of course.