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"Geoff Wearmouth" <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote:
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> [url]http://www.sumo.tv/video/826715[/url][/color]
That's a bit rubbish. He seems to have used a Nintendo console font,
probably the first "retro" one he could find in Google Images, and
he's got the positioning and formatting of the filename and error
message quite wrong.
I wouldn't be so pedantic about this but I don't like people without a
clue co-opting the Spectrum as an ironic retro icon.
Eq.
Paul E Collins wrote:
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> "Geoff Wearmouth" <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > [url]http://www.sumo.tv/video/826715[/url][/color]
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> That's a bit rubbish. He seems to have used a Nintendo console font,
> probably the first "retro" one he could find in Google Images, and
> he's got the positioning and formatting of the filename and error
> message quite wrong.
>
> I wouldn't be so pedantic about this but I don't like people without
> a clue co-opting the Spectrum as an ironic retro icon.[/color]
Yeah, burn him! Although top marks are clearly due for the impressive
multicolour effect on the logo graphic. If I hadn't seen it with my own
eyes, I'd have said it was impossible (especially during loading). :)
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Chris Cowley
Paul E Collins wrote:
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> That's a bit rubbish. He seems to have used a Nintendo console font,
> probably the first "retro" one he could find in Google Images, and
> he's got the positioning and formatting of the filename and error
> message quite wrong.
>
> I wouldn't be so pedantic about this but I don't like people without
> a clue co-opting the Spectrum as an ironic retro icon.
>
> Eq.[/color]
Hi Paul!
hmmmm, I see it other.
'Never use a digital Set, for aerial Speccy-data transfer' :-)
Hm, a kind of a MP3 loading-problem, IMHO...
Kind Regards,
Daniel Mandic
On Jan 23, 4:20 pm, "Chris Cowley" <chrr...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yeah, burn him! Although top marks are clearly due for the impressive
> multicolour effect on the logo graphic. If I hadn't seen it with my own
> eyes, I'd have said it was impossible (especially during loading). :)[/color]
Well just a bit of fun and these 'idents' don't last long.
If I hadn't noticed it through an alcoholic haze then I would never
have found the other ZX Spectrum videos.
[url]http://www.sumo.tv/video/264753[/url]
and this handsome css regular
[url]http://www.sumo.tv/video/312466[/url]
The BBC restricts some web content to the UK and/or broadband so if you
don't see these try the top url
[url]http://www.sumo.tv[/url]
Wall-to-wall viral videos are not my cup of tea.
Doh!
I didn't notice at first but the others are linked to Google and
YouTube like the video on my homepage.
I have no idea who owns Sumo TV. That part of the website is blank.
Geoff Wearmouth wrote:
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> On Jan 23, 4:20 pm, "Chris Cowley" <chrr...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Yeah, burn him! Although top marks are clearly due for the
> > impressive multicolour effect on the logo graphic. If I hadn't seen
> > it with my own eyes, I'd have said it was impossible (especially
> > during loading). :)[/color]
>
> Well just a bit of fun and these 'idents' don't last long.[/color]
Yup, I agree - I was just being silly, not to mention a bit picky. I
quite like it really, and I doubt anyone outside of CSS and WoS would
notice the "deliberate errors".
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> If I hadn't noticed it through an alcoholic haze then I would never
> have found the other ZX Spectrum videos.
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> [url]http://www.sumo.tv/video/264753[/url][/color]
I love that video. I really yearned for something like that on my
humble speccy after playing with early Macs at computer shows. A
"dodgy" copy of Art Studio with a QAOPM-controlled mouse pointer was
the closest I ever got.
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Chris Cowley
Paul E Collins wrote:
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> "Geoff Wearmouth" <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> [url]http://www.sumo.tv/video/826715[/url][/color]
>
> That's a bit rubbish. He seems to have used a Nintendo console font,
> probably the first "retro" one he could find in Google Images, and
> he's got the positioning and formatting of the filename and error
> message quite wrong.[/color]
The Nintendo font isn't used anywhere it couldn't have been on a real
Speccy, and the error message uses the correct one. You're right about
the formatting, though.
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> I wouldn't be so pedantic about this but I don't like people without a
> clue co-opting the Spectrum as an ironic retro icon.[/color]
Me neither, but this guy does seem to have one. Just not a particularly
good one.
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Duncan Snowden.
On 23 Jan, 04:34, "Paul E Collins" <find_my_real_addr...@CL4.org>
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> probably the first "retro" one he could find in Google Images, and
> he's got the positioning and formatting of the filename and error
> message quite wrong.[/color]
Ah! He's obviously using YS MegaBasic :)
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> Eq.[/color]
Paul E Collins wrote:[color=blue]
> "Geoff Wearmouth" <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> [url]http://www.sumo.tv/video/826715[/url][/color]
>
> That's a bit rubbish. He seems to have used a Nintendo console font,
> probably the first "retro" one he could find in Google Images, and
> he's got the positioning and formatting of the filename and error
> message quite wrong.
>
> I wouldn't be so pedantic about this but I don't like people without a
> clue co-opting the Spectrum as an ironic retro icon.[/color]
The 'Nintendo' font doesn't appear to be during the part of the ident
that's actually aired - it seems to be in the lead-up part that
identifies the clip for the purposes of the broadcaster. This part
wouldn't appear to be, or need to be, trying to look like a Speccy at all.
The tape loading message being in the wrong place is irritating though.
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Alex Taylor