You're most welcome! I used a professional VHS player (sorry don't have the Model, my brain hasn't stored that information, but it would have been part of a JVC VHS edit suite) into a Pinnacle Systems Movie Box DV then by Firewire (IEE 1394) into a machine running Ubuntu Studio with Kdenlive as the editing software. I still have the Movie Box DV and the Ubuntu Studio system has more RAM and SSD's instead of HDD's and it is the latest version of Ubuntu Studio (24.04 LTS). Hope that helps. Sorry it has taken a while to respond.
Loved Ian McNaught-Davis as a kid in the 80s. Like me he was an avid gamer. He loved computer games. He thought that games were the future and that boring business software were a silly waste of time.
on a side note, Ian Phipps, i believe, sold me a 4 pack of games that included repton infinity and winter olympics. The disc for 1 game didn't work, so I took it back - he said he tested it and it was fine, but i could hear the drive reading in a dodgy pattern... I wasn't allowed to see him test it, cos no-one was allowed in the back room. what a dick. was probably only 10 years old.
That's mad. If that device just kept track of only, say, 3 frames, and displayed the average state of those bits, the interference would be pretty much gone. Not to mention display it on a crisp monitor instead of that dirty fishbowl. Anyway, that bloke who built it is a fucking joy to watch. In the 80s people were so unaware of their "er it's quite simple actually" ego nerdiness. It's 2017.. I wonder if he's had sex yet.
It was more of a "just imagine" thing :P Wasn't knocking their apparent choice of method. I have no clue how the pixels lined up with the signals if it's analogue. It's algorhythmic witchcraft to me.
The responses of the company reps at the show at around 12:00 onwards pretty much sums up industry attitudes to security for the next 30+ years: dismiss the notion, then demean the rationale, admit maybe there's an issue, but place the responsibility elsewhere. Sage advice (heh) from the Atlantic guy on not jumping into new tech too fast. Btw Robert, what do you use to digitise your tapes? Good upload thanks! 8)
I'm looking for the episode where a host of 8 bit micros are competing to run a program the fastest. 128k SPectrum came last and The BBC won. Anyone know where to find this?
I found it!! It was a benchmark test for a basic interpreter. V interesting. Amiga won and BBC came second. Search for 'Basic Interpreter benchmarks 1986'
I assume I either remember wrong or someone was talking bollocks, but I was always lead to believe that was why a lot of the fancy office buildings that had one way glass where you couldn't see in. I was lead to believe that kept the signals in the building :)
This is great. The quality of the video seems better than BBCs own UA-cam videos of Micro Live. Thanks for uploading this.
You're most welcome!
I used a professional VHS player (sorry don't have the Model, my brain hasn't stored that information, but it would have been part of a JVC VHS edit suite) into a Pinnacle Systems Movie Box DV then by Firewire (IEE 1394) into a machine running Ubuntu Studio with Kdenlive as the editing software.
I still have the Movie Box DV and the Ubuntu Studio system has more RAM and SSD's instead of HDD's and it is the latest version of Ubuntu Studio (24.04 LTS).
Hope that helps.
Sorry it has taken a while to respond.
The intro sequence with the owl is great, can't get over that music as well!
Thank you for uploading this, I love Micro Live.
Loved Ian McNaught-Davis as a kid in the 80s. Like me he was an avid gamer. He loved computer games. He thought that games were the future and that boring business software were a silly waste of time.
...So this is the computer chronicles of the Britain. Hats off.
Sounds the same as the empty TV detector vans that couldn't detect a TV unless it was crossing the road
on a side note, Ian Phipps, i believe, sold me a 4 pack of games that included repton infinity and winter olympics.
The disc for 1 game didn't work, so I took it back - he said he tested it and it was fine, but i could hear the drive reading in a dodgy pattern...
I wasn't allowed to see him test it, cos no-one was allowed in the back room.
what a dick. was probably only 10 years old.
12:10 - Yes its a MAJOR security problem.... lol
Fred Harris - where is he now? What a cool dude
According to wikipedia he works for the BBFS as a presenter for a children's programme:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Harris_(presenter)
i like watching the guy start to break a sweat at @ 13:50 ish
I bet the shops sold out of all their chicken wire after this show went out :)
That's mad. If that device just kept track of only, say, 3 frames, and displayed the average state of those bits, the interference would be pretty much gone. Not to mention display it on a crisp monitor instead of that dirty fishbowl.
Anyway, that bloke who built it is a fucking joy to watch. In the 80s people were so unaware of their "er it's quite simple actually" ego nerdiness. It's 2017.. I wonder if he's had sex yet.
It was more of a "just imagine" thing :P Wasn't knocking their apparent choice of method. I have no clue how the pixels lined up with the signals if it's analogue. It's algorhythmic witchcraft to me.
4:50 haha good one Sean
The responses of the company reps at the show at around 12:00 onwards pretty much sums up industry attitudes to security for the next 30+ years: dismiss the notion, then demean the rationale, admit maybe there's an issue, but place the responsibility elsewhere.
Sage advice (heh) from the Atlantic guy on not jumping into new tech too fast.
Btw Robert, what do you use to digitise your tapes?
Good upload thanks! 8)
Sean's a but grumpy, lol
I'm looking for the episode where a host of 8 bit micros are competing to run a program the fastest. 128k SPectrum came last and The BBC won. Anyone know where to find this?
I found it!! It was a benchmark test for a basic interpreter. V interesting. Amiga won and BBC came second. Search for 'Basic Interpreter benchmarks 1986'
I assume I either remember wrong or someone was talking bollocks, but I was always lead to believe that was why a lot of the fancy office buildings that had one way glass where you couldn't see in. I was lead to believe that kept the signals in the building :)
😂😂😂
God, Britain is so stuffy.
This is 35 years ago. It's nothing like this now.