Subject: Re: [stella] Activision keynote speech From: Steve Richardson <prefect@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:28:16 -0400 |
Bob Colbert: > Hi, > I've transferred the entire Activision keynote speech to VCD (2 CD's). I > might put them on my Linux box for download if I can get the FTP set up > correctly, or if anyone has a site with about 900 megs free let me know! > I'll work on transferring the other keynotes as time permits. > > Bob Bob, A big "thanks!" for doing that transfer. It was fantastic to have the opportunity to hear those guys talk. Also, it was a good excuse to try burning a VCD. I'm curious, did you happen to tape the talk with Joe Decuir that was mentioned in the Activision set? As a hardware designer (and an impressionable pre-teen Atari fanatic in the early 80s), I find that stuff absolutely fascinating. The minute or so where he talks during the Activision keynote was very interesting to me. Do other people on the list have the same strange feeling of demystification that I do when hearing how many of these products were developed? When I was growing up banging away on my 8-bitter, there was an extreme emotional attachment to the machine. I grew to love its architecture and accept it as "the way things were." Now, almost 20 years later, it's a weird feeling to appreciate that most everything was mostly a product of engineering decisions, some marketing decisions, and some incredible creativity and talent from a few guys. I guess it's weird to realize that such an important part of my world was created by a few guys with some good ideas. I really found it pretty funny how the folks actually working on the 400/800 project thought of it as a games machine. All of my zealotry from the old days (Atari vs. the rest of the 6502-based world) flushed down the drain! :) "Where's the weather reporting software?" -Steve -- Stephen S. Richardson Hardware & Firmware Engineer prefect@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Digital Audio Products http://www.tangentaudio.com/~prefect/ Sound Design & Studio Recording - Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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