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  • Jet Set Willy+ Was : Re: Lets get it together STOP THIS THREAD!

    From Yaron Golan@21:1/5 to Richard Fairhurst on Sat Feb 20 07:16:05 2021
    What's the name of the song this line is from? I've been looking everywhere: Tell me some stories...don't live in the future...you speak in pictures



    On Sunday, 1 June 1997 at 08:00:00 UTC+1, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
    Andrew Cadley <A.P.C...@uea.ac.uk> wrote:
    How about some very tasty "parallax" scrolling in the background?
    Tasty!
    What exactly would be scrolling? I dunno if I'm up to all these effects but who knows eh?
    For a look at super-duper parallax effects, try Overflow's Shadow Of The Beast demo preview (probably on ibp, not sure). Runs on a normal CPC.
    I remember everyone making great play of the "parallax" in Prehistorik
    II. All it amounted to was an ink change at each one of the 300Hz
    interrupts. :-) (And some foreground hardware sprites if you had a Plus.
    Aha! There's another one for the "Plus enhanced" list.)
    --
    Richard Fairhurst http://www.systemed.u-net.com/
    Tell me some stories...don't live in the future...you speak in pictures

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  • From Gryzor@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 21 06:02:02 2021
    After all these years, I'm puzzled, what happened between WACCI and BTL?

    Any of the old guard still following this?

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  • From Matthew Phillips@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 13 08:44:04 2021
    In message <e68d5603-10c4-4f26-92fd-ea3e1b818226n@googlegroups.com>
    on 21 Feb 2021 Gryzor wrote:

    After all these years, I'm puzzled, what happened between WACCI and BTL?

    Any of the old guard still following this?

    What was BTL?

    --
    Matthew Phillips
    Durham

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  • From Gryzor@21:1/5 to Matthew Phillips on Sat Mar 13 03:10:48 2021
    On Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 10:43:58 AM UTC+2, Matthew Phillips wrote:
    In message <e68d5603-10c4-4f26...@googlegroups.com>
    on 21 Feb 2021 Gryzor wrote:

    After all these years, I'm puzzled, what happened between WACCI and BTL?

    Any of the old guard still following this?
    What was BTL?

    --
    Matthew Phillips
    Durham

    I guess this one: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/BTL

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  • From Matthew Phillips@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 1 20:32:01 2021
    In message <29b12212-919a-4588-824c-f0ce0e85e3b1n@googlegroups.com>
    on 13 Mar 2021 Gryzor wrote:

    On Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 10:43:58 AM UTC+2, Matthew Phillips wrote:
    In message <e68d5603-10c4-4f26...@googlegroups.com>
    on 21 Feb 2021 Gryzor wrote:

    After all these years, I'm puzzled, what happened between WACCI and BTL?

    Any of the old guard still following this?
    What was BTL?

    --
    Matthew Phillips
    Durham

    I guess this one: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/BTL

    I'd forgotten Better Than Life. I don't think I ever read it. At least two
    of the BTL gang in that picture were involved in WACCI. Richard Fairhurst
    was the last editor of WACCI and Merline certainly wrote articles for a
    while.

    I think the picture may have been taken at a WACCI Convention actually: the backdrop is probably the stadium at Walsall. I vaguely remember them all having the BTL T-shirts, but I can't tell you which year it was taken. I
    think I went to most of the WACCI Conventions.

    --
    Matthew Phillips
    Durham

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  • From Richard Fairhurst@21:1/5 to Yaron Golan on Fri Aug 5 05:06:41 2022
    On Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 3:16:06 PM UTC, Yaron Golan wrote:
    What's the name of the song this line is from? I've been looking everywhere: Tell me some stories...don't live in the future...you speak in pictures

    "Fidelity" by the Durutti Column.

    Richard

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  • From Richard Fairhurst@21:1/5 to Gryzor on Fri Aug 5 05:15:54 2022
    On Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 2:02:03 PM UTC, Gryzor wrote:
    After all these years, I'm puzzled, what happened between WACCI and BTL?

    Any of the old guard still following this?

    Blimey. Hello.

    Paul Dwerryhouse, editor of WACCI at one time, fell out with us (the STS/BTL lot). I don't think I ever worked out precisely why, but BTL used to take the piss out of mid-period WACCI for being boring, and I suspect he took offence at that. We got on
    plenty well with most WACCI folks.

    This thread was what started it all - I vaguely remember being on the phone to Rob Scott at the time and us both being genuinely surprised that Paul had chosen to use it to launch a fusillade.

    There was an entertaining subplot allegedly involving Paul's daughter and one of the BTL writers supposedly flirting at a WACCI Convention in Bescot.

    I believe Paul passed away c. 2008.

    Richard

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  • From scruss@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 4 15:13:20 2023
    Talking of WACCI, has anyone heard of Jeff Walker's whereabouts? We lost touch about 15 years ago. I didn't write for WACCI, but I did for ACU and Jeff's later Amiga magazine, JAM.

    Auntie John is alive and well and living in Seattle.

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