On 29/08/2019 16:28, Duncan Snowden wrote:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:03:44 +0100
Matt Rudge <mrudge@gmail.removeme.com> wrote:
Anyone else see this reference to the mystical chuntey in The
Guardian online:
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/aug/27/click-whir-ping-lost-sounds-of-loading-video-games
Can anyone find the original thread? Google only seems to go back to
February 2001 on a simple search for "chuntey", and that ain't it.
There's a mention of it being added to the Folklore FAQ (remember
that?) a few days later than the oldest thread I can find though, so it
must have been pretty new then. Which sounds about right.
I can never remember whether Alan Maxwell made the original typo or
came up with the "definition". Pretty sure it was the latter (it sounds
like him), but it'd be fun to see it again.
According to the WoS version of the Folklore FAQ, it was Paul Haine who accidentally misspelled "chutney", and Alan Maxwell who came up with the definition, to wit:
In the words of the Llama-Waxer himself,
"Spectrums have the one true chuntey, the uber-chuntey if you will.
Other 8-bit machines had similar problems, but paled in comparison to
the Speccy chuntey. Machines such as the CBM64 and the CPC had what
scientists refer to as pseudo-chuntey.
PCs have chuntey-related issues that have descended from these but are
not quite the same - in essence, PCs are affected by neo-chuntey."
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