Guinness Book entry with 274 working Computers/Consoles

[Retro-Nerd]

Currently there is the GC (Game Convention) in Germany. There is an exhibition from a hardware collector, René Meyer, with 274 machines. The craziest thing is the vinyl drive, which loads some BasiCode programs for the Eastern Germany Alba PC. This is probably the only vinyl with software.



More pics:

http://www.heise.de/games-convention/bilderstrecke/119

[haps]

Shakin' Stevens and a few other acts in the 80's had Spectrum games on some of their 45s.

[Paul_s]

too.funking.cool

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by haps

Shakin' Stevens and a few other acts in the 80's had Spectrum games on some of their 45s.

Really!? Would like to see the covers, crazy stuff heh?

Found one:

http://news.smartdownloads.net/Games...s-3513145.html

Spectrum software in popular music

A few pop musicians included Sinclair programs on their records. The Buzzcocks front man, Pete Shelly, put a Spectrum program including lyrics and other information as the last track on his XL-1 album. The punk band Inner City Unit put a Spectrum database of band information on their 1984 release, 'New Anatomy'. Also in 1984, the Thompson Twins released a game on vinyl.[13] The Freshies had a brief flirtation with fame and Spectrum games, and the Aphex Twin included various loading noises on his Richard D. James album in 1996—most notably part of the loading screen from Sabre Wulf on Corn Mouth. Shakin' Stevens included his Shaky Game at the end of his The Bop Won't Stop album. The aim of the game was to guide your character around a maze, while avoiding bats. Upon completion your score would be given in terms of a rank of disc, e.g. "gold" or "platinum". The game had a minor connection with one of his tracks, It's Late. Scottish band Urusei Yatsura included a Spectrum program that showed a satanic message in the beginning of the song Thank You (from the album Everybody Loves Urusei Yatsura).

There was also a music program for the Spectrum 48K which allowed to play two notes at a time, by rapidly switching between the waveforms of the two separate notes, a big improvement over the mono Spectrum sound. The program was branded after the popular 80's pop band Wham!, and some of the biggest hits of this group could be played with the Spectrum. The program was called Wham! The Music Box and released by Melbourne House, one of the most prolific publishing houses at the time.

[haps]

I'd dare say that the game would be as crap as them Thompson Twins so called music was.