30 Jun
2014
30 Jun
'14
6:02 p.m.
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:41:45 +1200
From: Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz>
Hi Mark,
I almost made the same mistake in understanding you, but since I knew
he was still alive, I thought for a second and realized that you were
using the (hidden) hyphen.
You said that the computer was promoted by the
"late" Bill Cosby.
That must be news to him, as he is very much alive. (
Yea. LOL. I actually meant "late-70's comedy icon" but it can be
interpreted as "the late 1970s icon...". You can't see the hyphen in
audio. Someone pointed this out when the video first went up. If you run
that part of the video now, you'll see I've got an annotation in the top
right hand pointing out what I meant! There was absolutely no way to actually get into
the innards of the
machine as the BASIC had no peek or poke commands.
Indeed. This is what confused me about the sprites. I confused "no user
generated sprites" (under standard BASIC) with no sprites at all. I
corrected this mistake via annotation in the video too. However I
understand Peeks and Pokes were available via the Extended BASIC cartridge.
I didn't now about the heating problem. Interesting.
Terry (Tez)