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Re: Blake on TWIT!
« on: March 27, 2017, 05:19:16 PM »
Hah, thanks for the note, guys! Apprecaite the "Amiga.org's very own..." - nice ring to it. :-)

Yea, I do love that game. Leo didn't know about the retro side of things with me, going in. I was aproached for the show just on the NMS angle. I wrote the Polygon piece, mentioning $$ spent on NMS, in order to counter some of the hate that gets heaped on the game.

The cleanest and tidiest the computer room has ever been is how you see it in that shot. It's something of a mess right now. It's on my list to get it back sparkling. Parts laying about from enhancing a C64, A1000, and an HP.

Cheers, folks.


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Re: Blake on TWIT!
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2017, 03:11:58 PM »
Yea, not much about Amiga in there, though the scan-through the room they showed shows maybe three. And what's worse, Leo asked me about an ST! :-) Well, ST Joust _is_ a good game (and it's now ported to Amiga ICYMI). :-)

Yes, it didn't occur to me to post here for reasons paul1981 stated. I appreciate jdryyz posting since I've been around here as a light poster for around 15 years.

Actually, the whole thing blew up larger than I would've guessed. I wrote the $4K No Man's Sky post on my ByteCellar.com blog to address some of the hate that has surrounded the game. Kuchera saw it and approached me to agree for Polygon to run it as an Op-Ed. I agreed and it was notably edited for brevity vs. what's (still) at my blog. Leo's TNSS producer saw it on Polygon and asked me to come on the show. The fact that I have a retro computing passion wasn't at all part of any of it other than background info I provided going into the show. I didn't feel I could branch to far off to discussing retro as the show was live and that wasn't the topic.

At any rate, No Man's Sky -- it's awesome on a PS4, don't need a PC to have the fun. I encourage folks to check it out. And, I will say - whether or not it matters - AmigaBruno, a large chunk of the $ spent there was funded by what sadly came to me in the way of inheritance in my mother's passing last year. She was there watching me sell one system and get the next, helping along the way, all those years in the '80s and '90s. I don't think she would mind too much helping with yet another computer. :-)
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