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Re: Avalanche and Mayhem for the VIC-20 and PET
« on: December 03, 2012, 02:42:51 PM »
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There's some great videos on that site to watch too.  I just sat through an episode of Bits & Bytes (I think it was called)

I don't think the Bits & Bytes video is hosted on the Revival Games - it is merely a YouTube "suggested video" that is (somewhat) randomly displayed when you finish watching one of YouTube videos intentionally embedded on the Revival Studios website.

Bits & Bytes is awesome though - it's a Canadian (Ontario) show from the early 1980s!
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Re: Avalanche and Mayhem for the VIC-20 and PET
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2012, 03:49:33 PM »
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Ah, that explains the accents.  I thought it was a BBC show to start with, then they sounded American, then they started ending every sentence with "eh".  ;)


At the time the show was on the air, you could sign up for course material and have it mailed to your house.  My Dad signed up and we got several books, binders and cassette tapes (you could specify which computer you owned so that the media for that platform would be sent to you).  Unfortunately, the only Commodore cassette tapes they offered were for the PET and we had a VIC-20 at the time, so the software wouldn't run.
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Re: Avalanche and Mayhem for the VIC-20 and PET
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2012, 03:54:56 PM »
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Ah, the VIC-20... my first computer.

I noticed that the woman who hosts it had a VIC on the desk behind her (I don't think the C64 was out yet).  At the end of the show they did some clips of what was coming up on later episodes and there seemed to be one on music that used a VIC.

I'll have to watch these again -- it's been decades!  Commodore was HUGE in Canada (there was a Commodore distribution centre / HQ right in Toronto where this show was filmed) and PET computers were in all the schools so naturally, all the kids asked their parents for VIC-20s when they first came out.

PS: I just checked out the video.  I don't think that's a VIC-20 behind the woman (Luba Goy) - it looks like some sort of terminal.
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Re: Avalanche and Mayhem for the VIC-20 and PET
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2012, 02:39:56 AM »
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Heh, to try out the new games, I'm bringing a PET 4016 and PET 8032 to our next FCUG meeting (I'll have another member bring his VIC-20, because mine is acting flaky right now).  Those PETs weigh a ton.  :)

Without checking into really old PET newsletters and other magazines, I can't recall of any other commercial games being released for the PET.  It's just newsworthy to have new PET commercial releases.

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Well, EPYX (Automated Simulations) released a lot of commercial games for the PET back in early 1980s - Temple of APSHAI comes to mind.

I have been watching those Bits & Bytes episodes on YouTube all afternoon.  I'm going to watch the whole series.  They are really great, both from a retro perspective and just a plain teaching perspective - some of the lessons on the roles of logic / CPU / interpreter / compiler etc. still apply to modern computers.

Having watched the show now, I am pretty sure that the computer on the desk behind Luba Goy is a Xerox computer (they briefly mentioned the Xerox computer in the first episode).
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