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8-BIT MEMORY LANE
By Peter (Badders) Badrick
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Observe?
An 11 year old boy, who goes by the
name of Peter is pretending to be
asleep. It's a little after 1am,
December 25th 1984. His parents went
to bed about half an hour ago, and
he's just letting them get to sleep
before the foraging begins.
We pan the camera around his dark
bedroom, switch on the night vision
light and watch as Peter reaches
down to the bottom of the bed. His
hand closes over a lump. Peter is
grinning.
Jump forwards an hour. Peter has
decided it's late enough to get up.
He's been through his stocking,
right down to the fruit and nuts
that are always at the bottom. He's
read his new book as best he could
in the dim light coming through the
gap in the curtains. The snoring has
started from across the hall, so now
is the time.
He slips out of bed and winces as
something falls to the floor. The
snoring continues. He lets out a
breath and creeps to the bedroom
door, slowly turns the handle and
peeps out onto the landing. There's
his Dad, waiting for him. Sprung!
His Dad smiles and tells him to have
fun, but keep quiet. Peter's gone
before he can finish!!
Downstairs, we can see the small
lamp in the corner of the room has
been left on, and there is something
on the coffee table. Peter gasps as
he realises what it is. Oh boy, a
Commodore 64! Not a Spectrum, but a
REAL computer. Real keys too, not
rubber blobs. This is the best
Christmas EVER! (Well, this year at
least). He sits on the couch in
front of the computer. There's the
computer, a joystick, 6 games and a
tape deck. There's a note on the top
of the tape deck. He gets up to read
the note.
Good morning Peter, happy Christmas.
I bet it's not even 3am! Turn on the
TV, then the computer. When it says
READY, press SHIFT RUN/STOP and wait.
He follows the instructions to the
letter. PRESS PLAY ON TAPE appears
on the screen. Cool. He presses play
and after a short while FOUND "XMAS
MESSAGE" is displayed. A short time
later, the READY prompt is showing
again and the flashing cursor is
waiting for input. He types RUN and
presses return.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS PETER
HAPPY CHRISTMAS PETER
HAPPY CHRISTMAS PETER
HAPPY CHRISTMAS PETER
HAPPY CHRISTMAS PETER
HAPPY CHRISTMAS PETER
HAPPY CHRISTMAS PETER
HAPPY CHRISTMAS PETER
HAPPY CHRISTMAS PETER
WOW, this is great!
After watching this for a few
minutes, Peter turns the computer
off and changes the tape for a 64
Supersoft game called Xerons. SHIFT
RUN/STOP, PRESS PLAY ON TAPE.
Peter (Badders) Badrick.
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