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2004-07-15 22:41

Punisher

Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 34

Cool, Interesting or Funny Stories... Got any????

Ok folks... Im sure you've been around a few good years now (seeing that this is a c64 database and most of us im sure r old ;) ) so if u have any computer related stories that u think might be interesting, strange or funny go ahead and share them with us.... Im sure i have a few kicking about in my head, but the 1 i rememebered today was about c64 music.... Ok here in belfast there was a software company called 'Choice software' a small company, but believe it or not, they did nearly all the ocean conversions on the spectrum, amstard and they also did stuff on the atari st and amiga... example - (amstard 'rambo') (spectrum 'new zealand story, platoon') (Amiga 'New zealand story') etc etc... So anyway my mate dave had just started working for Choice software which was about 5 miles from were we both lived and his first project was the c64 version of 'New zealand story' but as dave was new to the gaming/programming scene and the game was an important title for ocean he was taken off it and it was handed back to oceans inhouse team. So anyway i was invited down a few times to meet the team and to see wot goes on in the software house, but this 1 time i brought down a demo i had done, scrolling text, sprites moving about, but loads of music, but the demo was nothing special (thats the normal for me ;) ) by pressing different keys on the keyboard it played different tunes like commando, monty on the run etc, but colin gordan the head programmer and owner of the company ( he wrote new zealand story on the amiga) walked into daves room when my demo was running, he looked at the demo and listen as i skipped through some of the tunes... but while 'monty on the run' written by the famous Rob Hubbard was playing he said to me 'is that your demo, i guess u can program then' i replied 'yip i did it, i program a wee bit'... then he said 'i like your music and his company didnt have a musician and would i be interested as he liked wot he heard'... lol.... i think everyone alive and who has a c64 wished they wrote 'monty on the run main tune' anyway i replied 'no, i didnt compose any of the tunes, i just wrote the demo and ripped the music out of games and put them into my demo....' so just for a second, a split second, i was rob hubbard ( I WISH )... so thats 1 of my stories.... come on, whos next....

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2004-08-09 01:17

SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238

Hmmm.. I went to a party in 1989, and had deal with Mandy Girl, that we were probably gonna do a little kissin' etc. :-) We were very happy to see eachother, but then my friend Hagar showed up and started to bake her. After 5 mins. she was totally in love with him, and they spent the rest of the party holding hands. :-(

So much for 3 years of swapping and handwritten letters that got longer and longer, and even steamy in the end - all to no avail :-)

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