It's weird feeling when you meet someone who you've seen on TV or CZcams cos we have this one sided relationship, (less so on CZcams) we know you, but you don't know us. I remember being in a corner shop in Edinburgh once and an actor from EastEnders was in front of me in the queue. I recognised him but didn't know where from. I stood in the queue trawling my memory of previous jobs I'd had. Where could I have met him? Did we go to school, college/uni together? It took a few minutes to realise he was an actor and we'd never met. It's also strange to meet someone in another location to where they usually are - which compounds the confusion even more. As a school teacher it happens a lot when i'm shopping in the city center, often children I teach will be surprised to see me, like I should only exist in the classroom..
A "parasocial relationship", I believe it's called. I really don't mind chatting to people at all, everyone is generally friendly. It does confuse me a bit when they ask me very specific questions about videos I made years ago though - I can barely remember what I had for dinner last night 😅
The Electron is right behind you, Rees. You should consider doing pantomime. About the failure of your own Electron, I would suggest verifying that it really was the ULA that failed. It has become disappointingly common for people to learn about this custom chip and hear a bit about the backstory, and then to claim that if an Electron has failed then it must be the ULA. We've seen people with broken Electrons where the fault was elsewhere, such as the dynamic RAM, which is a recognised problem across many computers of this era (and not just from certain notorious manufacturers, as seems to be reported in Commodore folklore). Sometimes the CPU fails or even ROM chips, as I seem to recall, but closer to the ULA itself is the socket that many of the machines employed to hold the ULA. The pins in this socket have a habit of failing over time, remarkably, and it is quite a fragile design. In fact, the Electron I used back in the day experienced problems with "snow" on the screen before failing. That suggested a ULA problem and the machine eventually stopped powering up successfully. Further, more recent, inspection revealed broken pins in the socket. At least one person has managed to replace such a socket with a "new old stock" part, but these are rare, and Acorn themselves switched to a carrier board in the final version of the Electron. Anyway, if you decide to attempt a repair, there are plenty of helpful people on Stardot able to advise. Sorry for the lengthy comment!
😂 That's hilarious, I must have spent 10 minutes looking for it before I recorded this. Of course it's right behind my head! Very true, it's been a good few years since I picked up that Electron so I'd need to check it all over again to confirm. I may well pop into Stardot when I do!
The whole licensing of music can be so frustrating. There is a TV show from the late 70s called WKRP in Cincinnati. It's about a radio station that starts playing rock music. SO you can imagine that rock music was part of it's allure. Well when the first season was released on DVD in 2007, the music was replaced due to lack of licensing rights (which proved to be impossible to obtain). Of course the DVD set failed and no other seasons were released. So not surprised that games are now also being affected by expired licenses for music.
The GTA 4 DLC is really good, I think the Ballad of Gay Tony is probably the most entertaining story I've encountered in the whole series. Omid Djalili is great fun in it.
@@blakecasimir absolutely, and also showed how race and sexuality can be fully integrated into a story in a way that doesn't feel shoehorned or tokenistic because the characters are credible as people.
Interesting, I definitely played through the main campaign and Lost and Damned back in the day but my memories of Gay Tony are a lot hazier - maybe I'd moved on to something else by that point and only dabbled with it. Looking forward to checking it out properly!
@@ReesRambles since I know you're a Yakuza fan, I think you'll really enjoy it. It's very much GTA with a sprinkling of Yakuza dust - everything is more colourful, the bonus activities (dancing, golf and base jumping) are fun, and underneath all the silliness is a rock solid story with relatable characters. It's just a shame it wasn't a bit longer.
NMI is probably non-maskable interrupt. Used when something absolutely must have the CPU’s immediate attention and can’t be ignored by anything set in other code. I have no idea how or if that’s used on the Electron.
Yes, it means non-maskable interrupt, as you say. Not many expansions seem to have used the NMI signal, though. Some disk systems (the Slogger Pegasus 400) may have routed and serviced these interrupts but simply cleared any such condition, which makes one wonder whether their use of NMIs was planned originally and then abandoned. There was an Econet board done by Barson Computers in Australia that may have used the NMI signal, and the PMS E2P 6502 second processor cartridge does appear to have used NMIs. Documentation for the Electron indicates that NMIs would lock the ULA out from refreshing the screen image from RAM and thereby cause "snow" to appear on screen. That might have dissuaded hardware designers from using them, and recent discussion suggests that other techniques using IRQs - maskable interrupts - proved to be entirely adequate.
You can take my tunes, Rockstar, take even my DLCs and achievements. But you will NEVER get my hamster.
It's weird feeling when you meet someone who you've seen on TV or CZcams cos we have this one sided relationship, (less so on CZcams) we know you, but you don't know us. I remember being in a corner shop in Edinburgh once and an actor from EastEnders was in front of me in the queue. I recognised him but didn't know where from. I stood in the queue trawling my memory of previous jobs I'd had. Where could I have met him? Did we go to school, college/uni together? It took a few minutes to realise he was an actor and we'd never met. It's also strange to meet someone in another location to where they usually are - which compounds the confusion even more. As a school teacher it happens a lot when i'm shopping in the city center, often children I teach will be surprised to see me, like I should only exist in the classroom..
A "parasocial relationship", I believe it's called. I really don't mind chatting to people at all, everyone is generally friendly. It does confuse me a bit when they ask me very specific questions about videos I made years ago though - I can barely remember what I had for dinner last night 😅
The Electron is right behind you, Rees. You should consider doing pantomime.
About the failure of your own Electron, I would suggest verifying that it really was the ULA that failed. It has become disappointingly common for people to learn about this custom chip and hear a bit about the backstory, and then to claim that if an Electron has failed then it must be the ULA.
We've seen people with broken Electrons where the fault was elsewhere, such as the dynamic RAM, which is a recognised problem across many computers of this era (and not just from certain notorious manufacturers, as seems to be reported in Commodore folklore). Sometimes the CPU fails or even ROM chips, as I seem to recall, but closer to the ULA itself is the socket that many of the machines employed to hold the ULA. The pins in this socket have a habit of failing over time, remarkably, and it is quite a fragile design.
In fact, the Electron I used back in the day experienced problems with "snow" on the screen before failing. That suggested a ULA problem and the machine eventually stopped powering up successfully. Further, more recent, inspection revealed broken pins in the socket. At least one person has managed to replace such a socket with a "new old stock" part, but these are rare, and Acorn themselves switched to a carrier board in the final version of the Electron.
Anyway, if you decide to attempt a repair, there are plenty of helpful people on Stardot able to advise. Sorry for the lengthy comment!
😂 That's hilarious, I must have spent 10 minutes looking for it before I recorded this. Of course it's right behind my head!
Very true, it's been a good few years since I picked up that Electron so I'd need to check it all over again to confirm. I may well pop into Stardot when I do!
The whole licensing of music can be so frustrating. There is a TV show from the late 70s called WKRP in Cincinnati. It's about a radio station that starts playing rock music. SO you can imagine that rock music was part of it's allure. Well when the first season was released on DVD in 2007, the music was replaced due to lack of licensing rights (which proved to be impossible to obtain). Of course the DVD set failed and no other seasons were released. So not surprised that games are now also being affected by expired licenses for music.
The GTA 4 DLC is really good, I think the Ballad of Gay Tony is probably the most entertaining story I've encountered in the whole series. Omid Djalili is great fun in it.
@@blakecasimir absolutely, and also showed how race and sexuality can be fully integrated into a story in a way that doesn't feel shoehorned or tokenistic because the characters are credible as people.
Interesting, I definitely played through the main campaign and Lost and Damned back in the day but my memories of Gay Tony are a lot hazier - maybe I'd moved on to something else by that point and only dabbled with it. Looking forward to checking it out properly!
@@ReesRambles since I know you're a Yakuza fan, I think you'll really enjoy it. It's very much GTA with a sprinkling of Yakuza dust - everything is more colourful, the bonus activities (dancing, golf and base jumping) are fun, and underneath all the silliness is a rock solid story with relatable characters. It's just a shame it wasn't a bit longer.
That's why physical media is best.... as they can't take things away!
Still have my GFWL version of GTA4 in a folder with the OG music. You're never taking it, R*.
CZcams celebrity Rees!
NMI is probably non-maskable interrupt. Used when something absolutely must have the CPU’s immediate attention and can’t be ignored by anything set in other code. I have no idea how or if that’s used on the Electron.
Yes, it means non-maskable interrupt, as you say. Not many expansions seem to have used the NMI signal, though. Some disk systems (the Slogger Pegasus 400) may have routed and serviced these interrupts but simply cleared any such condition, which makes one wonder whether their use of NMIs was planned originally and then abandoned. There was an Econet board done by Barson Computers in Australia that may have used the NMI signal, and the PMS E2P 6502 second processor cartridge does appear to have used NMIs.
Documentation for the Electron indicates that NMIs would lock the ULA out from refreshing the screen image from RAM and thereby cause "snow" to appear on screen. That might have dissuaded hardware designers from using them, and recent discussion suggests that other techniques using IRQs - maskable interrupts - proved to be entirely adequate.
So modest as well sir 😂
As always 😂