Would like to do eps on
Retro gaming – the Speccy v Commodore Wars, arcades, the birth of the home computer and whether Manic Miner is still the best game ever.
Apocalypse – no not Brexit but would like to investigate films, games, TV, books etc about post apocalyptic world and how you would survive a zombie holocaust. Things like Survivors, The Walking Dead, Fallout 4, War Of The Triffids, Threads etc.
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I’d be very interested in taking part in the post apocalyptic podcast. I’m a big fan of pretty much everything you mentioned there.
Count me in too, DFB. I’m stocking up on canned food, bottled water and vitamin pills right now. I already have the ammo stashed.
Likewise. I love me a good apocalypse. Just about to embark on the third part of Justify n Cronin’s excellent (so far) Passage trilogy.
Speccy v Commodore!? What about the Amstrad!
Oh alright but I draw the line at Vic20
Dragon 32? Sinclair QL? BBC Micro? Toshiba MSX? Acorn Electron? Amstrad PCW?
Just listing some of the computers I used to sell in the home computer boom of the 80s. Flew off the shelves in those days. Christmas 83 was the high water mark if I remember rightly. Those and the first Now That’s What I Call Music, couldn’t get enough.
Well the BBC Micro was the booby prize for the kids who wanted a games machine but their parents got one as it was what was used in schools and therefore would be “educational”. yes they got to play Elite but at what cost?
If you had a pal at Acorn who could supply you with the latest Elite version well before it was commercially available, it was the DogFacedBollocks, matey, I can tell you.
There’s a niche business near me that specialises in keep ancient Acorn machines running. Apparently Acorns still run some equally elderly CNC equipment that can’t be run from anything else.
My big brother bought a Vic20 for Christmas 1982. Seconds of fun for all the family!
I’m not 100% convinced there is going to be a zombie holocaust.
I thought that until I saw Norman Tebbit on telly this morning
A bunch of pissed off, sunburnt pensioners are going to return from Spain and Portugal soon, which will look pretty like one.
Everyone rips off John Wyndham without the acknowledgment or respect due.
The Beeb have done the Triffids twice at least, fully acknowledged as it should be.
The disease scenario, rather than mutant rhubarb (which Terry Nation – IIRC – and the Beeb did with The Survivors; once quite well but badly finished, and once more recently that foundered after one series) is an altogether different plot line.
Old JW didn’t invent the idea of post-apocalypse society, just one specific possible route to it.
badly placed sub clause, but you get what I mean.
I would love a good adaptation of The Kraken Wakes, which is my favourite Wyndham. Brian Aldiss once described his work as “cosy catastrophe”, which is a wonderfully accurate description.
A thought for a future ‘cast, perhaps. Streaming music vs physical product.
Thanks for responses, will be in youth with possible dates n times