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> Chuntey
> The Chuntey is a mystical aura that surrounds the
> Spectrum, and is most evident during loading of a game.
> If you wiggle any leads, let the cat in the room, allow
> your mum to come too close to the spectrum, or any or
> a hundred other things, you'll disrupt the Chuntey and stuff up the load.
This is excactly why I love old computers so much! They are human, they are impossible
to reason out and, as far as one can tell, safe loading is ensured by the periodical
ritual c-tape sacrifices. Not your safe and dull, butterfly-colored multimedia home
entertainment center previously known as pc.
I think it was the analogue medias used in old homecomputers that really produced
interesting unpredictable stuff. Or maybe they just gave more feeling to every-day
usage. I still associate certain smells to my friends c64 and Amiga...if these
machines would've come out ten years before they did, they would probably have had
vinyl drives...7" maybe?! Imagine a commando 7" with the data on the a-side and the
theme song on the flip! :)
.kvantti
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