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| From: indi (all posts)
Date: 1999-12-02
Subject: Re: Plus 4
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On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 19:35:49 -0500, you wrote:
>> Yeah... SPRITES!!! WHY 'O WHY!!!! <sniff>..
>
>Top ten reasons the Plus/4 doesn't have sprites.
>10. Sprites are Movable Object Blocks. Commodore's in a
>Philadelphia suburb, home of the firebombing of the
> MOVE block. Using a joystick to FIRE at a MOB for enjoyment as
>the object of a game might have been viewed
> as incendiary.
>9. It's hard to sell a business guy in the mid '80s a computer
>with the line "Check this out, you can make
> these cool little monsters with big eyes!".
>8. VIC wouldn't share with TED. Naughty VIC.
>7. The sprites wouldn't go over without their buddy SID.
>6. With 60671 bytes free for BASIC who needs sprites?
>5. Who needs sprites when you've got this cool Graphic software?
>4. "With Sprites!" sounds just a bit unmanly for a sleek black
>powerhouse like the mighty machine.
>3. Hey, with 16 luminance levels for the color blue, who needs
>sprites?
>2. So they could sell you a C64 AND a Plus/4.
>1. "Hey guys, wait! You forgot the sprites!"
hehehehe..
My top ten reasons...
10) idiots
9) Stupid idiots
8) Bloody Stupid idiots
7) Flamin' Bloody Stupid idiots
6) Increadably Flamin' Bloody Stupid idiots
5) Fantastically Increadably Flamin' Bloody Stupid idiots
4) Wonderfully Fantastically Increadably Flamin' Bloody Stupid idiots
3) Amazingly Wonderfully Fantastically Increadably Flamin'
Bloody Stupid idiots
2) Stupidly Amazingly Wonderfully Fantastically Increadably Flamin'
Bloody Stupid idiots
1) Commodore....."Oh yeah..and wheres the SID chip as well..?"
asks the cleaner..
Mike
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