From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Sad News - we last two wonderful people in the past few weeks.
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 11:46:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220409104613.15F8321EE0@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ECF77E9-232D-468E-9F85-2CA8026505C5@humeweb.com>
Hi,
Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Eventually DEC Field Circus stopped replacing GT-40 switch registers
> if they'd suspected that they were used for playing it :-)
Andrew Hume wrote:
> i do remember the DEC engineers being bothered about replacing the
> registers.
There's nothing at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lander_(video_game_genre)#Lunar_Lander_(1973)
about the switch registers being worn by playing Burness's Moonlander.
What's the connection?
There are a couple of links from that section to interesting pages with
quotes from Burness,
https://www.acriticalhit.com/moonlander-one-giant-leap-for-game-design
https://www.technologizer.com/2009/07/19/lunar-lander/
which include a photo that's captioned as Burness and Moonlander from
circa '74:
https://www.acriticalhit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/unnamed-LG-2.png
--
Cheers, Ralph.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-09 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-08 20:48 Clem Cole
2022-04-08 22:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-04-08 22:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-04-09 5:49 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-04-09 8:07 ` Rob Pike
2022-04-09 11:10 ` Warner Losh
2022-04-09 9:20 ` Ron Natalie
2022-04-09 16:23 ` Clem Cole
2022-04-10 10:14 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2022-04-10 13:40 ` Clem Cole
2022-04-08 23:14 ` Andrew Hume
2022-04-08 23:53 ` George Michaelson
2022-04-09 0:28 ` Phil Budne
2022-04-09 2:03 ` George Michaelson
2022-04-09 10:46 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2022-04-09 10:51 ` George Michaelson
2022-04-09 14:30 ` Andrew Hume
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