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Luxury. When we wanted fancy graphics, we had to print out ASCII pictures on the TTY terminal and colour them by hand with crayons.
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Man, I still have my Amiga 1000 … and 4000.
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Anyone looking for the music, Mick Rippon’s (the musician) site has been down for a while and seems to be the only place to get his songs. However, Wayback Machine actually archived a bunch of them and I saved the ones that I could find.
For your consideration (still uploading, so give it an hour for everything): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vezg3ffmq4j5kme/AACzAsXPEh01q_cbpki8mB0-a?dl=0
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Wow. How can I get that little toy spaceship?
Printer? You were lucky to have a printer! All we had was on old biro, and we had to draw each single pixel by hand!
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Look at mister fancy pants here with his pixels.
We had ones and zeros, big-endian both ways, and if we wanted pixels we had to imagine them.
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