Retro BBC Micro fanboy tees
.. and for anyone who remembers the BBC's educational Computer Literacy Project (it's a fuzzy memory for me, but it's there...):
Aww. The cool bit is, these aren't available for sale because they were just concepts, but the guy behind the idea has offered up the artwork in case anyone wants to have a go...
Even I remember that owl, and I'm hella younger than you miss!
Posted by: SharD | October 20, 2005 at 21:05
You should get him in touch with Dave Green, and then he'll get some dosh and the t-shirts'll get sold n'all.
Posted by: cait | October 20, 2005 at 21:11
:-O
Yes please!
Don't let this go the way of that Katamari tee!
And whoever makes it, make it in something other than Baggy-Gamer(tm) size. I like it snug.
Posted by: Magnakai | October 21, 2005 at 03:46
I smell a Spreadshirt store[1]... And I remember the owl, too, hehe.
[1] having just set up one, they can do this sort of stuff :)
Posted by: Jez | October 21, 2005 at 09:54
Nice shop jez.. You going to be wearing those PMS hot-pants to your next LAN event?
Posted by: Shard | October 21, 2005 at 10:33
I remember the owl and i'm only 18.
I also remember playing some 'put the elephant on the truck' game on our BBC. Anyone know the name of that?
Posted by: JP | October 21, 2005 at 12:36
Surely a pair of boots would be more appropriate?
*BLOOPBLEEP*
Posted by: Andy | October 21, 2005 at 18:19
Glad you like them ... I could certainly rebuild the owl one (minus any glow -- but I see you didn't go for my lovely golowing one ;) at print resolution, but the SAA5050 generator for MODE 7 seemed to apply very advanced anti-aliasing to MODE 7 chars (remember that the pixels never showed up like they did in MODEs 0-6?) that I can't imagine how to reproduce. Incidentally that's why MODE 7 always looks really weird under emulation -- you're seeing hard pixels for the first time.
I guess I could photograph my BBC Micro's screen? :P Not decided on what file system to have it showing -- the "FS" is more "Firesnake" than anything else. It used to be MSN FS in the original buddy icon.
I should just use my own machine's Watford DFS as everyone knows Watford made the uber DFS.
*ahem* :)
Posted by: Telcontar | October 24, 2005 at 02:24
OK there we go! Authentic reproduction of MODE 7 text. The image on the page above will update automatically as it's linked from my site -- might need to shift-refresh. Click the Uber Leet for the original page where you can see a larger-scale version. I believe I can make it up to print res if Dave Green wants to sell them. If so, I can also sort out the owl one, but not the glow version of course (Photoshop 5 is not up to that and can barely manage the boot screen one).
RTS
Posted by: Telcontar | October 24, 2005 at 23:47