Welcome to Someday.

[mmcirvin]

Obviously we've been doing 21st century interior design all wrong.

You think that's funny?? Do you?? Enjoy your laugh, beetface.

Comments

[jwgh]

What exactly is being displayed on the screen in that second link? Something that would impress a Colonel, I guess.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

If I recall correctly, it looks like their standard demo screenshot of "Video Easel", a strange early cartridge that consisted of a passable Conway Game of Life implementation and a lame other thing that repeated squiggles on the screen over and over.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

I thought I knew my computer terminology, but what are "player-missile graphics"?

-- Schwa ---

[jecook]

IIRC, Commodore called them sprites.

pentomino ought to be able to explain this better.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, player-missile (http://www.atariarchives.org/pmgraphics/) was basically Atari's strange implementation of sprites. They were vertical bands of pixels on the screen that were read directly out of chunks of memory, and could be repositioned horizontally.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

Gotcha.

-- Schwa ---

[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

Compuserve is now on display at an IKEA showroom near you. White jumpsuits with ridiculously high collars optional.

I will keep laughing at beetface, because the RSI he must have from typing on an Apple on that desk must have crippled him by now.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

It's an Atari 800. That's COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

Welcome to Someday.

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Keep your clothes all sparkling white
When your Analytical Engine is powered by
ANTHRACITE


...and for anyone not retro enough to recognize it, the original ad the Atari is parodying

Re: Welcome to Someday.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

It seems to start out as a parody of "They Laughed..." and turn into a parody of an old hard-boiled pulp novel. Kibo once described it as a classic example of somebody knowing how to use parody in an ad but not when.