| New Commodore-related Trivia Site [message #140145] |
Sat, 01 October 2005 14:50  |
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Originally posted by: Rory Winston
Hi
I have just created a website, based on the content of the "Commodore
Trivia" section of the old C= Hacking magazine. It contains hundreds of
nuggets of trivia and information regarding Commodore, the technology,
and the company. There is plenty of low-level detail there to satisfy
the techies, as well as more general info. I would encourage any
Commodore fans (or even any fans of retro computing) to take a look at
the site and have a look. Any questions or suggestions graciously
accepted (click the "contact" link on the web site).
The URL is: http://www.c64trivia.co.uk/
Have fun!
Rory
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| Re: New Commodore-related Trivia Site [message #140146 is a reply to message #140145] |
Sat, 01 October 2005 14:53  |
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Originally posted by: Rory Winston
Rory Winston wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just created a website, based on the content of the "Commodore
> Trivia" section of the old C= Hacking magazine. It contains hundreds of
> nuggets of trivia and information regarding Commodore, the technology,
> and the company. There is plenty of low-level detail there to satisfy
> the techies, as well as more general info. I would encourage any
> Commodore fans (or even any fans of retro computing) to take a look at
> the site and have a look. Any questions or suggestions graciously
> accepted (click the "contact" link on the web site).
>
> The URL is: http://www.c64trivia.co.uk/
>
> Have fun!
>
> Rory
I forgot to mention - credit is due to Jim Brain (whom I believe
occasionally posts here) for the original content. I just converted it
to a Web-friendly format.
Cheers
Rory
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| Re: New Commodore-related Trivia Site [message #140147 is a reply to message #140145] |
Sat, 01 October 2005 15:53 |
James @ cbm264
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Rory, this is so cool! (I know, I"ve slipped back into 1985-speak here)
I wanted to do this as an actual Commodore program, with
multiple-choice answer format, but your site saves me a lot of work. :)
If I may suggest two things:
- number the trivia in actual order instead of A1 being #1. Leading
zeros instead of As would work.
- "hide" the answers by making them the same color as the background.
We can then highlight the answers with the mouse to see the correct
response. This would help maintain the original "trivia question"
format.
Otherwise, a job well done! Remind me to email you a beer!
James
www.cbm264.com
> The URL is: http://www.c64trivia.co.uk/
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| Re: New Commodore-related Trivia Site [message #140148 is a reply to message #140146] |
Sat, 01 October 2005 16:04 |
Jim Brain
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Rory Winston wrote:
> Rory Winston wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have just created a website, based on the content of the "Commodore
>> Trivia" section of the old C= Hacking magazine. It contains hundreds
>> of nuggets of trivia and information regarding Commodore, the
>> technology, and the company. There is plenty of low-level detail there
>> to satisfy the techies, as well as more general info. I would
>> encourage any Commodore fans (or even any fans of retro computing) to
>> take a look at the site and have a look. Any questions or suggestions
>> graciously accepted (click the "contact" link on the web site).
>>
>> The URL is: http://www.c64trivia.co.uk/
>>
>> Have fun!
>>
>> Rory
>
>
> I forgot to mention - credit is due to Jim Brain (whom I believe
> occasionally posts here) for the original content. I just converted it
> to a Web-friendly format.
I do post here occasionally. My apologies for not responding to your
email yet, Rory, but I like the site, and it looks fine to me. All I
ask is if people make corrections, let me know, so I can correct the
originals.
I've been buried in adding functions to QLink, so I've been ignoring
some of my email. Sadly, yours. But, I did look at the site.
Jim
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Jim Brain, Brain Innovations
brain@jbrain.com http://www.jbrain.com
Dabbling in WWW, Embedded Systems, Old CBM computers, and Good Times!
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| Re: New Commodore-related Trivia Site [message #140150 is a reply to message #140148] |
Sat, 01 October 2005 16:14 |
James @ cbm264
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Jim,
In the Bil Herd/Dave Haynie video, it was stated that the original
intent of the TED series was to be a low-end unit to compete with
Spectrum. The V364 was not imagined until Tramiel left and other
management got involved in the project.
(Correction to a trivia question in the very first issue, I think
question 2 or 3.)
James
www.cbm264.com
Jim Brain wrote:
> All I ask is if people make corrections, let me know, so I can correct
> the originals.
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| Re: New Commodore-related Trivia Site [message #140152 is a reply to message #140147] |
Sun, 02 October 2005 12:00 |
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Originally posted by: Rory Winston
James,
Thank you for the kind comments. Also, thanks for the feedback,
especially the point about the answers being hidden. What I may do is
make the answers optionally hidden, and make them visible when the
question is clicked, using DHTML.
Thanks again!
Cheers
Rory
James @ cbm264 wrote:
> Rory, this is so cool! (I know, I"ve slipped back into 1985-speak here)
>
> I wanted to do this as an actual Commodore program, with
> multiple-choice answer format, but your site saves me a lot of work. :)
>
> If I may suggest two things:
> - number the trivia in actual order instead of A1 being #1. Leading
> zeros instead of As would work.
> - "hide" the answers by making them the same color as the background.
> We can then highlight the answers with the mouse to see the correct
> response. This would help maintain the original "trivia question"
> format.
>
> Otherwise, a job well done! Remind me to email you a beer!
>
> James
> www.cbm264.com
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>
>> The URL is: http://www.c64trivia.co.uk/
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>
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