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Chris Young commented on The Computers That Made Britain by Tim Danton
Chris Young wants to read Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Chris Young started reading The Computers That Made Britain by Tim Danton
Chris Young started reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The story takes place on the fictional planet Urras and its moon Anarres (since Anarres is massive enough to hold …
Chris Young finished reading And Away... by Bob Mortimer
Chris Young quoted Commodore by Brian Bagnall
The engineers wanted to improve the colour on the chip. "It was the same thing with the Apple and Atari computers," explains [Bob] Yannes. "You would get interaction between the luminance signal, which is the black and white information, and the colour signal. So you would end up with these various colours on the screen which weren't really what you wanted, but it was just the nature of the NTSC video standard that the luminance and chrominance signals interact with each other." To purify the colours, [Al] Charpentier made a risky last minute change. "Al had the idea that if the two clocks were independent from each other, then that interaction wouldn't happen," says Yannes. "We separated the clock generators on the VIC chip so that the colour crystal was a separate clock from the video shift rate." The engineers noticed the default white on dark blue screen no longer looked appealing. "Even though it has good contrast, the transition from blue to white produced kind of an ugly edge," explains Yannes. "We ended up having to make it light blue on dark blue."
— Commodore by Brian Bagnall (Page 412)
Bob Yannes (designer of the SID chip) explains why the Commodore 64 had default colours of blue on blue.
Chris Young quoted And Away... by Bob Mortimer
Lisa checked into a nearby hotel so that she could be on call if needed, and early that evening my surgeon, Chris Young, came to see me.
— And Away... by Bob Mortimer (Page 35)
I would like to assure everybody that I am not Bob Mortimer's heart surgeon.
Chris Young started reading And Away... by Bob Mortimer
Chris Young reviewed The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #6)
Chris Young finished reading The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #6)
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #6)
Chris Young reviewed The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching
Maps
4 stars
I love maps. I spent my childhood pouring over atlases and Ordnance Survey maps, looking for interesting features, roman roads, blue symbols. That atlas in particular had countries that probably had ceased to exist before it was bought - but these are not the phantom lands depicted in this book, but creations mostly related to the fall of the Soviet Union.
This book has maps from further back, ones beautifully illustrated and based on vague descriptions brought back by explorers, where the land masses bear little relation to reality, and blank spaces were filled with sea creatures, monopods, and hypothesised continents.
The phantoms are a mixture of sighted islands that could not be located since, mythical lands which may or may not ever have existed, lands from entirely fictitious journeys which somehow ended up on maps, and depictions of creatures and people either invented or based on real sightings that …
I love maps. I spent my childhood pouring over atlases and Ordnance Survey maps, looking for interesting features, roman roads, blue symbols. That atlas in particular had countries that probably had ceased to exist before it was bought - but these are not the phantom lands depicted in this book, but creations mostly related to the fall of the Soviet Union.
This book has maps from further back, ones beautifully illustrated and based on vague descriptions brought back by explorers, where the land masses bear little relation to reality, and blank spaces were filled with sea creatures, monopods, and hypothesised continents.
The phantoms are a mixture of sighted islands that could not be located since, mythical lands which may or may not ever have existed, lands from entirely fictitious journeys which somehow ended up on maps, and depictions of creatures and people either invented or based on real sightings that were mangled in transit.
Chris Young finished reading The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching
The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching
The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to …
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