Sir Clive - world famous in at least the UK and Europe - has recently told reporters that he doesn't use any computer in his day to day life. The current generation of computers suffer from bad design flaws and are the absolute opposite of being conservative in their use of internal memory - according to Sir Clive. And he's the man who knows what he is talking about as he is the designer of the Timex1000/ZX80/ZX81 series of machines that came out in 1980 featuring a whopping 1Kb of RAM and a basic interpreter.

All this and more can all be read in a recent interview in the UK paper the Guardian. It seems that even all email correspondence is all printed out by his secretary and handled by him on paper. That would actually cause the bald red-bearded Sir to be somewhat of an environmental hazard, wouldn't it? Oh, by the look of the photograph in the article he actually lost the beard. Well Sir Clive will be celebrating is 70th birthday this year and perhaps it does make him look a little younger. One does tend to get this Gandalfian/Dumbledorian look when sporting a grey/white beard... Sir Clive has an extensive track record when it comes to the ZX Spectrum line of microcomputers that did shape a large part of computer history - at least in Europe, Brazil and Russia.

He's currently devoting his energy to design yet another energy efficient electric car. Let it be noted that his last attempt called the ' C 5 ' bombed! Perhaps he'll be more fortunate this time around. Go Sir Clive!

We write about videogames and we all have some opinion on just about any game out there. But how do we play them? Are we any good? Or do we stink? Well playing the games is where it is all about isn't it! Here's how I play.

I love the newer generation of consoles, I love the enhanced life-like graphics and I love the online aspects of them. Especially the Xbox 360 Live Arcade experience is something unique and can not be matched by any of the other current consoles like the Wii or the PS3.

But there is something about the older generation of consoles that makes them more timeless, easier to use and their gameplay is guaranteed to last a couple of decades - provided the circuit boards don't corrode etc. Will this be the same with the newer generation of consoles?

Read more about what I think about that subject, I am very curious about what do you think?

On youtube I was discussing the subject 'why do we collect video games?' I recorded this on the MacBook sitting at the dinner table. Then suddenly the wife's phone starts to ring - and I have to answer it because it is the guy who will start work on our house tomorrow.... thus cutting short any other musings I have on this subject.

;-)

So Why do you collect games?

It seems that DRM is finally going to be history in the near future as even an official spokesperson (Jonathan Lamy) for the RIAA acknowledges that there is no future in DRM.

For a long time the record-labels thought DRM to be the optimal antidote against piracy, but consumers were less enthusiastic. Because of continued consumer protests many online-music-distribution services - including Apple iTunes/iStore - decided to sell DRM-free music. Apple even allows people to convert DRM music to non-DRM music.

Of course it was not due to outspoken consumers that the music stores decided to switch their policy - it simply was because of DRM-free music outselling DRM-enabled-music.

So why don't we - consumers - do the same to other DRM crippled goods? Just stop buying rootkit copyright protected videogames and especially e-books and go for the DRM-free solution ;-)

Source: Google
http://torrentfreak.com/drm-is-dead-riaa-says-090719/

A fellow-Dutchman going by the name of HalfBlindGamer has a Youtube Channel focusing on retrogaming and video game reviews. He's actually quite into CDi. Recently he held a contest and I actually won a prize! Way way cool! This guys is full of humour and his videos are definitely worth checking out. Read more to view the videos.

This video is 'part one the Wiz review prequel' and it just contains some quick caps of games and emulators running. All emulators - except for the original gameboy and sadly the Vice emulator - run full speed zero frameskip.

The first part truly shows of the OLED screen in full splendor. The latter part of the movie was taped in a rather dark environment with the camera in Macro so there is actually a moire effect visible and the image is over exposed. Ah well just a quick 'Mark plays'... Read more to view the video. Be sure to select HQ or HD to view the video in the best possible quality.