Sunday 22 March 2015

Blog Theme Change!

I've decided to change the blog color scheme from the Black dark feel to a more white feel with blue color to cover the font. I'm saving the dark feel for some other time. I'm going to put the dark feel in some the blog!

Thursday 19 March 2015

80s Cambridge and Their Computer Revolution

Today, I wanna talk about 80s Cambridge in England, not that I'm running out of website to review, there's loads of websites for me to review. I actually want to talk about one of the more interesting things I've gathered up and that's the computer think-tanks and manufacturing force from Cambridge during the 80s. I'll just type these bizarre and heavily focused articles once in a while.

Where did this start? I was doing research on computer hardware over the years and the Spectrum and Acorn Hardware popped up. I was reading their wiki pages and found they had something in common, they were based in Cambridge in some point.

Sinclair was actually founded in Cambridge however they relocated their headquarter into London. They still carry that really intellect experience with them into London. A nice trait of intelligence that it's can freely can be carried around.

Anyways, I don't know what happened to Acorn. Maybe after Microsoft offered their OS system, people went into Microsoft's way of getting a computer software along with hardware and Acorn were struggling to get into the market and it ended for them in the year 2000. That's competition I suppose. A bit depressing if anyone was a big fan of Acorn,because they were the leaders of computers during the 80s and early 90s. It's nice to knowthat the OS for the Acorn is still around, the RISC OS.

Sinclair's hardware on the other hand was a different story, they went out there to make a bike, which is bizarre and went out of the way to ditch the computer business. That's a story for another time. They later sold the Spectrum trademark to another person to continue and it lost it's value when computers and their software from the United Stated show off what can be done which out the ZX Spectrum to shame. More on this another time.

Cambridge do make video games but that's really all they can do now days. That's all I can say about it for now.

Now Cambridge still brags about how 'culture' their town is, a town that people don't want to live in, which has a population of 100,000, compared to many other cities around the UK, that has alot more.Some places London have loads more then that. I think Cambridge is over-hyped and show off and when they burn out, they know and it all becomes a con-game for them and it's certainly put me off using computers for a while with the amazing stuff they had at the time. I suppose I'll have to sort that out and think that out for some time.

Monday 16 March 2015

Fun With Google Search Looking at GT6's Updates



Searching for Gran Turismo 6 updates news on Google News search is fun. When I was 18 or 19, when I bought and played Gran Turismo 4, I was amazed with the realism and how so much content appeared in the game. It wasn't never boring but I do compared it with the content on the Internet for it's realism, due to the fact that the game has real cars, tracks and other amazing features that make the game so real.

As it turns out, the realism in the game and the updates in Gran Turismo 6 are almost as real as the news given out and reported online. During the Google search function, it's nice to see how news appears in the results, seeing how the developers of the game are handing out news of the game to have players run back for more. Apparently it's not as good as Polyphony Digital does release content without reporting it, as they did that with the Mazda Vision GT concept on Christmas Day, but with the idea of using the google search engine for such updates, it's fun to say at least.

Sunday 8 March 2015

Sega Japan's Website Review

I've never actively looked on the Sega of Japan's website. Despite being a Sega fan myself, I wouldn't take a look at the website, because so many other people are doing it and sharing the news but I suppose that's why they spread the news, because it keeps them into work. Sega of Japan website looks bizarrely like many other video game websites out there, with the baby blue or spearmint border or windows, representing what someone could go out there and get for their consoles. Must be a common trend in gaming.