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https://darrenfoulds.com/darrenfoulds/podcasts/

More 8 bit show & tell.  Kind of annoying always hearing 8 bit show's fat fingers fidgeting & Darren Foulds has a serious case of dry mouth.

https://darrenfoulds.com/podcasts/gu80s/ep03-GU80s-C64Ref.mp3

In this one he said his C64 arrived in March 1984.  The lion kingdom's arrived between July 1984 & that fall.  An atari briefly came that July.  It was tape only until some point in 1985 so pretty useless.

It was always a development platform.  The games on tape were too slow to load.  The games on cartridge were pretty bad.

8 bit has over 40 C64's that he bought in the 90's for $5 in his basement.  He owns a house in Thunder Bay, which is a damn rare thing nowadays but they're in the dead of winter by mid Nov up there.  Maybe it could be a cozy place with the right gear.

He has always had a C64 set up & still uses them for solving math problems in BASIC.  His day jobs were back office software companies in Thunder Bay, but he might be a full time gootuber now.

  8 bit said commercial software on tape had disappeared by 1985.  If it continued to be on tape, we would probably have never gotten a 1541.  Using GEOS from tape would have been a ponderous experience if it ever happened.  It swapped in read-only code segments & read-write document segments from disk so it wouldn't have worked.

https://darrenfoulds.com/podcasts/gu80s/ep19-GU80-Garfield.mp3

Who knew the industry of Garfield merchandise made billions.  Jim Davis had a number of failures before he finally hit paydirt.  There are 2 more theatric garfield movies after what lions saw.

Lions originally gravitated to the high quality of the art, the widescreen books, & that was probably a big factor in his success along with his formal education in business.  Contrary to the stories we were told about struggling cartoonists in the 80's, Jim Davis became wealthy.  He quickly incorporated Garfield to save on taxes, delegated to assistant artists, parlayed the character into merchandise & movie deals.  After the decline of print media, he sold the franchise in 2019.

Lord knows lions could have been a lot better off if they studied business.  Talent without the knowledge to monetize it doesn't buy anything.

Garfield was a good example of generation X pessimism.   Jim Davis came 1 generation earlier but perhaps he was an example of the boomers starting it.

Lions never cared for any more than the movie length comics.  The dailies today as 40 years ago were usually dry canned humor.  Movie length comics presented in a wide screen format book were something new.

Perusing the modern, dry canned dailies, the repetitive style means they're probably all copied & pasted art from 30 years ago.  If any staff artists are still employed, they're creating 1 off merchandise & not getting paid much.



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