mirrorbird(00:12:49)
it wasn't technically the AY-3-8912, due to race conditions in the driving CPU
mirrorbird(00:12:17)
<a goth> that was never goth, that was EBM. fine fine.
mirrorbird(00:00:22)
if i had been cool enough to DJ the goth night instead of just sitting there getting drunk -- i would have loved to play the "bad" version. ha ha. then the good ohe.
mirrorbird(23:59:10)
if anyone doesn't know, this was Apoptygma Berzerk - Love Never Dies
mirrorbird(23:58:48)
but the actual original -- the music was out of copyright, but the choir was not (recorded later)
mirrorbird(23:58:15)
anyway Rapture, basically there was a REAL GOTH CLASSIC with some old choral -- and it turned out they couldn't use it, so the re-release of the CD had this awful characterless synth sound instead of the choir
mirrorbird(23:56:56)
maybe you could pay £7k a year for chinese genius and some camera-equipped rockets.
mirrorbird(23:56:16)
sounds cheap now, jesus, i'd pay £8k a year for good crisps
mirrorbird(23:56:06)
in the old transport days i worke on Google Maps stuff which was written purely theoretically, because they hadn't decided if they wanted to pay £8k a year to google, but they wanted to be ready.
mirrorbird(23:55:25)
ive never seen released code that was withdrawn due to ownership. but i have seen lots of code that couldn't be released for that reason