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[challenge entry] I know this is a bindun...
...but mine is completely IRL and practical, I only used tattyshop to resize and crop the image.



I even fired the old girl up, had a few problems with BASIC crashing on boot up, but I eventually got her stable enough to do this:



I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it :)

*EDIT*: The SCSI cables in the background in the first shot are completely circumstantial... I'm an engineer, these things tend to breed and multiply when left in plastic boxes for several months.

From the Recreating Album Covers challenge. See all 219 entries (closed)

(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 17:49, archived)
# Krafty work indeed !
(I helped save b3ta! Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 17:54, archived)
# Nicely done!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:00, archived)
# Arigatou gozaimasu!
I had a f*ck of a job getting my camera to focus on the CRT in the second shot, it insisted it needed to be blurry for some reason ><
(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:03, archived)
# I am also having that problem
with my Sheikh Yerbouti lego man :(
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:06, archived)
# Could try Macro mode
and setting the Aperture Priority manually. Or use Focus Lock, that's what I ended up doing.

Not that I know much about these sorts of things, I'm an engineer, not a photographer.
(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:09, archived)
# The brightness of the words on the screen will create blur.
Try changing the contrast.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:16, archived)
# Well what about the lego, smartarse?
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:17, archived)
# Stop bullying me :(
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:17, archived)
# She doesn't have a contrast adjustment...
...only intensity. Too high and she looks blurry IRL. Too low and it's not visible. I found about the right balance, but my camera just refused to focus properly.
(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:21, archived)
# Your camera will see the light more intensely than you will.
But if you already played with it then it might just be your lens.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:27, archived)
# It's a Fuji S5700 Bridge Camera
So I can't really do anything about the lens, except try cleaning it I suppose.

My old Kodak compact had the same problem, I ended up cheating and compositing a shot because I couldn't get a good shot.
(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:34, archived)
# Ooooh,
that's awesome!! :D
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:02, archived)
# Ta!
...but you're probably too young to recognise the machine I used -_-
(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:04, archived)
# That's a Commodore.
:]
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:05, archived)
# it wasn't made in 2001 though
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:06, archived)
# Nope.
1977. Which makes it older than me.
(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:15, archived)
# Very astute!
Nothing gets past you, does it?!

It says Commodore right on the casing.
(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:06, archived)
# Does it?
;]
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:08, archived)
# not seen one of those in a while!
woo
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:06, archived)
# It was given to me...
...by the Centre for Modern Languages at work. I guess they'd bought a 486 by then (this was 2004). I've got dozens of tapes with hundreds of bytes of language tutorial programs written in BASIC. This old PET is a bit faulty though, there's some corrosion on the logic board, and I think some of the massive 8KB of RAM may be faulty.

At the same time I scrounged a BBC B+ (64KB version) and a double-decker 5.25" floppy drive. I've had them for four years and I don't think I've even switched it on. I don't even know if it has a DFS or ADFS ROM installed, although it's likely given that the two were together.

/Retro blog
(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:13, archived)
# Oh good work indeed, sir.
Been on a massive Kraftwerk binge recently.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:06, archived)
# I think...
...computerwelt was their best album in many ways, before they sold out and went all digital.
(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:14, archived)
# I prefer TEE and the stuff with Neu!.
:)
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:17, archived)
# TEE was OK...
...too much vocoder though. Die Mensch-Maschine was the best example of their analogue stuff I think, IIRC Computerwelt used some computers for sequencing and that but almost all of the sounds were still analogue. Excpt for the Speak n Spell samples. ( I think they were also using a Fairlight CMI on this album? Not sure)
(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:29, archived)
# Like it!
(I helped save b3ta! The Twisted Omentum vidi vici veni, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:12, archived)
# i've got one of them!
:D
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 20:40, archived)
# Old computers ftw
*click*
(I helped save b3ta! idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Sun 23 Nov 2008, 21:05, archived)