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Message: 6781
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 24/01/2015
Subject: TV alert: Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy and Clive Sinclair in BBC's Cli
The 24th January 2015 edition of the BBC’s Click programme includes a three-minute featurette with footage from Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, and an interview with Sir Clive Sinclair.
The featurette starts in “Central Cavern”, and shows Miner Willy completing it at high speed.
The featurette then moves onto a short tour of Jet Set Willy, starting in “The Bathroom”, and moving quickly through “Top Landing”, “First Landing” and “The Nightmare Room”. Finally, Willy ascends the right side of “The Banyan Tree” (the fixed version, with Water instead of Earth at 5,18).
The featurette then introduces Sir Clive, and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega, which comes preloaded with a thousand of the original Spectrum games. The featurette shows eight games, including one that looks very Jet-Set-Willyish, though I don’t recognise it.
In the interview, Sir Clive says he “never” played any Spectrum games, and doesn’t “directly” use modern technology himself.
He says he’s disappointed in today’s technology, compared to the vision that he had in the 1980s. “I’m very impressed by the processing power, but I’m not at all impressed by what is done with it... I fully expected back then that we would have computerised doctors and computerised teachers.”
He says that he wouldn’t let a robot do surgery on him today, “but one day, they’ll surpass humans.”
He predicts that driverless cars will completely replace human drivers within a few decades.
For those in the UK, Click is repeated several times on 24th and 25th January, the next opportunity coming at 15:30 – 16:00 on the BBC News Channel [Freeview 107/130, Freesat 200/212]. It’s also on BBC Two on 26th January at 10:35 – 11:00. The MM/JSW/Sinclair featurette is only in the full-length version – not the 15-minute version that is also doing the rounds.
Those outside the UK should be able to catch Click on BBC World News.
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Dr Andrew Broad
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