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!Repton3/CODE
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Games » Repton 3 - later version (1990)(Superior).adf |
| Filename: | !Repton3/CODE |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 1BF6 bytes |
| Load address: | FFFFFD44 |
| Exec address: | 9361327 |
File contents
The apathetic willingness of todays youth culture to embrace musical trends so spectacularly dull, uninspired and monotonic is as sad as it is frustrating. Indeed it is alarming to witness the utter lack of passion or emotion displayed by their icons, the 'artists' themselves. Given the important media time which they receive, why do so many artists in the present industry choose to say nothing? What a waste. But these are Thatchers children, born of a false prosperity which successfully bled them of anarchy. The Capitalist society rules supreme, there are, and can be, no problems. After all, you own your own home now (which is bigger and better than your neighbours) therefore everything must be alright. Why complain? Chill out, there's a rave on. Stuff the debate, let's dance. No. This is unacceptable. Musicians, indeed artists of all ilks, have a responsibility to observe and question. The music industry at present has failed, having disappeared on a self-indulgent tangent which is neither productive nor memorable, merely profitable. The alternative, probing, attitude furnished by the halcyon days of the late seventies and early eighties, when the music industry galvanised popular disquiet, has been eroded and subdued by an industry and media in fear of its power and potential. It is time for change. Music is something which should be emotional, passionate, aggressive. Something which is precious. Something Sacred. ______________________________________________________________________ And now for something completely different. Option 2 a) In what ways do humans communicate with each other? This question can be taken to refer to both the range of 'cultural systems' suggested in Block 1. Humans communicate with each other in many different ways, sometimes people communicate with others without realising they are doing so. People talk to each other, to their family and friends. They talk over the telephone, make conversation at work. Teachers communicate lessons to childr
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