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I definitely remember the Guru Meditation Errors on our local public TV station...
by mhd 11y ago
I definitely remember the Guru Meditation Errors on our local public TV station...
- anexprogrammer 11y agoNow you get billboards and news channels showing Win BSODs. Did you know that you could plug in a serial terminal hit right mouse and drop into a debug session (ROMWack) from a non-recoverable guru? Guru got a lot of stick, but they were really useful for developing.
- bch 11y agoOrigins[0], for those not steeped in Amiga lore. I love it when this sort of humour or inside joke works it way into production... I also recall the schematics for the chips/PCBs having song lyrics[1] (I assume this is a Tom Petty reference) on them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation#Origins [1] http://www.amigawiki.org/dnl/schematics/A2000_R6.pdf http://www.amigawiki.org/dnl/schematics/A2000_R6.pdf (page 9, bottom right) Edit: Now I see that it looks like _all_ the pages have pertinent lyrical hints... the Tom Petty lyric happened to be what stuck in my mind