Dirty Dragon was a children's TV character created by Chicago television personality Bill Jackson and who co-starred with Jackson on several programs, most notably Gigglesnort Hotel.
The Dragon had his beginnings in the early 1960s when Jackson was hosting a program in Indianapolis. It has been said that Dirty Dragon was based upon one of Jackson's co-workers, though this cannot be confirmed. Jackson had designed, voiced and usually manipulated the character, who had the appearance of a traditional fire-breathing dragon, and a very fierce gravelly voice. His grouchy outward temperament covered a loyal heart, as he would often help out Jackson and other characters if they were in trouble. He usually held a job on the program that allowed him to keep his fire breathing powers going; for instance on Gigglesnort Hotel he'd worked in the boiler room as a coal stoker. (He ended up eating most of the coal). On The BJ and Dirty Dragon Show, he'd work as postmaster and eat much of the viewer mail.
The Dragon had his beginnings in the early 1960s when Jackson was hosting a program in Indianapolis. It has been said that Dirty Dragon was based upon one of Jackson's co-workers, though this cannot be confirmed. Jackson had designed, voiced and usually manipulated the character, who had the appearance of a traditional fire-breathing dragon, and a very fierce gravelly voice. His grouchy outward temperament covered a loyal heart, as he would often help out Jackson and other characters if they were in trouble. He usually held a job on the program that allowed him to keep his fire breathing powers going; for instance on Gigglesnort Hotel he'd worked in the boiler room as a coal stoker. (He ended up eating most of the coal). On The BJ and Dirty Dragon Show, he'd work as postmaster and eat much of the viewer mail.
Scary Èire
Scary Éire were pioneers of hiphop in Ireland. They have toured with U2 (as did Marxman), and opened for acts such as Gang Starr, Beastie Boys (who they also toured Europe with), House of Pain and Public Enemy. They had a track Lost for Words on the 1993 album 'Planet Rap' from Tommyboy, and recorded a debut album which included production from Howie B, Tricky, Cutmaster Swift, DJ Mek and Sam Scuttery-Eye, nut were then dropped by Island Records, who kept the rights to the album but didn't release it. In 1995 Scary Éire reappeared on London independent label 11 Records and released Dole Q/That's no good to me on 12". The former song is about their various encounters on dole day and the latter a rugged, frenzied cypher. In March 2007, the group released "The Scary Era" album which had been 16 years in the waiting. This is a collection of songs from the pre-celtic tiger years with tracks like Rev It Up, Hold Tight and the very menacing Twisted, as well as featuring classics such as Dole Q. and Truncheon Song, among a variety of other great tracks. "The Scary Era" sounds as relevant today as it ever did.
Scary Éire were pioneers of hiphop in Ireland. They have toured with U2 (as did Marxman), and opened for acts such as Gang Starr, Beastie Boys (who they also toured Europe with), House of Pain and Public Enemy. They had a track Lost for Words on the 1993 album 'Planet Rap' from Tommyboy, and recorded a debut album which included production from Howie B, Tricky, Cutmaster Swift, DJ Mek and Sam Scuttery-Eye, nut were then dropped by Island Records, who kept the rights to the album but didn't release it. In 1995 Scary Éire reappeared on London independent label 11 Records and released Dole Q/That's no good to me on 12". The former song is about their various encounters on dole day and the latter a rugged, frenzied cypher. In March 2007, the group released "The Scary Era" album which had been 16 years in the waiting. This is a collection of songs from the pre-celtic tiger years with tracks like Rev It Up, Hold Tight and the very menacing Twisted, as well as featuring classics such as Dole Q. and Truncheon Song, among a variety of other great tracks. "The Scary Era" sounds as relevant today as it ever did.
Chalmers Aerospace Club (CAC) is a student society at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden founded in 1981. In Swedish frequently also referred to as Chalmers rymdgrupp (roughly Chalmers Space Group). CAC participated in the ESA funded CACTEX experiment where the thermal conductivity of alcohol at zero gravity was investigated using a sounding rocket.
In 1994, Igor Maznitsa in Raydac Research Group Ltd. developed conceptual new clone of «ZX Spectrum» which was called ZX-Poly. It was a ZX Spectrum compatible multiprocessor platform which supported multicolor for every point and 512x384 screen resolution (but it was back-compatible with the base platform). In 2007, the development (the emulator and the technical reference) was published in the net by its author Igor Maznitsa by permission of Raydac Research Group Ltd. on . Because the «ZX Spectrum» platform does not have any commercial interest at present, all works for hardware implementation of the «ZX-Poly» platform were stopped in 1999.
It has a few screen modes:
256x192 - Standart attribute «ZX Spectrum» videomode
256x192 - 16 colors for every pixel
512x384 - attribute color videomode
Possibilities of the platform allow to color a lot of old «ZX Spectrum» games and applications without serious changes of their executed code.
It has a few screen modes:
256x192 - Standart attribute «ZX Spectrum» videomode
256x192 - 16 colors for every pixel
512x384 - attribute color videomode
Possibilities of the platform allow to color a lot of old «ZX Spectrum» games and applications without serious changes of their executed code.