Today, it’s a another walk down memory lane of some stupid mistakes done by me and others when working with old computers. What about shorting out a poor C64, backing up all non-important stuff instead of the needed files, running DCopy 4.1 and nuking the disk and making the power lead fit.. upside down.
Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:07 DJ Daemon: It’s been a tough week, so today it’s more music and nothing serious planned. But the topic is “Stupid mistakes”. Mostly mine.
00:28 Ilmarque – Circus of Kismet
04:14 DJ Daemon: The story of the bad DCopy.
05:09 Beek and Virt of Tequila – Fruitbat
09:29 DJ Daemon: The story of the useless backup.
10:21 Arachno and Seablue – In memory
12:23 DJ Daemon: The story of “Violence does it”. How a hard drive power connector fits upside down.
13:15 Moby – Fury-Tube
15:45 DJ Daemon: Who framed Roger Rabbit? The story of not understanding copy protections.
16:42 Dustbin of Charlie.Brown.records – Flying Around A Rainbow
21:01 DJ Daemon: Burning down the chip: the story of the reset button that killed…
22:01 Falah – Dark comedy sad af
24:33 DJ Daemon: The missing three – the story of a mistreated C64
25:34 Allister Brimble – Overdrive
29:25 DJ Daemon: Loose screws and heads, the story of Daisy the destroyer of diskdrives.
30:19 Sphenx – Ocean of Dark
37:00 DJ Daemon: A shock to the system: how not repair stuff.
37:53 Buzzer of Zenon – The White Thing
41:04 DJ Daemon: Last story: No!!! It’s DON’T!!!!
41:52 Rapture – Aurora Borealis
47:19 DJ Daemon: A bit of the future..
48:06 Yannis Brown – Magic carpet journey
50:20 DJ Daemon: Outro
51:06 Adkd – Saved – Calm remix
53:44 ericade.radio – With all the best music composed on Protracker, Noisetracker, Impulse tracker and Fast tracker
53:53 Joloosx – Roll-out
55:47 DJ Daemon: leading you into the good night.
56:18 Lesnik of Altair – Horizon
59:46 ericade.radio – An echo from a digital past
59:52 Funktion of Paranoids – Deepness
Production notes:
An episode made by me on the fly, as I didn't have time to write a script but still wanted to talk about some topic. Stupid mistakes and failures make for amusing storytelling.
Colophone:
"Failure is the only option" is a trope defined in the TV-tropes directory. It's a storytelling trope that dictates that the only option open to the heroes must lead to failure. The joke is that I'm mixing it with the old saying "IF you fail, at least you learn something interesting".
Tags: Storytelling, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021
