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      <title>When was the last time you walked into a shop and bought a game?</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55552/when-was-the-last-time-you-walked-into-a-shop-and-bought-a-game</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>zx1</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[With the rise of Play.com and digital downloads does anyone actually still actually go to games shops and buy games?<br />
I was in Game recently and the PC section was just a shelf of Steam codes and a very small used section.<br />
I think the last time i went into a shop and bought  a game was around 2012 when i bought Mafia 2, since then i've used Steam.]]></description>
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      <title>HAPPY THANKSGIVING to those of us in America</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55555/happy-thanksgiving-to-those-of-us-in-america</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>mik3d3nch</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[I've been living over here for nigh on forty years and it catches me out each year!  I still think of it as Harvest Festival...was going to put this in what's on your saucer but I haven't even made a start on the cooking yet.  Three days in the fridge to thaw the turkey and its still not quite ready. Should be a beauty 15lb Butterball oh yum, I love turkey, you get the next three days off kitchen duties just eating leftovers.<br />
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So anyway, to Boozey, the Colonel and ScottieUK (I think and anyone I forgot or dont know about)<br />
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!]]></description>
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      <title>Things you only figured out after all these years.</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/49529/things-you-only-figured-out-after-all-these-years</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2014 04:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Scottie_uk</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Its funny isn't it when for almost all your life you believe something to be true, and then after all these years realize it's not true, or never happened.<br />
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Recently I'd been listening to the Album Frankie Goes to Hollywood a lot and it got me thinking 'You know after all these years and all the hype I've still never watched that Frankie Goes to Hollywood film'.   I now find out there never was one was there?<br />
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I think I assumed this because there was a video game and if there was one of them there surely must have been the film it was based off.<br />
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Silly me.  Anyone else have anything similar happen to them?]]></description>
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      <title>using Slingbox with Sky router</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55542/using-slingbox-with-sky-router</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2017 09:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Battle Bunny</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[I've got a Slingbox Solo which works fine connecting remotely to my TV via my BT router. However, if I connect it to my Mam's TV via her Sky router I can't get it to work. The network light is bright red 'ON' which shows the box has connected to a network, but SlingPlayer can't find it and it doesn't show in the router's list of connected devices. I've tried setting up port forwarding for 5001 using various IP addresses, adding a Slingbox service entry and related Firewall rule. I presume that the problem is the router's firewall blocking communication to the Slingbox, as the box works fine on a BT network. Has anyone got this working with a UK Sky router and can tell me what numbers to type in where?]]></description>
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      <title>My +2 has gone completely mad</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55546/my-2-has-gone-completely-mad</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2017 23:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>The Mighty Dopethrone</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Apart from the two +3s I'm trying to get into perfect working order (or as near as I can manage), I know my venerable old +2 with its steadily-browning grey case has never quite been the epitome of a perfectly-running Spectrum either. Even when I was still in short trousers it had trouble loading 128K games that should have been straightforward (at least emulation tells me they are). Of course, 30 years of gathering dust and possibly-degrading capacitors will also have taken their toll...<br />
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...but <i>never</i> did I expect this.<br />
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<img src="http://www.rickdangerous.co.uk/lj/madspectrum.jpg" alt="madspectrum.jpg" /><br />
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Look at it! It thinks it's <i>Welsh</i>! I tried writing a short program to print out the character set to see how mad it had gone, and all it spat back at me was "LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH" and an @ symbol.]]></description>
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      <title>Selling stuff</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2017 12:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>mel the bell</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Again since im now currently redundent for the second time this year my head turns to selling stuff as a business online?<br />
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Is it still feasible selling physical products (mainly cds, maybe the odd game, dvd) seems to still be a lot of sellers about, selling to the likes of...erm me lol<br />
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I'm thinking Amazon, Ebay, Discogs<br />
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I'd be looking at around £900 / £1000 a month to pay the bills and be able to top stock up, pay the fees etc?<br />
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thoughts, ideas? yays? nays?]]></description>
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      <title>Amazon to do LOTR tv series's</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55512/amazon-to-do-lotr-tv-series-s</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>mel the bell</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Not one but a few?<br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/41979819/lord-of-the-rings-to-get-tv-adaptation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/41979819/lord-of-the-rings-to-get-tv-adaptation</a><br />
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yay or nay]]></description>
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      <title>Woot Xmas 2017</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55545/woot-xmas-2017</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Dazman</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Does anyone know if a Woot xmas is going to be made again for 2017?]]></description>
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      <title>Games with help for deaf people?</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>ewgf</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[On another forum, there's a discussion about the lack of subtitles in some action games. But there are seemingly no game developers on that forum, and I know there are some people on WOS who work or have worked on commercial games, so I thought their comments would be interesting.<br />
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See, some time back (maybe 2004/5) I worked with a bloke who was deaf and a gamer, and like me he loved first and third person shooters, and he told me how bad many games were when you were deaf. That made me curious, so I deliberately spent a week playing games with no sound (the speakers turned off), just to see what it was like. I knew it would be bad, of course, but I stuck with it and it was worse than I thought it would be. The lack of game music wasn't so bad, that didn't bother me much at all (but then I've never been a big fan of music), but the lack of ambient sounds really hurt the atmosphere.<br />
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Much, much worse was how little help games tend to give deaf people. First of all, it surprised me how few games actually had subtitles. That was bad enough, but that was only for the story, mainly. I hadn't realised (I had no cause to) that most first person action games make no allowance for deaf people as far as the game mechanics go. I mean, when you can hear, then you hear (through the game) roughly where an enemy is (at least, with stereo speakers you know roughly where, and surround sound is much better), and you can hear sudden gunshots that alert you to the fact that someone has started shooting in your direction. Lots of first and third person shooters have enemies who, when they see you, shout "There he is", or similar, which also alerts you to the fact that you're not alone and the enemy has seen you.<br />
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And in a Thief style game, then you can hear footsteps which alert you, and when you're hiding, then the footsteps get louder when the enemy approaches. Plus stealth games make your own footsteps louder the faster you move, but when you're, say, near in-game machinery that makes a lot of noise, then you can safely run or make as much noise as you like since the enemies won't hear you because any sounds your in-game character might make are drowned out by the very loud machinery.<br />
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But I can't remember even one first or third person shooter offhand, that offers an option of an onscreen display that points an arrow or other indicator towards the direction(s) where sound is coming from, for the deaf gamers. It doesn't have to be extravagant or anything major, just something in one corner of the screen that display an arrow at the direction of the sound, with either text or the arrow itself being colour coded to let you know if the sound is gunfire, or an explosion, or a shout, or footsteps. And maybe the larger the arrow (or the darker red, or something) the louder or closer the sound that caused it.<br />
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Playing a first person stealth game like the Thief series must be pretty bad for most deaf people, unless you have the option of such onscreen visual representation of sounds. And by now, you'd think there would be all sorts of help for deaf gamers. My own hearing isn't fantastic, and I sometimes put of subtitles to help me follow the speech, especially if the in-game speech isn't always clear due to the in-game sounds being as loud as the speech. But as far as I can remember, I've never seen an option for onscreen representations of any sound other than speech (well, very few games do put things like "Boom!" or "An Explosion sounds" in the are where they would normally display subtitles, but even then it's mostly just for scripted game events).<br />
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So I was wondering if this situation had improved over the past decade or so, and if game developers ever consciously decided not to have subtitles or other deaf-aids in their individual games or if it just never came up in design meetings. Surely deaf gamers, or people with deteriorating hearing, form a large enough part of the gaming demographic to make these sort of things desirable. These functions might even be the deciding factor when deaf people consider buying your game.<br />
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And nowadays gaming machines (PC, console, whatever) are so fast and have so much storage capacity that there doesn't seem to be any technical disadvantage to the games having deaf-aids for any gamers who want them.]]></description>
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      <title>What clone for the USA?</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55536/what-clone-for-the-usa</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2017 00:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>mik3d3nch</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Living in America, so fellow ex-pats might be able to answer this. Yes, I know I can do a search but why not ask first as knowledge beats enquiries.<br />
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Just supposing I was nuts enough to want to buy myself a Spectrum clone rather than use my emulator - I have my reasons - which is the best choice of the bewildering options, it must be a complete machine in a case, not a circuit board. I might consider buying one for my grand daughters it depends on how much it costs.<br />
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Of course postage rates may rule this one out.  The main reason I'd like something like that is because of the keyboard. I have the Speccy keyboard drawn out on poster board but its still not the best way and theres no room to fit all those little words on the lands between the rows of keys.  Assume I know nothing about Bluetooth, SCART or any of the other stuff I read about. This is probably a hopeless quest, still it can't hurt to ask.]]></description>
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      <title>here you go boozy lol</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55538/here-you-go-boozy-lol</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>mel the bell</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<span><span id="youtube-OVcEmb78jBA"><span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=OVcEmb78jBA"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/OVcEmb78jBA/0.jpg" width="640" height="385" alt="image" style="border: 0px;" /></a></span><span></span></span></span>]]></description>
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      <title>How to run trd files</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55125/how-to-run-trd-files</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 10:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>danabnormal9000</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[I am a noob. Can anyone help me? How do I run this demo : <a href="http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68730" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68730</a><br />
I use Spectaculator and ZXDS, but the demo doesn't run. Should I type some kind of text command to run it? Thanks.]]></description>
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      <title>Bloody Win10 Constipation Edition!</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>robert@fm</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have this installed, only to find that it has broken MS Word 2000 by preventing three (or perhaps four) important DLL files from registering. Fortunately this doesn't stop it working for ordinary files, but unfortunately it does prevent encrypted files from opening, so I can't modify my password-repository file. :(<br />
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This is infuriating as I have tried Office 2013, and found it to be top-heavy and confusing — besides which, one has to pay a hefty licence fee (somewhere around £100) for <i>each</i> machine on which it is installed.  :-S MS Office 2000 cost me £6 off of eBay, and I can install it on as many machines as I want.  :ar! Fortunately, I have got Word Doc Viewer from the Win10 crApp Store, so I have restored read-only access to the repository, but I need a better long-term solution.<br />
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I've tried installing Corel Office, and CO Writer can't open encrypted documents, so it's useless to me. :( WPS Office for Win10 (was already installed) likewise won't open encrypted documents (it tries, but chokes on the first hyperlink) — which is bizarre, as WPS Office for Android has no trouble with them.<br />
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I am downloading Libre Office, but I know Libre Office Calc is likewise useless to me as it lacks the important function of pressing [END] followed by an arrow key to quickly move to the start or end of a block, which has been in all decent spreadsheets since the 1-2-3 days. I only hope Libre Office Writer doesn't have the nasty bug that Open Office Writer did, the only time I tried it, where it would read encrypted documents well enough, but on saving them silently stripped the encryption, so I had a major security problem which I didn't discover until I next opened the file and wasn't asked for the password as I should have been.<br />
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      <title>Something my dad did for me...</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>The Mighty Dopethrone</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today, what's left of it, is what would have been my dad's 75th birthday, but he never made it past 50.<br />
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Here's something he did for me, other than... buy me a ZX81 and then a Spectrum +2, both when I was still in single figures. Both of these needed a hefty stash of blank tapes, or second-hand tapes that had been discarded, and as he spent half his life working with computers (from room-filling mainframes to IBM PCs), sometimes he'd bring home a stash of tapes from work that the company no longer needed because they'd bought new devices that used those new-fangled disc drives, and the tapes had been thrown in the back of a cupboard and forgotten about until then. They weren't usually (on the face of it) regular audio tapes, either - they were usually branded with computing company logos like ICL, but unlike the C15 computer cassettes we'd get from Boots or W.H. Smith, these were usually C90 - the length we're not supposed to use with micros because the tape's too thin and might get snagged in the cheap and nasty tape recorders that go with them, whether attached to the machine +2/CPC/PET style or not.<br />
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I think these <i>were</i> regular audio cassettes just branded a different way, probably used for mass backup the way an Iomega Jaz drive would be ten years afterwards, and I don't remember having any problems with them - the amount of storage space I could get from one of those C90s was handy for writing the kind of programs I would do as a nine-year-old or there abouts (one of which bubbled to the surface after 15 years and was so crap it was submitted to CSSCGC 2004!). And I usually had to share the tape supply with my brother, who had a Dragon 32. But there was always one tape that flummoxed both our machines:<br />
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<img src="http://www.c-90.org/FOR_PROGRAMMER/tapes/Verbatim%20-%20Mitsubishi/Verbatim%20Data%20Cassette%20T300h/0/cassettes_1_0.jpg" alt="cassettes_1_0.jpg" /><br />
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The Verbatim Data cassette. Actually designed for data, so it says, with its weird notch cut out of the case and plastic flaps on top that could be folded out of the way to expose the write-protect hole and folded back again at will. So why was <i>this</i> the tape that never, ever worked? The signal it recorded was so diabolically bad, whether I used it on my +2 or my brother's Dragon, nothing could ever be loaded from it. I tried recording some music on one of these once, just to see what would happen, and it was like listening to it underwater. No wonder the computers didn't stand a chance. And this is the only Verbatim-branded media I've ever had trouble with - I've used their 3.5" floppy discs, I've used their CD-R(W)s, DVD±R(W)s (even the dual layer version) and now their recordable Blu-Rays as well, and never had any trouble. It was just these data cassettes that let me down.<br />
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Did anyone else try these back in the day, did you get the same results - or were they made a different way, with a different magnetic compound on the tape, for a completely different method of reading and writing the data that regular tape recorders couldn't handle? It's a mystery that's gone unsolved for somewhere around 30 years.<br />
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I think I'll have another beer (maybe more) in memory of Peter Alan Waterman, 15/11/1942 - 1/7/1993. I know it's only Banks's Amber Bitter at 90p a bottle, but the sooner I drink the stash I've got, the sooner I can re-use those bottles to house my hand-crafted cider. Cheers, dad - for the tapes, for the ZX81 for Christmas 1983, and the Spectrum +2 four years after that. 30 years later, plus or minus a couple of months, here I am still buying more bits for it, and making those bits work. Eventually.<br />
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Also, I'll never forget his comment sometime in the mid-80s where he saw a woman wearing a hat with an absurdly wide brim. "Look at that", he said, "it looks like a one-megabyte disc!" I wonder what he'd have made of the 32 GB SD card lying idle next to me on the desk - it filled up with music for the Parrot MKi9200 in my car, and I had to upgrade to a 64 GB USB stick instead. And that's not even the largest storage capacity we have now, nor is it the smallest physical form.]]></description>
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      <title>You may find this old computer programme interesting</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55513/you-may-find-this-old-computer-programme-interesting</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>mel the bell</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01z4rrj/horizon-19771978-now-the-chips-are-down" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01z4rrj/horizon-19771978-now-the-chips-are-down</a><br />
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1977 - 78 :)]]></description>
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      <title>What search engine would you recommend?</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55516/what-search-engine-would-you-recommend</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>mik3d3nch</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[I've been using Yahoo with adequate results but what turned me off was now there's a list of ferkin names under the search window titled 'Trending'.  You probably won't understand why but that 'Trending' bullshot really really gets my goat!  In my day anything 'trendy' was as good as a curse.  So rowlocks to Yahoo!  I remembered Metacrawler from the good old days before there was advertising all over the web, so I've switched to that today.<br />
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However, following from my remark about being surprised that Amazon made films and TV. I tried a search under Amazon and got, as I expected, lots of shopping stuff links but nowhere a channel for Amazon TV or Amazon Movies. So maybe I need a more inclusive search engine?]]></description>
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      <title>Wii U game recommendations</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/48466/wii-u-game-recommendations</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 23:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>ADJB</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Just treated myself to a Wii U with Mario Cart 8 (?199 new, couldn't resist) and I will be getting a small number of games for it.<br />
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Zelda is a given so besides that what would anybody say were the best 5 games to get?.<br />
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I am looking for "casual" games on this so probably not anything too graphic intensive, that's for the PC, and I already have Rayman on the PS4 before anybody says that.<br />
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I am thinking Mario, Donkey Kong and that sort of thing but interested in what real players rather than pro reviewers think are worth getting.]]></description>
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      <title>The ultimate forbidden WoS thread</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55514/the-ultimate-forbidden-wos-thread</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>robert@fm</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA["F*** me, the Spectrum Computing Forum has threads about ZXDB, the Vega+ and mouse mats!"  :))<br />
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(Note to mods: This is intended as humourous satire, not as a dig at anyone.)<br />
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      <title>Swimming Pools.</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/42581/swimming-pools</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Scottie_uk</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Went swimming today with my son and was thinking how much new swimming pools have changed since we were kids in the 80's and 70's.<br />
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<br />
Odd details I remember about old pools that are not there anymore:<br />

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<li>Pools of yesteryear always had an unavoidable foot bath from the changing room to the pool. Pools don't have them these days, I wonder why?<br />
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<li>Pools used to have an inbuilt gutter running around the edge.<br />
</li>
<li>Pools are generally a lot warmer than than I remember them being as a kid.<br />
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<li>I remember them having massive (sometimes rusty) scary looking grates at the centre of the deep end. Pools have small less scary ones now.<br />
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<li>Pools, particularly outdoor ones used to have white boxes with a cat flap on them spaced evenly around the pool.<br />
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<li>Pools used to stink strongly of chlorine and when you'd been you come away stinking of it.<br />
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<li>The warnings about 'no heavy petting' seem to have gone.<br />
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<li>Sports centres no longer have arcade machines.<br />
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<li>Some pools had a hand rail.</li>
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      <title>My latest game is out: The Doctor Who Adventure Game.</title>
      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55392/my-latest-game-is-out-the-doctor-who-adventure-game</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Sokurah</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[My latest game is finally out. It's in the Chit Chat section because it's not a Spectrum game, but it's a game and I've had a lot of fun making it, so now that it's finally out I hope some of you will enjoy it.<br />
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<a href="http://tardis.dk/wordpress/?p=1645" rel="nofollow">Doctor Who Adventure Game</a>.<br />
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It's an original game, set in the classic Doctor Who universe, where you play as the Tom Baker incarnation of The Doctor, and in the style of Pyjamarama and the classic Lucas Arts games you solve puzzles.<br />
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There is about 50 locations and about 50 puzzles of varying degree of difficulty to be solved, before you (hopefully) reach the end. If you know the solution to all puzzles - and hurry through without reading dialogue - the total playing time is just under an hour ... but likely you'd be looking at several hours as you have to figure out the puzzles first.<br />
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I hope you like it - it's been real fun to make :)<br />
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      <dc:creator>zx1</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[I was flicking through my old YS collection a few nights ago and came across an article on Micronet (think it a 1989 or 1990 issue) which was probably a very primitive version of today's internet.  It cost an arm and a leg to use as you were charged by the minute (but free between midnight and 7am) and the modem cost about £120.<br />
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      <dc:creator>Scottie_uk</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[I've been thinking a lot about the sony Play-Station recently. I know there were Blue and Jade 'developer' Play-Stations. There was also a Black on for hobbyist developers. Does anyone own one?<br />
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2017 17:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Steve(spt)</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some of the external links in the WoS home page are directing you to a site that’s trying to infect your windows machine with malware.<br />
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Is this known about?<br />
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      <link>https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55493/zeusdaz-retro-game-channel-going-live</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>ZEUS</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[This is to my subs and those who enjoy my retro game channel,...and for those who don't know it please pop by,...and for those who don't follow it or dislike it then move along!!!! :-)<br />
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The channel will be going live very soon so I can interact with my followers real time, the vid below explains all, thanks to those who follow my channel  :D<br />
<span><span id="youtube-S27sF522QC4"><span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=S27sF522QC4"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/S27sF522QC4/0.jpg" width="640" height="385" alt="image" style="border: 0px;" /></a></span><span></span></span></span><br />
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      <title>Name the Amiga Arkanoid clone</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2017 15:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>VincentAC</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[About 15 years ago I still had my A1200 working and I played an Arkanoid clone but I can't remember what it was called.  I've looked on <a href="http://hol.abime.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://hol.abime.net/</a> but can't find anything there.<br />
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It was hi-res, full screen and brightly coloured.  There were levels where you'd have bats on all four sides of the screen.  The bats were very slim and silver.  I think there was also a level select.  There were power ups aswell but I can only think of the multiball one.  The ball was also small, maybe only 4 or 5 pixels wide.<br />
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I think the bricks faded and flashed when loading a level.<br />
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I've decided to reinstall Amiga Forever and AmiKit and really want to play it again.  It was definitely an AGA game as it was before I got the BVision and BPPC cards.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>mrmessy</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have only recently wondered what Metacritic scores actually are, having seen them mentioned on the net for years.  So, I had a look.  It seems it is a place where anybody can rate and “review” (and I use the term loosely) Music, TV, Films, Video Games and probably other products too. Oh dear.<br />
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It became quite obvious to me very quickly (bearing in mind I was not really familiar with Metacritic) that many of the video game reviews are from people simply trying to decrease or increase an average score.  Here be Fanboys and Trolls.<br />
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Before I arrived at this conclusion, I thought I would take a look at some of my personal favourite games to see what scores they got, including a current favourite of mine, Horizon Zero Dawn.  I was drawn to the small number of red “negative” rating, wondering what people were finding so bad about the game.  For most of these red ratings, the people in question were giving the game a score of “0” out of 10.  Really?  Zero Dawn – zero rating?<br />
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I clicked on one of these “reviews”, which started off with the heading “Unbiased Review”, and expresses concern over "Sony fanboys" - only to find that the reviewer has only ever done two ratings.  And here they are:<br />
<a href="https://flic.kr/p/214ZJo3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://flic.kr/p/214ZJo3</a><br />
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Amazing. Our unbiased reviewer has managed to fully review both games on their actual release dates. I was vaguely aware that there was some sort of HZD vs BOTW thing going on, but this is blatant.<br />
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Sorry if everyone except me was already well aware of this rubbish. I don't know why I was so surprised. I should know better...<br />
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I give Metacritic 5/10, only because there are some real reviewers on there...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Zoffy</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[New season, new thread.  Come at me bro's!]]></description>
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      <title>The Shameless Blog Plugging Thread</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>deadpan666</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thought I would create a thread purely to shamelessly plug my Blog...I've just spent the best part of 10 hours putting the last couple of posts together, so would be annoyed if no-one saw them at all...<br />
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I'm mentioning 100 Gruesome Games for Halloween!<br />
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<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IhtESjKiNkg/TohgGg1h6LI/AAAAAAAAARU/TuwEu0SNtzs/s320/mstw0002.png" alt="mstw0002.png" /><br />
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<a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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I'll be putting up some freaky old comics and films too in the run up to the 31st, so if that sort of thing floats your boat keep your eye on it....<br />
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And do feel free to use this thread to promote your own blogs about whatever.......after you go look at mine of course! :D]]></description>
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      <title>Catalan declares independence from Spain</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Rebelstar without a cause</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116</a><br />
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I have a feeling it's not going to end well!]]></description>
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      <title>Don't read this if you're depressed!</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2017 20:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>mik3d3nch</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[    I apologize in advance for this but I didn't really know where else to air this opinion/have this moan. This is NOT a pity party!<br />
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Apart from the usual slew of ailments too commonplace to mention, one of the worst aspects about getting older is your friends dying and the chances of making new ones dwindling rapidly. Not because you aren't willing to make the effort but because those within your age range are happy with the way things are or else they don't have the energy or possibly patience to go through the process of first getting to know you and then deciding its worth the effort (or not)..<br />
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Of course one of the meeting new friends routes is via hobbies but you'd be astonished at how few Spectrum enthusiasts exist down here in rural Virginia, even less TS 2068 fans (I loved mine even more than my 48k rubber keyed one, they really were brilliant machines. Funny that, they must have sold a good few of them because there used to be a lot of user groups but then that was up in NYC not out here - except for the ham radio folks) I wish I still had my TS2068, Ebayers are expensive and rare.<br />
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The reason for this lengthy introduction is by way of an explanation.  I note that the majority of postings here are in response to something but not as a general rule, posts like 'here's whats happening with me lately'. Also I tend to write very long posts which probably wouldn't be well received anyway. There are voices here that I really like, they often express opinions or demonstrate views with which I tend to agree.<br />
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Maybe I'm just not a very interesting person and everyone's too polite to say so? Well, have at it then!]]></description>
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