What If?

edited October 2009 in Chit chat
What if I found a load of pre-production Speccy tapes, not that I have or anything, that I wanted to be preserved. How would I go about doing this? And who should I contact?

If I did find the tapes, not that I did or have done or anything, whom should I contact.
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  • edited October 2009
    presevation team?
  • edited October 2009
    ME!
    ill give you a fiver


    or a trippy tape

    errrrrrrrrrrm
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • edited October 2009
    mile wrote: »
    presevation team?

    Great!

    Loads of help!

    HELLO PRESERVATION TEAM! CAN YOU HEAR ME? I AM CALLING!

    <waits>

    No. Nothing. I'll try again later.
  • edited October 2009
    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/WoSFAQ.html#1D

    READ THE FAQ

    oh wait ive gone all Phil Kendall :(

    *gets coat*
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • edited October 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    Great!

    Loads of help!

    HELLO PRESERVATION TEAM! CAN YOU HEAR ME? I AM CALLING!

    <waits>

    No. Nothing. I'll try again later.

    alright no need to get shirty, oh your not wearing your shirt, or pants, i think thats my taxi. :p
  • edited October 2009
    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/WoSFAQ.html#1D

    READ THE FAQ

    oh wait ive gone all Phil Kendall :(

    *gets coat*

    Now that is almost an intelligent repy.

    But now I have to read the FAQ. And I cant be arsed.

    Anybody else wish to help me?
  • edited October 2009
    frobush wrote: »

    Anybody else wish to help me?

    NHS direct? :-P

    MIA section, post your questions there.

    this thread will turn into porn reviews any min now.
  • edited October 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    Now that is almost an intelligent repy.

    But now I have to read the FAQ. And I cant be arsed.

    Anybody else wish to help me?

    sigh

    The TZX Projects
    Maintained by Martijn van der Heide, Steve Brown, Andy Barker, Tony Barnett and Juan Pablo L?pez-Grao.
    As far as projects go, the TZX project is probably the mother of them all. Its goal is no less than converting every single piece of software commercially written for the Speccy to a digital format. More precisely, it seeks to convert the software saved on ordinary tapes to the TZX format, which will allow anyone to download the games and run them in an emulator.

    also known as the Spectrum Tape Preservation project
    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/stp/
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • edited October 2009
    mile wrote: »
    alright no need to get shirty, oh your not wearing your shirt, or pants, i think thats my taxi. :p

    I've had this before on verious forums! Everyones SO CLEVER! They usualy know the simple answer to my question, but make me work for the solution.

    This is the usual reply...

    http://www.google.co.uk/

    ...to which I reply - get fucked!

    If you know the answer and want me to beg, then go to hell! LOL!

    If you know the answer then give it to me - and stop trying to be clever.

    I am now going to have to search for the knowledge - that you know - and could just give to me and save me messing about, but - oh, no. You are going to be a pain in the arse!
  • edited October 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    I've had this before on verious forums! Everyones SO CLEVER! They usualy know the simple answer to my question, but make me work for the solution.

    This is the usual reply...

    http://www.google.co.uk/

    ...to which I reply - get fucked!

    If you know the answer and want me to beg, then go to hell! LOL!

    If you know the answer then give it to me - and stop trying to be clever.

    I am now going to have to search for the knowledge - that you know - and could just give to me and save me messing about, but - oh, no. You are going to be a pain in the arse!

    i don't know the info, i am mile that is my cross. ;)

    wasn't trying to be cute, the question mark was for other users, not trying to be rehtorical.
  • edited October 2009
    sigh

    The TZX Projects
    Maintained by Martijn van der Heide, Steve Brown, Andy Barker, Tony Barnett and Juan Pablo L?pez-Grao.
    As far as projects go, the TZX project is probably the mother of them all. Its goal is no less than converting every single piece of software commercially written for the Speccy to a digital format. More precisely, it seeks to convert the software saved on ordinary tapes to the TZX format, which will allow anyone to download the games and run them in an emulator.

    also known as the Spectrum Tape Preservation project
    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/stp/

    Sigh too!

    Not so hard was it. Thank you.
  • edited October 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    Sigh too!

    Not so hard was it. Thank you.
    theres prolly more detailed info, emails etc but tbh im only here for the gibberish so i dont delve that deep
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • edited October 2009
    From that list of TZX peeps, I think Steve Brown = Gilby on these forums. Drop him a PM. That's what I did when I turfed up an unlisted MIA a couple years back. Posted him the tape, he preserved it and posted it back. Simple.

    Obviously Martijn is also on the list, but I hear he's busy running some kind of website. :)
  • edited October 2009
    Danforth wrote: »

    Obviously Martijn is also on the list, but I hear he's busy running some kind of website. :)
    yeah his bloody quite large dvd list site

    errrrm
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • edited October 2009
    yeah his bloody quite large dvd list site

    errrrm

    i here he gives boysfood a hand. :p
  • edited October 2009
    Danforth wrote: »
    From that list of TZX peeps, I think Steve Brown = Gilby on these forums. Drop him a PM. That's what I did when I turfed up an unlisted MIA a couple years back. Posted him the tape, he preserved it and posted it back. Simple.

    Obviously Martijn is also on the list, but I hear he's busy running some kind of website. :)

    Well I could have PM'd Martijn - but for such a trivial thing I didn't think it was worth it!

    I have just been wound up is all! If someone asks for info and I know the answer then I give it. Simple!

    I asked, a few months back, on another forum, who was responsible for a certain peice of music on BBC News 24. And one of the Mods, whom knew the answer, told me to search. Which I did, and it took time to do but I found out eventually - but she just could have said it was done by 'such' and 'such' a person and got herself in my good books! (It was David Lowe by the way - to save you from searching).



    EDIT - embedded problems, can't be arsed. Click on it!
  • edited October 2009
    frobush wrote: »

    I have just been wound up is all! If someone asks for info and I know the answer then I give it. Simple!

    i didn't know the answer, was trying to help and pointing you in the right direction. i'd help you if i was able.

    my post count doesn't increase by itself. ;)
  • edited October 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    Well I could have PM'd Martijn - but for such a trivial thing I didn't think it was worth it!

    PM sent. :p
  • edited October 2009
    Whos david lowe?.
  • edited October 2009
    YouTube link corrected! I can be arsed after all!
  • edited October 2009
    OK, so unless frobush has found stuff that isn't at his parent's house....or someone didn't after all destroy ALL his stuff...is something being made up here? I tried contacting Smifffff ages ago about all his rarities (e.g. pre-Pud Pud games) and got told it had all been chucked away....

    what's going on, please?
  • zx1zx1
    edited October 2009
    I bet Frobush has robbed someone's house and found a stash of Speccy tapes!
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • edited October 2009
    zx1 wrote: »
    I bet Frobush has robbed someone's house and found a stash of Speccy tapes!
    .............and tins of baked beans
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • edited October 2009
    zx1 wrote: »
    I bet Frobush has robbed someone's house and found a stash of Speccy tapes!

    and he's now busy smoking said stash...?
  • edited October 2009
    Whose david lowe!.
  • zx1zx1
    edited October 2009
    1980-20.. wrote: »
    Whose david lowe!

    Your dad
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • edited October 2009
    zx1 wrote: »
    Your dad

    thats your dad, that is.
  • edited October 2009
    1980-20.. wrote: »
    Whose david lowe!.

    I think it's Bill Bailey's real name;-)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW23wpE4AOw


    (It's the bloke who created the original news soundtrack apparently.)
  • edited October 2009
    ME!
    ill give you a fiver

    Hey ! That`s my line !
  • edited October 2009
    No no help from anyone well i went and googled it me self wasnt that hard.

    David Lowe is British [[composer], focusing primarily on music for television and radio. His work includes all the current themes for BBC News.

    Other British television programmes include The One Show, Panorama, Wildlife on One, The Really Wild Show, Grand Designs on Channel 4 and the Five motoring programme Fifth Gear. He has also created musical identities for the Al Arabiya Channel and Abu Dhabi TV in the Middle East, NDTV in India and TV2 in Norway. For radio he produced the current identity for the BBC World Service.

    In 1997, Lowe released his debut album, Dreamcatcher. He performed a live mix that year at the first Thames River Festival, which accompanied a record breaking tightrope walk across the river.
    :-)
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