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Dropped me bike. :-( It's windy, and I am superstitous.Well, the high winds helped. But the mister twat head award goes to me, for not noticing the cambre of the road I parked on. Outside a bike shop as …
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Bloody windy today, and rainy.
So ... I stopped off at this little indie. bike / car place near him ... .
Was standing at the cashpoint, getting some money, for ... medicinal beers, when the tattooist shouted at me to come in ... -
The young at heart poll!"Oh no! Not another poll", I hear you cry. But it is! Simply "vote" for the age bracket that you fall in. At the end we'll have a fair idea of which …
"Oh no! Not another poll", I hear you cry. But it is! Simply "vote" for the age bracket that you fall in. At the end we'll have a fair idea of which group makes up this great community and erm ...ah... that's it really. -
Spectrum games from the atticI'm currently cataloging all the Spectrum tapes I have up the attic (only by taking photos of groups of cassettes though). I ammassed this colection …
... it went on sale. I plan to upload the pics here (when ... Manchester, I'm at my parents house in Northampton at the mo) for ... to separate the duplicates I have and offer them for sale. So ... I've dug out for sale so far. They are all ... -
Anyone still use their Spectrum?I mean, with the quality of emulation available, does anyone still hook up the spectrum and load from tapes? I still have my Spectrum + and it's in p…
I mean, with the quality of emulation available, ... anyone
still hook up the spectrum and load from tapes ... game I'd much sooner boot up my PC.
... buy any tapes I find at car boot sales etc. but even then ... if you do still use the real thing, do you
Ran five miles todayRan another five miles today in the gym. Gonna do a 3.5 mile leg of the Belfast Marathon on Monday. Should be a piece of piss, considering I'm curre…
Ran another five miles today in the gym.
Gonna ... 3.5 mile leg of the Belfast Marathon on Monday. ... running five miles in the gym three times a ... a mile or two of the distance is uphill...
... on the way to marathoning success in Dublin at the end ...128 spectrum zx +2 is stuck on test screenhey this is my first spectrum i bought it from a boot-sale for 2 pound and it came with loads of games but when i turn it on i get the test screen an…
... i bought it from a boot-sale for 2 pound and it ... turn it on i get the test screen and it makes ... second. i had a look at the instructions and it tells me ... it to my tv press the reset button and it is ... it keeps going bk to the test screen can any one ...Speccy games I bought todayBeen helping out at the Village Day in Ashtead, Surrey today. Was looking around the stalls when I noticed a small box containing 13 Speccy games. So…
... out at the Village Day in Ashtead, Surrey today. Was looking around the stalls ... (Hit Squad re-release)
- The Wombles
- Tilt
- ... Kit
- One of the Sinclair Action Pack tapes with ... were complete with cases except the action pack tape which ...Off day on my day off.Today I had to visit a small village. After the visit I wanted to go home, but instead of going directly I thought I would travel through Germany and…
Today I had to visit a small village. After the visit I wanted ... my car broke down. I contacted the ANWB (dutch carhelp when car breaks ... I had an appointment at 15:30 with the mayor of my ... a garage so the car could be repaired there. The chauffeur was however ...Has the airport scanner killed my laptop??I am now in the USA and am writing this from my Best Western Hotel room. I am basically in the sh1t a little bit. Rather than fork out for a new la…
... weird. It was scanned at the airport officies insistance that ... However, other than this the laptop is quite usable.< ... the problem the problem moves too.
The problem happens right from the boot ... br /> Was it the fault of the airport scanners?
...YSRnRY: Introducing the "Virtual YS", plus a HUGE update[A few minutes early, but what the hey...] The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years is ten years old today! Time to celebrate... The problem with a…
... The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years is ten years old today ... ! Time to celebrate...
The problem ... the World Of Spectrum website at the same time as reading the articles on the ... already read all the pages on the YSRnRY website (but ...What I hate about computers and/or video gamingYesterday I spent approximately four months (subjecively that is, objectively it was around two to three hours) fixing my mate's PC. I won't bore you…
... recognised, DLL errors at every turn, three weeks boot up time, but ... the XBox, only M$ could burn games to disc for commercial sale ... than PC games, at least at the moment.
* The way Windows occasionally ... I can't think of at the moment. But this'll ...The PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) are fucking uselessShare your useless cop stories... Here's mine: I got out of the pub 1am Saturday night/Sunday morning in Belfast City Centre and was walking home w…
... off at what had just happened, I went over to the cop car ... proceeded to park the car ten yards further down the street and sat ... /> I walked home completely disgusted at the lack on interest this particular ...What's the best text email you've received lately?This one's a cracker: A little guy is sitting at the bar just staring at his drink for half an hour when this big trouble-making biker s…
... little guy is sitting at the bar just staring at his drink for ... one swig.
The poor little guy starts crying ... of my life, says
the little guy between sobs. I ... /> went to the parking lot, I found my car was stolen and ...A Linux virgin writes about the GrubI've successfully dual booted my machine between Windows and Edubuntu but when it boots something called the Grub offers me my different boot option…
... boots something called the Grub offers me my different boot options via ... a menu, This has Edubuntu at the top ... to put windows at the top, so it will automatically boot to windows ...Sometimes You Just Miss The Boat![quote]Blackpool Illuminations Department is in the process of selling its giant model of Thunderbird 3, as seen in the 2004 Thunderbirds Movie. Weig…
... Illuminations Department is in the process of selling its giant ... Thunderbird 3, as seen in the 2004 Thunderbirds Movie. Weighing ... All visitors are welcome to the sale which takes place on Wednesday ... 30th between 10am and 4pm at the Department’s Rigby Road ...Did you publish any hoax back in the day?I did tons of those. I need to explain the "setting" though: Around 1990, we had this computer classifieds magazine printed on thin crappy recycled p…
... a cable to the Gameboy and stick the cable up the "usual" ... down/left all together at the same time on the D-Pad, tips ... much like the trolling you have on the internet today just with ... an extremely long "lag" between answers.
The ...Installing dual boot Windows 98. Need advice.Hi all. I have a Win XP PC with two hard drives. Drive 1 is partitioned to C drive and F drive, with plenty space in each. Drive 2 is D drive, als…
... being able to select the boot drive from the BIOS / boot options on start ... />
However, when I boot from the Win 98 CD, it does ... want to delete the files or not. So, at this point I ... cancelled the installation as I ...Retro mags and Zilog stuff for sale on eBayI've listed a few Retro magazines on eBay, including Edge presents RETRO, Edge presents File (several volumes of features from early Edge magazines) …
... from early Edge magazines) and the GamesTM 'Retro' compilation. All ... /> I've also got for sale there a Zilog 'comic' from ... on their latest (at the time!) Z8000 processor in the style of a ... and does cover the technical features of the Z8000! The 'comic' is in ...Disabling scroll? at the bottom of the screen.Everyone must have written something similar to: 10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GO TO 10 at some point in their lives. But when you get to the bottom of the s…
... GO TO 10
at some point in their lives ... when you get to the bottom of the screen area in Sinclair ...Free ticket to blightyI booked my free (buddy pass) ticket to blighty tonight. Met my 'buddy' at the bar and booked Jan 22nd to Jan 31st. (stupid ass posting while drunk)…
... blighty tonight. Met my 'buddy' at the bar and booked Jan 22nd ... retro events or big car boot sales in the Manchester area during that ...Japan's Economy now in serious troubleReceived this startling news via email: [quote] Following the problems in the financial sector in the US, uncertainty has now hit Japan. In the last…
... was announced that the Karaoke Bank is up for sale and will ... likely go for a song, while today's ... shares in the Kamikaze Bank were suspended ... is something fishy going on at the Sushi Bank where it is ...Some more questions for the WOS geniuses to ponderSome questions whilst I'm waiting here: 1.Why do cars need ariels to receive radio stations? I mean, you're driving around in a lump of metal, so w…
... why can't the car's body work receive the signal?
at all) so cheap compared ... Windows might crash, or at least partially lose it ... 7. All falling bodies fall at the same speed, right? Except ... fall to be travelling at 100mph? And how ...What game gobsmacked you the most?And where were you when you saw it for the first time? Mine has to be, an obvious choice, Knightlore & Underwurlde. We'd all seen the adverts at s…
... We'd all seen the adverts at school and everyone was ... who had lent Adrian the originals. Not straight away ... I handled the box, read the inlay, SMELT the inlay (you ... Ultimate inlays STILL smell the same today, I have a set ... hour a week job at the Co-Op back then! ...Computer problem, any advice welcomeHi Guys Bear with me as a detailed explanation of my problem follows. I'm on my own in rural France so not many PC experts to hand, and feeling a bi…
... and many places still closed today.
Yesterday my Sony ... . It was freezing near the start of boot up because that 'instruction ... functioning. It may have broken at the same time and may not ...3D engines and the ZX SpectrumCastle Master's engine, [I]Freescape[/I], is described as the first proprietary 3D computer engine on the Wikipedia. I have a few problems with this…
... 't serve them too well at the time).
However ... games through the technology used (the One marketing aspect today... unfortunately). ... was used in the development of the sequel and apparently ... If anything Freescape was the first 3D engine widely ...QL 25th Anniversary TODAYJust saw this on CSS: Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:36:53 +0100 From: Urs Koenig Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair Subject: SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday On…
... a Hollywood-style launch event at the
Intercontinental Hotel, Hyde Park ... Steve Jobs presented the Apple Macintosh.
Today, 25 years later ... in
today's products. At least in seven aspects the QL was ...err, I like wrote this years ago, and just found it archived.[b]read it, and say it's crap if you want, but do not go on about the technical side, cos it was bullshit, we all know it, and the end makes no sense…
... Whilst people might keep the same car for ten years, or ... The PC was at the far end of the study, behind the gaming section. The ... Tex had been in at the beginining of the 'outernet', when some ... had been passed in Britain. Today the 'outernet' was an open ...Diary of an Englishman in ScotlandOld but funny....... 20th DECEMBER The first snow we have seen in many years. My wife and me sat in the porch with our hot toddies watching the fluf…
... shovelled snow for the first time ever today and loved every minute ... /> 1st JANUARY Warmed up enough today to create some slush, which ... a deer on the way to casualty and the car was a total ... *cking car. I'm up at court in April for assaulting the snowplough ...The Lost And The Damned.....Has anyone else played this yet? It's the brilliant new Download Content for GTA 4 on Xbox 360.....You get to become a member of the Lost biker gang …
... off when you hit the kerb or a car, and for some ... addition is the bike races..with the new handling and the inclusion of ... Rash...Johnny, the new "hero", even says the words the first time you ... is in a helicopter shooting at the other guy...
In ...speccy at the gadget showjust been to the gadget show live thing in brum. they had a 48k which had paperboy on it. everyone who tried to play it before me failed cos it was …
just been to the gadget show live thing ... it was still st to the kempston controls, but one i ... go i switched back to the keyboard, and had a ... one person even said 'look at him go'.
... everything was hooked up, just the speccy, a C64, space invaders ...
