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  • Competition Time: LightbulbsHow many Wossers does it take to scew in(or twist) a lightbulb? Best answer wins a prize.

    ... to notice that it's gone dark,
    one to convince ... one that he's not gone blind,
    one to try ... mean they've all gone to buy a computer each and instead ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2008 Chit chat
  • "The Future" according to this 1984 book on computers...Picked this book up today in a charity shop, it's in near perfect condition: [IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/2ngah5i.jpg[/IMG] Here's an extract from p…

    ... me, I found The Personal Computer Handbook by Tim Hartnell in ... by accident. I had actually gone in search of some other ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2008 Chit chat
  • games with bullfighting?how many are there?

    ... blocks of pixels on a computer display, indeed![/QUOTE]

    gone down from 15 stone to ...
    psj3809 psj3809 October 2008 Games
  • XBox 360 differencesA mate's getting an XBox 360 from his wife as a surprise, but she doesn't know the differences between all the different versions so she asked me. T…

    Our two computer/console gaming shops are full of second hand ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2008 Chit chat
  • XBox 360 differencesA mate's getting an XBox 360 from his wife as a surprise, but she doesn't know the differences between all the different versions so she asked me. T…

    ... buy a modded xbox. Computer/console game shops seel them very cheaply ... , but not always), as would computer market stalls. Or Loot, or ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2008 Chit chat
  • The Official Christmas 2008 Thread113 days to go - anything in shops or catalogues out yet? The Xmas in July stuff on Freeview is now just a cheap, plasticky, tacky, faded memory. 1…

    ... be any consistency in the shops, i rpesume it would be ... if i can find a computer game in GAME, somewhere i ...
    mile mile October 2008 Chit chat
  • Permissions help soughtIt's been a while since I asked, so here's another attempt... While Gerard is working hard on contacting people in the UK and getting distribution p…

    ... />
    The copyright law for computer programs in Poland was established ... even in communist state-owned shops.

    I'm not ...
    Ralf Ralf October 2008 Games
  • Permissions help soughtIt's been a while since I asked, so here's another attempt... While Gerard is working hard on contacting people in the UK and getting distribution p…

    ... />
    The copyright law for computer programs in Poland was established ... even in communist state-owned shops.

    I'm not ...
    mheide mheide October 2008 Games
  • Post your computer stupiditiesI used to check this site out quite a lot [url]http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/[/url] but it doesnt get updated much. So i was wondering what stu…

    ... found a new-looking computer that sat unused at ... swapped my mate's computer for the new one ... exactly the same model of computer: same CPU, same memory ... are gone!". Then he realised that someone swapped his computer. ... glad with his new computer and if it was ...
    cascarria cascarria October 2008 Chit chat
  • Jonathan Ross and Russell BrandJust saw this headlining the BBC news at lunchtime. It seems to be a matter of national importance. Is it?

    ... have access to so many computer games that we often don ... ;)

    Fish 'n' Chip shops were better a couple of ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2008 Chit chat
  • Jonathan Ross and Russell BrandJust saw this headlining the BBC news at lunchtime. It seems to be a matter of national importance. Is it?

    ... have access to so many computer games that we often don ... ;)

    Fish 'n' Chip shops were better a couple of ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler October 2008 Chit chat
  • Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…

    ... against game DVD sales in shops.



    * ... internet access. One solution would shops like Game, or even ... original is available in the shops!). The only people copy ... way the media constantly portrays computer games as being at best ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2008 Chit chat
  • Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…

    ... against game DVD sales in shops.
    [/quote]

    Maybe ... 't alowed to undercut the shops for contractural or other legal ... pay for won't help computer gaming's cause one bit ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk November 2008 Chit chat
  • Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…

    ... alowed to undercut the shops for contractural or other ... on Vave by the shops or the industry to ... a lower price than the shops did. Whatever the cause ... so they daren't try computer games, as something so ... might not be the shops though if the games are ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2008 Chit chat
  • Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…

    ... access. One solution would be shops like Game, or even unmanned ... you are unconnected to a computer for more than a few ...
    Lockett Lockett November 2008 Chit chat
  • What if...What if when you were a kid in the early 80s your parents didn't buy you a Sinclair Spectrum as your first computer? I was thinking about this earli…

    ... code on a simple home computer changed so many things in ... speccy I would have probably gone on to either taking up ...
    Arjun Arjun November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…

    ... new a-hole by the shops.
    The mass gaming community ... getting ripped of by the shops and for helping to rip ... do with them.......but the shops are exploiting the 2nd hand ... and therefore the world of computer gaming. With the way the ...
    alanspec alanspec November 2008 Chit chat
  • Woolworths and MFI go bust[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/27/woolworths-mfi-rescue-madelson[/url] :( Interestingly, the original American F W Woolworth Compa…

    ... and mobile phone shops, everybody buying things on a computer terminal, never ...
    Dave Fountain Dave Fountain November 2008 Chit chat
  • Games you own but haven't even started yetGo on then. What do you own but you haven't even started, even though the intention is there, but the time never seems to come around or you already…

    ... up for cheap in many shops, and also after having it ... appears the expansion pack has gone missing?

    and regarding ... fight anybody, that hasn't gone back in the machine since ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek December 2008 Games
  • CronosoftIt's a bit of bad news, but I'm sorry to say that I'm probably closing up the Cronosoft label. I'm struggling financially at the moment, and Cronoso…

    ... doing tape winding and have gone to just doing CD duplication ... (principle?) members of the Commodore Computer Club, and we'll be ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington January 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Console wars - does the least powerful machine usually win?In the console and handheld wars, does the least powerful machine usually win? I mean, for example, in the [I]XBox vs. Playstation 2 vs. Gamecube[/I]…

    ... the way that Nintendo have gone. Games that you can just ... . It's a great thing, computer gaming has become a family ... something has been missing from computer gaming for quite a while ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk January 2009 Chit chat
  • Console wars - does the least powerful machine usually win?In the console and handheld wars, does the least powerful machine usually win? I mean, for example, in the [I]XBox vs. Playstation 2 vs. Gamecube[/I]…

    ... the way that Nintendo have gone. Games that you can just ... . It's a great thing, computer gaming has become a family ... something has been missing from computer gaming for quite a while ...
    StuBruise StuBruise January 2009 Chit chat
  • Where did you buy your spectrum games from?I was just thinking today of where i used to buy my spectrum tapes from. I used to buy them at a local WH Smith or John Menzies. I sometimes used a…

    ... the new game hit the shops. There was much less hype ... the implosion I bought from Computer and Games exchange in Notting ...
    Dave Fountain Dave Fountain January 2009 Games
  • Where did you buy your spectrum games from?I was just thinking today of where i used to buy my spectrum tapes from. I used to buy them at a local WH Smith or John Menzies. I sometimes used a…

    ... of my games.

    Shops in town that had Speccy ... tried it I'd have gone somewhere else.

    Boots ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek January 2009 Games
  • Where did you buy your spectrum games from?I was just thinking today of where i used to buy my spectrum tapes from. I used to buy them at a local WH Smith or John Menzies. I sometimes used a…

    It's such a shame that the small independent computer game shops of the 80's are all but extinct.

    You can?t beat buying from honest, friendly and knowledgeable staff.
    zxspecticle zxspecticle January 2009 Games
  • Where did you buy your spectrum games from?I was just thinking today of where i used to buy my spectrum tapes from. I used to buy them at a local WH Smith or John Menzies. I sometimes used a…

    ... /> Microland in Waterlooville - now long gone but had a good range ... Bookshop - nice bookshop with a computer game section upstairs
    WH ...
    simonm simonm January 2009 Games
  • Where did you buy your spectrum games from?I was just thinking today of where i used to buy my spectrum tapes from. I used to buy them at a local WH Smith or John Menzies. I sometimes used a…

    ... /> [quote]
    I remember when Computer Adventure World (over the water ... a local mini-chain of shops called "MicroSnips". It got ... from the local video rental shops and petrol stations as ... get them from charity shops and second hand shops then though. You ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn January 2009 Games
  • help with blue screen error messageright, i went round to an old workmates house yesterday cos he has computer probs. he thought he had a virus.........but it looks like one of those …

    ... house yesterday cos he has computer probs.[/quote]

    If ... up, if the problem is gone, reconnect the hardware one by ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2009 Chit chat
  • Question for Sky subscribersI'm starting to warm to the idea of getting Sky - ?18.50/month for extra music and sports channels is tempting. I have a question though - are there…

    There used to be a channel dedicated to computer games, i can't remember the name of it but it seems to have gone now, shame.
    zx1 zx1 February 2009 Chit chat
  • TZX format and Enterprise files(**) The Enterprise stores data in a different way than all other computers do. It stores the LSb first, but the data blocks require the data to be M…

    Is there any good computer museum sites now? The machine room seems to be gone.
    Fraser Fraser March 2009 Emulators
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