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Interview tomorrow!Yes, you read correct! Unemployed, sponging, waster me actually has an interview! :D It's for Toys R Us...hopefully as a Sales Assistant in the Vide…
... long chatting to the rather attractive twenty-something girl who was in my group, and ... not talking so much to the others ... ....but she was fit and seemed interested in just ... -
do you swear less?I mean , since you have become a parent.. (I'm not a parent ,but was just curious..) I mean I am cautious of swearing when kids are around, but not…
... certain bit that if anyone who saw it will know what ... swear a lot when i was a teen and recently watched ... f's and C's in, it was quite a shock hearing ... got complaints from the old lady at the post office in the village as he ... -
Dead 128K heatsinkUnfortunately my 128K heatsink died suddenly and with no apparent reason. I had the Kempston Pro interface connected and when i powered it on the ztx…
... never understood the coil exchange (although I know a person who did ... the coil in the 48k service manual apart from the 1703 number.
Never in the big number ... that, specially since the damage was caused from the expansion port and not ... -
Alkatraz protection systemI recently became interested in the Alkatraz protection system, a very widely used tape protection (a infoseek search returns more than one hundred r…
... a number of years ago now.
Alkatraz 2 was assumed ... probably by myself and others around the time, ... though not an alkatraz, I was just experimenting. St Dragon also ... WAVs I had trouble in the past with, who knows, might resolve some ... -
I just been made redundantI just been made redundant.... not sure how to feel about that...
... the more desirable the job, the higher the number goes!
When I was ... they just went in the bin 'coz he was already crazily over- ... that's to be expected in the current climate, so fair ... , though. The decent ones who aren't fiddling the system and ... -
Is the Text Adventure mail-order community still alive?I miss the days of Zenobi, FSF adventures, compass, all those mail order companies. And of course the general bitchiness they had against each other …
... , unable to attend the convention. The only one who was there was Martin Freemantle, but ... in the actual Megapoints Competition.
I played that game to death ... eventually I was able play through the whole game, scoring the maximum number of ... -
football gameswhen i was at school, we used to play these games with a football, everone seemed to know the rules. (not counting the classic rules of a proper matc…
... change throughtout, maybe dropping the number of touches allowed or maybe ... to cause fights with everybody (who couldn't take losing), ... keep them in the game.
Basically what was a fun ... groups of friends who weren't friends with the others.
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football gameswhen i was at school, we used to play these games with a football, everone seemed to know the rules. (not counting the classic rules of a proper matc…
... you sat behind the goal, the last one remaining was out, and ... Cup in the Dudley area. There was always one goal-hanger who was hated ... change throughtout, maybe dropping the number of touches allowed or ... another step. The idea was to get to the other side ... -
family treenot sure if there has been a thread about this before. started doing mine, but doing it from my mothers side. managed to get back to 1808 in the rec…
... to 1850's, just using the village records [we haven't moved ... [probably] because the chap writing the names just asked who was in the house. The other problem ... is because of the high infant ... -
Jimmy SavilleJimmy Saville a paedo? wtf?? Does this newspaper ever give up? He's not around to defend himself, why did these people wait till now to 'claim' he a…
... trial and the girl admitted over video link that the whole thing was a ... ) his step-father who hated him and the child was his from a ... read that same thing in The Mirror when I was in the Chinese chip-shop ... -
New colors / switchable color palette with regular ULA ?Hello. This may be an ignorant question but I just thought about it today and wanted to post it here to get some opinions. OK, so, today, while goin…
... green moves in the opposite direction to the red and the blue. Another ... represent a four bit number which in the standard machine are passed ... video encoder as a six bit number. If you put a ... table which was addressable by the CPU, you could have the 64 ... -
Android TabletsRecently Mrs S has expressed an interest in getting an Android Tablet. A year or so ago we had a landline that used Android and it was rubbish, so t…
... multitouch screen.
GPS was rather sluggish and inaccurate.
Bluetooth was really powerful--some 20 meters ... .
General system response was ok, but host USB made ... my father who doesn't need it to run fast in the village and ... -
Things we all hate.Right, we couldn't agree on a video game, a TV program, or even a food we all liked. So to have one last stab at agreement, here's a thread to find o…
... about people with ankle socks in their trainers / sneakers then ... as the people usually already have a career in food ... who likes Masterchef was routing for Christine Ha last year, the blind girl who ... the second she walked through the door, and she did in the ... -
Things we all hate.Right, we couldn't agree on a video game, a TV program, or even a food we all liked. So to have one last stab at agreement, here's a thread to find o…
... who can't park straight and it's usually the people in the ... smallest cars who are the worst for this ... know of one mashup producer in Switzerland who was arrested, his PC taken ... I think is how the likes of Girl Talk get away with ... -
An Old Friend of Mine Seems to Have Unfriended Me......but in real life, not on Facebook! I have not seen him since February 2010. Despite the fact he is single with his own place and I am married wi…
... with a girl who was controlling him. Perhaps it was his girlfriend who stopped him ... inform you and the other friends of his death? Very strange.[/ ... 500 yards from the parents of the guy who became my best ... man (or at least they did back in ... -
+2 ProblemsGot off to a bad start with my first Spectrum. The tape deck on the +2 I bought has a jammed button and won't work and when I power up I'm unable to…
Got there in the end. Just had a few ... at quarter to six in the morning.
It was the jumper settings on ... the SD card adaptor. Had ... /> Thanks to everyone who posted to help. In a few weeks, I ... -
Machine code/Assembly language back in the dayHello. Back in the 80s when I was a kid, I didn't learn Z-80 machine code, but I was always curious about it. Just recently I decided to explore Z-…
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Back in the 80s when I was a kid, I didn ... difficult for people who were learning coding back in the 80s though. < ... Darn! :-o
Knowing the number of times I managed to ... I was learning machine code on a real spectrum back in the 80s ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... tomorrow if I can marry the first girl who saw me wearing an ... /> guessing that'd be the chick from the traders in Riverwood then?
I though Mjoll (Riften) was ... of gear and is tonk in a fight, Aella is also ... -
Dr. Who starter question - how to watch this?hey... this is probably gonna be a heavy thread for receiving nos and yesses, so I'm gonna rather start lightly: being from a foreign country, solar…
... QUOTE=cole;736482]Was Dr Who a timelord right from the start or ... did the story evolve ... being called Grandfather by a girl. I always thought he ...
in the first ep the grand daughter was an alien like the doctor. he ... -
The official Doctor Who threadOH MY GOD! I did [b]NOT[/b] see that coming at the end of the episode!
... recommend series one to six, then maybe season ten ... connection or emotional investment in the storylines," which again is ... it was only put in to please the American public (in the American ... He then attacks the budget: "[I]The old Doctor Who was infamous for ... -
Final Fantasy 7So after all this years I've finally given a proper go at FFVII? And I must say I'm blown away by it! I've played it a little back in the day, but d…
... know anyone in the village i grew up in who had the internet and ... wait your turn to hit the enemy, sod that".
the pre-release buzz that ... go to the toilet and at the last possible ... /> This game was my introduction to the RPG genre and i ... -
Malware scam?Just had some idiot on the phone telling me my PC was riddled with viruses and only they could resolve the situation, they originally pretended to be…
... be done other than in the exchange that the original caller is connected ... ).
Back in the days when ISDN2e was popular, I had a ... just pass in a fake number, or pay someone off at the exchange ... there must be out there who fall for these scams and ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... It's crispy clear even in the dark shadows. Comparing it ... a memory card in the Wii and there was no save ... 4 HD for PS3.......who says Capcom only milked ... blue sword). I was attempting the one in the Pursuer boss area ... course). I now have six of those and a ... -
what's your ringtone?bit slow on here today...:-) mine is 'gentle spring rain' ...not very macho. but I find that after a few days virtually any ringtone I have becomes …
... I studied at the university, I knew a girl who was in heavy metal and ... , this tune is played on the piano and on ... -
what's your ringtone?bit slow on here today...:-) mine is 'gentle spring rain' ...not very macho. but I find that after a few days virtually any ringtone I have becomes …
... I studied at the university, I knew a girl who was in heavy metal and ... tune is played on the piano and on the violin).
The song you refer too is ... albums
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Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... . I am one of the few who was just getting into computing at ... years above, in the final year, who were more firmly rooted in the latter part ... now in fact 2 drive systems.So the focus was solely on the number of ... -
Cap'n Rescue One Version 3.0Hi, just wanted to let everyone know that I've updated my ZX Spectrum platformer Cap'n Rescue to bring it in line with the graphical style of the…
... in the 80's I was not taught programming at school, and in fact was ... was 16 years old, I was one of the dwindling number of school leavers who ... 2 years. It was rubbish - in particular, the fact they put me ... many years.
In the past year and a half ... -
Fallout 4Looks like it will be announced tomorrow: http://fallout.bethsoft.com/<br>
... back to Sanctuary Gunners attacked, was going to go to Dunwich ... or in real life to stop me :))
What the? ... and she looks exactly the same as the last girl who turned up? Infact ... about beds again, and the Settlements happiness has dropped from ... -
Fallout 4Looks like it will be announced tomorrow: http://fallout.bethsoft.com/<br>
... finished that misc objective I was on about earlier, sorted ... mission in Sanctuary, and to go talk to the settlers ... literally see the girl who was going to give me the mission before ...
It was probably before Christmas the last time I was there, but ... -
Had enoughAfter approaching another weekend full of enthusiasm towards WoS and how it's heading, and spending most of it fighting spam and online abuse, I have…
... Oldies[/b]". Was that thread started by someone who hasn't used ... their Spectrum since the first ... on reddit who are just discovering Speccy for the first time ... is only the number 27 website in the world, but it's number nine in the U ...
