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70's space film with Jim Bob?Can anyone remember the name of the space film with Jim Bob from the Waltons? I think it might have been an early 80's space film with Hanibal from …
Can anyone remember the name of the space film with Jim Bob from the Waltons? I think it might have been an early 80's space film with Hanibal from the A Team also starring.
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Top 5 Albums Of 2008Yep folks. It's fast approaching the end of the year (again) so it's now time to list your favourite albums of 2008. After careful consideration, her…
Yep folks. It's fast approaching the end of the year (again) so ... it's now time ... to list your favourite albums of 2008 ... />
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Hmmmm I feel kinda weird, and at a bit of a lossIn the last 10 years or so I've had several people collapse in front of me, out of all those people 2 of them died right there and then, and 1 of the…
... people collapse in front of me, out of all those people ... ambulance!". He says "What what's wrong?". So I say " ... lot, and when there's somebodies life at risk I ... all I could, and it's nobodies fault.
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World of Goo for WiiIn case you haven't done so yet, you should really get the WiiWare version of World of Goo. I knew about it for a long time, but didn't really like t…
... really get the WiiWare version of World of Goo. I knew about ... stuff at work so it's not appealing to me anymore ... -
"Big Ball of Wax" Movie?I'm sure that a movie of Shepherd Mead's 1954 novel [I]The Big Ball of Wax[/I] (predicting how, in the year 2000, XP would take over!;)) was made dur…
... sure that a movie of Shepherd Mead's 1954 novel [I] ... The Big Ball of Wax[/I] ... IMDB, nor in either of the printed movie guides I ... and, realising that the turn of the century was approaching, ... that the next version of Windows be called XP in ... -
Favourite toilet... what's yours?Old thread from another site [url]http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=393728[/url] Not sure if it's been posted on here but I'm sure Speccy games …
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I'm going to have a poo at Paul's house.[b]Mummy I want a poo. I want to have a poo at Paul's. I'm going to Paul's to do a poo.[/b] That advert will haunt that kid for the rest of his natu…
... have a poo at Paul's. I'm going to Paul ... 's to do a poo.[/b]< ... that kid for the rest of his natural life.
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Another "What's that game" requestSorry about this guys but I have only recently rediscovered the joys of the spectrum via emulation. One of my mates had a game 20-25 years ago which …
... only recently rediscovered the joys of the spectrum via emulation. One ... of my mates had a game ... on the card was out of The Hitchhikers Guide to the ... this is because my mate's keyboard was breaking and typing ... -
Elite - Voting irregularities or a case of "how the mighty have fallen"?18 months to a couple of years back, Elite was #1 on the WOS top 100. But now it's not even in the top 100 at all. What happened? Has it been the vic…
18 months to a couple of years back, Elite was #1 on the WOS top 100. But now it's not even in the top 100 at all. What happened? Has it been the victim of voting irregularity, or has it just fallen out of favour in the last 2 years? -
Best game of 2006This one is going to be a tough one, but I wanted to know what do you think of the games appeared back in 2006, and which one would be the best for y…
This one is going to be a tough one, but I wanted to know what do you think of the games appeared back in 2006, and which one would be the best for you. Using infoseek you can see that 2006 was a good year also for our Spectrums.
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Wii Sports is the best selling game of all time!To quote: [url]http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2724[/url] "[B]Wii Sports has now passed lifetime sales of Super Mario Bros (NES) to become the…
... the number one selling videogame of all time[/B]
... that milestone after 110 weeks of sales."
Blimey ... still there, plus the Wii's reputation as a family machine ... must surely boost it's sales still further.
Ridiculous amount of spyware and shit on my laptopHello specchums, I was having a bit of trouble recently, with my search links from google and yahoo being redrected to some dodgy fake "Check your P…
... /> I was having a bit of trouble recently, with my search ... background came up, but none of the desktop icons appeared, nor ... br />
Jesus - the amount of crap that program found on ... /> Time elapsed: 19 minute(s), 58 second(s)
Memory Processes ...What do you make of the Manchester City/Kaka would-be transfer?Personally as a fan of the team at the foot of the Premiership and who have virtually no money to spend I say good luck to them. Yes, it's an obscen…
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Yes, it's an obscene amount of money for someone who ... climate and makes a mockery of whatever league.
of the Premier League Manchester United ... have spent hundreds of millions ensuring they win ...Here's an idea: downloadable DIY postersRemember the T-Shirt print fashion of a few years ago, when people would print out Speccy-related images onto iron-on transfers? I've just been doin…
... 33x46") for ~?20. And it's not just paper posters, but ... canvas, hardboard, and all sorts of other mountings too.
And whilst there's a minimum recommended image resolution ... resolution.
And that's got me thinking, especially as ...Girlfriend's computerI'm on my girlfriends computer atm -- one which she has asked me to sort out. It is a Vista computer which has reportedly slowed down since she fir…
... which I suppose means it's swapping to disk - and ... to begin swapping it's memory?
... work with a new installation of iTunes + windows or does ... inexpensive 2.5" disk that's reasonably large - so do ... folder?
ATM she's got two partitions, each a ...Football's best ever quotesI was bored, and searching the 'net for anything funny, and I found: [B][U]Football's best ever quotes [/U] [/B] ?…
... Jose Mourinho on the difficulties of bringing youth players through ... Akinbiyi struggles with the concept of live football[/B]
... ]Bryan Robson praises one of the Italian's strikes[/B]
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?Very few of us ...Freedom of the games software industry?Dan Houser, of Rockstar games, who worked on Grand Theft Auto 4 and other titles, was interviews and said of the software industry: "[I]It's really…
... titles, was interviews and said of the software industry:
... medium's not codified. There's no accepted way of doing ... circumstances. You can name lots of authors, film directors, singers, ... games programmers, the list consists of one name; John Carmack. ...Hans Beck, inventor of Playmobil has died.[img]http://specialed.umf.maine.edu/Language%20and%20Literacy/Images/Operating_Playmobil.jpg[/img] [quote]Zirndorf, Germany - Hans Beck, w…
... cars collected by millions of children, has died at ... the age of 79, the German manufacturing ... to 1998, rising to head of design.
... is the foundation of the company's prosperity and is ... /253840,hans-beck-inventor-of-playmobil-dies-at-79 ...Samurai Dawn and the lost games of FTLSamurai Dawn was announced as one of the first three FTL games in mid 1986. Obviously it never arrived and we were all left wondering a bit about wha…
... was announced as one of the first three FTL games ... they also wrote a couple of games for Elite; Scooby Doo ... one or the other of these started life as ... to make more money out of it. Certainly they're ... to the graphics. Of course, it's entirely possible that it ...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…
... the trees and bushes. It's so peaceful.
... awoke to a lovely blanket of crystal white shimmering snow ... in a beautiful white blanket of snow. I shovelled snow ... Had another 8 inches of that white stuff last night ... for 4 weeks and it's minus f*cking 14 ...Dale Winton's heartbreak quizDale Winton was doing that quiz show thing tonight on BBC1 where contestants go into the red area and are selected randomly to play the quiz and they…
... random.
(2) Life's a bitch!
Also ... the girl who put most of the money in the ?60k ... question wrong (Who wrote "Tess of the D'Urbevilles" and "The ... Mayor of Casterbridge"? - 1. Jane Austen 2 ...Noel's HQJust watching this now (me being a Sky newbie and all that) to see what all the fuss is about. It's like That's Life, only without the tact, sinceri…
... about.
It's like That's Life, only without the ... ... it could be a start of something interesting if it catches ...Never seen one of theseHello, I got this 48K but i have never seen a case like this. It's the silver TS 1500 case, but in black. It's not painted, it's the actual colour o…
... a case like this. It's the silver TS 1500 case ... black. It's not painted, it's the actual colour of the plastic ... t on the upper part of the case but on the ... the top part of the case there's that silver sticke ... a 4S board. And there's a silver sticker with the ...House Of The Dead: Overkill[youtube]V_qUwVq14YM[/youtube] Anyone else playing this? It's probably the best presented game that I've evr played. The game totally rocks! The onl…
... /> Anyone else playing this? It's probably the best presented game ... rocks! The only down points of any note are the slight ... (3, the carnival one) it's [b]so[/b] bloody dark ... , that it's really hard to see what ...Animation of the two satellites that crashedIt's probable that you already know that two satellites crashed a week ago (Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251). Now there is an animation of the collision: …
It's probable that you already know ... ). Now there is an animation of the collision:
[youtube ... Universe Today says the clouds of debris will be a problem ...New game coming soon: Skyscraper of DoomI finally did it... Back in 2005 when my interest in Spectrum returned, I started writing an adventure game for Zx Spectrum. I had a very faint idea…
... introduce SKYSCRAPER OF DOOM. It's a 48 KB game of Dizzy genre ... /> This game covers only 50% of the plot I wanted to ...Forthcoming "summer of rage"?Lots of news reports online at the moment on speculation that those hardest hit by the downturn will take to the streets, on both protests and riots,…
... and riots, specifically mentioning April's G20 conference.
... documentary series called "The Summer Of..." shown a few years ... ago, one of which was "The Summer Of Rave - 1989", ... downturn (the social effects of which should well and truly ...I need a bit of (speccy-related) help with my web-comic...I've posted before that I do fancy stuff for landmark episodes of my comic...well, I've reached episode 199, and for No. 200, I've drawn it as a .scr…
... fancy stuff for landmark episodes of my comic...well, I ... saved that in front of it using mobile-phone- ... enjoyed the problem-solving aspect of it.)
... which was the whole point of this exercise. I think ... the public in a week's time. If not...meh. ...[REMAKE]Captain 'S' RemakeHi! I've finished a remake of [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000801]Capit?n Sevilla[/url], released in UK as "Captain's'". …
... /> I've finished a remake of [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... ], released in UK as "Captain's'".
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It's available both Windows & Linux ...funeral of a biker fried in Bedford todayA member of my bike club died last month. His funeral is today. I'm off in just over an hour to meet up with club members. Pete was also active in t…
A member of my bike club died last ... , Serv etc, a large turnout of bikes is expected. The open ... to all celebration of life has been postponed by ... the large numbers expected. It's possible it might get on ...
