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Joffa speaks... sort of.I was looking through my archives today to search for some images, and found this psydo-interview I done with a certain Jonathan Smith. It reads as f…
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The future of Jam Doughnuts.There was a German market in Birmingham today, and one of the stalls was selling doughnuts. I purchased five, two chocolate ones with a chocolate coa…
... with a chocolate coating, and three strawberry jam with strawberry icing ... -
Who here knows bash scriptingI want to write a script that looks in a particular directory and finds all *.jpg *.jpeg .png etc. files, and executes a command on each of these, wa…
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Calling DingbatHave any members had any contact with Dingbat over the last couple of weeks ? I have been trying to E-mail him over matters which we were discussing,…
... as a joke on the three word thread, is bugging me ... -
'Bumpy' questionOne of my favourite Spectrum games is 'Bumpy'. This game of French origin is a classic puzzler, and is a joy to play, right up until a certain, unsol…
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UWOL, quest for money - The MojonTwins (ZX SPECTRUM 128k)Uwol didn?t have enough after earning about the 90% of all the income which resulted of selling retrovideogames in Spain and getting himself rich. No…
... pistol with the proton charger, three knickers from Gremla, the book ... ?t.
You have three enemies which follow pretty linear ... -
"Up to 80% of violent criminals turned to crime because computer games"According to China (that well known bastion of openness and human rights), or at least the official China news people: [[COLOR=Red]Note: if you can'…
... World of Warcraft offline for three months earlier this year.[/COLOR ... -
Idle CuriositySo ... In the magazine archive file names, there's a numeric suffix with two (or three) digits at the left for the issue number, three digits at the…
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IDE controllerRecent time I have problems with my ide hdds. I turn on the computer, and the bios won't detect both primary ide drives. Then I open case, pull out a…
... is ok. It happened already three times, I am worrying whether ... -
Spot 4.0The SPOT+SPEX Spectrum magazine index at [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/spot-on/default.htm]SPOT*On[/url] has been updated. The foll…
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A couple of maths questions (theory, not application)1. Some bloke has worked out the value of PI to nearly 2.7 trillion digits, according to: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8442255.stm[/UR…
... when they are seperated into three digits each by a comma ... -
Remake of ALIEN underway. Ideas wanted. :)Okay, so there's a new competition over at Retro Remakes and the idea is to make a '[URL="http://retroremakes.com/forum/index.php/topic,1355.msg26832…
... one in the original game. Three decks and 3 sets of ... -
Good SuitcasesI travel allot, and I've recently been though a lot of suitcases. These days I'm lucky if my case lasts three journeys. Then again I've been buying…
... lucky if my case lasts three journeys. Then again I've ... -
IDE emulation and delaysA few months ago I was told that IDE emulation, while perfectly usable, isn't accurate enough to compare it to IDE access on real hardware. On some e…
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Why did Ultimate games load like this?What I remember about the early Ultimate games was the unusual way they loaded. You'd get the BASIC bootstrap loader, then a SCREEN$, then a main bl…
... it'd load two or three very short blocks of code ... -
More questions to ponder/argue/ignore as you wish...Just copying some stuff to a memory stick, and I found some old questions I'd intended to post on these forums to provoke debate, that I'd never got …
... the City (a program about "three hookers and their mom", as ... -
Do you "Quick Reply" ?Today I wanted to be adventurous. I decided it was high time to try out the "Quick Reply" function in WoS. ( [I]You daredevil, you! -Ed[/I] ) So, …
... go back and quote two, three people and then copy/paste ... -
Laser SquadI started to play "Laser Squad" few days ago. I like this game but I think it's too easy - well at least on difficulty level 1. Scenario one. Dude w…
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Scenario three. Task: release prisoners from cells ... /> I'm gonna play scenario three again but on the higher ... -
IT Crowd Series 4 - set dressing helpGraham Linehan... [quote]?and we?re off! Three weeks to go, five and a half scripts done, casting begun, location scouting next week?it?s all happen…
... /> [quote]?and we?re off! Three weeks to go, five and ... -
Moggy Adventure (Mojon Twins, 48K)After travelling across the world to become a gentleball and leave all his vices behind (mainly alcohol and the riverside weeds, but rumours suggest …
... worked tatooing sailor chests for three years. But such travels had ... -
Chaos: the Battle of WizardsJust wanted to create a thread in honour of this magnificent game. Anyway, rather than just rattling on about how good it is, I thought I'd show you…
... 'll do next is get three of my chaos playing chums ... -
Some Beeper TunesAfter doing a verion of [URL="http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/vbspec/popcorn.szx"]popcorn[/URL] a few weeks back, I got a bit carried away with doing a f…
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Chess Program - Tournament - three possible types of... :-)Depending on program's settings (response time, as key factor), we can have 3 possible types of Tournament : 1. 'burst-mode' - with 30 or 45 seconds…
Depending on program's settings (response time, as key factor), we can have 3 possible types of Tournament :
1. 'burst-mode' - with 30 or 45 seconds per move;
2. 'optimal' - set 3 minutes / move (this means 40th move must be under 120 ... -
one to watch on ebay.A very nice looking z80 with three days to go. [URL="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SINCLAIR-ZX80-FULLY-WORKING-BOXED-MINT-CONDITION_W0QQitemZ290409332040QQc…
ChickinChaseThis file ChickinChase.txt ([url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/c/ChickinChase.txt[/url]) has wrong permissions: -rw-r--r--…
... -lr file and here are three more:
-rw------- 1 ...Problem with Spin 0.7s +3 file I/OI'm currently trying the +3 disk functions in z88dk. I've based my work upon the simple snippet Winston posted a while ago, but doing the contrary. H…
Sad? Loney? Have an XBox 360? Why not pay women to talk to you?Yep, if you have an XBox 360 you can now pay women to talk to you whilst they play you on the (computer) games! [URL]http://uk.xboxlive.ign.com/arti…
... , and is turned off by three red lights. Once you find ...
