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Groucho - pissed off and funny with itEven when Groucho Marx was pissed off with his bosses he was still funnier than most people on the planet [url="http://www.theage.com.au/news/film/b…
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Off-lineI've been off line for a while (since late November, new baby, moving house, Christmas) so what have I missed
I've been off line for a while (since late November, new baby, moving house, Christmas)
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Games you wish you'd finished but never did.Has anyone got a speccy game they really wish they'd finished, but never did/could, or just never got round to it. Here's a few of mine: Airborne R…
... have to go somewhere and turn it off).
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TommyGun 0.8.5 available0.8.5 has been uploaded release updates include: * Heaps of bug fixes :) * A getting start guide on how to use TG Please try it and give me your f…
... the Code editor.
* Shift/Scroll/Rotate/Flip and Mirroring added ... few little things to finish off before a 1.0 release ... -
Anybody read books off Project Gutenberg?At the minute I'm reading: [url]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/159/159.txt[/url] The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells on the laptop and Palm.…
At the minute I'm reading:
[url]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/159/159.txt[/url]
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
on the laptop and Palm. :)
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Spy-Bot Search and DestroyI'm having problems with Spy-bot. It searches for about 5-6 miniutes, then stops. It says there is an error during the scan, and it gives me a file (…
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What's the longest time you've spent playing a game?There's a similar discussion going on in the SFX forums right now and I thought I'd start it here. Around 1990, I spent about 9 or 10 hours playing …
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Have I got a spy-ware problem?I'm having a slight problem that I think may be down to Spy-ware. I have run an up to date Spy-Bot S&D scan and a complete virus scan (run in safe mo…
... and again when I turn my machine off, I get a "program ... -
Oh no! Not again! (Serious PC probs)I was upadting my graphic drivers (NVIDIA MX440 GeForce 4) and my sound drivers (Realtek AC'97 for VIA (R) audio controller), but when installing the…
... WinXP) :(
Oh, and turned off System Restore a few days ... , and I kinda forgot to turn it back on :oops:
Perfect Dark (N64) - best FPS ever?Since we're talking about Half-Life 2 on this board, I thought I'd mention Perfect Dark, the best first person shooter ever. Don't believe me? Hardly…
... 't allow you to turn auto-aim off (Halo, Half-Life 2 ...Well, I'm off to ThailandWell, that's it. I'm off to Thailand in the morning.... Was looking forward to it but with a the cr@p happening at heathrow methinks it will be a nig…
Well, that's it. I'm off to Thailand in the morning.... Was looking forward to it but with a the cr@p happening at heathrow methinks it will be a nightmare
Still, it's two weeks off work!
L8r Peeps!John Gibson InterviewThought some of you might be interested in this, just found it on some old zip disks: Please find below an incomplete John Gibson interview I conduc…
... training course intended to turn me into a mainframe ... programmers. I duly went off to Imagine for an interview ... from, we bought an off-the-shelf limited company ... pick up where Imagine left off. The rest of us ...
I went straight off to see David Ward at ...Can you name it?I'm looking for something on the speccy but I ain't sure what it actually is. Could be a game but I dunno. Here comes a very vague description.... T…
... /> the one when you first turn on a speccy 128k (white ... memory might be a little off.
Any help would be ...Harry's Hoard?Was [i]Henry's Hoard[/i] actually licenced in any way by Software Projects, or was it a Harry-Price-style rip-off? Incidentally, since it's based on…
... a Harry-Price-style rip-off?
Incidentally, since it ... ) work. But some (e.g. turn on WRITETYPER) don't, so ...embedding images in wos forumswhy is [IMG] code is off on WOS? I know binaries are no-no in usenet, but forums are more colorful and informative, even creative with images. I'm r…
why is [IMG] code is off on WOS? I know binaries ... there a special cause to turn images off on WOS?My Dell TFT Monitor deadMy Dell E171FPB monitor is dead... it wont turn on... even the LED wont come on.... I've checked the usual...cable and fuse.... I am trying to dism…
... monitor is dead... it wont turn on... even the LED wont ... the screws.... taken the stand off....but I can only open ... />
a sad, p!ssed off and desperate... Andrew :(my laptop is a useless spazhi all, me again. it has taken me a week to post this as some one else had a similar post and i didn't want to look like i was copying. anyhoo. my …
... . i cant turn the ctrl-alt-delete log in off for various ...Tape wear offI have quite a nice collection of Sinclair games on tapes I?m wondering if these tapes wear off and get damaged by time ? Then i?m not talking about …
I have quite a nice collection of Sinclair games on tapes
I?m wondering if these tapes wear off and get damaged by time ?
Then i?m not talking about usage, just keeping them in storage.
JonLinking FPS games to rampages - your country's take on this?Some of you may remember the news from a few weeks ago, where a high school boy went on a rampage in a school in Germany, intent of doing in classmat…
... I do not want to turn this topic into a discussion ... failed to make global news? Off-hand, I can't think ...What is This Game?First off I'd like to say hello and thanks, I'm a long time reader but first time poster, its great to have such easy access to all of these memories…
First off I'd like to say ... - you had the option to turn left or right at points ..."The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […
... -wide scale. All Earth turned off its burning coal, its fissioning ... />
It was Adell's turn to be contrary. "Maybe we ... I. "Ask him how to turn the stars on again."
Total Recall demo - turn into game?As you probably know the game Total Recall was created in two attempts. The first version was half completed, then abandoned and the second, final ve…
... break into the code and turn this watch-only demo into ...More general questionsJust some more things that I wonder when I can't sleep... 1. What's the highest score anyone's ever achived when playing snooker? I mean, yes there…
... Trek and it's spin-off's so successful, when Blake ... 's Eastenders when you first turn onto the channel. That's ... that I know of. You turn onto it and straight away ... to make it look slightly off colour, something that only your ...Off to Miami for a week (for free)Well I posted it as a reply to Scottie UK in the Avatar thread, but I'm pissing off to Miami for a week, for absolutely free hahahaha!!!! Dunno if I…
... thread, but I'm pissing off to Miami for a week ...Off topic: ST & Amiga development discs preservationAnyone here know anyone who can get some stuff off of ST and Amiga discs? I have found a stash including a 2 disc demo for 'FLOOD II' (which was neve…
... who can get some stuff off of ST and Amiga discs ... for getting any thing salvagable off these discs please let me ...CRASHing into crapness, Part 2Following on from [url=http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_frm/thread/5541add8fe6b5218/e629555e12c5f3e8?lnk=st&q=crashing+into+…
... behind CRASH's decision to turn into a pamplet and the ... ]
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This put me right off my pissI was standing in the toilet in the men's changing room of my local gym tonight, trying to have a piss, when the magazine lying on top of the toilet …
Ridiculous excuses to get off workI've worked for the same company for the past ten years and sometimes people come up with the most ridiculous excuses for taking time off work. Among…
... ridiculous excuses for taking time off work. Among the more absurd ... excuses for people getting time off work?game where you pushed others off the 2D playing field into outer space?hello there! this is my first post -- hope it's in the right place! the view point of this monochromatic game was from above. you controlled a small…
... the point was to bounce off of other (computer controlled) robots ... and push them off the surrounding ledge. if you ... harder/bigger robots to push off the ledge. also the playing ...
