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The Apprentice 2011Have searched for an Apprentice 2011 thread without success... so I thought I'd start one. It's not the sort of telly I would usually rush to watch …
Alan isn't interested in doing any work. All he wants is to put ?250k & his name behind the business - the rest is up to the candidate! Tom can't do that. He needs the team behind him - he would have been better off in dragons den -
Norway attack and bombing84+ dead, many children. What is it with these cowards?
[QUOTE=JimTheBrit;551912]Citation lacking.[/QUOTE]
you can't prove that something hasn't happened, only that it has. Provide a citation that the security services have prevented someone from flying their plane into something. -
Norway attack and bombing84+ dead, many children. What is it with these cowards?
[QUOTE=guesser;551913]you can't prove that something hasn't happened, only that it has. Provide ... a citation that the ... being a result of it.......that separation might very well have ... -
Norway attack and bombing84+ dead, many children. What is it with these cowards?
... =JimTheBrit;551919]... which is why you should avoid making claims such ... />
So what you're saying is that you can't say that my tiger repelling ... rock hasn't repelled any ... -
Where to start?..Hello, First off, sorry if this is in the wrong and sorry if the questions I'm about to ask have been asked and answered numerous time! Little back…
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Why it is masochism. You can't do much with built-in Basic ... first. Then you load your program. Then you make some changes ... them (it takes time), then you do other attempt, and it happens ... or other tool, so you even can't use full resources of the ... -
TZX format rev. 1.21Once 1.20 draft seems to be official now I would like to suggest some additiones to do on 1.21. I hope it will be easier to upgrade once block 19 has…
... t tell you what is the republisher for your file[/B]. You can't check that ... info unless you download the WOS ... Also I think that's like don't buying books because ... all after reading these pages that you prefer to rely all ... -
Is Doctor Who the best that it's ever been?I'm surprised that there's been no Doctor Who thread recently, especially given the revelations we've seen recently. I've loved this last series (and…
... the coloured series I can only say I like ... horror than sci-fi. That's the main reason why ... so well. And I can get the whole family ... the couch watching it (can't do that with Torchwood, for instance).
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Paging memoryI've been thinking about a possibility of paging blocks of memory to and from disk. Imagine dividing usable 32KB of Speccys RAM (why do they call it …
... 570057]My point was that except in extreme situations ( ... needs a display and you can't use that part of memory ... not really a RAM that you could count on. I ... how it is implemented but that was not my point. ... But that space is useless for code unless you are ... -
Anyone know how to get out of Jury Service?I did my last one what feels like last month so am pretty damn sure their "random" selection actually means reliable chap who might show up...yeah bo…
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wonder if that works if say you know their family etc ... ?
you could make the new part ... *shrug*
wookie, you can't use that term.. someone on the radio ... />
can you get torrets syndrome at any time? that might be ... -
Grand Theft Auto V announced!Ok, time for another mega-game thread :smile: [url]http://www.rockstargames.com/[/url] Trailer next week!
... (not the big ondoor one) that you could walk around for ages ... try and get away. You couldn't do that on IV because the cops ... were all over you for just ... ] better because you could have a laugh with that one as it ... -
found something in food..so I had a bar of chocolate today.. think there was a twig in it.. well I "hope" it was a twig.. it's going off to the maker with a little "note" i…
The story that sticks out above all others is the guy who had the mcdonalds burger containing a dead rat! I mean, you can't top that, can you? He got a refund though. -
found something in food..so I had a bar of chocolate today.. think there was a twig in it.. well I "hope" it was a twig.. it's going off to the maker with a little "note" i…
[QUOTE=Spector;584717]The story that sticks out above all others ... dead rat! I mean, you can't top that, can you? He got a refund though ... -
SnowThat's Airdrie had its first snowfall of the winter. I woke up this morning and there was a dusting on the rooftops, only roughly half a centimetre …
... lindisfarne ?
forget wasting that money on Uni fella, I ... 6 part mini series and you can sell it globally.. and the ... Clunes)
if you can't get that band , try smokie (they are ... for us southerners who don't understand :)
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Dutch retrocomputerfair saturday 17 dec 2011(Crosspost from Announcements, just to let more people know) There's a computerfair next week, organised by the Commodore department of the Dutch 'H…
... interface with +DivIDE interface (that firmware makes assembling in Tornado ... impression!
Don't forget to check out the ...
And oh, please don't encourage me too much, otherwise ... to play the laserharp! Can't do that to my family and bosses ... -
Which Speccy game had best border effectsIn truth, I'm just trying to remember a game from my youth, and the amazing border effect during pause is the only thing I can clearly recall about i…
Actually, you can't change the border colour more frequently than once in any four CPU cycles (ie only once every eight border 'pixels'). Besides, you can't do the OUTs fast enough ;-) -
Which Speccy game had best border effectsIn truth, I'm just trying to remember a game from my youth, and the amazing border effect during pause is the only thing I can clearly recall about i…
[QUOTE=csmith;592442]Actually, you can't change the border colour more ... every eight border 'pixels'). Besides, you can't do the OUTs fast enough ;-)[/QUOTE ... the port is written, so you can do them at two pixel resolution ... -
New compression method: Exomizer 2After I finished working on optimizing aPLib's decoder, I was told that pucrunch did compress better, and while looking for info about pucrunch (it t…
... want to be able to do is to decompress pieces; not ... data at once. I realise you can't do this with an ordinary compressed ... file. And if you compress lots of small files ... levels (for good compression) but you want to decompress one level ... -
the it crowd[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/The_IT_Crowd_DVD.jpg[/IMG] "let's make a 3d isometric arcade/aventure based on the it crowd sit-c…
I love rapid GFX examples...
[img]http://www.bytemaniacos.com/varios/itcrow.png [/img]
It would be possible, but the larger objects needs to write a custom engine for it, you can?t do it with 3D Game maker or similars engines. -
St Dragon (Kixx & MAX Compilation)Hi folks, This title has been doing my nut in for years, and I wondered if anyone knew how to make a working TZX. [url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15363…
... , as some values don't match exactly. The pilot ... test wav. It seems that the constant at 0x8e57 ( ... of each bit don't last exactly the same, ... the first Sync won't be of the opposite polarity ... m using FUSE, but it can't do that or output disassembled code. ... -
Z80 instructions tableI could never find a complete z80 instructions table (including timings) that I really liked. All reference material I have is either incomplete, or …
[QUOTE=Korinel;604622]I disagree, it's very nice to be able to have something I can query and amend with ease, something you can't do with html/pdf.
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Local missing boy just been found.For the past 2 hours, my village has had a Police helicopter flying just above the rooftops, with a woman constable calling out a message over what m…
... a helicopter really neccesary? Wouldn't a car driving around with ... look in the gardens etc. Can't do that from a squad car. -
Local missing boy just been found.For the past 2 hours, my village has had a Police helicopter flying just above the rooftops, with a woman constable calling out a message over what m…
[QUOTE=guesser;608342]Um, I assume they were using the IR cameras etc to look in the gardens etc. Can't do that from a squad car.[/QUOTE]
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Local missing boy just been found.For the past 2 hours, my village has had a Police helicopter flying just above the rooftops, with a woman constable calling out a message over what m…
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Chaosmongers has a big rant.Just received this Cronosoft related email today:....... [quote] >Hello, >I enjoy the idea of releasing new games for older platforms but... >I h…
Can't do that...this might happen...
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Chaosmongers has a big rant.Just received this Cronosoft related email today:....... [quote] >Hello, >I enjoy the idea of releasing new games for older platforms but... >I h…
[QUOTE=chaosmongers;609049]Can't do that...this might happen...
[img]http://www.erlendaakre.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/pinky_eating.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
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Where the devil is PSJ?His account is deactivated! Is he no more? What happened? A great shame really as I enjoyed reading his sometimes opinionated, (most of which I agre…
... day, maybe it was to do with my "garden" threads.. hope ... message he sent , personally I can't stand the @!"*er ;) .
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Sigmund Freud Pervert of Genius?On and off I sumble across the work of Sigmund Freud, and can't help thinking he was nothing more than seriously perverse. One such example he descr…
... out that which already existed. All the concepts you list ... out about them, and you can't say that their discovery is worthless ... its only receptively recently that they and their physical properties ... (that is if it exists at all, in science you can't be ... -
For Sale - Nice ZX CollectionI am selling my ZX collection of hardware (including a rare disc drive unit), manuals and software (including a few nice big box ultimate titles and …
... right :)
?250, you can't ask that for it.. but I'd ... be surprised if you got it ... -
Best player movementWhat games had the best main character movement and control? I'm thinking here of games where the programmer designed in something more advanced than…
just a general observation - I like games where the character has ability to change direction in mid jump. quite a big factor in the 'player movement' stakes imo. hi-tec's games usually let you do it but you can't do it with JSW or Dizzy for example -
Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …
Is there any point in your revealing that PM?
If I didn't know better I'd be suspecting that you were having a sly dig at Andrew.
But of course we know you wouldn't do that, don't we...
