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@AC: This is precisely the reason I've not said a word about it until now.

Anyway, I'm going to shut up now and contemplate things. This could actually be bad.....

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I've been thinking about getting in touch with WoS, but have been hesitant until now in order to protect my source. Now that they've left the industry I can be a bit more open about it. I'm thinking it may be worthwile contacting the Oliver Twins too, I've heard they're quite friendly :)

FWIW I wasn't really expecting ElReg to answer, It's just that I know they like to do these sorts of things in the pub. Any opportunity to try and blag a pint, basically :D

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"How did you get hold of that??"

A contact rescued it before it went in the skip. The portakabins at the farm (literally a farm in Southam) were being cleared out for the next lot of coders and test monkeys.

At one point, I also had the source code to the Amiga version of Universe (by Core Design). Like an idiot, I needed some hd space so deleted it without backing it up. facepalm.jpg

50Mb was a _lot_ of hd space in those days, and on my budget that many floppies was out of the question.

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"The original was coded on a CPC 6128 in the MAXAM assembler and then ported to the Spectrum using a special cable the Olivers had built for them. True cross platform development and all in their bedroom!"

Interesting that you mention that.

It is more than just a cable, it is a Z80 PIO hooked up to the bus on the speccy side, and the printer port on the amstrad side. I say is, because contrary to popular opinion, it is not lost. It is still sitting in a box in my private collection, where it has been for a long time. If I can find the driver software, I will have to dump it and create a schematic of the hardware.

On a related note, I must find my collection of master and sample tapes and dump them too.

If anyone wants me to, I can take some photos for verification purposes. It will take a few days though, need to get at the box in question. Hell, if ElReg wants to take a look and have a fondle of this one-off piece of hardware, get in touch.

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@casinowilhelm: "So far I just got the "trip over pavement cracks and sue the council""

hehe, I'm from the town in question and when I was 8 yrs old (32 yrs ago to be precise) , I stumbled on a loose paving slab. Lost my front teeth becasue of it. My parents never dreamed of suing the council. A strongly worded letter later (no legal threats or anything), and the slab was fixed along with many others.

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I recall an episode of Chris Morris's radio show, where his Wayne Carr character got someone at heathrow to call for Anita Peacekwick and Mylexa Croist across the tannoy :)

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What about when PC's were starting to be noticed by the high street retailer?

Alter AUTOEXEC.BAT to echo swears in a loop, reboot and stand nearby giggling whilst the salesdroid panicked :D

Oh, and it was always dixons we did this in as the salesdroids were usually occupied trying to sell people extended warranties...

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Grot, Grumble, Jazz - who cares what it's called. It's all good :D

Seriously though, English changes its usage all of the time. It's quite fluid, really.

Paris, because of the grot connection...

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That would be the Shadow of the Beast, not to be confused with SEGA's Altered Beast.

IIRC the level even had a parody of the SotB theme playing in the background, I'll have to pull out my A1200 to check.

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Actually, that's Lemmings Revolution. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_Revolution for more info.

There is a fully 3D Lemmings game called unsurprisingly 3D Lemmings. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Lemmings for more info.

Personally I like all of the lemmings games. Nuke 'em all, I say :)

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Good job I have a guitar to help fend off the threat then, isn't it?

Now I'm feeling old :D

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Now, now. There's no need to make light of a serious episode in our history.

Unity is an abomination and should be treated as such.

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@P Saunders:

So explain to me why the indigenous population were deliberately given smallpox infected blankets then.

Here's a clue:- David Barton is not a historian.

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Ah yes, the good old days of hedgerow grumble :)

Also, what ever happened to white dog turds?

Because you told him about RT, amirite?

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Upvoted because I agree.

However, the use of the phrase "I've brought PC's" is really annoying. It should be bought, not brought and I don't think you mean PC as possesive either.

My whole Wi-Fi is off, actually, I was posing a hypothetical question.

There are some people out there who don't know what they're doing, and I'm not one of them ;)

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Ok, I don't use google location services. Could you tell me then, what benefit it is to _me_ personally to expose my private SSID data to google?

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You do realise how precisely they can position the bird?

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Not intended as a factual statement

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I think you'll find it's No. 1 - The Larch

/me shakes head at all of the upvotes...

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Also cellphones were an instrumentation problem, not a fire problem. For the same reason that using them on planes was frowned upon.

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Also numb-nuts should be hyphenated.

When there is the slightest smell of fascism, the (grammar-) nazis will appear.

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His cover of the theme to Capcom's Commando is particularly awesome, as is his Chicken Song medley.

Time to dig out my HVSC and have a listen :)

Memories....

obligatory sing along

I'm making a note here, huge success!

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Only a month? I would have thought it would be when DNF gets released.

Wait, what was that? DNF was released?

I want HL Ep 3 and HL 3 now, k :)

tituler disnoblement

"putting sugar instead of sweetener in a cup of coffee."

I can certainly tell if there is sugar in my coffee instead of sweetner. It has a sticky texture and a totally different flavour for one.

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You'll be waitng a while. This is Valve Time (tm) after all.

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Layered chips are already here. Apple use it and have a patent on their particular process, and flash memory cards have an ARM processor for wear balancing layered with the flash wafer.

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Probably because they would remove the functionality with a Kernel update. That way any exploits gleaned with a debugger wouldn't work right away, and without the debugger it would be more difficult to make them work. Not impossible, just more difficult.

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iirc, aren't Microsoft legally bound to not enter the UNIX market?

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Amiga for the purist, most definitely. Must dig out my Amiga, I have a WHDLoad install of it raedy to play :)

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As the Viz Profanisaurus defines it:

Lemonparty (n): Something you probably don't want to type into Google image search with the safe search filter disabled.

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Freedom of Speech does not give you immunity from the consequences of that speech.

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the _really_ serious problem would be inserting song and dance numbers about "jigaboos"....

Where's the "Not racist, just quoting from....." icon when you need it ;)

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Probably because your average windows user can't afford apple products?

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You put the 'D' in ick.

Words are words, language is language. It should be celebrated for it's diversity rather than being censored.

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BURN THEM! BURN THEM ALL!