Posts by stucs201

Perhaps they want the pro version, which they can't have yet? This seems especially likely since this survey was done in a work context.

Re: Optical Drives Abandoned

46 CDs? No blu-ray discs. Even a very quick search on Amazon finds BD-R discs at less than a quid for a 25GB disc. I'd expect the costs of a mass-produced read-only disk (ignoring content cost) to be even lower. Optical disc does not always mean a CD.

You're forgetting the men who are taken shopping by their women. Once that happens half and hour in HMV was a very welcome break from the endless shoes/handbags/etc.

What I'd like to see for a small second monitor is not a dedicated device. Just put a hdmi or dvi input on a tablet so it can be used as a second monitor for a desktop/laptop (or connected to other devices such as cameras). Of course consumers will like only buying one 7" screen more than manufacturers will like only selling one 7" screen.

Re: hmm

There's also the spectrum version of Sqij to consider too...

Re: Music via radio.

The oddest case of this I came across occurred with an Amstrad PC 1512 running Digger. The actual game music could be picked up by a radio tunned to just below Radio 1's FM frequency.

I'm not sure if this was a deliberate feature of the game that worked with any PC or just a peculiar interaction with the Amstrad's hardware. It didn't seem to be a general occurrence with the 1512, I never managed to do the same with other games.

Re: I miss the humour

No humour in modern games?

Have you lot not played Portal then? GLaDOS is hilarious.

Let me fix that for you

If you think instagram makes photos look good your need your eyes testing.

Re: designed for mouse...

Presumably this is why the pro version comes with a stylus - to give a similar precision of input.

Re: I feel it must be said

You're going to regret asking that. Yes Leonard Nimoy did have a record:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04

Re: Moties!

Be careful which Niven race you bring into this. Pak Protector style behaviour would be bad news for those with too many mutations.

Yeah. Only scored thirty points too.

Agree about Panasonic. I've stuff of theirs thats 25 years old and still working perfectly and in daily use.

Re: We found this spoon, sir!

There is no spoon.

Re: Form over function.. again

A fleet of Sinclair C5s?

Re: 'Another Fcuking mouthful of cat turd!'

So *thats* why Curiosity killed the cat - to stop it crapping in its lunch.

Witchspace was easy once you had the cloaking device

Jump into witchspace (usually deliberately, ALT+W before a jump broke the hyperdrive on the PC version).

Engage cloak and fly past thargoids.

All much easier once their formation breaks up and they're not all firing at some.

The cloaking device also made picking up the small Thargoid ships much easier.

Made it to Elite with all missions completed twice. Once for the first CGA PC version, then again for the Elite+ remake with VGA graphics and more missions.

Re: Driller

I'd forgotten about that one. Only ever played a demo (PC, not speccy), but my recollection was it was at least as much a puzzler as a shooter.

Dragon makes some sense - the fire is due to be added later when they stop using parachutes for landing.

The Merlin rocket engines on the other hand, thats wrong - a Merlin engine is a 27litre V12.

Re: Building

Not as daft as it sounds. You do need to take planets apart to build one of these things, so a deathstar might be handy.