I take it all back...

Carl Gibbs · 2005-07-29T18:30:41+00:00

...I dont like old cars any more. Looks like the bottom end has gone on the new MR2 :(Arse feck bollocks shite etc.Luckily we budgeted to spend £2k and spent no where near that so should be able to sort it out and still be in budget, but what a pain in the arse!To cheer myself up I'm gonna go and buy a car tomorrow :) Looking at a Rover 216 GTi DOHC or a Citroen ZX 1.9i 8v

Jul 29, 2005 132 Replies

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Questions 20 years ago

We used to have

10 FOR N=65535 TO 0 STEP -1 20 POKE (N,0) 30 PRINT "COUNTDOWN! ",N 40 FOR X=1 to 1000 50 NEXT 60 NEXT

Then we'd kick them all off and see which ones crashed first*.

I think WHS staff used to love those days, and think fondly back to their happy memories of young, but technically aware, kids coming into the shop to "try out" the computers...

I wonder if anyone was violently slain?

(* incidentally, the Apple ][ like mine lasted longer than most, mainly because it was distinctly slower and it was the Speccy that raced to a fatal memory exception quickest of all, if I recall correctly.)

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aussie bongo 20 years ago

oooo you little devil you :0)

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DervMan 20 years ago

*shock Dervy and SteveH in another agreement*

A1200, 200 Mb HDD, 68882 FPU, 10 Mb RAM, it rocks, man.

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SteveH 20 years ago

Does make me wonder what could have been - if you look at Mac development with the PPC chips - I have to say an Amiga OS machine based around a PPC G5 would be awesome.

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DervMan 20 years ago

Yup. Sadly it'll probably always be an "what if?" though.

When I bought my A1200, it kicked ass of the 486s that were kicking about. A mate of mine spent a bit more on a 486DX/33 with 8 Mb of RAM. He laughed at me for only having a 14 MHz '020 and (at the time) 4 Mb of memory.

Then I showed him Shadow Of The Beast 2.

Oh how he turned green. :)

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JackH 20 years ago

I miss the megademo scene... was really strong on the Amiga.

'Spaceballs: Nine Fingers', anyone?

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SteveH 20 years ago

Ooooh, now, where can I get this kind of stuff so I can play it on the Mac?

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DervMan 20 years ago

Red Sector.

Red Seeeecccttttooooooorrrrrrr.

I'm sure I have a whole bunch of Amiga music files kicking about the hard drive somewhere. :)

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JackH 20 years ago

'mods'

BTW, you're all gits... cos you've just made me look in the cupboard, to find I've got... ... about 30 Amiga Format cover CDs, and 10 CDs worth of Aminet gear, sitting there.

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SteveH 20 years ago

WinAmp.

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Questions 20 years ago

Ah, I recall Aminet. Oddly enough I got at it via a PC, but that's life.

I still have a brace of Migs here. With Various Things, if anyone has the little paper map for War in Middle Earth they can scan for me I'd be dead eager. :)

As it is, I'm stuck with Lemmings. Boy oh boy, does that play better on the Mig.

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SteveH 20 years ago

Oh, happy days.

Hours spent in a portacabin 'terminal room' with a 6 pack whilst at Uni. Downloading stuff to my Unix account so I could grab it onto floppy when I got into the campus in the morning.

Thinking about it - my ADSL isn't even close to the download speeds I used to get back then.

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JackH 20 years ago

Heh.

*sob*

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I lost all this s*it in an unplanned reinstall of this thing in one of its many incarnations...

:-D

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