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Stumbler

July 16th, 2001, 22:04

I love you all;)

Bah-da bah-da-da-da
Bah-da bah-da-da-da
Bah-da bah-da-da-da

Monday, Monday, so good to me
Monday mornin', it was all I hoped it would be
Oh Monday mornin', Monday mornin' couldn't guarantee
That Monday evenin' you would still be here with me

Monday, Monday, can't trust that day
Monday, Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way
Oh Monday mornin' you gave me no warnin'
of what was to be
Oh Monday, Monday, how could you leave
and not take me

CHORUS:
Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes,
but whenever Monday comes
You can find me cryin' all of the time

Monday, Monday, so good to me
Monday mornin', it was all I hoped it would be
But Monday mornin', Monday mornin' couldn't guarantee
That Monday evenin' you would still be here with me

CHORUS

Monday, Monday, can't trust that day
Monday, Monday, it just turns out that way
Oh Monday, Monday, won't go away
Monday, Monday, it's here to stay
Oh Monday, Monday
Oh Monday, Monday

Dusty

July 16th, 2001, 23:36

I collect classic computers, its one of my few real hobbies. I have an Atari ST, as well as most of the options that were available for it (including a modem). Don't have any Sinclair microcomputers though. I saw one at a flea market not long ago. It was in a terrible state and soaking wet... should had picked it up anyway, they only wanted a buck for it. For all I know, if I sat it out in the sun for a while and vacuumed all the dust out it may had worked. Oh well. I did get an Apple //c in pristine condition from there, it even had a 16-color monitor. Not long after that I got a Mac Classic II from a Salvation Army store for just $4.00. It was a good week, I was tickled :)

meow

July 16th, 2001, 23:44

So, Sinclair is an old puter. Sounds fun. (I mean it). Wish old crap was that easy to find here. I don't know where everything goes.

atlas

July 16th, 2001, 23:56

Originally posted by Dusty
I collect classic computers, its one of my few real hobbies. I have an Atari ST, as well as most of the options that were available for it (including a modem). Don't have any Sinclair microcomputers through. I saw one at a flea market not long ago. It was in a terrible state and soaking wet... should had picked it up anyway, they only wanted a buck for it. For all I know, if I sat it out in the sun for a while and vacuumed all the dust out it may had worked. Oh well. I did get an Apple //c in pristine condition from there, it even had a 16-color monitor. Not long after that I got a Mac Classic II from a Salvation Army store for just $4.00. It was a good week, I was tickled :)

I've got 2 Apple ][c s :) They were great computers.

-mk

Dusty

July 17th, 2001, 00:27

I've got 2 Apple ][c s :)Oh shaddup ;) Anyway, the two is written "//" with the c's and gs's, it's only "][" with the e's (I have one of those too) :p

jason

July 17th, 2001, 02:21

my parents still got their commadore 64 and amiga.

gyrbo

July 17th, 2001, 03:46

Gee, the oldest one I have is a 286, and it's standing outside in the rain.

meow

July 17th, 2001, 04:00

Can't afford a garden gnome, Gyrbo? :)

Weapon

July 17th, 2001, 04:09

oh well all your stuff can't beat my 15 inch monitor where you have to smack a few time for about 5 minutes of fun time :D :D

Dusty

July 17th, 2001, 04:16

Commodore 64, that was the first classic computer in my collection, I've got its cassette tape drive, two of its 5¼ floppy disk drives, a dot-matrix printer capable of printing two fonts (regular and wide, I can't find any replacement ribbons for it so I've just been re-inking the one it came with), a grayscale monitor (beat you, Weapon, its totally broken), and a voice synthesizer (it makes noise, all right, but nothing intelligible. At least I can't make anything out of it).

Stumbler, unfortunately Atari officially went out of business in 1996, but you can buy used Atari ST systems from http://www.myatari.com/, I'm thinking about getting a Stacy from there myself. They were essentially dead long before that, but in name they were alive. In '96 JTS bought the company, then proceeded to split it up (which was against the agreement). To avoid legal entanglement, JTS sold all of Atari to Hasbro in '98. Hasbro then started its line of Atari retrogames under the Atari name, but Atari Corp is gone.

I wonder if Commodore Business Machines is still in business... I'll have to check up on that.

Weapon

July 17th, 2001, 04:21

hah!!! u beat me coz u have been living longer to be able to collect those old old stuff, and who can forget those rainy days sitting infront of the commodore 64...... brings back memories

lucifer

July 17th, 2001, 04:44

Originally posted by Stumbler
I have a sinclair zx spectrum 128k+

that's not a classic!

the proper spectrum has a rubber keyboard and 16k, 48 if you're real lucky. that thing you have is attempting to have a proper keyboard yuk.

I have stuck with my speccy and it's never let me down and not being micro---- it never crashes and is hackerproof. Having the browser cash on a tape drive approx 100 baud is a slight handicap but the colourful border during loading makes up for that.

a 8Hz processor is plenty fast enough. that Z80 processor will out gun anything intel can make these days.

Weapon

July 17th, 2001, 04:53

Originally posted by lucifer

that's not a classic!

the proper spectrum has a rubber keyboard and 16k, 48 if you're real lucky. that thing you have is attempting to have a proper keyboard yuk.

I have stuck with my speccy and it's never let me down and not being micro---- it never crashes and is hackerproof. Having the browser cash on a tape drive approx 100 baud is a slight handicap but the colourful border during loading makes up for that.

a 8Hz processor is plenty fast enough. that Z80 processor will out gun anything intel can make these days.
8hz? hahahaa computers are sure use to be ----ty hahaaa, wooo imagine all the programs u can run at once on that:D :D :D

LastActionHero

July 17th, 2001, 05:35

Have any of you guys used the bbc micro?

and meow what's with your avatar?

meow

July 17th, 2001, 05:47

Ack, I know it looks like sh*t. I was inspired by the favorite movie topic. It's the poster from Ingmar Bergman's "The seventh seal". It's supposed to be Death. Quite impressive before I trashed it.
http://www.muddle.f2s.com/weepon/death.gif

gyrbo

July 17th, 2001, 06:08

lol. Is that all that remains?

LastActionHero

July 17th, 2001, 06:17

OK i get it now. Why not just use the face?

meow

July 17th, 2001, 06:17

Death tricks you. You newer know with him.

meow

July 17th, 2001, 06:21

Wouldn't be as imposing.:rolleyes: It will be gone tomorrow. At least I don't have a garden gnome.

LastActionHero

July 17th, 2001, 06:21

woh ! that was fast!

bigperm

July 17th, 2001, 06:26

Ingmar Bergman's "The seventh seal". That was a good movie to get drunk and think about.

meow

July 17th, 2001, 06:50

What was fast?

Yeah, one of my favorites. Bergman hates it though. Low budget thing made in a week. They say you can see the skyline of Stockholm in the background in some scenes. I never manage to. I get too caught in the story.

Never used a bbc micro but I once had an old Rectum AT4, 6Hz, double poop boosters. Was good in those days.;)

bigperm

July 17th, 2001, 07:06

The Virgin Spring is the other one of his that I liked.

meow

July 17th, 2001, 07:29

Have you seen many Bergman films? I also like his earlier ones. Then came 30 years of angst and constipation. Seen (not sure about English titles here) "The Summer Night Smiled", "The Strawberry Place", "Persona"? The last is a dark one.

bigperm

July 17th, 2001, 08:27

I have seen The Virgin Spring, 7th Seal and one more that I cannot remember. I know I saw a third one... but which one eludes me. The english titles might be different... I have never heard of any of those.

meow

July 17th, 2001, 09:33

The wording may be different but I know the meaning is the same. Nice to know you watch his movies anyway. :)

Stumbler

July 17th, 2001, 09:40

I had a BBC Micro along with the best game ever made, 'Canyon' now that was a game, a vertical scroller mince'em up, total bonkers it was.

I also had a zx81, black and white block heaven, I dont think you could get a modem for it tho.

Did anyone type in the games from the old mags like Sinclair User or Zapp for the Specky and get them to work?

lucifer

July 17th, 2001, 09:42

Originally posted by Stumbler
I also had a zx81, black and white block heaven, I dont think you could get a modem for it tho.1k space invaders - now that was real programming

LastActionHero

July 17th, 2001, 09:47

Originally posted by Stumbler
I had a BBC Micro along with the best game ever made, 'Canyon' now that was a game, a vertical scroller mince'em up, total bonkers it was.

I also had a zx81, black and white block heaven, I dont think you could get a modem for it tho.

Did anyone type in the games from the old mags like Sinclair User or Zapp for the Specky and get them to work?

Yeah I did. One of my friends had a spectrum or something I don't remember. We used to type out those 500-700 line code for games and then run it ,he he. We had to do it all over again because there was no permanent storage. We had a couple of those magnetic cassettes which could store it permanently but we saved them for our best games. We used to play that speed boat game a lot.

polestar

July 17th, 2001, 11:09

on the subject of speccy games - you can d/l loads for free and they're legal and cool!

Gunfighter is a real fav of mine, oh and Schooldaze as well.

Respect!

Stumbler

July 17th, 2001, 11:18

Fantastic stuff, check this site it only has everything.
www.void.jump.org (http://www.void.jump.org/)

lucifer

July 17th, 2001, 11:36

them were the days

ant attack
manic miner
school daze (or something similar) that was well cool :D

Stumbler

July 17th, 2001, 11:46

Too true, too true.

Jet set willy 4ever.

polestar

July 17th, 2001, 14:09

on the subject of emulation, what is your fav system to emulate on the pc, and do you have any experience with GBA emulation?

lucifer

July 17th, 2001, 14:16

Originally posted by Stumbler
Too true, too true.

Jet set willy 4ever. I was talking to a friend only a couple of days ago about this stuff. according to him there was an error in JSW so that you could never finish it without 'poking' something to get a block to disappear.

I think he was right cos I never worked out how to get them last few gems or whatever we were after.

I always liked chucky egg on the BBC :)

Stumbler

July 17th, 2001, 14:20

My fave at the mo is NEO-GEO, some of the new games (98+) are wicked.
Check out:
Last Blade 2, King of Fighters 99, Metal Slug 2, Pulstar and Blazing Star.

Stumbler

July 17th, 2001, 14:27

I always liked chucky egg on the BBC

Now we are talking games, all this is too much for me.

MUST GAME ON MUST GAME ON MUST GAME ON MUST GAME ON MUST GAME ON MUST GAME ON MUST GAME ON MUST GAME ON MUST GAME ON MUST GAME ON MUST GAME ON MUST GAME ON.

Maybe later but yes WOW and everything.

Ahw the games from days of old gone by. The playability in those oldtimers was superb, never a dull moment.
_____________________
OH!! remember JET-PACK?

lucifer

July 17th, 2001, 14:30

kids of today - don't know what the're missing :p

JET-PACK cool game except the bug where you could go to the right place and leave a book on the fire button and clock that high score

top game

Stumbler

July 17th, 2001, 14:44

I must be nuts, how could I forget to mention my fav game\s of all time:

PANG, SUPER PANG AND PANG 3.

The latter being the weakest of the trilogy me thinks.

I now have these games on my comp thanks to MAME.