Lost in the tune...

[Agafaster]

Karlos wrote:

Vincent wrote:

I'd bet you'd be even more glad it wasn't Pac-Man!! :-D

"Eat them up! yum! yum!" :lol:

Regarding the speccy, it goes back even earlier than that. He claimed he was able to achieve a similar effect messing about on the zx81 :-D

I could do that ! all you did was something like:

10 FAST
20 FAST
30 SLOW
40 GOTO 10

this would make a note (pink noise? can't remember - this was 25 years ago after all!) if you turned the volume up and slightly detuned yer telly.

for everyone else: a lot of corners were cut in making the ZX81 a 4 or 5 IC computer - the CPU was used by the ULA to generate the timings for the generating the character based display, by use if NMIs the R register, and whatnot. consequently, SLOW mode was dog slow, and you only got 25% of the CPU's time to yourself - FAST basically turned off the display generator.

You can tell he was a speccy fan. Half of his tracks have at least one spectrum tape loading sample in them somewhere!

cool!
but not quite the same as Tim Follin...

[X-ray]

"...Everyone seems to be paying particular attention to the scribings of a pretty lady, we haven't seen that in a while... (no offence intended Mel hehe).
BTW, anyone heard from Blobrana lately? Has anyone seen la Blob and la Mel in the same thread? Are they the same person?..."
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PMC, my son, you can't compare Mel to Blobzie.
Blobzie poons Mel in every way I can think of.
They are definitely not the same.
Now if you talk about Cecilia, that is a different matter 'cos I dig that one too  ;-)

[Vincent]

X-ray wrote:
PMC, my son, you can't compare Mel to Blobzie.
Blobzie poons Mel in every way I can think of.
They are definitely not the same.
Now if you talk about Cecilia, that is a different matter 'cos I dig that one too  ;-)

Sometimes the way you dig I think you're digging something else :-P

[X-ray]

 :lol:

I have several plots already reserved for me at the local graveyard.
And there are several women drawing lots to see who turns the first spade load.

But what can I do? I is what I is.

[adz]

Anyone recognise these studs?

Clickety-click

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Karlos]

PMC wrote:

BTW, anyone heard from Blobrana lately?

I think she's busy running her new bar...

{bleep}tails and frag salads a speciality?

[adz]

adz wrote:
Anyone recognise these studs?

Clickety-click

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Either nobody has clicked, or no one knows who they are...

[X-ray]

It is the latter for me.

[adz]

X-ray wrote:
It is the latter for me.

Familiar with a rather popular childrens group called "The Wiggles"?

[Karlos]

Karlos wrote:

PMC wrote:

BTW, anyone heard from Blobrana lately?

I think she's busy running her new bar...

{bleep}tails and frag salads a speciality?

/me wonders if that was too subtle :lol:

[Doobrey]

Karlos wrote:
/me wonders if that was too subtle :lol:

I was just wondering why it was named after an old reqtools patch  :roll:

[Karlos]

Doobrey wrote:

Karlos wrote:
/me wonders if that was too subtle :lol:

I was just wondering why it was named after an old reqtools patch  :roll:

Hint: Where else have you seen that typeface?

[X-ray]

Nah, I caught the Quake reference just fine...
...but not the Wiggles.

[Karlos]

I was going to replace the "Q" with the quad damage style one, but I figured that would be too obvious (not to mention the whole sign would have looked made up)

[Vincent]

X-ray wrote:
...but not the Wiggles.

Do you really want to catch wiggles though?

@adz
Were they on the Steve Irwin tribute prog?  If so, that's the only place I've seen them.

[adz]

Vincent wrote:

@adz
Were they on the Steve Irwin tribute prog?  If so, that's the only place I've seen them.

Not sure as I didn't watch it, here's a pic for reference: