I'm with Jaegerbomb, Daley Thompson's Decathlon on the ZX Spectrum, battering the rubber keys until you broke all the tracks underneath and waggling a joystick so fast your wrist hurt!
I also had a Philips G3000, the poor parents Atari !!
I miss my Chopper bike with the awful gear stick position (bad for boys)
Modern one - I miss the paperback (kindle looks so plastic and false)
The Commodore 16 was my dream machine and where it all started for me. I spent many a night hacking computer games and sending in cheats to magazines and in the end the magazine started sending me free games each week so I could hack them and they could pad out their cheat pages. I still visit this page on a daily basis: http://plus4world.powweb.com/home An interrupt driver cheat, a technique I'd never seen done by anyone else - Infinite lives and infinite papers for Paperboy on the C16, no problem... 1 FOR I = 320 TO 349:READ A 2 S=S+A:POKE I,A:NEXT 3 IF S < /> 3098 THEN PRINT "DATA ERROR" 4 SYS320:LOAD "" 5 DATA 120,169,77,141,18,3,169,1,141,19,3,88,96,169,234,141 6 DATA 64,42,141,65,42,141,237,25,141,238,25,76,66,206 Posted by Machka
i also did these things, machka, for me it was breaking the code at the beginning of the programme cassette tape on the Commodore 64. i recall how well you and i put these particular skills to use more recently when we worked together on the News Of The World.
i remember the old motorola dynatecs brick like mobile phones and thinking it was cool when my dad come to school to pick me up with his ,now he wont have a mobile phone thinks they are too far gone more play things than useful
jaeger,HMHB are awesome and still going strong seen them many a time.My claim to fame ive had nigel the lead singer in my house.
My fav game was striker(football game) you had to push the head down to shoot.Also another footy game called big league with this game u had to pull the leg back on the player to shoot,cost me a fortune in evo stick had half the team with only 1 leg.
The Commodore 16 was my dream machine and where it all started for me. I spent many a night hacking computer games and sending in cheats to magazines and in the end the magazine started sending me free games each week so I could hack them and they could pad out their cheat pages. I still visit this page on a daily basis: http://plus4world.powweb.com/home An interrupt driver cheat, a technique I'd never seen done by anyone else - Infinite lives and infinite papers for Paperboy on the C16, no problem... 1 FOR I = 320 TO 349:READ A 2 S=S+A:POKE I,A:NEXT 3 IF S < /> 3098 THEN PRINT "DATA ERROR" 4 SYS320:LOAD "" 5 DATA 120,169,77,141,18,3,169,1,141,19,3,88,96,169,234,141 6 DATA 64,42,141,65,42,141,237,25,141,238,25,76,66,206
Posted by Machka
Memories,
Hacking the boot loaders to transfer my commodore 64 games to play of a "superfast" commodore 1541 floppy disc drive.
Before the 64 were many evenings spent with friends at a commodore pet playing Adventure and Hitchhikers Guide.
For a blast from the past play the original Hitchhikers Guide here.
waggling a joystick so fast your wrist hurt, didn't you mum tell you, it will make you go deaf??? , (Lets see if this sneaks passed Mandy ), there u go Rich, opened it up for you
I have a feeling, if I ever meet Sky Mandy, I am soooo dead.
In Response to Re: The Sunday Night Primo with Rich and Tikay ***official show thread*** : i also did these things, machka, for me it was breaking the code at the beginning of the programme cassette tape on the Commodore 64. i recall how well you and i put these particular skills to use more recently when we worked together on the News Of The World. Posted by aussie09
Does anyone remember a unit called the Cybiko? It was an extremely forward-thinking gadget with lots of apps, wireless communication, games and the like. If you were walking along and someone else in town had one it would even let you know.
Quite brilliant, which is why me and my dad picked them up in TJ Hughes for £4.99.
First computer - BBC Electron The girl friend reading out lines and lines pages and pages of Basic code from a computer magazine to be meticulously entered to play the latest game. One comma, one character, one colon missed and the game wouldn't run! Check all the code entry again!! Posted by Boxster
I loved my Electron. OK I still have my Electron...
It was (is) epic - Mode 7 board, dual disk drives, backplane for cartridges, even has a mouse.
"....Tonight it's the big one- The Sunday Night Primo and I'm back on duty with the old dear...." You are SO going to reget that, you incompetent wazzock. PS - A tomato is a FRUIT, right? Understand? Just because someone THINKS it is a vegetable, does not MAKE IT a vegetable. Comprehend? You've made me grumpy now, & you've only got yourself to blame. Be afraid. Posted by Tikay10
I agree. That was the point I was trying to make with my final post last night. Somehow Rich managed to interpret that as it's a vegetable, lol.
10 Input "Please enter an edible object you are unsure the genus of"; A$ 20 If A$ = "Tomato" Then Go To 50 30 Print "Wazzock" 40 Go To 60 50 Print "Total Wazzock" 60 End
Beng a contempory of Tony the list of gagets in our youth may be lost to all but us old duffers;here's a couple:
A Spun gun that fired real potato at family & friends
Plastic hand held space rockets that had pucussions caps in them and we would frightened the lifes of the pensioners that tried to make our lives a misery for just being young.
Evening Gents, Beng a contempory of Tony the list of gagets in our youth may be lost to all but us old duffers;here's a couple: A Spun gun that fired real potato at family & friends Plastic hand held space rockets that had pucussions caps in them and we would frightened the lifes of the pensioners that tried to make our lives a misery for just being young. The big inventions of our youth were: Televison & The Pill Happy Days Dave Posted by kidgrimsby
Hi Dave,
I sent you & Sue an e-Mail today - just to say, really, good luck to you both tonight in the VLV thing.
PS - There is a Typo in your Post - you said "spun gun", you meant "spud gun". Wonderful things, not seen one for ages.
Gadgets and gizmos and all that eh. aaahhh if only, we were that poor growing up that when all the other kids used to play hide and seek, we had to invent a new game called seek cos we couldn't afford anything to hide behind lol
Remember the TV ads that showed drawings that had perfect 45 Degree lines and also circles. Impossible trying to turn both knobs at the same rate to achieve anything like! LOL.
Yea also remember the Stylophone --- Rolf Harris ad --- Dross mono-tone that everybody loved (or maybe hated) but had to have one
Worst gadget ever was the barcode battler. I think the idea was you could cut out barcodes from anything and stick them onto card, and then swipe it and you would have some kind of fight with the machine depending on the info on the barcode? Never once got it to work. Totally useless.
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I also had a Philips G3000, the poor parents Atari !!
I miss my Chopper bike with the awful gear stick position (bad for boys)
Modern one - I miss the paperback (kindle looks so plastic and false)
Dave
cheers
andy
My fav game was striker(football game) you had to push the head down to shoot.Also another footy game called big league with this game u had to pull the leg back on the player to shoot,cost me a fortune in evo stick had half the team with only 1 leg.
gl with the show rich,tikay have fun
Memories,
Hacking the boot loaders to transfer my commodore 64 games to play of a "superfast" commodore 1541 floppy disc drive.
Before the 64 were many evenings spent with friends at a commodore pet playing Adventure and Hitchhikers Guide.
For a blast from the past play the original Hitchhikers Guide here.
http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html
I have a feeling, if I ever meet Sky Mandy, I am soooo dead.
20 GOTO 10
Does anyone remember a unit called the Cybiko? It was an extremely forward-thinking gadget with lots of apps, wireless communication, games and the like. If you were walking along and someone else in town had one it would even let you know.
Quite brilliant, which is why me and my dad picked them up in TJ Hughes for £4.99.
All the best concepts are doomed or overtaken
"....Tonight it's the big one- The Sunday Night Primo and I'm back on duty with the old dear...."
You are SO going to reget that, you incompetent wazzock.
PS - A tomato is a FRUIT, right? Understand? Just because someone THINKS it is a vegetable, does not MAKE IT a vegetable.
Comprehend?
You've made me grumpy now, & you've only got yourself to blame.
Be afraid.
It was (is) epic - Mode 7 board, dual disk drives, backplane for cartridges, even has a mouse.
Electron User was great!
10 Input "Please enter an edible object you are unsure the genus of"; A$
20 If A$ = "Tomato" Then Go To 50
30 Print "Wazzock"
40 Go To 60
50 Print "Total Wazzock"
60 End
Beng a contempory of Tony the list of gagets in our youth may be lost to all but us old duffers;here's a couple:
A Spun gun that fired real potato at family & friends
Plastic hand held space rockets that had pucussions caps in them and we
would frightened the lifes of the pensioners that tried to make
our lives a misery for just being young.
The big inventions of our youth were:
Televison & The Pill
Happy Days
Dave
10 Input "Shall We Play a Game?"; A$
20 If A$ = "Yes" Then Go To 40
30 End
40 Input "How about Global Thermonuclear War?"
I sent you & Sue an e-Mail today - just to say, really, good luck to you both tonight in the VLV thing.
PS - There is a Typo in your Post - you said "spun gun", you meant "spud gun". Wonderful things, not seen one for ages.
Gadgets and gizmos and all that eh. aaahhh if only, we were that poor growing up that when all the other kids used to play hide and seek, we had to invent a new game called seek cos we couldn't afford anything to hide behind lol
We're on at 9 everyone, but if you want to take part in the actual tourney- it starts at 8.
See you later!