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Yes. Was going to get a new summer house and decking in part the garden, but will probably have wait.
Re: Has COVID made you think differently about life?
yes. black the wife's amazon account so we can save more money for next time.
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xsnaggle
yes. black the wife's amazon account so we can save more money for next time.
Is that to the tune of Mack the knife?
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adz-a32
Tempted to get an Atari 2600 to try out the gameplay but I don’t have the space or TV :hehe:
How much money you got to spend dude ? ? ?
might i suggest a raspberry pie with emulators installed, the retropie
you can put it in a retro case ( like a NES / SNES case ) it takes up no space at all
the TV i cannot help you with though
you could just look at MAME on your laptop ( not sure it'll work on apple, which i suspect you have )
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blue matt
How much money you got to spend dude ? ? ?
might i suggest a raspberry pie with emulators installed, the retropie
you can put it in a retro case ( like a NES / SNES case ) it takes up no space at all
the TV i cannot help you with though
you could just look at MAME on your laptop ( not sure it'll work on apple, which i suspect you have )
Got apple. I use online emulators but yeah thanks for the suggestion. May look at the pi for try MAME on my Mac via WINE or something
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J R Hartley
Haven’t gambled for 10 weeks so now I’ve overcome that vice I might go back on the drugs to get my kicks.
:hehe: Sorry laughing out load at that! :hehe:
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Is that to the tune of Mack the knife?
sounds like a plan!
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J R Hartley
Smurfs was my favourite game on the Atari. It had the same 4 screebs/levels they just got quicker after you’d completed the 4 screens.
Daley Thompson Decathlon for the ZX Spectrum was the holy grail of gaming for me.
Assume you are 44/46?
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The Lone Gunman
Good news. We could do without rabble like you around these parts. We've already got enough of our own.
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J R Hartley
On a serious note doing more for others - my elderly next door neighbour, my Mrs cousin who’s got nobody and struggles to make ends meet as a single parent so we’ve been getting her some shopping - will probably continue after lockdown.
Plan to visit my sister and family in London more.
Might start ground hopping when the grounds reopen. Take in a few more City away games, I haven’t bothered much in the last decade.
If there’s a crash in the housing market I may take advantage and upgrade my house.
Your first para is the one that resonates strongly , I've enjoyed doing that type of stuff , it is very rewarding
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Random question that just occurred to me... did you guys use cassettes to play video games?
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adz-a32
Random question that just occurred to me... did you guys use cassettes to play video games?
Oh aye, cassettes to load the game up. You’ve never enjoyed the anticipation of listening to white noise like screeching only to find the ****ing thing hasn’t loaded properly and you gotta do the same thing again.:biggrin:
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Oh aye, cassettes to load the game up. You’ve never enjoyed the anticipation of listening to white noise like screeching only to find the ****ing thing hasn’t loaded properly and you gotta do the same thing again.:biggrin:
The worst thing was a game you loved on a cassette that only loaded properly half the time. Would waste so much time trying to get the bloody thing started.
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The worst thing was a game you loved on a cassette that only loaded properly half the time. Would waste so much time trying to get the bloody thing started.
How about on the Commodore 64. You had to have the Commodore tape deck. There was a little screw in the middle that you would have to turn occasionally just so the games would load.
Football Manager on the C64 took 16 minutes and 22 seconds to load. It would stop after 2 minutes, process for 10 minutes, then load for a couple more minutes. I used to load it up straight from school, have my tea, then go up and start playing. I had it worked to a tee, only time it failed was when my mam was cooking something special like potato pancakes and spaghetti hoops :hehe:
