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5-Mar-14 4:51

Does it cut while it sucks?

Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors. Smile | :)

Re: Hoover Fake!

M@dHatter5-Mar-14 4:49

5-Mar-14 4:49

Thank you mr president Big Grin | :-D

HUVr FaKE :)

M@dHatter5-Mar-14 3:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfpnP7nbPAw[^]

5-Mar-14 3:55

modified 5-Mar-14 10:16am.

Nagy Vilmos5-Mar-14 4:00

Nagy Vilmos

5-Mar-14 4:00

You get the Leslie badge, now go and sit in the corner.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter5-Mar-14 4:01

5-Mar-14 4:01

Look who's talking...

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

Nagy Vilmos5-Mar-14 4:02

Nagy Vilmos

5-Mar-14 4:02

Just passing on the baton, just passing on.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter5-Mar-14 4:05

5-Mar-14 4:05

Pass on the gin... Wink | ;)

I'm dried up...

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

Blue Waffle5-Mar-14 4:11

Blue Waffle

5-Mar-14 4:11

That's what she said.

M@dHatter5-Mar-14 4:14

5-Mar-14 4:14

I blame it on the CP post search feature

Blue Waffle5-Mar-14 4:17

Blue Waffle

5-Mar-14 4:17

Are you going to blame the search feature on your inability to reply to the correct person too?

M@dHatter5-Mar-14 4:18

5-Mar-14 4:18

Yea caching and deletion and beer Poke tongue | ;-P

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter5-Mar-14 4:20

5-Mar-14 4:20

Oh no. That because of the ~~baton~~gin... Laugh | :laugh:

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

Message Removed

5-Mar-14 4:06

5-Mar-14 4:06

Message Removed

M@dHatter5-Mar-14 4:25

5-Mar-14 4:25

No passing it on i fixed mine :P

Happy Birthday ZX81

Nagy Vilmos5-Mar-14 3:52

Nagy Vilmos

5-Mar-14 3:52

I just saw that Ian Botham's favourite computer was launched on this day in 1981[^]. Happy birthday, oh yee of the Monster Maze, happy birthday.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter5-Mar-14 4:00

5-Mar-14 4:00

You made me cry...

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

Dalek Dave5-Mar-14 4:36

Dalek Dave

5-Mar-14 4:36

Back in those days, and more so with the Speccy, memory was king.
Programmers had to squeeze every last pip out of the lemon.

I know that one of the games produced sound by interrupting the video signal every 5th part of the 50 hertz signal which generated a noise and owing to the human eye's persistence of vision did not affect the picture.
It meant that the game could utilise the area reserved for sound generation in the game data.
That is how clever they were, and how sharp the skills were at reducing algorithms down to the barest minimum for speed and memory efficiency.

Nowadays with fast machines and limitless memory people just pump out any old crapola.

Long gone are the days of the memory wizards.

Alas and alack, O Tempora O Mores.

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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

_Maxxx_6-Mar-14 15:58

_Maxxx_

6-Mar-14 15:58

Dalek Dave wrote:
memory was king.

I remember when I wrote PooperPig for the BBC, after it finished loading from disk or cassette, I used the reserved buffers for data storage and decompressed the level maps into them.

It actually used the screen memory during compression so had to change the visible colours so it didn't look too crap.

I despair sometimes when I see that an ICON for a game uses more memory than the entire PooperPig code!

glennPattonWork35-Mar-14 4:48

glennPattonWork3

5-Mar-14 4:48

Wow! I remember a neighbour had one, wrote an accounts package...

Mike Hankey5-Mar-14 4:54

Mike Hankey

5-Mar-14 4:54

I really wanted one when it first came out but couldn't afford.