11-11-2004 03:29									#421
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JetSet Willy

	14-11-2004 01:00									#422
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Son of Blagger?

	15-11-2004 02:19									#423
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sigh - i've just had a terrible realisation

Zool2? - and for some reason, as the person who maybe hated Zool more than any other platform character, i seem to be haunted by this game. And whenever a platform title is up to be guessed, i just dread it when i see the word 'sequel' in the clue........... :shudders:
.......bl**dy ninja from the nth dimension my arse!

	19-11-2004 16:52									#424
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BUMP**

wow it fell to the middle of page two! - does this mean Name the Game is losing its popularity?!

	19-11-2004 18:24									#425
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Nah, it means the game setter is getting slack.

	20-11-2004 15:52									#426
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Come on Duke, let's have it!

	20-11-2004 16:44									#427
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Perhaps someone else should start one.

	20-11-2004 17:06									#428
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like one of those light interlude snacks?

hmm maybe we could add something in the rules about this, maybe along the lines of not counting 'interlude' guesses? and maybe having a fixed time for how long an abandoned guess can go before someone else can have a go?

ok heres an easy non-counting interlude guess

platform: ZX81

clue1: it was a 'feature' of the 16k ram pack that added a new dimension to the home computer experience and maybe lead to the first case of a now common home computer term for frustration.

clue2: It became a 'game' just trying to avoid it!

	21-11-2004 00:08									#429
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Not sure I know any ZX81 games.

	21-11-2004 04:20									#430
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I certainly don't...

	21-11-2004 05:16									#431
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Only one i can remember other than magazine ones i types in ever so slowly is monster maze.

	21-11-2004 08:15									#432
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ZX81??

	21-11-2004 15:50									#433
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Precursor to Spectrum.

*cough* Old git CoT *cough*

	21-11-2004 23:38									#434
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The 16K ram pack (the original came with 1K) had a habit of falling off the back of the ZX81. It also had a keyboard (well sort of) that made typing a challenge - think spectrum but without being raised from the actual base and without the rubber.

And if you really want to show your age you could describe it as the successor to the ZX80 rather than the precursor to the spectrum

	22-11-2004 03:16									#435
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Well I'm old enough, just not in the right country.

	22-11-2004 04:00									#436
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A true blue Commodore owner all the way. Although I know my way other homecomputers as well. Well, I now the various stories at least. The " dodgy memory expansion that would fell off at any time"-problem was well known at the time. Some people simply GLUED it to their ZX81 to prevent it falling off.

	22-11-2004 05:19									#437
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The Spectrum 48K one wasn't much better!

	22-11-2004 14:38									#438
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I (briefly) had a ZX81 before my speccy but I never had the RAM pack.

	22-11-2004 15:04									#439
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well this wasn't technically a game as we've been used to guessing

But i'll give it to standup as he was first to describe the symptoms of the term i was looking for.

What kind of became a game for the ZX81+16k rampack programmer, and the term i was looking for was the infamous 'Rampack wobble', the game was trying to avoid it happening!

And all it took was a 'wobble' of the connection for you to loose all the data, it didnt actualy need to fall right off, simply pressing the keyboard in a way the rampack didnt like( ) was fatal - and there wasn't a special technique you could use apart from glueing it to the connector with superglue.

I can only say that you have to imagine typeing a few hundred lines of code into your pc with a long stick(it really wasn't easy using the Zx81s 'touch sensitive' keyboard!). And maybe you could loose it all buy poking with your stick in the wrong way!

And thus maybe the first cases of home computer rage was born?

whats happened to duke?

Last edited by child of Thor on 22-11-2004 at 15:14

	22-11-2004 23:54									#440
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* DrSpike thinks CoT needs to reread the rules.

	23-11-2004 17:34									#441
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ah.....but this was that undocumented area called the 'in between guess while duke remembers' game, and no-one scores any points for these

Like our un-written constitution, what we do in this situation isn't covered by our rules.........so i used it creatively this time to provide some other computer trivia
So shall we have some rules for these kind of situations in future?

*and i think there may only be a few years age difference between us - i'm quite a young old git *

Standup - its your go until the duke is back

	23-11-2004 23:06									#442
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quote: Originally posted by child of Thor *and i think there may only be a few years age difference between us - i'm quite a young old git *

[denial mode] Nah you are *way* older than me.

	24-11-2004 01:28									#443
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Sadly i seem to be giving quite a few years to DrSpike if your profile is accurate. Can't be long before i start using the large font size and getting a craving for Werthers Originals

Ok coming back to the modern age..well circa early 1992 this game was described in one review as "meaningless title, nice parallax".

	24-11-2004 19:54									#444
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'Uridium'?

@Dr.Spike man you are soooo old, just by the fact you are winning this game

	24-11-2004 23:30									#445
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I prefer the term knowledgeable.

	25-11-2004 00:54									#446
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yeah thats the one i meant

ahh.....i like the odd werthers myself Standup, no shame in that

'Dropzone'?

	25-11-2004 01:34									#447
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Paralax

	25-11-2004 17:53									#448
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No to all of the above.

Japanese style platformer for the Amiga.

	25-11-2004 22:42									#449
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duke's access at work has disappeared, and he can only visit a couple of times a week at the moment.

Shadow of the Beast?

	25-11-2004 23:38									#450
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Could at least have given us another clue.