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  1. Re:So what's new about this? by Matt+Perry · · Score: 4, Informative · on Bully Gets In Trouble With School

    There's an online version of Skool Daze here.

  2. Re:ooh does anyone remember this by network23 · · Score: 1 · on Sinclair And Clones Computer Show
    Not easter.

    Chuckie.

  3. Re:Correction. by welsh+git · · Score: 1 · on Computer Folklore, Circa 1984

    Manic Miner(and other spectrum games online)

  4. Re:Market Research by Bluetrust25 · · Score: 1 · on Elite Creator On Attracting Mainstream Gamers

    Here's a link to a java applet port of Elite:
    http://www.spectrum.lovely.net/Elite.html

    And did someone say market research? SurveyComplete can get your web survey programmed and ready for interviewing today! 500,000 interviews conducted so far this year. Alternately, you can sign up as a member of our consumer panel to take surveys for cash and prizes (i.e. support your habit.)

    "Too much pie! That's your problem."

  5. Re:I don't get it by balbord · · Score: 1 · on Tim Willits Interview: Lead Doom3 Designer

    And now, for something completely different... Remember?

  6. Speccie on-line by meadowsp · · Score: 1 · on Raskin On 'Raskin On OS X'

    If you want to try it out for yourself, there's a java spectrum emulator available here.

    If you click on the Basic link, you'll see what the previous poster means....

  7. PS2 - pulling an 8 bit micro by richard_za · · Score: 2 · on Open Source Programming On The UK PSX2
    In the 80s when I first starting messing around with computers, mostly on 8 bit micros, most of them has a BASIC interpreter has an integral part of the operating system - such as Sinclair BASIC. 8 bit micros were so cheesy that only kids really took them seriously, their BASIC interpreters being way superior to MS-DOS's gwbasic at that time. By emmbedding a BASIC interpreter it will allow PS2 gamers to get under the head of their computer. This openness of the OS is what attracted me to GNU/Linux and Open Source originally. Again we could gain control over our computers. However I no longer believe that BASIC is the best language for children to learn - maybe include a Java SDK would be a good idea.

    Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code still lives on! Although I won't touch VB with a foot long pole.

  8. Spectrum Emulator by uberchicken · · Score: 1 · on New Front In The Copyright-War: Abandon-Ware

    OK, everyone has seen this URL, right?
    http://www.spectrum.lovely.net

  9. Re:Liability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Yet Another Use for Linux

    Perhaps someone should hire marketing, distribution, and QA engineers, and sell a fault-checked Linux.

    Many of your points are worthwhile, but I have to admit that I was touched by your naivete. Only an American would take this knee-jerk attitude that the answer to such an obvious public sector problem. The answer is clearly for the public authorities to take it upon themselves to produce a fault-tolerant, checked, stable operating system and then stand behind it. After all, Linus is God and all that, but at the end of the day, one guy, plus his mate Alan, can hardly compare to the massed resources of the government. After all, with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow, and who has more willing warm bodies than a government agency?

    It reminds me of the old days of British computing, when Sir Clive Sinclair was messing around trying to squeeze performance out of the old Z80 chips with his ZX80 and Spectrum(Timex to the Yanks). Then the good old British Broadcasting Corporation came out with the BBC Micro and showed the private sector how it should be done. It's only this fetish with "the market" that blinds Americans to it, and the historical fluke that the transistor happened to be invented in Bell Labs that meant that the computer revolution started there.

    An OS provided by Uncle Sam would be stable and secure (it could even benefit from being verified as secure by the NSA, unlike Linux), and would immediately replace all forms of *nix, and Windows, and Mac OS. It's the logical solution.

    And once you've solved that, perhaps Bill Gates and Linus could turn their "entrepreneurial and technological genius" toward creating a healthcare system that provides more than shiny white teeth and an infant mortality rate worse than Lithuania!

  10. Second Ultimate/Rare interview. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Special on Ultimate Play The Game, now Rare

    This interview should also be of interest. Moaners, read it to learn why Rare/U:PTG matters. The mere fact that this one dates from 1988 should give some idea why.

    Speaking of which, it's interesting to contrast Sabre Wulf with Goldeneye. :)

    (I found this at the Planet Sinclair website, shrine to the Speccy and all the works of Clive Sinclair. Old Ultimate Spectrum games are floating about in various places, such as the Java Spectrum Emulator website.)

  11. Second Ultimate/Rare interview. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Special on Ultimate Play The Game, now Rare

    This interview should also be of interest. Moaners, read it to learn why Rare/U:PTG matters. The mere fact that this one dates from 1988 should give some idea why.

    Speaking of which, it's interesting to contrast Sabre Wulf with Goldeneye. :)

    (I found this at the Planet Sinclair website, shrine to the Speccy and all the works of Clive Sinclair. Old Ultimate Spectrum games are floating about in various places, such as the Java Spectrum Emulator website.)