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[voodooflux]

@rse - the Wii finally gave up the ghost tonight with the optical drive emitting the most horrendous noise. Fortunately the chap at Nintendo assured me it wouldn't cost any more than £28 to fix it, including shipping it off to them and getting it back again. Phew.

[Churchill]

Evening

Nope, no baby. Midwife is here tomorrow to try and kick start things (I didn't like to ask for details).

You might want to get CM off the subject of babies - she has a "broody monster that is currently holding [her] biological clock hostage" - sounds dangerous

I think he already knows..... oops this is his log in not mine!!!!

[voodooflux]

I think he already knows..... oops this is his log in not mine!!!!

So the broody monster has been unleashed

[NickFitz]

I'm just about to watch that five programme - Brits Who Changed the World, I think it is - from earlier, about the creation of the game Elite on the Beeb back in the Eighties

It looks like this series is based on a book I bought a year or two ago... ah yes, The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin - excellent book

Of course five's on-demand player is Windows only, so I had to fire up a virtual machine... which then insisted on installing a new version of WMP, which of course required a restart... whereupon XP decided to install another 26 updates before actually restarting...

Thanks for the seamless computing experience, Bill

Still, it's always mildly amusing to see the Internet Explorer logo in the OS X Dock at the left of the screen, and the Windows taskbar sitting along the bottom

[voodooflux]

I'm just about to watch that five programme - Brits Who Changed the World, I think it is - from earlier, about the creation of the game Elite on the Beeb back in the Eighties

That sounds interesting, wouldn't mind watching that. Must resist though, have to finish a website

[NickFitz]

Correction: Brits Who Made the Modern World, Episode 3.

Well, that was most entertaining - made me all nostalgic, especially when they talked about "two hours to save three bytes" being "time well spent"

You really can't beat assembly language

If you're curious, Ian Bell has made the source code of the BBC version available... 6502 assembler with virtually no comments

[NickFitz]

That sounds interesting, wouldn't mind watching that. Must resist though, have to finish a website

It's only 23 minutes long, so you should be able to fit it into a tea break

[zeitghost]

Comments are for wimps...



If it was hard to write...


That's the last of 6 programmes by the way.

The others included the Black Arrow rocket & Prospero, Vodaphone, the Harrier, the tilting train (the original APT not the abortion), and the Lotus 25 formula one car.

[zeitghost]

Would you expect us to do anything without KY?

And lashings of baby oil...

[Numpty]

If you're curious, Ian Bell has made the source code of the BBC version available... 6502 assembler with virtually no comments

I wasted an awful lot of time writing my own version of Elite for the DRS 300.

It was pitiful, but kept me amused.