Some time ago
I went out and my pets became self-aware...


Good job I had sokme temporal humus in stock.

From the What your pets do when no one is watching challenge. See all 306 entries (closed)

( Captain Nostril, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:18, archived)

retro-tastic!
Have a wooyay featuring one of my prized possessions :)

( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:29, archived)

Does it still work?
.
( Bud Muhnquai [ :(: ], Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:35, archived)

It does now that I've
fixed it, aye. clicky
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:37, archived)

Some folks would say....
a: You need to get out more
b: So that's why the house is taking so long to decorate
c: Evenin' all.
( Tart Monkey, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:40, archived)

Do you really have ALL of those old duffers?
Thats more hardware than anyone could ever need...
( Bud Muhnquai [ :(: ], Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:41, archived)

Yup, and
you ain't seen the half of it :) I'm pretty sure it's the UK's biggest home computer museum.
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:48, archived)

I have seen the half of it...
...and while not a Museum a la the V&A, I can vouch for the fact that it's the UK's biggest collection of old computers in a house.
...
( Tart Monkey, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:52, archived)

Have just had a gander at it
Bloody Hell
( Bud Muhnquai [ :(: ], Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:58, archived)

any daytime posters still
around will know what I've been doing to the dining room.....said collection is the reason why. I've got to move nearly 400 machines plus peripherals/books/games/disks etc by sunday night and this is the only location it can go in that doesn't cost any money! eep
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:03, archived)

Have you never thought of just chucking them all out?
/runs
( Bud Muhnquai [ :(: ], Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:07, archived)

you been
talking to me missus? :)
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:10, archived)

*whistles innocently*
that link to your dining room still doesnt work
( Bud Muhnquai [ :(: ], Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:15, archived)

Oops - typo
from this end - fixed it now.
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:18, archived)

NASTY
Thats all I can say....oh and GOOD LUCK!!!
( Az The Spaz, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:22, archived)

:) Nearly done
now. It's only taken 6 english weeks, but now I look back at it it was a hell of a job, particularly for an ex-novice.
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:30, archived)

done well so far
by the looks of it. Did the misses give you any expert advice like they usualy do?...or try and start cleaning bit because they thing they're being helpful??
( Az The Spaz, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:34, archived)

Wot, you mean Mrs "power tool" Gothywench?
She gets stuck in just as much as me. Half the nails in the dining room have been done by her, she's shifted all the underfloor shite I've dug up out to neighbouring bins, helped with some of the heavy lifting, bagged and shifted most of the plasterwork I took off the walls, grouted the bathroom etc etc etc.....couldn't have done it without her! Plus she takes care of icklewitchy when I'm grafting.....
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:41, archived)

SUPERMISSES THEN???
Wow...
( Az The Spaz, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:45, archived)

Again
Bloody Hell mate
( Bud Muhnquai [ :(: ], Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:24, archived)

Don't they usually...
...knock down houses in such a state?
Heavens...
Couple of them floorboards looked a few millimetres off centre. Better take them up and start again...
( Tart Monkey, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:41, archived)

don't make me laff
like that 'cos me ribs hurt too much :)
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:45, archived)

What have you done to the dining room...???
"The page cannot be displayed"

Boo hiss
( Tart Monkey, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:10, archived)

works for me matey,
you having brower trouble again? Remember, CTRL-F5 is your friend.
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:12, archived)

Ctrl-F5 is not a miracle worker though.
Still nowt. After it does some connecting it just keels over.
( Tart Monkey, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:15, archived)

Yup, thats right
Another wise monkey
( Bud Muhnquai [ :(: ], Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:16, archived)

doesn't work for me
either....I'd say its busticated
( Az The Spaz, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:19, archived)

you of all people should've
recognised my fuckup - internal home domain instead of the external one.....
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:19, archived)

Oh that's right....
Blame the artist. Typical programmer tactics that.

8P
( Tart Monkey, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:20, archived)

Christicle!
How did this state of affairs come about?
( bigdave, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 21:14, archived)

can I just say
I love the 'control panel' interface - it's great!
( brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:09, archived)

Ta, Mr. Stuff!
It was originally supposed to be the preferences box from the Apple LISA, but while the LISA might've been a groundbreaking machine (first commercial Micro with a mouse and GUI)it's preferences box does not a good museum interface make :)
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:16, archived)

now
given that i'm a young'un, why do you need line numbers for that kind of programming? and why are they always "10", "20", "30",... why not "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11..."
( bananaman, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:42, archived)

If you're not joking...
.. it's to fit in the lines of code that you missed, amongst other things. Automatic renumbering was never very intelligent.
( Lord_Floaty Hooting gladly., Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:45, archived)

As well as not really
existing until the mid 80s in most home versions of BASIC. The cheaper machines didn't have the renumber feature found in the likes of Apple BASIC and CBM BASIC.
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:49, archived)

And there was
ALWAYS something you missed, but you always needed 15 lines so it had to be done as a GOSUB - RETURN function....
( K3rry, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:54, archived)

Hah! I recognise that beast.
Oh boy. That brings back memories. That's the first machine I ever used - I was 12 when we got one donated to our school.

We have a space invaders program for it that we tried to view the code for, all you got back from the list command was a mysterious 'sys 1039'. Never worked that out. Anyone explain?
( Not Pineapple anymore, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:01, archived)

Yup, it
was a machine code program residing at memory location 1039 decimal (40F hex). The sys call runs the program.
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:05, archived)

The machine...
.. code (executable code) would be at that location in memory. SYS xxxx executes starting at the instruction at location xxxx in memory (it was often paged so the entry point was 1024, or 2048 etc...).
( Lord_Floaty Hooting gladly., Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:06, archived)

Cool...
.. I still have a 4016 PET I rescued from a skip. Keyboard is a bit iffy but it still works :-)
( Lord_Floaty Hooting gladly., Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:38, archived)

It just needs a good clean,
s'all. If it's very iffy it could actually be bad RAM causing the problem.
( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 19:50, archived)

Ta, will...
.. get round to it some time I guess....
( Lord_Floaty Hooting gladly., Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:07, archived)

you still after a turbo cartridge for coleco
cos I might have one (I might have a roller controller too [with victory, slither & omega race)
( custard, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:14, archived)

Serpently
am, best take it to email:

( witchy :: Best before:, Tue 17 Dec 2002, 20:28, archived)