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[challenge entry] End of the world - Spectrum style

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(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:42, archived)
# thats
just classic....

um..how did you do that as i`m curious....
(I helped save b3ta! Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:44, archived)
# Scarily..
totally by hand!

took me about 3 hours.

It'd probably have been faster to setup a spectrum emulator and some kind of screngrabber, but that would've been cheating :oD
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:45, archived)
# well
it was certainly 3 hours well spent...looks very realistic...thought ya might of used a speccy screen generator or something...
(I helped save b3ta! Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:46, archived)
# My java applet does the same thing, but with any image...
http://www.geocities.com/magneticmonkey/
(Magnetic Monkey, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:42, archived)
# that gif is
too big for even the 128K spectrum to handle.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:44, archived)
# it
comes to something when we can create a pic that takes up more memory than a entire speccy game..yet those games kept me entertained for hours....some still do...how far we have come.......
(I helped save b3ta! Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:50, archived)
# It's also amusing to think
that to make a real spectrum do the same would only take a couple of kilobytes of data.

On a similar topic, did anyone else ever try plugging in a microphone into their spectrum and making screeching noises at it in the hope it might actually load something from the sound? (best I could manage was the bdeeeeeeee noise to make the border roll)
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:55, archived)
# A
well deserved front pager....
(I helped save b3ta! Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:07, archived)
# woo
only my 2nd :)
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:13, archived)
# yes
also with my 128K + 2 i could play the latest audio tapes from Our Price and have my very own Disco lights
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:10, archived)
# Fantastic!
Woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Kaiser, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:44, archived)
# Is it just me or did that take forever?
Good though.
(I helped save b3ta! Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:45, archived)
# .
did you ever know a spectrum to be quick?
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:46, archived)
# how do
glad you liked the pic :)
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:48, archived)
# It was ace.
Have a big kiss from me.
(I helped save b3ta! Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:50, archived)
# always
a pleasure :)
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:55, archived)
# erm
am I missing something here?
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:58, archived)
# hhhmmmmmm, that's how rumours start
workboresme and rogan, sitting in a tree K I S S I N G.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:01, archived)
# shouldn't that be
P O T A T O (E) S H O P P I N G

doesn't quite have the same ring to it though (but yay to wireless cards for making it possible!)
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:06, archived)
# No, that shoud be:
Sue and Koit, sitting in a tree K I S S I N G

:)
(I helped save b3ta! Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:09, archived)
# aaaaaaaahhhhhhh
damn - I already started a rumour that you were at it with Fnord.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:21, archived)
# we were a tit
but something came over us and we decided it was best not to be.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:25, archived)
# You, you you
BASTARD.
And I thought you loved me....you said you did, you said you'd have me forever

oh.....hang on
(I helped save b3ta! Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:30, archived)
# relax!
there's plenty of me to go round ;)
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:27, archived)
# oh!!
she looks sooo beautiful! she even has the enigmatic smile!
(I helped save b3ta! freshlegs, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:29, archived)
# well
that's what made me think of it :)
right I'm off to play some poker, see you all later!
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:31, archived)
# good work
that pic of us all looking down at the camera that alfie took at the Dragon Bar really captured the moment perfectly. Maybe that could be turned into an something else.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:44, archived)
# someone
apparently thought i was crab_bloke in that picture!
(I helped save b3ta! freshlegs, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:47, archived)
# to be honest I confused you with bongo bongo a bit first
That is bongo bongo isn't it? doing a 'Scream'.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 21:01, archived)
# that's great
everyone thinks i'm a bloke!
(I helped save b3ta! freshlegs, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 21:03, archived)
# I've just realised that my upside down eyes
look exactly like David Blaine's right side up eyes
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 21:08, archived)
# Hahahah
that's great!
(I helped save b3ta! Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:32, archived)
# Hahahaaaa
that's why she smiles like that - too much tequila!

psssst - I won't tell Gibbon if you won't
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:33, archived)
# that is
soupherb! very woo, very yay, very houpla!
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:39, archived)
# A painting of 'Spacefish Smells Of Wee'
It's just so brilliantly surreal.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 20:41, archived)
# excellent!!!
that made me laff!

edit: have you just made it quicker?
(I helped save b3ta! monkeymanblue mathematically safe, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:47, archived)
# woo
and yay! that is superb
(I helped save b3ta! zerolicious, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 19:51, archived)
# woonderful
..although it brought back traumatic childhood memories of sitting in great suspense wondering if that prized fifth generation tape copy of the latest game was going to reach the end without an error. Argh.
(I helped save b3ta! malevole, Sat 12 Oct 2002, 21:00, archived)