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( , Thu 9 Apr 2009, 22:36, archived)

I remember loading that from tapes onto an Acorn Electron. Given how poor we were, it must have been stolen.
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Thu 9 Apr 2009, 22:41,
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Plus he'd be sacked in this country...
"The lazy sod's thrown it on the bloody lawn - I'm calling Mrs Patel!"
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Thu 9 Apr 2009, 22:42,
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"The lazy sod's thrown it on the bloody lawn - I'm calling Mrs Patel!"

I never could get the paper to go any where remotely where I wanted it.
Sigh... I wonder how many other peeps here have an urge to fire up an emulator after this compo
Emulation: Why spend a fiver on a c64, when you can spend a 400 on a pc and pretend!
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Thu 9 Apr 2009, 22:45,
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Sigh... I wonder how many other peeps here have an urge to fire up an emulator after this compo
Emulation: Why spend a fiver on a c64, when you can spend a 400 on a pc and pretend!

it's a combination of addictive and keyboard-smashingly annoying. i need to grab an emulator that can save game state for me
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Thu 9 Apr 2009, 22:48,
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...and she used to get calls about people's copies of The Sun & The Star whose page 3 had clearly been "read" due to rain spots
:D
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Thu 9 Apr 2009, 22:48,
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:D

could never get anywhere
and then I'd get killed by a car/dog/ghost/fire
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Thu 9 Apr 2009, 22:53,
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and then I'd get killed by a car/dog/ghost/fire

Hit by a bastard remote contol car, and you get fired! Also, must have been a slow news day for the little lad losing his paper round to get into the papers!
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Thu 9 Apr 2009, 22:54,
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