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# Modern game. Olde format. 9 days to load.....
....and at the end of tape 8987: syntax error.

Some kids don't believe games used to come on tape.
Plankton.
Anyway; what should I draw next?
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:37, archived)
# the ZX81 and Binatone tape deck I used to load it with
and some sexy nuns.
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:37, archived)
# with Blu-tac for the 16K RAM pack
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:41, archived)
# I had a thermal printer too
that was so totally cool and shit.
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:42, archived)
# yep, me too, with the nastiest printer paper ever
I built mine from the kit @ £79.99
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:44, archived)
# You cannot forget the Kempston joystick and interface
(mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:58, archived)
# Kempston is such a wonderful sounding word.
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:59, archived)
# The Kempston was a great joystick!
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:59, archived)
# Was a winner with Daley Thompson's Decathlon
You could wiggle that joystick with no fear of breakage :D
(mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:10, archived)
# Good old Daley Thompson's Decathalon
I had another similar game called "Hypersports" as I recall. Top notch joystick-wiggling fun.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:45, archived)
# I think Hypersports was the Konami original
*checks* - no, Track and Field - everything copied those 2 many years ago :)
(mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:54, archived)
# I never got one.
Moved up to a VIC 20 instead, 4k and a proper keyboard.

we are showing our age.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:10, archived)
# Quickshot 2
with autofire
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:21, archived)
# I'm trying desperately hard to find out which joystick I had.
It looked a lot like the Quickshot II Turbo, but it had two red triangular buttons on the base. It did have the auto-fire like the turbo though.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:51, archived)
# don't think mine had the two buttons on the base
no it didn't

www.pressplaythenanykey.com/articulos/joysticks/quickshot_2.jpg

(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:58, archived)
# Found it, or one very simillar
www.retrogames.it/immagini%5Cfoto%5CPC%5C303joystick.jpg
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:04, archived)
# cheetah?
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:03, archived)
# Yes
I remember the cheetah's head logo on the base now. But I can't find one on google with triangular buttons, only round ones.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:04, archived)
# they made a whole bunch of models
was it this 'un?

edit: I should read the rest of the thread before replying :)
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:18, archived)
# I once took the autofire module out of a joystick and put it in a mouse
great for playing Star Wars on my Amiga :)
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:01, archived)
# And you fiddling for hours and hours with the correct volume and bass/trebble settings.
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:54, archived)
# hahaha
:D fantastic drawings as ever, real talent.... ps. simba is looking a bit scary these days
(I helped save b3ta! FIEND, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:40, archived)
# Is your "Y" derived from Alastair Reynolds?
In which case, any Chasm City-type thing will be ace!

Actually I think I've asked this before and it's nothing to do with it. It should be, though. Great books.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:40, archived)
# Draw a cheap wristwatch checking the oil on a Ford Cortina
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:42, archived)
# Esther Ranson gamming off a goat
while the goat paints a picture of a Giant Robot Hitler scaling the Eiffel Tower.
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:42, archived)
# PS Awesome pic, but I was always a speccy man.
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:11, archived)
# nothing beats
waiting for the title image to load in one line at a time. It was like watching an 8-bit rolf harris show.
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:38, archived)
# we had sooo much patience as 80s kids
quite unreal compared to today's "why the fuck didn't it load NOW when I clicked on it 0.05 seconds ago?" yoof
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:43, archived)
# Oh, so muuuch ^THIS!^
Nowadays I feel like my grandparents must've when I was a kid: "Well, in our day a hoop and a stick were the best toys you could hope for..."

/feeling-like-an-old-fogey blog
(I helped save b3ta! kitaro is all, like, "Nifty Biscuits" 'n that..., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:01, archived)
#

(Heaping Spoonful of sugar, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:53, archived)
# cannot unvisualise
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:24, archived)
# you should draw
oprah winfrey cross-stitching a cheap wristwatch
(I helped save b3ta! FIEND, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:44, archived)
#
10 YIFF YIFF

20 GRRR

30 GOTO 10
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:48, archived)
#
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............................V
(Mr._Pickles, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:04, archived)
# Did you sort out your camera problem?
Later on I thought it might be the focus assist laser, try turning it off if you can
(I helped save b3ta! CanonCaliber A big bore, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:41, archived)
# A sexy nurse
fighting a helicopter filled with Chinese people. Evil Chinese people.
(I helped save b3ta! Mr. Johnson, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:49, archived)
# SUPER
:D
edit : draw a hidden elephant! please
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:53, archived)
# ^denizens trying to hide an elephant
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:01, archived)
# ^THIS!^
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:03, archived)
# agreed
^THIS
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:07, archived)
# ZEBRA FILTH
:D
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:56, archived)
# haha
I remember a daft mate of mine trying to copy a tape head cleaner on a tape-to-tape.



as for a drawing, perhaps the under-stairs cupboard OF DOOM!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:58, archived)
# R : Type loading error.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:17, archived)
# I finished RType on the speccy
...not without loading a POKE tape first though.
(I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:23, archived)
# needs more 'pencil winding the tape back in"
Can you draw something to illustrate my new favourite tune?
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:24, archived)
# A massive eel
coiling up from the depths of a lake towards a small rowboat perched on the surface.
(Pavlov'sDog is all out of pavlova, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:33, archived)
# tape? that's a bit new isn't it?
I have a ZX81 program on vinyl!
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:35, archived)
# Not one of those flexi discs
that used to come with computer magazines, that you'd record the sound ?

*may have dremt these*
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:38, archived)
# yes it was a flexidisc
can't remember if I ever got it working, but I did try
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:40, archived)
# When I were a lad....
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:43, archived)
# I had my name written out in punched paper tape when I was a kid
thought it was really retro at the time
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:46, archived)
# ...all this were bit-fields
/coat
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:00, archived)
#
10 Print "WILLY!"
20 GOTO 10
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:41, archived)
# Pah! Tapes!
Typing out code from "Sinclair User" was where it was at
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:58, archived)
# only to discover you'd mistyped something
and you'd never get those six hours back
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:59, archived)
# "Syntax error line 38"
arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:05, archived)
# I used to download BBC Micro programs from Teletext
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:02, archived)
# The 80's equivalent of downloadable content!
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:05, archived)
# Sinclair User?
Piggle...Your Sinclair..or even "Your Spectrum"...now that was the business...
(I helped save b3ta! mooglemania Please disregard this sig., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:39, archived)
# This is a thing of beauty.
Top hummus as always, JJ! \o/
(I helped save b3ta! kitaro is all, like, "Nifty Biscuits" 'n that..., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:02, archived)