This weeks image challenge is anything and everything to do with the beloved Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Celebrate Sir Clive's computer revolution, rejoice at the games of Ultimate and mock the pitiful colours and tape loading errors. Suggested by Monkeon ages ago
(God- smiting mortals since 4004 BC,
Thu 28 Aug 2014, 8:51,
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...another image challenge for the 40 + (Still, at least it's not Smash Hits again)
so we should be ok. I had an Amstrad 464 with the green screen. still do. many the evening playing roland in the caves or roland on the ropes, harrier attack, even had a version of back to the future part 3, but that too at least an hour to load up... good times.
(Ya WhatSkiddlyboop,
Thu 28 Aug 2014, 9:40,
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Then I must have just missed it...
I'm just upset that Office Stationery didn't win. (And yes HT, I know I can make pictures anyway)
(mofahaโ( ห_ห)โ ส (ฬโกโ)ส,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 15:45,
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damn my hearing
(MonkeyFiendis drowning in the hoi-sin of your lies,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 13:30,
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later on I'll be doing the Spice bucket challenge
And after smoking a bucket of spice, I will fly to the centre of the universe, where I will converse with Buddha and see/ feel/ hear/ touch/ taste every colour that ever was and ever will be, as I reconnected with the one true consciousness that is everyone one of us, the universe and ultimate love I nominate humanity to come join me
(lustreboymaking himself laugh since 1973 (tm),
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 13:47,
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visual representation
(MonkeyFiendis drowning in the hoi-sin of your lies,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 13:58,
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(Jabberwocmisses D.R. and Quinch,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 20:20,
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Don't worry,
once it's featured on an episode of Family Guy, it'll stop instantly.
(The Silent Channelis getting his recommended 5-a-day,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 17:29,
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=)
That show still on?
(macroscian(1 like),
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 17:35,
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very good
(drimblehe'd been white, he'd been black,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 18:32,
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IMAGE CHALLENGE VOTE
The secret adventures of office equipment - lots of opportunity for stop frame animation (Lorem ips...) ZX Spectrum - old scond place option, will it win this time? (monkeon) Hipster WW2 propaganda - Shoreditch design the way to war (stonersmurf) Museums - Make them more exciting (dolphinwhisperer)
reply with your answer challenge starts tomorrow
(God- smiting mortals since 4004 BC,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 7:47,
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Option 1 pls
it will give me something productive to do at work
(AgentMuuhentai coordination,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 8:05,
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I recently discovered that we still have a fax.
This isn't a vote ... but if anybody wants me to fax them a photocopy of my balls just lead leave your number below.
(Dr. Shambolicje suis charlie,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 8:13,
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do you have to feed them in to the machine?
or does it just scan them with radiation?
(HappyToastGroat froth,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 8:17,
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I think they'll fit down the slot if I put them through the laminator first
(Dr. Shambolicje suis charlie,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 8:20,
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very wise, should protect them from internet viruses and stuff
(HappyToastGroat froth,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 8:22,
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Fax: 020 7219 0918
(MinutemanJeremiah 51:20,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 23:29,
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Anyone know where I can buy a fax?
(mofahaโ( ห_ห)โ ส (ฬโกโ)ส,
Thu 28 Aug 2014, 4:30,
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Can't we have "grow virtual swastikas" compo?
(mr horribleup yours, dickface,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 8:13,
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I've said before, you don't need to wait for a competition to post photos of your blooms
(Ya WhatSkiddlyboop,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 10:00,
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One, 1, won.
(Jabberwocmisses D.R. and Quinch,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 10:15,
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Juan
(mofahaโ( ห_ห)โ ส (ฬโกโ)ส,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 18:22,
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Option 1 please.
(Marxist PigBetter Red Than Smeg,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 10:19,
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The secret adventures of office equipment please
also wtf are hipsters?
(hekim66 ษสฦ๐ สษnโฒ uooW,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 10:47,
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a style of underpant
(HappyToastGroat froth,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 10:52,
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Thanks for the 'brief' explanation, underwear would make a good challenge achly
underwear would make a good challenge achly
(hekim66 ษสฦ๐ สษnโฒ uooW,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 11:12,
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Spectrum
Only because I ran a company that produced crap games that was bundled with it.
(Captn Hood-Butteris not dead yet.,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 11:45,
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Really, which one?
(Asks author of Spectrum Game-of-the-Year 2011).
(joefishIt's hard for thee to kick against the pricks,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 14:41,
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Target Software.
We also sold code for magazines that were 2 or 3 pages long that produced a couple of blocks on the screen that zoomed around and did nothing much at all really. Easy dosh. Those were the days. Sinclair were just down the road from where I lived too so that was rather handy.
(Captn Hood-Butteris not dead yet.,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 16:46,
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Interesting. Never actually heard of it though!
Can't find much of a record at World-of-Spectrum either, apart from a few small ads. You've been systematically erased from history!
(joefishIt's hard for thee to kick against the pricks,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 17:03,
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You absolute rotter. I spend days typing your bloody programs into my Speccy only to find they didn't work.
Bug finding was much more fun than the resultant game. Sorry. I imagined Gears of War and got Wilf. Well, 3D Monster Maze.
(Jabberwocmisses D.R. and Quinch,
Thu 28 Aug 2014, 17:24,
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I thought the bundled games were Space Invaders and Pacman clones from Bug Byte.
(Dr. Shambolicje suis charlie,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 15:16,
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Depends which bundle we're talking about.
You never know, he could have written Thro'-The-Wall, Make-a-Chip or even that all-time classic, Survival.
(joefishIt's hard for thee to kick against the pricks,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 15:41,
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oh shit ... I'd totally forgotten the awesomeness* of the software starter cassette
* not awesome
(Dr. Shambolicje suis charlie,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 15:47,
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That's because your biorythms are out of step.
There's a Speccy BASIC prog that can fix that...
(joefishIt's hard for thee to kick against the pricks,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 17:05,
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I've organised the last thirty years of my life with random sine waves ... much more reliable than horoscopes.
(Dr. Shambolicje suis charlie,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 17:22,
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I'll vote ZX, whatever that entails!
(macroscian(1 like),
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 12:11,
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manic miner falling perpetually into Eugene's Lair while 8 bit Status Quo look on.
Probably.
(Dr. Shambolicje suis charlie,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 13:17,
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(the RAND corporationa.k.a. Kevin Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,
Tue 26 Aug 2014, 22:29,
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hello
(Captn Hood-Butteris not dead yet.,
Tue 26 Aug 2014, 15:47,
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He started it.
And the voice off that Flash advert is now more fucking annoying than if they'd hired June Sarpong to replace the GoCompare tenor. 100% Fact.
(joefishIt's hard for thee to kick against the pricks,
Tue 26 Aug 2014, 16:12,
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Oh yes. I well hate both of those.
And those bloody phone game ads from King dot con.
(Captn Hood-Butteris not dead yet.,
Tue 26 Aug 2014, 16:39,
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:D My 'favourite' annoying ad at the minute is Pronamel
The one where the fake dentist has no fucking eyebrows and drawn them on with a magic marker instead, I can't stop staring at them :S Her name is Vinnie Thandi apparently https://twitter.com/1vinnie1
(hekim66 ษสฦ๐ สษnโฒ uooW,
Tue 26 Aug 2014, 16:43,
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I feel bad now apparently she slipped and fell on her
NO! NO!
(hekim66 ษสฦ๐ สษnโฒ uooW,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 11:24,
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Is that the really badly dubbed one?
Never mind, all toothpaste ads are either badly dubbed or jarringly edited. Seeing someone cut off mid-sentence is one thing on the news, but in a scripted advert?!
(jonbobloves you,
Tue 26 Aug 2014, 22:47,
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Normally the result of a cheapskate client and a shit agency
(hekim66 ษสฦ๐ สษnโฒ uooW,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 11:02,
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looks a bit Kim Kardashianish
ick
(PedroHinCome along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Tue 26 Aug 2014, 22:56,
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wtf is a Kim Kardashianish?
sounds itchy
(hekim66 ษสฦ๐ สษnโฒ uooW,
Wed 27 Aug 2014, 10:59,
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