One of my friends in primary school always had a story
Usually about how he designed levels for computer games, he 'found' the poke to make the colour Orange on the Spectrum, which no-one, even at Sinclair, knew about. He always had every game even before it even came out and after a while we got a bit tired of hearing about it. So, some of my other friends laid traps for him- 'Have you got that new game, Sperm Jet?' they'd ask. 'Oh yes, already got it, already finished it' he insisted. 'What about Randy Bastards?' 'Yeah yeah, had that weeks ago in fact I reviewed it for Zzap! magazine'. 'Did you see the secret bit where the players all get pissed on cider?' 'AH! I actually found that bit first'.

The one time I went round to his after school for tea, he insisted on showing me all of his Spectrum games (the usual C-90 full of rip-offs) and firstly they were all bog standard games that everyone had i.e. Psst!, Commando, Jet Set Willy and none of these miraculous new unreleased games but also he'd just play and play and tell you what he was doing and NEVER LET ME HAVE MORE THAN ONE GO ON THE SODDING THING.

Apart from that he was perfectly OK.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 13 Jan 2011, 21:10, 3 replies)

fucking hell!
I knew him too.

Why is it we all went to school with a twat like that?
( Fire & Forget it's the only way to be sure, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 21:19, closed)

Orange
I saw something that purported to be orange on the Spectrum, but was just flashing between red and yellow as fast as it could manage. Not orange.
(elbee909, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 23:39, closed)

the BBC had '16 colours'
red yellow green blue magenta cyan white black.

The others were flashing black/white as well as flashing white/black.
red/cyan and cyan/red
magenta/green and green/magenta
yellow/blue and blue/yellow.

Cheating.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 13 Jan 2011, 23:50, closed)