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by gasman
Tue Jan 01, 2019 8:42 pm
Forum: Brand new software!
Topic: New game: Nohzdyve
Replies: 32
Views: 7080

Re: New game: Nohzdyve

R-Tape wrote: Tue Jan 01, 2019 5:45 pm Was the Easter Egg QR code your handiwork too?
Yep!
by gasman
Tue Jan 01, 2019 1:08 am
Forum: Brand new software!
Topic: New game: Nohzdyve
Replies: 32
Views: 7080

Re: New game: Nohzdyve

I wonder if he was aware of the whole Netflix/Bandersnatch thing when it started 18 months ago when he was asked to create this game? Ello :-) Nope, my involvement was much shorter than that... I was brought in at the end of August, when (as I gather) all the actual filming was over. The version se...
by gasman
Sat Dec 30, 2017 5:25 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Spectrum namedrops...
Replies: 31
Views: 7421

Re: Spectrum namedrops...

Some time around 2005 I took part in a hackathon in London where you had to build and present a tech project over the course of a weekend. I ended up teaming up with a couple of folks who were building a website called UNdemocracy, which scraped the PDF-ridden UN website and presented the informatio...
by gasman
Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:56 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Toni Baker
Replies: 15
Views: 6139

Re: Toni Baker

I have an acquaintance who apparently knew Toni Baker in the 80s, and I can offer the following nuggets of information (with the disclaimer that I have no evidence to back any of this up, so take them how you will)... * Yes, Toni is a woman, and contrary to certain rumours, not transgender. * Toni B...
by gasman
Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:58 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Platform quiz
Replies: 21
Views: 4937

Re: Platform quiz

And I do believe 4 is Up On The Battlements.
by gasman
Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:50 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Platform quiz
Replies: 21
Views: 4937

Re: Platform quiz

5 = At The Foot Of The Megatree?
by gasman
Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:31 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: ZX Spectrum Next
Replies: 53
Views: 14332

Re: ZX Spectrum Next

Backed it, but sold my pledge on when they started to go a bit doolally over new features like multiple screen layers and new Z80 instructions. It got to the point where the frustration of "oh god, what have they added NOW" outweighed any excitement I had - there was no nostalgic appeal (g...