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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7839
- Views: 237112
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7839
- Views: 237112
Re: Guess the screen$
Blue Thunder?
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:15 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7839
- Views: 237112
Re: Guess the screen$
Could you send us all a Lenslok to view this image?
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:56 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: New forum game -- Spectrum graphics in the real world?
- Replies: 145
- Views: 5495
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Was Hannah Smith real?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3021
Re: Was Hannah Smith real?
Is this really still going? She is real. That’s just what a conspirator would say! (But joking aside, I’m a rational person. I don’t actually care much if at all about whether or not Hannah Smith was real. The weight of evidence sure points to the likelihood that she was real. But I don’t think any...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: An AI ZX Spectrum...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 197
Re: An AI ZX Spectrum...
Ikr. It’s a mystery to me why they’re able to generate some convincing images of almost anything imaginable, but not something that actually exists.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: An AI ZX Spectrum...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 197
An AI ZX Spectrum...
I was just a bit bored, so I asked Copilot to "generate a mosaic-style photo of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer made of photos of other retro computers from the era". The result, to my eye at least, is rather attractive -- but it looks nothing like a real ZX Spectrum. But man, how great ...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Sales/Commercial
- Topic: Bricks and Mortar shops...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 228
Re: Bricks and Mortar shops...
I stumbled on this a while back. No idea who runs it or how up to date it is but you can use the Filters tab on the right to locate physical shops. It has a couple of shops in my local area that I know to be relatively recent and still trading, so I'd hope it's pretty accurate: https://retro.directo...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Impossible games...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 919
Impossible games...
So I stumbled upon this video tonight, of some chap managing to complete Dynamite Dan (DD) without cheating (well, other than using an initial save state, so he knew the layout of the otherwise-randomised items). I'm not sure who he is... he might even be a member here. Anyway, it's an incredible ef...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 364
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 364
Re: Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
Off to the Baron. What do we think Clive would’ve drunk? A best British bitter?
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 364
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 364
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:35 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 364
Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
So I have a few hours to kill in Cambridge tomorrow, before going to see a show. I'm probably going to stop by the Centre for Computing History for perhaps the third or fourth time, because why not? And I'm going to have a pint and a polite brawl in the Baron of Beef, because I've not done that befo...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Amstrad.co.uk...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 647
Re: Amstrad.co.uk...
The only thing I can think of is that as part of the Vanilla Circus SEO link juice strategy and there are pages hidden away with SEO text linking back to their clients sites and Google just thinks that Amstrad.co.uk is an official Government website and therefore boosts the ranking of the site and ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Amstrad.co.uk...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 647
Re: Amstrad.co.uk...
Renewing your old domain out of pure sadness is not squatting. Well, that's my take -- there's no malicious intent behind me sitting on these old domains, and I'm definitely a bit sad. ;) Also, in the very unlikely event someone really wanted one of my dormant domains, I'd probably consider selling...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Amstrad.co.uk...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 647
Re: Amstrad.co.uk...
The more layers of bureaucratic bullsh*t, the easier to ACCIDENTALLY NOT DO IT. Do you remember when Microsoft lost microsoft.com? Someone bought it and transferred it to them for a laugh. (because we know the alternative would be painful legal struggles) Yeah, I guess. I'm just surprised that amst...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Amstrad.co.uk...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 647
Re: Amstrad.co.uk...
Oh, and FWIW, www.amstrad.com *does* resolve to the Sky homepage. So, yeah, someone's been paying the renewal fees for *that* variant!
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:46 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Amstrad.co.uk...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 647
Re: Amstrad.co.uk...
it's known as not-giving-a-fuck-ism The expensive part is buying the TLS certificate. Well, yeah. As hinted earlier, I'm not sure this domain was every directly controlled by 'Amtrad', the company, so much as Cliff Lawson, an erstwhile Amtrad employee who seemingly ran it as a hobby/passion project...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Amstrad.co.uk...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 647
Re: Amstrad.co.uk...
It's also interesting to me *how* a domain like amstrad.co.uk becomes the victim of cybersquatting in the first place. Sure, the brand has been dormant for a very long while but it's always been *owned* by someone -- and I believe most recently by Sky/Murdoch. You'd think an organisation like that w...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Amstrad.co.uk...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 647
Re: Amstrad.co.uk...
Very scummy "SEO" spam tactics. Sure, but what’s the point with this example? There’s no advertising that I can see, and no obvious scam vector (other than it being neither Gov.uk or Amstrad… all the links seem to lead to legit Gov.uk pages). It just seems of no benefit to whoever’s done ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Amstrad.co.uk...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 647
Re: Amstrad.co.uk...
I read today that Sir Alan has purchased the name from Sky. Yeah, I was aware of that. My visiting amstrad.co.uk was just a random, unrelated thought. But it seems to be a potted version of Gov.uk. All the links (well, the ones I clicked) seem to end up at the legit Gov.uk website, so I'm really no...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Amstrad.co.uk...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 647
Amstrad.co.uk...
...so this is a weird bit of cybersquatting: https://www.amstrad.co.uk/ I'm kinda surprised Lord Sugar (or his sons) aren't all over it. (Last time I visited this URL, perhaps a decade ago, I think it was some kind of semi-official tribute site, run by an ex-Amstrad chap, possibly by the name of Cli...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7839
- Views: 237112
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7839
- Views: 237112
Re: Guess the screen$
Never seen or played it but I’m gonna guess Shakin’ Stevens.