Spectrum Computing

I went for a cheap, low-strength mass-market IPA, because that somehow felt appropriate.

Drink’s nice enough but the pub’s a bit soulless.

Off to the Baron. What do we think Clive would’ve drunk? A best British bitter?

Internet tells me it was 6 King’s Parade. I was unknowingly sat right opposite!

TMD2003 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:44 pm At least gawp at what used to be Sinclair Research's front door opposite King's College.

Heh. As it happens I’m sat right outside King’s at this very moment, just resting with a coffee! I’ll see if I can find where you mean…

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Oh, and FWIW, www.amstrad.com *does* resolve to the Sky homepage. So, yeah, someone's been paying the renewal fees for *that* variant!

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

...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...

stupidget wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:55 amHeartland?

I'll be annoyed if it is Heartland because I thought that immediately this was posted. Then I took a quick look at the map and thought: "Nah.". But yeah, I still kinda think Heartland.

Never seen or played it but I’m gonna guess Shakin’ Stevens.

Morkin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:25 pmOoh - Batty?

Sure is!

Yes he does. Lol, yes, I went for a quick Google and found numerous links that are very likely to be Mr Fry. Likes a bit of gardening these days, too. :) But anyway... I sure didn't intend or wish to embarrass anyone for something they did approaching 40 years ago, or even if they still do it now: ...

Loving the self-important letters after names in the cassette, too. Do people still do this?! I did it for a few months after graduating, mid-1990s. Now, the memory of having done so makes me cringe!

5MinuteRetro, BSc.

Hurray. Next!

Stefan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:52 pm Have another tree:

Hyper Sports?

Dunno about frame rate locking, that's good in action games but when you're already running at pretty low frame rates it might not be entirely desirable. Not sure I agree. Consider Manic Miner: perhaps it could've run faster on some screens, or slower on others. Who knows? But would that have been ...

I’ve always respected the technological achievement that Knight Lore represented but damn if it wasn’t slow when there was a lot going on in a room. So, I wonder… using modern techniques / new understandings, could Knight Lore be rewritten to run much faster on original hardware. Sure, I know there ...

Thiis is fabulous. I wonder why we've never seen games like this (that I know of, at least)? But I agree with a previous comment here, that it has Sonic speed but with Mario mechanics... it's just a bit too tricky.

bluespikey wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:40 pm Cliff hanger?

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