Introduce yourself!

[MonkZy]

I sure can. First I will polish it some more. I just made a SCREEN$ load page for it. The BASIC is most likely not a good example for folk learning to write nice neat programs, but it works

[R-Tape]

I sure can. First I will polish it some more. I just made a SCREEN$ load page for it. The BASIC is most likely not a good example for folk learning to write nice neat programs, but it works

Cool, as long as it returns a glycol dose that is not an explosion hazard and a non lethal dose of nicotine* only the programmer will care what's going on under the hood.

*if it does either of these you want the crap games competition

[Seven.FFF]

Welcome! You won't need the eJuice once the pure Z80 starts coursing through your veins again

[Shaun_B]

My name is Shaun and I'm an alcohol.... sorry I lost myself there for a moment.

I'm a former writer for Micro Mart magazine (and some other publications). Today I make web applications and websites, and other computer software, mostly in PHP but also other languages and also on old Z80-based computers when I have the time.

Thanks to support from Paul Andrews and Retro Games Ltd, I'm hosting a Crap Games Competition for this year. You may find out more here and here. We already have our first entry from Kweepa, who's made an unofficial Winter Olympics tie-in (this also meant that I had to rush the site out so the site doesn't yet look quite as Speccy RGB-ish as I want to yet. This will be fixed).

Also, I've been informed that there is another Crap Games Competition that was announced on W*S. So you have a choice of which one to enter (or both, I don't mind). The W*S competition claims to be a Comp.Sys.Sinclair competition and yet it has not been mentioned on the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup, so I consider it to be the W*S competition.

Regards,

Shaun.

[Rorthron]

Hi, Shaun. Welcome to the forums. It's good to see another familiar name here.

Do you want to set up a new thread about the Crap Games Competition?

[R-Tape]

Sorry everyone, I forgot to add c***.s**.s****** the censored list.

(Hi Shaun )

[Ralf]

Oh my, two competing crap competitions, that's really crap

Anyway, welcome to the forums, Shaun!

[PeterJ]

Hi [mention]Shaun_B[/mention] Its nice to see you here. I still have great memories of your weekly pages in MicroMart.

[Shaun_B]

Sorry everyone, I forgot to add c***.s**.s****** the censored list.

(Hi Shaun )

Don't be sending me any type-ins to get your revenge...

[Einar Saukas]

My name is Shaun

Welcome!

I'm hosting a Crap Games Competition for this year. [...] Also, I've been informed that there is another Crap Games Competition that was announced on W*S. So you have a choice of which one to enter (or both, I don't mind). The W*S competition claims to be a Comp.Sys.Sinclair competition and yet it has not been mentioned on the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup, so I consider it to be the W*S competition.

Have you considered contacting the other organizer to propose a joint effort? A single competition with 2 organizers and duplicated reviews sounds better than 2 separate competitions with the same name.

From my experience, people from the Spectrum community are very receptive to cooperation, with extremely rare exceptions.

[Shaun_B]

Hi Einar,

Thanks for the hints. Unfortunately, the competition was announced on the W*S forums and I was only informed about this (as far as I know, it might not be happening). I am not going to join the W*S forums, nor do I want to recoup my old account there so I won't know who it is to contact. But they may of course contact me. I'm easy enough to find - they could even visit the Comp.Sys.Sinclair newsgroup to contact me through that forum - especially as they're supposed to be hosting a competition under the Comp.Sys.Sinclair name.

Regards,

Shaun.

[R-Tape]

Have you considered contacting the other organizer to propose a joint effort? A single competition with 2 organizers and duplicated reviews sounds better than 2 separate competitions with the same name.

That would get my vote, and Bohumil's too I reckon. Could be a replica of 2016 when Simon Ferre and Gabam co-hosted. I'm a bit nervous of this turning into a SC/WoS thing.

[Shaun_B]

Have you considered contacting the other organizer to propose a joint effort? A single competition with 2 organizers and duplicated reviews sounds better than 2 separate competitions with the same name.

That would get my vote, and Bohumil's too I reckon. Could be a replica of 2016 when Simon Ferre and Gabam co-hosted. I'm a bit nervous of this turning into a SC/WoS thing.

Hi R-Tape,

That won't happen because I make all of the announcements through the Comp.Sys.Sinclair newsgroup first, and then via my Twitter account, and elsewhere on social media. This is one of the last places that I post. And I include places where ZX81 fans congregate as well.

Regards,

Shaun.

[R-Tape]

Sorry we posted at the same time, I sent you a PM.

[Einar Saukas]

Hi Einar,

Thanks for the hints. Unfortunately, the competition was announced on the W*S forums and I was only informed about this (as far as I know, it might not be happening). I am not going to join the W*S forums, nor do I want to recoup my old account there so I won't know who it is to contact. But they may of course contact me. I'm easy enough to find - they could even visit the Comp.Sys.Sinclair newsgroup to contact me through that forum - especially as they're supposed to be hosting a competition under the Comp.Sys.Sinclair name.

Regards,

Shaun.

Thanks for considering it! I just posted at WoS, now let's hope everything works out for the best!

[GreenCard]

My name is GreenCard. I haven't really contributed anything useful to the "scene", unlike so many here, I just like to talk about Spectrumy stuff.

Only just discovered this site today. Looks very nice indeed! Really nice to see so many familiar faces/usernames/avatars here.

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Hi Greencard, good to see you here!

[GreenCard]

Hi Greencard, good to see you here!

Igualmente Juan!

[Ralf]

Hi Greencard, nice to see another familiar nickname Feel yourself at home.

[GreenCard]

Hi Greencard, nice to see another familiar nickname Feel yourself at home.

Thanks Ralf. Nice to see you here too.

[ANDREWRYALS]

Thought I joint the forum for jiggery pokery!

[Wall_Axe]

Hi!

[PeterJ]

Welcome [mention]ANDREWRYALS[/mention]

[ANDREWRYALS]

Thanks, should be fun hanging around. You guys seem to find more and more new software.

[Ralf]

Hi Andrew Ryals, good to see you here.