R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 2:12 pm
I quite like it as a newly invented word though: "to welch" is slang for renaging on a promise, so it follows that a "Welchman" is an untrustworthy scoundrel. If we all start using it, the word will appear in the OED next year!
R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 2:41 pm
Can our resident lexicographer @Rorthron comment on the provenance of the verb "to Welch"?
Oh, it's definitely a common term... I remember hearing it loads as a kid... but has just more recently been considered offensive... especially to those people looking to be offended.
The OED says: "Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < Welsh adj., on account of alleged dishonesty of Welsh people (see note). Earlier currency is probably implied by welsher n.1, welshing n., and welshing adj."
*as an aside, if any Brits have library cards then you might find your local library has subscribed to the OED which allows you to access the dictionary online... It is really interesting looking up the etymology and earliest recorded uses of words!
You can now play all of the entries in your browser, via the Qaop/JS emulator! Just click the "play online" link on an entry's review page to try it without downloading.
A new entry, this time from [mention]8BitAG[/mention], called Mirror Mirror! I think he might have entered the wrong competition, as this game certainly isn't crap!
"I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message. Make the Zee-X Spectrum Great Again!"
Anyone who can have a tenth as much fun playing this game as I did writing and programming it (even the really frustrating bits that didn't work first, second, third, fourth or fifth time round), you're doing well. You have been warned about the crap bits already!
Now... it looks like I may have eight months to plan how I'm going to host CSSCGC21, at this rate. I have ideas...
PROSM wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 12:20 pm
Yes, we've got another entry, and this time it's a ZX80 program! Click to see @TMD2003's new game, Complex Maths... WITH DRAGONS!
Ha, edutainment!!! Very underrated genre. I have played Chemistry for freedom fighters, Math for banksters, Math for ministers and Fast Food Zoology recently. Still looking for MIA title Empathie für Nationalsozialisten.
Download this game for the backstory, if nothing else. I was going to say it took longer to write than the game itself, but that would be an utter lie.
What took the longest was bolting all three programs together into the 4K RAM Pack Super Deluxe Edition and making it work properly! (For various parameters of "properly", since this is a ZX80 we're talking about.)
PROSM wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 12:20 pm
Yes, we've got another entry, and this time it's a ZX80 program! Click to see @TMD2003's new game, Complex Maths... WITH DRAGONS!
Ha, edutainment!!! Very underrated genre. I have played Chemistry for freedom fighters, Math for banksters, Math for ministers and Fast Food Zoology recently. Still looking for MIA title Empathie für Nationalsozialisten.
I don't want to think of what kind of edutainment you're getting from those; all those titles sound quite sinister to me.
catmeows wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 12:43 pm
Ha, edutainment!!! Very underrated genre. I have played Chemistry for freedom fighters, Math for banksters, Math for ministers and Fast Food Zoology recently. Still looking for MIA title Empathie für Nationalsozialisten.
I don't want to think of what kind of edutainment you're getting from those; all those titles sound quite sinister to me.
Sorry, it was not funny, I have watched Sasha Cohen's Dictator yesterday and may mood tends to be little Aladeen today. Peace.
PROSM wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 8:10 pm
I don't want to think of what kind of edutainment you're getting from those; all those titles sound quite sinister to me.
Sorry, it was not funny, I have watched Sasha Cohen's Dictator yesterday and may mood tends to be little Aladeen today. Peace.
Ah right, now I understand. The joke's on me - I was trying to work out whether they were real games!
We've reviewed another entry, and this time it's from CSSCGC veteran, Paul Collins (AKA Equinox Tetrachloride), who sends us Playing A Casino Game With A Spinning Counter (or alternatively, PACGWASC).
My computer's hard disk failed this morning, and as a consequence, I have lost most of my files. I have been making backup copies of the CSSCGC data on a flash-drive, so nothing pertaining to the competition has been destroyed. However, I will have to re-install my software and also try to recover what I can of the rest of my stuff, so if you've sent me an email recently, please bear with me for the next few days, as I won't be able to answer it straight away.