Habits you have because of anything Spectrum

[Morkin]

I have a walking commute to/from work, and to break up the boredom I sometimes lapse into the arm-swinging, loping gait of the dudes out of Tir Na Nog/Dun Darach. It's quite an economical way to walk if your legs are tired. I prefer to do it when nobody's watching though.

When I do gym-style exercises, I always do reps in batches of 16, 32, or 48 rather than mutiples of 10.

[Mpk]

Occasionally when leaving the supermarket with a carload of groceries, I'll text the wife that I'm 'En route with supplies'.

She has no idea why I'm using that phrase, and must never find out.

[AndyC]

Occasionally when leaving the supermarket with a carload of groceries, I'll text the wife that I'm 'En route with supplies'.

She has no idea why I'm using that phrase, and must never find out.

I feel like I should know why, but I'm struggling to remember where that comes from. Old age strikes again.

[Mpk]

Nice try, wife.

[TMD2003]

I have a walking commute to/from work, and to break up the boredom I sometimes lapse into the arm-swinging, loping gait of the dudes out of Tir Na Nog/Dun Darach. It's quite an economical way to walk if your legs are tired. I prefer to do it when nobody's watching though.

If you lean as far forward as Cú Chulainn does, you'll be face first on the tarmac. And then the Sídhe will do a merry dance all over you, possibly to the tune of "The Irish Washerwoman".*

Also, it was about two days ago when I found out that the number of motion sprites had been reduced between Tir na Nog and Dun Darach. I thought Gargoyle had just given Cú Chulainn some extra clothes.

*
10 BORDER 4: PAPER 4: INK 0: CLS: REM this line is optional but is best included for an appropriate background
20 PRINT "Ya ta tarr ta torr ta tei ti tei": REM this line is also optional but is best included for maximum Irishness
30 PLAY "1GFECCgCCECEGFEFDDaDDFDFAGFECCgCCECEGFEFEFDGFECC4C"

[worcestersource]

I have a walking commute to/from work, and to break up the boredom I sometimes lapse into the arm-swinging, loping gait of the dudes out of Tir Na Nog/Dun Darach. It's quite an economical way to walk if your legs are tired. I prefer to do it when nobody's watching though.

Oh this is fantastic. I already did NPC walking and random emotes in public to annoy my son. Now I have something else for him to complain about!

Spoiler

Actually, I just only do this when he’s been annoying. I’m old now and have no shame.

[zxbruno]

Sometimes I make beep noises when walking, like for example the main character in Knight Lore.

[zup]

I'm the strange habit of looking above my screen from time to time.

Why? Because I used to have a ZX Spectrum + (still working), a black and white CRT Thomson TV (I don't know what happened to it) and a big tabby orange cat (died about 20 years ago). Old times TVs usually had enough space to fit a cat above them, and more than enough heat to make keep that cat warm and happy. So when I was a child, I usually looked above the TV to see if my cat was there.

I miss that feeling of company (and that everything-is-ok feeling).

(BTW, my wife also had a cat, that lived when transitioned from a CRT PC monitor to a TFT one. No need to mention that the cat felt very disappointed after trying to stay above the new, hi-tech, monitor)

[Journeyman]

Occasionally when leaving the supermarket with a carload of groceries, I'll text the wife that I'm 'En route with supplies'.

She has no idea why I'm using that phrase, and must never find out.

Is that Colony? I hope she remembers to switch on the beacon before you get close.

[Mpk]

Is that Colony?

It's definitely not Colony.

[R-Tape]

Occasionally when leaving the supermarket with a carload of groceries, I'll text the wife that I'm 'En route with supplies'.

She has no idea why I'm using that phrase, and must never find out.

I haven't a clue about this one, presumably not Supertrolley.

[ParadigmShifter]

It's definitely not Colony.

Saying "it's definitely not" probably gave the game away there? I'm not watching a 44 minute video to see if it says that in the game though It does keep saying "Combat unit resupplied" though. Looks like the ship takes ages to go and get the supplies anyway.

Kept crashing for me. It was another game where the author wrote the code on paper and hand assembled the opcodes, maybe that's why it was so buggy lol.

Other people who did that had better results... Ant Attack and Skool Daze/Back to Skool. The guy who wrote the Skool games got his missus to type in the opcodes lol.

Dunno if you can do a spoiler on this site

Spoiler

Is it definitely Stonkers?

[R-Tape]

Aaaaahh

[uglifruit]

Working in education I internally label some of my students "Einstein", "Boy Wander" and "Angelface". And imagine Einstein prefixing things with "Please Sir I cannot tell a lie ..."

[Mpk]

Spoiler

Is it definitely Stonkers?

Yes, it definitely is.

For a moment there, I thought I was going to have to write a script. It's definitely not %1

[Mpk]

Working in education I internally label some of my students "Einstein", "Boy Wander" and "Angelface". And imagine Einstein prefixing things with "Please Sir I cannot tell a lie ..."

I'm not a teacher, but when I was in school I knew exactly who in my class those 3 were. We had a spot-on Mr Withit as well.

[TMD2003]

I would wager that at least half this forum could have been Einstein.

However, if saying "Please Sir, I cannot tell a lie" is a prerequisite, then I'd hope that number falls to zero...

[PeterJ]

Having spent the last couple of months typing in one listing a week from Games to Play on Your ZX Spectrum, I keep using CTRL + P at work when wanting double quotes, and wondering why the Windows print manager pops up.

More Games for Your ZX Spectrum next!

[TMD2003]

Having spent the last couple of months typing in one listing a week from Games to Play on Your ZX Spectrum, I keep using CTRL + P at work when wanting double quotes, and wondering why the Windows print manager pops up.

It's a lot worse typing in Commie listings with VICE (any model, not just the C64) - Ctrl+P pauses the emulator. I had a nasty shock the first time I did that after typing in a large amount of listing that I hadn't saved...

[flatduckrecords]

Yes, me too! Hitting tab instead of delete is another very common one. I do that on SAM all the time; I think because in my head I’m in “retro” mode and the muscle-memory for delete being on the left kicks in.

That rarely happens when I’m using a modern computer, but for some reason CTRL+P does persist. I suppose that’s because it goes right back to my first ever Spectrum, and it was only much later I got my hands on a fancy Spectrum with a dedicated delete key.

[1024MAK]

When using 128 BASIC, I sometimes forget that it’s like a normal computer and try a key combination for a keyword, which of course doesn’t work…

Because I’ve always used a variety of different computers with different keyboards, I don’t suffer from CTRL-P too badly. But instead do suffer SHIFT-2 not doing what I expect on a Spectrum emulator or even a real machine until I remember…

Also I’m always managing to find that I have turned on CAPS SHIFT when I don’t mean to.

Mark

[deanysoft]

having certain numbers bother you when you're asked to provide meter readings...



"oh we gonna rock down to electric attributes..."

[ParadigmShifter]

then they'll make the price higher?

[HEXdidnt]

One habit I've more or less broken now is that I used to organise my SAM pixel art palettes in two groups of eight colours, one being brighter shades of the other. I still tend to organise them in order of lightness, though. Palette slot #0 is always black, #15 is always the lightest, though not always white.

[Mpk]

Driving my cool red car into work this morning, I raced down the ramp into the car park, swung around the 90-degree corner with tyres squealing... And there he was. A man. On a ladder. Fixing a light. Right in front of me.

I decided not to knock him over, as I don't need the penalty points, but it absolutely crossed my mind.