Love this. I remember a thread on cpc wiki a few years back around how we could start bringing this into emulation. On a 4K screen you can start to replicate the screen at a sub pixel level (and fake some of the colour bleed). These kinds of high res photos are crucial to getting it right.

Well I don't know about anyone else, but I'm in. I will buy all of his adventures and whatever cheap knock-off arcade games you can forcefully slap him into at the last minute.

Along with "I run a playtest company and think games developer need to hire more external playtest companies"

True. Although you'd have thought it'd be easier to take Ocean's generic film licence engine, tweak it with some Plus magic and shove out a revamped Robocop or something. The bewildering world of 80s game development...

It always struck me as an odd pick of pack in game: you've built a console specifically enhanced for 2D sprite based games, so show it off with a 3D racer that can't really take advantage of the hardware. The colour usage was impressive in the day/night cycle though.

It would be fascinating to see what might have been, although it was inevitably going to be a bit of a car crash version. SF2 was probably the game that finally showed the cheap home computer era was over, even the Amiga wasn't really up to it.

There's peek-at-shoes and that's it.

I really should give Monster Max a try at some point. Although 6 hours to play through and presumably no save. 😬

😂I'd probably have gone for the Resi mansion if you hadn't!

a video game called the bathroom is being played on a red background ALT: a video game called the bathroom is being played on a red background

Not my house, but I know my way around.

I once walked past Jim Bowen in Birmingham, took me more than a moment to remember who he was (was many years after Bullseye) so didn't speak to him.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't play the official rules, then complain it takes ages. Dump all the "house rules" and play it exactly the way it's intended and the game will be over in about 30 turns.

The answer to this is pretty simple, if AI companies don't function with IP laws in place and we need AI, then get rid of IP laws. Naturally the AI companies aren't actually keen on that, since everything they do is based around IP, but that's kind of tough luck on them.

When Amstrad took over Sinclair, the engineers were apparently baffled that the Spectrum worked at all. So much of the design skirted on the limits of what should work and all the bits you definitely need to include to make things reliable were just absent.

People interested in old tech or programming can be pretty weird about anything.

Definitely used to have a haul of books, magazines and hand written scribblings of "important" programming stuff back in the day. Heck some of it I still have (and those I don't I still miss).

Botty McBotButt. Your welcome.

Now I'm going to spend the rest of the day wondering whether Egghead was technically an egg or just someone whose head was egg shaped. And had no body. Maybe just include another caveat about boxing gloves to keep the pretenders out.

Or doesn't like Trump. Depending on the OPs political opinions.

What does muddy brown and washed out grey smell like?

I got the exciting score of NaN. I'm either doing this very right or very wrong...

100% agree. I once blocked all internet traffic whilst working remotely because the secpol editor reordered a list in a way I wasn't expecting (two lessons learned - don't do hard things when off sick and pay attention to what you actually click rather than what you think you clicked)

If it doesn't involve an underpaid actor, hamming it up whilst dressed as Bertie Bassett and regretting whatever life choices lead them there. Is it really Dr Who?

Treasure Island Dizzy

That's why you put it on "week days only" display, so you never see the weekends and thus do not have to care.

Honestly you probably deserved to get paid for playing that on multiple formats.

Yeah, is a PITA to calculate exactly. IIRC once a PUSH gets synced up though, all the rest align nicely. Been ages since I tried getting my head round it though!

Are you taking into account contention, which will periodically stretch instructions?

Yeah, it can vary from church to church (and depend on specific denominations too). More often than not "appropriate" music is used to steer you away from anything deviating from religious norms.

Also Church weddings will generally insist on church music