I've lost my mind...

Ooooh now that I like the idea of.

Originally Posted by JessicaRabbit

Lol... I was always jealous of you guys with the spectrums!!!

Yeah, you needn't have been ... colour clash? Great! ... Having to unplug your 9v adapter just to switch the damned thing off? Great (and caused countless problems after a short time due to faulty connections caused by the consistent unplugging/plugging of said adapter) ... Daley Thompsons Decathlon being solely responsible for the market boost in replacement keyboard underlays due to too many people using golf balls and SP2 batterys (now Size C for the younguns ) to try to run faster, jump and throw further than ever before! In fact, DT's decathlon, and my duff keyboard was got me started on wanting to do DIY jobs on the speccy when a local computer shop wanted to charge me £40 for the privilige! I got a replacement keyboard underlay for a tenner and fitted it myself

Originally Posted by JessicaRabbit

Ping, you need to organise a retro night, with people bringing their old consoles round so you can get all nostalgic, drink babycham or kamikaze shots and play the Atari! (Please?)

Now that would be fun Hey I'll have a babycham (in my best, big black/coloured guy from the 70s ad campaign big deep voice)

EDIT: maybe something for the "elder" members of the org (but those that still have their own teeth ) ... would this be something that could be incorporated into AR08 perhaps? Retro-gaming that is, not drinking babycham!

[SoulKiss]

Easy to incoporate, most "classic" systems are emulated on the PSP now.

Couple of PSP's and off we go

David

Oh and if you are stuck for something to do at work but cannot download/install stuff, may I give you HOB - the Java Spectrum Emulator - in a website !!!!

my brother had 1 of those spectrums and i had an amstrad i think it was the 6128 it had a disk drive on the side it was quality