Monthly Archives: March 2007

Sundown 2007

March 29, 2007 – 10:51 am

RC55 has announced this year’s Sundown, the “other” UK demoparty, a multi-platform scene event featuring “old-school” platforms such as the ZX amongst the other, more “standard” competitions. Again the event takes place in Budleigh Salterton on the south coast, about an hours drive from my home. I’ve already mentioned this on raww.org, so why mention [...]

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Large Storage, uhm, storage

March 25, 2007 – 6:36 pm

Ok, this is a bit of a techie article that will interest only a small handful of the people who view this site. Basically during an afternoon coffee-break (and a quick read of the WOS forums), I got to thinking about the influx of large capacity storage solutions for “old” computers such as the ZX [...]

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Steamed – Vampire Bloodlines

March 25, 2007 – 6:33 pm

Shortly after my hunt for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines in the shops (I like to have legitimate versions of games where possible), and having purchased a copy and started playing (I chose to go with the Malkavian clan, in case anyone cares), I now see that it’s been brought out on Steam, Valve’s content [...]

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I did it! 1k! Almost…

March 15, 2007 – 2:16 pm

Time is an odd thing. There are times when you seem to have nothing but time, and seek to find things to fill it up. There are other times when you seem to have no time, and enough things to do to create a 72 hour day. Now is one a time of zero time. [...]

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One week away

March 9, 2007 – 9:27 am

Forever8 is one week away. 7 days. 7 days in which I have very little time to spare. But I’m determined to finish something for the party (especially as I can’t make it to the party this year). My intro currently stands at 523 bytes. It does very little (tho’ that “little” does look kinda [...]

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