John Watson

Arch Linux user. Long time player of Red Orchestra mod for UT2004. HUGE Commodore C64 fan! Love many retro computers - Tandy M100/T102/200, Oric Atmos etc.

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@russty_russ No longer the same tasty cereal they used to be, since the anti sugar nazis got their way. Such a shame.

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@gregnacu I've had 2 Amiga PSUs which both had open circuit chokes. I was able to fix them with a few blobs of solder. The fault could only be seen when they were removed from the board. Two separate PSUs!

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@FREEZE64UK LoooooL

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@KevEdwardsRetro Darn! (/me scrunches up letter and tosses it into the basket)

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@FREEZE64UK But this is "ultra rare" and it's in a plastic bag! Are you trying to insult the guy? Think I'll bid a tenner to put your bid to shame...

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@Gulftastic @russty_russ This is laugh out loud funny! 😆

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@ezContents Were the jumper wires part of the same kit or separate? I've been considering getting something like that for a while for bread board experiments.

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@PaulieHughes @KevEdwardsRetro Don't forget to keep the disk head clean also. On important disks I normally clean it after every read attempt.

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@theretrojames75 @facebook I wanted to change my DoB on FB (long story) & in the dropdown for year of birth it allowed any year up to 2022!! So I picked 2022! Why would you allow someone to pick this option? Anyway, I immediately lost my account as I was then under age! They gave an option to be 1 y.o.!!

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@theretrojames75 @facebook Once you tag FB on twitter you will get so many bot replies telling you to contact Joe Bloggs on instagram etc he helped restore my account. Wait & see. FB is the worst company to try and contact and you're right about the mistakes it lets you make.

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@8BitBoyzRetro I think the page is formatted to US Legal size. When printed on A4 it's just not quite right. But thanks for going to the bother of putting this out there.

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@Osinttechnical Including yourself.

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@PaulieHughes @fuzzweed @hakk Have you managed to source a drive yet?

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@PaulieHughes I have a Panasonic one. Not sure of the model. They usually need to be hardware modded to allow the drive to read both sides of the disk (if it's a flippy disk). I've used it with both KF and GW and have to say GW is the more straightforward way. KF has a nice GUI though.

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@8BitShowAndTell I didn't realise there was a time limit to complete C64 games :O I still play the game for pure entertainment. I haven't passed level 8 or 9 and didn't know what happened later on in the game. :(

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@russty_russ @woodg31 I really don't know the answer to that one.

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@russty_russ @woodg31 This was such a funny programme back in the early 90s. Some sketches still make me cry with laughter. Loved Tony Slattery.