Vista Readyboost makes a difference.

S0litaire

Ah! got good old day's!

When a 50Mb Hard drive was the side of a modern day PC case! and weighed a tonne!! and BBC B's were in every classroom!! :D

And when a broken install was when you sat on the floppies and bent them!!

Also the best game ever was "Elite!" :D

PeteHerts

S0litaire wrote: »

Ah! got good old day's!

When a 50Mb Hard drive was the side of a modern day PC case! and weighed a tonne!! and BBC B's were in every classroom!! :D

And when a broken install was when you sat on the floppies and bent them!!

Also the best game ever was "Elite!" :D

I remember playing O's and X's on the Telex machine at school :rotfl:

Marty_J

Conor wrote: »

Only a year out. Started when home computers first came out. Used to build RAM packs for ZX81's and repair them when people fried them thanks to the infamous RAM pack wobble. Then when "proper keyboards" came out, I used to fit them too. Moved on to repairing Speccies after that. Strangely Commodores seemed to work forever. Sadly at one point, I could code in 6502 machine code OTTOMH.

I used to have a Spectrum with a squishy keyboard, then I upgraded to an Amstrad CPC-464. Fun times!

S0litaire wrote: »

When a 50Mb Hard drive was the side of a modern day PC case! and weighed a tonne!! and BBC B's were in every classroom!! :D

I can still remember playing Stig Of The Dump on the BBCs in school. It wouldn't surprise me if they were still using them!

Also the best game ever was "Elite!" :D

Still is one of the best, though I prefer Elite II myself.

You can download various versions of them (all perfectly legal of course):

http://home.clara.net/iancgbell/elite/game.htm (Elite)

http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/download/ (Elite II: Frontiers & Elite Frontiers: First Encounters)

There are also various fan made games along the same lines:

http://oolite.org/ (Mac, PC and Linux)

Still waiting for Elite 4 though!

Inactive

Conor wrote: »

It's a browser exploit, moron.

Nice reply from someone who can only stoop to insults to support the bloated Vista.:rolleyes:

Ice_2

ceasefire...
I have read with interest about this readyboost...
I have a 4gb Kingston data traveler that I use for readyboost...
but it isn't readyboost...as such just a plain old 4gb usb drive...
so does it actually matter if it's not readyboost or not...
I mean on ebuyer it's £2.99 for a Kingston 1gb usb pen drive
and with readyboost it's £5.00
but I fail to see the difference except the price...
now that I have said my 2 penth's worth be gentle...:):rotfl:
by the way I am running P4 with 2gb ram with vista prem...32bit...

PeteHerts

Ice wrote: »

ceasefire...
I have read with interest about this readyboost...
I have a 4gb Kingston data traveler that I use for readyboost...
but it isn't readyboost...as such just a plain old 4gb usb drive...
so does it actually matter if it's not readyboost or not...
I mean on ebuyer it's £2.99 for a Kingston 1gb usb pen drive
and with readyboost it's £5.00
but I fail to see the difference except the price...
now that I have said my 2 penth's worth be gentle...:):rotfl:
by the way I am running P4 with 2gb ram with vista prem...32bit...

I could understand if all this was over a woman but Vista PLLLLLLLEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEEE :rotfl:

S0litaire

Marty_J wrote: »

I used to have a Spectrum with a squishy keyboard, then I upgraded to an Amstrad CPC-464. Fun times!



I can still remember playing Stig Of The Dump on the BBCs in school. It wouldn't surprise me if they were still using them!



Still is one of the best, though I prefer Elite II myself.

You can download various versions of them (all perfectly legal of course):

http://home.clara.net/iancgbell/elite/game.htm (Elite)

http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/download/ (Elite II: Frontiers & Elite Frontiers: First Encounters)

There are also various fan made games along the same lines:

http://oolite.org/ (Mac, PC and Linux)

Still waiting for Elite 4 though!

Ever had the spectrum with the flat keypad :P

Anything other than Elite II was Crud :D lol! thought the planet landing in "Frontiers" was good :D

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I remember playing the first Elite on our BBC Micro with the worst joysticks that have ever been made. I've still got Elite II: Frontier set up on my Amiga 1200.

Don't hold your breath for Elite 4, I don't think we'll ever see it..

iviv

Who let you all out of the nursing home?

Marty_J

I'm only twenty something!

I'm getting a bit too close to 30 though to say what the something is.