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Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

KovacsC wrote:

She does not have internet......

We've all got 4G now.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

Squirt wrote:

Mimi wrote:

markg wrote:

Yeah I think we would not even get the engines started, which would probably be for the best. So it depends on the mission. We could have fun until all the food ran out I reckon.

That's what I was wondering. If we could even get it going, get the power on, etc, before even thinking of moving it. I wasn't really thinking of a missing, rather just could we get it from, say, Bermuda back to the UK. Or just potter around in it. They must have some kind of entertainment on board.

I wonder what they do for things such as cheese? I wonder if they just never have cheese? That would be a sad boat.

This page on Royal Navy food slang contains the splendid sounding "Cheesy-hammy-eggy", so I think we're OK on the cheese front.

Chef!! (Who'd be the chef?)

See to this, please:

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6507

Charge your phone!

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jun 28, 2017 18:00

Giphy "cheesy-hammy-eggy":
https://media3.giphy.com/media/RBGgIpaA0cvTi/giphy-loop.mp4

EDIT: Clearly Giphy's a fan

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Squirt wrote:

Mimi wrote:

markg wrote:

Yeah I think we would not even get the engines started, which would probably be for the best. So it depends on the mission. We could have fun until all the food ran out I reckon.

That's what I was wondering. If we could even get it going, get the power on, etc, before even thinking of moving it. I wasn't really thinking of a missing, rather just could we get it from, say, Bermuda back to the UK. Or just potter around in it. They must have some kind of entertainment on board.

I wonder what they do for things such as cheese? I wonder if they just never have cheese? That would be a sad boat.

This page on Royal Navy food slang contains the splendid sounding "Cheesy-hammy-eggy", so I think we're OK on the cheese front.

In

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Mimi wrote:

Something I've been wondering (for about 60 seconds, I've not been pondering it for weeks or anything like that). Do you think we could operate the aircraft carrier? So, let's imagine by 'we' I mean everyone who's posted in here in the last two weeks.

So, if we just took those people and put them in the aircraft carrier... let's say it's already in the middle ocean but not 'turned on' (key is in the ignition, but not engaged). Without any other personnel on board could we, between us, work out how to luve in the aircraft carrier and figure out how it 'works'.

Do you reckon they have manuals on board?

No, there will be no manuals on board. No one issues manuals these days, so we'll just have to ask the Royal Navy Forum how to start it up ("put your foot on the brake peddle while turning the ignition key, obv, you eejit") and get a load of 'Gurus' giving contradictory advice, the first of which will be to create a read-only 'perfc' file with no suffix in c:\windows, and while the ship itself will be protected from all ransomware, it would still be a carrier ...........

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5146

Sounds good to me, and yes, I reckon we could do a passable job of getting it moving under it's own power and not sinking.
There are very detailed operating procedures for military equipment, designed to be followed by their least skilled recruits.

We've got to get either the gas turbines or diesel generators running, and then push buttons on the bridge. How hard can it be?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38458

What we need is a Star trek wrapper for the controls, 4 or 5 technohats and adequate beers.

Sorted

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

Squirt wrote:

Charge your phone!

I was in the bath!

Though I'm not now and it's down to 5%.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Jun 28, 2017 23:35

Mimi wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

She does not have internet......

We've all got 4G now.

That won't reach to land. They have sat comms but encrypted.

The manuals are digital.

I designed some systems on her on a previous job.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:25

I've just ordered a 3rd SNES mini as my brother wanted one. Turns out, he's ordered one at the same time. Pah.

I think I've got another friend who wants one. If not, I'm going to cancel it. (unless anyone here wants it?) I can't see this being as short supply as the NES mini.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:26

TheVision wrote:

I've just ordered a 3rd SNES mini as my brother wanted one. Turns out, he's ordered one at the same time. Pah.

I think I've got another friend who wants one. If not, I'm going to cancel it. (unless anyone here wants it?) I can't see this being as short supply as the NES mini.

How much are they? I am considering a retropie

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:30

MaliA wrote:

TheVision wrote:

I've just ordered a 3rd SNES mini as my brother wanted one. Turns out, he's ordered one at the same time. Pah.

I think I've got another friend who wants one. If not, I'm going to cancel it. (unless anyone here wants it?) I can't see this being as short supply as the NES mini.

How much are they? I am considering a retropie

£69.99. There's no doubt that the Retropie will do a lot more but it does involve more hassle with setting it up though.

I've looked into one myself but never really followed it through. I should really. It sounds exactly like the kind of thing I'd like to do.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:39

TheVision wrote:

MaliA wrote:

TheVision wrote:

I've just ordered a 3rd SNES mini as my brother wanted one. Turns out, he's ordered one at the same time. Pah.

I think I've got another friend who wants one. If not, I'm going to cancel it. (unless anyone here wants it?) I can't see this being as short supply as the NES mini.

How much are they? I am considering a retropie

£69.99. There's no doubt that the Retropie will do a lot more but it does involve more hassle with setting it up though.

I've looked into one myself but never really followed it through. I should really. It sounds exactly like the kind of thing I'd like to do.

Etsy has them, i think

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:53

They do indeed. I've just had a quick look and I don't really know what I'm looking for, but they look a little expensive.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:55

TheVision wrote:

They do indeed. I've just had a quick look and I don't really know what I'm looking for, but they look a little expensive.

Davpaz could make them for us and bring them to MeatUp that I need to pay Chuckles or Giggles for.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14487

Snes mini's seem to be going out of stock as soon as they come in stock anywhere so up to you but i dont think you would have a problem selling it on.

I have a Pi and yes they are wonderful devices but can be quite off putting to set things up on if you want to do 'everything' with it - which is often the problem - you may get on better by focusing on one system and just getting that working the way you want (device handling on them now is very good and most USB devices just connect and work with nothing else - bluetooth is a bit more fiddly)

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14487

TheVision wrote:

They do indeed. I've just had a quick look and I don't really know what I'm looking for, but they look a little expensive.

A Pi plus case / PSU / memory card should be around £45 - £50 on Amazon as a bundle ?

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:32

I'll probably get one eventually but I've got my eyes on a new PC first.

Also... Grim... mentioned a new Adblock to use in Chrome the other day. Anyone remember what it was called?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38458

MaliA wrote:

TheVision wrote:

They do indeed. I've just had a quick look and I don't really know what I'm looking for, but they look a little expensive.

Davpaz could make them for us and bring them to MeatUp that I need to pay Chuckles or Giggles for.

I could. Cash up front though. I've heard about you lot.

In all seriousness...

Starter Kit
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Raspberry-Pi-O ... berry+pi+3

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gamers-Gear-Cl ... controller

£48.79 for the Pi Kit
£10.95 for the controllers

And some brain work (or sending the card to someone else to set it up)

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38458

TheVision wrote:

I'll probably get one eventually but I've got my eyes on a new PC first.

Also... Grim... mentioned a new Adblock to use in Chrome the other day. Anyone remember what it was called?

uBlock origin.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:36

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:37

I mean...

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:40

Thanks both although, the correct answer to my question would have been "yes".

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5146

TheVision wrote:

I've just ordered a 3rd SNES mini as my brother wanted one. Turns out, he's ordered one at the same time. Pah.

I think I've got another friend who wants one. If not, I'm going to cancel it. (unless anyone here wants it?) I can't see this being as short supply as the NES mini.

I'd be interested and I'm probably close enough to you to make collection easy.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 14:33

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

TheVision wrote:

I've just ordered a 3rd SNES mini as my brother wanted one. Turns out, he's ordered one at the same time. Pah.

I think I've got another friend who wants one. If not, I'm going to cancel it. (unless anyone here wants it?) I can't see this being as short supply as the NES mini.

I'd be interested and I'm probably close enough to you to make collection easy.

I think my friend wants it now so sorry. I'll keep you in mind if he doesn't come through though and yes, I'm close. I live just around the corner and up the road from Dudley Zoo where you're going to see American Werewolf in London.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5146

TheVision wrote:

I think my friend wants it now so sorry. I'll keep you in mind if he doesn't come through though and yes, I'm close. I live just around the corner and up the road from Dudley Zoo where you're going to see American Werewolf in London.

No probs. I think there's likely to be a decent chunk of extra stock coming so I should be fine to get one before they discontinue it.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2017 7:56

Achievement unlocked! Easy Rider - Leave your phone in an Uber.

I have MrsA's phone number on the lockscreen, so a lady phoned her and I can ick it up today. Hurrah!

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

MaliA wrote:

Achievement unlocked! Easy Rider - Leave your phone in an Uber.

I have MrsA's phone number on the lockscreen, so a lady phoned her and I can ick it up today. Hurrah!

Ick it up? I thought you'd left it in an Uber, not swallowed it.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

Bo Selecta Craster is having a fine weekend.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Battlefield4 less than four squid on ps plus. This feels more like 2 than 3 did

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:24

What happens when local newspapers fire their subs:

Today's Oxford Mail

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

Kern wrote:

What happens when local newspapers fire their subs:

Today's Oxford Mail

Very dry.

devilman · **Posted:** Mon Jul 03, 2017 14:58

devilman wrote:

Not really worth its own thread, but does anyone know much about the Intellivision? I bought some Atari 2600 cartridges on Ebay and among them are these two -

Attachment:

IMG_20170501_142721156.jpg

They're completely different to the Atari carts and more closely resemble some Intellivision carts I already have. Unfortunately, I don't actually have a console to test them on. I don't think either Kung-Fu Master or Wonder Boy were release for the Intellivision, so I'm guessing they're mis-labelled. Unless there's another console that had a similar cartridge design?

So... I ended up buying an intellivision, partly to test these cartridges out and.. they don't fit. I think they're actually C64 carts. Now to decide whether to actually buy a Commodore 64 now.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14487

devilman wrote:

So... I ended up buying an intellivision, partly to test these cartridges out and.. they don't fit. I think they're actually C64 carts. Now to decide whether to actually buy a Commodore 64 now.

I missed your original post but they dont look like C64 carts to me either (although a picture of the edge of the cart and the back may help)

Looking online the 'style' of cart looks like these Colecovision ones

http://colecovision.dk/wonder-boy.htm

If you look at any UK coleco cart they do have a little indent on both sides at the top to grab them and that looks like a slightly modified version of that (I wonder if they were a non UK set - maybe from somewhere else in Europe ?)

Actually that seems to be quite common if you look at some of the other carts on there - its a .DK site so wonder if that was more normal in Denmark

(e.g. Keystone Capers - again look at the top of the cart - http://colecovision.dk/keystone.htm )

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Jul 03, 2017 20:15

A friend made this for me.

All my runs and my first tri.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jul 03, 2017 20:20

That's excellent Kov!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25585

KovacsC wrote:

A friend made this for me.

All my runs and my first tri.

Are you sure it's the right way up?

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Jul 03, 2017 20:35

Mimi wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

A friend made this for me.

All my runs and my first tri.

Are you sure it's the right way up?

my bloody phone

devilman · **Posted:** Mon Jul 03, 2017 20:35

zaphod79 wrote:

devilman wrote:

So... I ended up buying an intellivision, partly to test these cartridges out and.. they don't fit. I think they're actually C64 carts. Now to decide whether to actually buy a Commodore 64 now.

I missed your original post but they dont look like C64 carts to me either (although a picture of the edge of the cart and the back may help)

Looking online the 'style' of cart looks like these Colecovision ones

http://colecovision.dk/wonder-boy.htm

If you look at any UK coleco cart they do have a little indent on both sides at the top to grab them and that looks like a slightly modified version of that (I wonder if they were a non UK set - maybe from somewhere else in Europe ?)

Actually that seems to be quite common if you look at some of the other carts on there - its a .DK site so wonder if that was more normal in Denmark

(e.g. Keystone Capers - again look at the top of the cart - http://colecovision.dk/keystone.htm )

I hadn't considered the Colecovision actually; that's another console I don't own. However, it seems the C64 did had a few cartridges of that indented shape. In fact, I have one - 'The Designer's Pencil'.. which would explain why the shape was familiar.

I did find this listing on Ebay Australia, which does show the exact Kung-Fu Master cart I have, and it's for the C64.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

KovacsC wrote:

my bloody phone

It's not your phone, it's beex. It doesn't respect the JPG rotation flag in the EXIF data.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14487

devilman wrote:

I hadn't considered the Colecovision actually; that's another console I don't own. However, it seems the C64 did had a few cartridges of that indented shape. In fact, I have one - 'The Designer's Pencil'.. which would explain why the shape was familiar.

I did find this listing on Ebay Australia, which does show the exact Kung-Fu Master cart I have, and it's for the C64.

Yeah definitely the same cart

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14487

A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite

https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand ... f-dynamite

(long)

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

So very much enjoying BF4 online, but annoyed that so many sodding maps are DLC. DLC is a curse upon humanity. I'm quite surprised that the plan fort Battlefront 2 is that all maps are available to everyone, at least last I heard, as they don't want the player base split between DLC and non-DLC.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jul 04, 2017 15:58

zaphod79 wrote:

A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite

https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand ... f-dynamite

(long)

That was really good.

It'd be best sent to a kindle, because it is indeed long. Come back after to watch the videos, they're not that good anyway.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Me to colleague: Hey colleague! I haven’t seen you for a while, where have you been?
Colleague: In Singapore for 2 and a half years…
Me: ….um…. great to see you again!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14487

PIRACY !

Destroying all media !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40519137

Quote:

Stream-ripping is now the fastest-growing form of music piracy in the UK, new research has suggested.

Just wait till they find out what you can do with an analogue tape recorder and a radio station !

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:50

Well, here's a combination of words I didn't expect:

Quote:

He grumbled about a Trump-supporting Chewbacca who patrols the boulevard allegedly chanting xenophobic statements.

Guardian: Trump's Hollywood star: fans polish it while haters take the piss

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jul 07, 2017 10:06

Why the fuck has he got a star anyway?

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

Zardoz wrote:

Why the fuck has he got a star anyway?

Let it go, Z. Him and Miyamoto go way back.

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