| Sort it out Gav.....! 17:49 - Aug 21 with 1319 views | Bloots |
....it was quicker loading 3D Monster Maze on my ZX81 than loading this forum. [Post edited 21 Aug 17:50]
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| Sort it out Gav.....! on 17:51 - Aug 21 with 1296 views | GavTWTD |
Better? |  |
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| Sort it out Gav.....! on 17:52 - Aug 21 with 1269 views | Dubtractor |
It took so long to load I assumed the server was crashing due to some exciting transfer news.
Alas, that isn't the case. |  |
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| Sort it out Gav.....! on 17:53 - Aug 21 with 1269 views | homer_123 |
| Sort it out Gav.....! on 17:51 - Aug 21 by GavTWTD |
Better? |
You installing the Nordic language pack? |  |
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| Yes thanks.... on 17:54 - Aug 21 with 1245 views | Bloots |
| Sort it out Gav.....! on 17:51 - Aug 21 by GavTWTD |
Better? |
....now back to Jet Set Willy speeds. | |
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| Sort it out Gav.....! on 18:09 - Aug 21 with 1192 views | EuanTown |
And I thought it was my phone |  | | |
| Sort it out Gav.....! on 18:14 - Aug 21 with 1165 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Sort it out Gav.....! on 18:09 - Aug 21 by EuanTown |
And I thought it was my phone |
Quick quiz question:
Why would the Rights Holders of Jet Set Willy be acting illegally (or at least unlawfully) if they sold the original version of Jet Set Willy, as originally packaged, in the UK in 2025?
(Just to clear up the obvious one, it's nothing to do with copyright or rights holders.) |  | | |
| No idea, but.... on 18:20 - Aug 21 with 1132 views | Bloots |
| Sort it out Gav.....! on 18:14 - Aug 21 by ArnoldMoorhen |
Quick quiz question:
Why would the Rights Holders of Jet Set Willy be acting illegally (or at least unlawfully) if they sold the original version of Jet Set Willy, as originally packaged, in the UK in 2025?
(Just to clear up the obvious one, it's nothing to do with copyright or rights holders.) |
....I do remember it having some sort of colour code on a grid that you had to enter to get it to load.
Dunno. | |
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| No idea, but.... on 18:49 - Aug 21 with 1052 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| No idea, but.... on 18:20 - Aug 21 by Bloots |
....I do remember it having some sort of colour code on a grid that you had to enter to get it to load.
Dunno. |
That's the one.
It came with a piece of card with an X and Y axis grid references. Each box on the grid was coloured one of four colours.
After loading, the game would boot to a screen asking you to enter the sequence of colours corresponding to a random sequence of grid coordinates.
The text was extremely small, and the colours were all incredibly dark shades so that black and white photocopiers of the time couldn't render them clearly distinctly, to make the card uncopyable, and the game "unpiratable".
Within six months, somebody, somewhere in the UK sat down and recreated the grid on a sheet of A4 paper, and wrote "Blue" or "Red" etc in each corresponding box, in black biro.
This was then photocopied and made its way around the school playgrounds of the country.
The unpiratable game had been cracked!
Nowadays it would be contrary to the Human Rights Acts which have subsumed the Disability Discrimination Act, to sell the game with this copyright protection "device", as it discriminates against the blind, the partially sighted (who wouldn't be able to read the co-ordinates) and the colour blind (who wouldn't be able to distinguish between some of the colours). | | | |
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| Sort it out Gav.....! on 19:28 - Aug 21 with 973 views | SitfcB |
Just haven’t been able to get on at all and then very slow running. |  |
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| Sort it out Gav.....! on 19:33 - Aug 21 with 954 views | bluelagos |
Brought back memories of screeching noises as you press play on the cassette player...
Wait 10 mins and Programme loaded :-)
Twtd |  |
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| Sort it out Gav.....! on 19:37 - Aug 21 with 931 views | NthQldITFC |
| Sort it out Gav.....! on 18:14 - Aug 21 by ArnoldMoorhen |
Quick quiz question:
Why would the Rights Holders of Jet Set Willy be acting illegally (or at least unlawfully) if they sold the original version of Jet Set Willy, as originally packaged, in the UK in 2025?
(Just to clear up the obvious one, it's nothing to do with copyright or rights holders.) |
Is it to do with willies? |  |
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| Yeah, still really slow.... on 19:38 - Aug 21 with 925 views | Bloots |
| Sort it out Gav.....! on 19:28 - Aug 21 by SitfcB |
Just haven’t been able to get on at all and then very slow running. |
....think I'll go over to the other ITFC forum. | |
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| The disappointment of.... on 19:41 - Aug 21 with 911 views | Bloots |
| Sort it out Gav.....! on 19:33 - Aug 21 by bluelagos |
Brought back memories of screeching noises as you press play on the cassette player...
Wait 10 mins and Programme loaded :-)
Twtd |
....waiting 10 minutes for Manic Miner to load only for it to fail time and time again was a particular low point of my childhood.
That and Sharon Jenkins from the year above laughing at the Valentines card I got her.
Open wounds. | |
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| Sort it out Gav.....! on 19:51 - Aug 21 with 850 views | Swansea_Blue |
Monster Maze was awesome. Simpler times. |  |
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| The disappointment of.... on 20:18 - Aug 21 with 783 views | Guthrum |
| The disappointment of.... on 19:41 - Aug 21 by Bloots |
....waiting 10 minutes for Manic Miner to load only for it to fail time and time again was a particular low point of my childhood.
That and Sharon Jenkins from the year above laughing at the Valentines card I got her.
Open wounds. |
And if whatever programme it was did load correctly, the 16K* RAM Pack would inevitably get joggled and the thing would crash.
* That's right kids - kilobytes, not megabytes or gigabytes. We could write entire programmes which fitted within 1024 bytes of space, on the basic model. |  |
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| I can also remember.... on 20:26 - Aug 21 with 750 views | Bloots |
| The disappointment of.... on 20:18 - Aug 21 by Guthrum |
And if whatever programme it was did load correctly, the 16K* RAM Pack would inevitably get joggled and the thing would crash.
* That's right kids - kilobytes, not megabytes or gigabytes. We could write entire programmes which fitted within 1024 bytes of space, on the basic model. |
...collecting the little paper circles from the hole punch and taping a pile of them onto the "buttons" to make them actually respond.
FFS, kids these days don't know they are born. | |
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| Sort it out Gav.....! on 21:37 - Aug 21 with 600 views | Plums |
| Sort it out Gav.....! on 17:51 - Aug 21 by GavTWTD |
Better? |
About 15 seconds to load a thread on an ipad using Safari atm
Edit: then some load fine. Perhaps a local wifi issue [Post edited 21 Aug 21:39]
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| Sort it out Gav.....! on 23:11 - Aug 21 with 508 views | little_boy_blue |
I loved 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81. My favourite game! | | | |
| Sort it out Gav.....! on 23:15 - Aug 21 with 481 views | GavTWTD |
| Sort it out Gav.....! on 19:51 - Aug 21 by Swansea_Blue |
Monster Maze was awesome. Simpler times. |
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| I can also remember.... on 01:15 - Aug 22 with 399 views | Ryorry |
| I can also remember.... on 20:26 - Aug 21 by Bloots |
...collecting the little paper circles from the hole punch and taping a pile of them onto the "buttons" to make them actually respond.
FFS, kids these days don't know they are born. |
Pah.
I give you dial-up on a shared local area network.
If you managed to get 25 seconds every 10 minutes when it wasn’t engaged, you found the top speed was 27kb/sec! |  |
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| Sort it out Gav.....! on 05:04 - Aug 22 with 303 views | tonybied |
| Sort it out Gav.....! on 17:52 - Aug 21 by Dubtractor |
It took so long to load I assumed the server was crashing due to some exciting transfer news.
Alas, that isn't the case. |
More likely, all the hot takes on here lately have overheated the server! [Post edited 22 Aug 5:10]
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