Wall of Mouths

deadsetgav wrote:

I dont think listening to music, watching a film, playing a particular game or looking at a cornflakes advert causes regular, well adjusted people to go out and commit crimes.

Certainly not. I listen to heavy metal, “Die Hard” and “The Terminator” are two of my all time favourite films, I have played Grand Theft Auto 1&3, Quake, Doom, Carmageddon and other “violent” computer games over the years and really enjoyed them, but I have no trouble seperating reality from fantasy, and have no desire to ever harm another person in any way.

No.

I listen to aggressive thrash metal a lot, and I enjoy fairly rough mosh pits (although if anyone falls over i’m the first to grab their arm and help them up).

However, I have not been in a physical fight since primary school (I’m 25), and I have not ever been driven to hitting someone (and believe me, I’ve had provocation). I’m just not a violent person.

Title: Best takeaway!

This one is really hard for me.. I love Pizza, I love curry, and I love fish and chips…

But then… I love fried chicken too. I love the fillet tower burger from KFC, or the fillet strips from Miss Millies… mmmm…

Citizen Erased wrote:

Are we talking a proper scotch egg with a whole egg in it, or just a picnic egg, with the chopped egg inside?

I’d say a proper Scotch Egg. Maybe sliced in half for a buffet, but you can always grab 2 at a time ;-)

Picnic eggs are also great, though.

Yes, well, i’m not “normal” ;-)

Title: Favourite buffet snack item!

OK.. so… you know.. I may be bored and making polls for the sake of it, but.. well… i think its important we find out this stuff. :D

Title: Beer!!!! (but lets do it properly this time!)

My favourite beer (Stella) happened to be in the ‘other’ poll, but the choice was pretty small…

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I didn`t even know that it`s possible to upgrade an Amiga Computer to that level. Impressive.

Oh yes, indeed. Some links:

CyberstormPPC
Blizzard PPC
Amiga 1500
Mediator 4000 PCI busboard
AmigaOS history on wikipedia
AmigaWorld.net community portal

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WTF is an A1500?

Well, its explained in the link above, but basically its just an A2000.

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It`s a shame that some of these computers never saw much, if any support by major game companies, using the superior technology.

Well, the PPC cards got some ports of old PC games, like Quake 2, Heretic II, SiN, Descent Freespace, Wipeout 2097 and a load more. There are some Amiga only games that support them, like Payback. But people using Amigas these days arent using them as games machines, its mostly people like me who prefer the OS to Windows or MacOS.

Luckily enough, the company behind version 4 of the Amigas OS is also the one that got licenses to port most of the above games, and they have some deals with some of the PC games companies for their back catalogue.

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Back to emulation in general:
Did anyone know that there are even emulators for mobile phones?

If you download the Nokia SDK it comes with an emulator. Its a little tricky to use but once you get the hang of it its OK.

I’m going to reveal my geekiness here, but I’m a massive Amiga fan. I have:

A basic A500
A basic A600
A basic A1200

An A1500 with 68030 upgrade, 100Mb HD

An A1200 with 68060 upgrade, 2Gb HD, CDRW, in a technics CD player case and black CD-TV keyboard.

A towered A4000 with 68060 and 233Mhz PowerPC dual processor upgrade, ATA-100 Zorro card, USB Zorro card, 24bit 96Khz Zorro sound card, a PCI backplane, PCI Voodoo 3 3000, PCI TV card, PCI NIC, 40Gb HD, and CD-RW.

An AmigaONE XE with 1GHz G4 PowerPC, 120Gb HD, DVD-RW, Radeon graphics etc.

Anyway… from the “good old days”, my favourite amiga games are:

Stunt Car Racer
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge 2
James Pond 2: Robocod
James Pond 3: Operation Starfish
Superfrog
Project X
The original Alien Breed series
Alien Breed 3D
Cannon Fodder
Chaos Engine
Speedball II
Archer Macleans Pool
Spacial Hyperdrive (an old AMOS game but I love it)
The Monkey Island games
Beneath a steel sky
Lemmings

I was in a T? shirt. It was the black “Hey satan you rock” one. I saw two more of those. I saw a guy with a blue T? shirt on, and his girlfriend had a black one on.

I also saw the guy with dreads, and a blonde girl with a baby-t with Therapy? across the boobs (very nice :).

I’m sure I saw at least 3 more as well.

davetheswine wrote:

i love flash.

there, i said it.

It has its place, but there is no need for entire sites to be flash based.

Actually “ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG!!” pretty much sums up my opinion of all-flash websites ;-).

Yeah… I broke mine at particularily rowdy gig ;-)

Title: Air guitar on eBay

Handy if yours has worn out ;-)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=25608279 … otohosting

It doesn’t bother me; MSN’s websites really suck anyway (especially if, like me, you use an extreme niche operating system with poor browser support ;-) ), but anyway… I usually use IRC if I want to chat with a bunch of people online. I do use MSN messenger to keep in touch with a few friends, though.