Imagine Documentary - Now Available for Download!
Robert Hazelby
the December 1984 epsiode of BBC's `Commercial Breaks` programme. This
is the all-famous episode featuring `Imagine Software` and their
magnificent going-down-the-pan.
Simply copy and paste the following link into your Bit Torrent
software:
http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/downloads/cbreaks.torrent
The total file size is 91 megs, using a bitrate of 256kps. I'm
informed that it looks quite clear on full screen.
I'll let you know when the CGE footage starts going online.
A very big thank you to Nick Humpries of the Your Sinclair Archive
([URL= http://www.egyptus.co.uk] http://www.egyptus.co.uk[/URL]) for
encoding this and making it available.
Enjoy!
Rob
Matthew Wilson
Hazelby) wrote:
>It's been a long time coming, but you now have the chance to download
>the December 1984 epsiode of BBC's `Commercial Breaks` programme. This
>is the all-famous episode featuring `Imagine Software` and their
>magnificent going-down-the-pan.
>
>Simply copy and paste the following link into your Bit Torrent
>software:
>
>http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/downloads/cbreaks.torrent
>
>The total file size is 91 megs, using a bitrate of 256kps. I'm
>informed that it looks quite clear on full screen.
Woo hoo!
Matthew
Somebody
"Robert Hazelby" <rob...@jabba.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Simply copy and paste the following link into your Bit Torrent
> software:
>
> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/downloads/cbreaks.torrent
>
Been trying for a hour and a half.
Keep getting 'Problem connecting to tracker - <urlopen error
[10061,'Connection refused']>
Anyone having success?
James Weatherley
>
> Been trying for a hour and a half.
> Keep getting 'Problem connecting to tracker - <urlopen error
> [10061,'Connection refused']>
>
> Anyone having success?
>
Downloading alright for me at the moment. Fingers crossed though beacuse
Azureus 2.2.0.0 has been causing kernel panics in kqueue on dual
processor Macs. Perhaps it is fixed with 10.3.6 - I await with
trepidation...
Nick Humphries
Possibly running out of connections to obdwww, maybe? Not sure, I just know I
have ten ports open for BitTorrent users and that I have two other streams
(the documentary chapters) available from the same server as well.
Keep retrying and you'll eventually get through.
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Nick Humphries
Is the quality OK for everyone? I tried to aim for VCD dimensions and tried
different powers of two until I got a good bitrate on my Linux (Duron) box.
And apologies to Media Player users as MSMP doesn't handle DivX's too well, at
least not on my Win98se P3-500 box.
If most people are happy with it, I'll use it as a guideline for the CGExpo
footage
Matthew Wilson
<ni...@egyptusWIBBLE.co.uk> wrote:
>On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:33:24 +0000, Matthew Wilson
><mat...@mjwilson.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On 8 Nov 2004 09:11:51 -0800, rob...@jabba.demon.co.uk (Robert
>>Hazelby) wrote:
>>
>>>It's been a long time coming, but you now have the chance to download
>>>the December 1984 epsiode of BBC's `Commercial Breaks` programme. This
>>>is the all-famous episode featuring `Imagine Software` and their
>>>magnificent going-down-the-pan.
>>>
>>>Simply copy and paste the following link into your Bit Torrent
>>>software:
>>>
>>>http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/downloads/cbreaks.torrent
>>>
>>>The total file size is 91 megs, using a bitrate of 256kps. I'm
>>>informed that it looks quite clear on full screen.
>>
>>Woo hoo!
>
>Is the quality OK for everyone? I tried to aim for VCD dimensions and tried
>different powers of two until I got a good bitrate on my Linux (Duron) box.
>And apologies to Media Player users as MSMP doesn't handle DivX's too well, at
>least not on my Win98se P3-500 box.
It looks alright for me. I forget the history, is it from a VHS tape?
Looks pretty good I think.
If you're apologising to Windows Media Player users then it's fine for
me.
£40 for Bandersnatch in 1983! And all that hardware!
Matthew
Nick Humphries
<mat...@mjwilson.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>It looks alright for me. I forget the history, is it from a VHS tape?
>Looks pretty good I think.
Excellent - I got it on DVD as a set of VOB files (>2Gb in total for 30
mins!), and that DVD came from Tayles via Rob.
>£40 for Bandersnatch in 1983! And all that hardware!
And with 20-30 items in the box! Gotta love Imagine sales rubbish... and the
whole idea of an album being released alongside! As if anyone would ever do
that these days...
Errr... ignore the OutRun 2 soundtrack CD...
And, of course, "Midlands - The British Bank".
Today HSBC...
Matthew Wilson
<ni...@egyptusWIBBLE.co.uk> wrote:
>On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 20:41:00 +0000, Matthew Wilson
><mat...@mjwilson.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>It looks alright for me. I forget the history, is it from a VHS tape?
>>Looks pretty good I think.
>
>Excellent - I got it on DVD as a set of VOB files (>2Gb in total for 30
>mins!), and that DVD came from Tayles via Rob.
>
>>£40 for Bandersnatch in 1983! And all that hardware!
>
>And with 20-30 items in the box! Gotta love Imagine sales rubbish... and the
>whole idea of an album being released alongside!
Hmm, was that before or after Deus Ex Machina?
Matthew
Colin Woodcock
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> the December 1984 epsiode of BBC's `Commercial Breaks` programme. This
> is the all-famous episode featuring `Imagine Software` and their
> magnificent going-down-the-pan.
Fascinating viewing. Many thanks.
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> And, of course, "Midlands - The British Bank".
>
> Today HSBC...
And therefore still kinda sorta British.
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RootShell
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> It's been a long time coming, but you now have the chance to download
> the December 1984 epsiode of BBC's `Commercial Breaks` programme. This
> is the all-famous episode featuring `Imagine Software` and their
> magnificent going-down-the-pan.
>
> Simply copy and paste the following link into your Bit Torrent
> software:
>
> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/downloads/cbreaks.torrent
Any chance of sharing it on P2P network? amule/emule/edonkey?
Thanks,
RootShell
Nick Humphries, via obd
I left that on purpose as an excercise for the reader :)
BitTorrent is P2P...
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fuzzix
> It's been a long time coming, but you now have the chance to download
> the December 1984 epsiode of BBC's `Commercial Breaks` programme.
> This is the all-famous episode featuring `Imagine Software` and their
> magnificent going-down-the-pan.
>
Top bit of retro telly there. I remember those tales of 17 year olds
getting hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds flogging bedroom
masterpieces. By the time I hit 17 them days were gone. I also never
wrote a game and was cultivating a magnificent alcohol problem. But them
days were gone and that was the biggest obstacle.
I wanted to have a fag in the office with a punky haircut, drive a
cheesy sports car to a shite electronic soundtrack, have a bow tie and
be cynical, BS a bunch of punters about BS and run an business in a
weird alleyway of sheds...
*cough*
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Wow! Top stuff! Most enteretaining viewing. And how jammy were the BBC to manage
to get that slice of computing history on camera at the time??? Talk about the
Gods smiling on them there!
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> On 8 Nov 2004 09:11:51 -0800, rob...@jabba.demon.co.uk (Robert Hazelby) wrote:
>
> [snipped]
>
> Wow! Top stuff! Most enteretaining viewing. And how jammy were the BBC to manage
> to get that slice of computing history on camera at the time??? Talk about the
> Gods smiling on them there!
Even luckier considering the bailiffs almost confiscated the BBC camera
equipment!
Somebody
"RootShell" <root...@netcabo.pt> wrote in message
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I have put it in my Emule 'shared folder'.
What a super trip back in time that was. Thankyou! I watched this back in
the day when I was
of similar age to Jonathan Smith. I distinctly remember the Pud-Pud bit. The
rest was all lost in the
midst of my mind so it was nice to see it again. Oh how I wanted to be
Jonathan back then. Alas, it wasn't meant to be...
Thanks again.
Somebody
"Somebody" <so...@where.com> wrote in message
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>
> "RootShell" <root...@netcabo.pt> wrote in message
> news:4190a857$0$3218$a729...@news.telepac.pt...
>> "Robert Hazelby" <rob...@jabba.demon.co.uk> escreveu na mensagem
>> news:99b586f3.0411...@posting.google.com...
>>> It's been a long time coming, but you now have the chance to download
>>> the December 1984 epsiode of BBC's `Commercial Breaks` programme. This
>>> is the all-famous episode featuring `Imagine Software` and their
>>> magnificent going-down-the-pan.
>>>
>>> Simply copy and paste the following link into your Bit Torrent
>>> software:
>>>
>>> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/downloads/cbreaks.torrent
>>
>> Any chance of sharing it on P2P network? amule/emule/edonkey?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> RootShell
>>
>>
>
> I have put it in my Emule 'shared folder'.
>
commerical_breaks_256.avi
Colin Piggot
> It's been a long time coming, but you now have the chance to download
> the December 1984 epsiode of BBC's `Commercial Breaks` programme. This
> is the all-famous episode featuring `Imagine Software` and their
> magnificent going-down-the-pan.
Certainly is an interesting insight into the companies way, way back in the
early 80's. Half an hour well spent watching that!
Colin
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Somebody
I've just realised the filename is spelt incorrectly, the commercial bit.
(renamed correctly now here)
Search for breaks_256
Nick Humphries
>>> I have put it in my Emule 'shared folder'.
>>>
>>
>> commerical_breaks_256.avi
>>
>
>I've just realised the filename is spelt incorrectly, the commercial bit.
>(renamed correctly now here)
>
>Search for breaks_256
D'oh!
The joys of automatic filename completion in bash shell - you don't notice
little details like that until it's too late :)
Nick Humphries
>"Robert Hazelby" <rob...@jabba.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> It's been a long time coming, but you now have the chance to download
>> the December 1984 epsiode of BBC's `Commercial Breaks` programme. This
>> is the all-famous episode featuring `Imagine Software` and their
>> magnificent going-down-the-pan.
>
>Certainly is an interesting insight into the companies way, way back in the
>early 80's. Half an hour well spent watching that!
You don't hear much about David Ward or Gary Bracey these days. They'd
probably be quite interesting to interview, eh, RG* peeps?
Matthew Westcott
> I watched this back in the day when I was
> of similar age to Jonathan Smith.
Call it wild speculation if you must, but I'd say it's quite likely you
are in fact *still* of similar age to Jonathan Smith.
Somebody
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haha quite right :) The things we write, eh?
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deKay
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yawatina tan reek esk dasse...@hotmail.com (Dasse) fornis do marikano es
bono tan el:
>that was a fantastic voyage back in time! is there anymore like this
>out there about other old companies?
http://www.lofi-gaming.org.uk/download/dl.php?fid=8
is from when I was on Inside Out.
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Andrew Crane
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> the December 1984 epsiode of BBC's `Commercial Breaks` programme. This
> is the all-famous episode featuring `Imagine Software` and their
> magnificent going-down-the-pan.
Don't suppose that someone could burn this on to a (Mac compatible) CD-ROM
if I sent them a blank disc?
Chris Young
to MC Andrew Crane:
> > It's been a long time coming, but you now have the chance to download
> > the December 1984 epsiode of BBC's `Commercial Breaks` programme. This
> > is the all-famous episode featuring `Imagine Software` and their
> > magnificent going-down-the-pan.
>
> Don't suppose that someone could burn this on to a (Mac compatible) CD-ROM
> if I sent them a blank disc?
Yes, but only if somebody puts it up somewhere sensible (whatever
happened to FTP?) so I can actually get hold of the damn thing myself.
Oh, and you have to also admit that you're Andy Crane of Children's
BBC fame.
Chris
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> (whatever
> happened to FTP?)
Soaks up bandwidth like there's no tomorrow if you're serving large
files by yourself.
Of course, there's nothing stopping anyone putting it up on a website or
FTP server once they've grabbed it via BitTorrent.
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Doctor J. Frink
<m...@the-den.clara.net> wrote:
>"Chris Young" <n...@yoursinclair.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:4192551A.M...@yoursinclair.co.uk
>
>> (whatever
>> happened to FTP?)
>
>Soaks up bandwidth like there's no tomorrow if you're serving large
>files by yourself.
Yep, but sometimes people can't/won't use P2P.
>Of course, there's nothing stopping anyone putting it up on a website or
>FTP server once they've grabbed it via BitTorrent.
And for a limited period of time it can be sucked up here:
http://www.cmp.liv.ac.uk/shrike/speccy/commerical_breaks_256.avi
on a 100MBit feed (not mine, obviously).
Git a-suckin' on it like yo' momma's tit, y'all.
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fuzzix
>
> Git a-suckin' on it like yo' momma's tit, y'all.
>
At my age that would be considered a little inappropriate...
Nick Humphries
wrote:
>Doctor J. Frink wrote:
>>
>> Git a-suckin' on it like yo' momma's tit, y'all.
>
>At my age that would be considered a little inappropriate...
Although Normal For Norfolk.
Coat.
deKay
05:44:27 -0800, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do comp.sys.sinclair,
>> http://www.lofi-gaming.org.uk/download/dl.php?fid=8
>>
>> is from when I was on Inside Out.
>
>if the quailty was better it would have been even greater, but it was a fun clip! :)
I have a better quality clip, but it is HUGE :)
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deKay
2004 23:43:47 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do comp.sys.sinclair,
yawatina tan reek esk Nick Humphries <ni...@egyptusWIBBLE.co.uk> fornis do
marikano es bono tan el:
>On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:16:06 +0000, fuzzix <fuzzb...@e.i.r.c.o.m.n.e.t>
>wrote:
>
>>Doctor J. Frink wrote:
>>>
>>> Git a-suckin' on it like yo' momma's tit, y'all.
>>
>>At my age that would be considered a little inappropriate...
>
>Although Normal For Norfolk.
Oi!
Have you seen this series of Little Britain, btw? :)
Nick Humphries
>Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Wed, 10 Nov
>2004 23:43:47 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do comp.sys.sinclair,
>yawatina tan reek esk Nick Humphries <ni...@egyptusWIBBLE.co.uk> fornis do
>marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:16:06 +0000, fuzzix <fuzzb...@e.i.r.c.o.m.n.e.t>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Doctor J. Frink wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Git a-suckin' on it like yo' momma's tit, y'all.
>>>
>>>At my age that would be considered a little inappropriate...
>>
>>Although Normal For Norfolk.
>
>Oi!
>
>Have you seen this series of Little Britain, btw? :)
Nah - TBH I'm fed up with gross-out-style shows. Bring back the funny, I say.
RootShell
> I have a better quality clip, but it is HUGE :)
>
> deKay
> --
Well in BitTorrent it doesnt take that long to download (and it has resume)
:P
Please post a torrent :) (if it's less that 4.7GB to place on a DVD)
Regards,
RootShell
Tayles
Robert Hazelby wrote:
> It's been a long time coming, but you now have the chance to download
> the December 1984 epsiode of BBC's `Commercial Breaks` programme.
This
> is the all-famous episode featuring `Imagine Software` and their
> magnificent going-down-the-pan.
>
> software:
>
> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/downloads/cbreaks.torrent
>
> informed that it looks quite clear on full screen.
>
> I'll let you know when the CGE footage starts going online.
>
> A very big thank you to Nick Humpries of the Your Sinclair Archive
> ([URL= http://www.egyptus.co.uk] http://www.egyptus.co.uk[/URL]) for
> encoding this and making it available.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Rob
Ere, I know a lot of work has been done by Rob and Nick in getting this
long lost documentary back into circulation, but I wouldn't mind a
little nod of recognition for being the bloke who actually scoured the
earth, harassed the BBC, called in favours and twiddled knobs to get a
copy of the programme. I don't want to end up as Midge Ure to Robert &
Nick's Bob Geldoff!
There I've said it.
Russ.
Biggo
> I wouldn't mind a
> little nod of recognition for being the bloke who actually scoured the
> earth, harassed the BBC, called in favours and twiddled knobs to get a
> copy of the programme.
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Nick Humphries
>Ere, I know a lot of work has been done by Rob and Nick in getting this
>long lost documentary back into circulation, but I wouldn't mind a
>little nod of recognition for being the bloke who actually scoured the
>earth, harassed the BBC, called in favours and twiddled knobs to get a
>copy of the programme. I don't want to end up as Midge Ure to Robert &
>Nick's Bob Geldoff!
Hi Russ,
Whilst I can't speak for Robert, I'm pretty sure I can safely say it was an
oversight on both our parts and I really should have posted an additional
follow-up singing your praises. For this I cannot apologise enough.
The only thing I can possibly think of saying in our defence is that CSS is
well-aware of your large part in the saga to get Commercial Breaks onto the
'net and so I guess the post was made in that context in that everyone here
knew what happened "Previously, On Comp.Sys.Sinclair..."
The documentary certainly went down well and I'm sure everyone here values
your substantial efforts in bringing this to us!
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