A little teaser
Nick Humphries, via obd
here? :
http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
:)
Image updated every now and then whilst I do something quite funky in Perl
for the intro animation for the 1984 chapter (restarted work on that after
various distractions).
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Chris Young
to MC Nick Humphries, via obd:
> Just to fill up this newsgroup a bit, can anyone guess what's happening
> here? :
The left bloke is saying the right bloke "Nice hat!".
Chris
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Geoff Wearmouth
obd" <nick...@egyptus.co.uk> writes
>Just to fill up this newsgroup a bit, can anyone guess what's happening
>here? :
>
> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
Your docking computer was playing up and so you decided to enter the
orbiting space station under manual control. As the "Blue Danube"
blasted out of the speakers and you space craft synchronized with the
rotation of the station you accidentally hit the 'A' key and fired your
lasers through the docking hatch.
Instantly 26 Thargoids, cunningly disguised as children's letter bricks
swarmed out of the Space Station and began attacking you. (This is on a
BBC B. Nothing so remotely exciting happens on the Spectrum version).
Just as you are about to disintegrate and your crystals tumble into the
void there is a message "Right On Commander! All Your Sinclair are
belong to us" and at that moment your computer freezes.
All outgoing messages are terminated.
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deKay
2004 11:31:00 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do comp.sys.sinclair,
yawatina tan reek esk "Nick Humphries, via obd" <nick...@egyptus.co.uk>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>Just to fill up this newsgroup a bit, can anyone guess what's happening
>here? :
>
> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
Looks like you're morphing the YS logo into something, or something into the
YS logo?
deKay
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Nick Humphries, via obd
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Thu, 4 Nov
> 2004 11:31:00 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do comp.sys.sinclair,
> yawatina tan reek esk "Nick Humphries, via obd" <nick...@egyptus.co.uk>
> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>> Just to fill up this newsgroup a bit, can anyone guess what's happening
>> here? :
>>
>> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
>
> Looks like you're morphing the YS logo into something, or something into the
> YS logo?
Nope, although I'm intrigued about where you thought the letters came into
it...
Steve Anderson
> Just to fill up this newsgroup a bit, can anyone guess what's happening
> here? :
>
> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
It's definitely not Stonkers.
I can only say that for certain because I realised I didn't actually
know what Stonkers looked like until two minutes ago... I'm down with
the childr^H^H^H^H^H^H kids.
deKay
yawatina tan reek esk "Nick Humphries, via obd" <nick...@egyptus.co.uk>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>> Looks like you're morphing the YS logo into something, or something into the
>> YS logo?
>
>Nope, although I'm intrigued about where you thought the letters came into
>it...
They're letters? Oh yes, so they are. I thought they were just points.
Nathan Cross
> Just to fill up this newsgroup a bit, can anyone guess what's happening
> here? :
>
> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
>
> :)
>
> Image updated every now and then whilst I do something quite funky in Perl
> for the intro animation for the 1984 chapter (restarted work on that after
> various distractions).
That's no moon...
Nathan
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The Starglider
>"Nick Humphries, via obd" <nick...@egyptus.co.uk> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.61.0411041129200.24095@obd>...
>> Just to fill up this newsgroup a bit, can anyone guess what's happening
>> here? :
>>
>> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
>>
>> :)
>>
>> Image updated every now and then whilst I do something quite funky in Perl
>> for the intro animation for the 1984 chapter (restarted work on that after
>> various distractions).
>
>That's no moon...
>
...that's a playstation
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Ralph Glatt
> On 5 Nov 2004 11:53:41 -0800, natx...@postmaster.co.uk (Nathan Cross) wrote:
>
> >"Nick Humphries, via obd" <nick...@egyptus.co.uk> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.61.0411041129200.24095@obd>...
> >> Just to fill up this newsgroup a bit, can anyone guess what's happening
> >> here? :
> >>
> >> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
> >>
> >> :)
> >>
> >> Image updated every now and then whilst I do something quite funky in Perl
> >> for the intro animation for the 1984 chapter (restarted work on that after
> >> various distractions).
> >
> >That's no moon...
> >
> ...that's a playstation
I've got a bad feeling about this . . .
Ralph Glatt
Nick Humphries
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Nick Humphries
news:Pine.LNX.4.61.0411041129200.24095@obd
> Just to fill up this newsgroup a bit, can anyone guess what's happening
> here? :
>
> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
>
> :)
Another hint - just wrote a bit of Perl that produced this.
http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/fg.gif
Two posers:
1) Name the group and song. That should be easy.
2) How does it tie in with the above image?
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Cyborg
> "Nick Humphries, via obd" <nick...@egyptus.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.61.0411041129200.24095@obd
>
>
>>Just to fill up this newsgroup a bit, can anyone guess what's happening
>>here? :
>>
>> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
>>
>>:)
>
>
> Another hint - just wrote a bit of Perl that produced this.
>
> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/fg.gif
>
> Two posers:
>
> 1) Name the group and song. That should be easy.
>
> 2) How does it tie in with the above image?
>
>
Well it's ZZTop but it doesn't really tie into the above image other
than I know that you have been doing your whole YS "Rock 'n' Roll Years"
stuff.
Anders Carlsson
>>> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
>> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/fg.gif
>
>> 1) Name the group and song. That should be easy.
>> 2) How does it tie in with the above image?
>
> Well it's ZZTop but it doesn't really tie into the above image other
> than I know that you have been doing your whole YS "Rock 'n' Roll Years"
> stuff.
Maybe Nick is leaving the YS archives where they are and instead
concentrate on Zzap64! archives? (Zztop ~= Zzap :-)
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Anders Carlsson
Ktbproductions
> >
> > http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
ZZ-top and the song "Doubleback"
> 2) How does it tie in with the above image?
Well, Doubleback is from the soundtrack to "Back the the future part 3"
Your Sinclair was published by "Future publishing"
I got it! You're communicating the 80's desire for important communists to
defect to the west through strange advertisements left in the small ads in
computing periodicals of the time.
NM - what do you mean 'unlikely'
Nick Humphries, via obd
> "Nick Humphries" <m...@the-den.clara.net> wrote in message news:<b5d5fc54a92b00b7c59...@mygate.mailgate.org>...
>>>
>>> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
>> Another hint - just wrote a bit of Perl that produced this.
>> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/fg.gif
>>
>> 1) Name the group and song. That should be easy.
>
> ZZ-top and the song "Doubleback"
Right band, wrong song :)
Ktbproductions
Right band, wrong song :)
ah... You're right - the angle confused me - looking at it, it's
either
"Legs" or "Viva las Vegas" or almost any of their videos :-) ...
I'd go for "Legs" though - it has that "Mall parking lot" feel that I
remember...
Although how that links to the previous image, I have no idea...
[I might stand by my "defecting communist" theory until something else
comes along.... ]
NM
Nick Humphries, via obd
> "Nick Humphries" <m...@the-den.clara.net> wrote in message
>>> 1) Name the group and song. That should be easy.
>> ZZ-top and the song "Doubleback"
>
> Right band, wrong song :)
>
> ah... You're right - the angle confused me - looking at it, it's
> either
> "Legs" or "Viva las Vegas" or almost any of their videos :-) ...
> I'd go for "Legs" though - it has that "Mall parking lot" feel that I
> remember...
Nope and nope :)
> Although how that links to the previous image, I have no idea...
> [I might stand by my "defecting communist" theory until something else
> comes along.... ]
Think about what the first image represents and how it could be combined
with the second image - I'm just working on the intro animation for the
1984 chapter of the documentary.
It's a bit tenuous, I grant you :)
Anders Carlsson
> I'd go for "Legs" [..] Although how that links to the
> previous image, I have no idea...
Maybe Sinclair himself also goes for legs? Thus Nick would make a
presentation about how much more lucky with women Sir Clive would
be if he grew a big beard.
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Nick Humphries, via obd
I still can't believe that SirC is such a hit with the ladies...
Ktbproductions
>
hmm... "head's in mississipi" ? "Velcro fly" ? "Pin cushion" ?
Definately not "Planet of women"... I think... No ... no... wait...
I think its "Gimmie all your lovin"
[what do you mean, I'm just listing all the singles I can remember :-)
to be honest though, -all- their videos have a scene with the 3 of
them posing as in the picture]
>> Although how that links to the previous image, I have no idea...
>Think about what the first image represents and how it could be
combined with
>the second image - I'm just working on the intro animation for the
1984 chapter
>of the documentary.
Well... people have mentioned Star Wars ; although the closest of the
movies would have been 83's Return of the Jedi... so that doesn't
really fit. Games with letters from '84 would have been things like
the various incarnations of "Blockbusters" [with it eventually being
renamed something beginning with 'W' IIRC ] .... ah.... channel 4 and
countdown.. no... wait... that started in 82 - although all those
letters and the circle does make me think countdown-y.
Back to Star Wars, there was a glut of early "star-wars" style clones
- like death-star interceptor ... hmm... although didn't the official
[Domark] release come out in 85/6 ? hmm.
Still no real idea!
>It's a bit tenuous, I grant you :)
It's like the bastard son of "3-2-1" and "Catchphrase" with maybe a
smidge of "Bullseye" for flavour :)
NM
Nick Humphries
news:418b8964.0411...@posting.google.com
> >It's a bit tenuous, I grant you :)
> It's like the bastard son of "3-2-1" and "Catchphrase" with maybe a
> smidge of "Bullseye" for flavour :)
And the answer's probably a crap one in this case too :)
Nick Humphries
> "Nick Humphries, via obd" <nick...@egyptus.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.61.0411041129200.24095@obd
>
> > Just to fill up this newsgroup a bit, can anyone guess what's happening
> > here? :
> >
> > http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
>
> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/fg.gif
One last (ultra-massive) clue....
http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/done.png
Just need to get all the sprites done now...
deKay
2004 00:13:11 +0000 (UTC), sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
comp.sys.sinclair, yawatina tan reek esk "Nick Humphries"
>"Nick Humphries" <m...@the-den.clara.net> wrote in message
>news:b5d5fc54a92b00b7c59...@mygate.mailgate.org
>
>> "Nick Humphries, via obd" <nick...@egyptus.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:Pine.LNX.4.61.0411041129200.24095@obd
>>
>> > Just to fill up this newsgroup a bit, can anyone guess what's happening
>> > here? :
>> >
>> > http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/last_bite.gif
>>
>> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/fg.gif
>
>One last (ultra-massive) clue....
>
> http://obdwww.egyptus.co.uk/done.png
>
>Just need to get all the sprites done now...
Right, so all the little letters in squares are people? Possibly from Skool
Daze, by the looks of them.
Nick Humphries
>Right, so all the little letters in squares are people? Possibly from Skool
>Daze, by the looks of them.
You big tease, you...