ATARI OWNER VIDEO LINK - NEW YEAR 2021

Go for it, Paul - let em know that two can up the ante in the noise stakes, the bar stewards.

Set your stereo to 20 and select the rail gun or BFG on supercharge... that'll learn em topside.

Yeah, it was really good chatting with Graham and Al earlier and I sincerely hope you and some of the other guys can join us soon when it's convenient to do so.

For now, pop a couple of painkillers, headbutt an Oric and wish those cacodemons upstairs a complete frag fest and pray they never respawn again...

Night, mate.

 

Woke up this morning to a much much faded back pain, and for some reason my feet were like ice blocks, Cindy made me a hot water bottle and I burnt my ruddy leg on it...My fault...

Still all quiet from upstairs, it's quite unnerving in all honesty...There's a person up there but no sounds of kids...Weird..(but GOOD)

The good old car insurance was far too easy to sort, was expecting all sorts of excuses but a Welsh lady took the details, asked me to send in the other companies policy and 1hr later the refund was sent for processing and should be back on my sister in laws car in 3 - 10 days.

The worst part was trying to explain what happened to Sharon, she didn't quite understand and thought we had taken money off her card to pay for the insurance without asking, took 10 mins to explain that despite asking for the policy to finish that they just put the card through again and we had no knowledge of this until the other day. Finally the penny dropped (maybe) and she's very grateful I noticed it and very happy to be getting 852.00 back...

Not to be sneezed at!


Just looked at the screenies, Graham, you have a proper workshop there mate..Nice..

I'd just changed in to my retro Amiga tee shirt when they rang yesterday, was going to sit there with my Atari / grumpy old git mug mug and then swap to the Windows XP one at some point..

Didn't have much to show, just the souped up 800XL now with sophia 2 (hell is that picture sharp!) (a thanks to a certain pair of AA people for the present). Need to pop over to my mate Tony over in East London to get a DVI cable (oddly one I gave him) to build the DVI - RGB (I do hope the DVI is fully wired).


Here's an ABBUC game just released today, save you hunting it out..

Have fun..

 

Sorry all, completely forgot about this. I was constructing a small signal generator as a soldering project. My soldering compared to when I was doing it nearly everyday, is not quite where I want it to be.

Regards

Andy

 

I'm just glad all turned out well for you, Paul.

Sounded potentially like a whole heap of crap, what with the insurance, inlaws and that loon above but thank god all seems to have passed and you've even managed a result or two there, fella.

Eight hundred nicker back?? Top man!

Glad you have some kit there that's new and you're happy with and thanks a bundle for the heads up on... BISCUITS!

The question now is folks, are you ready for an old Christmas cracker gag, who's gonna be first to have a dunk with this one????!

Again, so long as you're well and keeping out of mischief, Andy, no worries!

We once more hope to see you guys online and sharing your views, news and have a peruse at your goodies next time, fellas.

Who's up for this Sunday at 2, then??

 

I'm in (loons allowing)

 

That's 2 at 2 so far... any more for any more?!


Remember, folks, Nysavant Al will be revealing more, next Sunday, as to what he keeps up his kilt...

 

Those conjoined twins seem interested..

As for what is up there, I'm betting its his wallet...

 

Is anything worn under the Kilt? No, it's in perfect working order. Boom boom.

 

I'm guessing you'll never know Paul hehe, I'm hoping that we can repeat the group chat soon, even this Sunday coming, I'm pretty certain Andy is up for it (circumstances allowing), and likely Al, although not sure if we'll just be hearing his dulcet tones on his new Mic, or perhaps we'll get to see him this time?
Be nice if a few more join in and I promise to be quieter this time

P.S Seems I took so long typing up post, two others crept in ... Mach 1 & Mach 2 included

P.P.S Hmmm never mind two missed post's, but loads' so sorry about the drival above as only reiterating what later posts already stated..

 

If Allans video isn't working we can just paste this in..

 

sorry about the stupid out of order post.. I did edit , but seem to have missed loads of posts not just the two I originally thought.

 

I little story from many years ago..
I was working for Cellnet, and they had an issue with four of the Mobile (not physically) exchanges (all of them) not passing messages properly, and kept restarting so I was sent to investigate. Drove over night sharing driving with my Boss, but that was a whole new story in itself.
Anyway finally got to site (Dial House Glasgow) and resolved the problem (caused by BT) that evening the guys in Glasgow switch decided to take me out, told me to meet them in a pub just off the Clyde. got there ..
Not seeing either of the two 'Tam's' I enquired at the bar, knowing they were well known from a previous visit.
The staff called out TAM TAM your English mates here ... followed by complete silence decending on the bar, and a lot of staring in my direction... Thankfully one of the TAM's made an appearance, upon seeing whom it was, the bar returned to it's previous noisey self ...
Unfortunatly I don't remember all the evening... apparently that was usual after being Double 'Tam'ed'

 

So

Andy B , Paul , Al, Andy V, and myself so far ...
And the good thing we get to see Andy V's Signal generator
Matt how would your mobile network hold up for a voice only google call from Oklahoma ?

 

Go for it, Matt.

Boost us a little bud, from the Frantic Three to the Sensational Six(!)

It's possibly a bit early for Oklahoma, 8am, if we start at 2pm, Matt?

If instead we go for 3pm our start time, is 9am + a go-er for you - or just join in if you can before we clear off?

 

Going loose as a English man in Glasgow is risky enough, to go in to a drinking establishment is just asking for trouble

Hell, I'm worried enough about going to Belfast and I was born there...(my accent says otherwise sadly). I'd love to see the old place again but my old man mixed with the UDA while here in England and is linked back to Belfast in that way and I don't need that hassle. He used to meet them in the Clissold Arms, a pub in Stoke Newington, I was about 14 and I played pool with the locals (typical Irish / Black pub, got on like a house on fire) but his mates would come in and you would hear "A word Sammy" which was to my dad, Stanley and he would bugger off in to the back room, I never asked much...

I do know they financed a lot with the sale of drugs, the name turinol spring's to mind as a name I heard a lot.

So going home is a bit of a no no in my head...

It was bad enough when I found out the IRA were buying stock from my Maplin branch....Yup, they really were and we had Scotland yard investigating.

What a varied life I seem to have had, all 100% true...

And yeah Matt, try and make the call, give us a quick tour of the command centre..

 

I kind of get that, but didn't think the guys would lead me to a place that was too dangerous.. and was 20 plus years ago..
Mind you I was due to go to Eniskillen, there a huge Radio mast up on the hills, all lined up to go, and then ...
the face of the hotel was taken off by a car bomb this would have been mid 90's .. I never did get to N.I. have been to Ireland a few times though.

 

I was being a bit tongue in cheek re your event, as you say, your mates don't do stuff like that to actually get you hurt... (well you hope not).

I remember when I first joined Maplin the lads thought it would be nice to take me out to the pub as the new boy, what I didn't know that there was a plan to pull one over the new boy as a bit of a laugh. So we wander down a street and in to this pub and when you got it you noticed it had teddy bears in leather caps and short's with big handlebar moustaches and it was obvious it was a gay bar. Now because I was young I was supposed to freak out about it in their mind but I'd worked in teaching previously and half the teachers were gay or lesbian, it wasn't a big shock to me. So their plan fell flat, in fact it turned on them because the normal clientele of the pub noticed there were straights in the pub that felt a bit uneasy so they played on that and started winking at some of the lads...(I did say winking!)

Talk about reverse of situation...They wanted out quick...

 

Yay....Just heard upstairs coughing a lot, Serena says she was coughing all night...I bet they have covid..YES!!!!

No wonder there's no children and his car has not moved...May it get stronger and worse, telling me to go suicide myself, karma's a bitch

 

If it is Karma indeed...

What goes around comes around !!

 

AFTERNOON, GUYS!

Who's still up for an online meet tomorrow afternoon and are we sticking with 2pm or do we push it back to 3pm to give folks that little bit of extra time to get Matt onboard and our Oric face-masks hermetically sealed around our pus-filled cheeks and boil-splattered lugs??

C'mon, lets-be-avenue -

WHO'S IN and WHO's HOSTING as it were ??

Al, you did a great job last week, mate.

 

I'm good for 3 (I hope) if it gives a chance for matt to get on..

 

I should be able to make 3pm GMT. If everyone is happy with that then I'll create a Google Meets invite.

 

Excellent, excellent, chaps.

Any more for any more - c'mon, get yer nose out of your tape box and shuffle forward - you can do it - hit that ENTER key after typing "Yes, I'm up for an hour's insanity, Mac's micro updates, ridiculous views of Baz's chin and a quick shufty at what Al's got up his kilt etc...

Sign up now and get yer webcam wiped down - you know it makes (no) sense.

 

I'm up for it, whatever IT may be!!!!!

 

That's the spirIT, Andy!