| zmoylan-pi | happy new year folk o/ | 00:00 |
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| oracology | Happy New Year! | 00:00 |
| penguin42 | HNY oracology | 00:00 |
| m0nkey_ | Happy new whatever from Montreal | 05:17 |
| knightwise | morning | 07:15 |
| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 10:36 |
| === SirMarky1 is now known as SirMarky | ||
| === SirMarky1 is now known as SirMarky | ||
| === zmoylan-1i is now known as zmoylan-pi | ||
| zmoylan-pi | new year sales aren't what they used to be. all shopping centres open with key stores (supermarkets) open and everyone else closed... | 19:53 |
| Azelphur | zmoylan-pi: well, Amazon has GTX 1060s up for £16 (pricing error) | 20:01 |
| Azelphur | I bought 24 of them so far, lol | 20:01 |
| Azelphur | somehow I don't think I'm going to get them. | 20:02 |
| penguin42 | haha | 20:02 |
| zmoylan-pi | if only there drones were doing the delivery you'd have them already... :-P | 20:04 |
| diddledan | Azelphur: looks to not be found by search | 20:10 |
| Azelphur | https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-NVIDIA-GeForce-GDDR5-Graphics/dp/B01IBUFZSM/ref=aag_m_pw_dp?_encoding=UTF8&m=A2LNOP4UQZJ1 | 20:10 |
| Azelphur | I've got 30 ordered | 20:10 |
| diddledan | "no longer available" :-( | 20:10 |
| diddledan | 30 is a bit greedy, no? | 20:11 |
| diddledan | :-p | 20:11 |
| zmoylan-pi | it's cold weather forecast and those heating the home will make it toasty warm :-) | 20:12 |
| * penguin42 giggles - it's Scan as well | 20:13 | |
| diddledan | Azelphur's gonna use them all for bitcoin mining? :-p | 20:14 |
| Azelphur | diddledan: trade em in at CEX for £4000 of CEX credit and go on a shopping spree? | 20:14 |
| diddledan | :-p | 20:14 |
| diddledan | sounds fun | 20:14 |
| penguin42 | Azelphur: So the fun thing is that if I search for the ID in that link it doesn't sohw them, but if I pick it from your link it does | 20:14 |
| diddledan | they might think you nicked them if you do it all in one visit | 20:15 |
| Azelphur | true | 20:15 |
| penguin42 | Azelphur: I've just ordered one - we'll see :-) | 20:17 |
| penguin42 | Azelphur: On Scan's site they list them at 272.99 | 20:17 |
| Azelphur | indeed | 20:17 |
| penguin42 | (Not that I want an Nvidia graphics card, but for that price...) | 20:18 |
| penguin42 | Azelphur: Hmm I wonder about scripting a comparison between the default price amazon shows you and the cheapest in the new list to see for major differences; or between Amazon's prices and a sellers own shop | 20:20 |
| Azelphur | haha would be fun | 20:21 |
| diddledan | won't let me order one | 20:21 |
| penguin42 | now if we're lucky they'll dispatch my one little card and not give a second thought until they go WTH at Azelphur's order | 20:24 |
| penguin42 | I've bought a lot from Scan over the years, they're almost local - I first used them in ~93 when they were pretty small | 20:25 |
| popey | penguin42: do you recall a bbc demo which was like the amiga bounce demo which had a red/white ball bouncing? | 20:29 |
| popey | used palette switching to do the animation | 20:29 |
| penguin42 | popey: Yeh | 20:29 |
| popey | any idea what it was called or where one might find a copy? | 20:30 |
| popey | https://twitter.com/sil/status/815335929753858048 | 20:30 |
| popey | stuart used an amiga screenshot | 20:30 |
| penguin42 | popey: No, I remember it used just shifting the start of video memory to move it | 20:32 |
| popey | that too | 20:32 |
| popey | i think shifting memory to move the ball, and palette switching to do the ball rotation | 20:32 |
| penguin42 | nod | 20:33 |
| popey | happy new year by the way penguin42 :) | 20:37 |
| penguin42 | popey: And to you sir! | 20:39 |
| penguin42 | popey: I think they did the same trick on the Commy 64 | 20:40 |
| popey | cpc too | 20:40 |
| popey | that's where I learned it | 20:40 |
| zmoylan-pi | when all you had were 8 bits you had to do a fair bit to make it dance and sing | 20:43 |
| diddledan | managed to get an order in for that supremely cheap gfx | 20:53 |
| * zmoylan-pi rings plod and reports cyber hackers trying to diddle poor honest retailer amazon | 20:54 | |
| daftykins | cor my old man's been hiding all the old PC mag coverdiscs so he doesn't have to throw them out - also clinging on to his VHS collection - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xlofld1lzj0bjxv/AACL8S8dxyZOuCr-wW3LQFgva?dl=0 | 21:11 |
| zmoylan-pi | the betamax is probably stashed under his matress... :-P | 21:13 |
| zmoylan-pi | when i was clearing out the last of my audio casettes in early 00s i did find 1-2 spectrum cover tapes that had managed to smuggle themselves into audio section | 21:14 |
| === underscoremone_ is now known as _mone | ||
| daftykins | zmoylan-pi: :D | 21:18 |
| zmoylan-pi | some of the tapes did contain best of zx spectrum game music so... you know... very rare :-D | 21:18 |
| daftykins | i found my psion series 3c sync cable for PsiWin so then hoped we could find the main unit and pop it on ebay :D sadly my Dad put it in a very safe place | 21:19 |
| zmoylan-pi | so it will only reappear 1 week after you get rid of the other piece... | 21:20 |
| daftykins | precisely! | 21:20 |
| daftykins | chaos storage theory | 21:20 |
| zmoylan-pi | i had a keyboard disappear 3 months ago. my place is really small. and i went through everything twice... till i stopped looking and sorted a replacement... and then of course it reappeared in a laptop sleeve | 21:21 |
| daftykins | :> | 21:22 |
| zmoylan-pi | a packard bell keyboard sold with a pc with winme preinstalled. | 21:22 |
| zmoylan-pi | so it's obviously precursed... :-P | 21:23 |
| daftykins | do you even own anything you can use a real size keyboard with? :D | 21:23 |
| zmoylan-pi | i was holding this keyboard till one day i acquire the dremel skills to install a rasp pi zero, battery, usb hub and screen :-D | 21:24 |
| daftykins | ;) | 21:25 |
| zmoylan-pi | and i use it at the mo with a lenovo laptop whose own keyboard decided it didn't want half the keys to work on. my second lenovo for this to happen to... | 21:25 |
| daftykins | D: | 21:26 |
| daftykins | you must be falling asleep on them and dribbling into one side :) | 21:26 |
| daftykins | this a super budget end ideapad thing, or? | 21:26 |
| zmoylan-pi | once is odd, two laptops is very weird. weirder is that 2 other, older laptops i have are both fine so i'm pretty sure it's not me | 21:26 |
| zmoylan-pi | both lenovos were got cheap in argos at end of catalog sale... | 21:27 |
| daftykins | ah har | 21:27 |
| zmoylan-pi | a €400 laptop for <€250 | 21:27 |
| daftykins | yip can't sniff at thata | 21:27 |
| daftykins | -a | 21:27 |
| daftykins | i've priced up a little revver to put in this case i just scored for free, well it's a full core 2 duo setup but i'd throw all that out :) | 21:28 |
| zmoylan-pi | 4gb of ram and 1tb spinny thingie... | 21:28 |
| zmoylan-pi | so my console text really flies by... :-) | 21:29 |
| daftykins | easily upgraded to be sane! | 21:29 |
| daftykins | https://www.dropbox.com/s/susv7ns5s72lois/spec.PNG?dl=0 | 21:29 |
| daftykins | look at that glorious tax free price | 21:29 |
| zmoylan-pi | starting the daftykinism religion was best decision ever :-P | 21:44 |
| daftykins | absolutely | 21:45 |
| daftykins | i haven't gotten around to getting high as a kite and writing a book for my followers yet though | 21:45 |
| zmoylan-pi | in time, in time. | 21:46 |
| diddledan | daftykins: I'm gonna start shipping stuff through you as a fence so I get taxfreeebies :-p | 22:04 |
| daftykins | ;) they closed that long ago, has to be muled over to sneak it now | 22:05 |
| diddledan | oh, awesome, thanks for offering! | 22:05 |
| daftykins | ;] | 22:05 |
| daftykins | my mule credentials are quite long | 22:06 |
| daftykins | also fitting that Guerns are nicknamed 'donkeys' | 22:06 |
| diddledan | said the bishop to the actress | 22:06 |
| daftykins | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gears-War-Standard-Windows-Download/dp/B01GSJ2FFO/ wow that's £41 on the MS Store | 22:08 |
| daftykins | hrmmm how much did The Beano and The Dandy cost back in the 90s? | 22:25 |
| daftykins | i thought i'd make a convo of it rather than try to look it up online :) | 22:25 |
| zmoylan-pi | i used to get 2000ad until around 1990 and iirc it was 28p uk | 22:27 |
| daftykins | cor :D | 22:27 |
| zmoylan-pi | of course in ireland it was 35p irish iirc | 22:28 |
| zmoylan-pi | ::checks online:: 40p in late 1989... not to far off from memory... http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=651&Comic=2000ad | 22:32 |
| zmoylan-pi | you can check by prog number here... http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=covers&page=progs&FirstProg=651&LastProg=700&MaxProg=1997 | 22:33 |
| daftykins | i think i've seen a comic store over here now, although i don't know if it's survived... the two i mentioned were the closest i ever got in my youth | 22:34 |
| daftykins | those multi-part "build-a-something" ones suffered big time over here 'cause you'd get the first then nobody would have any further, not sure if it suffered a similar fate up on the mainland / Ireland :D | 22:35 |
| zmoylan-pi | my father worked as a porter in a hospital. i think i got all the comics that were been discarded... :-) but i did buy 2000ad as it was great sci fi | 22:35 |
| daftykins | ah har! a good source | 22:36 |
| zmoylan-pi | multipart build it up collectibles did very well here... my father was a fan of a few of them and built them up and had them in their proper bound covers | 22:36 |
| daftykins | ooh very nice | 22:37 |
| daftykins | i don't really get how my brother managed to mess those up since we have newsagents covering certain areas | 22:38 |
| zmoylan-pi | also for empty bottles which back in 80s had a deposit that was worth 10p each. i once helped him fill a tiny datsun to drive slowly to bottle bank and redeem over 88quid... | 22:38 |
| daftykins | ah just like the US system with cans in some states | 22:38 |
| zmoylan-pi | they should bring it back to stop the dumping of plastic waste in environment | 22:43 |
| daftykins | before i was allowed out earlier at my folks, i was asked to look through a drawer of old AC adapters to sort through important stuff :D | 22:46 |
| zmoylan-pi | how many old nokia adapters did they have? i might need one :-D | 22:48 |
| daftykins | 0! but there were two sony ericsson ones | 22:48 |
| daftykins | nokias must be hiding elsewhere ;) | 22:48 |
| zmoylan-pi | they've been promoted to calculators and socks hiding place | 22:49 |
| zmoylan-pi | but still below bic pen hidey hole | 22:51 |
| daftykins | single colour? :) | 22:52 |
| penguin42 | popey: Excellent! | 23:14 |
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