wp-gdpr-compliance domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/douglast/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131wp-gdpr-compliance domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/douglast/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131Oh Mummy is another of the ZX Spectrum’s offerings which managed to slip by my younger self without so much as a nod. So when I recently saw a discussion of it on the Spectrum 4 Ever Facebook page I felt I should try it for myself. Once again the […]
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3D Stock Car Championship by Firebird on the ZX Spectrum comes in a 48k version, and isn’t a game I’d heard of until recently. So firing up the trusty 128k +2A I loaded the game from the SD card in the PICODIVSD which I recently got. The first thing you […]
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Having just purchased a PicoDivSD from Zaxon on Sellmyretro.com I was trying it out with some demos. It is amazing what the old Speccy is capable of when pushed. The PicoDivSD looks like this in the Spectrum +2A as you can see it’s very compact, and barely adds to the […]
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Over the last few weeks I have been getting a few bits and pieces together for my various retro computers and consoles. So here’s a quick rundown of the bits and the results good or bad. Commodore 64: This is a tape interface which you can use to load from […]
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Santatlantean is a new homebrew game from Aetherbyte based on Atlantean also by Aetherbyte. A very nice little side scrolling shootemup with a Christmassy theme is the quick and dirty way to describe it. But to go a little further what we have is a beautifully drawn background using the […]
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Again a huge gap between posts, but once more here is an update for you on what I have done in that period when I wasn’t writing here. To start at the beginning, I recently retrieved my Commodore 64 from the cold dark and damp garage, before I realised I […]
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So what have I been doing recently you never wondered as you haven’t even given me a thought in the last few weeks. Well I’ll tell you anyway, I’ve been doing very little apart from making excuses not to do any of the stuff I should be doing. But recently […]
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T2 The Arcade game is one of the few games out there which works with the Sega Menacer light gun, and at the start screen, you are given the option to play with the joypad or the Menacer. Firstly, playing any kind of shooter which uses crosshairs (or in this […]
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Following on from our recent chocolate mould shennanigans we ordered all the moulds and today had another session of being choclatiers (well pouring chocolate in moulds), here is my step to step guide of chocolate moulding with a ten year old daughter. Step 1 order moulds from Amazon. Change card […]
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Used this recently to make some chocolate shapes, and they came out brilliantly. They are really meant to make ice cubes for your drinks, but being silicone they are supple enough and slippery enough to use as chocolate moulds too. Just add some cheap (Tesco Value) chocolate melted in the […]
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Nova 2001 is a classic arcade game that was released in 1983 by UPL. The game is a 2D shoot ’em up set in space where the player controls a spaceship that needs to destroy all enemies on the screen to move on to a new level 12. In Nova 2001, players can steer their […]
