Retro Gamer is my second favourite mag ever (after Zzap!64). I also subscribe to SFX, which is a Science Fiction Mag.

I don't know what US mags are like, but I've heard they have a lot more pages and are mainly adverts.

When I was at school I did O-Level Computer Studies and we programmed mainly on Commodore PETs, which I absolutely love (I check eBay regularly for them, today included, though I've never bought one yet). We also used BBC Model Bs. The whole thing was about programming, and I loved it. Our teacher used to bring his VIC-20 and then his C64 in, so some of us used to go in early and hang out in the computer room.

Then later these new-fangled GCSEs came along and people started renaming Computer Studies to something. I'd like to know when the change happened, and if it was gradual, or an instant change when GCSEs started (the year after I left the Senior school, so must have been the new starters in September '86).

I'm glad they are going back to the thinking of the late '70s on this one.

:-)

I didn't know if I had it as it's been years since I last remember seeing it. I was hoping I had it, so I could take it off in disgust!

I even got to tell them why I did it ("Because you are suing someone for posting a link to a freeware player that plays RealPlayer files").

I feel better now :-)

From what I hear, Xbox live went down for about 2 weeks round Christmas 2007. Did developers leave them?

I don't know why it happened that time, but if they weren't hacked, then was it just a crap system? I think it's worse if you pay for a system that goes down for weeks through incompetence rather that an actual attack by criminals on a system that is free and works under normal conditions.

I think MS gave a free game to people. Sony are giving 2 games and 30 days of PS+ for something that wasn't their fault.

I'm just saying...

I'd never heard of it until a couple of days ago, but today (before seeing this article on /.) I pledged some money to an Amiga documentary ( http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vivaamiga/viva-amiga-the-documentary-film ). With today being 17 years since Commodore went bust it seemed a good day to pre-order it.

they locked my save game file, so I couldn't back it up.

I'd bought GH 1, 2, 3, then World Tour. When my PS3 WT save couldn't be backed up I was so annoyed I hardly played it, and totally lost interest in it. As far as I'm concerned they shot themselves in the foot with that one, and I'm always wary if buying Activision games now.

The only thing I'm really interested in is getting round the copy protection on my own files. I'm pretty sure that if my PS3 breaks, I lose some of my saves, as you can only restore to the machine the backup was made on, otherwise it doesn't copy the protected files.

Copy protection on save files is the reason I'll never buy another Guitar Hero type game until the protection it removed, and also why I've not played World Tour as much as previous games.

If this hack gives me back control of my own save files, then I'm glad it's happened.

I've never heard it either, and I'm in England.

I use one of my original Zipsticks with a Stelladaptor (http://www.stelladaptor.com/), so you could get an old Zipstick, Comp. Pro, etc. from eBay, then use the Stelladaptor to connect it to your computer with a USB lead.

The other thing I use (for games that require more than one button) is my home-made arcade controls (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.a.kitching/mamecp/cp1.htm).

I stopped watching adverts probably around the mid '90s. The volume was getting louder when they came on and they were incredibly annoying, so since then I've always muted them as soon as they come on, then I'm on the internet/playing a game/reading/etc. until they have finished. I can see the screen in the corner of my eyes, and I have a glance at it every so often, but I never miss the program coming back on.

I also often record the programs I watch, then start watching it 15-20 minutes after it started, and skip the adverts. By the time it's finished I've caught up with it and got to see it all in one go.

I hate adverts with a passion and no matter what the TV people do, I'll never watch them, so I agree with what you said. They lost me in the '90s.

:-) I couldn't help laughing when I saw what I'd done.

Anyway, it seems that we based it on the ending from the French word, but not the beginning.

But regardless of all of this, it's very bad to publish a game in any language with wrong spellings.

I'm just very surprised that they spend time localising a game, then miss the main point of it.

Differently. The same reason that cough and ugh don't sound the same.

Anyway, that's not what I was talking about. The fact is that color is a spelling mistake in the English langusge. When a game comes out over here I expect them to spell words correctly.

I'm sure the French or Spanish versions don't have words spelt wrong because it's easier to spell them that way.