Comments on: 20 GOTO 10

By: fústar

fústar — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:21 +0000

Harrier Attack as metaphor for sexual awakening? I bet that’s a first!

By: Peadar

Peadar — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:50:08 +0000

Great piece and great site, glad I was sufficiently bored/nosy to poke around. Harrier Attack evokes some of my earliest memories of wanting to be a part of something but not really understanding exactly what. A suitable preparation for the clammy world of courtship.

By: brian

brian — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:33:39 +0000

aaahhhh the cpc….

By: I Love Coffee, and I Have the T-Shirt to Prove it - Fustar - Recycling Cultural Waste Since 2005

Mon, 25 May 2009 21:27:33 +0000

[...] Back in 1983, while in Mrs. Clifford’s third class, I won a copy of The Citadel of Chaos for drawing a picture of an elephant. Then, for a long time, nothing much happened. Until, that is, 2008 when I was awarded a rather spiffy phone (and some crystal in a lined box) for writing a post about 80s computing & gaming. [...]

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By: fústar

fústar — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:30:29 +0000

Londoner, The best thing to do with Woody’s recent efforts is (I’ve found) to ignore them. Match Point was the nail in the coffin for me. The critical praise heaped on it was inexplicable and showed (as if we didn’t already know) that there are plenty of meedja eejits out there who fall for mutton dressed as lamb.

A great talent fading into irrelevance. Sad.

By: Londoner

Londoner — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:19:31 +0000

Apropos of nada – Woody Allen would consider making a flick in Oirland

I’ve gotten to the point where i now assume New Yorkers have always found their home patch and local character as unrecoginisable as Londoners, Parisians and now presumably the burghers of Barcalona but I dare not imagine how cat stranglingly awful will be the cinematic experience of watching Ms Scarlet popping into Brown Thomas for her weekly groceries shopping with Johnny Rys-Tudor in tepid pusuit.

By: Matt Black

Matt Black — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:06:07 +0000

A-W-E-S-O-M-E

By: fústar

fústar — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:02:58 +0000

Many thanks all. I’m currently half way up (or down) the side of a drenched mountain in Connemara. Hence the radio silence (in case ye thought I was resting on laurels or repeatedly patting myself on the back).

Normal service will resume after the weekend. Thanks again for the kind words.

By: NewsWire

NewsWire — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:02:54 +0000

Well done on the award!

By: Daragh O Brien

Daragh O Brien — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:08:03 +0000

Sweet post Fustar. Brought back memories of my first inkling that backup to magnetic tape or other such media was important for computers. I was 8. I had a spectrum 64k. It was 3am. I’d just finished coding manic miner from one of the spectrum magazines. I was about to type “RUN” when my mother crashed in the door of my room bellowing summat about bed and school and sleep and then pulled the plug. Many hours of coding lost. I back up my backups now.

By: Darragh

Darragh — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:04:19 +0000

Just to add my congratulations – well done. I look forward to reading the piece in full

By: grannymar

grannymar — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:48:30 +0000

That was an era I missed or slept through.

Well done on winning the Blog Post of the Month for July.

By: Keith Gaughan

Keith Gaughan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:04:45 +0000

@fustar But before the Amstrad and Commodore fans did that, they’d always gang up on the Spectrum users and use the hurls on them first. Proper order, and all that.

By: Irish Web and Blog Awards » Blog Archive » Blog Post of the Month July 2008 sponsored by O2 - 20 GOTO 10

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:30:10 +0000

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