Comments on: 20 GOTO 10

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

[…] 20 GOTO 10. […]

By: Mindful Mike

Mindful Mike — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:37:48 +0000

I remember reading somewhere that Big Bill Werbeniuk once popped 3 cyanide capsules during a Canadian Open quarter final against the grind-tastic Thorburn. However, thanks to his Rasputin-like constitution Big Bill survived, and four weeks later from the comfort of his bar stool watched Thorburn claim the title in a I-no-longer-have-the-will-to-breath death match against the ghost of Eddie Charlton.

By: fústar

fústar — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:35:45 +0000

Mindful, I’m sure many a Thorburn opponent felt like crying “No mas” (or popping a cyanide capsule) when faced with deciding sessions that stretched into the wee hours. I don’t think there ever was (alas) a “Cliff Thorburn’s Snooker Challenge” game for the Amstrad, but if there had been I’m sure the loading time would have been in the region of 5 or 6 hours.

Darwin, C64? Bah! In my day C64 fans and Amstrad aficionados used to meet each other after school and settle their differences with hurleys and fists. You were one thing or the other. It was just like West Side Story…only with less dancing and more broken joysticks.

Niall, My guy’s more like Image - Slobbery. Attitude - Hungry for love.

By: niall

niall — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:17:15 +0000

Man, it’d be neat if you could write your own attributes in that boxing game. Image - Knave, Attitude - Churlish, and so on…

By: Darwin

Darwin — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:28:23 +0000

ka-chu ka-chu ka-chu shhhhkkk weeeeeooooo etc. That’s the sound of 23 mins loading Prince of Persia on the C64.

By: Mindful Mike

Mindful Mike — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:52:44 +0000

Thanks Fustar, I now have the image of a moustachio’d black Canadian, jiving around the green baize, tassles a.. tassling, refusing to rush his shot, grinding his opponent to death with his nifty footwork. No mas, no mas.