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Master B is very happy
Mu Beta Started conversation Oct 26, 2004
Why is Master B very happy, I hear you ask?
Master B has spent the last three months or so wallowing in nostalgia as he remembered quite possibly the best pinball game ever released for the PC. A convert of an old Amiga game, Pinball Fantasies was immensely, fantastically playable, and occupied me for many many hours on my old DOS 386
Unfortunately, it is resolutely unavailable by any conventional means (Amazon, Ebay etc) and took me several weeks to track down a full download. But here it is!
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=1856
Further frustration and computer crashing as I tried to boot DOS from scratch followed until last night I found a perfect DOS emulator to run Pinball Fantasies. And here it is too!
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
And then I was up until 3am playing it. 
Thoroughly recommendable, though. Only 2.5MB of downloads in total, plus a couple of wasted hours as you explore the best Pinball tables ever built. Cracking cheesy SFX too. 
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Ged42 Posted Oct 26, 2004
That DosBox is a great program, without it i'd have never managed to get System Shock working YAY 
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Oct 26, 2004
Oh dear.... oh dear.... B's found a new 'toy'; 
well, simple things amusing simple minds and all that 
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Mu Beta Posted Oct 27, 2004
'Tis a very very good game. And not a bad emulator.
The problem is that the cheesy music and SFX are driving Odo up the wall. 
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Oct 27, 2004
Should you be writing lesson plans and dremaing up new and excitingly awful punishments for your pupils rather than playing on computer games? 
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Mu Beta Posted Oct 27, 2004
OFSTED are gone now. I don't have to plan lessons any more.
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Oct 27, 2004
Ahh the pin-strip-suited evil men are gone all the more* reason surely to devise some nice exotic punishments for the darling little angels? 
U signed up for the winter meet yet?
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Mu Beta Posted Oct 27, 2004
Are you organising it? (he asks with a due sense of dread)
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fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted Oct 27, 2004
Ooh, with talk of emulators can anyone recommend a good BBC Micro one? BeebEm seems to be the most popular one, but it won't work with XP it seems 
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Oct 27, 2004
'organising' might be something of too strong a word to use; I am orchastrating the direction of several conversations regarding 'date' 'location' etc., and am running the atendee list and page on the meet, but I will let others* take desicions as I don't 'do ' them things and we won't* be considering the 'Oak' this year 
Whilst we are talking of emulators, can anyone recomend a good 'life' emulator?
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- 1: Mu Beta (Oct 26, 2004)
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- 4: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Oct 26, 2004)
- 5: Mu Beta (Oct 27, 2004)
- 6: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Oct 27, 2004)
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- 8: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Oct 27, 2004)
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