Re: Well, that's unexpected (Speedball reboot)

On 11/2/2024 6:16 AM, Xocyll wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
 

On 11/1/2024 4:41 AM, JAB wrote:

On 31/10/2024 23:00, Geeknix wrote:

On 2024-10-29, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

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Remember "Speedball"? You probably don't.
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      [Then again, this being Usenet and that most of us
       are old fogies, maybe you do]

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I remember Speedball, I loved it, probably because it was one of the few
games I had on Amiga. My parents were never happy buying games so most
of what I had was demo disks.
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So of course I played it a lot. One day my father wanted to take it to
work to swap with another Amiga owner. I warned him not to take the disc
on the pot lines, those massively magnetic pots would wipe the magnetic
discs.
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Of course he didn't listen and the discs were useless. Spent the rest of
my Amiga owning life, playing demos.
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But now I can relive being 12 again!
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Where I used to work someone decided the best way to store the back-up
tapes was to use their metal backs to 'stick' them to the back of the
inside of the safe which was magnetic!

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A real world tech support call from the days of floppies and no hard
drives.  Manager reports that he is always losing each day's work, it
wouldn't be on the floppy when he put it in the computer the next day.
IT tries for days to figure out what the problem is without success.
Finally one of the techies literally spends an entire day watching the
manager work, trying to see what is causing the problem.  He finally
discovers the cause when at the very end of the day the manager removes
the floppy and sticks it to the side of his filing cabinet with a magnet.
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*rimshot*

 um yeah, I see you and raise you a manager who stuck the failing backup
floppies to the side of the computer with a magnet
 You can't make this shit up.
 

Oooo.   Okay.  From my days programming and tech support for 911 Dispatch Systems.  Not a tech support call I had to handle but one passed on to new programmers.  Client calls, reports their system is down.  All the screens are blank, no response to anything they try to input.  The person calling is the head of that city/county's IT department.  On call tech tells them to go to the main server's terminal and tell him what it says.  Caller says he's already there but can't see anything.  Asked why.  Caller says the room has no lights, they are in the middle of a power outage.  Wants to know how to bring the system back up until the power comes back.  :D
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