Info and forum posts by 'toy car'

RE: Another Idea

An option to quick view all outstanding challenges, tick boxes next to each gremlin to make multiple challenges with out having to reload the page several times.

RE: Another Idea

How about adding another category, for reputation.

And base the statistic on challenges made to gremlins above you in the league and/or refusals made to gremlins below you.
Then use this as a factor in the league rankings.

RE: Fight code version 3 (development starting soon)

How about the ability to gamble some unused XP in the fight, with the odds being based from ratio between the two opponents ranking?

RE: PSST, ADMIN in here

It has indeed cleared it self.

PSST, ADMIN in here

Think I may have broken something, Can not see a search option for the forum so don`t know if this has been reported before or not.

When i click on your challenges link i get the error:-

An error occured that shouldn`t have! If you continue to be redirected to the Your Gremlin page then please contact our administrators!

RE: Old Boys Roll Call!!!!!!!!

do I count?

Jimbo contacts me from time to time to.
As does London Babe & Oliver Winwood.

Nivz & Xeno I have not seen for a good while.

TC

RE: PC Keeps Crashing...

With the info so far, I would say either a driver issue with the NIC or modem (I dont know how you connect). Or some script kiddy is having a go at you.

Update your drivers, and check your firewall settings and log any attempts to get access to or from the net. Then look out for any thing that should not be there.

May also be an idea to get your AV software up to date and do a full scan just incase a trojan has found its way on to your system.

Note: Given more information my opinion may well change.
And FYI: I to use these programs on XP PRO with Norton firewall & AV and have no such problems. I strongly recomend you do not shut them down other that to test if they are the source of the problem. Once you have done that get some sort of AV & FW back up and running.

This item was edited on Thursday, 30th May 2002, 00:03

RE: PC Keeps Crashing...

Windows ME per chance?

RE: Dog Soldiers...

A film that I realy enjoyed. But let down by the ending, not that it is bad just could have been better.

I think I enjoyed it so much is because it had a very `real` and `rough` feel to the flick

RE: Bit of fun

LOL, so what did you tell it you were dating?

RE: Where you all from then?

Liverpool

Bit of fun

http://alicebot.org/alicechat.html

have a blast, its not bad.

I asked it if it could lie.

it said no.

so I asked it the meening of life. * i have now asked it this 3 times each time it gave me a different answer

its answer was a lie in IMO.

and when i pointed it out to it it clamed it was an intresting deduction.

spent about 20 min in all chating to it.

more info here http://alicebot.org/

This item was edited on Friday, 3rd May 2002, 10:45

RE: Stick with the ps2!

the word `muppet` springs to mind

RE: Z for Zachariah

Think the one you are looking for is "Z FOR ZACHARIAH" from the BBC `Play For Today` broadcast in 1984.

unless you know of another version that did have a different name.

TC

RE: Is this a telewest fault or is my computer crap

one of 3 things I can think of.

1) The NIC and your main board are not getting along, may be a conflict or an incompatabilty

2) Some one is attacking you causing this (are you using a firewall)

3) as the others have said it could be one of the other cards in your PC, but it could also be a conflict with one of them and the NIC

RE: what old megadrive and snes games on new generation consoles????

rorycampion, wizball was release on the C64 first, then the spectrum. I think there was an Amiga release, but not 100% sure

RE: what old megadrive and snes games on new generation consoles????

Can I roll the years back a bit, to the 8 bit home computers, as Spy Vs Spy and Wizball are class games that I would love to see updated.

Whats your best game of all time?

Well for me its Unreal Tournament, one of the few games I have played for more that a month or so.

Elite came a very close 2nd, and Quake 2 in 3rd place.

RE: One bit of kit to do all?

well, i my self play games on line, listen to music while keeping an eye on ICQ, all with DVD drive in my PC.

Point about the VCR going down is a valid one, but what if your TV packs in?

One bit of kit to do all?

How would you like one box next to your TV to do it all?

A Digital VCR.
DVD player
VCD player
DiVX player
Surf the web
Digi TV
MP3 player
Games

What else would You like?

If you could get such a dream box, how much would you pay for it?

RE: Burning VCD`s

You will needs software to convert it. the process is to long to go in to detail here so check out http://www.vcdhelper.com for the tools needed how to`s and a forum just for VCD.

and something else to check is that your player can read CDR`s or RW`s if making your own VCD`s

TC

RE: ROBOCOP TRILOGY - £24.99!!!!!

Asda are doing it for £24.97, so cheaper & no waiting for Mr Post Man

This item was edited on Thursday, 7th February 2002, 14:41

RE: Logix 3000 and Mpeg2 CDRoms

http://go.to/tyt-group

RE: <<<Where shall i go for my Honeymoon??>>>

how about blackpool? >}:o)

RE: a word of warning

"the BLANK designation *does not* mean the disc is a DVD-R. Basically, many single-sided, single-layer DVDs are actually manufactured as double-sided discs, one side of which is literally blank and has a label screen-printed onto it. The data layer of this dummy side usually carries the word "BLANK" in the hub area"

How common is this? Just checked about 20 of my collection, didnt see it once.

"Just to make sure, can you check the region coding of the disc in your PC? If it is anything other than "all regions"/"region 0"."

well just checked Power DVD and it is set to region 2, I can not say for a fact, but I dont think I have changed the region on power DVD.

This item was edited on Thursday, 17th January 2002, 02:17

A word of warning

Mods, I hope you dont mind me cross posting this in the retailer, general and software forums. Just felt given the nature of it I should try to get as many ppl to see it as I could as it is somthing that may effect many of them if they do not know what to look for in a boot leg DVD.

My bro has just got a copy of Boondock Saints, from a UK based online retailer for £18. he has used this company many times and has never had a problem, untill now. I am not going to name them, because I have not yet heard there side of the story and could well be as much a victim as my bro.

On reciveing the disc my bro noticed that the extras listed on the web site were not encluded on the disc recived. He sent them an email asking about this, and got a reply that said there had been an error on there web site and the disc he has is correct and no other is available.

A few days later he lends me the disc. I was not there when he droped it off, but as soon as I got my hands on it some thing did not feel quite right.

The production of the disk felt very cheap, the printing of the disc was very poor. Putting the disk in the player i noticed some thing else that was wrong, the box says that the ratio is 1.85:1, but it was playing back as 2.35:1, it was also none anamorphic.

so came to the net and did a little research and the disc was all wrong.

so I put the disc in my pc and discover that the disc is only single layer, were as it should be dual. on taking the disc out of my PC and having a good look at it under bright light, I see the word BLANK writen on the top of it!!!

So it looks to me as though this company is passing off DVDR`s as the real deal!

Now this is from a big uk online retailer, that carries the the Which Web Trader logo on the home page!

He is going to ring them in the morning to see what they say, I for one would like to know what they say.

So go check your disc. You dont know what you might find.

TC.

If you want to reply to this please do so in the retailer forum!

This item was edited on Thursday, 17th January 2002, 00:06

A word of warning

Mods, I hope you dont mind me cross posting this in the retailer, general and software forums. Just felt given the nature of it I should try to get as many ppl to see it as I could as it is somthing that may effect many of them if they do not know what to look for in a boot leg DVD.

My bro has just got a copy of Boondock Saints, from a UK based online retailer for £18. he has used this company many times and has never had a problem, untill now. I am not going to name them, because I have not yet heard there side of the story and could well be as much a victim as my bro.

On reciveing the disc my bro noticed that the extras listed on the web site were not encluded on the disc recived. He sent them an email asking about this, and got a reply that said there had been an error on there web site and the disc he has is correct and no other is available.

A few days later he lends me the disc. I was not there when he droped it off, but as soon as I got my hands on it some thing did not feel quite right.

The production of the disk felt very cheap, the printing of the disc was very poor. Putting the disk in the player i noticed some thing else that was wrong, the box says that the ratio is 1.85:1, but it was playing back as 2.35:1, it was also none anamorphic.

so came to the net and did a little research and the disc was all wrong.

so I put the disc in my pc and discover that the disc is only single layer, were as it should be dual. on taking the disc out of my PC and having a good look at it under bright light, I see the word BLANK writen on the top of it!!!

So it looks to me as though this company is passing off DVDR`s as the real deal!

Now this is from a big uk online retailer, that carries the the Which Web Trader logo on the home page!

He is going to ring them in the morning to see what they say, I for one would like to know what they say.

So go check your disc. You dont know what you might find.

TC.

If you want to reply to this please do so in the retailer forum!

This item was edited on Thursday, 17th January 2002, 00:06

a word of warning

My bro has just got a copy of Boondock Saints, from a UK based online retailer for £18. he has used this company many times and has never had a problem, untill now. I am not going to name them, because I have not yet heard there side of the story and could well be as much a victim as my bro.

On reciveing the disc my bro noticed that the extras listed on the web site were not encluded on the disc recived. He sent them an email asking about this, and got a reply that said there had been an error on there web site and the disc he has is correct and no other is available.

A few days later he lends me the disc. I was not there when he droped it off, but as soon as I got my hands on it some thing did not feel quite right.

The production of the disk felt very cheap, the printing of the disc was very poor. Putting the disk in the player i noticed some thing else that was wrong, the box says that the ratio is 1.85:1, but it was playing back as 2.35:1, it was also none anamorphic.

so came to the net and did a little research and the disc was all wrong.

so I put the disc in my pc and discover that the disc is only single layer, were as it should be dual. on taking the disc out of my PC and having a good look at it under bright light, I see the word BLANK writen on the top of it!!!

So it looks to me as though this company is passing off DVDR`s as the real deal!

Now this is from a big uk online retailer, that carries the the Which Web Trader logo on the home page!

He is going to ring them in the morning to see what they say, I for one would like to know what they say.

So go check your disc. You dont know what you might find.

TC.

This item was edited on Thursday, 17th January 2002, 00:07

RE: FAO: Dan Bates

Thanks

TC

FAO: Dan Bates

Did you get my email ?