I want all of this!
Your setup sounds brilliant - in an engineering genius kind of way, which I guess could be seen as a tad eccentric, but who cares?

Great effort.
( elgordo, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 14:13, 1 reply)

Thing is...
...I can't stop.

I'm constantly having to make this kind of stuff - my kids love it, although I'm sure they don't understand the eccentricity of it all, they just like using the results.

When people say, "if I didn't work, I'd get bored" I can't believe it - work just gets in the way of all this stuff for me.
(dchurch bah, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 14:16, closed)

^^THIS!
Damn, if I didn't have to work I'd be busy all day every day making goofy things...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 4 Nov 2008, 14:19, closed)

I still
have to work as well sadly, I just have to find time to do this crap as well.

The more I think about it, the more eccentric stuff I've done.

The other day, some shite software had fucked up, it was bought from some odd firm, so we didn't have the code. I thought nothing of using SoftIce (yes, I had to use fucking Windows! Why, why!?!?!) - No, not syser (for those that know ;-) ) - this company isn't THAT up to date!) to debug the whole lot and find out where the fuck they had gone wrong in hex.

I actually quite enjoyed it, and thought very little of it, until the engineers that were using it started saying "Christ! How the fuck did you do that?" etc...

I think I must be mad. Mind you, I used to take the copy protection out of Cubase just to see if I could do it (hint: it doesn't just look for the dongle when you start it up ;-) ) ..and write "pokes" for things like Jetpac (infinite lives) and Green Beret for the speccy when I was younger.

(I used to write a load too for those sorts of machines (Z80 - mainly Speccy and CPC464 and oddly (in retrospect) the TI994a)), but I ain't saying which companies or which games.
(dchurch bah, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 14:58, closed)

the next step
is to become a fully fledged 'james bond villain'

Fluffeh cat, the lot!





Robotic fluffeh cat of course, high def cameras for eyes, shits titanium pellets that it then eats for 'fuel'. Completely maintenance free.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 14:29, closed)

I (used to) have the fluffy cat
until she was run over (and I don't mind admitting that I slunk off to the bog to have a cry on my own when that happened, and I'm a 35 year old fat bloke), however, I did attempt to use bigger servos to make a hoover (I had to break the fuckers to make them turn 360) that would do it all by itself (Iknow you can buy these now, but this was some years ago) - it was a disaster. I am not going to say much more about it as it was a complete fuckup.

I might resurrect it one day. It's much more fun to make these things than just pay money for one.
(dchurch bah, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 20:36, closed)