Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Tones Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Poo.pants@crap.weekend.uk Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:39:43 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 78 Message-ID: <3699FF1F.B8538EE7@cwcom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.82.133.218 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Hello all, Just thought I'd share my weekend with you all.... Here's the story. Friday night - normally a night for drunken shinanigans and much laughter, but not this time. Oh no. I'd thought I'd earn a bit of dosh and fix someones PC for them. The CD drive wasn't being recognised. Nice 'n' easy. So, after an hour and a half, it was fixed and I'd earned myself £20. Loverly. Saturday - normally a day for recovering from the aforementioned drunken shinanigans and mucho laughter, but not this time. Oh no (!). I decided it was about time Apples & Pears got launched as it was shaping up quite nicely. So, I implemented Mr Rutherfords Fsnapshot routines (www.netyaroze-europe.com/~mrfrosty ) (nice one James - email you soon!) and compiled my program. As I was downloading the complete game to my Yaroze, my girlfriend called for help - she'd somehow managed to pierce a bottle of coke (in the wine rack of all places?) and it was spraying all over our nice new leather sofa and walls......pants.:( So, of I toddled to help, leaving my Yaroze to it's own devices while I uploaded my game. 10 minutes later, I went back to my Yaroze. Hmm, I thought, sounds awfully quiet - where's the wurring and purring of the fan of my PC. Oh dear, blacked out monitor. Oh dear, PC's dead.....pants :( Well that's the jist of it all - my PC's motherboard is fried (don't know why...but it's definately the motherboard) which means I have had to order a brand new PC for (wait for it) £1400. But nevermind, at least my new one is a PII 350 with 128Mb. Yummy! This all means I had a very crap weekend. Just thought I'd share it! However, does anyone need any of the following - give me a reasonable price and I'll gladly part with them : PC Case - Desktop (was a Compaq Presario 7220) inc. Motherboard, Internal Fax/Modem (19200bps), P100 Pentium and Riser Board. (I've bundled the above as the motherboard is probably shagged - maybe even the processor too) 4x4Mb (16Mb) Memory SIMMS Quad Speed CD-ROM (Sony) - Internal Internal Floppy Disk 14inch Monitor with Side Mounted speakers - Good monitor quality though. Std PC Power Supply - Internal. Matrox Mystique 4MB Graphics Accelerator (2d/3d) with 3 Games and documentation (Scorched Earth, Mechwarrior 2, Destruction Derby 2) All of the kit (bar the Motherboard - maybe the P100 as well) is in good working order - if you like some of it send me an email at my work address (as obviously I'm not connected at home anymore!) : boltonto@geest.co.uk Well, better go. Hopefully my first version of Apples&Pears will be out next weekend (I get the PC on Friday - that is unless the lorry stuck in France still stays stuck in France!), unless of course I get addicted to Half-Life running on my loverly new Voodoo 2 card which comes with it!! Thanks for listening!!! Cheers! Tones 8) Life can only get better now....