niallquinn

Oof, here we go again. An hours worth of me nodding, saying "yep same here", and lots of mourning my fucked up earlier years. A good lesson to watch these for our younger members - don't make the same mistakes as we did. Easy to say I know, and harder to take notice of. Right. Got beer check, got tabs check, and strap on for another rough ride of watching pain unfold. Many thanks for these @Chopaholic

Ooo, one thing I've not figured out, the COB, or DOB button, what key does it tend to be? Talking of DOND, or varients, the DOND reel should be covered up. I mean, I like that it isn't, just saying Thanks!!!!!

Typical, walked in, "you're barred", out I came. Didn't even get a cup of coffee with the powered milk in the bottom, and the scalding hot coffee on top of it, a chance on the Bingo to win £1 in tokens, or the meat paste sandwiches brought out at lunchtime with the curled up corners. Or to listen to countless tales of the usual bollocks by people, with a commerical DAB radio in the background. Pah. I'll try again later, when there's no staff about, wearing a groucho style moustache, eyebrows and glasses to fool them - and it would have back in the day.

I love this sort of shit (don't fully understand it at first, takes a few passes to work it out), great stuff folks!

@johnparker007This was the first time I've seen it come up with that error. Played it since, fine. It was Vecs Game of Gnomes that caused it. Not done it since.

DLL test file not found. Please let John know! @johnparker007

Only jesting of course. Played a few, still in sort of starry-eyed amazement of it all.

Get well soon, take it easy.

There's something very "ASMR" about this. Just walking around, looking at all the machines, going in demo mode, is strangely pleasing. Then picking the one you want, lovely....... That said, I just walked out. No Labyrinth, Big Chief, Seventh Heaven etc. It's be nice in the future, to have all the classics in one spot, then the more modern ones in another place. Sort of like the "retro" bandit arcades are set out.

Can you keep an eye on that please? I'm just popping to the cashpoint, back in a minute.

I wouldn't go on that mate if I were you, just had the two hundred mega streak.

Don't know what happened to that IOM bloke, a right shady charactor............

I got into it, because on retrogames.com which was an emulation news site, it posted that someone on the Eye on the IOM" site had posted FM roms, which got people commentated, "why, is there an emulator about". So I emailed the site owner.............

Deliplayer could play hundreds of formats, but it's been dead now for at least 156 years. Winamp plays the normal .mod format fine though.

Than you @Reg for the thoughful and heartfelt post. Not an easy to thing to do.

Don't think it's the same as Eagle posted, as it's only amiga mods, no s3m, xm etc. All in author directories, and more importantly in group names. ie go to Dexion and you'll get Future Freak, or Ackerlight and you get Freds output etc, Silents, Scoopex, LSD, Fairlight, Kefrens, DOC, Northstar etc etc. It's a proper scene release by MCSTEam. https://mega.nz/file/idJ2UB7S#h8M7lWORRg2qg4BnC_Rl4Z1BeMqUNxfU2PvTgpL9_Sg

Just tried it again, still works fine!

Silly question, Smash And Grab I just tried, aplha is the wrong way around?. ...and on the Multiplay machine beside it. Thanks.

On Win 11 here, 22000.51 build, works great. I'm like a kid in a sweetshop with this, play a few credits on one, then go to the next, then across the other side, then back again. Brilliant!!!

Ignore, it works fine. I think the first time trying it got it confused because it couldn't do the disclaimer check. @RHM, sort of, but you can have it where you want, so for me it looks like Windows 10. Try getting it on Windows Update by joining the insider programme. Seems stable.

I'm on 11 insider preview Pro build version 22000.51, and bad news, MFME doesn't work. Just crashes. Hopefully it's a MS thing that'll get fixed in time. I know there's nothing we can do, so just letting you all know. v19.8 works fine though. EDIT Weird, now v20 works, but only after you've loaded v19 first. Very odd.

Just tried it, bloody great!!!! Feels fantastic just walking around, watching the attract sequences, then going up to a machine. Wow!

Soft shite / Get a grip / Sob story alert. If you've never been affected by gambling, drink and drugs, don't read. Not read any of the replies since the 10th (I'll catch up shortly, so I apologise if I'm repeating what others have said). @Chopaholic Watched the low ebb vid, reading back my notes, I've written "same" 37 times. In a few places I find it upsetting. For you, or me, or both, or any other gambler, I don't know. Mine was almost identical, to the point where I'm thinking something mental like am I you, or are you me? Only slight difference, I passed the first year at uni, then did the same as you, only in year two, from September to January. When you mentioned the catologue, I almost fell off my chair. I got a Great Universal one, and here's the thing, had no income whatsoever. Bought things I could easily sell, VCRs, Tellys, etc. Oh and same with Natwest, yes you can have a £400 overdraft, cheques for cash at the tillers. The "long weekend thing", started out, 1989, September, 18th birthday, I'm taken out on the pop, we go clubbing, had the night of my life. Few months later, I find some other mates who do this on a Saturday, so joined them. Then as @Geddy will know, there was Tuesday night snooker in the club, joined the snooker team. Wednesday was pool night, followed my mates who played in the team home and away. Thursday night, darts and doms, home and away. Sunday and Monday, there'd be cards going on, a turn, strippers or whatever. So it quickly turns into a 7 day session. Friday/Saturday nights never played the bandits, but on every other night I did, and in the daytime. The lies, the getting on the 141/159/161/220/535 (one for Geddy, or Alth), on the morning, bye I'm off to uni, get into Sunderland. Get the bus or train to Shields, Seaburn, Newcastle, Whitley Bay with 6 cans, and be pissed by 9am and ready to play. And lose. And walk home, 15-25 miles because I didn't have a free pass or the fare home. Did that twice from Newcastle. That's Newcastle to Houghton Le Spring. Many times from Seaburn to Houghton Le Spring. Look it up, it's a canny hike. The relationships fucked up, the chances fucked up as well. I remember being in a club and watching the bandits waiting for players to come off, being chatted up by lasses, and I'd tell them "our lass is in the other room" so they'd leave me alone, so I was ready to jump on when someone had finished playing. Bodily functions, I've pissed myself lots of times playing, shit meself only once, which is enough. On the bus home, everyone saying what's that smell, as lump comes out of my trouser leg. Ruined a good pair of Chinos, the smell never really left after many washes. Next 25+ years, pretty much continue to do the same. Roll forward to April 2019, I'm at AA, and am drink and drug free. Then came covid. Then came last August. When I read the news here, I thought what do I do? I should have called my support network at AA, or my support at the NY Mental Health crisis team. But no, I know better obviously. I go on 6 weeks sick off work, drinking heavily every day, and signed up accounts with Sky Vegas, Casumo, Dream Vegas, and The Sun. £2 stake. Win loads in a couple of days. Few grand up. Lose that. And more. Then September/oct/nov, I spunk away each pay packet, can't pay rent, bills, DD, standing orders etc. 3 times get bailed out by my dad. Had another trip to James Cook in Boro, not good. Only then, In November, I realise after 30+ years of gambling, I look into my dads eyes, and see a frail, old man; the torment my life has placed on my parents hits me. So I stop. Sign up with Gamstop on a 5 year total ban from everywhere. 7 months on, still drinking everyday, but am gambling free.

lovefilm.com, used to borrow a few dvds a month, rip them, and send them back, and swap them with Echo and other old FF users. Yep, same here Svp and Bulkpaq and a copy of Nero, sorted.