I'm trying desperately to prove myself wrong and find out that
Ghostbusters was released for the Speccy in 1984. So far I've found out
that the C64 version came out in the States before the film, the film
being released in Dec '84, but I cannot find any evidence that the
Speccy version came out in 1984. The best I can find is the (c) notice
in the game mentioning 1984, but all the reviews date from 1985.

Anyone absolutely positively certain they bought the game for the Speccy
in 1984?


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Nick Humphries wrote:
> I'm trying desperately to prove myself wrong and find out that
> Ghostbusters was released for the Speccy in 1984.

looking through WOS infoseak on the topic, it does indeed list 1984 as 
the year of release; however, not trusting it [as I'm sure you've tried 
that already] I had a look at a few magazine links. It was down as being 
"available next month" in Crash issue 10 [November 1984] and in issue 12 
it has "film opens 7th December, games out before"...

Now, while I didn't actually buy the game when it first came out... but 
didn't magazines have a 2/3 month timeframe [ie. December issue contains 
all the games released October/November... although the magazine 
released in December would actually be listed as the January issue... 
confused? you will be...] which would explain why the game gets reviewed 
in the magazines the beginning of 85...

Although, I have a niggling feeling that there was slippage on the 
Spectrum release date... [looking at the Crash review, issue 13 "... The 
Spectrum release of Ghostbusters has been completely overshadowed by the 
  CBM 64 version which was timed to be on sale before the film even 
opened in December..." which, in my mind at least suggests something.

So.. GB was reviewed in the February issues of the magazines. This would 
have been released in January of '85 containing games that were released 
in November/December... which seems to suggest that it may have just 
made the '84 release data... although, it could also have slipped into 
January 85...

NM - sorry to be unable to give any sort of concrete answer. My gut says 
it would have just made it to be released in 84 to make the Feb issues 
of the magazines... but that's just assuming they didn't get review 
copies weeks/days/before the actual release. AAAAAAAGHHH!!!

ktb wrote:

..... And now, an additional footnote...

Checking the "Your Spectrum" WOS link [issue 11] tells us that "the YS 
staff were shown a preview of Ghostbusters on Halloween by activistion 
because they'd released the Spectrum version of Ghostbusters before the 
movie was released."

The movie was released 7th December 84, So sometime from November 84 
onwards the game would have been released - which I think ties into my 
"magazine deadline/lead time" theory...

NM

Nick Humphries wrote:

> Anyone absolutely positively certain they bought the game for the Speccy
> in 1984?

I'm afraid I can't confirm that, but I do recall that Sinclair User had 
it on the cover of the December 1984 issue, which would've been out 
mid-November. I remember playing the game on somebody else's Spectrum 
sometime around New Year but I can't tell you quite which side of it, sadly.

Steve

We were sent a review copy in late 85 as I recall, but then again, it could
have been a re promotion of it I suppose.



I remember ripping off the screen and using it to create a viewdata graphic
for The Gnome BB.

Those were the days.

Did Ghostbusters come out again as a 128 or did I dream that part?

Brian

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"Nick Humphries" <mg@the-den.clara.net> wrote in message
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> I'm trying desperately to prove myself wrong and find out that
> Ghostbusters was released for the Speccy in 1984. So far I've found out
> that the C64 version came out in the States before the film, the film
> being released in Dec '84, but I cannot find any evidence that the
> Speccy version came out in 1984. The best I can find is the (c) notice
> in the game mentioning 1984, but all the reviews date from 1985.
>
> Anyone absolutely positively certain they bought the game for the Speccy
> in 1984?
>
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I have no idea about the Spectrum, but on the C64, there both was a
"Ghostbusters II" and a "Real Ghostbusters" a couple of years later,
matching the sequel movie. Probably either or both of those games
were available for some of the Spectrums too.

"Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> Did Ghostbusters come out again as a 128 or did I dream that part?

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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:33:10 +0000 (UTC), "Nick Humphries"
<mg@the-den.clara.net> wrote:

>I'm trying desperately to prove myself wrong and find out that
>Ghostbusters was released for the Speccy in 1984. So far I've found out
>that the C64 version came out in the States before the film, the film
>being released in Dec '84, but I cannot find any evidence that the
>Speccy version came out in 1984. The best I can find is the (c) notice
>in the game mentioning 1984, but all the reviews date from 1985.
>
>Anyone absolutely positively certain they bought the game for the Speccy
>in 1984?

I can 100% confirm that it came out in 1985.

I was loopy about the film ,and had seen it twice in the cinema before the game
made it onto the shelves.

It was after the new year that I heard the game was coming out, and had
convinced my folks to buy it for me the day it came out, and that wasn't until a
fair while later.
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:47:13 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
<Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>Did Ghostbusters come out again as a 128 or did I dream that part?

It got a rerelease by Mastertronic's Ricochet label, in those days
when nearly every major distributor had a "old full price game at
budget price" label. From what I remember, it sold very well on its
rerelease, and I'm sure I heard it outsold its initial release, but
then again, that could be False Memory Syndrome. I'll have to keep off
the booze...

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Brian Gaff wrote:

> Did Ghostbusters come out again as a 128 or did I dream that part?

You didn't dream it - there was a 128K version which had an even funkier 
version og the theme tune. My girlfriend picked it up for her +2 back in 
the day.

Steve

"The Starglider" <the_starglider2002@wibble.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:76duk0loqs8i8m0ka2co3vh154sendtlga@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:33:10 +0000 (UTC), "Nick Humphries"
> <mg@the-den.clara.net> wrote:
>>Anyone absolutely positively certain they bought the game for the Speccy
>>in 1984?
>
> I can 100% confirm that it came out in 1985.
> It was after the new year that I heard the game was coming out, and had
> convinced my folks to buy it for me the day it came out, and that wasn't 
> until a
> fair while later.

Well I got it for my birthday, after *much* harassing of my parents and that 
was January 13th '85. So if it wasn't out in '84 it was damn near 
afterwards. I can't imagine they'd miss the Christmas rush, so my money is 
on '84, probably December-ish.

AndyC 

"Anders Carlsson" <anders.carlsson@mds.mdh.se> wrote in message
news:k2gu0tsiutk.fsf@legolas.mdh.se...
> I have no idea about the Spectrum, but on the C64, there both was a
> "Ghostbusters II" and a "Real Ghostbusters" a couple of years later,
> matching the sequel movie. Probably either or both of those games
> were available for some of the Spectrums too.
>

Those both came out for the Spectrum too. CPC also I imagine and I am pretty
sure at least GB2 was out for the Atari ST and Amiga. Oliver Twins
programmed the 8bit versions of GB2, and other versions were based on those.
Real GB was based on a cartoon TV series. I think they were both released by
Activision. I own them, except for GB unfortunately. I got my +2
considerable time after it came out and never saw it for sale. ( and
couldn't get a friend to sell me his :-\ )



> "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>
> > Did Ghostbusters come out again as a 128 or did I dream that part?
>
> --

You didn't dream that part. It was rereleased for the 128k ( like many
previous games were ) and if i recall correctly it had a couple extra
features over the 48k version ( which i guess was the point :-). I can't
remember what the extra features were exactly. I had only played GB on a
friend's 48k Spectrum. It may have been digitized speech and AY music, not
sure. Isn't hard to find out nowadays. I'm getting an itch to play it again
actually so I may go do that in a bit.

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:31:27 +0100, Steve Anderson
<steve@IGNOREtwindx.CAPITALScom> wrote:

>Brian Gaff wrote:
>
>> Did Ghostbusters come out again as a 128 or did I dream that part?
>
>You didn't dream it - there was a 128K version which had an even funkier 
>version og the theme tune. My girlfriend picked it up for her +2 back in 
>the day.
>
The 128k version of the theme music has been playing on SG Radio for months now.

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"Nick Humphries" <mg@the-den.clara.net> wrote in message news:<259aa73abe6d89e32fffe8ae65fe7d49.75886@mygate.mailgate.org>...
> I'm trying desperately to prove myself wrong and find out that
> Ghostbusters was released for the Speccy in 1984. So far I've found out
> that the C64 version came out in the States before the film, the film
> being released in Dec '84, but I cannot find any evidence that the
> Speccy version came out in 1984. The best I can find is the (c) notice
> in the game mentioning 1984, but all the reviews date from 1985.
> 
> Anyone absolutely positively certain they bought the game for the Speccy
> in 1984?


Let me settle this.  I played Ghostbusters on Christmas Day 1984. I
used to buy the games I got for Christmas myself and give them to my
mum to wrap up.  A bit silly, I know, but you wanted to make sure she
got the right one and didn't balls up Christmas morning. I had already
seen a demo of the C64 version and, like everyone else, was impressed
by its synthesised voice effects. So, despite the rumours that the
Speccy version was going to be pants, I bought it the moment I saw it.
 I seem to remember it appeared in the shops about the same time as
Knight Lore - around mid-December.

There then seemed to be an eternity until Crash confirmed what we
already knew: that it wasn't up to much. If it was indeed released in
late December, it makes sense that it would not have been reviewed
until the February issue (bearing in mind that the Christmas edition
was always two-months-worth of magazine in one).  Now maybe this is a
case of my memory playing tricks on me.  Perhaps I used some Crimbo
money to purchase it some time in January, when school was still out.
But I think not.

As an aside, I went to a star-studded premiere of Ghostbusters in a
little cinema in Picadilly, because my mum worked for Arista records
who did the soundtrack. All the celebs were there. Even Mike Smith. I
ended up sitting next to Quincy Jones and nicked a picture disc of the
Ghostbusters single from out of the foyer.

Russ

ktb <ktbproductions@yahoo.com> wrote:
: Nick Humphries wrote:
:> I'm trying desperately to prove myself wrong and find out that
:> Ghostbusters was released for the Speccy in 1984.
: 
: looking through WOS infoseak on the topic, it does indeed list 1984 as 
: the year of release; however, not trusting it [as I'm sure you've tried 
: that already] I had a look at a few magazine links. It was down as being 
: "available next month" in Crash issue 10 [November 1984] and in issue 12 
: it has "film opens 7th December, games out before"...

I got it for christmas, 1984. It was a shit christmas that year :)

Choobs

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"Steve Anderson" <steve@IGNOREtwindx.CAPITALScom> wrote in message
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> Brian Gaff wrote:
> 
> > Did Ghostbusters come out again as a 128 or did I dream that part?
> 
> You didn't dream it - there was a 128K version which had an even funkier 
> version og the theme tune. My girlfriend picked it up for her +2 back in 
> the day.

And according to the Speccy Spoilers feature in RetroGamer, it also had
an animation sequence similar to the C64 version if you completed the
game.


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> I got it for christmas, 1984. It was a shit christmas that year :)

Yay! I've got my pretext to stick it into the 1984 chapter of the YSRnRY
documentary! :)


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In article <58901acdf8b06d1f3293df069e1e633d.75886@mygate.mailgate.org>, 
"Nick Humphries" <mg@the-den.clara.net> wrote:

> "Steve Anderson" <steve@IGNOREtwindx.CAPITALScom> wrote in message
> news:414f5a3f$0$22760$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk
>
>> Brian Gaff wrote:
>>
>> > Did Ghostbusters come out again as a 128 or did I dream that part?
>>
>> You didn't dream it - there was a 128K version which had an even funkier
>> version og the theme tune. My girlfriend picked it up for her +2 back in
>> the day.
>
> And according to the Speccy Spoilers feature in RetroGamer, it also had
> an animation sequence similar to the C64 version if you completed the
> game.

....which was not present in the 48K version (the scrolly building bit).
I still don't think that brief sequence was enough to make it one of the
five "very best endings from 1000s of Spectrum games" though.

The only choice of RG's I'd certainly agree with was Max Headroom, I'd
forgotten all about that one.
(They were wrong about the Currah being needed though - if that was the case
then that ending would've crashed on my old Mac emulators as they don't
support Currah)...

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:52:02 +0100, The Starglider
<the_starglider2002@wibble.co.uk> wrote:

>>> Did Ghostbusters come out again as a 128 or did I dream that part?
>>You didn't dream it - there was a 128K version which had an even funkier 
>>version og the theme tune. My girlfriend picked it up for her +2 back in 
>>the day.
>The 128k version of the theme music has been playing on SG Radio for months now.

Shouldn't you be playing something else then, the listeners must be
well bored!

....er... I'll get me coat.

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On 21 Sep 2004 00:54:00 -0700, tayles@mailandnews.com (Tayles) wrote:

Taking this WILDLY off-topic. The link on my Professional Coat Getting
Simulator PC website (see below) to your Speccy original no longer
works. Is it still there somewhere (over the rainbow, way up
hi~!.,#@[NO CARRIER]

???

Ta,

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Collecting his duffel coat, Peter Thomas wrote:

> <the_starglider2002@wibble.co.uk> wrote:
> > The 128k version of the theme music has been playing on SG Radio
> > for months now.
> 
> Shouldn't you be playing something else then, the listeners must be
> well bored!

That's still less frequently than Dido is on most most popular radio
stations (pop-tacular, mate! Ed)

Toodle-pip!
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"Gerard Sweeney" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> That's still less frequently than Dido is on most most popular radio
> stations (pop-tacular, mate! Ed)

Dido has the same effect on me as "You said that yesterday".

She should have a high-impact collision with a hedgehog.


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FishyFish <fishyfish@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:<uq15l09sq7utga9s9a29vldhdpvc2rj7ns@4ax.com>...
> On 21 Sep 2004 00:54:00 -0700, tayles@mailandnews.com (Tayles) wrote:
> 
> Taking this WILDLY off-topic. The link on my Professional Coat Getting
> Simulator PC website (see below) to your Speccy original no longer
> works. Is it still there somewhere (over the rainbow, way up
> hi~!.,#@[NO CARRIER]
> 
> ???
> 
> Ta,
> 
> Fishy

Tragically, my ownership of the fabled Golden Years site expired and
frankly I've been too lazy to get it back up and running again. 
However, at some point in the next two days I will get the file back
on the web somewhere. Promise.

The whole website is still sitting on my laptop waiting to be
resurrected at some point. I'll get round to sorting that out one day.
Oh yeah, and there's the book that I've been working on for the past
four years. And I must take the rubbish out at some point too.

Russ.

On 21 Sep 2004 00:54:00 -0700, tayles@mailandnews.com (Tayles) wrote:

>"Nick Humphries" <mg@the-den.clara.net> wrote in message news:<259aa73abe6d89e32fffe8ae65fe7d49.75886@mygate.mailgate.org>...
>> I'm trying desperately to prove myself wrong and find out that
>> Ghostbusters was released for the Speccy in 1984. So far I've found out
>> that the C64 version came out in the States before the film, the film
>> being released in Dec '84, but I cannot find any evidence that the
>> Speccy version came out in 1984. The best I can find is the (c) notice
>> in the game mentioning 1984, but all the reviews date from 1985.
>> 
>> Anyone absolutely positively certain they bought the game for the Speccy
>> in 1984?
>
>
>Let me settle this.  I played Ghostbusters on Christmas Day 1984.

Brilliant, double confirmation. Will add a short Ghostbusters section to the
1984 chapter once I finish banging my head against a brick wall trying to get
my home network working under Mandrake (got all three machines sharing an
internet connection using DHCP, now just have to find a way of getting all
three machine to see each other now that IP addresses are dynamically assigned
- grrr, what a headflip...)

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In article <3h1bl0tqr3a0v9nu7cs1kbgtepvco1befs@4ax.com>,
Nick Humphries  <nick@egyptus.co.uk> wrote:
>trying to get my home network working under Mandrake (got all three
>machines sharing an internet connection using DHCP, now just have to find
>a way of getting all three machine to see each other now that IP addresses
>are dynamically assigned

1) Don't use DHCP. You've only got three machines after all :-)
2) Use DHCP, but assign fixed addresses to your machines.
3) Assuming you're using ISC DHCP 3.x, see "DYNAMIC DNS UPDATES" in the
   dhcpd.conf manpage.

Cheers,

Phil

On 25 Sep 2004 17:08:20 +0100, pak@ast.cam.ac.uk (Philip Kendall) wrote:

>In article <3h1bl0tqr3a0v9nu7cs1kbgtepvco1befs@4ax.com>,
>Nick Humphries  <nick@egyptus.co.uk> wrote:
>>trying to get my home network working under Mandrake (got all three
>>machines sharing an internet connection using DHCP, now just have to find
>>a way of getting all three machine to see each other now that IP addresses
>>are dynamically assigned
>
>1) Don't use DHCP. You've only got three machines after all :-)
>2) Use DHCP, but assign fixed addresses to your machines.
>3) Assuming you're using ISC DHCP 3.x, see "DYNAMIC DNS UPDATES" in the
>   dhcpd.conf manpage.

Ta :) 

Will tackle this beastie again tomorrow. Spent the weekend reinstalling
various flavours and versions of Linux trying to get my (unsupported) ADSL
modem working on it, and finally got it working under Mandrake 9.2 (the modem
drivers kludge won't compile on a 2.6 kernel), just have this local IP problem
to deal with. Tempted to set up the IP Masquerading by hand again rather than
rely on DHCP.

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"Nick Humphries" <nick@egyptusWIBBLE.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cp3el01vu625af5kaqkbeq83jr6mgif9uq@4ax.com

> Will tackle this beastie again tomorrow. Spent the weekend reinstalling
> various flavours and versions of Linux trying to get my (unsupported) ADSL
> modem working on it, and finally got it working under Mandrake 9.2 (the modem
> drivers kludge won't compile on a 2.6 kernel), just have this local IP problem
> to deal with. Tempted to set up the IP Masquerading by hand again rather than
> rely on DHCP.

Decided to cheat and buy one of these instead:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=96221

Looks quite funky, and means I'll never have to worry about Linux ADSL
drivers ever again.



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Loading his Linux, Nick Humphries wrote:

> Decided to cheat and buy one of these instead:

It should/might also see an improvement in performance, as your NIC
will be handling the data flow, rather than a USB port.

Toodle-pip!
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:56:28 +0000 (UTC) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC Nick Humphries:

> > Will tackle this beastie again tomorrow. Spent the weekend reinstalling
> > various flavours and versions of Linux trying to get my (unsupported) ADSL
> > modem working on it, and finally got it working under Mandrake 9.2 (the modem
> > drivers kludge won't compile on a 2.6 kernel), just have this local IP problem
> > to deal with. Tempted to set up the IP Masquerading by hand again rather than
> > rely on DHCP.
> 
> Decided to cheat and buy one of these instead:
> 
> http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=96221

That's not cheating, it's using the proper equipment rather than some
half-arsed USB modem.  USB isn't really the ideal medium for high data
transfer.

Chris

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"Chris Young" <ng@yoursinclair.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:56:28 +0000 (UTC) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
> to MC Nick Humphries:
> 
> > Decided to cheat and buy one of these instead:
> > 
> > http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=96221
> 
> That's not cheating, it's using the proper equipment rather than some
> half-arsed USB modem.  USB isn't really the ideal medium for high data
> transfer.

True, although to be fair I bought the USB modem two years ago, back
when I only had one PC (a Win98 box which I still use today) and no
plans whatsoever for my own home network, let alone moving to Linux.

Ah well, you live and learn. I get the feeling that this little bit of
kit that I now have on my desk ready to be installed tonight would have
set me back quite a bit two years ago (if anything like it was even
around back then!). And it's futureproof as well. And I now have the
potential to have up to ten machines on my home network, which is one of
those things that puts expensive ideas into my head - designing and
programmming my own animation rendering farm in Perl...




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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:03:56 +0000 (UTC) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC Nick Humphries:

> > That's not cheating, it's using the proper equipment rather than some
> > half-arsed USB modem.  USB isn't really the ideal medium for high data
> > transfer.
> 
> True, although to be fair I bought the USB modem two years ago, back
> when I only had one PC (a Win98 box which I still use today) and no
> plans whatsoever for my own home network, let alone moving to Linux.

You bought it?  Usually these things are given out free (well, that's
"free" as in "included in the connection charge").  Mind you, two
years ago there probably weren't any other sensibly-priced options. 
btw I hate USB ADSL modems, if you hadn't guessed.

> Ah well, you live and learn. I get the feeling that this little bit of
> kit that I now have on my desk ready to be installed tonight would have
> set me back quite a bit two years ago (if anything like it was even
> around back then!).

Yes, it would have done.  The one I bought in January I was looking up
on the web for somebody a couple of months ago - they had released a
new model, with broadly similar features (some improvements, some
regressions, you know the sort of thing), and it was half the price! 
That must have been no more than six months, so I hate to think how
much they would have been two years ago.

> And it's futureproof as well. And I now have the
> potential to have up to ten machines on my home network, which is one of
> those things that puts expensive ideas into my head - designing and
> programmming my own animation rendering farm in Perl...

Good luck.

Chris

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On 28 Sep 2004 17:27:23 +0000, "Chris Young" <ng@yoursinclair.co.uk> wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:03:56 +0000 (UTC) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
>to MC Nick Humphries:
>
>> True, although to be fair I bought the USB modem two years ago, back
>> when I only had one PC (a Win98 box which I still use today) and no
>> plans whatsoever for my own home network, let alone moving to Linux.
>
>You bought it?  Usually these things are given out free (well, that's
>"free" as in "included in the connection charge").  Mind you, two
>years ago there probably weren't any other sensibly-priced options. 

Yep - I got my ADSL modem more or less right after Claranet started doing the
Self-Install ADSL thing, so no modem was offered.

>btw I hate USB ADSL modems, if you hadn't guessed.

Me too. Just wondering about the best way to "dispose" of the USB modem now.

>> Ah well, you live and learn. I get the feeling that this little bit of
>> kit that I now have on my desk ready to be installed tonight would have
>> set me back quite a bit two years ago (if anything like it was even
>> around back then!).
>
>Yes, it would have done.  The one I bought in January I was looking up
>on the web for somebody a couple of months ago - they had released a
>new model, with broadly similar features (some improvements, some
>regressions, you know the sort of thing), and it was half the price! 
>That must have been no more than six months, so I hate to think how
>much they would have been two years ago.

Well this one set me back �30 + p&p and does everything I can think of and
much much more - yours for just �29.99...!

And I just set it up right now and it was quite pain-free - didn't even
realise it was connected when I started up Firefox and up popped Google with
no fuss or anything.

Right, time to re-install my webserver with the latest Mandrake and that
_should_ be it... barring of course setting up all the BitTorrent stuff,
weather webcam, copy files from backups back up onto the fileserver, sort out
all the custom XMMS and mplayer stuff....

Oh hell... it's going to be a late night tonight...

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