MOOBAA - His journey

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 9:18 pm 0

Why no sticky no more Mr Mods?

Me LIKE this story

Stone · Post by **Stone** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 9:57 am 0

moobaa wrote:
Stone wrote:
Elizian wrote:moobaa encounters T3K on the 6' projector screen ... that kept him quiet for a while!
So you're coming back to challenge me at Jagfest next year, then?

We'll see when I finish paying off this trip

Gwaaaan, ya know you want to

Stone

Salty · Post by **Salty** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 10:26 am 0

What a nice relaxing day yesterday was. And what a top bloke. In fact what a top bunch of blokes.

After wandering around the arcades playing Point Blank and Super Sprint we went for BEER! and then for a meal. Interesting place The Marsden Grotto. It's a pub / restaurant built into the cliffs.

Moobaa, randomdude and fritx.

You walk along the tunnel and venture down the elevator at the end.

Where you take silly pictures of signs and penis shaped rocks(thanks random and moobaa.)

And then a wonderful meal and some very geeky conversation.

From left to right.... Salty, Moobaa, Elizian, Randomdude, Fritx and Mir.

Stupendous thanks to everyone for a llovely day away from the grindstone of work and especially to Moobaa for the meal. What a top bloke.

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 10:54 am 0

salty69 wrote:And then a wonderful meal and some very geeky conversation.

Wasn't it though? (On both counts)

You know you're in for a good night when the conversation starts with the joys of VIC-II trickery...

Llovely meeting you all - hope to see most of you at RV (Salty - this means you!

)

Stone · Post by **Stone** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:08 pm 0

salty69 wrote:

Fantastic

Stone

mamemeister · Post by **mamemeister** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 11:03 pm 0

Teamonkey and Moobaa before about to hit George Street

Mir · Post by **Mir** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 11:31 pm 0

moobaa wrote:You know you're in for a good night when the conversation starts with the joys of VIC-II trickery...

Never underestimate the pleasure of getting those sprites in the border, or the pure joy that was the sprite plex, and just don't get me started on vertical scrolling....

bloid · Post by **bloid** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 11:33 pm 0

Mir wrote:
moobaa wrote:You know you're in for a good night when the conversation starts with the joys of VIC-II trickery...

Never underestimate the pleasure of getting those sprites in the border, or the pure joy that was the sprite plex, and just don't get me started on vertical scrolling....

I miss the border

Those were good days...

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 11:36 pm 0

mamemeister wrote:Teamonkey and Moobaa before about to hit George Street

Are you pished?

Mir · Post by **Mir** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:19 am 0

bloid wrote:I miss the border Those were good days...

Yessss, that sort of coding died with the Saturn...

However, it does mean that we now get to sit around, sinking pints comparing notes... Where as before, we guarded these black magic secrets with our lives

It was a fun night --- and I got the impression that Moobaa likes the odd poke!

$d016

Partz · Post by **Partz** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:16 pm 0

Mir wrote: It was a fun night --- and I got the impression that Moobaa likes the odd poke!

$d016

Ahhhh must have been a top night - Moobaa was still raving over the 8 bit geekery way into saturday afternoon

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:16 am 0

Lordy, I've not posted here for a while... time for a few piccies and stuff.

After leaving the Castle Aureole, lorded over by King Matt & Queen Amy...

[img]http://www.tajmaya.com/pix/[20040609]%20MattAndAmy.JPG[/img]

...I toddled down to koworld's place in Llondon (well, St Albans). Fluid was a glorious bash, and documented in glorious and embarrasingly drunken detail elsewhere, so let's not dwell on that. Friday saw me wandering into Llondon proper to do a bit of arty-culture-poncing - off to the Saatchi Gallery (quite brilliant), the Dali Universe & Picasso exhibition (quite disappointing). A wander around the south end, traipsing with the spiffy Underground, llovely

That night saw a bit of a bash for ko's 21st birthday. There's some pics earlier in this thread from that, but they were from earlier in the evening. You know things are going wonderfully right when you see Mattley resorting to this:

[img]http://www.tajmaya.com/pix/[20040611]%20MattChilliSauce.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.tajmaya.com/pix/[20040611]%20Telephone.JPG[/img]
Don't we all have Tardises (Tardii?) in the garden?

The Birthday Boy:
[img]http://www.tajmaya.com/pix/[20040611]%20KoworldCheesey.JPG[/img]

koworld · Post by **koworld** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:52 am 0

I am so proud of me.

Where the fuck are you then pete?

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:07 pm 0

From St Albans, down to Rochester, for JagFest. I've never been to any kind of retro show before (and only the occassional LANfest), so it was a real treat to enter a room full of much-loved antique gear. Lots of llovely beeps and boops and passion for games of old.

Played a lot of Ikaruga (not really "old", but hey

), played T2K for the first time - followed by T2K with a spinner. Oooooh, llovely. Had a long chat with the Commodore Force boys who were there showing off all manner of wonderful toys for the C64 (SuperCPUs, RAMLinks, IDE adaptors, 4-port joystick adaptors, an SX-64 with an inbuilt CD-ROM) - fantasticly lust-worthy, and none of it for sale

. Still, I picked up a nice new XE-1541 cable.

I choked big-time in the T3K competition, during which I got a little squiffy with tyrant - I feel badly for having done that now, very unfluffy, sorry mate

Still, Stone played like a champ - for a T3K virgin

Next time, next time...

The weirdest part of Jagfest? The ST adaptation of everyone's favourite Badgers, impervious to all but a full power reset:

[img]http://www.tajmaya.com/pix/[20040612]%20STBadgers.JPG[/img]

JagFest over, had a nice dinner and bandwidth leech (and ELO vinyl ogling) with PVB, then back to the hotel to watch England choke on France's late goals in their Euro opener. The next day, on the way to the Rochester rail station, I spied this tasty teaser for Yak's latest work:

[img]http://www.tajmaya.com/pix/[20040614]%20Unity.JPG[/img]

Aboard the train to Llondon (Victoria), skip across to King's Cross, then off (after being told to leave... no, stay on the train due to a locomotive fault... no, fix) to Edinburgh. Six hours of glorious travel, I really mean it. The English/Scottish countryside that rolled past my window was just plain lush. And I reckon the guy who sat across from me is going to buy an iRiver

Edinburgh was, quite frankly, fucking gorgeous. I lloved the buildings, I lloved the environs, I lloved the people, I lloved the city. My shitty snapshots cannot do it justice; here's the nicest of the llot:

[img]http://www.tajmaya.com/pix/[20040615]%20Pretty.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.tajmaya.com/pix/[20040615]%20Napoleon.JPG[/img]
(Complete with Saturday Night Fever in the centre, and the fucks who laughed at my enplumpened scramblings whilst climbing the base on the right).

Managed to get sunburnt as buggery that day - strolling around the city all day, then deciding to walk over the bluff thingy just on the city's edge.

Sunburnt in Scotland. What an insult to my country

Off to meet mamemeister and teamonkey, a few of the more northern YakYakkers. I thought we'd have a bite to eat together, but they both ate before they arrived, leaving me with every opportunity to further embarrass myself by getting pissed after (let's be generous) 1.3 pints

Still, there was the expected Llamasoftie Tech Lusting:
[img]http://www.tajmaya.com/pix/[20040615]%20MamemeisterTeamonkey.JPG[/img]

...and the (rather indirect) posting:
[img]http://www.tajmaya.com/pix/[20040615]%20DrunkenRamblings.JPG[/img]

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:08 pm 0

koworld wrote:I am so proud of me.

koworld wrote:Where the fuck are you then pete?

OXford, just winding down now.

How's the play going?