Posts by Iain Black

SimCity 2000

Great, great game.

I got it again a year or two ago from GOG and must have played it for another 30 hours or so, not bad value for the $3 on special or so it cost!

I had it back in the day on my Amiga 1200, incredibly slow and basically unplayable on the stock machine, but with a small spend of around £400 or something silly to get a 030 and extra 4MB of RAM, it ran quite nicely.

The original SIm CIty was pretty good, but as the article mentioned SC2000 was one hell of an upgrade with so many positives and no dumbing down. I'd bet you don't see that much now days. :(

EU plans cross border database of rogue motorists

About time I say!

Sick of Northern Ireland drivers zooming around the place south of the border

Washington cops may be compelled to use gun-cams

CCTV

Was in shock there for a moment. After reading the title, had an image of CCTV cameras with guns attached. RoboCam!

Plastic bag campaign falls apart at the seams

It's not about the sea

It's about reducing the amount going into landfill, the non biodegradability of them and reducing the pollution of manufacturing the things in the first place!

Google and eBay thwart phishing redirection ruse

security 101

Was about to write.. this really is security 101... and then noticed that a page I wrote around 6 years ago has the same vunerability. Oops :-[ ]

But in my defence: 1- I now know better 2- I was only learning dynamic web pages at the time and 3- I was not a multi billion dollar company!!

Must go over 7 year old Perl code now...

Evesham Technology goes into liquidation

The Freeze Frame

I'm amazed nobody has talked about them back in the 8-bit days, I remember seeing their ads for their Freeze Frame "backup" cartridges and other hardware utilities in the magazines of the day.

http://www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/displaypage.pl?issue=020&page=095&magazine=zzap

That's the Evesham Micros I remember!