Recent content by Muzer

As a long-time Worms fan, I thought it was high time I started looking for a physical copy of Worms: The Director's Cut (after having played the downloadable version legally available through Dream17, thanks to their agreement with Team17 to be allowed to distribute their old Amiga titles). My...

We didn't have time to go to the dump today so this offer is extended for another week.

In clearing out my mum's house which she's selling soon, I've decided to get rid of my assorted collection of Star Trek VHS tapes. I'm not sure at the moment how many there are but certainly more than a few dozen. I can get a better estimate if desired. I seem to recall it's more TNG than...

Received recently (perhaps yesterday?) by neighbour, collected today. Haven't plugged it in yet, but the box was undamaged and it was well-packed so I suspect it's fine. Thanks a lot!

Replied, offer accepted.

I haven't been around for quite some time, but I've just started to get back into old computers. My ZX81, however, has sadly not seemed to survive. Not only have I managed to break the keyboard connector but the system itself doesn't seem to boot any more. So I'm looking for a ZX81, no...

Declaring interest.

Some people I know are working on a game originally made in the late 90s. The graphics for this game are available in low-resolution paletted and RGBA formats, but the original vector-based Animo 1.7 files are also available. However, I and the people who are working on this game have been...

I actually completely agree with the guy. Obviously some websites can rely on donations, paid content or just plain goodwill and spare time/money of its founders, but others do rely on advertising. And especially with the Google ads which are always rather discreet, but also with banner ads in...

Yeah, I also read there's some German company making them new (or they were, at least) for their medical plotters, but also expensive.

I am also after pens after buying one of these at a car boot today. It came with pens, but they are completely dried up even after minutes of doing the standard ballpoint pen thing of scribbling for ages ;). I doubt you'd be able to get dead ones to fill up, though, apparently for biros in...

Just so you know (I'm not interested in buying), the first one isn't broken - it just needs a replacement battery (a few AAs usually) and reconfiguring (there are instructions on the internet somewhere).

It doesn't look very copper-like (the pads that haven't rubbed off are silver, though you can't really see that in the picture) - but whatever works is fine :)

Can someone point me towards the sort of thing I need, then, or at least give me the name? I'm slightly confused...

Oh, I've just realised something I hadn't noticed before. The pads appear to actually be metal-plated clear plastic discs. They haven't oxidised at all - the metal has actually rubbed off and the green you can see is the foam underneath!