09 Mar 2019, 10:59 am
What was actually the bad thing about the Oric? Was it a bad machine, or bad library?
I'm also a Yorkshireman by the way!
It had practically no software for it and all the people I knew at school were swapping tapes full of games and I was once again on the outside looking in.
These days I've kind of over-compensated and I have so many consoles and computers and video games that it's a bit silly to be honest.
My Steam library on the PC is at over 1,700 games and I've played only a handfull.
I went Atari 2600 > ZX81 > Oric
> ZX Spectrum > Atari ST > Amiga > SNES > PC and probably a few more brief ones inbeween.You're not kidding about over compensated!
I like the sad face after oric haha, a quick Google suggests they've a bit of a following, I vote you save the money you'd have spent on steam and get one bought again
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09 Mar 2019, 1:58 pm
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12 Mar 2019, 2:20 pm
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who had a break from computers while getting blotto was my special interest! 
I only had two machines before my break to get sloshed: a ZX Spectrum 48k, then a Memotech MTX512 (similar features to a BBC Micro, but with a Z80 CPU, because I already knew the machine code.) I was always more of a coder rather than a gamer, so in adulthood, it's been PC's all the way - all my gaming has been on other people's consoles, pretty much.
12 Mar 2019, 2:34 pm
I learnt to code on my Speccy but I wasn't very good at it and the best thing I made was a text adventure with a game making tool.
Since having a PC I've made a fair few remakes of old Speccy etc games that you can search for if you are interested, also some games on Google Play.
My games are under the TCKSOFT branding. 
Good to see some old school gamers, and a few other Yorkshire peeps among the people here.
17 Mar 2019, 2:50 pm
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19 Mar 2019, 12:32 am
22 Mar 2019, 2:56 am
HELP!
Outlook has hidden the bottom curser and I can't scroll to the right. I need to scroll to the right to get to the right
hand curser to scroll down. I need to scroll down to get to the highlighted part of each notification to get onto the
threads and also just to read any email. It's been like this since last night, I thought it would sort itself out overnight.
I wish it would just let me see the full page across in the first place; I get nothing but crap with outlook. I miss
Live
22 Mar 2019, 3:03 am
Outlook has hidden the bottom curser and I can't scroll to the right. I need to scroll to the right to get to the right
hand curser to scroll down. I need to scroll down to get to the highlighted part of each notification to get onto the
threads and also just to read any email. It's been like this since last night, I thought it would sort itself out overnight.
I wish it would just let me see the full page across in the first place; I get nothing but crap with outlook. I miss
Live
Is it possible to make the page smaller by using CTRL - ?
This happens to me sometimes. Very frustrating.
22 Mar 2019, 3:14 am
Outlook has hidden the bottom curser and I can't scroll to the right. I need to scroll to the right to get to the right
hand curser to scroll down. I need to scroll down to get to the highlighted part of each notification to get onto the
threads and also just to read any email. It's been like this since last night, I thought it would sort itself out overnight.
I wish it would just let me see the full page across in the first place; I get nothing but crap with outlook. I miss
Live
Is it possible to make the page smaller by using CTRL - ?
This happens to me sometimes. Very frustrating.
I brought the page up again and this time the bottom curser was back (I tried four times already) but I tried your
CTRL - anyway and finally I have a page I can see hurrah! I keep nipping back to look at how beautiful it is now,
and the answer was so simple
Now I'm glad it went wrong because otherwise I would never have ask and this is soooooooo much better than it's
EVER been.
22 Mar 2019, 3:16 am
When I was trying to sort it last night, I did manage to make it a very pretty purple though so now it works right and
looks good
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22 Mar 2019, 7:45 am
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22 Mar 2019, 9:44 am
22 Mar 2019, 11:57 am
looks good
So pleased it worked for you.
I had mine purple for quite a while - forgot how I did it now.
Downloaded an app under cbergs advice and have an orange tint now instead and it changes with daylight hours too.
22 Mar 2019, 12:04 pm
