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The on time Weekend Links

By Glen McNamee | March 12, 2010

It’s Friday! It’s the Weekend Links.

Igor explains the suit-of-swords.
Sennydreadful share her joy of big fat books.
Anok blogs on the worry news utah passes law criminalizing miscarriage.
Why are Canadian women so frakking pretty? asks doctormowinckel
I would rather go to hell says lwr, and I have to agree with him.

Hmmm, another small list. I suspect I need to read more blogs….

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The Voice of Alien Breed’s Aliens turns 171

By Glen McNamee | March 11, 2010

Colin the Burmese cat turns 19, to appear at Bath Spa University.

Colin, a Burmese cat will appear alongside his owner, Allister Brimble (hundreds of audio tracks over the years including many of the early Team17 hits) at Bath Spa University this week.

Colin was perhaps one of the very first voice over artists to actually be an animal and provided the basis for many of the sound-effects that were to grace Team17’s break-out hit ‘Alien Breed’ in 1991, to which a glamorous next-gen sequel was launched on XBLA late last year.

We can assure everyone that Colin wasn’t harmed in the development of the game, but was ultimately ‘encouraged’ to make the mewling sounds which were finally mixed with elephant noises to create scary sounding Alien screams.

At 19 and a grand old 171 in cat’s years, it is currently unknown if Colin will star in any future titles and is getting busy doing very little in his Exeter retreat.Allister also penned a modern remake of his classic Alien Breed opening track, which features in “Alien Breed Evolution’s” credit section.

via Team17

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This post is Horrible

By Glen McNamee | March 9, 2010

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for me, but when don’t I always say that? Well, this time it is especially true. I’ve been traveling the country with work again, this time to City of Norwich. There is a big possibility of more trips in the future. Of course with more trips comes more works, but it beats the alternative.

I spent most of my time on the train (It’s a five hour, three train tip) and in the office, so I didn’t get much a chance to check Norwich itself out, but it seems nice enough. I was staying in the Holiday Inn Norwich City which is actually in the corner of Norwich’s football stadium, but I got a room facing the road rather than the pitch, not that there was any football on that night anyway.

I’ve also been productive at home. I’ve got up with my email, facebook, and twitter messages.thanks in part to threadsy a snazzy little program which gives you access to all of them from one page. This means I’ve got up with a load of outstanding task and I can spend a bit more time on ObscureInternet. Which I’ve been advertising again thanks to a free Google Adwords voucher.

Finally, I’m it’s the four week of lent so a little update my fasting.

Tea – I’ve stuck to having only one cup of Tea at breakfast time. This is still a major achievement for me.
Fizzy Pop – Had a single glass of Coke with a meal while I was out today.
Sweets/Chocolate – None since the last update.
Downloading Crap – FAILED! This one was just too hard.
Naughty Films – I never would touch such evil things anyway, so no problem, especially as the hotel didn’t have wireless.
Staying up Late – Still going to bed early every night.
Chips –FAILED! Let’s forget about this one.

There is still ages to go. Lent 40 days not including Sundays, you figure it out.

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Music Monday – Press Play on Tape – The Man With The Gun

By Glen McNamee | March 8, 2010

This week’s track is by The Commodore 64 Revival Band PRESS PLAY ON TAPE. It’s one of their own compositions and a tribute to the single strongest theme in the history of gaming The Man With the Gun. I think both the song and video are excellent, I hope you do.

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Saturday Links

By Glen McNamee | March 6, 2010

The links are here again, late but It’s been another busy week. I’ll explain why in the next blog post.

Top link this time is http://www.starwarsfail.com/
Not giving a Fuck is something lwr gives a fuck about.
Leoni is working with guilt
You know the Drench advert music? No? Me neither, but Jamie does.
Stormkeeper has some musings.
All Doctor Mowinckel wants is a Dirty propeller sound.
Supernatural and the baywatch effect is a rather wonderful discovery from sennydreadful.
Finally The First Tweet sent to Twitter via VIC-20 is worth a look.

More links some time next week (place your bets).

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Music Monday – Rob Hubbard – Skate or Die

By Glen McNamee | March 1, 2010

Back to the Good old C64 for this weeks Music Monday and back to Rob Hubbard with this Intro tune for the EA game Skate or Die.

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Links on Sunday

By Glen McNamee | February 28, 2010

A little late with a somewhat reduced linkage this week, but I have been busy. I’m almost at inbox zero (down from almost a thousand).

Senny Dreadful has some advice on advice.
Igor make an interesting post about the rectangle.
Jamie asks what’s better than a beer after work?
Mailwatch asks did the government really secretly plot to change the face of Britain?
lonewolfrepose warns us to beware bead doorways and suggests we get rid of figure skating
Remix64 has a new site structure

Hopefully back to normal on Friday.

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A New Blog and Lent Progress.

By Glen McNamee | February 23, 2010

A couple of things for you, firstly I’ve got a new blog called crappyremix about my progress towards deliberately making some of the worst c64 Remixes ever.

Secondly a little update my lent fasting.

Tea – I’ve stuck to having only one cup of Tea at breakfast time. This is a major achievement for me.
Fizzy Pop – Not touched any pop despite being teased by Cherry Lucazade a couple of times
Sweets/Chocolate – Had a one little sweet, as I forgot I was off them, but other than that nothing.
Downloading Crap – This one hasn’t gone so well. I wanted to keep the downloading to the weekend, but haven’t managed it.
Naughty Films – I never would touch such evil things anyway, so no problem.
Staying up Late – Doing well with this have gone to bed early (by my usually standards) every night.
Chips – Had some in the Town on Saturday, well nobody is prefect.

The family has been supportive, and by supportive I mean they’ve been asking me to make Tea and sending me to shop to buy them chocolate.

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Amiga Music Monday – Allister Brimble – Alien Breed

By Glen McNamee | February 22, 2010

It’s the last Monday in February so it’s the last Amiga Music Monday. I’ve saved the best until last, composed by my close personal friend Allister Brimble (we’ve never met) it’s the title tune from the Team 17 classic Alien Breed.

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