I love when these tickle some weird distant memory from deep in my subconscious

Ah, a Munro is a mountain in Scotland over 3,000 feet, so named by a Sir Hugh Munro who compiled the original list :) Wikipedia has a list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

My favourite thing about House (1985) is that, much like if I were in that situation, the first thing the main character does after experiencing something paranormal in the house is to run out and buy all sorts of video cameras to capture it.

Almost

I got the Bluray a couple of years ago, the week before my parents were visiting. Obviously I showed it to them, and they loved it too! It has a lot of stuff I love, like some sets being built out of each other and some funny transitions (paintings to scenery/etc.). And all the cat stuff, of course

Took this photo testing some videophones I found for $20 each. Sadly the software couldn’t be made to realise that the devices are portrait-only ;)

48k ZX Spectrum, tape for storage. I actually remember asking my dad to try it before I could even read, and seeing what appeared at the time to be mysterious heiroglyphics appear on the screen as I pressed the buttons. He did this very intentionally as he knew computers were the future.

Spent way too long unsuccessfully trying to find out what make/model it was ;) It was very similar to this one (photo from eBay) but they don't seem to have an LPT model so I don't think it was a Panasonic. Either way, "portable" style but too big to actually carry around in your pocket ;)

Nothing to do with the Jaguar but visually it reminds me of the first CD-ROM drive I ever used, borrowed from my dad's work, which was an extremely large "portable" form factor drive that plugged into our 286's parallel port. You could very slowly access the CD-ROMs that way!

Sadly it looks like most of the replies I made during this several month period have disappeared into the ether - they were appearing on my account up until I fixed the issue, then gone. Only one I made today (and noticed the problem) survived. I should check to see if they're still on the disk...

I had the exact same thought when I got that same pop up, as I too run my own PDS so they don’t actually have any of my content, just access to it.

I think in the end I just ended up borrowing a handheld scanner from somewhere and scanning in Dominion Tank Police (and other Shirow stuff) from Manga Mania/Max as that was much faster, at least for wallpaper use ;)

The ones that set the colour attributes buffer to black before loading the 1-bit bitmap (like Manic Miner there) always bothered me, it was much more fun watching the 1-bit image load in live before the colour filled in :p

Re: Dominion I think I read there was a third series made in the 2000s with CGI animation, which seemed to make absolutely no impact in the UK/US so I assume it was bad. But as a completionist I want to watch it!

I had Dominion (both series), Appleseed and Cyber City Oedo 808 on VHS back in the day. I'd still have those tapes but I accidentally left them behind when I moved from Scotland to the US 😿 Also had Black Magic M-66 in a similar vein. I wish they'd made an anime based on the Orion manga...

The PSX and PS2 GITS games were both great

My dad had a V2000 VCR that loaded tapes like this. It was a very interesting format since it had better quality than VHS/Beta despite using the same tape stock, you could record on both sides (better quality in half the media!) and had already lost the format war due to being two years too late.

I assumed they were doing it intentionally on the assumption people would be selfish. They work in Japan after all ;) Also in a UK airport a member of staff instructed me to double-press it and that made it work!

I miss setup.exe for Windows 3.1/95 with the gradient. The *smooth* gradient when you upgraded to a 32-bit video driver too! It was magical.