Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: Well, that's unexpected (Speedball reboot)
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 11:41:02 +0000
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 26
Message-ID: <vg2eoe$37daa$2@dont-email.me>
References: <3422ijl6l9ec43csiut9j4r1jg3scb04oc@4ax.com>
 <slrnvi7415.hrc.usenet@raspberrypi.geeknix.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:41:02 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="eda4ea979f4b61774056f4b0133efff6";
	logging-data="3388746"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/7U68tUpJu28no6xOs+6Bq"
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:qNC5ZfTNiq+i7KcTCiTaoohk5qE=
Content-Language: en-GB
In-Reply-To: <slrnvi7415.hrc.usenet@raspberrypi.geeknix.net>
Bytes: 2111

On 31/10/2024 23:00, Geeknix wrote:
> On 2024-10-29, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Remember "Speedball"? You probably don't.
>>
>>      [Then again, this being Usenet and that most of us
>>       are old fogies, maybe you do]
> 
> I remember Speedball, I loved it, probably because it was one of the few
> games I had on Amiga. My parents were never happy buying games so most
> of what I had was demo disks.
> 
> So of course I played it a lot. One day my father wanted to take it to
> work to swap with another Amiga owner. I warned him not to take the disc
> on the pot lines, those massively magnetic pots would wipe the magnetic
> discs.
> 
> Of course he didn't listen and the discs were useless. Spent the rest of
> my Amiga owning life, playing demos.
> 
> But now I can relive being 12 again!
> 

Where I used to work someone decided the best way to store the back-up 
tapes was to use their metal backs to 'stick' them to the back of the 
inside of the safe which was magnetic!