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Good to see my Archimedes working after buying it from Ebay and the postal service damaging the monitor! A had to buy another CRT Monitor. Another one for 'Steve's Retro Computing Museum' lol.   

So can't you just check the paper guides before you print, lol?

I don't think that it's down to the paper. Just checked the paper guides and it looks like they have drifted slightly after heavy use. Which would explain why it jams when the loading tray gets empty. And from what I've read this model of printer has been mentioned a few times for paper jams. Wish my Epson L555 didn't reach the end of it's service life, or no longer being supported on Linux. Now that was a good printer provided you printed off a test page once a week to prevent the ink drying in the head.

I'm using regular A4 designed for "laser and inkjet paper".

I agree the back rest is too narrow. But like I said I've not had a problem in double sided printing. Maybe your paper is too thick?

It actually happens when there is not much paper in it. Part of me thinks that it's the paper quality or a design flaw with the paper back rest, which to me seems a bit too narrow.

dawlane it sounds like you're over filling the paper tray. No problems yet.

refillable cartridges have the benefit of being cheap ... but sooner or later you might have issues with the print headers  ...says industry. Am running old brother printers here (MFC J-series). Albeit ink cartridges became a bit more expensive these days (20pcs for 10 eur) they do what they should (over wifi, A3 print...). Yet I can still refill with a syringe. Remember that too old ink can have effects too.

I've got the same printer. Be prepared for a few paper jams when doing double side printing.

see through the printer's ink windows.

Bought a new printer (EPSON ET-2850). I got sick of spending a fortune on 2 very small cartridges (black and colours) that had tiny amounts of actual ink in them! This system has large bottles (especially the black) that will last far longer and replacement bottles are full of ink without all the plastic cartridge nonsense - just fill up the ink reservoirs (which you can see through their windows).

Haha yeah typical Nintendo cash-in    On the plus side they should produce the Switch 2 a bit cheaper and it's a higher resolution than the OLED on Switch 1. 

What, no OLED screen? - They already have OLED on the updated switch and it makes no sense to go backwards to LCD screens again. Mind you, it makes sense so they can sell more Switch 2 units to the same people months later when they release the updated OLED version. Typical

Yes, bigger screen and controllers, more powerful, yet fully backward compatible with all software and there seems to be an optical sensor in the joycons - for mouse function?...It's a LCD, OLED will probably come down the line. Although LCD tech has improved since the LCD used in the original Switch. But yeah I would have preferred OLED. 

Switch 2 has all the rumours if true to be a great new version Hopefully a nice hires, high refresh OLED screen come true.

Word on the street is, Switch 2 is being revealed on Thursday. A definite purchase for me. 

Well it's not like you'll wear them in a beer garden lol. Maybe at home on a plane or a long train journey, which is kinda private. 

Sound like decent AR glasses but you'd still stand out a mile with those on ya face

Yeah, yeah lol. XREAL One - AR Glasses are looking great for mobile gaming and a cinema like experience.

But the snow with lumpy brown stuff is great to throw at passing cars. Erm, I mean it was when I was much much younger, honest

Give snow that contains lumpy brown stuff a miss too... It gets right between the teeth and is a bugger to get out! hehehe

we ave U saying duwn ere and it is dont eat YELLOW SNOW!?

my kids prefer munching ice to crunching ice.

I happily wake up the whole neighbourhood when walking the dog at 2am crunching the ice with my ice-tracks on my shoes. Made a hell of a noise the other night crunching the ice with some nice loud echo's

*occasion beep at the odd random

I love it when you catch people tripping up on something, and they pretend to do a little jog as if nowt was the bother. Also, if I'm bored driving, I might on the odd occasion people at the odd random and wave... They always wave back, but I know they'll be thinking "Who hell was that?" hehehe

You have to love it when the weather is icy in the U.K. And numpties walk around looking at their mobile phones instead of the fooking ice patch on the pavement that they are just about to step on.

Well up here, in Durham, back in the day, when 2am hit, that was it, chucky out time! And I still remember old sunday hours opening times, they were shite!

@Dabz you must have been a lightweight. You actually slept in between  going out. Used to just be getting my legs into bed just as the alarm to get up for work went off.

Oh, tell me about it, I'm proper crap at it now like... Once upon a time, out on a Friday, all day Saturday and all day Sunday religiously for the football, coupon on... Maybe during the week if there was a match I wanted to watch. Fooking hell, nowadays, I'm ready for bed at 8pm, whatever the night it is in the week!

Are ya sober now, Dabz? Us old farts can't do it like we used to in our, erm, younger years

*1.30pm

I was out on the 30th with the lads, we meet up every year because we tend not to see each other much, the usual now, weddings, Christenings etc About 12 of us, lol, 1.30am, and I stumbled back in just after 11pm... What a complete shift mind! Tuesday wasnt a good day!

Yes, I always blame the alcohol level in the Christmas puddings, just can't handle that at this old age

Haha yeah thanks. Must have been something I eat (ahem) 

Any better yet, Steve? No sympathy from me, self induced and all that

Happy New Year all. Oh my head. It feels like I have a Frenchman living in it lol 

Happy new year everyone as well, all the best! lol@therevills, now there's a proper "dad" joke if I've ever seen one! hehehe

I remember 2024 like it was yesterday   

Happy New Year! 2025 people!!

I may post something tonight that i shouldn't

Happy Newyear everyone!

Merry Christmas _PJ_ 

Dabz that sounds like a lot of walks and cleaning up hair. We have a Poodle/Bichon cross and she's a real character.   

lol yeah thanks Qube, the gate is fine. 

Merry [insert cultural significance] time everyone! --- @qube I love the festive decor on the site!

If I could solidly work from home, I'd have German Shephard, preferably crossed with a border collie, because that's what my old dog was, Stella, and she just looked like a black wolf! All you ever heard was me going "Stella man!!!", always behind me, always tripping up on her, couldnt watch the TV in peace, but she was lush... Miss her loads!

Did someone mention doggies? - Is the gate OK, Steve?

Well I currently work from home a lot and my wife is semi retired so we have the time. Rescue doggies can be mad, but also soo loving and fun - rather than a new puppy. 

I'd love to have a dog, but, I havent got time due to work, and, it would be unfair for it to be left for so long... Many a time I've spied a cutie of a pup, and I have to force myself to just say no!

have a doggie

lol we have doggie but I'd rather her not barge in a cause some computer damage when we're out so we have a 'safety gate'.  After a few beers I turned the computer off, tripped and took out the gate, I went flying! Ofcourse the sensible thing would have been to have gone onto the landing and turned on the light first, but couldn't be bothered making 2 trips. Luckily I didn't fall down the stairs in complete darkness!

Also Happy Christmas to my Aussie friends on the beach having a Barbbie! ONLY JELAOUS!

Happy Christmas "WILLIAM"!

Happy Christmas people! 

Happy Christmas to everyone! 

Merry Christmas Peeps! 

Merry Christmas Steve

Merry Christmas (Morning in Oz!) - The Red Backs had a massive party last night around the Tree 

I feel very sorry for the Angels that have to sit on top of a tree in Australia. Not only do the have to endure a pine tree stuck up their jacksy , but all those creepy crawlies.

@Henri Do Australians have Christmas trees? I bet they still do, but I'd shudder to think what might end up lurking in them! :/

It was snowing in Tenerife Island (Spain)

Do Australians have Christmas trees ?

Merry Christmas Eve! (Well in Australia  )

No i was Pissed! It's Sunday!

..lol..uguys are funny..

Shut up, you're Christmas pissed haha 

I cant edit the SHOUTBOX sorry for my bad english!

Im not sure wether our posts are timed !? The rubber keyed wonder is BEST! Followed by theC64!But as time is progessing people are staring to realise what they could of donw with the C64 or are doing Now!

 'The Rubber-Keyed Wonder' is excellent.

@Baggey yeah, but it's excellent. 

What's Framework!?

You might not use "framework" and thus include some library which is a malware indicator (ability to zip, manipulate registry, ...). Feel free to compile some basic app with framework command ...and then add some modules, compile, upload and check .. until you find the culprit.

@Baggey - I just compiled my game with the latest win32 NG release and uploaded the binary to virustotal ... no virus found: https://shorturl.at/UhkJX  --- so might be your computer

I hope you've got a box of Kleenex and pop corn. You've got me searching RUBBER KEYED WONDER! 

Currently watching my newly arrived DVD 'The Rubber-Keyed Wonder'. Maybe I should have got the Blu Ray version, but DVD is more retro for the good old Speccy I thought lol. 

Could be, might not be, probably may have been... Who knows! Tools like these just simply get hammered all the time, Blitz3D gets hammered, Blitz , AGK, GLBasic, B4X... Some big guns of the game cannot escape false positives.

Back up and running again! There appears to be a Malware version of BlitzmaxNG!?

Phwoaaar, your having a right rough one there mind... All in the name of keeping you and your PC "safe", AKA causing you grief and not being able to do what you want to do! \o/ yay for progress

Just installed malwarebytes and found 19 infections? Re-Booted my system cant even run BlitmaxNG Now!?

Are you getting false positives? Is like, Defender poking it nose in where it isnt wanted on the basis there "might", and I emphasis the word "might" be a threat. If so, it happens to many bits of software that are fine, basically, it's more of a hindrance then an actual help, because what that says to me is basically, it doesnt know itself, but stopping you use the software... Pretty much how a weather man says there is 50% chance of rain... Again, to me, they don't actually know, flip of a coin if you get pissed on... Give me £70k a year and I can tell anyone that!

BlitzmaxNG Updates on Github may have malware hidden in the files 

Haha totally agree, some people's knee jerk reaction is open source it! Or I feel everything should be open source anyway! Errm no. 

Great but accurate typo

*thankful *Pretty unfortunate typo there mind! lol

@Qube Oh, and then you have my faves, the ones that go "If you put in X feature and Y feature I might use it!".... Oh really, is that right mate. As if them using whatever would make my life complete and I should be thankfuk... Erm, not here, because when people do that, straight away I think "To be honest marra, I'd rather you didnt!" and just ignore them!

Open sourcing abandoned projects is 99% of the time the death knell for that product. Too many scream "open source it" and once they see have a tiny look at the source code they either go very quiet or happily prompt others in what *should* happen

Dont put it opensource! Keep your hard work to yourself. Unless it's a good trade.

Well this is it, but, hate to say it, but look at Max3D, over 100 people in a thread was like "Put it opensource Mark, we'll look after", and he did, but, only two if I recall had the capability of taking over, and they eventually got tired. But that was typical, one minute some user is posting in the beginners section on how to find a tile under the mouse in an isometric tilemap, and the next thing, they are 3D engine Gods!?! Gods of talking shite in the most part, and there's me thinking I'm bad, but I know my limits. Mark knew my thoughts on community based stuff too... Not sure if you saw the monetization topic over on the forum. It all starts bright, chatty and breezy, then it all just gets abandoned, happens ALLLLLLLLL the time! Not to sound negative, but, that's what I see when it comes to this... Like, I hope I'm wrong in fact, totally wrong! Time will tell!!!

Maybe someone will pick up on LibSGD and continue..you never know..

Oh it's fine, it was coming along champion, the idea was Mark would hit V1.0 with LibSGD at Christmas, which was the cue that, he was happy, and there would be no more big changes, with LibSGD or Blitz3D... Which would then open the door for me to write some sort of [shoddy] lexer and parser and make auto complete actually live, as in, user defined stuff like types, object (inc members), functions etc etc... That was going to be my special Christmas coding ball ache, but, aye... Anyhoo, I've had a think about it, and... Well, the tool bag is open again and the hammer is out! hehehe

I was interested to see how your IDE was coming along! You could always adapt it to BlitzMaxNG. Just saying like 

Hey Bags... Well, Launchpad was supposed to be a tool that works alongside LibSGD, it was very specific that way... So at the moment, due to the obvious sad circumstances of late, it really isnt viable as a download in it's current form, which at the mo', there is no use for the forums in the current state of play either, that might change, if I decide to do something else with it, or someone takes up the baton for LibSGD, I'll see how it pans out me auld fruit!

Hey Dabz. Whys Launchpad-IDE down!?

*Thumbs up*

It's Okay he's contacted me! 

..now ya scare me a lil bit..

Has Anybody heard anything from @mainsworthy of late?

@Qube Yep both Kreese and Mr Miyagi inadvertently caused a serious incident 

The Last Of Us Series 2 will hit soon. Can't wait.