You remember arcade game cabinets? Depending on the particular game there would be maybe a joystick and several fire buttons. What we have on a computer is a mouse and keyboard, so what we need to be able to do is to have a joystick and several fire buttons but make the computer understand the signals coming from them.

Once more into the fray then.

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Well, Hull and back actually.

I went to pick up the Solitaire Challenge cab that was offered to me for free and it now takes pride of place in my garage.

Some of it on the floor, some on a shelf, some in a box.

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DOSsing about with computers

Now we have a 10 year old beater up and running, what finer way to bring it to life than install a 25 year old Operating System on it?

“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!”

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Well, there’s this big bridge in East Yorkshire over the River Humber. Funnily enough it’s called the Humber Bridge.

Only thing is, it’s a long way from my house, but I may be making a trip over that way this month, and the reason? To pick up …….

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