HAPPY BIRTHDAY FLASH

flash · **Reply #30 on:** January 14, 2012, 05:44:48 pm

Er, I was 18-19 at the time, and not danish...

Lobo · **Reply #31 on:** January 14, 2012, 05:57:39 pm

Quote from: Flash on January 14, 2012, 05:44:48 pm

Er, I was 18-19 at the time, and not danish...

And 26 years later, still not Danish! And still insisting on being 44 (instead of..ohh..78 at minimum).
Ok.

Oh and, who coaxed the Hubbard into it, you guys or Firebird? Ever met him?
(sheee...ttt...interview)

flash · **Reply #32 on:** January 14, 2012, 06:10:48 pm

I contacted the 'Hub' from a telephone number I found on a demo disk before we had a publisher. Bit of a risk as I had to pay him before we got any return on the game.

Lobo · **Reply #33 on:** January 14, 2012, 06:22:37 pm

I bet it was arm and leg back then. Man, weird ways of game development of the past were..ohman, yoda speak.

But I didn't know that Tanium was actually released o_0, I thought it was never finished, weird that. Almost thought that what you've posted here has never seen a light of the day as a physical copy.

flash · **Reply #34 on:** January 14, 2012, 06:49:33 pm

It was released as an 'as is'. I just wrapped it up rather than adding all the things I wanted to add. Lost it's appeal when Betts caused a stink over the use of the Warhawk name (as that was intended as a follow up - the ship is still based on a sideways Warhawk ship). So, I sent it to a couple of publishers and accepted the highest offer (cash + royalties). Cant remember the value, but it was pretty good and kept me for a year or so.

As for Mr. Hubbington. I think the price was around £1000. Quite a lot in 1985 (it was about october, well, just prior to the Commodore show at the Novotel in Hammersmith, London).

Lobo · **Reply #35 on:** January 14, 2012, 07:03:59 pm

1985? You still trying to shave off some years young man!!

But yeah, hell..1000 big ones is quite a sum even today dammit!

No wonder that many a red Ferrari were seen on the streets of Denm..I mean England back then.

flash · **Reply #36 on:** January 14, 2012, 07:23:12 pm

and that's perhaps why I did not have a red ferrari

Lobo · **Reply #37 on:** January 14, 2012, 07:34:57 pm

Me neither

Sokurah · **Reply #38 on:** January 14, 2012, 08:41:19 pm

I had a Ferrarri.

...no wait...that was a dream I had.

flash · **Reply #39 on:** January 14, 2012, 08:50:35 pm

You're lucky, I can't afford dreams...

Sokurah · **Reply #40 on:** January 14, 2012, 09:15:34 pm

Quote from: Flash on January 14, 2012, 08:50:35 pm

You're lucky, I can't afford dreams...

Don't worry, mine are only the cheap and dirty kind - they're the most fun too.

flash · **Reply #41 on:** January 14, 2012, 09:16:58 pm

Perhaps I can borrow one of yours? A used one is fine. I don't mind secondhand dreams. It is aspirations I don't like shared.

Lobo · **Reply #42 on:** January 15, 2012, 12:55:34 am

'Aspirations', I had to google it.
Sounds like something against insects or some throat problem or another.

So, Ferrari...noone has it? Yet?

flash · **Reply #43 on:** January 15, 2012, 01:03:50 am

Nope... Sadly I just have the Bentley.

pff...

Lobo · **Reply #44 on:** January 15, 2012, 01:08:18 am

Quote from: Flash on January 15, 2012, 01:03:50 am

Nope... Sadly I just have the Bentley.

pff...

The butler?

Cool.

flash · **Reply #45 on:** January 15, 2012, 01:14:32 am

Well, he keeps the wife warm at night, giving me freedom to code these top selling games.... ?

Bugger, I've been duped.

Lobo · **Reply #46 on:** January 15, 2012, 01:34:38 am

Lost me at 'top'..or was it 'selling'...

Oh man, we gotta post the numbers as that seems to be popular nowadays where everyone and his cat is seemingly selling millions. We'll just put P (for peanuts) instead of $ or £ (or Danish Canadian deutchmark or whatnot) $:-\$

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flash · **Reply #47 on:** January 15, 2012, 01:36:42 am

and, Penis...

See, I made a word.

Lobo · **Reply #48 on:** January 15, 2012, 01:48:32 am

wooord!

And Pirate (Joe..from Canada).

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sverx · **Reply #49 on:** January 15, 2012, 02:24:19 pm

Quote from: Lobo on January 15, 2012, 12:55:34 am

So, Ferrari...noone has it? Yet?

No, but I have a Lamborghini. A Lamborghini boiler. (Seriously!)

flash · **Reply #50 on:** January 15, 2012, 04:40:27 pm

Tsh! And you just could not help bragging about it....

Zzaped! · **Reply #51 on:** January 21, 2012, 12:15:41 pm

Quote from: sverx on January 15, 2012, 02:24:19 pm

No, but I have a Lamborghini. A Lamborghini boiler. (Seriously!)

Does that mean you posess an old hen which is only suitable for boiling and goes by the name 'Lamborghini'?

sverx · **Reply #52 on:** January 24, 2012, 02:45:52 pm

uhu?

Sokurah · **Reply #53 on:** January 24, 2012, 03:07:56 pm

Quote from: Zzaped! on January 21, 2012, 12:15:41 pm

Does that mean you posess an old hen which is only suitable for boiling and goes by the name 'Lamborghini'?

Quote from: sverx on January 24, 2012, 02:45:52 pm

uhu?

No, he doesn't have an old hen - only an old cock.

Zzaped! · **Reply #54 on:** January 26, 2012, 12:18:59 pm

Quote from: sverx on January 24, 2012, 02:45:52 pm

uhu?

Err, Sverx, you've probably looked it up by now, but the word 'boiler' can mean a chicken that is only fit to boil, usually a hen (I learnt that usage before the one about a machine or tank for boiling water), and by extension, an old woman who is particularly irritable, rude, or otherwise nasty.

This thread is too old for Flash's birthday IMHO, but I think that after all of this time, everybody would love to see a photograph of Sverx's Lamborghini boiler. Probably impress the hell out of us all!

Upload a photo please!

sverx · **Reply #55 on:** January 26, 2012, 12:40:02 pm

Wow. I see now

A photo? Mmm... that boiler doesn't even have that Lamborgini red 'shield' on it, I guess it won't impress anyone :|

(for instance, it's not one of those http://www.lamborghinicalor.it/documenti/immagini/prodotti/foto_box/riscaldamento/caldaie%20condensazione/iXcondens%20C.jpg but it's one of those http://www.discountpiastrelle.net/public/minfoto/90.jpg

)

Zzaped! · **Reply #56 on:** January 26, 2012, 12:48:49 pm

Quote from: sverx on January 26, 2012, 12:40:02 pm

that boiler doesn't even have that Lamborgini red 'shield' on it, I guess it won't impress anyone :|

You could always get the shield off a second-hand Lamborghini laptop (must be pretty cheap these days) and stick it on the boiler.

Oh no, I am an idiot for confusing Lamborghini and Ferrari!!!!

Anyway, design in the example looks nice, shame it isn't really a chicken though.

flash · **Reply #57 on:** January 26, 2012, 02:04:49 pm

Quote from: Zzaped! on January 26, 2012, 12:18:59 pm

This thread is too old for Flash's birthday IMHO, but I think that after all of this time, everybody would love to see a photograph of Sverx's Lamborghini boiler. Probably impress the hell out of us all!

Hey,

At my age, the longer the birthday lasts, the better lol...