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Mr Happy
4,273 posts
89 months
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$603,808 at the last count with 4 hours to go! Well done Batwick 
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Batwick2
Original Poster
115 posts
71 months
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Thanks. Sat here watching the total. We've got a sweepstake going within the Stainless Kickstarter team. I went for the highest at $639k, but I reckon I'll lose. Sim went for $625k - looks like she's on course to win the.... errrr.... nothing!
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Mr Happy
4,273 posts
89 months
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I'd have guestimated about $620k, can I have Sim if this is the total?! 
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Batwick2
Original Poster
115 posts
71 months
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Mr Happy said: I'd have guestimated about $620k, can I have Sim if this is the total?! You'd need a Northern-to-English dictionary. The missus and I spend a lot of time in Cumbria, and believe me, Sim makes it sound like the Home Counties :-)
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Mr Happy
4,273 posts
89 months
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Luckily I'm fluent in all forms of northern!!
I'm sure bottles will be popping at stainless hq tomorrow morning! Enjoy!!
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Fabric
3,046 posts
61 months
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Batwick2 said: Sim went for $625k - looks like she's on course to win the.... errrr.... nothing! Good guess! Final total of $625,143 bang on the money - congratulations guys! 
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Batwick2
Original Poster
115 posts
71 months
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Thanks, and thanks to all you guys on Pistonheads that have helped support us. It's great to be back 
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Famous Graham
26,537 posts
94 months
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Rather apt timing. If any of you remember NTK, they've launched AnnoNTK - resending the newsletters they did 15 years ago every week. Quite apart from the nostalgia and "wow, was that really 15 years ago" moments reading the newsletter, sometimes you get something that ties in with modern day. Like this extract from "today's" issue - June 20th 1997. NTK said: "How can you 'kill' that which does not 'live'?" argue SCI,
whose ultraviolent PC death-racer CARMAGEDDON hits the
streets next week. Following concerns voiced in the
tabloids, it now encourages you to run over "zombies"
(which spurt green ooze) rather than the red-blooded human
pedestrians featured in preview versions of the game. The
change seems unlikely to affect the title's high review
scores, and continues a trend of replacing human enemies
with either robots (as in Sega's shoot-'em-up Gunblade) or
the undead (Sega's House Of The Dead).
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Batwick2
Original Poster
115 posts
71 months
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Fortunately we fought the BBFC in the High Court and won, so eventually the proper red-blood humans returned.
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Famous Graham
26,537 posts
94 months
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Aye, I remember. Although several enterprising individuals sorted out a "patch" way before that anyway
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Batwick2
Original Poster
115 posts
71 months
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Hmmmm, now then, I wonder if the developers purposely left a back door in the zombie version? Like..... Errrr.... Including all the red blood data and leaving a simple switch that any half-decent hacker could find....
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durbster
3,044 posts
91 months
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Batwick2 said: Hmmmm, now then, I wonder if the developers purposely left a back door in the zombie version? Like..... Errrr.... Including all the red blood data and leaving a simple switch that any half-decent hacker could find....  This is exactly why we loved Carmageddon. It had character and enthusiasm in every line of code
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Batwick2
Original Poster
115 posts
71 months
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There was a C function in the source named MakeTheFlagWavingb  dWaveHisFlagWhichIsTheLastThingHeWillEverDo(); And the #define that turned on zombie mode was called MICHAEL_HOWARD_IS_A_C...NT (for he was Home Secretary at the time, and had personally called for the ban).
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RedLeicester
5,400 posts
114 months
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Famous Graham
26,537 posts
94 months
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Batwick2 said: Hmmmm, now then, I wonder if the developers purposely left a back door in the zombie version? Like..... Errrr.... Including all the red blood data and leaving a simple switch that any half-decent hacker could find.... Notice the quotes? 
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durbster
3,044 posts
91 months
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Batwick2 said: There was a C function in the source named MakeTheFlagWavingb dWaveHisFlagWhichIsTheLastThingHeWillEverDo(); And the #define that turned on zombie mode was called MICHAEL_HOWARD_IS_A_C...NT (for he was Home Secretary at the time, and had personally called for the ban). Bloody hell. I should be working for you guys. My coding colleagues always thought I was odd for using function names like that
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vrooom
2,911 posts
136 months
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OH MY GOD. this game made my childhood great... I hope i got that carmageddon 2 disc..
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Batwick2
Original Poster
115 posts
71 months
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Famous Graham said: Notice the quotes? When it got hacked back to blood so quickly, we had to tut, shake our heads and say "Wow, I wonder how they did that then?", then quickly look at our feet. Of course SCi were very happy to not investigate further! There was quite a lot of mutual winking going on. No.... Stop giggling at the back there... I said mutual WINKING.
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Mr Happy
4,273 posts
89 months
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Just downloaded the free Max Pack from GOG! Lets get it on!!
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khevolution
1,401 posts
64 months
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Just got my email
Happy Days!!!
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