Friday, March 11, 2011

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1976 Charles Hawtrey got his hands on a mechanical brass bedstead recovered from the Antikythera shipwreck. Although it was badly corroded experts were able to reconstruct a functioning version of the bedstead and it turned out it was an early form of computer. Hawtrey put it to good use playing an embryonic version of Jet Set Willy.
And now the news:

Rare Portuguese man o’ war jellyfish sighted off M...
Wildlife Officials Celebrate Fla. Panther Sighting...
Aging Rates, Gender Gap in Mortality Similar Acros...
Vermont Mulls Animal Hoarding Bill

No video today. Instead, here is a link to something you might like: the Monstrum version of Jet Set Willy for the ZX Spectrum:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0010549
^ I kid you not, a whole game based on Tony Shiels' Monstrum (soon to be republished by CFZ press). If you need an emulator so you can play it see the link below:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html

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