The Windows machine I used to use only had a 40 gig hard drive and XP seemed to hog most of that, so I bought a USB 500 gig portable drive and used that to dump everything on, freeing up space on my internal drive.
Since having a computer I've become a digital magpie. I've downloaded thousands of free web scripts that 'will come in handy', and a lot of them have although there's loads that are just taking up unnecessary space on my drive, so I'm now having a bit of a sort out.
Along with scripts there's also utilities and games I have forgotten I had and it's a certain game that has stopped me in my tracks and has wasted a lot of my time the last couple of days. To justify my time wasting I have uploaded it to the download section.
If you're a fan of retro home computing, then you probably remember the game Chuckie Egg, it's a 2D platform game where you as a farmer go round collecting eggs and seed evading the funny looking flamingos (I guess they are).
I first saw this game on a friend's ZX Spectrum and finally owned a copy a few years later when it came out on the Acorn Electron.
The download is a zip file. Once downloaded and saved where you want it right click the folder and select Extract from the menu that appears.
There's two versions included in the download. The ChuckieEggv1_1b folder contains what you might call a PC version of the game. The graphics are more modern looking and so looks like a more upto date game. The chuckie_win95 folder contains the original looking version of the game as seen on a Spectrum or Acorn Electron.
Although the folder says 'win95', it program runs fine in XP and unfortunately, because I'm hooked, in Ubuntu through Wine.
There's bound to be other stuff that will end up in the downloads section so keep a eye open.
