Scarlett the VW Scirocco now on Forza for Xbox One :-)

"Scarlett" the 1987 VW Scirocco was utilised many times to promote the work of Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research and was expected to be doing so for many more years.

Sadly, as mentioned in previous posts, in April this year my poor car was written off by a rather large HGV which rear ended it causing significant and sadly, unrepairable damage.

Luckily, my brilliant friend Glen Place, has resurrected the old girl into a virtual life in the Forza Motorsport game on the Xbox One console 

And here she is 

XBox 360 nightmare is over !

Ok.......so I cheated and went to ASDA today and bought a new one (£97 quid !). Decided that throwing more money into the current one was a total waste of time,effort...and money. Besides, it's Andy Jr's Birthday on Monday so i have my excuse...sorry, reasons :-) In my day your dad bought Scalextrix for you (them!) to play with, now it's an Xbox.. a sign of the times if ever you wanted one !

XBox 360 nightmare update !

I have calmed down a little since my post yesterday which pretty much reflected the way i was feeling about my son's X Box 360 ongoing reliability problems. Since the last post i have done some surfing (on the net, not the sea!) and found that yet again this is a widespread fault, and as i mentioned earlier it appears that the fix is limited to either sending the box back to Microsoft for an out of warranty repair (console is more than 1 years old and the 3 year warranty only covered the RROD fault), or i have to go and buy a "donor" console that has been put up on Ebay, then use its working (i will check that it does!) DVD/CD drive, and stick it in ours to cure the problem...hopefully :-).
As i post this i am just waiting to hear from a couple of local Ebay sellers to negotiate a donor machine....i will let you know how i get on.

Why Microsoft should go to the wall....and be shot ! :-)

XBOX 360.......what right have Microsoft to sell such a piece of junk ? The machine is the most unreliable console that I have ever had the misfortune to own. Ok, when it works, it rocks, but you are always waiting for the damn thing to break down, and when it does the options for repair tend to involve sending it away to Microsoft for repair.
After managing to sort out the RROD (Red Ring of Death !) problem that causes the 360 to overheat, spending money then on new games,wireless hand controls and a 20GB hard rive, imagine my annoyance when the bl**dy thing started to tell me that "To play this disk, put it into an xbox 360 console"....erm, well it IS in an Xbox console,but it appears to be knackered...again!.
Don't you love the way that computers place the blame on the user ? It tells me that i need to put the DVD (which it is not,it is a game!) in a 360, as if it is me that is at fault !...the cheeky git !.

If you do a quick search on the net about the RROD and read errors on the 360,along with sticking drive doors,broken door covers etc, it appears that consoles that work for more than 12 months without experiencing a failure of some kind are something of a rarity, and that in essence Microsoft are as good at releasing games consoles full of potential faults as they are at releasing operating systems that are finally bug free and "updated" around about the time that its replacement comes onto the market ! How the hell did Mr Gates get so rich selling such dodgy gear ?
As it now appears that the Xbox is yet again stuffed, i will shortly be selling it along with the various games,controls and add ons, and buying something a little more reliable....such as a 30 year old Atari :-)