You're invited to the Shift Run Stop episode 50 live games night, this Monday.
Bring your favourite portable game or learn to play a new one.
Monday 18th October 2010, 7-11pm
Downstairs at the Southwark Rooms, 60 Southwark St, London SE1 1UN
Posted: October 16th, 2010 | 512 Comments »
Robert Schifreen and Stephen Gold hacked into the Post Office/BT's Viewdata system 'Prestel' back in the 80s, gaining access to thousands of mailboxes (including Prince Philip's). It was the first high profile hacking case in the UK, and resulted in the passing of the Computer Misuse Act. We reminisce with Robert about the good old days of computer crime, take a stroll along the Thames, and find snacks hedgehog Dave Green under a bonfire of sweet wrappers.
Robert's company Security Savvy | Robert on Twitter | Robert's book Defeating the Hacker | Dave's site Snackspot | Buy this episode on tape, yes tape
++++Don't forget to come to our 50th episode party in London on Monday!
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Posted: October 14th, 2010 | 3,729 Comments »
Robert's something of a Shift Run Stop hero - he's a key personality in the story of the Post Office/BT's Viewdata system 'Prestel', which regular listeners will know we're both far too interested in. Along with Stephen Gold, Robert famously hacked into Prestel in the 80s, gaining access to thousands of mailboxes (including Prince Philip's). The result was a massively expensive court case, and the passing of The Computer Misuse Act. See you back here on Thursday, when we'll have a meal prepared for your ears.
Posted: October 12th, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Special episode this week - two guests, several locations and lots of meaty snacks. We went to the annual London games conference Playful and Skype-interviewed very funny former Games Master host-turned farmer Dominik Diamond on stage - hear the best bits in this episode. Games consultant and former editor of Edge magazine, Margaret Robertson was at Playful too, talking about Minecraft. But we'd already booked her to come on our show, because we already knew she was ace, because we're way ahead of you.
Margaret on Twitter | Dominik on Twitter | Margaret's website | Dominik's website | Find out how we got Dominik Diamond to agree to this on Leila's write-up | Former SRS guest Myk Reeve's photo of us on stage | Chris O’Shea even videoed some of it | Dave's site Snackspot | Buy a tape of this episode
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Posted: October 7th, 2010 | 3,986 Comments »
We went to the London games conference Playful a couple of weeks ago, and interviewed former Games Master host Dominik Diamond over Skype - he's swapped what must have been a turbulent life on the oil rig with Patrick Moore for a peaceful existence in rural Nova Scotia. See the evidence on this video and listen to the episode on Thursday to hear just how funny he was.
Games consultant and former editor of Edge magazine, Margaret Robertson, did a brilliant presentation about Minecraft from *inside the game* at the conference too - we caught up with her afterwards to chat about that.
Margaret, Dominik, snacks, fun, games and laughs on this Thursday's slightly-longer-than-usual episode. We are good to you.
Posted: October 5th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A return to video games chat this week, and who better to put our endless questions about narrative and puzzles to than friendly games maker Hayden Scott-Baron ("Docky"). Hayden is the man behind hit iPhone physics game Tumbledrop, and much of what you like about RollerCoaster Tycoon. He's a comic artist, too, so we exploited his talent to bring you some of our cutest tapes so far. Head over to our store now to grab one for yourself - it's a very limited edition run!
Also in this episode: your hosts discuss the text adventure documentary, Get Lamp and snackster Dave tracks down some "children's beer".
Links: Hayden Scott-Baron (Wikipedia) | Hayden on Twitter as Docky | Hayden's games company Starfruit Games | Tumbledrop on the app store | Sweatdrop studios, and Hayden's profile there | Demo of Sega game "Nights" | Get Lamp | Snackspot | Buy a tape of this episode and others.
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Posted: September 30th, 2010 | 4,044 Comments »
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