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Last Orders

Don't have any of the above, but I thought since it is the last day I'd offer up some fitting music to close up shop.

Eastenders special themes - when a character dies or gets written out - clickity click.

…and finally

Suppose the credits are going to roll soon! Onto goodbyes, here's one from our man at the BBC, Greg Dyke.



Catch you all around.

Last Orders

I have the Challenge Anneka themes both opening and closing. Here you go. No idea whose they were originally, perhaps downloaded from here, so credit to whoever uploaded them.

Also have found in the folder an interview on Radio 2 with David Lowe

As for my last requests?

Stars In Their Eyes (pretty please!). And Timetextures by Robin Jap - I know it is library but the library is no longer in business, and the CDs are pretty much non existent as a result, so if anyone's got access to the CDs at work or has them stashed somewhere I'd be all ears. The old BBC Local Radio Mcasso package?

TVF Confessions

Can't stand Channel 5's output but I loved the original Channel 5 News theme at launch.

…and finally

Very sad to see the forum is closing for contributions for good at the end of the month, and thanks to Asa and the mods for keeping the ship afloat over the years.

He's a good egg, not met him in person but we have emailed when I couldn't get my email changed and he does care for the place. However, it can be understood that he wishes to pack it in after two decades. It's a long time for anyone, and where we may have been spotty (or not) teenagers when we joined with endless time (or so it seemed) we are all much older with other varying demands of life.

I've only ever had one other username which got nicked in aftermath of the big crash of the early 2000s, so have not been through as many rebrands as some members or indeed channels.

Certainly been an interesting and unique community - who can ever forget some of the tall tales. If you're old hands to this forum think the first name of a similar vein to the male chart-topping member (rather large some may say?) of Cats the film and metal on the surname? Or how about the time someone started banging on about another kind of TV?

I've not posted as much as I once did, but it's good to see some old names here. Who'd have thought a venture onto the TV Home website and downloading ropey quality real video clips on a dialup modem in my teenage years of a rainy weekend would have had all us still here after 20 years or thereabouts...

Certainly grateful for those that have traded/sent items, and likewise those that I fulfilled the occasional request for. I do remember taping onto VHS some local BBC News for someone who didn't have Sky, so whoever you are that I did that for I hope you enjoyed a slice of the local news.

This forum has also been a constant in a world of change. Not everyone wants to be able to able to have their entire internet post history relevated by typing in their real-life name into Google, or indeed be doxxed because we don't agree with a certain viewpoint. It's also helped us to all maintain a sense of anonymity but community at the same time.

Thank you for everything. If we quote the old BBC line with some adaptation, we make it what it is.

Fire at BBC Pacific Quay

As is demonstrated on this clip from Chris Moyles on Radio 1.

Reading Matter

I was surprised to see Computeractive! was still going all these years later when I was browsing the magazine shelves in Tesco recently. The format has barely changed over the years.

Windows Technology

It's also entirely feasible that the drivers for the hardware are not written for modern OS, and the cost for scrapping that hardware or getting custom software written outweighs the benefits of doing so. Can't imagine self service tills are particularly cheap to replace - well, not the full-fat ones anyway with coin acceptors, cashboxes, scales etc.

Windows Technology

I remember when I worked the tills during the summer holidays at M&S circa 2006/7, mine needed a reboot as it has crashed and I was amazed to find it ran NT4 and took forever to boot up. The back-office was not much better as they still ran a mix of NT4 and XP (on the newer machines) in the store I worked in. Mind you XP was a pretty reliable workhorse.

All the self scan tills run some form of XP even to this day, have often seen in my local stores when they've got technical problems the 2000/XP style login box, covered up with a till broken notice.

Getting music from a "dead" music library

Don't post in here often, but I have a question. I'm trying to track down some music from the Funtastik music library, but it seems the company is longer and its material appeared to be sold to BMG. Searching the BMG production music website does not seem to elicit any results.

What happens to material when a library disappears, is it just renamed/re-released under a different name for the tracks, or is it just simply lost to the ether?

Thanks in advance.

Sound effect

Hi Finley, the BBC has some sound effects you can download and use on this page: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

Matt Lucas' TV Themes

A really interesting listen! No doubt the programme will disappear off BBC Sounds at some point or if you don't fancy listening to the entire thing and want to hear David Lowe talk about BBC News etc, I've clipped the segment here as an mp3.