International Effort....
There are those who scorn the Internet as a teenagers plaything or a haven for scams, porn, and useless drivel. True, there is some of that, but also there is the opportunity for international assistance in solving weighty problems of massive proportions. Such as fixing our PlayStation2. It doesn't get much bigger than that.
As mentioned in previous entries, I have become more than a little enamored with the PlayStation2 game, Formula 1 Challenge developed by Melbourne House, who are affiliated with Atari. And the more I became addicted to the racing action the more our PS2 seemed to malfunction, coming to the point of inoperability. Apparently becoming dyslexic, it now can't read the disc. To try and solve the problem I searched online geek gamer websites and found some solutions, but none seemed to work. Eventually I went to the Melbourne House website itself to try and gain some insight into the malfunction and hoping to find a contact email address. But, alas, all I could find were local phone numbers in Melbourne Australia, home of the developers.
I was ready to give up when the idea to both solve my dilemma and further international relations came to me. Internet blogmate Bernard Slattery, aka Slatts lives in Geelong just within a light stones throw from Melbourne. Yesterday I emailed Slatts with my plea for help, asking him to phone the gameboys at Melbourne House and to try to obtain an email address. I was not disappointed, as this morning I received a reply from Slatts saying that he had made contact with them and he supplied the direct email address for one of the games developers. Help is on the way. Slatts says that they are an affable lot and would be glad to answer my questions. At this very moment the fate of our PlayStation and my racing career is in their hands. I hope to be back on the track soon.
Bernie's generosity is appreciated and I told him that I would try and reciprocate with his holy grail of requests from Texas....a gen-u-wine autographed picture of Kinky Friedman . I'll do my best.
There are those who scorn the Internet as a teenagers plaything or a haven for scams, porn, and useless drivel. True, there is some of that, but also there is the opportunity for international assistance in solving weighty problems of massive proportions. Such as fixing our PlayStation2. It doesn't get much bigger than that.
As mentioned in previous entries, I have become more than a little enamored with the PlayStation2 game, Formula 1 Challenge developed by Melbourne House, who are affiliated with Atari. And the more I became addicted to the racing action the more our PS2 seemed to malfunction, coming to the point of inoperability. Apparently becoming dyslexic, it now can't read the disc. To try and solve the problem I searched online geek gamer websites and found some solutions, but none seemed to work. Eventually I went to the Melbourne House website itself to try and gain some insight into the malfunction and hoping to find a contact email address. But, alas, all I could find were local phone numbers in Melbourne Australia, home of the developers.
I was ready to give up when the idea to both solve my dilemma and further international relations came to me. Internet blogmate Bernard Slattery, aka Slatts lives in Geelong just within a light stones throw from Melbourne. Yesterday I emailed Slatts with my plea for help, asking him to phone the gameboys at Melbourne House and to try to obtain an email address. I was not disappointed, as this morning I received a reply from Slatts saying that he had made contact with them and he supplied the direct email address for one of the games developers. Help is on the way. Slatts says that they are an affable lot and would be glad to answer my questions. At this very moment the fate of our PlayStation and my racing career is in their hands. I hope to be back on the track soon.
Bernie's generosity is appreciated and I told him that I would try and reciprocate with his holy grail of requests from Texas....a gen-u-wine autographed picture of Kinky Friedman . I'll do my best.
