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links to great time wasters like AJAX magnetic poetry, AJAX magnetic letters, and AJAX Weboggle

links to great time wasters like AJAX magnetic poetry, AJAX magnetic letters, and AJAX Weboggle

So there was no point in anyone trying, as to hack the screen drawing code is not viable, as so much depended on the syncing and timing in the C64 days.

So conceivably, that old DOS mode 'pokes and peeks the VGA buffer itself' type code could now hope to be ported to this sort of screen.

I'm struggling and struggling to think of one app that would not have been superceded by something superior. But should one exist, it could not without it's hardcoded minimum resolution.

Keep this going, I could run Lionheart under UAE on an NGage VII.

Hmm, whilst on the topic of strange lines, I was wondering if anyone here could tell me what these strange geometric lines are that I saw when I was flying over Russia (at about 35,000 ft) on the way back to Europe after a holiday in Japan:
Big white diamond
Thick line
Grid lines

I do not think these are not roads, rivers, or pipelines - all of which have been suggested to me so far...

WARNING: Images are each 1.6Mb in size, and I'm not able to connect to the machine to upload smaller copies right now...

-- Pete.

Hmm, whilst on the topic of strange lines, I was wondering if anyone here could tell me what these strange geometric lines are that I saw when I was flying over Russia (at about 35,000 ft) on the way back to Europe after a holiday in Japan:
Big white diamond
Thick line
Grid lines

I do not think these are not roads, rivers, or pipelines - all of which have been suggested to me so far...

WARNING: Images are each 1.6Mb in size, and I'm not able to connect to the machine to upload smaller copies right now...

-- Pete.

Hmm, whilst on the topic of strange lines, I was wondering if anyone here could tell me what these strange geometric lines are that I saw when I was flying over Russia (at about 35,000 ft) on the way back to Europe after a holiday in Japan:
Big white diamond
Thick line
Grid lines

I do not think these are not roads, rivers, or pipelines - all of which have been suggested to me so far...

WARNING: Images are each 1.6Mb in size, and I'm not able to connect to the machine to upload smaller copies right now...

-- Pete.

Why were the old 8-bit computers such a hive of creativity? The things people did with them back then seem to be much more way-out than the thing people do today - it must be the challenge of owning such a limited machine.

Personally, I'd say it's the challenge of coding for such a limited machine. It's often a lot more fun coding for smaller, more restricted machines. I remember my old graphic calculator - it was the fx9000 model. Enough RAM to code on, enough screen to get a reasonable response, but still a pig to code for in the language provided.

I wrote a text adventure for it, a football management simulator, and even a simple AI Space Invaders (I couldn't be bothered to learn the serious hacks needed to get real-time user input). All these, sadly, were lost during my A-levels when I had to wipe all the data on the machine. But I used to spend hours coding in Math lessons, lunch-breaks, etc.

Coding for restricted machines and environments is a lot more interesting and challenging than something that you know you can do if you throw enough C / Perl / COBOL / whatever at the problem. A friend has written an IRC client in shell scripts, for example.

These days, coding is just too easy for most projects - we've got the processing power, the RAM, the compilers and everything. All a coder needs is enough time and inspiration to achieve the task at hand. Limited coding is a lot more fun.

Alex