Yeah, but on the 1200XL and later computers, RESET actually triggered the CPU's RESET line. On the 400 and 800, it was just a regular NMI and would do absolutely nothing if the CPU had locked up due to a garbage op-code. Of course the RESET key on Atari and Apple (and CONTROL+RESTORE (right?) ON THE Commodore 64) just exit the program you're currently using and makes sure the screen is in a usable state (i.e. in text mode), not re-boot the computer. That was done by holding down the Apple logo keys when reseting on the Apple or a button on a special cartridge on the Atari and C64.
It annoyed me so that Linux didn't have something similar to Apple & Atari's RESET key that I wrote one of my own that got called by init anytime I pressed WIN+X. It set the screen to text mode via SVGAlib's "mode3" utility and sends "^[c" to stdout to reset the VT and did a number of other things that I don't remember. I also did something similar in MS-DOS called CLEAR.COM that also switched stdin/stdout/stderr back to cooked mode (i.e. ^C & ^Z & ^P work again) after I noticed that Lynx left them in raw mode when shelling to DOS when I got stuck in the UNIX "cat" utility because I couldn't ^Z out of it.
Won't work; you'll just get a "Cannot do binary reads from a device" error. After all, if ^Z (the EOF character in CP/M) is disabled, how will it know when it reaches EOF? You'll have to convert it to HEX format and transfer it that way and then use DEBUG to convert it back. How you actually create a HEX file is beyond me, though.
You just download the CD image and mount that and install from that. There's even a special boot floppy disk image that will do it for you. At least that's how it was when I downloaded FreeDOS years ago.
No, you remember kaomoji; which are the textual (ASCII, originally) "faces" that Japanese created. Emoji are the graphical icons. As I understand it, kaomoji are always faces (right-side up ones, at that!) where as emoticons and emoji can be anything. Also "emoji" is not a abreviation of "emotional ji" ("ji"="character"), as some might think. It's a combination of "e" and "moji", not "emo" and "ji".
I agree that the first site is better. And what's with the second site being gzip-compressed; whether my browser (Links) supports it or not. I see the same thing with the Playstation 3's browser as well.
You mean SHIFT-8? SHIFT-2 was double quotes. Something about just needing to flip a bit to turn the "8" into a "@".
This was long before the IBM PC keyboard.
Read this: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_list
The Atari could certainly do that split-screen stuff via the "Display List". The Amiga was partially based off of the Atari. Some of the same engineers worked on the Amiga. It even has a more advanced version of the Atari's Display List functionality.
And screen tearing stopped being a problem with the Atari. But usually only games try to v-synch with the screen. Those, and some text file viewers which support smooth scrolling. Of course you won't see anything like that in a window system; only full-screen programs. And remember that if you try out one of these old machines in an emulator, that your monitor's refresh rate must match, or be a multiple of, the emulated computer's refresh rate to see smooth scrolling.
(make sure to activate the emulator's "vsync" feature as well)
Bouncing a ball while formatting a disk? Hell, we could do that on a Atari 800 back in 1979! And, from what I know about the Commodore 64, you can do it there too. And the TI-99/4A could probably do it too; what with it having a graphic co-processor that could efectively (albeit slowly) act as a CPU.
Wasn't the full title of the original Atari 800 "Atari Home Computer System"? Just like the game system was called the "Video Computer System".
("video" being code for "video game" back then)
Well, OK, so when should I expect that I can build a brochure site for a hotel that uses HTML5 videos and have one video format and one set of custom controls to work with? Because the world has moved on and Flash is no longer a viable option for this kind of work despite offering those advantages for many years, thanks to much the same browser developers who can't get their act together and actually provide a better replacement. They can't even manage to make the default "this is a video" overlay look the same, or even put it in roughly the same place so you can design placeholder graphics accordingly.
What's wrong with regular HTML video (i.e. the OBJECT tag)?
If your company's video site actually is YouTube then this kind of problem probably doesn't affect you all that much. However, for normal web sites that are just trying to take advantage of multimedia as part of the presentation, HTML5 audio and video are a bad joke, and the punchline is that all the much better technologies that used to be viable alternatives have been deliberately killed off anyway.
I hope that you didn't consider Shockwave Flash a "viable technology".
What, no love for w3m?
q.v. Emacs/W3 at that same link.
n.b. I also seem to remember a version of w3m that could display pictures when run in an xterm.
Yeh, but all you need is a Shield of Reflection and have disintergration resistance and you'll be fine!
(or if you let that purple worm swallow you before-hand!)
Not sure what a "memory stick" is (you mean a SIMM?) but I've used a 40GB HD along with numerous flash carts larger than 2GB with no problems. Are you sure you're using the "FORMAT/FS:FAT32" command and not just "FORMAT"?
Or else use fat32format.exe.
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Huh? My version of MPC-HC is 1.8.4.6.
Yeah, but on the 1200XL and later computers, RESET actually triggered the CPU's RESET line. On the 400 and 800, it was just a regular NMI and would do absolutely nothing if the CPU had locked up due to a garbage op-code. Of course the RESET key on Atari and Apple (and CONTROL+RESTORE (right?) ON THE Commodore 64) just exit the program you're currently using and makes sure the screen is in a usable state (i.e. in text mode), not re-boot the computer. That was done by holding down the Apple logo keys when reseting on the Apple or a button on a special cartridge on the Atari and C64.
It annoyed me so that Linux didn't have something similar to Apple & Atari's RESET key that I wrote one of my own that got called by init anytime I pressed WIN+X. It set the screen to text mode via SVGAlib's "mode3" utility and sends "^[c" to stdout to reset the VT and did a number of other things that I don't remember. I also did something similar in MS-DOS called CLEAR.COM that also switched stdin/stdout/stderr back to cooked mode (i.e. ^C & ^Z & ^P work again) after I noticed that Lynx left them in raw mode when shelling to DOS when I got stuck in the UNIX "cat" utility because I couldn't ^Z out of it.
The command "ls -1rv" does what you want. At least when using the "ls" program included in the GNU "fileutils" package.
Won't work; you'll just get a "Cannot do binary reads from a device" error. After all, if ^Z (the EOF character in CP/M) is disabled, how will it know when it reaches EOF?
You'll have to convert it to HEX format and transfer it that way and then use DEBUG to convert it back. How you actually create a HEX file is beyond me, though.
Or just install from a CD image.
You just download the CD image and mount that and install from that. There's even a special boot floppy disk image that will do it for you. At least that's how it was when I downloaded FreeDOS years ago.
A nobody? Steve Jackson made Car Wars!
(and a little thing called GURPS)
To be fair, Google didn't name Youtube,
No, you remember kaomoji; which are the textual (ASCII, originally) "faces" that Japanese created. Emoji are the graphical icons. As I understand it, kaomoji are always faces (right-side up ones, at that!) where as emoticons and emoji can be anything. Also "emoji" is not a abreviation of "emotional ji" ("ji"="character"), as some might think. It's a combination of "e" and "moji", not "emo" and "ji".
Well dampening should be easy seeing as they are under water.
P.S. Unless you meant "damping", of course.
Thank You!
Huh? Why is there a double slash? "settings" isn't a hostname!
I agree that the first site is better. And what's with the second site being gzip-compressed; whether my browser (Links) supports it or not. I see the same thing with the Playstation 3's browser as well.
You mean SHIFT-8? SHIFT-2 was double quotes. Something about just needing to flip a bit to turn the "8" into a "@". This was long before the IBM PC keyboard.
You mean Valentine Michael Smith; The Stranger in a Strange Land?
Read this:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_list
The Atari could certainly do that split-screen stuff via the "Display List". The Amiga was partially based off of the Atari. Some of the same engineers worked on the Amiga. It even has a more advanced version of the Atari's Display List functionality.
And screen tearing stopped being a problem with the Atari. But usually only games try to v-synch with the screen. Those, and some text file viewers which support smooth scrolling. Of course you won't see anything like that in a window system; only full-screen programs. And remember that if you try out one of these old machines in an emulator, that your monitor's refresh rate must match, or be a multiple of, the emulated computer's refresh rate to see smooth scrolling.
(make sure to activate the emulator's "vsync" feature as well)
Bouncing a ball while formatting a disk? Hell, we could do that on a Atari 800 back in 1979! And, from what I know about the Commodore 64, you can do it there too. And the TI-99/4A could probably do it too; what with it having a graphic co-processor that could efectively (albeit slowly) act as a CPU.
Wasn't the full title of the original Atari 800 "Atari Home Computer System"? Just like the game system was called the "Video Computer System".
("video" being code for "video game" back then)
What's wrong with regular HTML video (i.e. the OBJECT tag)?
I hope that you didn't consider Shockwave Flash a "viable technology".
Golden Ration? Damn Minecraft! Stop teaching people to eat gold!
What, no love for w3m?
q.v. Emacs/W3 at that same link.
n.b. I also seem to remember a version of w3m that could display pictures when run in an xterm.
Yeh, but it's like one emerald for 10 cookies! Easier to make your own.
Yeh, but all you need is a Shield of Reflection and have disintergration resistance and you'll be fine!
(or if you let that purple worm swallow you before-hand!)
"XP" was the sequel to "2000". "ME" is regular MS-Windows, "XP" is WinNT V5.1.
Isn't "csh" usually just a link/symlink to tcsh?
(which is what I actually use normally)
Not sure what a "memory stick" is (you mean a SIMM?) but I've used a 40GB HD along with numerous flash carts larger than 2GB with no problems. Are you sure you're using the "FORMAT/FS:FAT32" command and not just "FORMAT"?
Or else use fat32format.exe.