What filesize limit? I have a nice big DVD disk image far in excess of 4GB. I remember downloading ncftp in my UMSDOS Linux mini-installation specifically to get around the 32-bit limit that the binaries that came on my circa 2004 Slackware CDs had.
I used to use my Atari 800XL to get on the Internet all the time. You just need a terminal emulator and a modem (and it's software handler). Now-a-days you can have an actual IP connection via Contiki. It's not Atari's job to support device-specific stuff. The IBM PC wasn't designed with IP in mind but people still read net-news and net-mail on the IBM clones.
HTTP uses streams (TCP), not datagrams (UDP). So the browser never sees re-tries. Just time-outs. And the proxy is using the same protocols as the browser.
I'mm surprised that no one has mentioned that this is the way the Daleks worked in the original Doctor Who Dalek serial. They ran off of the static electricity in the metal floors of their city. They defeat one Dalek by laying a cloak on the floor and getting it to run (roll?) over it. By their second serial they got radio dishes on their backs that received transitted power which allowed them to roam the Earth. (not sure where this power was transmitted from; the individual small flying saucers or some off-screen mother ship) After the second serial the producers/writters just seemed to forget the power problem altogether.
I hope no highway bandits have watched 1960's Doctor Who.
BCD ("Binary Coded Decimal") is just storing a decimal digit in each nybble. So instead of 0-255 you get 0-99 values in each byte. So it's just as "integer" as regular binary. And even the lowly 6502 can do BCD math "in hardware".
It's THAC0; To Hit AC 0. "AC" refers to "Armour Class". It's an attempt by post-Gygax TSR to dumb-down AD&D; replacing the "Attack Matrix" with a simple base number that you subtract the target's AC from. AC10 is the base AC for un-armoured characters that aren't hiding behind cover from ranged attacks or utilising their super-speed/agility to dodge attacks.
And "+5 to THAC0" would be a penalty since you need to roll a number on a 20-sided die equal to or greater than the THAC0 to "hit" (i.e. hurt) your target. Rather you'd say "+5 To Hit" to indicate that 5 would be added to your die roll.
(allowing you to hit someone with AC0 even if your THAC0 was 25 by rolling a 20!)
To be fair, Slashdot seemed to delete the indentations that make sense of what the OR and AND bolean operators apply to. Just go to the document he linked to and it will make much more sense. (why does Slashdot not support PRE or XMP tags?!?)
Acording to O'Reily's "Unix in a Nutshell", ex (and hence vi), sed and ed support the \number feature. I know from experience that vim and GNU emacs support it. In fact, GNU emacs's "dired" ("directory editor") feature lets you re-name files automatically; allowing you to convert floating point numbers in file names to fixed point (so they sort corectly) and corecting extentions (e.g./\(.*\)\.jpe/\1\.jpeg/).
(n.b. you have to put back-slashes before parenthese to make them meta-characters in emacs)
What's with all of the hard line breaks in the original article? I end up with the last word (or so) of every sentence on a line by itself. They put a at the end of every physical line of the source HTML.
It's rasterised vs. vector! Unless the image is B&W (or any two colours) it's stored as packed-pixel these days. Multi-bitmap "planar" image formats (like Amiga's IFF:ILBM) got left behind in the 80's. Even SuperVGA cards only use planar modes when eulating an actual VGA chip or EGA card.
(it's surprising how incompatible SuperVGA modes are with regular EGA/VGA modes)
Rogue is a graphical/visual interface. You can see all the monsters/items/landscape features laid out graphically on any text terminal. A non-graphical "text" RPG would be like Zork or some other so-called "text adventure" where you have to picture the lay-out of the game world in your mind.
And doesn't Rogue pre-date curses?
(as in it just reads/etc/termcap and outputs the escape/control codes itself)
On the Atari HCS: 10PR.CHR$(6+RND(0));:G.10
which, when entered and then LISTed back out, becomes: PRINT CHR$(6+RND(0));:GOTO 10
You might also want to POKE 82,0:POKE 712,148 to use the whole screen and make the border colour match the background.
Atari BASIC rounds to the nearest whole number rather than just dropping the fraction; hence the use of "6" instead of "6.5".
(it's actually theï Atari OS doing the rounding, not the BASIC lang. cart. itself)
How does being invisible protect you from ocean waves? Perhaps they confused "invisibility" with "intangibility". Then again, the Cloaking Device on Star Trek worked via the Deflector Screen (Stargate: Atlantis coppied this) so it's understandable if stupid people get confused.
Or get a Atari 800 HCS (Home Computer System)! Four joystick ports, four sound channels, four Player/Missile Graphics.
(read: four complex and four simple sprites; the simple sprites can be combined into a fifth complex sprite)
And they're still making games for it!
(and it's the only home computer sporting a text mode that actually supports true lower-case text! (as in descenders))
The problem with "Manhatten" is there were times when angels were clearly looking at each other yet they didn't freeze each other. Also; how the hell did that guy torture and injure an angel? They're supposed to be invulnerable when frozen. As in Time doesn't pass for them. Then again, I guess he could've just've looked away or closed his eyes while stabbing it with a sword or spear.
(remember what happened to Prof. Swan when she got too close)
Actually the Missiles were 1 bit wide just like the Ball. But both the Missiles' and the Ball's single bit could represent 1, 2, 4 or 8 pixels on the VCS's 160 pixel wide screen. And the size could be changed on a per-scan-line basis meaning you could create diamond and ball shaped missiles/balls. Or keep them 1 pixel wide and change the position slightly every scan-line to create a "/" or "\" character.
Slashdot Mirror
Once again Iceland precipitates a Sci-Fi Channel Disaster Event!
What filesize limit? I have a nice big DVD disk image far in excess of 4GB. I remember downloading ncftp in my UMSDOS Linux mini-installation specifically to get around the 32-bit limit that the binaries that came on my circa 2004 Slackware CDs had.
I used to use my Atari 800XL to get on the Internet all the time. You just need a terminal emulator and a modem (and it's software handler). Now-a-days you can have an actual IP connection via Contiki. It's not Atari's job to support device-specific stuff. The IBM PC wasn't designed with IP in mind but people still read net-news and net-mail on the IBM clones.
The ALT text is always the same as the title of the page except without the "xkcd: " at the beginning.
The Atari Lynx doesn't have a keyboard. I always heard that it was a Atari Portfolio but in recent years people have disputed that.
HTTP uses streams (TCP), not datagrams (UDP). So the browser never sees re-tries. Just time-outs. And the proxy is using the same protocols as the browser.
You linked to just https://www.google.com/. Did you think that we didn't know about search engines or something?
I'mm surprised that no one has mentioned that this is the way the Daleks worked in the original Doctor Who Dalek serial. They ran off of the static electricity in the metal floors of their city. They defeat one Dalek by laying a cloak on the floor and getting it to run (roll?) over it. By their second serial they got radio dishes on their backs that received transitted power which allowed them to roam the Earth.
(not sure where this power was transmitted from; the individual small flying saucers or some off-screen mother ship)
After the second serial the producers/writters just seemed to forget the power problem altogether.
I hope no highway bandits have watched 1960's Doctor Who.
In all fairness, here's the best the Commies have to offer:
M.O.O.D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Oqz5WjDPI
And here's the Atarians best attempt at a Wolfenstein 3D clone:
Project-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-J2-VeoH8
You be the judge.
BCD ("Binary Coded Decimal") is just storing a decimal digit in each nybble. So instead of 0-255 you get 0-99 values in each byte. So it's just as "integer" as regular binary. And even the lowly 6502 can do BCD math "in hardware".
And "+5 to THAC0" would be a penalty since you need to roll a number on a 20-sided die equal to or greater than the THAC0 to "hit" (i.e. hurt) your target. Rather you'd say "+5 To Hit" to indicate that 5 would be added to your die roll.
(allowing you to hit someone with AC0 even if your THAC0 was 25 by rolling a 20!)
To be fair, Slashdot seemed to delete the indentations that make sense of what
the OR and AND bolean operators apply to. Just go to the document he linked to
and it will make much more sense.
(why does Slashdot not support PRE or XMP tags?!?)
P.S. Just discovered "Code" mode:
(and (or (= (string-length "hello world") (string->number "11"))
(string=? "hello world" "good morning"))
(>= (+ (string-length "hello world") 60) 80))
P.P.S. Is there anyway to make this code appear corectly other than than
posting in "Code" mode?
Acording to O'Reily's "Unix in a Nutshell", ex (and hence vi), sed and ed support the \number feature. I know from experience that vim and GNU emacs support it. In fact, GNU emacs's "dired" ("directory editor") feature lets you re-name files automatically; allowing you to convert floating point numbers in file names to fixed point (so they sort corectly) and corecting extentions (e.g. /\(.*\)\.jpe/\1\.jpeg/).
(n.b. you have to put back-slashes before parenthese to make them meta-characters in emacs)
"Co2 crowd"? What does Cobalt have to do with anything?
What's with all of the hard line breaks in the original article? I end up with the last word (or so) of every sentence on a line by itself. They put a
at the end of every physical line of the source HTML.
It's rasterised vs. vector! Unless the image is B&W (or any two colours) it's stored as packed-pixel these days. Multi-bitmap "planar" image formats (like Amiga's IFF:ILBM) got left behind in the 80's. Even SuperVGA cards only use planar modes when eulating an actual VGA chip or EGA card.
(it's surprising how incompatible SuperVGA modes are with regular EGA/VGA modes)
And doesn't Rogue pre-date curses? /etc/termcap and outputs the escape/control codes itself)
(as in it just reads
Really, "depressed" and "depression" aren't both just forms of the word "depress"? They just happen to look alike? Wow.
10PR.CHR$(6+RND(0));:G.10
which, when entered and then LISTed back out, becomes:
PRINT CHR$(6+RND(0));:GOTO 10
You might also want to POKE 82,0:POKE 712,148 to use the whole screen and make the border colour match the background.
Atari BASIC rounds to the nearest whole number rather than just dropping the fraction; hence the use of "6" instead of "6.5".
(it's actually theï Atari OS doing the rounding, not the BASIC lang. cart. itself)
How does being invisible protect you from ocean waves? Perhaps they confused "invisibility" with "intangibility". Then again, the Cloaking Device on Star Trek worked via the Deflector Screen (Stargate: Atlantis coppied this) so it's understandable if stupid people get confused.
Or get a Atari 800 HCS (Home Computer System)! Four joystick ports, four sound channels, four Player/Missile Graphics.
(read: four complex and four simple sprites; the simple sprites can be combined into a fifth complex sprite)
And they're still making games for it!
(and it's the only home computer sporting a text mode that actually supports true lower-case text! (as in descenders))
The problem with "Manhatten" is there were times when angels were clearly looking at each other yet they didn't freeze each other. Also; how the hell did that guy torture and injure an angel? They're supposed to be invulnerable when frozen. As in Time doesn't pass for them. Then again, I guess he could've just've looked away or closed his eyes while stabbing it with a sword or spear.
(remember what happened to Prof. Swan when she got too close)
Or the Showtime version of Harrison Bergeron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron_(film)
In fact any program running as the "root" user can access any I/O port and map any memory locations into it's virtual address space.
Actually the Missiles were 1 bit wide just like the Ball. But both the Missiles' and the Ball's single bit could represent 1, 2, 4 or 8 pixels on the VCS's 160 pixel wide screen. And the size could be changed on a per-scan-line basis meaning you could create diamond and ball shaped missiles/balls. Or keep them 1 pixel wide and change the position slightly every scan-line to create a "/" or "\" character.