Very true. I guess PC Magazine was devoted to IBM PC-contemptibles from the start, though, so I'm surprised that this article even provides screenshots from games running on other platforms.
You could still simply send your file to the printer and it would print, though. And if the file happened to have (the right) embedded printer control codes, it would even look nice. C:\> TYPE AUTOEXEC.BAT > PRN:
Apples were definitely a lot more expensive than Commodores and Ataris - $2000 sounds right. I had an Atari 800, but my Dad bought it for me. I think it was $500ish with the extra memory modules to max it out, and the tape drive. That was around 1982.
I used to do something similar with Apple ][ machines in stores, etc.
] CALL -151 300:A9 xx 20 ED FD AD 30 C0 4C 00 03 300G
That's a loop which clicks the speak while filling the screen with random characters. The xx was a zero page location with a random (or randomish) contents. I don't remember the exact location anymore, sigh.
I recall a couple of years back this came up on Slashdot before, and someone mentioned that apparently you could simply AD 30 C0 (LDA $C030) to both click the speaker and get a random byte, but I don't think I was aware of that, Back In The Day.
If the "captains of industry" in the US did more navigating by the stars and a little less dead-reckoning perhaps their firms would not be on the ropes.
I considered a contract that would involve IT work in Iraq, a few years ago. I saw it as a way to help rebuild and atone for my nation's stupidity. Don't judge the guy asking the question too harshly without knowing his motives.
Trolls come in many varieties. Don't paint all FOSS enthusiasts with the same brush. I would consider myself to be one, and I have you marked as a Slashdot 'Friend'.
Yeah. One of the things I vaguely remember getting out of my "Plato and the Beginnings of Philosophy" class in college was something to the effect that 'the best leader is the best qualified person who wants the job the least'. Or something like that.
I learned Pascal before I learned C, and to this day, I (mentally) pronounce C's p->x as "p up dot x", as I would have in Pascal - not that I've done much with either Pascal or the C/C++ in quite a while.
I hate advertisements, water marks, and disruptive in-show advertisements SO MUCH, that I would pay Netflix $75-100 per month for full streaming access to everything they have, plus recent TV shows.
Does not have to be 1080p either. 720p is just fine.
Does not have to be all the TV shows either. Something like 20 shows for $14.99, 40 shows for 24.99$, etc. I get to pick them.
As long as you deliver me that content without advertisements, and in an easy consumable fashion, I will PAY MORE.
You feel exactly the way I do about this. I'd happily do the same.
About 8 years ago, I bought "Diving Into Python" (after reading a review here on Slashdot, I believe), and agree about his ability to make things interesting and amusing at the same time. Ah, well. Good luck to him.
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This is Adventure's programmer's website.
On the 2600, there were also the the Swordquest series of games, more puzzle games than RPGs, I'd say.
Very true. I guess PC Magazine was devoted to IBM PC-contemptibles from the start, though, so I'm surprised that this article even provides screenshots from games running on other platforms.
"Empire of the East" is excellent, and sort of a prequel to the Swords books.
As Grishnakh describes, in those days, the kernel's drivers were for the ports, not the printers attached to them.
You could still simply send your file to the printer and it would print, though. And if the file happened to have (the right) embedded printer control codes, it would even look nice.
C:\> TYPE AUTOEXEC.BAT > PRN:
$ cat readme.txt > /dev/lp0
:-).
It was all good
Yes, Traveler, was the one with sandcasters. I believe they were also a little effective against missiles, too.
Traveler also had planetoid-hulled ships. I had most of the High Guard ship construction rules memorized, one upon a time.
And in the BBC series The Tripods.
I was wondering whether anyone would mention John Christopher's trilogy+prequel.
Yeah, they're all just different aspects of the Eternal Candidate, anyway.
Apples were definitely a lot more expensive than Commodores and Ataris - $2000 sounds right. I had an Atari 800, but my Dad bought it for me. I think it was $500ish with the extra memory modules to max it out, and the tape drive. That was around 1982.
I used to do something similar with Apple ][ machines in stores, etc.
] CALL -151
300:A9 xx 20 ED FD AD 30 C0 4C 00 03
300G
That's a loop which clicks the speak while filling the screen with random characters. The xx was a zero page location with a random (or randomish) contents. I don't remember the exact location anymore, sigh.
I recall a couple of years back this came up on Slashdot before, and someone mentioned that apparently you could simply AD 30 C0 (LDA $C030) to both click the speaker and get a random byte, but I don't think I was aware of that, Back In The Day.
If the "captains of industry" in the US did more navigating by the stars and a little less dead-reckoning perhaps their firms would not be on the ropes.
Less astrology, more necromancy!
My bass is a Steinberger, you insensitive clod.
I don't recall. All I remember was it having something to do with rebuilding infrastructure.
I considered a contract that would involve IT work in Iraq, a few years ago. I saw it as a way to help rebuild and atone for my nation's stupidity. Don't judge the guy asking the question too harshly without knowing his motives.
Keziah Mason being an exception...
You are EDUCATED STUPID EVIL if you deny FOUR SIMULTANEOUS CORES in a single sphere.
Trolls come in many varieties. Don't paint all FOSS enthusiasts with the same brush. I would consider myself to be one, and I have you marked as a Slashdot 'Friend'.
Yeah. One of the things I vaguely remember getting out of my "Plato and the Beginnings of Philosophy" class in college was something to the effect that 'the best leader is the best qualified person who wants the job the least'. Or something like that.
In a life-or-death situation, I'd probably let the keyboard take the bullet, but only because I still have a stockpile of 7 more.
It would be a different story if I were down to my last, say, 5...
I joke that my Model M keyboard can stop a bullet. Haven't tried it yet, though :-).
Nobody is all alone in the world.
I learned Pascal before I learned C, and to this day, I (mentally) pronounce C's p->x as "p up dot x", as I would have in Pascal - not that I've done much with either Pascal or the C/C++ in quite a while.
I hate advertisements, water marks, and disruptive in-show advertisements SO MUCH, that I would pay Netflix $75-100 per month for full streaming access to everything they have, plus recent TV shows.
Does not have to be 1080p either. 720p is just fine.
Does not have to be all the TV shows either. Something like 20 shows for $14.99, 40 shows for 24.99$, etc. I get to pick them.
As long as you deliver me that content without advertisements, and in an easy consumable fashion, I will PAY MORE.
You feel exactly the way I do about this. I'd happily do the same.
About 8 years ago, I bought "Diving Into Python" (after reading a review here on Slashdot, I believe), and agree about his ability to make things interesting and amusing at the same time. Ah, well. Good luck to him.
Better yet, this show starring Leonard Nimoy. I remember watching the Bigfoot episode on TV when I was young.