the very first (though, only briefly in the marketplace) 32 Bit Game Console: the Amiga CD32 of 1993.
It had (as did ALL Amigas) a swag of co-processors, and pre-emptive multitasking. A Mpeg1 cartridge allowed it to play VideoCD (remember that?) Three different add-ons converted it to a full 32Bit 68k computer that had FIVE different Video-out connectors. .
The first airforce officer to the Roswell site confirmed that they'd found a crashed alien spacecraft. His superior forced him to recant and announced the ridiculous 'weather balloon' story. A major military clamp-down was set into place on the district. Anyone who had in their possession strange artifacs had them confiscated. Successive cover-up stories just got more weird. The last one I read in a 'science' journal claimed that the bodies were Japanese men affected by high altitude.
You have to understand the reason for the cover-up. WWII was just over. The USSR had become the new boogyman. The US authorities didn't want any news to reach the public concerning ANYTHING that they could not defend against.
Prior to the Roswell incident, Air Force radar had been troubled by strange unexplained blips. When the first military personal on the site reported back, a massive operation was set into place.
IF YOU don't believe the US authorities could successfully Cover-up so long then you should look into Project Shamrock... that had International Telephone and Telegraph, Western Union, and RCA make available their international communications traffic for inspection by U.S. military intelligence services. This wenton for 28 years unknown by US Presidents until terminated under the Ford administration in '75.
How much do you know about Project Rainbow or Project Horizon? .
(I had to REPLY to your post because it wouldn't work with the first)
I 'patched' the gap and read that link- They missed much!....
The first airforce officer to the Roswell site confirmed that they'd found a crashed alien spacecraft. His superior forced him to recant and announced that ridiculous 'weather balloon' story. A major military clamp-down was set into place on the district. Anyone who had in their possession strange artifacs had them confiscated. Successive cover-up stories just got more weird. The last one I read in a 'science' journal claimed that the bodies were Japanese men affected by high altitude.
You have to understand the reason for the cover-up. WWII was just over. The USSR had become the new boogyman. The US authorities didn't want any news to reach the public concerning ANYTHING that they could not defend against.
Prior to the Roswell incident, Air Force radar had been troubled by strange unexplained blips. When the first military personal on the site reported back, a massive operation was set into place.
IF YOU don't believe the US authorities could successfully Cover-up so long then you should look into Project Shamrock... that had International Telephone and Telegraph, Western Union, and RCA make available their international communications traffic for inspection by U.S. military intelligence services. This went on for 28 years unknown by US Presidents until terminated under the Ford administration in '75.
How much do you know about Project Rainbow or Project Horizon? .
by their definition that "UFOs don't exist because I have never seen one" must also deny the existence of AIR and ELECTRICITY because they cannot be viewed by their eyes. .
I'm wondering why they've gone back to the old technology of Solid Fuel rocketry when 58 years ago Liquid Fuel rocketry was getting quite successful with the 'A-4'?
Recall that Robby (from Forbidden Planet) suffered from a Brain-storm paralysis if given a command to harm a human.
In one of Asimov's books however, the citizens of Solaria are able to make their robots harm visiting humans by classifing anyone not of Solaria as being non-human.
-- To err is human, to devise law-circumvention is also human! .
You like poisonous gasses? Carbon arc lighting was phased out of Offset Printing Plate exposure because of hazardous gas emissions, but you want to use it? Bet you are a smoker.!! .
Yeah - we get "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel"! IMO these have the best writers of any imports. Some of the Angel stories that go back three centuries (or more) have a saga-quality.
That takes up my Monday and Tuesday late viewing. The highest quality Oz show (for the writing, acting, and fantasy segments) is "Grass is greener". If it ever reaches other shores I recomend it to TV Viewers. Some places may put it in adult time slots; comedy has been worked-in to include things such as an ignited horse-fart, and the son making a piss-connection with an electrified fence!
The 'imagionary-fantasy' bits are the best parts. .
Maybe.. just maybe, they are taking the potential threat of the effect of Terrance and Phillip's course humor and fart jokes on US children more seriously!?!:)
(Not to mention Ugly Bob and Celion Deon)! .
Re:The whole outer skin could provide fuel...
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Zeppelins on Patrol?
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Popular Science had a story on what, they called; the SUNSHIP! This was featured with a cover illustration linked story more than fifteen years ago! .
Agreed, stupid things are done for some exciting action:
Just seen some of "Die Hard 2" through the doorway! The EJECTION SEAT Scene is a bit contrived. From what I know the Cockpits of military aircraft are protected with armour (incl bullet-proof glass) but the mercenaries shoot out the windscreen and lob in grenades at Willis.
The grenades are shown landing in a neat grouping infront of him (none shown bouncing out-of-reach) yet he doesn't grab them up and throw them back at the bad guys!
In spite of not having any military pilot-training, he takes the time to buckle himself into an ejection seat (don't think transports have these) and "ejects" himself out of danger. This process seems to take longer than just throwing the grenades back but what, hey, it sure is exciting.
-- In the fight on the 747's wing, it seems a bit contrived for John Amos to go into the jet-inlet, THAT is sticking way out infront of the wing. Then, while a bird can knock out a jet engine, a whole man can't?
- The positioning of the Fuel-dump valve ABOVE a jet engine? A bit dangerous!
- That burning kerosene - the fire catches up to the AIRBOURNE 747 that would be travelling at over 140 Knots!
BUT, you have to admit; it sure is exciting! (My wife can't abide going to the cinema with me - I wonder why?):-)
Can't really advise you. I use an alternative platform on Motorola 68k. I was trained on Win-PCs in 2000, but had no stomach to go into that field due to heavy MS dominance. Still sticking with the alternative platform ('85-'94) until (hopefully) their revival on PPC. This is supposed to come good at the end of May:AOne motherboard pictures. .
I'd always understood that the original Max Headroom GPX were Amiga based. Amigas output (in the US) the RGB format of NTSC, and were easily 'genlocked' to a video source for mixing!
I've lost the Web-source of this graphic, so I'll sumarize a few details:
Its an ad parody for an Australian-customization Win Version named:"Windaz Too Thowsand". What's really changed is the Titles and Option Names.
"The 'Start' button has been replaced- (G'Day). The 'Recycle Bin' named something more fitting- (Bullshit Bin). 'Control Panel' has a new name- (How To Fuck Around With The Settings). 'C: Drive' becomes- (Big Disk With All Me Stuff On It).
'Do you want to save the changes' offers- (Fuckin Oath), (Bugger Off), (Fuck That). 'Help Topics' is preceded by- (Where's That Fucking File Gone?). 'My Documents' renamed to- (My Crap). 'OK- to accept becomes- (You Ripper).
'Calculator' -> (Adding Thingymabob). 'Paint' -> (Keeping The Kids Busy). 'NotePad' -> (Writing Death Threats To The Boss). 'IE' -> (Porn).
Price is just two months worth of Dole money!
Microsoft - Where do you want to get p*ssed today?"
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Sorry if THAT offends but the Slang Terms used are in the contexy!
Really funny... I've surfed the Net for two years on a Commodore. Even configure, and upload material to my website from the Commodore I've had for eleven years.
As ppl have commented, there are several problems:
- Most CD or DVD games for games systems are Region Encoded.
- PAL equipment uses the PAL system, and NTSC systems use the NTSC standard.
- SOME (repeat SOME) PAL systems can decode NTSC and direct a 'type of Standards conversion' to the display circuits.
- I don't know if ANY NTSC systems have this kind of capability, but I doubt it exists outside of TV and Cable stations.
- MULTI-Standards TVs and VCRs exist - what do you think is used on yachts?
- MULTI-Standard Systems have PS' switchable from 110v to 250v, 60Hz to 50Hz. Heck, they probally do 12vdc and 24vdc too!
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AU$1.00 currently equal to about US$0.55
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Amiga owners are familiar with these issues as the machines handle NTSC and PAL as standard. We had MANY NTSC games on PAL systems in the early years. These games displayed on the TOP 5/6 of the screen in a squashed format.
NTSC owners playing PAL games missed out on the LOWER 1/6 of the display - it was below the margin of the screen and often had the Scoring infomation.
Importing Amigas between 110v 60Hz and 240v 50Hz countries simply requires acquiring the correct PS, or converting it! .
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the very first (though, only briefly in the marketplace) 32 Bit Game Console: the Amiga CD32 of 1993.
It had (as did ALL Amigas) a swag of co-processors, and pre-emptive multitasking.
A Mpeg1 cartridge allowed it to play VideoCD (remember that?)
Three different add-ons converted it to a full 32Bit 68k computer that had FIVE different Video-out connectors.
.
...that link- They missed much!....
... that had International Telephone and Telegraph, Western Union, and RCA make available their international communications traffic for inspection by U.S. military intelligence services. This wenton for 28 years unknown by US Presidents until terminated under the Ford administration in '75.
The first airforce officer to the Roswell site confirmed that they'd found a crashed alien spacecraft. His superior forced him to recant and announced the ridiculous 'weather balloon' story. A major military clamp-down was set into place on the district. Anyone who had in their possession strange artifacs had them confiscated. Successive cover-up stories just got more weird. The last one I read in a 'science' journal claimed that the bodies were Japanese men affected by high altitude.
You have to understand the reason for the cover-up. WWII was just over. The USSR had become the new boogyman. The US authorities didn't want any news to reach the public concerning ANYTHING that they could not defend against.
Prior to the Roswell incident, Air Force radar had been troubled by strange unexplained blips. When the first military personal on the site reported back, a massive operation was set into place.
IF YOU don't believe the US authorities could successfully Cover-up so long then you should look into Project Shamrock
How much do you know about Project Rainbow or Project Horizon?
.
(I had to REPLY to your post because it wouldn't work with the first)
... that had International Telephone and Telegraph, Western Union, and RCA make available their international communications traffic for inspection by U.S. military intelligence services. This went on for 28 years unknown by US Presidents until terminated under the Ford administration in '75.
I 'patched' the gap and read that link- They missed much!....
The first airforce officer to the Roswell site confirmed that they'd found a crashed alien spacecraft. His superior forced him to recant and announced that ridiculous 'weather balloon' story. A major military clamp-down was set into place on the district. Anyone who had in their possession strange artifacs had them confiscated. Successive cover-up stories just got more weird. The last one I read in a 'science' journal claimed that the bodies were Japanese men affected by high altitude.
You have to understand the reason for the cover-up. WWII was just over. The USSR had become the new boogyman. The US authorities didn't want any news to reach the public concerning ANYTHING that they could not defend against.
Prior to the Roswell incident, Air Force radar had been troubled by strange unexplained blips. When the first military personal on the site reported back, a massive operation was set into place.
IF YOU don't believe the US authorities could successfully Cover-up so long then you should look into Project Shamrock
How much do you know about Project Rainbow or Project Horizon?
.
by their definition that "UFOs don't exist because I have never seen
one" must also deny the existence of AIR and ELECTRICITY because they
cannot be viewed by their eyes.
.
I'm wondering why they've gone back to the old technology of Solid Fuel rocketry when 58 years ago Liquid Fuel rocketry was getting quite successful with the 'A-4'?
.
Well, he lost his wife as she became a Pillar-o-salt so ....
he waited till cars were invented and found a girl to go parking with him!
Earned himself the nickname: Parking Lot!
.
Recall that Robby (from Forbidden Planet) suffered from a Brain-storm paralysis if given a command to harm a human.
In one of Asimov's books however, the citizens of Solaria are able to make their robots harm visiting humans by classifing anyone not of Solaria as being non-human.
-- To err is human, to devise law-circumvention is also human!
.
You like poisonous gasses? Carbon arc lighting was phased out of Offset Printing Plate exposure because of hazardous gas emissions, but you want to use it? Bet you are a smoker.!!
.
Yeah - we get "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel"! IMO these have the best writers of any imports. Some of the Angel stories that go back three centuries (or more) have a saga-quality.
That takes up my Monday and Tuesday late viewing. The highest quality Oz show (for the writing, acting, and fantasy segments) is "Grass is greener". If it ever reaches other shores I recomend it to TV Viewers. Some places may put it in adult time slots; comedy has been worked-in to include things such as an ignited horse-fart, and the son making a piss-connection with an electrified fence!
The 'imagionary-fantasy' bits are the best parts.
.
Actually Victas are still around (don't know if they're available in NZ), but I certainly wouldn't want to eat one!?!
I prefer the electrics anyway. Just have to be careful with the cord!
.
...and I REALLY got hot for Susan Sarandon in bra and petticoat!
I have the 25 year Anniversary DVD - Brilliant!
.
Maybe .. just maybe, they are taking the potential threat of the effect of Terrance and Phillip's course humor and fart jokes on US children more seriously!?! :)
(Not to mention Ugly Bob and Celion Deon)!
.
Already considered!
Popular Science had a story on what, they called; the SUNSHIP!
This was featured with a cover illustration linked story more than fifteen years ago!
.
Agreed, stupid things are done for some exciting action:
:-)
Just seen some of "Die Hard 2" through the doorway! The EJECTION SEAT Scene is a bit contrived. From what I know the Cockpits of military aircraft are protected with armour (incl bullet-proof glass) but the mercenaries shoot out the windscreen and lob in grenades at Willis.
The grenades are shown landing in a neat grouping infront of him (none shown bouncing out-of-reach) yet he doesn't grab them up and throw them back at the bad guys!
In spite of not having any military pilot-training, he takes the time to buckle himself into an ejection seat (don't think transports have these) and "ejects" himself out of danger. This process seems to take longer than just throwing the grenades back but what, hey, it sure is exciting.
-- In the fight on the 747's wing, it seems a bit contrived for John Amos to go into the jet-inlet, THAT is sticking way out infront of the wing. Then, while a bird can knock out a jet engine, a whole man can't?
- The positioning of the Fuel-dump valve ABOVE a jet engine? A bit dangerous!
- That burning kerosene - the fire catches up to the AIRBOURNE 747 that would be travelling at over 140 Knots!
BUT, you have to admit; it sure is exciting! (My wife can't abide going to the cinema with me - I wonder why?)
.
Can't really advise you. I use an alternative platform on Motorola 68k.
I was trained on Win-PCs in 2000, but had no stomach to go into that field due to heavy MS dominance.
Still sticking with the alternative platform ('85-'94) until (hopefully) their revival on PPC. This is supposed to come good at the end of May:AOne motherboard pictures.
.
I'd always understood that the original Max Headroom GPX were Amiga based.
Amigas output (in the US) the RGB format of NTSC, and were easily 'genlocked'
to a video source for mixing!
"it just doesn't cut it OUTside Photoshop"..
Have you looked at "PhotoGenics" (available for several platforms, including PDAs)
.
There are ppl who Quadrupple Boot!
-- Why accept limitations to creativity? --
.
I've lost the Web-source of this graphic, so I'll sumarize a few details:
Its an ad parody for an Australian-customization Win Version named:"Windaz Too Thowsand". What's really changed is the Titles and Option Names.
"The 'Start' button has been replaced- (G'Day).
The 'Recycle Bin' named something more fitting- (Bullshit Bin).
'Control Panel' has a new name- (How To Fuck Around With The Settings).
'C: Drive' becomes- (Big Disk With All Me Stuff On It).
'Do you want to save the changes' offers- (Fuckin Oath), (Bugger Off), (Fuck That).
'Help Topics' is preceded by- (Where's That Fucking File Gone?).
'My Documents' renamed to- (My Crap).
'OK- to accept becomes- (You Ripper).
'Calculator' -> (Adding Thingymabob).
'Paint' -> (Keeping The Kids Busy).
'NotePad' -> (Writing Death Threats To The Boss).
'IE' -> (Porn).
Price is just two months worth of Dole money!
Microsoft - Where do you want to get p*ssed today?"
----------------
Sorry if THAT offends but the Slang Terms used are in the contexy!
.
Really funny ... I've surfed the Net for two years on a Commodore.
:)
Even configure, and upload material to my website from the Commodore I've had for eleven years.
Yeah - hilarious!
As ppl have commented, there are several problems:
- Most CD or DVD games for games systems are Region Encoded.
- PAL equipment uses the PAL system, and NTSC systems use the NTSC standard.
- SOME (repeat SOME) PAL systems can decode NTSC and direct a 'type of Standards conversion' to the display circuits.
- I don't know if ANY NTSC systems have this kind of capability, but I doubt it exists outside of TV and Cable stations.
- MULTI-Standards TVs and VCRs exist - what do you think is used on yachts?
- MULTI-Standard Systems have PS' switchable from 110v to 250v, 60Hz to 50Hz. Heck, they probally do 12vdc and 24vdc too!
---------
AU$1.00 currently equal to about US$0.55
---------
Amiga owners are familiar with these issues as the machines handle NTSC and PAL as standard. We had MANY NTSC games on PAL systems in the early years. These games displayed on the TOP 5/6 of the screen in a squashed format.
NTSC owners playing PAL games missed out on the LOWER 1/6 of the display - it was below the margin of the screen and often had the Scoring infomation.
Importing Amigas between 110v 60Hz and 240v 50Hz countries simply requires acquiring the correct PS, or converting it!
.
Footnote:
The observant will notice the lack of a numeric keypad, just the four function keys on the right.
The same external physical differance separates the (NK-less) A600 from the five inch wider A1200.
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I have a faint memory that the Mk2 model was called "64C", instead of C-64.
(Former owner of C-64, and still owner of SX-64, C-128D, A2000, A600,A1200, and two CD32's)
I was thinking of the value of the ERB Barsoom series, for a movie series, only a couple of weeks ago!
A better title (to my mind) is the "Fighting Man of Mars" variation.
Seems to have a better ring.
"My kingdom, my kingdom for a throat!"
Try ImageFX4.0 running on Amithilon!
http://www.novadesign.com/fxinfo.htm
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