Whatever news.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com says, remember, they sold to the Santa Cruz Operation, not to Caldera International. This SCO isn't the same SCO Novell sold to.
Brick Out on the Apple ][, all 3 versions (INTBASIC, Little Brick Out, FPBASIC) were actually written by Bruce Tognazzini, not Woz, according to the source code.
So can the ][ - look for a program called SAM: Software Automated Mouth.
Also, ever hear of the Mockingboard? Gave the ][ two AY-8912 (?) sound chips. And the//e had graphics that could stand up to the C64. 560x192x2 or 140x192x16.
Well, I'm an Apple ][ geek and a Slashbot, so I'll bite.
The Apple//e I had came with a color CVS monitor (AppleColor//e). For a long time, it was my TV (together with an amp and speaker set). Now I use either my Linux box, or another CVS monitor with a built-in speaker.
Composite was the order of the day for Apple ][ computers.
Also, TVs were common on the old ][ and ][+ but they couldn't do 80-columns normally. The//e had an option card. The//c came standard with 80-column support.
One of the tunes was "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head".
BTW, I have a QBasic version, should I put it up and make a link? It's 95% accurate. If you don't need full authenticity, an old text-only version of the code for GW-BASIC/QBasic is here but has some bugs in it.
Oh yeah, Beagle Bros. *g* Lots of stuff my foster brother pirated off 'em, and I pirated off him:)
The ROM isn't that hard to grok anyway. The ][+ has 12K of ROM - 2K monitor and 10K M$ (!) BASIC. I'm trying to replace the monitor with some C code, which is called by special illegal opcodes stuffed into the monitor ROM, and allow the use of the emulator with only a 10K chunk of code from SimSystem IIe's free distro (again, M$ BASIC).
(Correction - the original ][ only had 8K ROM, not 12. The ][+ had 12K, because M$ BASIC was bigger than Woz's.)
Don't forget Wolfenstein 3-D and Gno Multitasking Environment for the IIgs!
And GS/OS is "TEH BEST GUI EVAR", LOL
I have an Apple//e Platinum at home (GTE 65SC02-2 CPU, throttled down to about 1.2 MHz; 128 KB RAM, 16 KB ROM). I still use it, although more often I use Dapple ][ (see link), which is a pretty good approximation of it.
BTW anyone want to write an unencumbered version of the Apple ][+ Monitor?
A "Linux for lusers" distro should probably just autoinstall itself, and perhaps blit over the partitions with a (RAM*2) swap partition and the rest an ext2 or ext3 partition, all without any input from the user. Pop in the CD, click "Install Linux", and wait, watching the pretty pictures. For Jane Random Luser to install this, it would have to be that easy.
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Get the DOS 3.2 Standard master, DOS 3.3 8/25/80 master and DOS 3.3 1/1/83 master and check for yourself. I have done so.
INTBASIC Brick Out has Bruce Tognazzini's name on it.
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Whatever news.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com says, remember, they sold to the Santa Cruz Operation, not to Caldera International. This SCO isn't the same SCO Novell sold to.
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I'm ABEND until Monday, I'll try to dig it up and post it then.
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Brick Out on the Apple ][, all 3 versions (INTBASIC, Little Brick Out, FPBASIC) were actually written by Bruce Tognazzini, not Woz, according to the source code.
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Apple Oasis is bombware.
Dapple ][ 0.27 works on XP although it's a DOS app. Hell, it runs on DOSEMU although the sound sucks.
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And it's a lot like ApplePC UI-wise plus it's programmer-friendly. The next release version, 0.28, will have a 65C02 macro assembler.
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And the LC series, plus the Color Classic, could be upgraded to run Apple //e software. Used one of those cards once. Nice. Not 100%, but nice.
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Well, Wolfenstein 3-D will run on an Apple IIgs...
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I'd kill for an Amdek monitor. Had the speaker, right? Plenty at school when I was a kid.
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It could speak English with the right software!!
//e had graphics that could stand up to the C64. 560x192x2 or 140x192x16.
So can the ][ - look for a program called SAM: Software Automated Mouth.
Also, ever hear of the Mockingboard? Gave the ][ two AY-8912 (?) sound chips. And the
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Well, I'm an Apple ][ geek and a Slashbot, so I'll bite.
//e I had came with a color CVS monitor (AppleColor //e). For a long time, it was my TV (together with an amp and speaker set). Now I use either my Linux box, or another CVS monitor with a built-in speaker.
//e had an option card. The //c came standard with 80-column support.
The Apple
Composite was the order of the day for Apple ][ computers.
Also, TVs were common on the old ][ and ][+ but they couldn't do 80-columns normally. The
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One of the tunes was "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head".
BTW, I have a QBasic version, should I put it up and make a link? It's 95% accurate. If you don't need full authenticity, an old text-only version of the code for GW-BASIC/QBasic is here but has some bugs in it.
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Oh yeah, Beagle Bros. *g* Lots of stuff my foster brother pirated off 'em, and I pirated off him :)
The ROM isn't that hard to grok anyway. The ][+ has 12K of ROM - 2K monitor and 10K M$ (!) BASIC. I'm trying to replace the monitor with some C code, which is called by special illegal opcodes stuffed into the monitor ROM, and allow the use of the emulator with only a 10K chunk of code from SimSystem IIe's free distro (again, M$ BASIC).
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(Correction - the original ][ only had 8K ROM, not 12. The ][+ had 12K, because M$ BASIC was bigger than Woz's.)
//e Platinum at home (GTE 65SC02-2 CPU, throttled down to about 1.2 MHz; 128 KB RAM, 16 KB ROM). I still use it, although more often I use Dapple ][ (see link), which is a pretty good approximation of it.
Don't forget Wolfenstein 3-D and Gno Multitasking Environment for the IIgs!
And GS/OS is "TEH BEST GUI EVAR", LOL
I have an Apple
BTW anyone want to write an unencumbered version of the Apple ][+ Monitor?
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There was a US "MS-DOS 4.00", I have seen it in use. It was exactly like 4.01 from a user perspective.
Saw it on a Dell 386. Would like to dig up a disk image.
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Best thing about KDE is the multiple desktops with their own background, would KILL for that on some other environment.
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"an OS without an App is a non-OS"
The reason I never really got anywhere trying to write Biohazard *sigh* or an OS for my DS6432 virtual CPU project...
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Re sig:
Aiko deshou! (sp)
A history of paper-rock-scissors? Might I ask just one question...why? *g*
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Gilbert Gottfried?
The parrot Gilbert Gottried?!
(If you can't slurp that robot, you haven't seen Disney's Aladdin.)
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A "Linux for lusers" distro should probably just autoinstall itself, and perhaps blit over the partitions with a (RAM*2) swap partition and the rest an ext2 or ext3 partition, all without any input from the user. Pop in the CD, click "Install Linux", and wait, watching the pretty pictures. For Jane Random Luser to install this, it would have to be that easy.
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Mostly true, but KDE Patience Klondike beats the pants off Windows (3.0!) Solitaire.
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Case in point.
I bought a "WinTV Gold" TV tuner card for my PC, but the Windoze 98 setup program refused to install, claiming there was a memory conflict.
The SAME BLOODY CARD worked out of the fscking BOX on Red Hat 8.0 Linux with xawtv.
And it's called "WinTV".
?!!
Well anyway, fsck it, it's one more reason I'm going Linux and telling MaÂro$haft they can go foo off.
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[dosius@localhost dosius]$ ^msn^aol
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LMAO
+5 Troll?
I've seen -1 Funny, but never +5 Troll...
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Amiga zealots? There's zealots everywhere.
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Linux does run faster.
Download Mortal Kombat II for MAME.
On a 700 MHz Celeron it's almost unplayable in Windoze 98SE (64MB RAM).
On a 700 MHz Celeron it runs full-speed in Red Hat 8.0 Linux using GNOME (64MB RAM).
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Don't forget Serafem (sp?), which is fluoxetine HCl - the SAME damn ingredient as Prozac! Lamers (not you slashbots, I mean Eli Lilly).
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Former 'zaccie.