I Live in San Andreas, and it takes me only 20 minutes to WALK from one end of town to the other! Man this is gonna be some tight game.
Lets see, what sort of stuff would a gangsta find in ol San An'..., 10 curches, 2 bars, one of which is the VFW post (no. 2600, nice number though), 4 small banks, high school, elementry, defunct cement plant, historic courthouse/jail (former jail of the goldrush stage robber Black Bart), um government center, hospital, DMV, CHP (hmm maybe has some possibilities), Forestry, sherrif (unincorporated city), government center, one 24 hour mini mart, the other four are only open till about 9 or so. Lots of back streets, though not the cow-path roads like Jackson and Angels Camp...also a good place for a side trip to jump frogs
Oh, it is in "Calaveras County" (Calaveras, spanish for skull, rumoured to be named after the discovery of a riverbed with skulls from some ancient native skirmish). And a former spanish mining camp (that's how San Andreas got it's name from Saint Andrew).
No stop lights... many streets with no sidewalks!..and bunches of old gold mine shafts and tunnels all over the place,
Every time I read articles like this I think of Earth as some crazy old coot who has boarded himself up in his house and peeks through the boards to see if anyone is out there, and if there is, he's gonna yell "go away" and then threaten to shoot em!
One place to check for Internet/Communication apps for the Macintosh is Mac Orchard It would be a good bet to start here, since it reads like the Mac platform is the lowest common denominator here.
I've been running the half-brother of C-Net - Image BBS for well over a decade. (I did use C-Net 10 and 12 for a while, solid programs, they help make BBSsing great!)
Both C-Net and Image are well regarded for being very programmable (used an ML core but most of the functions and game modules are moifyable BASIC) and they are very stable - I have my BBS running for MONTHS without even looking at it. (minor syntax errors in the modules just makes the board jump back to a main prompt, and add a report to the log) no memory leaks whatsoever.
As far as 'my best BBS expereince' that was during the height of Comm-Net the Multi-Commodore BBS network circa 1995 (combining networked mail and message boards between Image, C-Net 128, C-Net DS-2 and Color 64 BBSs across the U.S. and Canada - maybe one in Australia). On the Silicon Realms' thrice weekly net transfers we'd be getting in about 300 new messages, man was that a great feeling!
Larry Anderson aka JoeCommodore
Sysop Silicon Realms BBS (209) 754-1363 (on-line for 17 years!)
300-14.4k running Image BBS on a Commodore 8-bit!
Get them tech stuff they are interested in that you know is good.
You know the hackable DVD players, the MP3s with OggV support, You know the Difference between DVD-R and DVD+R. They will appreciate it if you give them something and say, "I know you like music so much - so I picked out the BEST DAMN MP3 player a geek like me could get. Merry Christmas! Now let me help you get this bad-boy installed on your computer..." Now that says something.
If they are Quakers or something visiting them and holding a real 'lucent' conversation with them is also a treat for people who are more people-oriented. (Yeah, you are going to have to remember thier name, better make up cheat-notes!)
How about this, the new contractor (being the manipulative sneaks they are) start selling the new target^h^h^h^h.. oops, I mean 'customer' other solutions or warn them of "protential problems" of using brand X (knowing one of thier business partner sells brand Y, which they can get a referral bonus for new contracts).
The more outsources you get - the less control a compnay will have over how ther business is being ran or the more inability to move with the market and stay competitive. i.e. say Company, Inc. is currently basing thier systems on MS enterprise solutions and want to go to Linux, the security company whines about how innefficient and wroght with danger Linux is - when the case is that Linux is whroght with loss of profit opportunities-. So if the compnay does come to it's senses it then has to expend even more in getting it's contracts cleaned up for the old system and then deal with a changeover without the 'support' of the contractors. With in-house staff you tell them you want to change and they work on the system to implement the change. In a dog-eat-dog market the dogs that can fend for themseleves probably will survive.
Also I have seen many a consultant leave the market as the cashflow dries up due to loss of potential revenuee, customers or advances in technology thus leaving the remains of the customer base in a very bad situation with no services and no staff to pick up the loss.
To sum it up many of such decisions are very short sighted, and if they fall for schemes like that. Well I wouldn't expect the company to do well when the s*** hits the fan later on anyway.
They established 12 designs and showed three or so, and Boxy would make a good sleeper cylon (cute innocent kids, ya just gotta save them and put them in secure areas!) Maybe if they make Muffet Boxy can re-program it to become a cylon spy/ninja too.
There are more then two, clowns, omega race, lemans (my favorite), midnight race (aka night driver), sub hunt (I think that was the name) many breakouts including arkanoid, even more driving games. Even some painting programs (the paddles provided an etch-a-sketch sort of control.)
Besides paddles there are a bunch of other controls used in many 64 programs, such as touch tablets, trackball, lightpen, mouse (used by a lot of GUIish programs like GEOS), musical keyboards, light guns, etc.
I think the veriety of controller makede the classic systems more "classic" in my view. The 2600 would not have been so cool without the paddles, driving controller, and keypad options, it made it more versatile than the one-controller Intellevision and others.
Problem with most emulators is they aren't as much fun as the real thing (all emulated sound, display, speed, controllers, keyboard). I believe all fall short by not emulating paddles.
Most of my Commodore 64 stuff I do uses special utility cartridges, and a floppy disk drive or two. Without a true keyboard it limits it more.
Though playing some games like the atarisoft, Legacy of the ancients or Fort Apacalypse does hold some appeal.
I have used an HP parallel port backup unit with "disaster recovery" (HP Colorado 14GB drive) to move an installation from one machine to another and to install on a set of new PCs. Most of those portable backup hardware solutions offer a "disaster recovery" method in ther software to get you up and running again as easily as possible.
...oh shit what was the PC magazine that you could copy the straight machine langauce code from and run games???? anyone.
Take your pick:
- COMPUTE!
- COMPUTE!'s Gazzette
- RUN
- Ahoy
- Transactor
that's most of the ones with 64 ML type-ins. though there wewre more mags, like Commodore and Commodore Power/Play, Commander, Home Computing, Creative Computing, much later came Die Hard and Commodore World.
And for you out of the u.s. theres the like of Commodore Format and Zap!
Though I hate MS for their tactics I don't think they can carry it off anyway.
What they need: - Make a cool logo that doesn't suck (or doesn't represent something that sucks) That windows logo is old and clunky. The butterfly is pretty good but that doesn't represent MS it represents their on-line service. The XP logo gets a little better. Also you don't see it on the backs of PC or on the cases of lpatops (which gets it photographed) so I guess it doesn't matter anyway.
- Make Cool Computers with more style than beige boxes and me-too black laptops. Again they aren't hardware so that's not gonna happen.
- Stea^h^h^h^h er.. Innovate some cool software they have no programs as recognisable as iMovie, iTunes, iDVD, etc. Though there is Internet Explorer, it gets a lot of press time (as a virus magnet).
To be cool you have to 'stand out from the crowd,' unfortunate for Microsoft is that THEY are the crowd they want to stand out from.:-/
The article stated that having SO many computers on one OS was a threat (makes it easier to bring down a whole lot of systems in one fail swoop instead of say a cluster of one type of OS.), also the person mentioned that that one OS has been having some security issues.
Not that I like MS, but this situation would pertain to any other OS if 90% of machines were using the same OS. Even it it was an OS you liked or felt was secure it is a big issue.
I read that news too and my spidy senses went off. I am thinking the reason for the credit card requirement is for other deeper reasons:
1. A person's identity can be attached to a EULA to make it more enforceable.
2. Makes the mark^h^h^h^h er.. person a "customer" and therefore makes microsoft immune from such anti-spam laws or other regulations involving spyware and remote updating.
3. Of course the obvouls of selling a non-free services as a requirement of accessing a "free one" (I can't remember my consumer ed. class from high school, I'm sure there is an illegal term for this...)
Yeah, I know of a couple writers who still used their Commodore 64s (lots of chapter files I bet). Last one I saw at a vinage computer festival was looking for a replacement to her worn out daisywheel printer, I'm sure she located one and is happily typing away again.
I know when I walk down the street and see some "bigwig" or "PHB" striding up to me with his well groomed hair, expensive Italian suit, and a beutiful woman hanging on his arm, I think "Heh, he probably runs Windows. Sucker."
He probably pays You to run Windows; that's why he has a bunch of women hanging on his arm. I myself have women screaming my name all day (well, ok, I do tech work in an office full of women...)
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Lets see, what sort of stuff would a gangsta find in ol San An'..., 10 curches, 2 bars, one of which is the VFW post (no. 2600, nice number though), 4 small banks, high school, elementry, defunct cement plant, historic courthouse/jail (former jail of the goldrush stage robber Black Bart), um government center, hospital, DMV, CHP (hmm maybe has some possibilities), Forestry, sherrif (unincorporated city), government center, one 24 hour mini mart, the other four are only open till about 9 or so. Lots of back streets, though not the cow-path roads like Jackson and Angels Camp...also a good place for a side trip to jump frogs
Oh, it is in "Calaveras County" (Calaveras, spanish for skull, rumoured to be named after the discovery of a riverbed with skulls from some ancient native skirmish). And a former spanish mining camp (that's how San Andreas got it's name from Saint Andrew).
No stop lights... many streets with no sidewalks! ..and bunches of old gold mine shafts and tunnels all over the place,
Though San Andreas does have it's share of nationaly recognized crime sprees!
Every time I read articles like this I think of Earth as some crazy old coot who has boarded himself up in his house and peeks through the boards to see if anyone is out there, and if there is, he's gonna yell "go away" and then threaten to shoot em!
One place to check for Internet/Communication apps for the Macintosh is Mac Orchard It would be a good bet to start here, since it reads like the Mac platform is the lowest common denominator here.
No Mac OS Support that I could find on the site. :-(
Linux Fanboy!?? I'm a Commodore fanatic you insensitive clod!
I'm just getting into Linux, my main 'power system' is the Mac.
- Windows 98/Linux Box (primarily Linux used)
- B&W G3 primarily running OS9 (OSX on there too, boot to it maybe once a quarter or so)
- wife's iMac OS9
- a Commodore 64 with Contiki and RR Net
If this is to be labeled a "solution" it should support all of them, right? ;->
Darn, I can't think of a way to slashdot your Commodore! It's a single line BBS, just one call will do it. :-)
Both C-Net and Image are well regarded for being very programmable (used an ML core but most of the functions and game modules are moifyable BASIC) and they are very stable - I have my BBS running for MONTHS without even looking at it. (minor syntax errors in the modules just makes the board jump back to a main prompt, and add a report to the log) no memory leaks whatsoever.
As far as 'my best BBS expereince' that was during the height of Comm-Net the Multi-Commodore BBS network circa 1995 (combining networked mail and message boards between Image, C-Net 128, C-Net DS-2 and Color 64 BBSs across the U.S. and Canada - maybe one in Australia). On the Silicon Realms' thrice weekly net transfers we'd be getting in about 300 new messages, man was that a great feeling!
Larry Anderson aka JoeCommodore
Sysop Silicon Realms BBS (209) 754-1363 (on-line for 17 years!)
300-14.4k running Image BBS on a Commodore 8-bit!
So does this lead to "Beer Fusion?" (Wait a minute, Ice Cold Beer Fusion!) or is it just some Star Trekish bubble-antibubble reaction process?
You know the hackable DVD players, the MP3s with OggV support, You know the Difference between DVD-R and DVD+R. They will appreciate it if you give them something and say, "I know you like music so much - so I picked out the BEST DAMN MP3 player a geek like me could get. Merry Christmas! Now let me help you get this bad-boy installed on your computer..." Now that says something.
If they are Quakers or something visiting them and holding a real 'lucent' conversation with them is also a treat for people who are more people-oriented. (Yeah, you are going to have to remember thier name, better make up cheat-notes!)
The more outsources you get - the less control a compnay will have over how ther business is being ran or the more inability to move with the market and stay competitive. i.e. say Company, Inc. is currently basing thier systems on MS enterprise solutions and want to go to Linux, the security company whines about how innefficient and wroght with danger Linux is - when the case is that Linux is whroght with loss of profit opportunities-. So if the compnay does come to it's senses it then has to expend even more in getting it's contracts cleaned up for the old system and then deal with a changeover without the 'support' of the contractors. With in-house staff you tell them you want to change and they work on the system to implement the change. In a dog-eat-dog market the dogs that can fend for themseleves probably will survive.
Also I have seen many a consultant leave the market as the cashflow dries up due to loss of potential revenuee, customers or advances in technology thus leaving the remains of the customer base in a very bad situation with no services and no staff to pick up the loss.
To sum it up many of such decisions are very short sighted, and if they fall for schemes like that. Well I wouldn't expect the company to do well when the s*** hits the fan later on anyway.
They established 12 designs and showed three or so, and Boxy would make a good sleeper cylon (cute innocent kids, ya just gotta save them and put them in secure areas!) Maybe if they make Muffet Boxy can re-program it to become a cylon spy/ninja too.
Besides paddles there are a bunch of other controls used in many 64 programs, such as touch tablets, trackball, lightpen, mouse (used by a lot of GUIish programs like GEOS), musical keyboards, light guns, etc.
I think the veriety of controller makede the classic systems more "classic" in my view. The 2600 would not have been so cool without the paddles, driving controller, and keypad options, it made it more versatile than the one-controller Intellevision and others.
Most of my Commodore 64 stuff I do uses special utility cartridges, and a floppy disk drive or two. Without a true keyboard it limits it more.
Though playing some games like the atarisoft, Legacy of the ancients or Fort Apacalypse does hold some appeal.
Don't give all us humans a credit for being qualified to discern quality from drivel Some of us can do a lot worse than a computer!
I have used an HP parallel port backup unit with "disaster recovery" (HP Colorado 14GB drive) to move an installation from one machine to another and to install on a set of new PCs. Most of those portable backup hardware solutions offer a "disaster recovery" method in ther software to get you up and running again as easily as possible.
It's advertising interrupted by shows that you pay nearly $1,000 a year to watch! (via cable)
Take your pick:
- COMPUTE!
- COMPUTE!'s Gazzette
- RUN
- Ahoy
- Transactor
that's most of the ones with 64 ML type-ins. though there wewre more mags, like Commodore and Commodore Power/Play, Commander, Home Computing, Creative Computing, much later came Die Hard and Commodore World.
And for you out of the u.s. theres the like of Commodore Format and Zap!
Actually it's the other way around:
POKE 53280,0 changes the border to black
POKE 53281,15 changes the screen background to light gray (gray 3 to us Commodore folks).
Though I hate MS for their tactics I don't think they can carry it off anyway.
:-/
What they need:
- Make a cool logo that doesn't suck (or doesn't represent something that sucks) That windows logo is old and clunky. The butterfly is pretty good but that doesn't represent MS it represents their on-line service. The XP logo gets a little better. Also you don't see it on the backs of PC or on the cases of lpatops (which gets it photographed) so I guess it doesn't matter anyway.
- Make Cool Computers with more style than beige boxes and me-too black laptops. Again they aren't hardware so that's not gonna happen.
- Stea^h^h^h^h er.. Innovate some cool software they have no programs as recognisable as iMovie, iTunes, iDVD, etc. Though there is Internet Explorer, it gets a lot of press time (as a virus magnet).
To be cool you have to 'stand out from the crowd,' unfortunate for Microsoft is that THEY are the crowd they want to stand out from.
.. and "hacking the New York Times" will take on a whoe new meaning.
Not that I like MS, but this situation would pertain to any other OS if 90% of machines were using the same OS. Even it it was an OS you liked or felt was secure it is a big issue.
1. A person's identity can be attached to a EULA to make it more enforceable.
2. Makes the mark^h^h^h^h er.. person a "customer" and therefore makes microsoft immune from such anti-spam laws or other regulations involving spyware and remote updating.
3. Of course the obvouls of selling a non-free services as a requirement of accessing a "free one" (I can't remember my consumer ed. class from high school, I'm sure there is an illegal term for this...)
Yeah, I know of a couple writers who still used their Commodore 64s (lots of chapter files I bet). Last one I saw at a vinage computer festival was looking for a replacement to her worn out daisywheel printer, I'm sure she located one and is happily typing away again.
He probably pays You to run Windows; that's why he has a bunch of women hanging on his arm. I myself have women screaming my name all day (well, ok, I do tech work in an office full of women...)