It's bad enough you have to smile and act nice half the time, I don't need any further pressure to perform. Bah, I'll glower at and then indignatedly boycott anyone who uses this in my presence. Then again, I kinda doubt lots of people have the time or energy to look at everything they see twice. After all, once is often depressing enough already, and what if you'll catch lots of tiny li'l details that'll trash all your fluffy delusions? Alright, so it's just another disgustingly happy little toy for the perpetual party advertisers claim we live in. I wonder why I'm so pissed off.
Yes. I was made to use Excel once, briefly, copying statistics that I'm sure were stored digitally *somewhere* into Excel and doing a few additions. For which I was given an extra desk calculator. I used Javascript instead; had never done that before either but it gave me a feeling of actually doing *something*. Looking back, something does seem rather wrong with that... with either approach. (I'd never used or cared about Excel before.) We also had to use floppy disks to transfer files between the computers on the network, but ohwell. Occupational therapy.
So was it the chainsaw that was missing, or the fuel? I don't quite remember. My friend claims both are available, but I believe he must've been hallucinating.
Don't forget the people who would occasionally wander through and carry him away, which seemed to cause nothing to happen and was a pleasant change from, well, having him levitate (?) himself out of a hole (?) by craning (?) his neck (?). Nothing was quite as mysterious as 5th-hand carts with no manuals (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Riddle of the Sphinx...) Then again, some of the badly translated cassette inlays for C16 games were so thoroughly overbabelfished that a a boy on a pogo stick in a playground turned into something very dull that somehow involved tiling and a construction site and what "Oblido" was about I'll probably never know. It looked like the character ROM was overheating and it's dynamic soundtrack was courtesy of the random number generator I think.
The problem is very rare on the C64 because any programmer with a bit of a clue would be using a sprite to prevent this.
Yes, of course; I was just fumbling for a way to describe these hires colour-clashes, rather than pointing out that it's what happens in C64 games. If you were to, say, plot a few graphs in different colours, you probably wouldn't be using sprites... but yes, apart from the hardware sprites and scrolling that similar computers often lacked (even when they had higher resolutions and a larger palette), games and demos "naturally" performed all kinds of impressive display hacks so what you saw was hardly as drab as the "160*200*4" might make it sound.
I actually don't think this was a problem in actual hires mode-- only with multi-colored sprites. Those would only give you pairs of two adjacent pixels for the capability of having more than one color.
I think sprite graphics modes are the same as background graphics modes, i.e. they offer the same (dis-)advantages with regard to either colour "mixing" or resolution. (However, sprite/background modes needn't match.)
I really don't think hires graphics suffered from this limitation, though.
Am pretty sure it does. It might be just like in games on less "multimedia"-capable computers where moving your (non-sprite) 'avatar' over background objects will cause its colour to bleed into the underlying character-sized rectangle.
There is another (hires and text only?) mode, called "extended multicolour", that allows you to change the background colour (again: on a per-character-cell basis) but reduces the charset to the first 64 characters, freeing up 2 bits per character-code-holding byte in video memory for one out a palette of four user-defined background colours.
You do have all 16 colours at your disposal in both 320*200 and 160*200; the difference lies in how many of these you can use within a single 8*8 pixel (i.e. character-sized) cell. Hires (320*200) has 2 "pens": The background colour, which is the same everywhere, and one foreground colour, which is applied to every foreground-colour-coloured pixel within the respective cell - just like in text mode. Lores (160*200) sacrifices horizontal resolution for two additional foreground "pens", giving you 4 different colours per cell, three of which can change from one cell to the next.
Um, I hope I got that right. I'm more familiar with the Plus/4 (which has 8 "luminance" levels in addition to the 16 base colours, but won't let you mix colours as freely in Lores as the C64 does - the extra foreground colours aren't applied "per cell", but to the entire screen.)
It's a shame that the only proportionally spaced web font accessible to designers is courier, which sucks. Lucida Console is nicer but not available on all systems.
And Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is just lovely.
Anyone know of any web sites designed with proportionally spaced fonts?
Kinda (you mean "monospaced" or "fixed-width"). We found this by typing "wwwwwwwww" into Firebird's I'm-Feeling-Lucky-enabled address bar.
"Legalising some CD piracy". Wah. Just yesterday, I stole myself a bottle of wine and some yoghurt by not consuming them out of the backpack I brought them home from the shop in. I hope the food industry won't mind.
It shouldn't be a problem... not "logically". Their logic, if you can call it that, seems to be "if we allow people to copy their own CDs for themselves, they'll think it's alright to copy them period."
I wonder if customers(*) will even notice. I'm not in NZ, but nobody here seems to give a damn. They don't know their rights, they don't know what's "fair use" and many likely haven't heard of copy-protected CDs or the local equivalent of the DMCA or whatever other funny corporate-mandated everyday freedom downgrades. (I'm not talking about rabid file-sharers or the informed geek minority, just "could you burn me that CD, please?"-type 'pirates'.) Apparently, music, movies and software are like natural resources to most (few people seem to think of Photoshop, Reason or MS Office as stuff that actually costs money, hence it's often futile to point out free, or cheap, alternatives).
All of these technicalities and ideals and itty bitty legal details would only bore them to tears. And I doubt they're pissed off with the record industry. It's all just "the way things are". If the prices go up and the quality doesn't, they'll copy more. If prices go down, they still won't be able to afford CDs but maybe that's because I don't know anyone who actually has multiple digit amounts of money to waste on luxury items (which are actually natural resources, mind). Maybe it'll take a couple nearby natural disasters of the legal kind to make people care. Yah, I guess that'd piss consumers off, then. Who they'll be pissed off with I'm not sure. Perhaps politicians, or lawyers. Then again, isn't everyone already pissed off with those anyway?
Blah. Why is this input area so small? No wonder I'm not making much sense. -1, Boring.
(*) "consumer" sounds like eating garbage from a trough, rather than deciding to make a purchase. Then again... ah, never mind. This is hardly witty enough to continue. Ramble, ramble.
After reading a dozen "well, women like to " posts, some probably too trollish to get all worked up over...
Not everything women do is "female" in nature, you know? Does using instant messengers and e-mail make men feel more feminine now?
What these statistics seem (to me) to confirm is that "The PC" is no longer the domain of businesses, scientists, gamers and geeks but is becoming just another household appliance, and internet access is considered part of that. Most of the things PCs are commonly used for aren't really "computer-only" the way programming would be. Typewriter, phone, post office... things many/most people use. Women are hardly some sort of weird minority among that group.
Having internet access at home doesn't automatically mean you're a techie, no matter what sex or gender or combination thereof you are, were, will be, refuse to be, want to be, or identify as. Nor does it mean you're a non-techie. It's probably going to mean about as much as having a telephone or radio at home.
Even people who don't really care about it or have the slightest idea what it actually is seem to feel some sort of pressure to "get on the net" so they "won't stay behind". Sometimes the pressure is very real, as with universities providing material online only (don't know how common that is).
Okay... this was probably incredibly obvious and redundant (again). Guess I'm just getting tired of...something.
"A cat the falls down the screen, walks out a little cat door has been the highest offender."
Hey now, I loved that one (or a close relative) when I was 25. First encountered it on SuSE 7.0. Oh, the things you'll try when you're depressed. (The cat, not Linux.)
Almost. But there's no "ee"-as-in-"see". I've only ever heard it pronounced as a schwa, which doesn't seem to be among the sounds English words tend to end in. And the "s"s are voiced, soft. Zzzz.
Then again, I've never heard anyone from SuSE say it, so for all I know it could be pronounced XYZZY.
ZOO-Ze. Kinda. If it is, indeed, pronounced like the German first name "Suse". How *do* you pronounce "Dr. Seuss" (or "Zeus")? I have no idea. I'll have to stick to "Zoys" and "Tsoys", I guess.
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Hm. I can't try it myself, but maybe the DBLPAL/-NTSC, Euro72 or Multiscan monitor drivers might work (with or without VGAOnly)? At least that's what the WB manual suggests.
I picked up a flickerfixer/scandoubler/VGA-adapter "brick" from eBay for EUR 10 or so. It works fine with my A1200 and the three (non-multiscan) PC monitors I tested it with.
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It's bad enough you have to smile and act nice half the time, I don't need any further pressure to perform. Bah, I'll glower at and then indignatedly boycott anyone who uses this in my presence. Then again, I kinda doubt lots of people have the time or energy to look at everything they see twice. After all, once is often depressing enough already, and what if you'll catch lots of tiny li'l details that'll trash all your fluffy delusions? Alright, so it's just another disgustingly happy little toy for the perpetual party advertisers claim we live in. I wonder why I'm so pissed off.
Yes. I was made to use Excel once, briefly, copying statistics that I'm sure were stored digitally *somewhere* into Excel and doing a few additions. For which I was given an extra desk calculator. I used Javascript instead; had never done that before either but it gave me a feeling of actually doing *something*. Looking back, something does seem rather wrong with that... with either approach. (I'd never used or cared about Excel before.) We also had to use floppy disks to transfer files between the computers on the network, but ohwell. Occupational therapy.
Mew?
"Edit -> Changes -> Show"?
But Giana and Maria hit them with their megavolt punk 'dos.
Sounds like Plaque Attack by Activision to me...
So was it the chainsaw that was missing, or the fuel? I don't quite remember. My friend claims both are available, but I believe he must've been hallucinating.
Don't forget the people who would occasionally wander through and carry him away, which seemed to cause nothing to happen and was a pleasant change from, well, having him levitate (?) himself out of a hole (?) by craning (?) his neck (?). Nothing was quite as mysterious as 5th-hand carts with no manuals (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Riddle of the Sphinx...) Then again, some of the badly translated cassette inlays for C16 games were so thoroughly overbabelfished that a a boy on a pogo stick in a playground turned into something very dull that somehow involved tiling and a construction site and what "Oblido" was about I'll probably never know. It looked like the character ROM was overheating and it's dynamic soundtrack was courtesy of the random number generator I think.
Yes, of course; I was just fumbling for a way to describe these hires colour-clashes, rather than pointing out that it's what happens in C64 games. If you were to, say, plot a few graphs in different colours, you probably wouldn't be using sprites... but yes, apart from the hardware sprites and scrolling that similar computers often lacked (even when they had higher resolutions and a larger palette), games and demos "naturally" performed all kinds of impressive display hacks so what you saw was hardly as drab as the "160*200*4" might make it sound.
Well, near the end of my other post; sorry
Thanks :) Oh, and that other mode would be the one I tried to describe near the end of my post. I guess.
I think sprite graphics modes are the same as background graphics modes, i.e. they offer the same (dis-)advantages with regard to either colour "mixing" or resolution. (However, sprite/background modes needn't match.)
I really don't think hires graphics suffered from this limitation, though.
Am pretty sure it does. It might be just like in games on less "multimedia"-capable computers where moving your (non-sprite) 'avatar' over background objects will cause its colour to bleed into the underlying character-sized rectangle.
There is another (hires and text only?) mode, called "extended multicolour", that allows you to change the background colour (again: on a per-character-cell basis) but reduces the charset to the first 64 characters, freeing up 2 bits per character-code-holding byte in video memory for one out a palette of four user-defined background colours.
Found something... C64 Programmer's Reference Guide:
Actually, you only need to type lI (lower-case l, upper-case I). run is rU, ...
Um, I hope I got that right. I'm more familiar with the Plus/4 (which has 8 "luminance" levels in addition to the 16 base colours, but won't let you mix colours as freely in Lores as the C64 does - the extra foreground colours aren't applied "per cell", but to the entire screen.)
Maybe they're afraid that if they get better they might be promoted, i.e. force-choked to death?
And Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is just lovely.
Anyone know of any web sites designed with proportionally spaced fonts?
Kinda (you mean "monospaced" or "fixed-width"). We found this by typing "wwwwwwwww" into Firebird's I'm-Feeling-Lucky-enabled address bar.
"Legalising some CD piracy". Wah. Just yesterday, I stole myself a bottle of wine and some yoghurt by not consuming them out of the backpack I brought them home from the shop in. I hope the food industry won't mind.
I wonder if customers(*) will even notice. I'm not in NZ, but nobody here seems to give a damn. They don't know their rights, they don't know what's "fair use" and many likely haven't heard of copy-protected CDs or the local equivalent of the DMCA or whatever other funny corporate-mandated everyday freedom downgrades. (I'm not talking about rabid file-sharers or the informed geek minority, just "could you burn me that CD, please?"-type 'pirates'.) Apparently, music, movies and software are like natural resources to most (few people seem to think of Photoshop, Reason or MS Office as stuff that actually costs money, hence it's often futile to point out free, or cheap, alternatives).
All of these technicalities and ideals and itty bitty legal details would only bore them to tears. And I doubt they're pissed off with the record industry. It's all just "the way things are". If the prices go up and the quality doesn't, they'll copy more. If prices go down, they still won't be able to afford CDs but maybe that's because I don't know anyone who actually has multiple digit amounts of money to waste on luxury items (which are actually natural resources, mind). Maybe it'll take a couple nearby natural disasters of the legal kind to make people care. Yah, I guess that'd piss consumers off, then. Who they'll be pissed off with I'm not sure. Perhaps politicians, or lawyers. Then again, isn't everyone already pissed off with those anyway?
Blah. Why is this input area so small? No wonder I'm not making much sense. -1, Boring.
(*) "consumer" sounds like eating garbage from a trough, rather than deciding to make a purchase. Then again... ah, never mind. This is hardly witty enough to continue. Ramble, ramble.
Not true. Follow the "more info" links (or whatever they're called). There's also the download center.
Not everything women do is "female" in nature, you know? Does using instant messengers and e-mail make men feel more feminine now?
What these statistics seem (to me) to confirm is that "The PC" is no longer the domain of businesses, scientists, gamers and geeks but is becoming just another household appliance, and internet access is considered part of that. Most of the things PCs are commonly used for aren't really "computer-only" the way programming would be. Typewriter, phone, post office... things many/most people use. Women are hardly some sort of weird minority among that group.
Having internet access at home doesn't automatically mean you're a techie, no matter what sex or gender or combination thereof you are, were, will be, refuse to be, want to be, or identify as. Nor does it mean you're a non-techie. It's probably going to mean about as much as having a telephone or radio at home.
Even people who don't really care about it or have the slightest idea what it actually is seem to feel some sort of pressure to "get on the net" so they "won't stay behind". Sometimes the pressure is very real, as with universities providing material online only (don't know how common that is).
Okay... this was probably incredibly obvious and redundant (again). Guess I'm just getting tired of ...something.
"A cat the falls down the screen, walks out a little cat door has been the highest offender."
Hey now, I loved that one (or a close relative) when I was 25. First encountered it on SuSE 7.0. Oh, the things you'll try when you're depressed. (The cat, not Linux.)
No, I don't have a point. Sorry!
I misspelled "zeh", then ;)
Almost. But there's no "ee"-as-in-"see". I've only ever heard it pronounced as a schwa, which doesn't seem to be among the sounds English words tend to end in. And the "s"s are voiced, soft. Zzzz.
Then again, I've never heard anyone from SuSE say it, so for all I know it could be pronounced XYZZY.
ZOO-Ze. Kinda. If it is, indeed, pronounced like the German first name "Suse". How *do* you pronounce "Dr. Seuss" (or "Zeus")? I have no idea. I'll have to stick to "Zoys" and "Tsoys", I guess.
Hm. I can't try it myself, but maybe the DBLPAL/-NTSC, Euro72 or Multiscan monitor drivers might work (with or without VGAOnly)? At least that's what the WB manual suggests.
I picked up a flickerfixer/scandoubler/VGA-adapter "brick" from eBay for EUR 10 or so. It works fine with my A1200 and the three (non-multiscan) PC monitors I tested it with.