One day I came home (2001) and my dad told me he bought a computer for $20.
Since he hasn't touched a computer since he took some night school class in the 90's and learned Appleworks, I was leary.
The clincher was when he told me it was an 'IBM Computer'. Sure enough, PCjr, chiclet keyboard and all. Almost none of the floppy disks worked, but the cartridge games worked. They keyboard has some non-standard connector so I can't even use it to show off to friends.
We don't have to go to Kinko's anymore, since we bought this. Fine piece of equipment. FYI, we replaced one of those 'Xerox/Tektronix' machines with it.
Many old PC games don't work on new hardware, for various reasons.
PC games aren't like Atari games, every PC is different, each Atari 2600 is identical.
Solution? Buy an older PC on eBay (486 or whatever you please). Cheap. The shipping will most likely cost more than the computer itself.
The best part of it is, you can get REAL SoundBlaster sound cards, etc for them, because some of the older games are just too picky to run on todays hardware, even with helper programs and such.
Our ISP (Charter Communications) does block the common ports, but they don't/shouldn't block EVERYTHING. People would go nuts if every port was blocked except 80, for example. Then they'd all drop cable connections and go back to dial up and the Internet would be screwed.
The few users of broadband who actually need to run an Internet visible server would then have to contact their ISP for a port to be opened, but that seems like a small price to pay for cutting off 1000s of machines that have been hacked.
I remember that from way back. People in the MSN chatrooms (the first MSN that came with Win95) would all join up in PowWow chats so they could trade files, etc.
Dual/quad xeon 3ghz box with 2GB of ram Let's say it cost $12,000. Pile them all on there.
Mail SQL/Accounting File/Print
Buy 3 $2,000 servers. Split them up.
Now, would you rather have a server crash (admin error, hardware failure, software bug) take down the ONE server, losing all services?
Or, would you rather have a server crash just take down the email system, for example. But, with 3 boxes you'd have 3 times the likelyhood of a crash.
I like to split them up. In a Windows environment, we still have programs that like to bomb out. And it's easier to just kick accounting out than it is everyone in the company.
We have a 3 part form. They fill out their name, date, extension, etc, and fill the problem in and give me the form. I keep one copy, they keep a copy, and someone else gets the other.
This way when they bitch because I haven't re-installed their RealPlayer and it's been 3 weeks, they've got paperwork to back it up.
A kid who I played hockey with in school bought the game, and took pictures of all of us players, and made his own 'team'. He even made us all the correct height/weight.
I think the reasons why the Game Boy was the most/only successful portable gaming system were:
1. Cheap. The color units were very expensive. 2. Fun games. Nintendo was ruling the homes with the NES and it only made sense to make GameBoy versions of the games. Third parties had a ton of success here too. 3. Battery life. 30 hours. The color units didn't last nearly as long and some required more than 4 AA batteries.
The screen was tiny, the sound was bad, and the spinach green graphics left lots to be desired.
This concludes the first part of our journey into the world of handhelds. But things are only just heating up. Join us tomorrow, for a look at what Sega, SNK, Bandai and others have had to offer over the years. You just might be surprised...
I was wondering where the TurboExpress, GameGear, etc were
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It's not really yours.
Plus, it'll get circumvented anyway.
Much worse in Vice City but c'mon....shit like that shouldn't make it to market.
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Remember using that to play DOS games?
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Give it a shot.
http://techzone.pcvsconsole.com/news.php?tzd=1973
Minolta/QMS printers are cheap in the stores, which lures buyers in.
They go through ink like no other. Consumables = $$$
Return it if you still can.
They lose MORE if they don't sell them at all. They lose $150 LESS (or whatever they cost nowadays) if you buy one.
One day I came home (2001) and my dad told me he bought a computer for $20.
Since he hasn't touched a computer since he took some night school class in the 90's and learned Appleworks, I was leary.
The clincher was when he told me it was an 'IBM Computer'. Sure enough, PCjr, chiclet keyboard and all. Almost none of the floppy disks worked, but the cartridge games worked. They keyboard has some non-standard connector so I can't even use it to show off to friends.
Poor dad.
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We don't have to go to Kinko's anymore, since we bought this. Fine piece of equipment. FYI, we replaced one of those 'Xerox/Tektronix' machines with it.
Many old PC games don't work on new hardware, for various reasons.
PC games aren't like Atari games, every PC is different, each Atari 2600 is identical.
Solution? Buy an older PC on eBay (486 or whatever you please). Cheap. The shipping will most likely cost more than the computer itself.
The best part of it is, you can get REAL SoundBlaster sound cards, etc for them, because some of the older games are just too picky to run on todays hardware, even with helper programs and such.
Count the movement:
Drag mouse over text
Right-Click
Select 'Copy'
Move cursor to new location
Right-click
Select 'Paste'
Drag mouse over text
Move cursor to new location
Click both buttons
3 less clicks
The masses are not going to sit around and play MMORPG's all day, and shut out the rest of the world.
But then again, nobody would have thought in 1910 that the nation would be a land of overweight couch potatos either.
Our ISP (Charter Communications) does block the common ports, but they don't/shouldn't block EVERYTHING. People would go nuts if every port was blocked except 80, for example. Then they'd all drop cable connections and go back to dial up and the Internet would be screwed.
The few users of broadband who actually need to run an Internet visible
server would then have to contact their ISP for a port to be opened, but
that seems like a small price to pay for cutting off 1000s of machines that
have been hacked.
Get a dumb terminal and plug it in
logon: wife
password: ******
wife@computer:
I remember it distinctly because my girlfriend's Yahoo wasn't working
Don't worry, it happens to everyone.
I remember that from way back. People in the MSN chatrooms (the first MSN that came with Win95) would all join up in PowWow chats so they could trade files, etc.
INCREDIBLE SUPER HAPPY SPACE FLIGHT!
Maybe they can do voice-overs in English and play it on SPIKE! TV
Let's say XYZ company upgrades their server(s).
Mail
SQL
File
Print
Accounting Software
Dual/quad xeon 3ghz box with 2GB of ram
Let's say it cost $12,000. Pile them all on there.
Mail
SQL/Accounting
File/Print
Buy 3 $2,000 servers. Split them up.
Now, would you rather have a server crash (admin error, hardware failure, software bug) take down the ONE server, losing all services?
Or, would you rather have a server crash just take down the email system, for example. But, with 3 boxes you'd have 3 times the likelyhood of a crash.
I like to split them up. In a Windows environment, we still have programs that like to bomb out. And it's easier to just kick accounting out than it is everyone in the company.
When you buy a 512MB RAM module, it's 512MB. Not 523.056MB RAM.
What gives?
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So your email walked up hill, both ways?
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We have a 3 part form. They fill out their name, date, extension, etc, and fill the problem in and give me the form. I keep one copy, they keep a copy, and someone else gets the other.
This way when they bitch because I haven't re-installed their RealPlayer and it's been 3 weeks, they've got paperwork to back it up.
A kid who I played hockey with in school bought the game, and took pictures of all of us players, and made his own 'team'. He even made us all the correct height/weight.
Talk about having too much time on your hands...
I think the reasons why the Game Boy was the most/only successful portable gaming system were:
1. Cheap. The color units were very expensive.
2. Fun games. Nintendo was ruling the homes with the NES and it only made sense to make GameBoy versions of the games. Third parties had a ton of success here too.
3. Battery life. 30 hours. The color units didn't last nearly as long and some required more than 4 AA batteries.
The screen was tiny, the sound was bad, and the spinach green graphics left lots to be desired.
Compare Tecmo Bowl on GameBoy to Joe Montana on Game Gear. You'd think the GameBoy would never have seen the light of day.
The Game Gear was $179.99 when it first came out and the Game Boy was around $99.99 I think...
This concludes the first part of our journey into the world of handhelds. But things are only just heating up. Join us tomorrow, for a look at what Sega, SNK, Bandai and others have had to offer over the years. You just might be surprised...
I was wondering where the TurboExpress, GameGear, etc were