Also Danny Wallace who after having bet Dave Gorman to find 52 Dave Gorman's got it into his head that he needed 1000 people to join him , without actually knowing what they were joining (there are now over 8000 joinees).
And then of course there is the inimitable Tony Hawks (not Tony Hawk) who needed to win a bet that he could hitch-hike around the entire coast of Ireland with a refridgerator.
All of their books are highly recommended (especially Join Me, which is the funniest book I've ever read.
Any Zaurus from the following: SL-C700, SL-C750, SL-C760, SL-C860, SL-6000
Beside that marvellous-looking new Sony thing with ePaper screen, there's really no contest.
Opie-reader reads AportisDoc, Weasel (ztxt), Plucker, gzipped text, ppms text.
It will also give html a go, but the built-in NetFront browser works well, and Opera is available for it.
The 640x480 screen on the Zaurus means the auto-scroll is super-smooth, and makes other PDAs look like they have lego screens. The screen is incredible quality. It really is like nothing else. Super-clear and bright; it has to be seen to be believed.
The clam-shell design has got a thumb wheel that can be assigned to scroll-speed (or whatever) when in portrait mode.
The PDF readers read full PDFs, none of this Palm cut-down stuff.
It runs Linux on-board, has got USB, has a removable rechargable battery (rechargable in-place via the AC adaptor).
As to "pay very much", well if you buy an import, you'll pay a fair whack. If you get one direct from (in?) Japan you can get it much cheaper. I got my C750 for 60000 yen about two weeks after it was released in Japan. It's a lot cheaper over there now.
My Zaurus has seriously changed the way (and the amount) that I read. So much so, that dead tree books are starting to really annoy me because they take up so much physical space.
It's definitely one of the best things I have ever bought
A long time ago (1986 I think), Activision published a game called Portal, and C64, PC, Amiga, Mac, etc. It is an interactive novel where an intelligent computer pieces together the story of why nobody is left on the Earth. The pieces come as memos, effectively e-mails, and you can browse other parts of the system for various bits of information on characters, events, etc. It's very absorbing and is obviously predates this "new" thing by nearly 20 years!
There are other excellent games from around the same time like The FourthProtocol which, although much more interactive, effectively work in the same manner via an icon-based system. A brilliant game, by the way, highly recommended.
And both the Killing Game Show and Wiz'n'Liz were both by Martin Chudley who went on to form Bizarre Creations who recently produced Project Gotham 2 on the Xbox.
How about the fact that it's a multi-tasking OS that can run in less then 1MB. I would imagine that it is very useful for phones and the like, no?
I could never understand why nobody took the AmigaOS and used it as the basis for a PDA. It is perfect for that sort of thing, as proven the quantity of Amiga-based kiosk devices that existed.
Datatypes worked for anything, not just media streams. Documents, HTML, video, audio, anything. If the datatype existed, any program magically could support that format.
Have to go back through my memory for assigns, as I recall (and correct me if I'm wrong) it was used to assign a 'drive' to a particular location in the filesystem (eg, assigning SCRIPTS: to the startup scripts directory). If I'm remembering correctly, that's just like doing a symlink in the root really, so 0 points on that one.
No, no. Quite different to symlinks, but can be used in a similar fashion, sort of. Devices on the system have a device name and (for drives) a volume name. The device can be accessed using by using either name, followed by a colon. If you accessed a device that didn't exist, a requester would pop-up asking you to insert that volume in any drive. In this way you could name floppies/CDs/whatever and access files across the system using the volume name, causing it to ask you for the relevant disc/disk when necessary.
An assign is like a virtual volume name. You could assign a name to a folder (or drive, or device), and access that folder through its assign name followed by a colon. If your program accessed everything through the assign, and it hadn't been assigned, it would ask you to insert the volume (as the name might be a removable drive). So you could copy all of your floppies to your hard drive, and assign their volume names to the same folder. They would then be accessed transparently. The system doesn't actually care where the file is, as long as it finds it via <drive/volume/assign>:<path>/<filename>
Another good thing is that if it couldn't find a volume, it would pop-up the requester asking for it, at which point you could open a shell and assign that name to a folder containing the file you wanted, then hit retry. It would carry on as if nothing happened.
There were other uses you could put them to, but the above example is the most common use.Assigns fit into the overall design of the system very well. I do miss them a lot.
With ARexx, when a program was running that supported it, it would add a bunch of new commands to the language. Very transparent and easy to use. It was also easy to have a program control another program directly. It was really its ubiquitousness that was its strength. Almost every application had an ARexx port, and you were guaranteed that every system could run ARexx scripts.
I don't know...there are a lot of factors in there to suggest that it's not a hoax. There are a few things that bother me:
I've never seen anything approaching the quality of the "suit" from that time period or a good decade after (consider that 2001 was made a year later with a huge budget and the apes were not as good).
If you were going to fake something like this (and remember that this was the first ever video footage), you'd surely ham it up a bit and do something a bit more pantomime than walking like a human.
Would you go to the trouble, or even think of making the suit female? (you can see it's breasts swinging as it walks)
Was there so much call for gorilla suits in 1967 that you could make a living being "gorilla suit specialist"?
It's easy to say "Oh well that settles it then", but consider that people create hoaxes for attention. It is so impossible that a person could choose to proclaim something genuine to be a hoax for the exactly the same reason?
I'm not entirely convinced that it's genuine, but I'm just not convinced it's a hoax either.
- actually no games, except Mah Jong (2 versions, the "real" Mah Jong, and the Solitair Mah Jong) and both are "shareware"
Not many zaurus-specific games (certainly more than two though!) Full speed SNES/GB/C64/NES emulators add a shocking amount of games. And MAME and UAE are usable, and then there are the marvellous ScummVM and similar adventure interpreters (hooray for SDL!). The Megadrive/Genesis emulator is too slow though.
- western on screen writing is a bit bad in recognition. Yeah, but it is developted for japanese;) so its okay. and with the keyboard you are 10 times faster anyway.
Ah, but no. The recognition panels can be set up so that it will bias the recognition toward western characters (or numbers) which makes a huge difference. There is a prefs button there next to the panels.
My Zaurus SL-C750 has completely changed the way I read. I'm starting to get really annoyed by the physicality of real books now, in the same way that my jukebox MP3 player has made me get annoyed with CDs. There is an excellent reader program which reads all sorts of formats (including Plucker and AportisDoc), and the smooth text scrolling is supremely smooth because of the 640x480 display. And of course, I can use it in portrait or landscape mode (when the screen is rotated, the display auto-rotates).
It's so much better having a small, compact auto-scrolling backlit display to read from. Holding a book and turning pages is annoying.
Out of necessity (I couldn't find anything to do it for me), I wrote a little command-line program called TextBath. It takes text like this and re-formats it into proper paragraphs and such. If somebody can point me in the direction of something better, please let me know. I'm yet to find anything. I use this all the time with eBook conversions, so it's got features specifically for doing that, like only joining lines if the next character is lower-case, re-joining split hyphenated words and so on.
The link above is a win32 executable. If anybody wants the C++ source code (it's only small), just give me shout (you'll have to remove/edit the Win32 clipboard stuff).
It keeps a record of what you have bought as part of your profile. When you finish downloading something, it disappears from your record. The policy states quite clearly that they only allow you to download once.
I'd just like to point out that the Infocom game that you are talking about was co-written with Douglas Adams. The babelfish problem was most certainly devised by the man himself. So let's not blame the difficulty on "...the programmers...".
It's one of the most difficult Infocom games. Just try getting past the door. Ludicrous!
A strange time to ask such a question when the value of the dollar is way below average.
Conversions of broadband prices from any currency into dollars with the current exchange rate will probably make Americans think that everybody else is paying absurdly high prices (although Canada still seems very cheap).
As an example, 1GBP is currently worth a massive 1.83USD whereas it usually hovers around 1.6USD. 1EUR is now worth 1.27USD where it's generally been about 1.15USD
This will get lost in the inordinate amount of suggestions, but what the hell, eh?
I got an expanding shoulder bag from Costco that has got a padded independent laptop sleeve. It's a Kirkland bag (seems to be Costco's own brand), and it's absolutely brilliant. It's been around the world with me and still looks brand new. The only slight concern is the weight. It's very tightly made though, so you have to expect some bulk. It's about 2kg on it's own I think.
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He sounds like he'd get on very well with Dave Gorman, who, after a drunken bet, made it his goal to find 52 other people named Dave Gorman, and also got a bit obsessed with Googlewhacking.
Also Danny Wallace who after having bet Dave Gorman to find 52 Dave Gorman's got it into his head that he needed 1000 people to join him , without actually knowing what they were joining (there are now over 8000 joinees).
And then of course there is the inimitable Tony Hawks (not Tony Hawk) who needed to win a bet that he could hitch-hike around the entire coast of Ireland with a refridgerator.
All of their books are highly recommended (especially Join Me, which is the funniest book I've ever read.
Didn't expect this to work.
It's available from IBM's website as part of their Multimodal browser thing. Go to the Embedded Devices section near the bottom.
I found that I had to add a few softlinks after I'd installed it, but apart from that it's superb. And it's got built-in speech synthesis.
Any Zaurus from the following: SL-C700, SL-C750, SL-C760, SL-C860, SL-6000
Beside that marvellous-looking new Sony thing with ePaper screen, there's really no contest.
Opie-reader reads AportisDoc, Weasel (ztxt), Plucker, gzipped text, ppms text. It will also give html a go, but the built-in NetFront browser works well, and Opera is available for it.
The 640x480 screen on the Zaurus means the auto-scroll is super-smooth, and makes other PDAs look like they have lego screens. The screen is incredible quality. It really is like nothing else. Super-clear and bright; it has to be seen to be believed.
The clam-shell design has got a thumb wheel that can be assigned to scroll-speed (or whatever) when in portrait mode.The PDF readers read full PDFs, none of this Palm cut-down stuff.
It runs Linux on-board, has got USB, has a removable rechargable battery (rechargable in-place via the AC adaptor).
As to "pay very much", well if you buy an import, you'll pay a fair whack. If you get one direct from (in?) Japan you can get it much cheaper. I got my C750 for 60000 yen about two weeks after it was released in Japan. It's a lot cheaper over there now.
My Zaurus has seriously changed the way (and the amount) that I read. So much so, that dead tree books are starting to really annoy me because they take up so much physical space.
It's definitely one of the best things I have ever bought
About time too. :)
Now I can port it my Zaurus.
Then I don't have to carry around the monster Lynx itself.
The Lynx has some of the best handheld games around because it has conversion of loads of Atari arcade games and Amiga games.
Good good.A long time ago (1986 I think), Activision published a game called Portal, and C64, PC, Amiga, Mac, etc. It is an interactive novel where an intelligent computer pieces together the story of why nobody is left on the Earth. The pieces come as memos, effectively e-mails, and you can browse other parts of the system for various bits of information on characters, events, etc. It's very absorbing and is obviously predates this "new" thing by nearly 20 years!
There are other excellent games from around the same time like The Fourth Protocol which, although much more interactive, effectively work in the same manner via an icon-based system. A brilliant game, by the way, highly recommended.
And both the Killing Game Show and Wiz'n'Liz were both by Martin Chudley who went on to form Bizarre Creations who recently produced Project Gotham 2 on the Xbox.
Have you got more than two ears? Then why do you need more than a left and right channel for surround sound?
Sensaura
Totally different beast to the iPod, and I very much doubt that it's an Archos killer.
How about the fact that it's a multi-tasking OS that can run in less then 1MB. I would imagine that it is very useful for phones and the like, no?
I could never understand why nobody took the AmigaOS and used it as the basis for a PDA. It is perfect for that sort of thing, as proven the quantity of Amiga-based kiosk devices that existed.
Datatypes worked for anything, not just media streams. Documents, HTML, video, audio, anything. If the datatype existed, any program magically could support that format.
No, no. Quite different to symlinks, but can be used in a similar fashion, sort of. Devices on the system have a device name and (for drives) a volume name. The device can be accessed using by using either name, followed by a colon. If you accessed a device that didn't exist, a requester would pop-up asking you to insert that volume in any drive. In this way you could name floppies/CDs/whatever and access files across the system using the volume name, causing it to ask you for the relevant disc/disk when necessary.
An assign is like a virtual volume name. You could assign a name to a folder (or drive, or device), and access that folder through its assign name followed by a colon. If your program accessed everything through the assign, and it hadn't been assigned, it would ask you to insert the volume (as the name might be a removable drive). So you could copy all of your floppies to your hard drive, and assign their volume names to the same folder. They would then be accessed transparently. The system doesn't actually care where the file is, as long as it finds it via <drive/volume/assign>:<path>/<filename>
Another good thing is that if it couldn't find a volume, it would pop-up the requester asking for it, at which point you could open a shell and assign that name to a folder containing the file you wanted, then hit retry. It would carry on as if nothing happened.
There were other uses you could put them to, but the above example is the most common use.Assigns fit into the overall design of the system very well. I do miss them a lot.
With ARexx, when a program was running that supported it, it would add a bunch of new commands to the language. Very transparent and easy to use. It was also easy to have a program control another program directly. It was really its ubiquitousness that was its strength. Almost every application had an ARexx port, and you were guaranteed that every system could run ARexx scripts.
What on earth are you talking about?
Cloanto licensed the ROMs from Amiga, they have never owned any part of them.
Cloanto has shifted focus, but has not forgotten its roots. I have a lot of respect for them and they should be supported in their effort.
I don't understand how you can claim that Cloanto contributed to the death of the Amiga.
It's a bit bizarre that you can't see any webpages, but you can still download the movie files using direct links.
I don't know...there are a lot of factors in there to suggest that it's not a hoax. There are a few things that bother me:
I'm not entirely convinced that it's genuine, but I'm just not convinced it's a hoax either.
You problem is that you don't have a soundcard with Sensaura 3D audio on it.
- actually no games, except Mah Jong (2 versions, the "real" Mah Jong, and the Solitair Mah Jong) and both are "shareware"
Not many zaurus-specific games (certainly more than two though!) Full speed SNES/GB/C64/NES emulators add a shocking amount of games. And MAME and UAE are usable, and then there are the marvellous ScummVM and similar adventure interpreters (hooray for SDL!). The Megadrive/Genesis emulator is too slow though.- western on screen writing is a bit bad in recognition. Yeah, but it is developted for japanese ;) so its okay. and with the keyboard you are 10 times faster anyway.
Ah, but no. The recognition panels can be set up so that it will bias the recognition toward western characters (or numbers) which makes a huge difference. There is a prefs button there next to the panels.My Zaurus SL-C750 has completely changed the way I read. I'm starting to get really annoyed by the physicality of real books now, in the same way that my jukebox MP3 player has made me get annoyed with CDs. There is an excellent reader program which reads all sorts of formats (including Plucker and AportisDoc), and the smooth text scrolling is supremely smooth because of the 640x480 display. And of course, I can use it in portrait or landscape mode (when the screen is rotated, the display auto-rotates).
It's so much better having a small, compact auto-scrolling backlit display to read from. Holding a book and turning pages is annoying.
Out of necessity (I couldn't find anything to do it for me), I wrote a little command-line program called TextBath. It takes text like this and re-formats it into proper paragraphs and such. If somebody can point me in the direction of something better, please let me know. I'm yet to find anything. I use this all the time with eBook conversions, so it's got features specifically for doing that, like only joining lines if the next character is lower-case, re-joining split hyphenated words and so on.
The link above is a win32 executable. If anybody wants the C++ source code (it's only small), just give me shout (you'll have to remove/edit the Win32 clipboard stuff).
Boards of Canada indeed. Unique.
I would also recommend the second album by LFO.
It keeps a record of what you have bought as part of your profile. When you finish downloading something, it disappears from your record. The policy states quite clearly that they only allow you to download once.
I'd just like to point out that the Infocom game that you are talking about was co-written with Douglas Adams. The babelfish problem was most certainly devised by the man himself. So let's not blame the difficulty on "...the programmers...".
It's one of the most difficult Infocom games. Just try getting past the door. Ludicrous!
A strange time to ask such a question when the value of the dollar is way below average.
Conversions of broadband prices from any currency into dollars with the current exchange rate will probably make Americans think that everybody else is paying absurdly high prices (although Canada still seems very cheap).
As an example, 1GBP is currently worth a massive 1.83USD whereas it usually hovers around 1.6USD. 1EUR is now worth 1.27USD where it's generally been about 1.15USD
This will get lost in the inordinate amount of suggestions, but what the hell, eh?
I got an expanding shoulder bag from Costco that has got a padded independent laptop sleeve. It's a Kirkland bag (seems to be Costco's own brand), and it's absolutely brilliant. It's been around the world with me and still looks brand new. The only slight concern is the weight. It's very tightly made though, so you have to expect some bulk. It's about 2kg on it's own I think.