Read and write 1100 disk formats. Okay, we'll take that one with a grain of salt, but still, if it only can read C64, Amiga and Atari disks, it's more than enough for me. That still can't be done with a software-only solution.
Use the original SID chip for listening to C64 music - dunno if support is implemented in any emulators yet.
Connect original C64/Amiga/Atari joysticks! Zipstick! Yay!
Another cool feature is that the same card can be connected to the PCI bus, Amiga's Zorro bus OR the Amiga 1200's clock port. Three different connectors on the same card. Leet?;)
How much? 84,90 EUR. That's less than $95.
Now, tell me you don't want one:)
This should be the law: If one wants that garbage: get it by opt-in. Getting it anyway? - Find, persecute, and punish the spammer hard. Yeah, it should be possible to get most of them (at least the newly-recruited) without going totalitarian.
Jack Valenti is a war hero, is known as smart guy, and has been fighting for the good of
the world ever since he joined the MPAA.
HPR: Wanna put an end to the embarrasing 'Boston strangler' anecdote everyone
keep bringing up?
JV: Sure. I didn't say that, or it came out wrong, and I were right anyway.
And digital is to analog as canned pickles is to a carton of milk or something.
Left in the sun.
Anyway.. Here's a five-minute monologue of why piracy will lead to the End of
Civilization As We Know It.
HPR: Great. Now, tell us why "fair use" is just whining.
JV: My pleasure. DVDs last forever, and some professor in a school can PLAY the DVD in front of the students, right? For now. That's fair, right?
HPR: Well, that should make things clear, and I can't think of a single question
that would make this an interview. Wanna add anything about the war since we still have time left?
JV: Yeah, Vietnam is the only war we lost, because there were no censorship then.
Lack of censorship led to lack of support from the American people, and that's
why I think censorship in wartime is just neat!
While we're at it, we should also mention ACiDDraw, which some people prefer over TheDraw under DOS.
Wanna draw under *nix? Try TetraDraw.
For Win32 there's a promising little app called PabloDraw. The SourceForge page hasn't been updated for a while, but there's a newer, more stable version circulating. Ask around.
The above mentioned are all fine and dandy for blockstyle, newschool and ansi, but if you want to draw oldschool (and don't have an Amiga with CygnusEd lying around), you might want to use something like UltraEdit for Windows (or some other editor with vertical block selection) with SAC-OS.FON, a modified (added pixels, doubled height to fix perspective) Topaz font.
Are anyone drawing oldschool under Linux, and wanna share what tools they are using? Kwrite has block selection, but finding a descent (Well, familiar) font is pretty hard. Yes, courier can be used, but I'd rather wanna use SAC-OS. If anyone knows how to convert it (Windows bitmap font) to something that is usable under Linux, feel free to do so:)
For more info on the ascii scene (Which still is alive, mind you), check out Acheron.org, or pop by #ascii or #sac on EFNet. People are also organizing oldschool ascii compos on #oscompo/EFNet on Sunday evenings, but I'm not sure if there has been any activity there lately.
Obviously, there's more than one ASCII art scene. In some of them, the artists even are organized into groups, cooperating and releasing regular "packs" under the same label. Some people might not agree on these categories (and there are some overlapping), but I'll try to list them:
The Amiga ascii scene (Now often refered to as the "oldschool scene"):
From the early 90's people made "collections" - large textfiles - with logos (file_id.diz, bbs adverts, demo group names, etc), and later rants, poems and other forms of self expression. Tools of the trade: Slash, backslash, underscore, pipe, you get the idea.
Freshpla.net has a pretty good (though not updated) archive. Yes, I know, this might be look like madness to, hm, laymen:) If you really want to have a closer look, though, check out the works of e.g. Mark Ryder, Grimlock, and... no, too many to mention. All collections should be viewed with CygnusEd in Topaz 8, even though your browser could do the trick.
The blockstyle scene
These are the nice people that make most of those NFO files. Uses the blocks in the MS-DOS charset. Two of the biggest groups are Superior Art Creations (SAC) and Chemical Reaction (CRO). Get the Damn NFO Viewer (Win32).
The newschool scene
Seems to be the part of the group-based ascii scene that stays furthest away from the warez scene. Uses e.g. $$$$$$ to fill shapes, and various other characters to make their outline smooth. Only active examples I can remember at the moment are Mimic and Remorse. Ansi happens:)
The Ansi scene
Ascii is ascii and ansi is ansi, but these scenes are closely connected. Colourized art using the MS-DOS font. There can only be one: ACID. Viewers available for most platforms, just use Google.
I sat browsing the Prelinger archive last night, and download three or four movies.
From "The Terrible Truth" (1951):
"Some say the reds are promoting dope traffic in the United States to undermine national moral. They did it in China a few years back. It's certainly true that the increased use of narcotics plays right into their hands."
Oookay... Sounded a little paranoid, but I didn't think much more about it. After all, I've heard of McCartyism, and know it was blown out of proportions. The next movie was about pornographic litterature (Yeah, yeah, I know I downloaded some of the more sensational ones, but I wanted entertainment):
Uh. Two movies in a row, selected at (pretty much) random, made over 10 years apart. Both blaming communism for plotting to destroy the nation. If I've downloaded more movies from the archive, I'm sure I would have found more of the same.
Anyway... This made me think of Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine", and what the movie says about fear being used to make the public act in certain ways or accept whatever are presented to them. Sample quote: "The media, the corporations, the politicans, have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it has come to the point that they don't have to give any reason at all."
If this is how it works, can single words have the power to trigger these effects? Don't forget how hard it is to say no to a law that has "patriotic" as part of it's name (Because saying "no" would mean UNpatriotic, and you KNOW you either are with us or against us). If shouting "communist" at things and people you wanted to get rid of worked in the 50's and 60's, certainly linking the word "terrorist" to illegal copying should have some effect on public opinion and lawmakers.
Seems to me like "terrorist" is the fnord of our time.
Perhaps they will get someone with a bit more intelligence. Perhaps we can get someone who reads slashdot.
The CEO's intelligence has very little to do with anything. Yes, she is a front for the company, but every CEO has to follow the will of the corporation - and yes, corporations do have a will - which can be summed up to:
1. Make money
2. Defend the company from whatever can make it lose money.
Even though corporations have a human-like will, the only human-like moral they have comes from the two mentioned points: E.g. "If we break the law, will it cost us more than we gained by breaking the law?", "If we enforce unpopular restrictions, will a consumer boycott cost us more than we gain by enforcing the restrictions?", etc.
If individuals inside the RIAA thinks they are doing something unfair, it doesn't mean shit (and they know better than to say anything), because the mechanisms that are the "will" of the corporation (Responsability to stock holders, etc.) always are stronger.
The same mechanism makes them fight against copyright expiration too: Other than the money spent on lawyers and politicans for changing the law, it doesn't cost them anything to keep copyrights forever. "Sure, that obscure jazz tape from 1943 doesn't sell, no-one is interested in it, but why release it into the public domain? If it is unrestricted, some Fatboy Slim-wannabe might use it to make music that can be distributed outside our system, taking away paying listener time from us."
Some people call it capitalism, others call it evil. What ever you call it, don't do the mistake of thinking RIAA's use of the expressions "fair" and "unfair" has any meaning.
Slashdot Mirror
Introducing... The Catweasel MK3.
This beauty will let you:Another cool feature is that the same card can be connected to the PCI bus, Amiga's Zorro bus OR the Amiga 1200's clock port. Three different connectors on the same card. Leet? ;)
How much? 84,90 EUR. That's less than $95.Now, tell me you don't want one
This should be the law: If one wants that garbage: get it by opt-in. Getting it anyway? - Find, persecute, and punish the spammer hard. Yeah, it should be possible to get most of them (at least the newly-recruited) without going totalitarian.
Jack Valenti is a war hero, is known as smart guy, and has been fighting for the good of the world ever since he joined the MPAA.
HPR: Wanna put an end to the embarrasing 'Boston strangler' anecdote everyone keep bringing up?
JV: Sure. I didn't say that, or it came out wrong, and I were right anyway. And digital is to analog as canned pickles is to a carton of milk or something. Left in the sun.
Anyway.. Here's a five-minute monologue of why piracy will lead to the End of Civilization As We Know It.
HPR: Great. Now, tell us why "fair use" is just whining.
JV: My pleasure. DVDs last forever, and some professor in a school can PLAY the DVD in front of the students, right? For now. That's fair, right?
HPR: Well, that should make things clear, and I can't think of a single question that would make this an interview. Wanna add anything about the war since we still have time left?
JV: Yeah, Vietnam is the only war we lost, because there were no censorship then. Lack of censorship led to lack of support from the American people, and that's why I think censorship in wartime is just neat!
While we're at it, we should also mention ACiDDraw, which some people prefer over TheDraw under DOS. Wanna draw under *nix? Try TetraDraw.
For Win32 there's a promising little app called PabloDraw. The SourceForge page hasn't been updated for a while, but there's a newer, more stable version circulating. Ask around.
The above mentioned are all fine and dandy for blockstyle, newschool and ansi, but if you want to draw oldschool (and don't have an Amiga with CygnusEd lying around), you might want to use something like UltraEdit for Windows (or some other editor with vertical block selection) with SAC-OS.FON, a modified (added pixels, doubled height to fix perspective) Topaz font.
Are anyone drawing oldschool under Linux, and wanna share what tools they are using? Kwrite has block selection, but finding a descent (Well, familiar) font is pretty hard. Yes, courier can be used, but I'd rather wanna use SAC-OS. If anyone knows how to convert it (Windows bitmap font) to something that is usable under Linux, feel free to do so :)
For more info on the ascii scene (Which still is alive, mind you), check out Acheron.org, or pop by #ascii or #sac on EFNet. People are also organizing oldschool ascii compos on #oscompo/EFNet on Sunday evenings, but I'm not sure if there has been any activity there lately.
mplayer -vo aa ponyride.mpg
Works like a charm, but you'll need aalib. Try "mplayer -aahelp" for more options (Height, width, dithering, etc).The Amiga ascii scene (Now often refered to as the "oldschool scene"): :) If you really want to have a closer look, though, check out the works of e.g. Mark Ryder, Grimlock, and... no, too many to mention. All collections should be viewed with CygnusEd in Topaz 8, even though your browser could do the trick.
From the early 90's people made "collections" - large textfiles - with logos (file_id.diz, bbs adverts, demo group names, etc), and later rants, poems and other forms of self expression. Tools of the trade: Slash, backslash, underscore, pipe, you get the idea.
Freshpla.net has a pretty good (though not updated) archive. Yes, I know, this might be look like madness to, hm, laymen
The blockstyle scene
These are the nice people that make most of those NFO files. Uses the blocks in the MS-DOS charset. Two of the biggest groups are Superior Art Creations (SAC) and Chemical Reaction (CRO). Get the Damn NFO Viewer (Win32).
The newschool scene :)
Seems to be the part of the group-based ascii scene that stays furthest away from the warez scene. Uses e.g. $$$$$$ to fill shapes, and various other characters to make their outline smooth. Only active examples I can remember at the moment are Mimic and Remorse. Ansi happens
The Ansi scene
Ascii is ascii and ansi is ansi, but these scenes are closely connected. Colourized art using the MS-DOS font. There can only be one: ACID. Viewers available for most platforms, just use Google.
...and then, of course, there are those other forms of ascii art, as the hilarious The Adventures of the Boy with Immovable Hair and this wonderful flash anim synced to an Offspring song (Might be from the same author as that flash link in the parent post).
I sat browsing the Prelinger archive last night, and download three or four movies.
From "The Terrible Truth" (1951): "Some say the reds are promoting dope traffic in the United States to undermine national moral. They did it in China a few years back. It's certainly true that the increased use of narcotics plays right into their hands."
Oookay... Sounded a little paranoid, but I didn't think much more about it. After all, I've heard of McCartyism, and know it was blown out of proportions. The next movie was about pornographic litterature (Yeah, yeah, I know I downloaded some of the more sensational ones, but I wanted entertainment) :
"Perversion for Profit" (ca. 1964-1965): "This moral decay weakens our resistance to the onslaught of the Communist masters of deceit."
Uh. Two movies in a row, selected at (pretty much) random, made over 10 years apart. Both blaming communism for plotting to destroy the nation. If I've downloaded more movies from the archive, I'm sure I would have found more of the same.
Anyway... This made me think of Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine", and what the movie says about fear being used to make the public act in certain ways or accept whatever are presented to them. Sample quote: "The media, the corporations, the politicans, have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it has come to the point that they don't have to give any reason at all."
If this is how it works, can single words have the power to trigger these effects? Don't forget how hard it is to say no to a law that has "patriotic" as part of it's name (Because saying "no" would mean UNpatriotic, and you KNOW you either are with us or against us).
If shouting "communist" at things and people you wanted to get rid of worked in the 50's and 60's, certainly linking the word "terrorist" to illegal copying should have some effect on public opinion and lawmakers.
Seems to me like "terrorist" is the fnord of our time.
1. Make money
2. Defend the company from whatever can make it lose money.
Even though corporations have a human-like will, the only human-like moral they have comes from the two mentioned points: E.g. "If we break the law, will it cost us more than we gained by breaking the law?", "If we enforce unpopular restrictions, will a consumer boycott cost us more than we gain by enforcing the restrictions?", etc.
If individuals inside the RIAA thinks they are doing something unfair, it doesn't mean shit (and they know better than to say anything), because the mechanisms that are the "will" of the corporation (Responsability to stock holders, etc.) always are stronger.
The same mechanism makes them fight against copyright expiration too: Other than the money spent on lawyers and politicans for changing the law, it doesn't cost them anything to keep copyrights forever. "Sure, that obscure jazz tape from 1943 doesn't sell, no-one is interested in it, but why release it into the public domain? If it is unrestricted, some Fatboy Slim-wannabe might use it to make music that can be distributed outside our system, taking away paying listener time from us."
Some people call it capitalism, others call it evil. What ever you call it, don't do the mistake of thinking RIAA's use of the expressions "fair" and "unfair" has any meaning.