Shows Windows 1.01 in CGA (fully supported, but this guy thought it belonged on the Weird Resolutions page), Windows 95 in EGA, Windows 98 in 320x200x8b because of Quake, and some version of Win9x (either 95 or a 98lited 98) in 640x480x1b.
A whole bunch of weird Windows resolutions. Ignore the first one, that's just Windows 1.01 running in CGA, a fully supported (and widely used (well, between the two users of Windows 1.01 back in 1985) - EGA cards weren't cheap back then, and everyone had CGA).
What's interesting to YOU is the second screenshot. It's exactly what you couldn't get to work.
You bastard.;-) (NOTE THE SMILEY) At least you could have written them for CGA, and used a CGA emulator so they'd work on Hercules, and then anyone with any CGA, EGA, or VGA (yes, that includes your brand spanking new GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-E SLI rig) card could play it (as long as it wasn't clock-speed dependent, but there's MoSlo for that...)
I remember I was looking for a free shell account, found M-Net, tried it, and it felt like I was connecting over a 28.8K line - when I was on a T1. SDF, OTOH, did more (after $1), and was MUCH faster.
Well, buy a couple T-shirts. Or, donate some money - they're a federally recognised non-profit 501(c)(7), so AFAIK it's even tax-deductible (yep, help SMJ out and rip Uncle Sam off - now THAT's the way to do it;-).
I thought it was $36, as you didn't have to do the $1 validation dance if you got an ARPA account to begin with. Here's what pre-validated (the 90-day trial) has: 20mb home, 20mb web, 20mb mail mutt, pop3, imaps, webmail, icq, bboard games, TOPS-20, mud, gopher & more
user (the $1 account): Everything pre-validated has, plus: elm, pine, mailx, rmail, lynx, cgi (limited) bash, ksh, tcsh, rc, zsh, tclsh http://yourlogin.freeshell.org hundreds of shell & network utilities
arpa (the $36 account): 100mb home, 100mb web, 100mb mail one time $36 initiation fee all features of the 'users' account voting rights on system features and policies private 'arpa' member server telnet, ssh, ftp, ytalk, irc, snarf gcc, lisp, perl, php, python, ruby, et cetera access to additional memberships below
server ($20/mo, must have an arpa account to access): ability to run a server (mud or bbs) background process on private server access to compiler & crontab
Here's what the OP wanted: Does anyone know any free or low-cost shell accounts that include compilers (ARPA has gcc), IRC (ARPA again), background processes(This one's tricky, as server isn't exactly cheap, but it's the only one that offers bg processes), FTP (see ARPA), a decent editor (I know vi and pico are there, you'll have to check for others)and an email app (preferably pine, since I have a config file already on my IMAP server)? (How's pine, user and up?)"
So, everything he wants, except background processes, is damn cheap, and he can get bg processes easily. It's all run by one guy, smj, but he provides damn quick support. SDF is awesome;-).
I don't recall if it does EVERYTHING the OP wants, but Freeshell.org is $1 validation, and if you want more (stuff like IRC client, Perl, Python, PHP, etc.), it's $36 one-time (you don't have to pay the $1 if you start out with the $36 plan or better), and they've also got monthly plans that have even more than that (AFAIK, stuff like background processes DOES cost more). Myself, I've gotta shell out $36 (in addition to my $1 that I sent in about a year ago) to get Python, FTP (really pisses me off, because I don't know how to use ZModem over SSH on Linux, so I have to zip up my site, take it over to a Winbox, fire up HyperTerminal, and Telnet in), and SMTP (I hate webmail, and I use my own VERY nice client (Opera M2), thank you very much). Now, if they'd let me JUST add Python, FTP, and SMTP (I don't need Perl, PHP, 240MB more storage (80 in each area - shell, mail, and web), outbound IRC (they have plans for inbound IRC, IIRC, but they're REALLY expensive), outbound Telnet, etc.)
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However, the phone line and modem are the hard parts. I now only use one computer with a modem (not mine), and I have no phone line (cell phone all the way - I've got line-of-sight to a Sprint tower, too)
A Pentium SX (by 386 terms) or SLC (by 486 terms). It was half the full version's bus width, and half the speed too - the Pentium 66 ran at a 1.0x multiplier (obviously, 66MHz bus), whereas the PODP 83 ran at a 2.5x multiplier on a 33MHz bus. Half the width, half the speed, you do the math. Faster than any 83MHz 486 could ever dream of being, yes, but slower than a theoretical 1.25 x 66 Pentium 83.
Except the 386 had ZERO on-board cache, and wasn't available with an on-board copro like the 486, and both the 386 and the 486 had a 32-bit data bus (or a 16-bit if you got a 386SX or 486SLC), and the Pentium had a longer pipeline, and I can go on and on, but the Pentium was HARDLY a 486QLC (64-bit bus 486 - no, none existed).
You got NexGen and AMD reversed. They had the Nx686 (well, it became the AMD K6), and AMD had the K5, their first all-AMD design (their 486 was based on their Intel-licensed 386).
Actually, they give the ANSWERS to the players, studio audience, everyone. However, you're also right - they DON'T give them to the players to study, or the players would have MUCH more time to give a question that the answer fit (the point of Jeopardy).
Also, if you have less than the largest amount on the game board ($1000 in round 1, $2000 in Double), and you hit a Daily Double, you can wager up to that largest amount. Now, I'm not sure on this one myself, but can't you wager $2000 in Final Jeopardy if you have less than that?
However, you MUST have at least $1 to go into Final Jeopardy (you'd have to wager the right amounts in Daily Doubles to have a number between $0 and $200, though).
You also didn't mention that the former cash value of questions in round 1 were $100-500 in $100 increments, and Double Jeopardy was $200-1000 in $200 increments. That changed when the 5 day limit was removed, IIRC.
Umm... if I know what "Quiz Show" is about correctly, then it DID become reality. Actually, Quiz Show was a DOCUMENTARY about a scandal on the show "21".
Umm... half the stuff on Millionaire is REALLY easy. For an example, (if the reviews are right) try the PC game;-) (OK, so that's a bit extreme, but it's pretty similar to the real show, if I remember the show correctly)
Jeopardy is much harder, but Millionaire is more stressful because you don't get any chances to fsck up.
Well, Mandrake CAME with (IIRC) IceWM and WindowMaker fairly prominent in the installer (but still optional). I had a good experience with Fluxbox on Damn Small Linux (yes, I used a Knoppix as my primary distro - a Knoppix with Firefox (it was Firebird when I used it, though). It was slow, but it WAS a live CD distro), so I grabbed Mandrake's official Flux RPM, and installed it. Works great...
Troll, troll, troll. Sure, you're donating your PC for the tax deduction. However, I disagree with this:
If the PC is no good for you, what makes anyone think that Africans would find it useful?
Well, if you do lots of number-crunching that takes older computers to their limit, or you only have room for x computers, and you just got the old computer might not have a place. A Pentium MMX 233 with 96MB RAM can do internet access, and with the right browser (Opera, but if Firefox is your cup of tea, it might work well enough) and OS (not Windows - 9x/ME for stability reasons, NT for compatibility, 2K/XP for bloat reasons), it's even fast.
Just don't try running OpenOffice... KOffice is slow, too. AbiWord and Gnumeric are nice on old systems, though - AbiWord is even usable on my old Pentium 75MHz (shudder) with 16MB RAM and Windows 95 (no CD drive, and not much RAM - otherwise, that'd be Linux).
These systems are useless for most purposes for me (I hope to get my hands on a decent old P3 box to replace this PMMX, and I'm saving up for a new P-M laptop to replace the old laptop). However, they are more than capable for what many South Africans would need.
*ANY* WM? No, only (types carefully) full-featured Desktop Environments, of which KDE and Gnome are examples. Also, KDE is more a RAM hog than a CPU hog. Just give it 256+MB RAM, and at least a 466MHz CPU, and you've got it made.
Fluxbox doesn't even tax my Pentium MMX 233MHz with 96MB RAM. Also, you want to bet TWM wouldn't even tax a 486 with 16MB RAM?
Wait... you are IN the US? Well, setting the PSU for 220 CAN'T fry it. Setting it for 220 simply cushions the PSU against the 110 EXTRA volts. Setting it for 220 when it's getting 110 simply means it's filtering out the power, and not getting enough to work at all. Setting it to 110 in a 220 area will do that, vice versa will result in no boot.
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Shows Windows 1.01 in CGA (fully supported, but this guy thought it belonged on the Weird Resolutions page), Windows 95 in EGA, Windows 98 in 320x200x8b because of Quake, and some version of Win9x (either 95 or a 98lited 98) in 640x480x1b.
http://www.toastytech.com/guis/misc3.html
A whole bunch of weird Windows resolutions. Ignore the first one, that's just Windows 1.01 running in CGA, a fully supported (and widely used (well, between the two users of Windows 1.01 back in 1985) - EGA cards weren't cheap back then, and everyone had CGA).
What's interesting to YOU is the second screenshot. It's exactly what you couldn't get to work.
You bastard. ;-) (NOTE THE SMILEY) At least you could have written them for CGA, and used a CGA emulator so they'd work on Hercules, and then anyone with any CGA, EGA, or VGA (yes, that includes your brand spanking new GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-E SLI rig) card could play it (as long as it wasn't clock-speed dependent, but there's MoSlo for that...)
I remember I was looking for a free shell account, found M-Net, tried it, and it felt like I was connecting over a 28.8K line - when I was on a T1. SDF, OTOH, did more (after $1), and was MUCH faster.
Well, buy a couple T-shirts. Or, donate some money - they're a federally recognised non-profit 501(c)(7), so AFAIK it's even tax-deductible (yep, help SMJ out and rip Uncle Sam off - now THAT's the way to do it ;-).
I thought it was $36, as you didn't have to do the $1 validation dance if you got an ARPA account to begin with. Here's what pre-validated (the 90-day trial) has:
;-).
20mb home, 20mb web, 20mb mail
mutt, pop3, imaps, webmail, icq, bboard
games, TOPS-20, mud, gopher & more
user (the $1 account):
Everything pre-validated has, plus:
elm, pine, mailx, rmail, lynx, cgi (limited)
bash, ksh, tcsh, rc, zsh, tclsh
http://yourlogin.freeshell.org
hundreds of shell & network utilities
arpa (the $36 account):
100mb home, 100mb web, 100mb mail
one time $36 initiation fee
all features of the 'users' account
voting rights on system features and policies
private 'arpa' member server
telnet, ssh, ftp, ytalk, irc, snarf
gcc, lisp, perl, php, python, ruby, et cetera
access to additional memberships below
server ($20/mo, must have an arpa account to access):
ability to run a server (mud or bbs)
background process on private server
access to compiler & crontab
Here's what the OP wanted:
Does anyone know any free or low-cost shell accounts that include compilers (ARPA has gcc), IRC (ARPA again), background processes (This one's tricky, as server isn't exactly cheap, but it's the only one that offers bg processes), FTP (see ARPA), a decent editor (I know vi and pico are there, you'll have to check for others) and an email app (preferably pine, since I have a config file already on my IMAP server)? (How's pine, user and up?)"
So, everything he wants, except background processes, is damn cheap, and he can get bg processes easily. It's all run by one guy, smj, but he provides damn quick support. SDF is awesome
I don't recall if it does EVERYTHING the OP wants, but Freeshell.org is $1 validation, and if you want more (stuff like IRC client, Perl, Python, PHP, etc.), it's $36 one-time (you don't have to pay the $1 if you start out with the $36 plan or better), and they've also got monthly plans that have even more than that (AFAIK, stuff like background processes DOES cost more). Myself, I've gotta shell out $36 (in addition to my $1 that I sent in about a year ago) to get Python, FTP (really pisses me off, because I don't know how to use ZModem over SSH on Linux, so I have to zip up my site, take it over to a Winbox, fire up HyperTerminal, and Telnet in), and SMTP (I hate webmail, and I use my own VERY nice client (Opera M2), thank you very much). Now, if they'd let me JUST add Python, FTP, and SMTP (I don't need Perl, PHP, 240MB more storage (80 in each area - shell, mail, and web), outbound IRC (they have plans for inbound IRC, IIRC, but they're REALLY expensive), outbound Telnet, etc.)
However, the phone line and modem are the hard parts. I now only use one computer with a modem (not mine), and I have no phone line (cell phone all the way - I've got line-of-sight to a Sprint tower, too)
Hmm... Well, then why not release all of the chip specs? Is the DESIGN of an nVidia chip not totally nV?
Hercules CGA? I thought that Herclues cards used the HERCULES standard, and to run a CGA app, you had to use an emulator.
Netcraft has been logging it since 2000, and they seem to be real products, but the site does mention that you can't prove the demo's not fake...
A Pentium SX (by 386 terms) or SLC (by 486 terms). It was half the full version's bus width, and half the speed too - the Pentium 66 ran at a 1.0x multiplier (obviously, 66MHz bus), whereas the PODP 83 ran at a 2.5x multiplier on a 33MHz bus. Half the width, half the speed, you do the math. Faster than any 83MHz 486 could ever dream of being, yes, but slower than a theoretical 1.25 x 66 Pentium 83.
Except the 386 had ZERO on-board cache, and wasn't available with an on-board copro like the 486, and both the 386 and the 486 had a 32-bit data bus (or a 16-bit if you got a 386SX or 486SLC), and the Pentium had a longer pipeline, and I can go on and on, but the Pentium was HARDLY a 486QLC (64-bit bus 486 - no, none existed).
You got NexGen and AMD reversed. They had the Nx686 (well, it became the AMD K6), and AMD had the K5, their first all-AMD design (their 486 was based on their Intel-licensed 386).
Actually, they give the ANSWERS to the players, studio audience, everyone. However, you're also right - they DON'T give them to the players to study, or the players would have MUCH more time to give a question that the answer fit (the point of Jeopardy).
It's on a CBS station where I live, and at 7PM.
Also, if you have less than the largest amount on the game board ($1000 in round 1, $2000 in Double), and you hit a Daily Double, you can wager up to that largest amount. Now, I'm not sure on this one myself, but can't you wager $2000 in Final Jeopardy if you have less than that?
However, you MUST have at least $1 to go into Final Jeopardy (you'd have to wager the right amounts in Daily Doubles to have a number between $0 and $200, though).
You also didn't mention that the former cash value of questions in round 1 were $100-500 in $100 increments, and Double Jeopardy was $200-1000 in $200 increments. That changed when the 5 day limit was removed, IIRC.
Umm... if I know what "Quiz Show" is about correctly, then it DID become reality. Actually, Quiz Show was a DOCUMENTARY about a scandal on the show "21".
Umm... half the stuff on Millionaire is REALLY easy. For an example, (if the reviews are right) try the PC game ;-) (OK, so that's a bit extreme, but it's pretty similar to the real show, if I remember the show correctly)
Jeopardy is much harder, but Millionaire is more stressful because you don't get any chances to fsck up.
Well, Mandrake CAME with (IIRC) IceWM and WindowMaker fairly prominent in the installer (but still optional). I had a good experience with Fluxbox on Damn Small Linux (yes, I used a Knoppix as my primary distro - a Knoppix with Firefox (it was Firebird when I used it, though). It was slow, but it WAS a live CD distro), so I grabbed Mandrake's official Flux RPM, and installed it. Works great...
Troll, troll, troll. Sure, you're donating your PC for the tax deduction. However, I disagree with this:
If the PC is no good for you, what makes anyone think that Africans would find it useful?
Well, if you do lots of number-crunching that takes older computers to their limit, or you only have room for x computers, and you just got the old computer might not have a place. A Pentium MMX 233 with 96MB RAM can do internet access, and with the right browser (Opera, but if Firefox is your cup of tea, it might work well enough) and OS (not Windows - 9x/ME for stability reasons, NT for compatibility, 2K/XP for bloat reasons), it's even fast.
Just don't try running OpenOffice... KOffice is slow, too. AbiWord and Gnumeric are nice on old systems, though - AbiWord is even usable on my old Pentium 75MHz (shudder) with 16MB RAM and Windows 95 (no CD drive, and not much RAM - otherwise, that'd be Linux).
These systems are useless for most purposes for me (I hope to get my hands on a decent old P3 box to replace this PMMX, and I'm saving up for a new P-M laptop to replace the old laptop). However, they are more than capable for what many South Africans would need.
*ANY* WM? No, only (types carefully) full-featured Desktop Environments, of which KDE and Gnome are examples. Also, KDE is more a RAM hog than a CPU hog. Just give it 256+MB RAM, and at least a 466MHz CPU, and you've got it made.
Fluxbox doesn't even tax my Pentium MMX 233MHz with 96MB RAM. Also, you want to bet TWM wouldn't even tax a 486 with 16MB RAM?
You could still get bagle.sourceforge.net - sf.net/projects/bagle returns "Invalid project"...
Wait... you are IN the US? Well, setting the PSU for 220 CAN'T fry it. Setting it for 220 simply cushions the PSU against the 110 EXTRA volts. Setting it for 220 when it's getting 110 simply means it's filtering out the power, and not getting enough to work at all. Setting it to 110 in a 220 area will do that, vice versa will result in no boot.
I actually own MS BOB on CD, but it was given to me along with an old 486 box.
It's strange, to say the least.