I've been using FreeDOS recently to run old DOS door games on a Linux bbs, and it works almost perfectly (with the "press F5/F8 to skip/step through autoexec & config.sys" disabled, of course). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get a version of Dosemu working with virtual com ports, but the door games mostly work fine in local mode.
Only game I've found serious problems with so far is TradeWars.. it seems that it needs share.exe to run, and it doesn't like the FreeDOS version of share. Anyone know a way around that problem?
you bought the physical media; you need to agree to the license to get to the bits on it.
Wait, lemme get this straight... I'm paying $40+ for a completely useless cd-rom? (Useless, because the physical media is absolutely worthless without access to the bits encoded on it)
Hmm.. Since the bits are physically encoded on the media, changing its structure, wouldn't they automatically be part of the "physical media"? How can the "physical media" possibly be separated from the part you agree to the license for?
I'll add another "YES" answer of the question of whether people actually back up their CDs. I don't have many places to play the music I've bought, and one of those places happens to be my computer. I have enough trouble with swapping out all the game CDs I own.. swapping music cds is even worse. So, I have a copy of pretty much every music CD I own in either MP3 or OGG format.
This has the bonus effect of allowing me to play music while playing games that require the CD to be in the drive even when they don't have any need for the CD.
I would have copies of the games I own as well, except that most of them are copy-protected. So if something happens to one of my game cds (like the roomate's monitor falling on my Diablo 2 play CD a few weeks ago when the cat knocked it over), I need to either track down a receipt and pray the store will replace it or go buy a new one. Pretty odd, since it is perfectly *legal* for me to make a backup copy of those CDs, and the EULA almost always explicitly gives me the right to do it!
Works for me too, on a brief test, but I'm hearing lots of problem reports from some guides I know.
And, there's still the problem of Win95. Although I luckily don't have that problem (WinXP here), I don't like the idea of it just being brushed off... changing the system requirements for a product that's already been paid for is definately not the consumer's problem.
I did NOT buy a game with those system requirements. Sorry. That development is occuring later, AFTER THE PRODUCT IS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR.
I have not bought the expansion. I would not, (at least, now) because my system appears not to support it (although, the Luclin website very clearly places the Voodoo3 in the WORKING list of tested hardware).
I haven't bought anything without investigating the system requirements. Got any other attempts at brushing this off?
Umm, excuse me? As one of the people with one of those "obsolete" video cards, I do think this is Verant's problem. They released a game, with specific system requirements on it. I paid money for that game. I'm paying money on top of that to *play* the game. And now they're suddenly changing those requirements, with no choice provided for the people who already bought their product?
If the non-expansion game is no longer playable under the information that is listed on the box, that IS Verant's problem. I didn't buy a game that required a video card I don't have and lack money for.
At least the password isn't something really obscure, like 'myvoice'.
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I don't see it saying anything about 50 pages/second from *one* machine.. it just says Slashdot, in general. If you assume that it means across all machines, and take into account that the pageviews ramped up from around 9:30, the calculation seems pretty much right on target.
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Broadcast June 5, 1973
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
The entire speech is here.. some parts were cut for the version that has been going around for the last few years.
(thanks to gulopine, a reader of User Friendly, for the info)
The words still ring true, but are a bit dated. And the whole "only partial news coverage was given recently" bit is somewhat misleading...
Hmm.. well, NYT requires email, zip code, age, and sex. And they *could* relate the last three with the email address, if they really wanted.
Sure, you can make up that stuff. The account I use to read NYT articles was actually made that way, with a username and password that easily shows that I get most of my NYT links from Slashdot. But now I'm lying on the form, simply to avoid giving away information that I'd rather not give away.
You don't have to lie on Slashdot. You can view comments, and air your own opinions, on the anonymous account. If you choose to create an account, you don't have to work around anything that isn't required simply for security purposes.
I've got my own reasons for giving away what small amount of privacy I give away on this site. It has to do with taking responsibility for my own words, rather than voicing them from behind a faceless mask. From that viewpoint, registering on the NYT site simply to view the content is a very different thing altogether. I don't think that's at all hypocritical.
I find it extremely ironic that the people who complain about signing up for accounts at the NYT still have accounts here at Slashdot. I mean, what's the damn difference?
Sure, this is offtopic, but..
The difference is simple, really. Here at slashdot, you are not forced to give up your privacy in order to see the content. Even when you register for an account, you don't have to give away anything other than your email address, and that is only for passwords. Places that force you to give information, on the other hand, obviously place extra value on knowing who you are - value that they can sell to other people.
Personally, I think my privacy is worth a lot more than the amount it should/would cost to view the content on those kinds of sites if they were pay-per-view. You may not.. *shrug*
Slight correction: Gartner's analyst claimed (in the ZDNET article) that they asked what OS users had installed on new servers within a certain period.
Gartner reported (in their actual report) numbers of servers that were shipped.
It could have simply been bad wording in the report. If so, they haven't corrected it yet. The actual report speaks only of the amount of Linux installed on shipping servers, and says absolutely nothing about later installs.
Unless Gartner actually releases more information about their survey, it's impossible to know whether the problem was bad wording in the report or bad wording in the survey. Either way, I definately have doubts about the validity of the final numbers.
The comment you replied to asked you to read more closely... obviously, you didn't.
DAT machines, so you know, are equipped with a copyright bit that prevents more than 1 copy of copyrighted material, but it puts absolutely no limitation on copying your own stuff.
According to the article, analog input to his recorder was treated as copyrighted material. So, even though his wedding recordings are his own stuff, his machine won't allow him to copy it because it believes he doesn't have the right.
A large part of the problem, also, is that you often don't know the hardware is limited until you already own it and attempt to use it in a certain way. The companies don't advertise that their recorder won't allow you to make any further copies of something you record from analog... by the time you find out, you're stuck (unless you happen to have bought from a store with a really nice return policy). Sounds like a legit reason to complain to me.
The only Zbasic I know of was the CPM-based Zenith BASIC. Initially learned to program with that, a Heath-Zenith kit computer, and the huge, detailed BASIC manual from Zenith (loved that thing... everything I could ever want to know about the language). IIRC, it had trouble handling division and multiplication, but had most of the other features.
Might not be the same one you mentioned, though.:)
1. To pay for each installment of The Plant, and to pay each time you download it. Look at it this way: you couldn't go into a bookstore and say, "I bought a copy of The Street Lawyer in here yesterday, so give me four more for free today." Get it?
It sucks, but make sense at the same time. I'm sure it won't be too much trouble for me to save it on a disk or something if I want to keep it.
I really dont see how it would be possible to create an actual X server with perl.
Hey, be careful tossing around statements like that! You'll convince someone to actually try it, and lord knows what effect such a pointless project would have on the world's (already low) opinion of geek lives!
He had the decency to create an account and log in, therefore his score started at 1.
No moderation involved. No anti-Microsoft bias involved. Yes, you too can have posts with a non-zero (and positive) score if you don't hide behind the Anonymous Coward log in.
Unless/until you post something stupid that gets you moderated downward, anyways. Then you can claim that your negative karma is due to the pro-Microsoft sentiment in your posts.:)
Nope, good 'ol Kali. Back in the old days when it was just a DOS application, before they put in all that fancy Windows stuff. I used to use it constantly for Descent, used it intermittently for Descent 2, and haven't used it since.
You didn't read any information about it other than the Slashdot article, did ya?:)
The "persistant universe" isn't a MMORPG type of universe. It just means that while you're playing your game (on your own local computer) the entire game universe is actually in action (rather than just the area you're in). So while you're putzing around in one solar system, the computer characters are out arranging to hijack a shipment elsewhere...
My very first SVGA card was a #9 Vision 330, that card gave me an incredible jump in speed over the older Trident card I had been using until then (which wasn't a bad card itself, VGA card that thought it was a VESA SVGA card:)
When upgrades finally forced me into a motherboard that lacked a VLB slot, I switched over to an Imagine 128.. still a good card, though "The 11th Hour" wouldn't run on it until #9 sent me a new bios chip (which they did as soon as I called up and asked about the problem.. great service).
Unfortunately, my old roomates bought some Revolution 3D cards a while back, after hearing from me about my luck with the company so far... and they couldn't run any 2D or 3D games they wanted without severe graphics glitches. ick.:(
I still use my Imagine 128 (rev 2) though.. I have it in my dual-boot Linux/Windows box. Works great in Win98, but I still haven't found a way to make it work under X Windows. Redhat 6.1 supposedly has the driver for it, but every combination of options I've tried has only given me errors and dumped me back to the prompt. And I don't know enough about X configuration to modify the config myself..:(
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I've been using FreeDOS recently to run old DOS door games on a Linux bbs, and it works almost perfectly (with the "press F5/F8 to skip/step through autoexec & config.sys" disabled, of course). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get a version of Dosemu working with virtual com ports, but the door games mostly work fine in local mode.
Only game I've found serious problems with so far is TradeWars.. it seems that it needs share.exe to run, and it doesn't like the FreeDOS version of share. Anyone know a way around that problem?
you bought the physical media; you need to agree to the license to get to the bits on it.
Wait, lemme get this straight... I'm paying $40+ for a completely useless cd-rom? (Useless, because the physical media is absolutely worthless without access to the bits encoded on it)
Hmm.. Since the bits are physically encoded on the media, changing its structure, wouldn't they automatically be part of the "physical media"? How can the "physical media" possibly be separated from the part you agree to the license for?
I'll add another "YES" answer of the question of whether people actually back up their CDs. I don't have many places to play the music I've bought, and one of those places happens to be my computer. I have enough trouble with swapping out all the game CDs I own.. swapping music cds is even worse. So, I have a copy of pretty much every music CD I own in either MP3 or OGG format.
This has the bonus effect of allowing me to play music while playing games that require the CD to be in the drive even when they don't have any need for the CD.
I would have copies of the games I own as well, except that most of them are copy-protected. So if something happens to one of my game cds (like the roomate's monitor falling on my Diablo 2 play CD a few weeks ago when the cat knocked it over), I need to either track down a receipt and pray the store will replace it or go buy a new one. Pretty odd, since it is perfectly *legal* for me to make a backup copy of those CDs, and the EULA almost always explicitly gives me the right to do it!
Of course, that's why it would DEFINATELY be a good idea to make lots of lingerie, dresses, etc out of it.
Might be the next evolution to the "wet t-shirt" contest!
Works for me too, on a brief test, but I'm hearing lots of problem reports from some guides I know.
And, there's still the problem of Win95. Although I luckily don't have that problem (WinXP here), I don't like the idea of it just being brushed off... changing the system requirements for a product that's already been paid for is definately not the consumer's problem.
Excuse me?
I *specifically* mentioned NON-EXPANSION.
I did NOT buy a game with those system requirements. Sorry. That development is occuring later, AFTER THE PRODUCT IS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR.
I have not bought the expansion. I would not, (at least, now) because my system appears not to support it (although, the Luclin website very clearly places the Voodoo3 in the WORKING list of tested hardware).
I haven't bought anything without investigating the system requirements. Got any other attempts at brushing this off?
Umm, excuse me? As one of the people with one of those "obsolete" video cards, I do think this is Verant's problem. They released a game, with specific system requirements on it. I paid money for that game. I'm paying money on top of that to *play* the game. And now they're suddenly changing those requirements, with no choice provided for the people who already bought their product?
If the non-expansion game is no longer playable under the information that is listed on the box, that IS Verant's problem. I didn't buy a game that required a video card I don't have and lack money for.
At least the password isn't something really obscure, like 'myvoice'.
I don't see it saying anything about 50 pages/second from *one* machine.. it just says Slashdot, in general. If you assume that it means across all machines, and take into account that the pageviews ramped up from around 9:30, the calculation seems pretty much right on target.
Broadcast June 5, 1973
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
The entire speech is here.. some parts were cut for the version that has been going around for the last few years.
(thanks to gulopine, a reader of User Friendly, for the info)
The words still ring true, but are a bit dated. And the whole "only partial news coverage was given recently" bit is somewhat misleading...
Hmm.. well, NYT requires email, zip code, age, and sex. And they *could* relate the last three with the email address, if they really wanted.
Sure, you can make up that stuff. The account I use to read NYT articles was actually made that way, with a username and password that easily shows that I get most of my NYT links from Slashdot. But now I'm lying on the form, simply to avoid giving away information that I'd rather not give away.
You don't have to lie on Slashdot. You can view comments, and air your own opinions, on the anonymous account. If you choose to create an account, you don't have to work around anything that isn't required simply for security purposes.
I've got my own reasons for giving away what small amount of privacy I give away on this site. It has to do with taking responsibility for my own words, rather than voicing them from behind a faceless mask. From that viewpoint, registering on the NYT site simply to view the content is a very different thing altogether. I don't think that's at all hypocritical.
I find it extremely ironic that the people who complain about signing up for accounts at the NYT still have accounts here at Slashdot. I mean, what's the damn difference?
Sure, this is offtopic, but..
The difference is simple, really. Here at slashdot, you are not forced to give up your privacy in order to see the content. Even when you register for an account, you don't have to give away anything other than your email address, and that is only for passwords. Places that force you to give information, on the other hand, obviously place extra value on knowing who you are - value that they can sell to other people.
Personally, I think my privacy is worth a lot more than the amount it should/would cost to view the content on those kinds of sites if they were pay-per-view. You may not.. *shrug*
Slight correction: Gartner's analyst claimed (in the ZDNET article) that they asked what OS users had installed on new servers within a certain period.
Gartner reported (in their actual report) numbers of servers that were shipped.
It could have simply been bad wording in the report. If so, they haven't corrected it yet. The actual report speaks only of the amount of Linux installed on shipping servers, and says absolutely nothing about later installs.
Unless Gartner actually releases more information about their survey, it's impossible to know whether the problem was bad wording in the report or bad wording in the survey. Either way, I definately have doubts about the validity of the final numbers.
The comment you replied to asked you to read more closely... obviously, you didn't.
DAT machines, so you know, are equipped with a copyright bit that prevents more than 1 copy of copyrighted material, but it puts absolutely no limitation on copying your own stuff.
According to the article, analog input to his recorder was treated as copyrighted material. So, even though his wedding recordings are his own stuff, his machine won't allow him to copy it because it believes he doesn't have the right.
A large part of the problem, also, is that you often don't know the hardware is limited until you already own it and attempt to use it in a certain way. The companies don't advertise that their recorder won't allow you to make any further copies of something you record from analog... by the time you find out, you're stuck (unless you happen to have bought from a store with a really nice return policy). Sounds like a legit reason to complain to me.
Hmmm....
:)
} while(VA_Does_Not_Disclose_To_SEC || shares_left == 0)
So, does that mean that, once all the shares are sold, they continue selling shares regardless of whether VA discloses or not?
Didn't think they were selling non-existant shares!
The only Zbasic I know of was the CPM-based Zenith BASIC. Initially learned to program with that, a Heath-Zenith kit computer, and the huge, detailed BASIC manual from Zenith (loved that thing... everything I could ever want to know about the language). IIRC, it had trouble handling division and multiplication, but had most of the other features.
:)
Might not be the same one you mentioned, though.
From the agreement:
1. To pay for each installment of The Plant, and to pay each time you download it. Look at it this way: you couldn't go into a bookstore and say, "I bought a copy of The Street Lawyer in here yesterday, so give me four more for free today." Get it?
It sucks, but make sense at the same time. I'm sure it won't be too much trouble for me to save it on a disk or something if I want to keep it.
I don't think that even qualified as a flame. Any moron knows Photoshop isn't a Microsoft product.
'Sides, perhaps no one with moderator points has read this far down?
I really dont see how it would be possible to create an actual X server with perl.
Hey, be careful tossing around statements like that! You'll convince someone to actually try it, and lord knows what effect such a pointless project would have on the world's (already low) opinion of geek lives!
He had the decency to create an account and log in, therefore his score started at 1.
:)
No moderation involved. No anti-Microsoft bias involved. Yes, you too can have posts with a non-zero (and positive) score if you don't hide behind the Anonymous Coward log in.
Unless/until you post something stupid that gets you moderated downward, anyways. Then you can claim that your negative karma is due to the pro-Microsoft sentiment in your posts.
Ah, good 'ol CP/M. I still have a couple of CP/M games that, unfortunately, I haven't found a good emulator to run.
:-)
And why not bring back old gems like ZBASIC?
Hmm, this is almost making me want to pull out my old copy of Multimate.
www.kali.net
Nope, good 'ol Kali. Back in the old days when it was just a DOS application, before they put in all that fancy Windows stuff. I used to use it constantly for Descent, used it intermittently for Descent 2, and haven't used it since.
First sentence of the book:
:)
"Todd Griffith was going to debug Kali or die trying."
Heh, my first thought was of the time I spent so many years ago trying to get Descent working through Kali across a Compuserve connection...
You didn't read any information about it other than the Slashdot article, did ya? :)
The "persistant universe" isn't a MMORPG type of universe. It just means that while you're playing your game (on your own local computer) the entire game universe is actually in action (rather than just the area you're in). So while you're putzing around in one solar system, the computer characters are out arranging to hijack a shipment elsewhere...
My very first SVGA card was a #9 Vision 330, that card gave me an incredible jump in speed over the older Trident card I had been using until then (which wasn't a bad card itself, VGA card that thought it was a VESA SVGA card :)
:(
:(
When upgrades finally forced me into a motherboard that lacked a VLB slot, I switched over to an Imagine 128.. still a good card, though "The 11th Hour" wouldn't run on it until #9 sent me a new bios chip (which they did as soon as I called up and asked about the problem.. great service).
Unfortunately, my old roomates bought some Revolution 3D cards a while back, after hearing from me about my luck with the company so far... and they couldn't run any 2D or 3D games they wanted without severe graphics glitches. ick.
I still use my Imagine 128 (rev 2) though.. I have it in my dual-boot Linux/Windows box. Works great in Win98, but I still haven't found a way to make it work under X Windows. Redhat 6.1 supposedly has the driver for it, but every combination of options I've tried has only given me errors and dumped me back to the prompt. And I don't know enough about X configuration to modify the config myself..