Prior Art: Adams, Douglas M., "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", segment dealing with "...splitting the check in a bistro...", forerunner to invention of "Drive, Improbability" type, space-time propulsion.
1) Format using 1541. This will put 174K of data on the bottom side of a DSDD floppy. 2) Manually edit the Block Allocation Map (BAM) to map out ALL tracks/sectors between 0 and 17, leaving track 18 (the BAM) and 19-35 for the 64 program and data (I figure about 82K will be free). 3) Write 64 stuff to disk. 4) Pop disk into PC drive, and either use a custom utility, or just use the FORMAT command specifying that only tracks out to 17 be formatted (FORMAT A:/T:17/N:9). This allows BOTH sides of the disk to be formatted up to track 17, giving you about 180K to play with. Given the lousy graphics on PCs at the time, this is all you really need. This WILL NOT overwrite any 1541 formatting, since the BAM sits at track 18, and the FAT sits at track 0. 5) write PC stuff to disk. 6) PROFIT!
Another person above wondered if the 1541 had an auto-remap of bad sectors... NOPE. A bad disk/sector would trigger the "headbanger" routine, and the format would fail. In fact, the reason the 1541 was so slow at formatting (about 2 minutes for 174K) was that it would write the track, then read it back to verify, update the BAM, then go back to do the next track. Fastload cartridges bypassed the verify and BAM routines, and could do the same thing in under 30 seconds.
Seriously, am I the only one here who read "Inside 1541 DOS" by Immers and Neufeld?
At the station, we had a box in the back full of magnets, coil ballasts, additives, mothballs, and some strange gizmo even I couldn't figure out what they were trying to do. All crap. They were either pulled from customers' cars (to make them work again) or given to us to put on cars by sales drones.
Now, we have this thing. I'm no physicist, at least one with a college degree, but I see one really big problem with this method. A bottleneck. Specifically, an injector. This is the exact same problem that is inherent in the design of the "Tornado"®. Sure, it'll spin the air into a neato vortex, but that vortex goes to hell (in a handbasket) once it tries to maneuver through the intake manifold, and you're right back to laminar flow. Well, it looked good on paper (and TV).
So, let's look at the fuel situation, shall we? Let's shall!
Fuel gets pumped up to the fuel rail(s), and into the injector(s), where it gets sprayed into the combustion chamber(s). {Note: The plurals take into account whether you've got TBI or MPFI.} You apparently attach this thing BEFORE it gets to the injector. Let that sink in for a moment - BEFORE the injector. Sure, the molecules are having their neutron polarity reversed (or whatever the hell they're claiming), but those molecules are now going to get crammed back together in the small amount of time it's waiting for the computer to tell the injector to fire. An eight cylinder engine has a longer time between firings than a four-banger, but compensating for amount of fuel capacity between the device and the injector, speed of engine, and amount of fuel being metered, this may be as long a a second or two. Remember the LA riots? The police would break up the crowd, only to have them reorganize somewhere else. Exact same effect. You're doing your thing before the injector, but after the processed fuel gets another block down the street, it's back to being an angry mob. And heaven help you if the car is Korean.
Now, if this device were to be incorporated into the injector's NOZZLE, they may have something. Or, maybe, just have the refineries put a big one on the output valve of their pipeline so we won't need to put small ones on each injector in every car on the planet.
If you need to extend the time required, then try:
Rubberband the drive between two Polar Packs® before placing into the freezer. These packs are used in shipping perishable goods (my uncle is diabetic, and these are used for the insulin, but an order placed with Omaha Steaks will get you something like them). Thawed, they will feel like Jello®, and will mold themselves to the shape of the drive. Be sure to have the connectors sticking out, or you'll have to do all this over again. Once the whole thing is frozen, you'll have an extra running time of about an hour or so.
The only drawback is condensation, but if you keep the bags clean, the condensate should be mineral-free, and not cause a problem.
She's still using the RS-232 adaptor I built (got over 4400 baud on my 64 using Bob's Term Pro!).
To whoever's counting, I still cruise around using my Amiga 4K, but to get sites to display properly, I have to send out a string telling them I've got IE 5.x instead of iBrowse or Voyager. This makes it hard for the Beeb, or anyone else, to compile accurate stats.
Then again, if they used standard HTML, then I wouldn't have to spoof things...
So, put me down for an Amiga 4K (iBrowse, Voyager, and AWeb), two Linux boxes (Seamonkey and Konquerer), and an old laptop running Win98SE (Seamonkey).
It keeps the water hot in a tank (like your water heater), and is pushed through the basket (grounds) when cold water is added (like your water heater). One full pot in about two minutes.
They cost a bit more (the last one I picked up was just under $100), but are well worth it.
banzai
The good old days... still!
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Yeah, my Amiga 4000 ('040/25) can still pop up web pages faster than most PCs, email, play mp3s, and the like. Let's see ANY 486/33 (or Mac 040s) make that claim. If you look at where we've been, you'll see everything we're doing now either started or was sharpened/perfected on the Amy. I've even heard that Dave Haynie had been developing a controller that would use a "serial scsi" protocol, allow daisy-chaining of, maybe, 256 devices, and be hot swappable. Sound familiar? Nowadays, we'd call it "USB". Dave was working on his version in 1993/94 - years before USB got rolling.
What ticks me off is that all these companies that buy Amiga IP simply don't have a clue what to do with it. Yes, Gateway had it for a while (my guess is they wanted an easy "home multimedia center", but couldn't get their heads outta their as^H^H Windows), but dropped the boing ball.
This was the same mentality that Sierra had. They were so used to doing things the DOS way, that the total concept of multi-tasking escaped them. Amigans stopped buying their games, and Sierra (instead of learning how to program) dropped Amiga titles. Many others followed suit. I found lots of brilliant UK and European programmers as a result, though.
Believe it or not, I rarely play games (even Bill Gates refered to Amigas as "just a game machine"). I have still to find a program that does what Softlogik's PageStream does (for the money). Until I do, my A4K is still a fast and fun platform, 11 years old and aging well...
The voters of CA booted out one Gov, and elected an actor (the second one, IIRC), and now they're pissed because the MPAA is authoring the AG's letters?
Hmmm...
Ask, and ye shall recieve!
Not saying we're any better, but our Gov (http://www.michigan.gov/gov) is MUCH better looking!
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Prior Art: Adams, Douglas M., "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", segment dealing with "...splitting the check in a bistro...", forerunner to invention of "Drive, Improbability" type, space-time propulsion.
banzai
Man, I really miss that guy...
{Sigh}
Okay, folks, here's how you do it...
1) Format using 1541. This will put 174K of data on the bottom side of a DSDD floppy. /T:17 /N:9). This allows BOTH sides of the disk to be formatted up to track 17, giving you about 180K to play with. Given the lousy graphics on PCs at the time, this is all you really need. This WILL NOT overwrite any 1541 formatting, since the BAM sits at track 18, and the FAT sits at track 0.
2) Manually edit the Block Allocation Map (BAM) to map out ALL tracks/sectors between 0 and 17, leaving track 18 (the BAM) and 19-35 for the 64 program and data (I figure about 82K will be free).
3) Write 64 stuff to disk.
4) Pop disk into PC drive, and either use a custom utility, or just use the FORMAT command specifying that only tracks out to 17 be formatted (FORMAT A:
5) write PC stuff to disk.
6) PROFIT!
Another person above wondered if the 1541 had an auto-remap of bad sectors... NOPE. A bad disk/sector would trigger the "headbanger" routine, and the format would fail. In fact, the reason the 1541 was so slow at formatting (about 2 minutes for 174K) was that it would write the track, then read it back to verify, update the BAM, then go back to do the next track. Fastload cartridges bypassed the verify and BAM routines, and could do the same thing in under 30 seconds.
Seriously, am I the only one here who read "Inside 1541 DOS" by Immers and Neufeld?
banzai "Bam-Bam" kai
Agreed! As a former mechanic, I can immediately call "Bullshit!"©.
At the station, we had a box in the back full of magnets, coil ballasts, additives, mothballs, and some strange gizmo even I couldn't figure out what they were trying to do. All crap. They were either pulled from customers' cars (to make them work again) or given to us to put on cars by sales drones.
Now, we have this thing. I'm no physicist, at least one with a college degree, but I see one really big problem with this method. A bottleneck. Specifically, an injector. This is the exact same problem that is inherent in the design of the "Tornado"®. Sure, it'll spin the air into a neato vortex, but that vortex goes to hell (in a handbasket) once it tries to maneuver through the intake manifold, and you're right back to laminar flow. Well, it looked good on paper (and TV).
So, let's look at the fuel situation, shall we? Let's shall!
Fuel gets pumped up to the fuel rail(s), and into the injector(s), where it gets sprayed into the combustion chamber(s). {Note: The plurals take into account whether you've got TBI or MPFI.} You apparently attach this thing BEFORE it gets to the injector. Let that sink in for a moment - BEFORE the injector. Sure, the molecules are having their neutron polarity reversed (or whatever the hell they're claiming), but those molecules are now going to get crammed back together in the small amount of time it's waiting for the computer to tell the injector to fire. An eight cylinder engine has a longer time between firings than a four-banger, but compensating for amount of fuel capacity between the device and the injector, speed of engine, and amount of fuel being metered, this may be as long a a second or two. Remember the LA riots? The police would break up the crowd, only to have them reorganize somewhere else. Exact same effect. You're doing your thing before the injector, but after the processed fuel gets another block down the street, it's back to being an angry mob. And heaven help you if the car is Korean.
Now, if this device were to be incorporated into the injector's NOZZLE, they may have something. Or, maybe, just have the refineries put a big one on the output valve of their pipeline so we won't need to put small ones on each injector in every car on the planet.
banzai
Bullshit!© is a copyrighted title of Showtime! Networks.
Tornado® just sucks balls.
If you need to extend the time required, then try:
Rubberband the drive between two Polar Packs® before placing into the freezer. These packs are used in shipping perishable goods (my uncle is diabetic, and these are used for the insulin, but an order placed with Omaha Steaks will get you something like them). Thawed, they will feel like Jello®, and will mold themselves to the shape of the drive. Be sure to have the connectors sticking out, or you'll have to do all this over again. Once the whole thing is frozen, you'll have an extra running time of about an hour or so.
The only drawback is condensation, but if you keep the bags clean, the condensate should be mineral-free, and not cause a problem.
Sounds like an Instructable is in the works...
Actually, she lives in South Australia http://gaelyne.com/index.php, and has written for Linux Journal!
She's still using the RS-232 adaptor I built (got over 4400 baud on my 64 using Bob's Term Pro!).
To whoever's counting, I still cruise around using my Amiga 4K, but to get sites to display properly, I have to send out a string telling them I've got IE 5.x instead of iBrowse or Voyager. This makes it hard for the Beeb, or anyone else, to compile accurate stats.
Then again, if they used standard HTML, then I wouldn't have to spoof things...
So, put me down for an Amiga 4K (iBrowse, Voyager, and AWeb), two Linux boxes (Seamonkey and Konquerer), and an old laptop running Win98SE (Seamonkey).
banzai
Gaelyne's whippin' boy
Then, my friend, you'll be wanting the Bunn-o-matic® Home Brew System http://www.bunnomatic.com/retail/products/products_index.html!
It keeps the water hot in a tank (like your water heater), and is pushed through the basket (grounds) when cold water is added (like your water heater). One full pot in about two minutes.
They cost a bit more (the last one I picked up was just under $100), but are well worth it.
banzai
What ticks me off is that all these companies that buy Amiga IP simply don't have a clue what to do with it. Yes, Gateway had it for a while (my guess is they wanted an easy "home multimedia center", but couldn't get their heads outta their as^H^H Windows), but dropped the boing ball.
This was the same mentality that Sierra had. They were so used to doing things the DOS way, that the total concept of multi-tasking escaped them. Amigans stopped buying their games, and Sierra (instead of learning how to program) dropped Amiga titles. Many others followed suit. I found lots of brilliant UK and European programmers as a result, though.
Believe it or not, I rarely play games (even Bill Gates refered to Amigas as "just a game machine"). I have still to find a program that does what Softlogik's PageStream does (for the money). Until I do, my A4K is still a fast and fun platform, 11 years old and aging well...
A4000 040/25 24MBram 2.5GBhd OS3.9 iBrowse YAM
A2000 030/25 9MBram 540MBhd OS3.1
3-A500s, 2-A1000s, 1-A600, 1-CDTV
(Don't get me started on the 8-bitters!)
The voters of CA booted out one Gov, and elected an actor (the second one, IIRC), and now they're pissed because the MPAA is authoring the AG's letters?
Hmmm...
Ask, and ye shall recieve!
Not saying we're any better, but our Gov (http://www.michigan.gov/gov) is MUCH better looking!