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Re: Borland "abandonware" gets an implicit stamp of approval

Posted on Yesterday, 15:10

in Milliways
... oh and i was just thinking of all the libraries i have had for TP and Delphi, open source, free and commercial coming through on disks and online in the days when TP in particular was still popular (never quite like QB but it had its scene in the 90's online). The 'swag' collection in particular …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on Yesterday, 14:39

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My younger sisters had that Barbie game and they loved how they can make clothes for their dolls. It was a very impressive piece of software for it's time. When focussed on FPS, RTS, RPG and other games we can forget that in the game dev world there could be just as much skill and innovation in the …

Re: office suites and business software

Posted on Yesterday, 14:36

Your collection is quite impressive—it's like having a mini-museum of office technology! I still find offline spreadsheets useful, too. i still have a couple of old PCs specifically set up with 'office' and other productivity software, it was possible once to accumulate lots from magazine cover …

Re: Borland "abandonware" gets an implicit stamp of approval

Posted on Yesterday, 10:07

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A few of my Turbo Pascal and Delphi books had shipped with free copies of Borland Pascal 7, Delphi 3 Pro and Delphi 7 Personal. These were no demo versions, whatsoever. Delphi 1 was also included at one point, I vaguely remember. So I guess that Borland was cool about old versions. yes, not just …

Re: CP/M now Open Source

Posted on 2024-04-23, 09:29

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Quick update. The Z80 is reaching EOL (end of life). Zilog wants it to retire this year. https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C00.pdf The Z80 was important in many ways, including to CP/M. While CP/M-80 was using pure i8080 instructions, the famous Turbo Pascal wasn't. It made use of the …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 09:17

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I loaded Linux Mint onto a flash drive, and I've been running the live version for most of the day. I still think it's stupid that Linux needs hacks to turn Num Lock on at boot (Lubuntu 22.04 has the option in its settings, but the other distros I've tried didn't), but I guess someone had a reason …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-19, 08:25

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Well, the current human reference genome is under 1GB when compressed, so you should be able to store yours for around the same amount. Should work for a few old games, but we don't have enough DNA to store the bloat of a modern AAA game. i guess that could be because dna is an instruction set of …

Re: Is it my really my nostalgia or are you playing it wrong…

Posted on 2024-04-19, 08:15

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What annoys me, is when a game (or a TV Show etc) was the first or among the first to do a certain thing, which contributed hugely to it's popularity, BUT was copied ever after, such that it is a cliche, and now people hate on the original for being .... unoriginal. this is a good observation and …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-17, 11:19

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Even games from GOG that you can download won't be playable forever since newer OS can break them and old hardware will die. Any game big enough to have DRM will have a group crack it sooner or later. somehow the prospect of eventual hardware, vm and OS problems disabling software doesn't seem as …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-15, 11:23

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as a rule i would think of everything that relies on being online as being rented - even if its a hardware system that wont work unless it downloads periodic updates or 'phones home' to function really, there are enough films, music, games and so on that are outside of the 'rental' conditions, i can …

Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?

Posted on 2024-04-15, 11:12

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as a side note - remember how we all watched movies over braodcast tv onto relatively small CRT tvs back before larger TVs came along in the later 90's (and well before 'hd' and led). I think the brain makes up somewhat for a shortfalls in actual detail often I remember this! :D I've watched quite …

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