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Re: Programming DOS games

Posted on 2015-06-24, 19:43

in Milliways
A couple things can happen after you begin to develop a solid C foundation: 1. You realize a large, modern project with a complex database and lots of scripting isn't very manageable in plain C when there's a deadline to meet, so you eventually move onto C++ and make your abode there. 2. You dare …

Re: Great video games you never played

Posted on 2015-06-24, 18:04

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Most of the popular pc games since 2001. I was so far behind in technology for so many years that it has been amazing discovering the joys of computing of the past two decades and catching up. Living in the mountains with dial up internet and no money for 10 years tends to destroy your perception …

Re: "Halt and Catch Fire" - AMC - starting June 1

Posted on 2015-06-22, 07:42

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Just watched an introduction to the series and....let's say I know my flesh well enough to tell with certainty that I'm only gravitating towards it because of the new wave/italo discoish music and a few terms and micros they flashed here and there. That's just part of being a helpless 80's junkie. …

Re: Microsoft Xiao Na, the flendly spy

Posted on 2015-06-22, 03:29

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I marvel at the kind of nonsense people can come up with when left to their own devices. The whole point was, Microsoft's representing 1.4 billion Asians with a yellow blob, that's all there's to it. As for the sodomites, let them repent of their wickedness and get right with God.

Re: "Halt and Catch Fire" - AMC - starting June 1

Posted on 2015-06-21, 22:14

in Milliways
I've not watched the show so I may not be able to judge rightly here, but it's very much a standard practice for TV shows and movies to display computers merely as props and have someone or something else drive them displays from behind because actors don't generally know how to operate computers. …

Re: Can you write protect a USB drive?

Posted on 2015-06-20, 22:29

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Can't you password protect them, and would that meet the need? That would prevent specific files from being modified by the user, but the drive as a whole would still be open to viral infection, deletion and corruption under virtually any environment (if you can fire up and hex editor and navigate …

Re: SATA question

Posted on 2015-06-20, 21:53

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If the drive is not recognized, than how could the install even start? How could you get to the point of installing drivers? That's the plug n' play way of doing things. Back before it was commonplace, you just installed the driver, rebooted and hoped it would pick up whatever fresh device happened …

Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2015-06-19, 23:13

I don't see a problem with interlaced CRT simulation as long as your monitor can handle the lower brightness that will result from rendering the image with scanlines, so that rules out any display technology with the honorable exception of crt's, lpd's and oled's. Here's something I played around …

Re: What is the oldest non-PC technology that you still use?

Posted on 2015-06-19, 17:55

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Taking non-PC to mean "not a computer or computer related", I'd say I don't really have all that many things from the past still operating today. There's a Sony FH100W interfaced with generic, modular Philips audio equipment. TV's I've got some, all CRT's and all of them serving there duty …

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