Re: Book Recommendations
Posted on 2015-07-22, 22:16
You could get some of the earlier books like "Tricks of the game-programming gurus" How about "The Black Book of Graphics Programming"
Re: the end of optical media
Posted on 2015-07-22, 22:14
Well shoot, what are people like myself going to do who have only CD players in their cars? lol Well there will still be other brands available - TDK, Imation - but T/Y used the original dies and were the most compatible. I still have old CD-R writers (not DVD writers that also write CDs) and they …
Re: the end of optical media
Posted on 2015-07-22, 20:35
The only bad thing I can say about dvd media is the time it takes to burn the disks. I have spent many weekends shoving disks into a machine every 20 minutes 🙁
Re: the end of optical media
Posted on 2015-07-22, 20:02
Personally.... I think we as a society are going down the wrong path with storage. I want to own an actual copy of my music CD-ROMs. Same for movies. We are moving away from having physical hard copies of things. Sure external hard drives have their uses - and I am warming up to them. But I would …
Re: Commodore 64 revival (warning, wall of pics)
Posted on 2015-07-22, 19:37
I followed the whole "new cases" thing on Lemon 64 - and he really did manufacture new cases in red, white, and blue colors. I honestly did not think it was really going to happen.
the end of optical media
Posted on 2015-07-22, 19:23
Not exactly brand new news but relatively recent.... taiyo yuden/JVC announced they are stopping production of optical media at the end of 2015 This is truly the end of an era. They pioneered the CD-R and made disks for many manufacturers. Many of the Sony disks I used with my first 2X cd-burner …
Re: US Navy still using XP.
Posted on 2015-06-28, 14:06
I gotta say it..... All this talk about XP not being secure? In what, way, specifically? All I have heard is how the sky is falling because XP is not secure. No one has ever explained in what way. Is it really that hard to make an OS secure? They could not fix it? I really do not KNOW but I have a …
Re: Programming DOS games
Posted on 2015-06-24, 18:28
Have you through about straight assembly? I have not even come close to writing a complete game, but I have got so far as moving blocks around on the screen in assembly.
Re: Programming DOS games
Posted on 2015-06-24, 18:27
Forget about BASIC - seriously. Well, I take that back - it depends on what kind of game you are doing. If you need fast-action, there is no way BASIC is going to cut it.
Re: SATA question
Posted on 2015-06-21, 01:03
Re: SATA question
Posted on 2015-06-20, 21:25
I give up. May as well junk a computer after three years and get a new one - that's what they want you to do
SATA question
Posted on 2015-06-20, 19:44
I know I have asked questions about SATA before but..... I have an ASUS A7V600... I know that is a SATA I controller. I was looking at using a western digital black 500. Will it work? I looked up the documentation on WDs site and they do give instructions on how to jumper it for SATA I. Apparently …
Microsoft Chicago
Posted on 2015-05-15, 21:49
Earlier this week I started browsing some sites on GUIs and found several references to Chiacgo - the development codename for windows 95. I did not now this but there are sites with screenshots form some of the earlier versions, as well as links to the actual versions. For some strange reason I …
dell precision
Posted on 2015-04-14, 21:28
Inspired by the thread I saw in system specs about finding a dell t3400, I got curious about them. Had one at work and checked it out. I really do like the case. Did some reading. First I looked on Ebay - a lot of those were being sold without hard-drive or OS.... not a problem I suppose as long as …
Re: The Death Throes of Radio Shack
Posted on 2015-04-10, 21:27
Here is the story from my perspective. I live in a BS county where the whole county population is ~100,000. The city I live in is probably only ~25,000. We had *two* radio shack stores, Furthermore, a one-stoplight town 25 minutes away also had a store. Point is, they had *way* too many stores, If …
Re: Best ISA Soundblaster
Posted on 2015-03-31, 11:49
Definitely AWE64 gold (IMHO)
Re: Socket 7 system stability issues
Posted on 2015-03-31, 11:46
RAM would be my first suspicion. Are the chips the same model number from the same manufacturer? I would try different RAM, see what happens. At least, take out one and see what happens.
Re: Windows xp experiment
Posted on 2015-03-28, 23:24
UPDATE.... well I played with it a bit more... let it do all the updates. I tried the most recent graphics driver version, but no improvement... I think the graphics card is just too old. I would call this a "successful failure"... in a way it did give me a more updated system than what I had with …
Re: Windows xp experiment
Posted on 2015-03-24, 12:09
I'd like someone to explain to me WHY people keep trying to browse the internet on outdated computers, and then wonder why it doesn't work. this notion that the internet should not change in its 20+ year life is baffling. Now if you CAN'T acquire a more modern machine, I'm sorry, but other than …
Re: Windows xp experiment
Posted on 2015-03-23, 22:54
Processor is an Athlon XP 2400+ with 2 gigabytes of RAM. Not exactly a slouch system. But I guess by modern standards.....
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