Geez, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you guys...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Van Burnham [SMTP:van@wired.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 1998 12:26 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: RE: Warez?? Was: Re: James Willings still up?
>
> AAAAAAAAH. Wrongo. Try again.
>
>
> Or was that a little joke??
>
> van
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Christian Fandt [SMTP:cfandt@servtech.com]
> >> Sent: Friday, April 17, 1998 9:10 AM
> >> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> >> Subject: Warez?? Was: Re: James Willings still up?
> >>
> >> Forgive me for not knowing what _might_ be common knowledge amongst
> some
> >> folks here, but what is this "warez" thing??
> >>
> >Warez (pronounced "war-ehs" is an infamous village in southern Mexico
> that
> >was once a training camp for CIA counter-insurgency computer terrorism
> >recruits. Furnished with the highest end computer hacking equipment by
> the
> >US Government, under the direction of Oliver North, they went rogue when
> the
> >program was discontinued during the Iran-Contra scandal. After their
> >payroll was cut, the village, ironically, hired itself out to
> international
> >terrorist concerns to perform paid attacks on US commerce. This
> situation
> >was exacerbated by an abortive attempt to invade Warez by Puerto Rican
> >commandos under the direction of the US military in 1997. This has since
> >been known as the "Bay of Warez" disaster.
> >
> >Kai
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Fandt [SMTP:cfandt@servtech.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 1998 9:10 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Warez?? Was: Re: James Willings still up?
>
> Forgive me for not knowing what _might_ be common knowledge amongst some
> folks here, but what is this "warez" thing??
>
Warez (pronounced "war-ehs" is an infamous village in southern Mexico that
was once a training camp for CIA counter-insurgency computer terrorism
recruits. Furnished with the highest end computer hacking equipment by the
US Government, under the direction of Oliver North, they went rogue when the
program was discontinued during the Iran-Contra scandal. After their
payroll was cut, the village, ironically, hired itself out to international
terrorist concerns to perform paid attacks on US commerce. This situation
was exacerbated by an abortive attempt to invade Warez by Puerto Rican
commandos under the direction of the US military in 1997. This has since
been known as the "Bay of Warez" disaster.
Kai
I just picked up a Sharp PC 7000. it's one of those lunch box sized
portables with a LCD screen on one side and a fold up keyboard. This thing
has a built-in real time clock. Does anyone have the software to read the
clock and load the time into DOS?
Joe
>EMP - ElectroMagnetic Pulses. This is the electrical wave that is the
result
>of a nuclear detonation. Vacuum tubes aren't the only way to "harden" a
>curcuit against this. The usual and practical way to protect against this
is
>to armor the electronics and all connecting cables. I worked with the Short
>range Attack Missile (SRAM), Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM), Sea
>Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM) and Advanced Cruise Missile (ACM) for many
>years. I'm all too familiar with using a megohm meter to check resistance
>between the body and covers of equipment made to protect against EMP.
Vacuum
>tubes are good at a distance.
Anyone seen Goldeneye? ;-) So that part about the MiG's crashing and that
helicopter not... fake?
>> I wouldn't care to run a business with a Russian built computer though...
>
>I'm starting to wonder about Taiwan made as well....
Just as Max can vouch for the USSR, I can/cannot for Taiwan. They've got
good heads on their shoulders, but they think that it's American not to use
them. That will be their downfall.
Tim D. Hotze
Tim D. Hotze said:
>Well? How DO you program Nintendo games. Do you need to compile?
>Or is it more like BASIC? Is it done in any specific language?
> Just asking...
The NES (unless I still half asleep) executes 6502 code. The Super NES
is 65816. I think the GameBoy is Z80 (I've never programmed on it).
And the N64 uses a 4000 series MIPS processor (4300 or 4400 I'm not
sure)(I've never programmed it either).
You could write code in 'C' if you have a cross compiler. On the N64, I'll bet
that most of the programming is done in 'C' (maybe 99%) because there you are
using Libraries that handle all of the low level stuff.
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Sunnyvale,CA
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Well? How DO you program Nintendo games. Do you need to compile? Or is it
more like BASIC? Is it done in any specific language?
Just asking...
Tim D. Hotze
If you are looking into a future of programming video games then check out
www.digipen.com (I think that is it). I visited them once and was very
impressed.
-Enrique!
<Check out this entry I found on the web for a PAPERBACK book:
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<Programming the 6502 Computer by Zaks, Rodney Sybex, Berkely, CA 1978
<pbk near fine/ 305 p.8.5x5.3x.8 ISBN 0895880091 shelf wear otw clean
<tight bright no defects (Keywords: rodney zaks programming 6502 micro
<computer manual) The price of the book is US$ 153.00
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<The seller is Bennie R Warden - Bookseller
<39 S Alhambra , Port St Lucie, FL, U.S.A., 34952-2832.
<benwarden(a)earthlink.net. Ph: 561 878-9645. Terms of sale: Ten day
<Reserve by E-Mail or Telephone. Sorry, No Credit Cards at this
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I have that one and the follow on applications books. That means my set
is worth more. The guy is smoking something. Mine still have the labels
>from when I bought them new and they look new none were over 13$.
Allison
