>>Question: I thought that the hobbyist program had been
>>slowed to a ... standstill
>> John A.
>
>...I'm thinking the problem people are having is getting their Encompass
>(DECUS) memberships....
> Zane
More or less true for me. I have hit the "Register" website twice, first
time in February. I must exist there, I got the March "Quadwords"
(hardcopy) newsletter, but no response email and no membership number so
far. No real problem, since no time to fool with the Hobbyist VAX at the
moment, but if I were in a hurry I'd be a little frustrated. But if I were
in a hurry I'd probably have called or emailed someone about it, which may
work better.
- Mark
Hi,
cafe.ambrosiasw.com used to have Mac network games. It is no longer
available. The link suggests
http://www.macledge.com/netgames/netgames/ but that site says
"opening again shortly." Hmmm.
Is that a long shortly or a short shortly?
Yuh can't lurk forever...
Greetings to Paul Braun!
Steve C.
Williston, ND
In case anyone wants to take a look ... I shot a couple of quick
pictures of these huge IBM disk drives and stuck them:
http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdiscfront.JPGhttp://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdisccu.JPGhttp://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdiscback.JPG
No good reference for scale, but they are about 4' long X 2' dia
and weigh approx 140 pounds [that's not including the motor & belt drive
visable in picture 1]. These were mounted as pictured [upright], 2 to a
cabinet, the motors were mounted above the drives and ran a 1.5" width
belt down to the drive pulley. I can hardly beliefe these are circa
1985!
Cheers, Craig
Charlie,
I have the small tape reader that attaches to the side of the Model 33.
Unused, in the box, yours for the asking (although a swap for something
useful is always nice). Contact me off-list.
Arlen Michaels
amichael(a)nortelnetworks.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles E. Fox [SMTP:foxvideo@wincom.net]
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 11:53 AM
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: NEC APC TU001 Memory boards
>
>
>
> We are trying to get an APC operational, and would like to ask if
>
> anyone has a couple of the optional memory expansion boards that they
> would
> part with for a reasonable price?
> Also, does anyone know where I could track down a tape punch and
> reader for a Model 33 Teletype?
> Thanks
> Charlie Fox
> Chas E. Fox Video Productions
> 793 Argyle Rd. Windsor ON N8Y 3J8
> foxvideo(a)wincom.net
> Check out:
> Camcorder Kindergarten at http://chasfoxvideo.com
>
> How did you come to write games for the 9845 anyway? Did you sell them?
> It's not exactly the most popular game platform.
Well, this friend and I worked at NASA JSC. We were shuttle flight
controllers in the early STS days, including STS-1. (You should see
my collection of stuff from the first shuttle flight!) In our off hours, we
played with the 9845, writing games: lunar landing simulator (which I
did rewrite into C++ and still play), submarine search and destroy
(which I rewrote and was published by Broderbund Software as
"Search and Destroy", car race, solitaire, blackjack, Star Trek, GREAT
baseball and 1-on-1 basketball games, and several others. FAR better
than anything on the market in the early 80s. (Of course, that's the
advantage of having a $70,000 machine at your disposal!)
Never sold them. I left NASA in '82 (to come to Boeing) and
interviewed an HP rep from Corvallis, showed her all the great stuff.
Her response: "Outstanding! How about coming to work for us and
writing aero engineer software for wind tunnel testing and such?"
No thanks.
> And do you have any other fun toys in your collection? I'm being nosy since
> we're both in Seattle.
Actually, I do have an *original* IBM PC. March 82, 48k motherboard
(not the later 64k), SINGLE side 160K floppy, Amdek color monitor.
And some games I wrote for that. I'm heartbroken that I threw out my
original DOS 1.0 disks/book back in about '84, when DOS 2.1 came
out. (I do still have all the 2.1 disks & books.)
So, if anyone knows where I could beg, borrow, or steal a DOS 1.0...
;-}
BTW, my wife's uncle still has his original IBM PC Jr, complete with
chicklet keyboard. Gonna half to try to scam him out of that.
> BtW, whenever I try to mail to RebelTerry(a)home.net, I get a message saying
> "Relaying denied". I have to use tlb55(a)home.net instead.
No idea what's going on there. Relaying bumps usually happen when
the sender tries going through the wrong SMTP server. Don't know
why the other would work.
> P.S. If the BASIC listing uses keywords in optional ROMs, and the working
> machine doesn't have those ROMs, what happens when you try to print out the
> listing?
Good question....
Thanks.
RT
Fixing my domain name again back to ptloma.edu -- hope this works.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
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Just making sure this is getting through -- my domain name has changed
to floodgap.com (though stockholm.ptloma.edu will still work for some
time).
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From: M.Buckett <M.Buckett(a)dcs.hull.ac.uk>
>> >>For a while I had a parallel port webcam running of a 386sx20 with
4MB> >>of RAM and it ran Windows 95. While it was slow it did get the
job
>> >
>> >The catch with using w95 regardless of speed, it that for many cases
its
>> >the only game in town if you want network services, ie winsocket etc.
>>
>>
>> Huh? What about linux, freebsd, and friends.?
>
>Drivers for the webcam (Creative Webcam 1) only really existed for
Windows 95.
>A linux driver is about on the net but it looks pretty beta.
Understood. Though the W95 version sounds beta too. That the biggest
problem with W9x systems, apps and drivers (other than the base ones
supplied) are often pretty poor. Under Win/NT4 I've had my pain with
tape and video drivers plus the usual apps that leak memory.
Allison
Another one I remember is Spectre VR, a now-defunct 3-d tank game that's been around for awhile...I remember that there was a shareware or freeware version that was single-player only, but the commercial version supported many networked players as long as each had a unique serial number registered. Should run fine on just about any color Mac -- it fits on a floppy and is pretty streamlined as 3d games go. Any Hacks N' Cracks database or other decent serial number compilation will have plenty of serial numbers for you to use.
Another good one, but probably too processor-intensive for the really old Macs, is Terminal Velocity. Also defunct. This was an easy-to-play flight simulator type game with nice graphics and sound.
There's also Marathon, which has been around awhile, but may be again too new for the older machines. It's also a good bit more involved -- probably too hard for very young kids to get into.
Good luck, HTH...
-- MB
I just tried to look up a Quantum drive on their site and could not find the
archives any more. Certainly the links produced by a Google search for mthe
drive are either dead or redirected to their index page.
Is this another company which has just decided to remove all of their
historic documents or am I looking in the wrong place?
--
Regards
Pete
