Hi
The other thing is that a 20 year old box will
not hold together all that well. Even in a good
environment, the bonding breaks down. I have
one large box that is the original and I wouldn't
consider it safe to ship in that box( 1978 ).
Dwight
>From: "Chad Fernandez" <fernande(a)internet1.net>
>
>One of the reasons that I stopped using UPS is because the lady at the
>counter always made it sound like she was doing me a favor for allowing
>me to ship a computer in something other than it's original box. I
>explained to her that the box had been thrown away in the early 80's.
>
>Chad Fernandez
>Michigan, USA
>
Hi
DOS has an irritating feature when asked to format
a disk. If track 0 is partially readable it will
fail to format, even if you use the /u option.
I've been moving data from one machine to another
and the source machine has a flaky drive. It sometimes
trashes track 0.
I've found that the only way to get around this problem
is to wipe the disk with a strong magnet.
Why can't it just try to format first and then check
track 0. Why must it fail to format because track 0
is partially readable when I specifically asked it
to unconditionally format?
Dwight
> It's amazing that NOBODY has written a Star Trek Game
> for current computers that let's you just explore the
> Galaxy, fight Klingons if you like, but just have
> fun...
I guess you mean EXCEPT for the whole run of *actual* Star Trek games
available for Windows? Or are those too "shoot-em up" for what you are
thinking of?
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
The company I work for uses Airborne/DHL and I've had no problem with them. Minor issues, but that's to be expected. I'm happy with them and there's a station nearby.
UPS sucks. They beat the shit out of packages. I've mentioned in previous threads about crushed boxes I've got from them.
USPS is ok, but the post office nearby is always busy. Averages 12 people in line all the time it seems. Getting through there is slow since the employees do not know what speed of service is.
I'm happy to have discovered Fedex ground. Heck of a lot cheaper sending large/heavy goods than USPS. I use it when sending out ebay goods.
>> UPS's response... "Oh, well, if we can't find them in the system, then we
>> can't track them. Are you sure you shipped them?" Upside... at least they
>> never tried to charge me for the missing packs.
>
>So why did you walk off without tracking numbers?!
I had tracking numbers. These were all packages created with the UPS
shipping software in my office (software UPS provides to you free if you
ask for it). I then walked the packs a few doors down and dropped them
off at the UPS Drop Box in front of the local printing place. Something I
had done many times in the past without issue.
I gave them tracking numbers for the packages, and they said they had no
record of those numbers in the system at all. An online tracking yielded
the same results (so at least the rep wasn't lying to me).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Actually, a Star Trek game for Windows does exist:
http://andy3ware.com/startrek/download.htm
I haven't played it in a while, but I remember it was pretty good.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 8:27 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Re: Any one remember...?
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:48:25 -0800 (PST), Al Hartman
<alhartman(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> I also miss all the Star Trek like games, like Time
> Trek, Super Star Trek and Star Trek 3.5.
>
> It's amazing that NOBODY has written a Star Trek Game
> for current computers that let's you just explore the
> Galaxy, fight Klingons if you like, but just have
> fun...
Someone has ported one of the Classic BASIC Trek programs to Inform,
so it runs on anything that has a Z-Machine (PalmOS, Frotz, etc...)
bin at http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/ztrek.z5
source at http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/inform/ztrek.inf
And I remember running across a rendered 3Dish implementation of a
Trek game for Windoze boxes, but I don't remember what it was called.
-ethan
From: dittman(a)dittman.net (Eric Dittman)
> > I'd be interested to hear about your experiences
with
> > this board. Do you like it?
> All I've done is play around a bit. With the column
of keys
> inoperative I can't do much until I fix it.
> Too bad you lost the literature. I'd love to find
out more
> about it. Was it ever advertised or written about
in "80
> Micro"?
It may have been. I lost all my 80-Micro Magazines
too...
I seem to remember it being reviewed at least once.
> I find that some of the old games on the TRS-80 are
more fun
> than games I see on today's consoles and PCs. There
was more
> emphasis on gameplay back then.
I know..
My sister and I used to play "Galaxy Invasion" for
HOURS...
I also miss all the Star Trek like games, like Time
Trek, Super Star Trek and Star Trek 3.5.
It's amazing that NOBODY has written a Star Trek Game
for current computers that let's you just explore the
Galaxy, fight Klingons if you like, but just have
fun...
EGA Trek on PC's was cool. Shame he never continued
developing that...
As for the Trash Compactor Info...
Someday as I go through old boxes of stuff I might
find it. I'd be surprised to find I threw it out...
It must be buried in the bottom of a box somewhere..
That, and information on the "Hydra" board. I think I
have one. Which is an ISA Board that Emulates a
MacPlus on a PC using an EGA Monitor for output.
I bought this card that someone told me was a Hydra
Board, but he had no software or manuals for it.
Maybe someday I'll get it to work.
Al
> --
> Eric Dittman
> dittman(a)dittman.net
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> I miss 'ihnp4' and will always wonder where Indian Hills is.
ihnp4 was an impressive machine, indeed. much of the uucp traffic
in the midwest went through it.
Bell Labs Indian Hill is on the far west side of Chicago. 5ESS was
developed there. A friend that worked there was the first person I
knew who had Unix running at home (starting with mini-unix, then V6)
>but which ones were
>the most viable, and which ones contributed most to the explosive growth
>of the internet?
That would be the flood of AOL floppies, and the run of $300 PCs after
rebate because you signed up for AOL for 3 years at $20/mn.
Everyone who was "hip" was getting online. AOL made it hip, and everyone
who thought they could suck a dime out of the public joined in. The
internet was just convenient because college students were talking about
it, and it was free content that these fly by night ISPs could offer,
while charging the same rate AOL/CompuServe/Prodigy et all were charging
for their "custom" content.
At least that is the way I saw it go in the mid 90's.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
