> Let me recount what has been discussed over the past 36 hours:
> Linux vs Windows (My fault, sorry!)
> Why dogs lick their balls
> Atheism
> What makes a good marriage
> Copyrights
You forgot pot roasts
>
> Now, I will try to get us back on track. Is there a GeoWrite-like program
for
> something besides C-64, which is where I saw it, with fonts and stuff
> displaying on screen as I type? PC-XT would be nice
Yes. I have Geoworks with no manual, but a third party "how to" book.
E-mail me privately.
manney(a)nwohio.com
I'm looking for some information on a Laser 128. I've had one for several
months now, and have known that it was an Apple clone. Unfortunatly it has
a mouse, but no Power Supply. However, a couple days ago I got a second
one, this time with no mouse, but it has the Power Supply and an external
floppy drive and monitor cable.
So I just plugged it into one of my little Apple IIc monitors since one was
handy, and I'm happy to say it works. Even boots DOS 3.3 (will it run
ProDOS?).
One slight problem, the keyboard makes no sense, when I hit a key,
something else comes up. Is this because I don't have their version of the
OS, or is there a problem with the computer, or what? Any ideas?
While I'm at it, will the little IIc green monitors display anything other
than 40 columns? Looking at the manuals it looks like I should be able to
get my IIc to display 80 columns on it, but I've not been able to. IIRC I
have been able to get my Franklin Ace 1200 to run CP/M on one in 80
columns. I'm aware of the 40/80 column button on the IIc, but I've tried
two different IIc's with no luck.
Zane
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Let me recount what has been discussed over the past 36 hours:
Linux vs Windows (My fault, sorry!)
Why dogs lick their balls
Atheism
What makes a good marriage
Copyrights
Now, I will try to get us back on track. Is there a GeoWrite-like program for
something besides C-64, which is where I saw it, with fonts and stuff
displaying on screen as I type? PC-XT would be nice
> >Well, frogger is a good example of why not. I see they're bringing it
out
> >again.
>
> Okay, so you own a new computer, maybe a P200 mmx and you have this old
copy
> of frogger, from your XT days... If this old copy gets out on the
internet
> or elsewhere, is it going to affect sales of the new Frogger version?
Well, I meant...Frogger is an axample of why "they" don't just throw game
concepts out the window. Frogger seems to have been resurrected. You're
right -- the new one is different, and most young users would prefer the
new version (I LIKED the old one, though! Anyone have Frogger for the PC
for sale?)
Hullo;
I'm trying to finish restoring my Apollo DN5500, but I can't seem to track
down the parts I need. Maybe somebody here can help...
I need the following for sure:
Apollo P/N 012600-01 -- 760 MB ESDI disk (Maxtor XT-8760E)
011778 -- 60 MB SCSI QIC drive (Archive 2060S)
SR10.3.5 or 10.4 tapeset (not the 10.4.1 RAI
like I've got already).
These would also be useful but are not needed:
Apollo P/N 12173 -- 8 plane 1280x1024 video board
7550 -- 3 button DOMAIN mouse
If you could help me out, I'd appreciate it greatly. This Apollo has been
sitting around half-working for too long.
Oh, and on an unrelated tangent, I could also use a Mac SE/30 motherboard,
which has similarly eluded me. (:
Thanks.
ok
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<If you download the latest elks kernel source - 0.0.67 at the moment bu
<0.0.68 is due out anytime, along with elkscmd.tar.gz you will have an
<almost complete Linux subset for the 8086 with which you can then work.
<The acronym ELKS is 'Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset' but the project is
That's interesting but linux on a 386 is still frustrating me to the
max!
Allison
At 11:20 AM 1/4/98 -0600, you wrote:
>of people out there who like to play old computer games, but you think
>the software owners shouldn't be free to sell to that market because
>there's no gain in productivity or increase in "harm"? What about
>learning or enjoyment?
If you can find any message where I said that, I'd be happy to argue
against it, but I don't think I would type that in so many words. Software
companies SHOULD be able to sell these old games, but they can never expect
to get the original price out of them.
-John Higginbotham-
-limbo.netpath.net-
> One of the problems with using a RS printer on a PC is that the RS units
> all (most?) add a linefeed in the printer firmware. If you do not know
> the escape sequence to disable it everything comes out doublespaced. And
> not all of their escape sequences were the same.
> - don
I've never had a problem with that...they usually print the info on the
back. My problem is the the early DMP dot matrix series (before 134, I
think) will not respond to many PC parallel ports. I've heard that Radio
Schlock has a cable to fix that, but they said no.
Anyway, these early DMP's respond to most modern motherboards. Don't know
why.
manney
> >Well, frogger is a good example of why not. I see they're bringing it
out
> >again.
>
> I played a demo of the new Frogger on my Playstation, it's NOTHING like
the
> original! Give me the original any day, it was all on the screen at one
> time!
>
> Zane
I don't mean that the new one is better, just that it doesn't seem to have
died. I loved the original one, too (on an Atari 400, as I recall.)
manney
<V7 and BSD ran fine on the PDP-11. All it will take to port ELKS will
<be somebody with access to PDP-11 hardware, a working Linux system, an
<too much time on their hands. To quote a movie from twenty years back
I have the 11/23 or 11/73 to pick from (with 30meg of disk).
I have a pdp11 C compiler (decus C) running under RT-11.
I can copy elks sources to the 11
ELKS is only an embedded kernel. Oops.
UZI unix is for z80 and could be ported too (it's in C save for
LL-drivers).
Allison
