X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9c5db9e6be40caff X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-21 15:38:06 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!amsnews01.chello.com!Flipper.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ppunk@damthatspam.chello.nl (Peter Punk) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: OT: Spamfighting (was: All YOUR Romantic Needs - Relationship101.com 9857) Organization: Total Disorganisation Message-ID: References: <16gr8tgalfh8057ciisd8uakbji47jar43@4ax.com> <2g3u8tgim9e14esk4a7nh9mesg9o6d3oas@4ax.com> <60u09t8aabjgmcqgi4fmimgsadebq2tp0j@4ax.com> <88p59tovnt4bi22khua7tie152qobldrc8@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 197 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:37:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.93.74.225 X-Complaints-To: abuse@chello.nl X-Trace: Flipper 982798636 213.93.74.225 (Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:37:16 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:37:16 MET Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4533 On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:48:08 GMT, Nate / DAC provoked the following text: >> OIC. BTW. The Flash8 came with a GEOS patch that didn't work. Now i >> have heared and read a lot about the SCPU and it seens that their >> patch does work. >I think this patch was only for PAL machines, but I could be wrong there. >As for GEOS, it works great, and Wheels works even better. Of course, if >you're like me and want to multitask, CLiPS or JOS appears to be the way >of the future :) So where can i download a copy? :-) >> >Ahh. Never heard of this one. Only way I know to connect a C64 to a lan >> >right now is RS232 to another host machine. >> Ethernet or a different type of LAN? >Just an RS232 connection, PPP over TCP/IP, to another host machine. Something like direct cable connection in Win95/98? >Since the C64 then has access to all the facilities provided by the LAN, it's >considered to be part of it. > >Each machine on a LAN is given a MAC address and some kind of IP address >usually. So it's up to the host machine (which is your C64's gateway >machine) to translate packets back and forth as needed. My PC has a >function like this, called Network Address Translation, which allows my >C128 to access the internet via PPP over TCP/IP, just like any other >computer. > >I wouldn't need that feature if my C128 could connect directly to my >cablemodem though. Perhaps someone will build a LAN adapter for the CBM, it would then solve that problem. >> I have been playing around a bit with VICE now and i'm very impressed with it. >> However, the best test would be a GEOS image. Do you have any idea where i can >> find one? Best of all would be GEOS128 of course :-) > >GEOS is kind of an ugly duckling when it comes to copying - it's probably >the only legacy title left that you simply don't just freely copy. >Instead you buy it from CMD. As a D64 image? Oh, i have found a copy, but it won't work on VICE... >Now, once they're gone, then I guess copying >it will be the only means to get it. For me it is now. I have too low a budget to buy it. When i bought the FD4000, i had to pay 17.5% tax over it. That has discouraged me once and for all to order something from America. >The same thing, of course, also goes for new commercial programs being >developed today; it's recommended that you just drop all that mid-80's >mentality and just buck up and buy the program you need :) Too late, i am a child of the 80's and my mentality is not likely to change anymore. >Most every other commercial program from that time period is fair game >however; copy it all you like, no one will care usually. Ah, so where can i get GoDot with all plugins? >> > >> > >> >http://home.kscable.com/natedac >> >> Great site, however, the FTP search seems to be down. Any info on when it will >> be back up? > >I'm not sure actually, I guess it's been down for a while now (some links >on my site are probably out of date, I don't regularly use my pages >anymore :) You dopnj't have to use it, as long as you keep it up-to-date! :-) >> >...don't forget to check out my Tower page :) >> Looks cool! Have you ever considered submitting it on >> www.virtualhideout.net ? >I've never heard of this site before, I'll check them out. What did you think of it? I love their Cool Case Gallery! There is also a modded C64... >> Well, it was an 15.4 MHz improvement over a stock C64 :-)) >Heh.. Of course at that time, C64 programmers really didn't know how to >code compared to today, where a stock C64 today does what would have >needed an accellerator 15 years ago, just because the coders have gotten a >lot smarter/better :) I thought they were very good around 1996/1997 >> A dead VIC20 >> A dead C16 >> 2 dead C128's (one plasic with 16K VDU and one metal with 64K VDU) >> 2 dead C64's > >Which all need to be fixed, IMHO :) When i declare a computer dead, it is beyond repair. - The C16 was blown up by someone (not me!) who thought that a regular adapter could replace a CBM adapter. Result: mobo fried. _ The VIC20 had no mobo anymore when i found it. - One C128 has a defective VDU, all my efforts to find a replacement failed miserably. - The other C128 had a defective 1571 so i replaced it with the drive from the one with the defectiver VDU. I accidently connected the drive's powerplug upside-down and the result was a fried mobo (i still don't know how that could be, but it's dead.) - The 2 dead C64's were cannibalized for parts. >> 10 Datasettes >Doorstops? (If any C64 accessory deserves the title, it's the datasette :) Well, i have been able to make a few people happy with a new, out-of-the-box datasette (complete with manual). >> misc parts. >> Oh wait, i once built a C64 into a big('n heavy)tower. >[Snip specs] >Not a bad setup there, I wish I had an FD4000, if only for bragging rights >(wanna sell yours? :) Nope, if i'm never gonna use it again, i'll still keep it for sentimental reasons. But i'm sure i will use it again one day. >> - An attempt to move the expantion port to the front failed, it wouldn't work. >Four words: Unshielded Twisted-Pair Cable. That was the solution??? I used an old IDE flatcable. >> Pity, real pity. I think it would have made a great C65 (of which only 2000 were >> built) replacement >Of course with all the hardware they have developed, one can assemble a >pretty nice machine. Too bad it will set you back about $1300 (est.) to >get all the goodies. So how much would a state-of-the-art PC cost? Or an Apple? One day i will have more money than i have now, and then i will buy me a setup you freaks wil all be jealous of! :-)) >> >Jeri's video device sits on the cartridge slot now (used to be an internal >> >daughterboard), and offers, what did she say, 256K of video ram I think? >> >Anyways it was going to be run at something like 800x600 in 256 colors, >> >using an indexed palette that could be swapped out on each scanline. >> >> Hmmm... so it's a hardware interlaced FLI generator? > >Not exactly like FLI, since that involves gobs of CPU overhead. Who cares? As long as that CPU is on the card... :-) >Hers was >pretty simple (from a functional standpoint), painting each raster line in >256 colors, picking them from the 512-byte table stored at the end of the >raster line in video memory. Effectively cross-hatching. But from hardware. Very inventive! >> Well, by the way you describe it, it sounds like something we all should have! > >Oh it will be! She was able to show us a working prototype (it lacked any >kind of command set or protocol) that displayed multicolor lines in a nice >stable 31 kHz image. She had hoped to have her other version working, but >had a hardware failure within just a day of the show. Damn that Murphy guy! >It offered >functionality similar to the VIC-II chio found in eevry C64, but extended >for high-resolution displays. I think her intent there was to actually >emulate the VIC to some extent, so that her card could be a >drop-in/plug-in replacement, at least for the VIC's display driver. You know, i once wrote CMD, asking if it would be possible to build a VIC replacement that offered at least 256 colours. They wrote me back and said that it would be possible, but that it was very unlikely that they would undertake such a project since they were already involved in other projects. Soon after that, the first working prototype of the SCPU was shown to the public. -- Peter Punk \ / ---\\\\--- / \ Draai je V3.03 al van de SETI@home client? http://home.hetnet.nl/~setiathomegroep/index.html voor tips, antwoorden, discussies. links, downloads en meer. 827wu/1.27yrs The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.