X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9c5db9e6be40caff X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-20 16:50:08 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news.stealth.net!24.30.200.2.MISMATCH!news-east.rr.com!news.rr.com!cyclone.kc.rr.com!news.kc.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!typhoon.kc.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Nate / DAC X-X-Sender: Subject: Re: OT: Spamfighting (was: All YOUR Romantic Needs - Relationship101.com 9857) In-Reply-To: <88p59tovnt4bi22khua7tie152qobldrc8@4ax.com> Message-ID: References: <16gr8tgalfh8057ciisd8uakbji47jar43@4ax.com> <2g3u8tgim9e14esk4a7nh9mesg9o6d3oas@4ax.com> <60u09t8aabjgmcqgi4fmimgsadebq2tp0j@4ax.com> <88p59tovnt4bi22khua7tie152qobldrc8@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Lines: 148 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:48:08 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.166.131.83 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.kc.rr.com 982716488 24.166.131.83 (Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:48:08 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:48:08 CST Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4511 > 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 :) > Perhaps if you kept it playinjg all day, but about 15 minutes won't do > any harm. After all, the stepper motor won't do anyting it can't do. True :) > >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. 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. > 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. Now, once they're gone, then I guess copying it will be the only means to get it. 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 :) Most every other commercial program from that time period is fair game however; copy it all you like, no one will care usually. > > > > > >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 :) > >...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. > 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 won't go into efficient programming, RISC and CISC processors, clock cycles No need, I did :) > 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 :) > 10 Datasettes Doorstops? (If any C64 accessory deserves the title, it's the datasette :) > 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? :) > - An attempt to move the expantion port to the front failed, it wouldn't work. Four words: Unshielded Twisted-Pair Cable. > Pity, real pity. I think it would have made a geat 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. > >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? ... > LOL!!! I just said that, i really must learn to read ahead! :-)) Not exactly like FLI, since that involves gobs of CPU overhead. 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. > 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. 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. -- ________________________________________________________ | . . | _____ | | _ _ _|_ _ _| _ _ | C64/C128- _///@@@| | | |/ \'_| | / \ / |'_| / ` | What's /'//ZZ@@|____ | | | |/ | | L-'| |/ || | *YOUR* |'''/ |'/@7 | | | |\_|_\_\_. \_|\_|_\_. | hobby? |`'| `~~' | | _ . . `-----------. | `| .--. | | /_\ | _ _ _ |_ | _ _ _ ._ _ | | `\____|___\ | | |(_Y |/(_`/ `'_|| \|/_) / `/ \| | | | \_ | | | \_. |\._)\_.(_||_/|\_. O \_.\_/| | | | \_____| | `---------------------------------------"----------------'