Subj : Need a Chromebook Helper To : August Abolins From : Ed Vance Date : Tue Mar 24 2020 09:10 pm 03-24-20 16:45 August Abolins wrote to Ed Vance about Need a Chromebook Helper Howdy! August, AA> @MSGID: <5E7A5951.2021.windowsb@capitolcityonline.net> AA> @REPLY: <5E796A59.2019.windowsb@capitolcityonline.net> AA> On 23/03/2020 10:02 p.m., Ed Vance : All wrote: AA> G'day Ed!, EV>A Friend of Mine who lives in the next County has a Acer EV>Chromebook. He calls (or Email's) me and asks how to do things EV>like: EV>1. How do I find Windows Games I can Play Online? - Play not EV>Download. AA> I have seen some sites that offer games via Java. They work well. No AA> download required. My Friend may get confused if I mention Java to him. He's heard me talk about WINE being a Windows Emulator for Linux and knows WINE is a computer program. Really, I am not knowledgeable about Java. I use NoScript to allow some websites just so the Page I am wanting to look at displays correctly. On some web pages before I "Temp. Allow" any sites with NoScript I sometimes see a notice at the top of the page about not having Java enabled Someone here in a Windows echo told me about using CTRL-U in Firefox to to open a Tab to see the Pages SOURCE CODE. After I open the SOURCE Page I usually hit the F3 Key to open a Find window on the botton left of Firefox so I can type some of the websites NoScript shows in the list of Recently blocked sites that I'm not sure need to be Allow, Temp. or Otherwise. When I see the Name of a website in the SOURCE Page I Temp. Allow it then. It doesn't hurt to be very careful. EV>2. How do I find DOS Games I can Play Online? AA> Many BBSes have fine DOOR GAMES. Would that fit the bill? He isn't a BBS User. Years ago when This BBS (CCO) could be Dial'd-Up I gave him the phone number of the Prism BBS he could get on using Dial-Up. He used it for a while and didn't continue calling it. That may have been because Janis moved away from this area. EV>3. How do I find Linux Games I can Play Online? AA> The Java-based sites ought to be the same as for [1] above. EV>He know I have been playing with computers, (and getting whipped EV>by them) since 1984 when I bought a C=64, and considers me EV>his 'Tech Person' but I don't know it all, I just act like I do. AA> The technology often moves along a lot faster than it is possible to AA> "know" everything. I'm still using XP but I'll still try to keep on learning things as I become interested in learning about it. By my logging on to a BBS ran on a Windows (DOS probably) pc when I had a Commodore 64 I learned enough about Windows 3.1 to try to help a man at Church from what I read in the Windows (and later WIN95) echos. And then where I work got rid of the Texas Instruments Terminal and got the Boss'es old used XT with DOS 2.11 - WITH ALL THE BOOKS FOR IT! when a 286 was put in His Office. I was in Hog Heaven on the Night Shift using BASIC, after all, BASIC was on my C=64 and a lot of things I could do at Home I could write in DOS-BASIC now. And Then I learned to write simple .BAT Files... I added Your Initials to the TAGLINE that You used in a message over in the DOVE echo. When I saw it mention Geneology I thought of Nancy Backus who writes in another echo I read and JUST HAD TO write her a message using That TAGLINE. I didn't know if You created the TAGLINE or Stole it as I did today, but anyway I added it to my TAGLINE File with Your Initials. See Below | | | | v v v v 73 de Ed W9ODR . . .... Genelogy: chasing your own tale. - A. A. --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49 * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .