Re: OT: Spamfighting (was: All YOUR Romantic Needs - Relationship101.com 9857)

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 03:23:01 GMT, Nate / DAC <nos...@nospam.com> provoked the
following text:

>> Of course, you could use a 1351 mouse in joystick mode. As soon as mouse support
>> is here you can use it in proportional mode as it should.
>Yup.

I thought i'd show you that i'm not totally ignorant when it comes to the commie
:-))

>> Dunno, i thought it showed great promise. It came with a demo that did a complex
>> calculation in dual CPU mode as well as in single CPU mode. Dual CPU mode was a
>> lot faster, needless to say.
>Yeah, but with the Super CPU around, it just blows away any of those
>co-processor ideas :)

You know, i only went as far as the Flash8, contrary to the SCPU it had very
little compatibilty. I couldn't get GEOS to run stable, a lot of screens would
be f*cked up, both in demos as well as in games. The only programs that really
befitted from the Flash8 were Basic programs and a few other programs that just
ran faster like a flightsim (don't remember the name) in which you could take
off, climb to 40,000 feet and crash in 2 seconds flat :-))

>> >Now if you have a CMD Hard Drive, which offers Parallel,
>> You don't need a CMD drive to have a parallel drive. There were/are kits around
>Certainly not, 

Certainly it could! I bought a kit and ran the 1541 in parallel mode for about a
year before i retired the good old C64.

>but the old drives like 1541 only had a couple of K of RAM
>anyway.  

2k to be precise.

>> that had a flatcable with a socket for one of the chips (can't remember which
>> one, i thionk it was one of the CIA chips) and on the other end it had a
>
>One of the 6522 VIA's.

I see i typed CIA. The V and the C are too darn close together!

>> I had that one! It came with a number of song, "99 Luftbalons" amongst
>> others.
>The one I'm thinking of only had one tune, something about "eliza" or so.

In that case i think that we are thinking of two different programs. Mine was a
program to make these tunes with.

>> Jos looks appealing and so does Clips. I liked GEOS so i'm sure i'd
>> like Wheels, i already knew GeoFax but this is the first time i have
>> heared of the Wave. Pity they don't show any screenshots...
>There are some screenshots of The Wave on Colin Thompson's site I
>think.  Don't have the URL handy, though.

Pity. Please post it if you happen to find it.

>> Does it run standalone or does it need GEOS/Wheels?
>It needs Wheels, a Super CPU with at least 1 MB of RAM, and a high speed
>modem with Swiftlink-compatible RS232 card.

What ever hapened to Net64? I'm on cable now and if i ever want to internet with
the C64 i'll need that one.

>> >Documentation:  Project 64
>> >http://project64.c64.org
>> Ermm... 404....
>Strange, I just checked this one before writing the URL.

And when i checked again it was back up. If i ever need docs to the commie i
know where to go :-)

>> >Need I say more? :)
>> Oh, but there is a lot more to be said.
>> As i wrote before, the C64/128 could have come further than it already
>> went. My biggest disappointment was that many of these sites haven't
>> been updated in ages.
>True, a lot of the Commodore people get lazy when it comes to thier
>websites (myself included).  Some just don't take the time, though.

I think it's time you go and do you part then!

>Either way, there's a lot more to be done before these old machine can
>rightfully be called 'dead'.  So far, the end isn't in sight yet.

I love it to see a true believer like i once was.
But i have never declared the commie dead, what i do say is that the scene isn't
as vibrant as it once was.
For example, the Fairlight site (which C= user never heard of Fairlight?) hasn't
been updated since 1997...
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