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

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:48:08 GMT, Nate / DAC <nos...@nospam.com> 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?

>> ><PLUG TAG="shameless">
>> >
>> >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...

>> <g> 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.
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