The I’m Too Sexy For My Sword Complaint Thread
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Still have ours, too. When we were using it, I tricked it out with the better keyboard case. And we had the monitor. It's quite nice, actually. I've used it a few times when my TV went on the blink. Small, but very sharp and great color. Fortunately I had the sound going through my Receiver already, so that was no problem. It was tough watching that tiny screen, though. 13" is hard to get used to after having 27". When we replaced the TV we got a Sony 41" rear projection TV, which I am still using. Can't afford the shiny HD stuff. But I use the S-Video input, so the image is actually pretty good.
I think it would boot. But I don't think I'd remember how to make it do anything. We do still have all the disks, though. I had Crossbow. It looked and sounded just like the arcade version, except you used the mouse or joystick, can't remember.
Did you ever get the Geos system? It was cool, gave it a graphical interface with little icons and use of the mouse, graphical fonts. It looked like an early Mac I think. We got the spreadsheet and word processor for it, and even the publisher, but actually we never used that.
DanaYep I had Geos and even learned to write the Joy stick move and select by fire button thing myself. I had a rather large collection of 5.25's for it by the time I moved on to the Amiga 500, my second PC. And if I member right Load,"*",8,0 was for the tapes and Load,"*",8,1 was for a Floppy.
The first computer I actually owned was a Sinclair ZX-81 that I mail ordered from the UK. It came in kit form so I had to solder all of the components onto the circuit boards myself. I even got the 64k memory expansion pack and put that together. For storage it used a standard cassette tape recorder from Radio Shack with a patch cord plugged into the mic and headphone jacks. Had to set the recorder up to record then remember to un-pause it before you hit save.
Went from that to the Commodore Vic 20 and then to the Commodore 64 with a floppy drive before I got my first PC.
First I ever touched was the Vic 20, I got the C=64 the second year it came out. I had it so long I taught myself 6800 Assembly on it. I subscribed to Compute Mag, the LoadStar Disk service and many magazines I forget now. Still have most of them I think. I'm a geek what can I say?
Yup, that sounds right. I figure maybe some day I can display it as a museum piece. :smirk: Although, I might just plug it into the TV and fire up Crossbow. :lol:
We still have our Atari 2600 and a bunch of cartidges, too. River Raid was cool. We'd play it on the Sony 41" and after a while of playing, if you stopped it, it still looked like it was moving down. And so did everything else you looked at for a while. :ohh:
Dana
We got Compute, too. That's what got me interested in programming. I tried one or two of the things and got a kick when they worked. I didn't get far enough into the graphics, though. It's what I really wanted to do with it, graphics and games. But I really couldn't hack machine language. I'm not a machine. Didn't envision database development, but that's where I ended up. And now I'm involved in 3D graphics. Go figure. I've come full circle. Of course, I don't do much with it right now...I'm busy programming my website. *shrug*
I actually got my first 300 baud modem and got onto a BBS that was run on a Commodore 128. It was fun. Then I found other BBSs and some had offline readers. The most popular was BlueWave. But the C=128 didn't have a hard drive, so he couldn't run something like that. I became friends with the guy running the BBS. Over the years he became my best friend. I lost him last year in September. I was devastated. He was just about to turn 41 in October.
Sorry, that is probably a downer for you all.
Anyway, I was teaching myselff C++ (Borland - DOS based only) at the time and decided to try to write an offline reader for his BBS. I figured we could use the scroll feature, you could scroll all messages in the particular board, and use the capture feature of the modem software (I was using ProComm) to save it to a file, and my program would parse the file into messages and keep track of what was read and even save responses to upload. I was almost finished when he got an Amiga, and got the Amiga version of the BlueWave offline reader site side software. My software was no longer needed. It was a good learning experience, though. I've forgotten most of that, though. I haven't touched C++ since 1992.
Dana
GOD DAMN IT!!
Turns out, after all that aching, I didn't even loose a single pound! >:-(
RIP JJ Cale, one of the best
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-28/grammy-award-winning-singer-songwriter-jj-cale-dies/4848306
Quadcopter drone drop
Oh no...
He was one of my favorite white blues guys.
Call Me The Breeze
Cocaine
After Midnight
Same Old Blues
Just to name a few.
So long, Mr. Breeze. :down:
I love this photo. A little jam with E.C.
Guess which one was the other one's hero.
Now in the worst segue ever...
Thirsty Hulk drop.
The first computer I actually owned was a Sinclair ZX-81 that I mail ordered from the UK. It came in kit form so I had to solder all of the components onto the circuit boards myself. I even got the 64k memory expansion pack and put that together. For storage it used a standard cassette tape recorder from Radio Shack with a patch cord plugged into the mic and headphone jacks. Had to set the recorder up to record then remember to un-pause it before you hit save.
Went from that to the Commodore Vic 20 and then to the Commodore 64 with a floppy drive before I got my first PC.
You sure it was 64? My recollection is that the memory pack was 16KB (and easy to disconnect, by all reports).
Is it Saturday in Daz land? I can't get the $10 coupon to work
No tis Sunday in Daz land
Yep.
The $2 coupie will buy you anything except a gift card, though.
Even turns a $1.99 item into $0.00 :)
Nooooooooo! :(
I missed it, damn *bangs forehead on steering wheel*
These are the times the combination of night shift and different time zones are bad. Silly me thought "my morning" was Daz lands afternoon of Friday. Why did I not check world clock?!? That's my complaint for tonight lol. Thanks for the clarification Cho :)
You sure it was 64? My recollection is that the memory pack was 16KB (and easy to disconnect, by all reports).
Z80 had 56K addressable RAM from 64 AFAIR, the balance used for IO. Wow Zilog chips, those were the days - block IO and DRAM refresh onboard and 16 bit pointers :lol:
You sure it was 64? My recollection is that the memory pack was 16KB (and easy to disconnect, by all reports).
You know you could be right. And yeah it could disconnect while typing on the membrane keyboard, nothing a little duct tape couldn't fix though :)
i think skulptrix is the poor man's/woman's Zbrush.
What is the difference between Scuptrix and Zbrush?
Modelling functionality sand texturing functionality are weirdly separate with Sculptris, but is free :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fpxfQUD3Uo
http://www.mrbluesummers.com/4249/3d-tutorials/sculptris-review
Thank you.
Starship Troopers Invasion is on TV. 3D Animated not too cheesy, many asploding bugs :lol:
considerations and deliberations for today's coupie. hmmm hmmm hummmm doodle doodle teapot song musik.
fantasy camp is in the fastgrab. actually on the weekend it's a slowgrab. daily grab?
t'storms again, mother nature cranky this summer.
ooo, there's more txtures for A3 kitteh?
http://www.daz3d.com/foxy-lady-add-on-pack-for-the-aiko-cat-girl
is that how he keeps his green on? :)
oh kewl. i haz plans to watch it today. hoping the credits mention what s/w they used
Well, that stuff looks like it would keep him angry for a while.
Dana
oh kewl. i haz plans to watch it today. hoping the credits mention what s/w they used
All the big Japanese studios get a mentions but no s/w
concepys from Sola http://starshiptroopers.tumblr.com/
My guy droning on :lol:
Oh no...
He was one of my favorite white blues guys.
Call Me The Breeze
Cocaine
After Midnight
Same Old Blues
Just to name a few.
So long, Mr. Breeze. :down:
I love this photo. A little jam with E.C.
Guess which one was the other one's hero.
Makes me sad to see this, he was truly a worthy legend even if he never reached the same stardom as many of the people he wrote songs too. A great man, hopefully his music will live on for a long time
Here is a WIP render. Not finished, but it is a start.
kitteh girl drop. nice renders :)
kitteh girl drop. nice renders :)
Thanks!
JJ Cale - one of the best. :down: :down: :down:
No worthwhile complaints - War Vixen is loading untextured, that's just annoying. I'm likely to use one of my leatherize shaders anyway, so.. meh.
Bacon for brekkie! And coffee with REAL half and half! OMG a hedonistic delight!!! And yesssssssssssssss I ate the whole 12oz package! I munched 'em down as they came out of the fry pan.. they had no hope. :gulp: The world is not a safe place, if you're bacon!
So today, I run a final backup of some videos I have, then it's done. While it backs up, I'll fight War Vixen again and see if I can figure out what's up with the textures. Once she looks decent, I'll give her a dagger and a spear (because, you know, swwrds are SO last millennium) and stick her in the eyeball/tentacle garden. Once that's done, it's ZOMBIE TIME! :vampire:
Back to bacon and coffee! I hope everyone is having a good day! :coolsmile:
ps. Sharktopus was horrible, I laughed my fins off! Weird fact- the beach where it attacked had about 50 women and one guy... how odd!
All the big Japanese studios get a mentions but no s/w
concepys from Sola http://starshiptroopers.tumblr.com/
My guy droning on :lol:
So, is he Big Brother? Or one of his agents?
Dana
is that how he keeps his green on? :)
...new GatorAde™ Gamma.
It hulks you up from the inside
...is it in you?