10 Jun
2018
10 Jun
'18
4:09 p.m.
On Sunday 10 June 2018 08:45:52 dep wrote:
said William Morder:
| On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:19:14 dep wrote:
| > said William Morder:
| > | This is just a wild guess ... but is there any chance that you have
| > | downloaded the Pale Moon browser recently?
| > |
| > | Steven Pusser's repo appears after you download Pale Moon. However,
| > | I don't allow that to happen. I copy the URL of that repo to my
| > | sources.list manually, then backup and maintain my sources.list on
| > | an external hard drive.
| >
| > This reminds me of a DOS game I bought (for I think $5 at a computer
| > show) back in the late 1980s. It had a small install routine that
| > copied the program to the hard drive and overwrote autoexec.bat with
| > the name of the executable file. In those days autoexec.bat could run
| > to a couple of pages, with us all trying to make our machines a little
| > faster and getting use of memory above 640k, which was a delicate
| > thing. To say nothing of the TSR programs many of us ran. Setting
| > comspec right after we copied command.com to a RAM drive. That kind of
| > thing. So autoexec.bat was a nontrivial thing, and turning a
| > well-tuned machine into a single-game console was troublesome.
|
| I swear, this mailing list is sort of like Jurassic Park: a place where
| dinosaurs still roam the earth.
Well, where were we supposed to go after they closed down Prodigy and the
GeoWorks-based AOL? (Compuserve was too expensive.)
I am not complaining; I think it's totally cool. Sometimes the old stuff is
the best, and deserves to be maintained somewhere or other, kept alive in
some obscure corner of the Internet.
Just yesterday I heard about eMovix, which is actually part of k3b. But I had
not heard of this use for eMovix, which is to create a bootable CD or DVD of
a movie file.
An old friend of mine was one of the designers for TSR's version of D & D, and
helped to create a lot of games for TSR and Coleco, as well as doing some
other interesting stuff.
Bill