I thought I might try this again.. it IS the weekend now! Though might still be friday for some of you?
Hope all is going well, and you have a nice weekend. Here there is an
So we bought a few things for the flower garden at home and were happy
with
the items we got for the low $$ spent.
They seem to run a few of these shops around the country but it you're looking for all sorts of random stuff it can be a fun hour to poke
around a
shop like that. We came home with a few books and my daughter bought a
Sims
PC game on DVD.
On 11-21-20 14:58, apam wrote to All <=-
Hi
I thought I might try this again.. it IS the weekend now! Though might still be friday for some of you?
I thought I might try this again.. it IS the weekend now! Though might still be friday for some of you?
First up was a ham radio net, with exactly one person (me!). :D Oh
well, that
didn't go to plan. :D
Tonight I've watched the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery and then hit Netflix to soak up some IT Crowd.
apam wrote to All <=-
Hope all is going well, and you have a nice weekend. Here there is an Australia wide "Garage Sale Trail" event thing, we went to a couple of garage sales this morning. They were both a bit of a fizzler, but my
wife did get an ornament she wanted.
apam wrote to Avon <=-
Yep, op-shopping is fun too :) we go occasionally, though many of the op-shops here have upped their prices by quiet a bit, I guess to appeal
to the hipster type.
apam wrote to All <=-
Hi
I thought I might try this again.. it IS the weekend now! Though might still be friday for some of you?
I thought I might try this again.. it IS the weekend now! Though might still be friday for some of you?
Hope all is going well, and you have a nice weekend. Here there is an Australia wide "Garage Sale Trail" event thing, we went to a couple of garage sales this morning. They were both a bit of a fizzler, but my wife did get an ornament she wanted.
This morning I got interbbs last callers working here, so now I can spy
on everyone who logs in everywhere.. well not really.
Also set up a copy of Talisman on my Pi, as I wanted to set up a customized version, as the one at talismanbbs.com is stock.
Set up some dos doors, that was interesting, turns out SDL in debian has disabled the "dummy" video driver. Took me a while to figure out that,
and had to compile it myself to get dosbox working properly.
Andrew
paulie420 wrote to apam <=-
Right on - glad to hear that you use Pi's for BBSing... recently some folks have said they are too slow - and MeaTLoTioNs dang OnePlus BBS
*is* faster than my Pi 4 - LOL. But, these are still awesome little
boards that do so much. Happy to hear that you're modifying Talisman -
you get to have SOME fun, too.
So, you can run DOS doors in DosBox?? I didn't think it handled them correctly. Am I wrong? I recently got all the Sunrise Doors registered. (BTW, thats free if you goto sunrisedoors.com..) I'd like to run a
couple of my favorites - AND, I want to run the original FORBIDDEN SUBJECTS 1,2,3 file door. MegaDoor or something... can I use DosBox on
my Pi to doso??
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to apam <=-
apam wrote to Avon <=-
Yep, op-shopping is fun too :) we go occasionally, though many of the op-shops here have upped their prices by quiet a bit, I guess to appeal
to the hipster type.
Are op-shops what we call thrift shops? Around here the price on my
favorite item, film cameras, has gone way up. I used to buy Olympus
Mju-IIs for $5, now they're $50, and $150 on eBay!
I recently went to dust off one of my film cameras, went to
Yorkphoto.com, my favorite online film processor and found out that
Snapfish bought them - and no more online film processing. They used
to be around $4/roll with shipping. I suppose now I'll need to pay
for high-end film processing online.
I bought the sims 4 a few weeks ago, I haven't gotten really stuck into
it yet, it's actually probably a bit complicated for me lol. I have hard enough time organising myself let alone sim people lol
That might be due to using an SD card? If you have a usb 3 ssd I bet it's quiet a bit faster. Possibly even a usb HDD (I have a usb HDD in mine but it takes a little while to spin up if it's asleep).
Dosbox works pretty well for dos doors, it doesn't have file locking, so you can't run the same door on multiple nodes. Also, I don't know if it's still necessary, but I use a particular SVN version, as it seems to work better for doors than the latest. It's much quicker than QEMU and has the same limitations.
A lot of people will tell you Dosbox is no good for doors, but in my experience it tends to work well and in some cases better than dosemu.
I also use a "dosbox shim" I wrote for use with magicka, that makes dosboxwork like dosemu in that it works with stdio redirection.
I wrote a howto in the magicka documentation you can see it here: https://tinyurl.com/y479anu5
You can get the shim by cloning the magicka repository and changing into the utils/dosbox_shim directory and running make.
If you have any issues let me know.. I have used this method on my PI, on windows 10 64-bit and various other OSes that don't have dosemu (like
ah that sucks. Is it more difficult to find film as well now?
Nope, I just go into my freezer. I have two tupperware containers full
of Kodak
Portra 400, Portra 160, and Fuji 100 film. It should last a while.
On 11-21-20 21:21, apam wrote to Vk3jed <=-
First up was a ham radio net, with exactly one person (me!). :D Oh
well, that
didn't go to plan. :D
What's a "ham radio net"? And don't say something you use to catch ham radios :)
What's a "ham radio net"? And don't say something you use to catch ham radios :)
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