I remember Fluppy, from way back when.

It was very nicely put together... ran well... was very good. A true pity that jemimah never came back... she was one of our best.

I can't get rid of that Windows 98... The main reason is that I needed that laptop because has *real* serial, parallel and floppy disk. I use that parallel port with a Willem EPROM burner and the floppy disk with some tools to write old computers disks (=8 bit computers, like ZX Spectrum and Amstra...

OK, my mistake, I thought it was for general use.

What exactly are you doing with it, if I may ask?

My recommendation: junk it. I have used (and abused) a lot of old kit, from Commodore 64s on up. Right now I have, at least in the PC category, an XT that won't boot, a 386 desktop, a 486 laptop, a P1 laptop that needs a weird power cable, a pair of 2009-era netbooks, and the custom desktop that I'm...

Downloaded but not tested yet.

TBH I'm contemplating Linux Mint again... this forum really is getting too polarized and negative for me. I haven't decided anything yet, but I'm certainly thinking...

Nice

One little nitpick: the eject icon next to the drives in Thunar gets to stick around, right...?

Well this didn't take long

@learn. Can you cite a source that "normal people" would consider trustworthy...?

The wall thing is Trump, last I heard.

Ya know, gc, we're often at loggerheads. This particular thread, however, is not an example of that. I think you and I are in agreement, on all counts. Personally, I stay out of the politics threads. I'm tired of being beaten up and beaten down. But that is not really a valid excuse to allow that so...

I have a copy ;) I'm the one who originally requested it on this forum... I confess, I played it once till I got blown up, and IIRC that was the end of that. Disappointing, I know... I seem to have other, more urgent-seeming (but not necessarily more important) things occupying my time... I'm workin...

@drunkjedi -- Watterson killed it at the end of 1995. He wanted to quit while he was ahead, rather than (IIRC direct quote) "running the wheels off it" -- and he predicted that if he hadn't, both he and readers would have been even more disappointed. I personally think he was spot-on, and,...

Begging your pardon, musher, but who or what is "Puduan"...?

Apple II, originally. There were ports to DOS, 8bit Atari, and C64.

I like the answer given by the famous cartoonist, Bill Watterson. Not an exact quote, but close --"Perhaps the surest proof of intelligent life is that it hasn't contacted us yet." For more elaboration on the subject, here's a story arc from his strip, Calvin & Hobbes , where the titul...

Ooh, I like DOS games :lol: just curious, what are your favorites? I used to play Tyrian (downward scrolling shooter) and Day Of the Tentacle, but I've beaten neither -- and I haven't played anything in a really long time. I also love the Myst series of games. By the way -- if you like them too, go ...

http://hackaday.com/2016/08/14/ion-trap-makes-programmable-quantum-computer/ Eat yer heart out, gc :P five qubits ain't much, but it's something... Also, yes, despite the name, Hackaday is a reliable news source for this sort of thing. "Hacking" doesn't mean popping open Granny's bank acc...

rg66 wrote:[...]I'm building again.

yay!

Gotcha

Glad it was a simple fix...

...possibly sooner, if you can convince the Puppy dev known as 'jamesbond' to support it... I've not had luck, as far as I can tell.