On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Andrew Robins wrote:
> ...why do I only spot my typos after I post, and not in the 3 re-reads I
> make befpre pressing 'send'??
^^^
Like this one? :-)
Don't feel bad. I am in the final stages of producing the souvenir
book for an annual convention
...why do I only spot my typos after I post, and not in the 3 re-reads I
make befpre pressing 'send'??
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Hmmm yes there are seems to be an infinite number of ways you can be
dispatched in Nethack that my kids approve of. My son likes to die by
repeatedly kicking a wall or a boulder (??? don't ask), being eaten by a
black pudding is also memorable - the random gender/species allocation
also gets a gigg
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Though I'm mostly a noob at Nethack because it's so complicated, heh,
> so I'm not sure if they're more patient or not.
The question with Nethack isn't whether you'll win: it's what novel
and interesting way you'll find to get killed.
"You have r
Hi again,
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Andrew Robins wrote:
>
> You've reminded me that I have to review my FDCONFIG and AUTOEXEC more
> thoroughly - perhaps my earlier meddling in those configs solved
> problems with some games (e.g., Aladdin - see
> http://www.computing.net/answers/dos/xms-m
Thanks Rugxulo for such a considered - and considerable - reply! You
have given me much to work on regarding FreeDOS memory management in -
dunno - Pentium-vintage hardware, but I haven't been able to extricate
myself from "real world" issues to digest/work through it all yet.
You've reminded me th
Hi,
Sorry for delay, not sure if this is what you wanted to hear or not, oh well!
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Andrew Robins wrote:
>
> Coincidentally I've been reading older posts of yours on other
> threads/forums re memory management (DOS/32a) and your involvement with
> the "Stone Soup"
P.S. Starting from here of course
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS#Memory_management
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Hey Rugxulo!
Coincidentally I've been reading older posts of yours on other
threads/forums re memory management (DOS/32a) and your involvement with
the "Stone Soup" dungeon crawler, amongst other things - many thanks for
your encouragement, but this is not an experiment I will give up so
easily, p
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Andrew Robins wrote:
>
> I was the gent Dennis McC mentions having Puppy Linux running in an old
> machine in the thread "Install basic Puppy on a computer with 16 Mb
> RAM".
Sad that nobody cares for old machines anymore. There are way more of
them than new
I was the gent Dennis McC mentions having Puppy Linux running in an old
machine in the thread "Install basic Puppy on a computer with 16 Mb
RAM". After about a year I'd migrated that 430CDS Satellite Pro fully to
FreeDOS, in a hobby project I mentioned earlier on this forum as
"FreeDOS4Kids". That
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:33 PM, wrote:
> On 12/29/2012 dmccunney wrote:
>> ... a chap on the Puppy Linux forums got a working
>> Puppy installation in 16MB RAM.
>
> For the following, TUI and GUI interfaces are in use.
> Heap shows less than 4 MB in use. No malicious software
> ever reported in
On 12/29/2012 dmccunney wrote:
> ... a chap on the Puppy Linux forums got a working
> Puppy installation in 16MB RAM.
For the following, TUI and GUI interfaces are in use.
Heap shows less than 4 MB in use. No malicious software
ever reported in an Oberon system.
Regards, ... Peter E.
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:36 PM, David Kerber
wrote:
> On 12/29/2012 1:31 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>>
>>> We sell an industrial data collection machine based on XP that runs in
>>> about 80MB of allocated memory. We turn off the server service, themes
>>> and a couple others, along with unneeded devi
On 12/29/2012 1:31 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Kerber
> wrote:
>> On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel wrote:
XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb.
>>> I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for i
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Kerber
wrote:
> On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel wrote:
>>> XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb.
>> I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for it, but I'm
>> assuming a flexible definition of
On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel wrote:
>> XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb.
> I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for it, but I'm
> assuming a flexible definition of "run".
>
> How long did it take to boot? What could you do
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel wrote:
> XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb.
I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for it, but I'm
assuming a flexible definition of "run".
How long did it take to boot? What could you do under it once it had?
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XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb.
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