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... your fleets control the sky of every world in the galaxy.
This galaxy!
But other challenges await the master of Orion.
Honestly, I would not like to play this online in the browser. I know a site where each game is packed together with its own preconfigured instance of DOS Box. All you have to do is start it with a .BAT. No need for CDs or images, no mounting drives or other configuration.
How about Master of Orion II or Daggerfall?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: I know a site where each game is packed together with its own preconfigured instance of DOS Box.
Would you mind to PM the site answering in this message? Thanks a lot
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Nice... thanks
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Here you go:
Daggerfall[^]
Master of Orion[^]
Master of Orion II[^]
And tons more if you use the menu at the top of the page.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Cool... thanks a lot
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If you want to be almost invincible in Master of Orion II, you must research the time actuator and the phase cloak. You will need at least a battleship to install these two devices (and a good load of weapons and other equipment). The time actuator gives you two turns instead of just one in battle. On top of that the phase cloak protects you from all attacks, but you can only decloak and fire in one turn, not cloak again. With your second turn from the time actuator you can do that and the opponent has nothing to shoot at. Repeat next turn. In multiplayer games we always agreed not to do that because battles between players become a pointless waste of time when all players do that.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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OK, so you just ruined my productivity for the next two months. Thank you.
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RickZeeland wrote: Most games can be played for free in your browser (Chrome preferably)
Of course chrome! So just like the old days of DOS it barely fits it in your PC's memory.
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If a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears, is your illegal logging operation a success?
When a pregnant woman swims, is she technically a human submarine?
Does the sign on the Maternity Ward door say "Push". "Push!". "PUSH!"?
If at first you don't succeed, is skydiving not for you?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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the first one is a contradiction, the other 3 are simply true … 
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OriginalGriff wrote: If a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears
If a married man speaks in a forest and his wife does not hear - is he still wrong?
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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If you have to ask, yes.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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what is said in the forest, stays in the forest!
... until you apologize, only then will she let you back in.
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See my sig.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My HOSTS file is 465k...
Silver lining - I see virtually NO ads on any web site.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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How's the lookup performance? Although I suppose it's not much of a concern these days...unless you're dealing with very old/sluggish systems.
I used to have a huge hosts file to block ads. Last year or so I switched to Pi-Hole. I run it on a tiny Linux VM running 24/7 (it was designed for--obviously enough--a Raspberry Pi), and only have to set the DNS on my networked machines router to point to it.
Couple of benefits over maintaining a huge hosts file:
- Getting the updates maintained by the community is a one-liner (you can of course maintain your own blacklist/whitelist)
- No need to duplicate the file on all your machines every time there's an update
- Being done in one common location, it also blocks ads on devices that don't otherwise easily let you edit a hosts file or equivalent, like iOS/Android-based phones/tablets
- If you really need to, you can temporarily disable the whole thing
- Extensive logs and stats (this is where you find out the extent to which Windows 10 is chatty).
I'm not affiliated with that project in any way, shape or form. I only became an instant fan.
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I went to the pi-hole web site and browsed to a few of their cited ad-heavy web sites, and didn't see a single ad (using a hosts file). Rendering was almost instantaneous in all cases.
I can see the benefit of having the single source of redirects, and am now curious to see if I can setup something of my own here at home on my network...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Requirements are so modest I wouldn't even recommend dedicating a physical machine to it. If you have any machine you're already leaving on 24/7 that can handle a VM with half a gig of RAM, that's all you need (if you don't have any other use for a Linux VM).
I run mine under Debian 9.5, and its task manager shows I'm using just a bit over 300MB of RAM right now, so I could reduce it even further if I wanted to.
I have an old out of date Android tablet sitting on my desk I use to display its dashboard page (hosted in a browser) just to watch its real-time stats. Not that it's needed--it's pretty much set-and-forget. I only log into the VM once a month or so just to bring the OS up to date.
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dandy72 wrote: so I switched to Pi-Hole.
Does it block Windows updates? 
Hmmm, perhaps? (From their discourse page: Commonly Whitelisted Domains - FAQs - Pi-hole Userspace )
pihole -w settings-win.data.microsoft.com
pihole -w v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
and v20.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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No. Microsoft has arranged it so that the hosts file does not prevent access to microsoft sites.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Marc Clifton wrote: pihole -w settings-win.data.microsoft.com
pihole -w v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
and v20.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
All addresses I recognize as often being at the top of Pi-Hole's log.
I also use WSUS in a VM, and none of my systems talk directly to MS to get updates. Only those updates I approve (when I approve them) find their way in. Bonus: updates are only downloaded once.
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