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But can it run DOOM?
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What's DOOM?
I had to look it up. I'll take the original ADVENT, thanks.
I think there's a PDP-10 emulator available online somewhere. When parsing eventually fills you with ennui, porting DOOM would make for quite the article!
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There's a fad of porting doom to smart-appliance and peripheral devices like printers. Also graphing calculators.
"But can it run doom?" is almost an internetism at this point.
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A first-person shooter game with hi-res graphics?! 
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Hi-res on PC at the time meant 320x200 8-bit color
On other devices obj they were different
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I didn't know which version of DOOM was being ported. But still!
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I'm envisioning DOOM running across a 19.2K RS-232 interface to a VT220 terminal or suitable emulation  .
I'm sure there's someone out there who's done a text-mode version of DOOM.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Contemporaneous with ADVENT on the PDP-10 was a Star Trek game, written by a classmate, for which the interface was a DecWriter (dot-matrix printer/terminal) on which a map would be displayed.
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I played an IBM 370 version of the Colossal Cave Adventure, somewhere around 1981 or so. The various Star Trek text-mode games I played were all MS-DOS BASIC games.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Quote: I played an IBM 370 version of the Colossal Cave Adventure, somewhere around 1981 or so.
Time to relive your youth, Mr Wheeler!
A hollow voice says, "PLUGH".
/ravi
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Now that brings back memories! Clickety
/ravi
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When my hubby and I raid the stores for half priced valentines day chocolate.
It's not really about the money, but about the hunt.
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honey the codewitch wrote: It's not really about the money, but about the hunt.
If it is at half the price, you get twice as much chocolate for the amount of money you'd want to spend on it. It's about the chocolate; if it were about money you'd be saving or investing it.
I do the same after Christmas, and know a few chocoholics who look forward to the easter-bunny's departure.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I can't argue with that.
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I don't care for most chocolate that's mixed with other things, mint or almonds being about the only exceptions, so that rules out a lot of "holiday" chocolate.
Walmart (at least in Canada) has 85% chocolate from Switzerland with a generic label that says something like "Our Finest Chocolate". It's only C$2 for 100g (~US$1.50 for 3.5 oz), actually has enough sweetness to be quite yummy, and no what my wife calls "toxins". 
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My daughter and I came to the decision years ago that we would postpone Easter by a week, because it meant up to three times as many chocolate eggs for the same budget.
My favourite event is the football world cup, though, despite my complete disdain for grown men imitating dogs by running around fields chasing balls, because the Dutch brewers always release cans of beer in the Dutch team's livery, which are marked down drastically, the day after they're kicked out, because the fans can't bear to see them, let alone buy them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: My daughter and I came to the decision years ago that we would postpone Easter by a week, because it meant up to three times as many chocolate eggs for the same budget.
That is the kind of children's logic that I love!
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They're not as daft as they try to make us believe! Beware!
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imho, the frequent use of imho is an attempt to hide arrogance.
imho, afaik is an attempt to hide belief that what you know is the only truth.
imho, both imho and afaik are less serious offenses than using obscurantist protologisms like "acronymic netiquette."
imho, the most distasteful techniques to engineer interest in a post by linguistic paradox are exhibited in this post.
p.s. since inappropriate sexual and scatological innuendo are so frequent in public forums, I do not mention them, here.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I hope you enjoyed your Lagavulin!
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BillWoodruff wrote: imho, the frequent use of imho is an attempt to hide arrogance.
otoh, otoh is often used to attempt to hide even greater arrogance than an other's ho imho
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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 yes ! a pretence of indifference, or balanced opinion, disguising contempt.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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isisa, but far worse are those who invent their own initialisms, and just assume that everyone understands them.
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wtm? rotflmto!
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: far worse are those who invent their own initialisms
I hope Nelek doesn't see this 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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