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Hi,
It's a bloomin ghost town (cue the tune!) today in the office, nobodys here. Taking advantage of the Easter break to get a long holiday or mass UFO abduction.
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So break out the Doom disk and settle down for a good day ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well I would but one of seniors has walked in!!
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Damn!
Back to the old favorites then: pretend to work and surf t'interwebs...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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He was prolly disappointed to not have the office to himself!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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megaadam wrote: ...prolly...
Did you have an aneurysm? This isn't even a faarrrkkkking word in Merka.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote: isn't That may be true in some remote parts of the world. Anyway, I am not the first one to use it here in the Lounge.
^oxforddictionaries
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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megaadam wrote: Anyway, I am not the first one to use it here in the Lounge. Prolly not the last either...
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I still have a PS/2 port and the IDE controller to design. After that, I will have to come up with BIOS functions to access my DIY hardware. Do you think 8MB RAM will be enough for an 8 bit CPU or should I better get 16 MB?
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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Well speaking from experience writing the low level device drivers is a world of headaches. So best to put that off until you have achieved enough to go 'I do know what I am doing'. 8MB ram should be more than enough, I mean the old 8 bits rarely had anything above 128K...
modified 29-Mar-18 6:26am.
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Hey, at least I'm not bit banging everything like we used to in the old days.
The routines to send or receive bytes over a bit banged 4800 baud serial port were a world of headaches. Waiting for an interrupt, taking a byte from a controller and pushing it into a buffer is endearingly simple compared to 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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"4800" Youngster, it was "1200" in my day...
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300, but we tuned up our software until we had at least 1200. Disable interrupts and we could get 2400. 4800 could only be reached by clocking the CPU at maximum. If you were really good, you did everything to overclock the CPU (including *gasp* active cooling) and maybe even reached 9600.
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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Was Doom ever ported to PS2?
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Probably not, but make no mistake: PS2[^] != PS/2[^]
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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Do you do any Echo Cancellation too btw.
We are implementing SIP telephony on a PC with speakers and a microphone attached, and everything is singing around like crazy.
I googled a bit, but results are not very promising, I read about a guy who needed a year to implement Echo Cancellation in software ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Doom
That was such a fun game for me back in the day. Good memories about that one.
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I was somewhat obsessed with it myself ...
I bought a new computer kitted out specifically for playing Doom II: DX/4 100, 32 Meg RAM, solid Graphics card, SoundBlaster, ...
Did you get the "Doom dreams"?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I was terrified the first time I played the game. I didn't get "Doom dreams" but we would dial the volume up on the speakers to get maximum effective crap your pants effects.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. That first "dark area" ...
Even now the sound of an Arch-Vile seeing you raises the hair on the back of my neck. You knew there was trouble when you heard that!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I found your ToDo list:
- Move around on those chairs with wheels.
- Grab the good office supplies.
- Check for beer in fridge.
- Found nothing? Go to the nearest pub!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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ToDo lint Done Bits:
1. Have motored around the office on a chair
2. Office supplies, already raided (got quite a nice stapler) is locked
3. Beer in the fridge, you are joking, care has to be taken Friday lunch times as we have random breathelizer tests
4. Pub opposite doesn't open 'till midday!
5. Post random s*** on CP
6. Stare a pidgeon feet on the sky light
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Tesco might be open. Just saying.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I would more supprised if they aren't, just in a village with one shop and a post office.
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