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DXMachina - Oct 21, 2006 10:26:51 am PDT #9287 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I'm looking for a copy of the original Opus and Bill screensaver where they shot down the flying toasters (Before Broderbund sued them and won).

Well, rats. Turns out I don't have that one. I have the sequel to it. [link] And disk 3 is corrupt. And now my floppy drive wants to format any disk I put into it, even the ones that worked not five minutes ago. Bother.

Hil R. - Oct 21, 2006 10:29:45 am PDT #9288 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I know that we had that one. I have no idea if I've still got the disks for it.

tommyrot - Oct 21, 2006 10:32:44 am PDT #9289 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

And disk 3 is corrupt. And now my floppy drive wants to format any disk I put into it, even the ones that worked not five minutes ago.

Your machine is obviously infected by ghost toasters. That fly.

So, I installed the flying toasters on my MacBook. It's cool - there's just one disappointment. When I first saw the flying toasters, what really cracked me up was that it had a slider that controlled how toasted each piece of toast was. This version doesn't have that. Oh well.

Jon B. - Oct 21, 2006 11:45:39 am PDT #9290 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Sonofagun, I've got the Opus & Bill disks, and they were still readable!

For a limited time only: [link]

I should mention that I haven't tried to install it, so caveat emptor, etc.

tommyrot - Oct 21, 2006 11:50:34 am PDT #9291 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Ooh - this is cool. HOW TO - Make A Cylon Jack-O-Lantern

(Old-school Cylon. With glowy eye thing, of course.)

DXMachina - Oct 21, 2006 11:56:11 am PDT #9292 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Very cool, Jon. Thanks.

Jon B. - Oct 21, 2006 11:59:18 am PDT #9293 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Let me know if they work!

DXMachina - Oct 21, 2006 12:49:56 pm PDT #9294 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

They seem to work in XP. The best way to install it is to unzip everything into the same directory. Extracting the files to individual disk folders only gets the first disk installed and lots of error messages.

I did get an interesting and persistent error message when I first started it up, but it disappeared once I started testing the savers. That may also have been due to interaction with ZoneAlarm.

esse - Oct 21, 2006 2:13:35 pm PDT #9295 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Cool. Thanks Jon!

DCJensen - Oct 21, 2006 6:42:40 pm PDT #9296 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

Ha. cool. Thanks

I have the opus and bill "on the road again" edition for both Mac and PC in their original boxes. Several in fact.

I made disk images of the things available a couple of years ago. wonder where they are?

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