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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?


tommyrot - Oct 23, 2006 6:22:16 am PDT #9297 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.

Possibly someone might be interested in this:

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Welcome to the official online archive of Computer Gaming World magazine, where you can read and download digitized versions* of the first 100 issues of the magazine, beginning with the first issue in November 1981, and then see covers of all the rest of the magazine's run through the final issue in November 2006.

Founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe, Computer Gaming World began life as a small, self-published, independent magazine for the then small community of computer game hobbyists (it was, in fact, the first magazine dedicated to the hobby), but grew over the years into one of the most important and powerful media voices in all of digital entertainment, thanks to its strong editorial voice and reputation for tough but fair reviews.


Liese S. - Oct 23, 2006 7:00:00 am PDT #9298 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

How cool!


Calli - Oct 23, 2006 3:15:39 pm PDT #9299 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Well, I finally have broadband. (Cable modem). I'm running OSX 10.4.5 on a mac, with 384 MB RAM, and I'm trying to watch videos on youtube. For some reason the video isn't going properly. I'll get the sound, but the video seems to be going at less than half speed. This happens in Camino and Safari. I ran a speed test on my cable connection, and Im suposedly getting 577.5 KB/sec. Does anyone know why Youtube hates me?


tommyrot - Oct 23, 2006 3:30:52 pm PDT #9300 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.

How fast is the CPU? My guess is it's the lack of RAM, slow CPU or both.

eta: My new MacBook occasionally has problems with video - it'll just freeze up sometimes. I have a system monitor thing that shows it's swapping virtual memory when that happens, which is a clear sign I need more RAM. Currently I have the 512 Meg it came with; soon I'll upgrade to 2 Gig.


Calli - Oct 23, 2006 3:33:21 pm PDT #9301 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

The CPU is 500 MHz. I hope it's lack of RAM, because I suspect that's cheaper to replace than the CPU.

ETA: I'll try watching the videos with nothing else going on on my computer and see if that helps. Thanks for the suggestion.