Error on my part

"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
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Which, of course, means that you'd better keep that old 386 around if
you want to continue playing SirTech's Wizardry 25 years after it was
written in the P-System...

Got a 386 laptop, a P2 system (my wife's machine), a Celeron system (my main
machine), a P3 laptop, 2 Pentiums (one with Linux), a 486 (server) and 3
8088s. Got a few more old machines waiting for me to fix. Just got a Brother
SuperPowerNote PN-9000GR at a yard sale (for which I need to find a manual).
Need to find some ISA network cards for the 8088s.

Also picked up a Mac SE and Performa. Haven't tried them yet, but they had
some mouse **** on them. If the Mac doesn't work, I'll convert it to an
aquarium. Just read in a magazine where someone had converted one into a
serious power Intel machine, just to screw with his fruity friends.

"Ami Silberman" wrote in message
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"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:55:19 -0500, "Ami Silberman"
wrote:

Which, of course, means that you'd better keep that old 386 around if
you want to continue playing SirTech's Wizardry 25 years after it was
written in the P-System...

Boy, that makes me feel old. I was friends with both the designers and
almost all the playtesters (most of whom lived in my dorm). I remember
playing it a little pre-release my first semester at Cornell.


Damn find game. First one I ever played on the PC XT.

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 01:45:19 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:

"Ami Silberman" wrote in message
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"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:55:19 -0500, "Ami Silberman"
wrote:

Which, of course, means that you'd better keep that old 386 around if
you want to continue playing SirTech's Wizardry 25 years after it was
written in the P-System...

Boy, that makes me feel old. I was friends with both the designers and
almost all the playtesters (most of whom lived in my dorm). I remember
playing it a little pre-release my first semester at Cornell.

....Yeah, I had an e-mail exchange with Werdna...er...Andrew back in
early '85 when I had my comp center account on the 3081, and got some
clarification on some of the data file structures for the PC version.
I had access to the P-System version that IBM had written, and used it
to port over a hex editor from a Apple ][ platform and make it work
good enough to edit and restore characters for Wiz I and II, which was
all I had at the time. Wiz III came out, but by then I'd abandoned
P-System research as it was obviously never going to include HDD
support :-(

I *think* I've got the Wiz I-III collection around here somewhere in
one of my boxes. It's still fondly remembered as a very good port of
very bad D&D :-)


Damn find game. First one I ever played on the PC XT.


OM

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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 01:45:19 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
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Damn find game. First one I ever played on the PC XT.

....And the funny part? Damn thing actually played faster on a PC Jr.

OM

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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:11:46 -0600, "w9gb"
wrote:

The scene in Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1970) where Malcolm
McDowell places a flat square (about the size of a 2x2 film slide) into the
dash board of his car for music ...

....Nope. I'm watching that scene now. What he did was put a small
cassette tape into a phony slot on an even phonier future stereo rig.
Those tapes were designed for small voice dictation devices, and you
can get them at Radio Shack still even though that size tape recorder
isn't manufactured much these days.

OM

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"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:11:46 -0600, "w9gb"
wrote:

The scene in Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1970) where Malcolm
McDowell places a flat square (about the size of a 2x2 film slide) into
the
dash board of his car for music ...

...Nope. I'm watching that scene now. What he did was put a small
cassette tape into a phony slot on an even phonier future stereo rig.
Those tapes were designed for small voice dictation devices, and you
can get them at Radio Shack still even though that size tape recorder
isn't manufactured much these days.

Don't have that film on DVD. I don't remember it being the small dictation
cassettes (and I used those dictation systems in 1970s). Hah .. well so
much for my memory these days.

gb