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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2006, 04:29 PM »

as good as NES and colecovision were, nothing can really steel the place in my heart for the atari2600, which had so many games it was enough to drive young children into seizures making their list at xmas:


http://www.vidgame.n...t/ATARI/CX2600A.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2006, 04:20 PM »

colecovisio game system was amazing - they had some of the most amazing controllers you could buy..
coleco adam was pretty cool for its time but i guess it came a time when it was overshadowed.


colecovision game system:
http://www.vidgame.n...t/COLECO/COLVIS.html





coleco adam:
http://oldcomputers.net/adam.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2006, 10:48 AM »

we used to write silly games on the trs-80; there definitely weren't many.
but there was an assembly-written defender clone that was sold that was amazing.  which i could remember the name of it.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: everyone who enters will get something

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2006, 07:11 AM »

nice idea! and nice sample!

yes, i think we shall do something very much like that!

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Living Room / Re: Man Using Paper Clip to Barter for House

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2006, 07:01 AM »

Funny idea, and quite astonishing what you can get for a paper clip with random publicity.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: ScummVM Front End by Shed of BCB-Tools

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2006, 05:25 AM »

you can enter as many apps in the contest as you want

shed, if you feel like it, it might be nice to give people a link to scummvm and talk a little bit about what scummvm is and how its used, and what the front end adds, etc.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: It would be nice to have an option to launch programs in a limited user context

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2006, 04:56 AM »

it might be nice to have a 3rd party commandline tool that could be configured to work with farr in this way.

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Living Room / Re: Is it safe to try new freeware?

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2006, 12:49 AM »

our virtual machine review ->
https://www.donation...alMachine/index.html

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Living Room / Re: Hilarious spoof ...

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 09:47 PM »

how sick is it that i like the music/singing in the spoof better than the real version?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Tweak Tool?

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 07:12 PM »

Oh, and yes, I HATE IT WHEN A BROWSER OR FORUM TRASHES MY POST!

this is why many of us use a clipboard tool like clipboard help+spell or clipmate, or clcl, so that we can periodically while typing a log post do a Ctrl+A and then Ctrl+C, just in case, then it's always in clipboard clips, even if browser crashes, etc.  saves having to type in a separate editor.

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Living Room / Re: Gada Be - A cool search engine.

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 01:27 PM »

nice find..
what i like about it is how it finds different KINDS of results.. useful for getting a variety of results.

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Podcast Radio Show / Re: Podcast Audio Radio Show - Upcoming Show Planning

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 12:51 PM »

some more links on recording computer voice calls (mainly using skype):

http://www.kickstart...ernet/skylook_1.html

http://www.bath.ac.u...e.php?id=383_0_4_0_M

http://www.kolabora....terview_recorder.htm

http://www.macdevcen.../how-to-podcast.html

http://moneyclicking.../phone-interview.htm

http://www.skypejour...2/call_recording.php

http://www.echochamb...t.com/recordingskype

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Living Room / Re: The brain's judgmental biases

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 11:59 AM »

you know it took a couple of hours for this to settle in, but a good point in that article might warrant mentioning in my donationware article.

one of the things it points out is that people are geneous, except when they think they might be taken advantage of, and feel like people might be freeloading off their money/work.  it suggests that one issue to address in asking for donations is to assure people this is not the case.

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Podcast Radio Show / Re: Podcast Audio Radio Show - Upcoming Show Planning

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 11:51 AM »

just ask them what they would do with some DonationCredits and see what they say

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Podcast Radio Show / Re: Podcast Audio Radio Show - Upcoming Show Planning

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 11:05 AM »

here's another idea for a regular segment:

is there anyone who regularly gets mad at something in the software world, who might want to do a regular 5 min segment ranting against something each month: ie. spyware, microsoft, apple, vaporware, the music industry, etc.

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Podcast Radio Show / Re: Podcast Audio Radio Show - Upcoming Show Planning

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 10:58 AM »

i think it would be nice to have a segment on skrommel and autohotkey in the first podcast.
either skrommel talking himself about how he started getting into ahk and coding, etc.
or an interview by someone here of skrommel.

on a related note, maybe someone could post a tutorial on using something like skype to have an audio conversation over the internet and record it?

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Living Room / Re: The brain's judgmental biases

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 10:04 AM »

nice find with lots of fun annectodal stuff. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: a better PowerDimmer screensaver alternative?

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 09:29 AM »

this is my normal reminder that this is the kind of thing DonationCredits were made for  

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Developer's Corner / Re: Lines Of Action Game Heuristics

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 07:53 AM »

game playing AI is one of my favorite subjects - my AI research is not in games but I still love it.

any idea what kind of approach you want to follow?

i.e. do you want to make a program that LEARNS to play:
http://www.research....com/massive/tdl.html

or do you want to try to design a playing algorithm yourself that doesnt actually learn.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: My new favorite pen

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 04:48 AM »

Save $200 in 2 minutes and have the worlds best writing pen
(use mont blanc refills in another pen)

http://www.instructa...0299AD7001143E7E506/

from digg.com

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Developer's Corner / Nice short article on how people quickly scan pages and its implications

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2006, 04:41 AM »

Nice short article on how people quickly scan pages and what it means for web developers

Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe...

http://www.useit.com...reading_pattern.html

from useit.com

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Name Display problem with group items

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2006, 04:39 PM »

seems like abug; ive got some updates to release next week - i'll put this on the queue

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General Review Discussion / Re: Vote for what Review to do Next

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2006, 11:33 AM »

i would love to have us expand the concept of reviews to encompass things like more general purpose "guides"

like "guide to technical review sites" or "guide to backing up your computer" etc

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2006, 11:19 AM »

welcome to the site Conatus! (set an avatar image when you get a chance),

i remember the heatkit robots - i used to dream of having one
http://www.robotswan...botgallery/heathkit/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Backing up to protect against operating system or hard drive failure

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2006, 10:52 AM »

i also advocate using 2 "program files" type directories, one for programs that use an installer, and one for those you manually place somewhere.

i use the default "Program Files" for installer apps
and "Programs" for manually placed programs.