George L. Schmauch Jr.
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Hope it’s not all staff members who voted. 🙂
September 1, 2010 at 2:02 am in reply to: Commodore PC64: Looks Like a Commodore, Works Like a PC #27695[quote=”shadymg”]
i saw the video….skirge….wow……maybe this is why you don’t like MOdern Family 😛
[/quote]Man, that’s just wrong. 😉 If you spent as many years using the C64 and C128 as I did, you’d understand.
August 31, 2010 at 5:41 pm in reply to: Commodore PC64: Looks Like a Commodore, Works Like a PC #27693To be fair, the fastload and super snapshot cartridges did allow for shortcuts to be used, so if you had one of those, you may have pressed a two key combo in order for it to type out LOAD “*”,8,1 for your lazy arse. 😉 I had super snapshot personally and remember typing $ to see the directory of disks, rather than LOAD “$”,8. I wouldn’t have remembered that stuff had I not watched that video I linked to. BTW, if you didn’t watch it through to the end, you missed the funniest parts, as the guy gets ticked off at himself and the Commodore keyboard layout!
[url=http://www.missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5072&Itemid=2]Original Article Link[/url]
Did you happen to also see the original Death Wish? I read the Amazon review and even they mentioned the comparison. Reading both descriptions, it sounds very much like Death Wish, except that one had his wife murdered (beaten, then she dies of her injuries) and his daughter raped (a sequence which still haunts me to this day, even though it’s never shown). The city sounds more like a Robocop movie, however.
I would have definitely picked Evil Dead, but that’s the easy pick, so I can appreciate a different choice… unlike the Emmy’s/Oscars ever do. 😉
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Btw Skirge….you seriously didn’t like MOdern Family?>???What do you guys think about Outsourced, which starts 9/23. I’ve seen the previews and it looks like it has potential. I’m a bit biased having worked with some outsource companies before, but still….i’m open to it.
When’s “The IT Crowd” coming to the states?!?!
[/quote]Yeah, sorry, Mike. Both the wife and I had the same response to Modern Family… it just wasn’t funny. I cracked a smile here and there, but, overall… not my kind of humour.
I saw a preview for Outsourced and I didn’t think it was going to do too well. I was quite surprised that any American network was even willing to TRY that sort of humour, given the non-PC nature of it. While funny, I don’t know how it’s going to hold up over the long run. Plus, again, showing the general population how “stupid” they can be doesn’t usually go over very well. I really hope some of my end users don’t watch that show! LOL! Or, maybe it’ll turn out to be a good thing and they won’t open tickets for stupid things anymore. Nah… that’ll never happen. ;D
IT Crowd is on BBCA all the time. That’s where I’ve been watching it.
August 31, 2010 at 1:10 am in reply to: Commodore PC64: Looks Like a Commodore, Works Like a PC #27691You couldn’t use that joystick until you typed in LOAD “*”,8,1, though! They didn’t have “autorun” back then! Damn young whippersnappers! 😉 If you did any programming on the C64, you knew all about the C= key for changing between upper and lowercase and displaying all those easy to access graphics without having to know how to create sprites.
August 30, 2010 at 9:00 pm in reply to: Commodore PC64: Looks Like a Commodore, Works Like a PC #27689I wonder if that’s just a stock photo and they’ll actually have something for the key issues. The C= (ha… haven’t written that in decades!) key might work fine for getting additional keys from the ones without the graphics. Come to think of it, are they going to have the graphics on the keys display? A keyboard mapper is damn near a necessity, particularly with the quote (“) symbol being where the @ sign is expected to be, among other changes.
If you want to see how tough it may be for a typist to use the Commodore layout again, watch [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daBGen-Fb3w]this hilarious video[/url].
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I can’t believe you missed Modern Family.
[/quote]Sorry. I gave it a shot when some people on here recommended it, but I didn’t find it very funny. I tried 3 episodes and was pretty bored with it.
@xjboonie… re: Smallville… I couldn’t agree more. I know it won’t happen, but I’d actually like to see Tom Welling portray Superman in the next movie.I’ve heard good things about Dexter, but the premise never sounded appealing, no matter who described it to me. Maybe I should rethink that, however, since it took a really good friend of mine over a year to convince me to watch Big Bang (yeah, yeah, I know). I’m recording How I Met Your Mother, but have only watched one episode of it (which I did think was somewhat funny) so far. I may have to check out The Glades now, too. Dammit! 😉 Glad I’m finally up to the last 11 episodes of the original Law & Order. Those 426 episodes were taking up WAY too much space on my server!
Some things that crossed my mind were overheating, bad drivers (as you already said), or a bad codec. Considering that their official drivers have not been updated since 2008, it may be that it doesn’t work with Windows 7. Even though MS installed a driver for you, it may not be a fully compatible one.
Agreed. Time Bandits is… well… timeless. It was such an original take on the whole “time travel” story. The big surprise to me was the twist at the very end of the movie. I never saw that coming.
First thing that crossed my mind was whether you were running the latest Catalyst drivers.
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Also, is it better to let windows update install the driver, or to download and run it directly from Intel’s website?
[/quote]I know there [i]shouldn’t[/i] be a difference…
This may very well just be my luck, but I’ve run into issues when downloading drivers via Windows update. In fact, it once installed a new network driver which made my connection completely unreliable. It actually took me about 5 tries to get the driver downloaded so I could revert. I download all the latest drivers direct from the manufacturer now.
August 19, 2010 at 4:49 pm in reply to: Blog: Introducing TunerSalad! (aka I need more tuners…) #27401Way to take the fun out of a joke, Naylia! 😉
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It’s not a screen shot – it’s an attachment picture from my iPhone (sorry it’s not better – and it’s rotated – I’ll see if I can fix that) of the screen.
[/quote]I’m not seeing the attachment, but Ugadata is, so I’m glad he’s helping out. 🙂
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