* Steve Mynott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> "Insanely Great" seemed very dumbed down, lightweight ("like yeah?")
>
Insanely Great is for wimps, real men read Infinite Loop[1]. It covers
the same period as Insanely Great but also looks at the time after
that, when Apple didn't do quite so well
>I've also just read, in quick succession, Insanely Great and Zap! The
>Rise and Fall of Atari.
The Amiga was better.
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Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've also just read, in quick succession, Insanely Great and Zap! The
> Rise and Fall of Atari. Apart from the fact that Zap! is far worse
> written and hasn't been updated for 16 years and doesn't have Levy's
> occasional, err, fawning for want of a b
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:33:42PM +, the hatter said:
> jaguar and missile command, and today I bought a second jaguar (for 10ukp,
> rather than 8ukp for just a second controller, which I wanted) and a
> couple more games. R.I.P Atari, I will think of you every time I look
> towards sunnydal
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Dean S Wilson wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Sue Spence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Dean S Wilson wrote:
> > > Hate to be the one to point this out but if you need functionality
> > > like strace then maybe a consumer grade OS isn't right for you...
>
> > Or any
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Jesus. Checksumming bad data on disks used to be a copy protection
> mechanism way back when I was cracking ST games - mostly byte 32 for
> reasons unknown. All you needed was some bit copier like the ones on
> Nasty Utils or FastCopy.
That's the weird
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:41:12AM +, Chris Benson said:
> I fear it may be to do with the PC having a CD-ROM/DVD/CD-R drive ...
> the CD reads OK (at least the visible data does) on a plain SCSI CD-ROM.
> But I was wondering about a faked ToC ... mmm, in the morning I'll have a
> look at it
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:36:40PM +, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Jesus. Checksumming bad data on disks used to be a copy protection
> mechanism way back when I was cracking ST games - mostly byte 32 for
Showing your age there? :-) ISTR Fortune used to do that with their
For:Pro (Unix) s/ware (83-
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:41:22PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote:
>
> Windows is one of those things, you learn enough about its
> idiosyncrasies to be an effective advocate against it ;)
I was seriously considering doing an MSCE so I could slag with authority,
but decided it was carrying things to
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:06:18PM -, Robert Shiels said:
> Welcome to the world of copyrighted games, I found quite an interesting site
> this week http://www.gamecopyworld.com/ which has lots of help on dealing
> with game CDs, including downloads of programs like CloneCD which aim to
> hel
- Original Message -
From: "Sue Spence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Dean S Wilson wrote:
> > Hate to be the one to point this out but if you need functionality
> > like strace then maybe a consumer grade OS isn't right for you...
> Or anyone else, for that matter.
Scary Devil Monastery: "All s
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 01:28:49PM +, Chris Benson wrote:
> There are other questions raised tho': such as why does rundll32 need
> to check the winders version number ... 4 times a second ... continuously
> ... does it think it might change? Maybe it's using Dave's
> Tie-Hash-Cannabinol?
From: "Chris Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I guess I agree with you, but installing a game should 'just work'
shouldn't
> it? (This is American Magee's Alice from Electronic Arts btw). What's
the
> average punter supposed to do?
>
I've installed and uninstalled Alice several times on my games
Dean S Wilson wrote:
>
> Hate to be the one to point this out but if you need functionality
> like strace then maybe a consumer grade OS isn't right for you...
>
>
Or anyone else, for that matter.
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:09:34PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Chris Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > Can I find out WTF it is looking at? Nope. On Un*x it's 10 seconds:
> > strace target-program | grep '^open' | less
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 07:29:37PM +, Robin wrote:
> in the direction of filemon ( which spots all file system calls ) and regmon (
> which monitors all calls into and out of the registry ) .. two essential
Yeah! The installed was finding a hidden file c:/windows/ereg.txt and
deciding that
- Original Message -
From: "Chris Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Can I find out WTF it is looking at? Nope. On Un*x it's 10 seconds:
> strace target-program | grep '^open' | less
http://www.securityfocus.com/tools/1276
Should start you off wih strace, cygwin or some of the resourcekit
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 07:29:37PM +, Robin wrote:
> Chris Benson wrote:
>
> > Can I find out WTF it is looking at? Nope. On Un*x it's 10 seconds:
> > strace target-program | grep '^open' | less
>
> coincidentally, we spoke of this on IRC just the other day ... can I point sir
> in
Chris Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 05:06:57PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> >
> > As i type this in, yet again i realise what a steaming pile of shit
> > windows is when it comes to the most simple things.
>
> viz. Installed game of GF's PC last night.
>
>
> Can I find out WTF it is l
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 05:06:57PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> As i type this in, yet again i realise what a steaming pile of shit
> windows is when it comes to the most simple things.
viz. Installed game of GF's PC last night.
Install failed because it can't read the CD.
Burnt a copy CD
* Steve Mynott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> using groups) and journaling etc. Also it still seems quite common to
> use FAT32 rather than NTFS still on many NT systems.
>
IIRC, Win32 admin types tend to use FAT32 for the equivalent of the /
partition, i.e. c:\ , for c:\windows and all that cr
Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:47:37AM +, robin szemeti wrote:
> > Windows
> > Virus
> > "No effective file permisions system"
>
> Windows NT has a more sophisticated file ownership/permissions system
> than *nix by a lng way. (Win 9x/ME suck of c
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