George L. Schmauch Jr.
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August 31, 2010 at 1:10 am in reply to: Re: Commodore PC64: Looks Like a Commodore, Works Like a PC #822
You 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 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: Re: Commodore PC64: Looks Like a Commodore, Works Like a PC #820I 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].
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.[quote=”Meester.Rip”]
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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