Hi what is keynote multimedia?
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:43:39 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: >Hi Shaun, >Yeah, I know what you mean about not being able to run some of the older >Dos games. After my parents got our first IBM compatible system, an IBM >I386, I got several Dos games. A lot of those games won't run on >anything higher than a I486 running Windows 95. I actually held onto an >I486 with Windows 95 for several years running a Dectalk PC and Jaws >just for gaming purposes. Though, when my wife and I moved last year I >had to scrap most of my older computers. >Some of my games like Duke Nukem II, Over Kill, etc work pretty well >using the Dos emulator for Linux. However, I have my share of Dos games >that won't run on anything but on an I386 system with true Dos. >I have this one game, Wheel of Fortune for Dos, that goes totally nuts >on a Pentium IV system. When you run wheel.exe the PC speaker begins >playing the Wheel of Fortune music at super fast speed, like 1000 times >faster than it should, and it sounds totally hilarious. As soon as the >music stops the computer solves all the puzzles, like in under a second, >and you get the game over screen. It is extremely funny. >I have some pinball games for Dos that do similar weird things. You hit >the spacebar to launch the ball and it bounces around the screen hitting >bumpers like a laser beam, and then you lose the ball in less than a >second. it moves the ball so fast a sighted player can't really see it >on the screen before it passes the flippers and gets lost. Again it is >sort of funny in a weird sort of way. >One of my favorite games for Dos was 688. In that game you played the >part of a U.S. 688 submarine commander. While on a training mission you >end up getting into a shooting war with a Soviet Alpha-Class attack >submarine. I guess it was the forerunner for Silent Steel which came out >a couple years later for Windows 95. >As for the keynote SA that was a really cool multilingual synth. In >college I really wanted one of those. I knew someone who did, and I >liked it as it handled French and German extremely well. Synths like >Eloquence though made such external synths like the Keynote SA units >unnecessary. Hmmm... I wonder if they still have the keynote Multimedia >Software around. > > >shaun everiss wrote: >>yeah mine was an 386sx, running toshiba dos 5.0, I got it in 1993. >>I didn't discover games till 1996 and then the system survived till 2003 when >>it finally died. >>I have never been able to emulate all the old style games nicely. >>One of the major drawbacks is that I can't get the back of my sa synth to >>change the batteries. >>And another to have the keynote software work I need a 386 thats either a >>straight 86 or an sx running msdos 5 or 6. >>I tried to get a laptop that was like this but never did. >>saying that if ever anyone on here does have one in working condition they >>don't want I may be interested. >>or even another old system that still has a few years good life in it. >>Idealy I'd like several that I can just change parts out of. >>I doubt that will happen but I'd still like to run all the old stuff again >>Now if I could get something to run with a screenreader in dos using the >>soundcard and switch to my notepad file with hints should I like to then yeah >>I'd probably do it. >>another thing is though I have no real desk space now, so who knows. > > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
