Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote: I've seen this on digicams with CF cards. 2GB is the "official" limit to FAT16 filesystems. However, XP and later can format 4GB cards to FAT16 as well--and it seems to work very well with my older cameras, which do not understand FAT32. While, at the

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote: If that 128GB SD card is such a bother, I'll trade a 2MB CF card for it--it shouldn't take very long for a directory listing... :) I'll raise that 2MB offer to a 2GB card! (is Micro-SD + adapter OK?) When it seemed likely that 2G would be going away, I

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 01/01/2016 12:36 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: While, at the time, 2G seemed "infinite", even then, I was amused at the 2G limitation being due to the use of a SIGNED 32 bit number. The size can be anywhere from -2147483648 to 2147483647. By switching to an UNSIGNED 32, NT and the like made the

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 01/01/2016 01:35 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Another way, starting with PC/MS-DOS 3.10 was using MSCDEX, or equivalent. I think that there used to be some very strange patches around to let a hard drive impersonate a CD-ROM. A CD-ROM (2/3 G) was not a local drive to the OS! It was presented as

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 01/01/2016 12:25 PM, Jim Brain wrote: I understand that, but the OP was talking about a SD card add-on (I assume for the 64) that only accepts 2GB cards. AFAIK, all of them accept FAT32 now. Since I sell one of the variants, and I have snarky people ask me how big a SD card mine will

Re: 10 forgotten wonders of 1980s homes

On 1/1/2016 2:52 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 01/01/2016 11:24 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: Oh, don't feel too bad. I've only got 3.0/1.0 via Comcast cable on this semi rural small mountain I live on. But, I'm happy with it given my bill is $59 / month with basic TV service (that I don't

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 1/1/2016 1:54 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 01/01/2016 11:03 AM, Jim Brain wrote: On 1/1/2016 12:50 AM, Mike wrote: Thank you G for the info that guy was quite young. . . So now I guess Ill buy the SD card addon but the only problem is that I have seen you can only use a 2 gig SD card in them

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 01/01/2016 11:03 AM, Jim Brain wrote: On 1/1/2016 12:50 AM, Mike wrote: Thank you G for the info that guy was quite young. . . So now I guess Ill buy the SD card addon but the only problem is that I have seen you can only use a 2 gig SD card in them is that right? Can you clarify? I'm not

Re: Remember the old "Choose your own adventure books" By D & D! ! !

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015, Ethan Dicks wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Cindy Croxton wrote: > >> Has any of you took one of them old choose your own adventurer books and > >> coded it into a text RPG in basic? > >> > >> 1. Clear the screen for the next page! > >> > >

Re: Happy New Year

On 12/31/2015 8:59 PM, Rick Bensene wrote: I'll put it another way: praises to Jay for putting up with this bunch of nut-jobs (self included). :-) Happy New Year to all, may you find a PDP-6 in your neighbor's barn. -- Ian I echo Ian's sentiments -- Jay deserves so much praise all he does

Re: [SPOILERS] Re: Targeting Computers in X wing fighters.

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015, Fred Cisin wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, jwsmobile wrote: > >Some people are waiting for the nuts to quit filing theaters. Please don't > >discuss w/o a warning as Al placed on the line (or if someone else did, > >I've not gotten that message). > >It is ill mannered at best.

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 1/1/2016 2:36 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote: I've seen this on digicams with CF cards. 2GB is the "official" limit to FAT16 filesystems. However, XP and later can format 4GB cards to FAT16 as well--and it seems to work very well with my older cameras, which

Re: 10 forgotten wonders of 1980s homes

I had 7/5 here in Seattle, until I made the mistake of trusting the CL sales turkeys. I ended up with 20Mb down, but 896Kb up. The sales turkey flat-out lied to me, but they wouldn't revert me - something about my former plan being an "out of date" class of service. On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 12:25

Re: 10 forgotten wonders of 1980s homes

On 01/01/2016 01:56 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 01/01/2016 01:52 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: I'm amazed that "caller ID" costs CL anything, but it's one of the highest-priced add-ons. It clearly costs them NOTHING! It is software on the switch, and the hardware needed to support it is present on

Re: Remember the old "Choose your own adventure books" By D & D! ! !

On Fri, Jan 01, 2016, Eric Christopherson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Cindy Croxton wrote: > > >> Has any of you took one of them old choose your own adventurer books and > > >> coded it into a text RPG in basic? > >

Re: HP 16700A/16702A logic analyzer help request - /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file wanted

If you get stuck you could always try attaching a spare SCSI hard drive and installing the system software from scratch. I should be able to supply a copy of the requested file tomorrow if someone else doesn't first.

Re: 10 forgotten wonders of 1980s homes

On 01/01/2016 11:24 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: Oh, don't feel too bad. I've only got 3.0/1.0 via Comcast cable on this semi rural small mountain I live on. But, I'm happy with it given my bill is $59 / month with basic TV service (that I don't use). Now you've done it. For my phone and

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote: What's funny is that in the old pre MS-DOS 3.3 days, one of the ways to trick DOS into supporting larger volumes was to increase the (apparent) sector size with code to block up 512 byte sectors into larger (1024, 2048, etc.) apparent ones--and a few DOS

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 01/01/2016 01:35 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Another way, starting with PC/MS-DOS 3.10 was using MSCDEX, or equivalent. I think that there used to be some very strange patches around to let a hard drive impersonate a CD-ROM. A CD-ROM (2/3 G) was not a local drive to the OS! It was presented as

HP 16700A/16702A logic analyzer help request - /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file wanted

I previously mentioned that the ethernet interface on my HP 16702A is not working. After a lot of messing around, I discovered that the 10baseT interface actually works fine if I log in as root (after jailbreaking it), and manually configure the interface. The problem seems to be with the

Re: Castlevaina for the Commodore 64

On 12/12/2015 05:47 AM, Mike wrote: > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 10, 2015, at 2:55 AM, "drlegendre ." wrote: >> >> Hey Mike, >> >> Thanks, but I don't know if I need the codes, they are probably posted >> online? In any case, I found the game in my archive, so I

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 12/28/2015 03:25 PM, geneb wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, Paul Berger wrote: > >> On 2015-12-28 12:13 PM, geneb wrote: >>> On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Mike wrote: >>> Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? >>> No. The company folded years ago after the founder and driving >>> force

Re: 10 forgotten wonders of 1980s homes

On 01/01/2016 08:46 AM, Jason Howe wrote: I agree, I'm just north of Seattle, in Lake Forest Park. With CL DSL I'm stuck at 5MB/800K. Honestly, the 800K uplink is the real killer, 5MB down isn't awful, unless I'M trying to download an ISO or something -- in which case I can usually wait

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 1/1/2016 12:50 AM, Mike wrote: Thank you G for the info that guy was quite young. . . So now I guess Ill buy the SD card addon but the only problem is that I have seen you can only use a 2 gig SD card in them is that right? Can you clarify? I'm not aware of a SD card add-on for the C64 that

Re: 10 forgotten wonders of 1980s homes

On 1/1/2016 1:28 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: ... So maybe I'll get out of the 1.5/0.800 "Neanderthal" service one of these days. I hope my story helps out other CL customers. --Chuck Oh, don't feel too bad. I've only got 3.0/1.0 via Comcast cable on this semi rural small mountain I live

Yet another batch of VCF videos

Today we posted the videos from East 5.0. Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_e5fSxflvrxnBFCeLI_uLqQHJBmghA2g. In the past week or two, we also posted the videos from East 6.0 and 9(.1). Videos from 7.0 and 10.0 will be ready soon. East 8.0 is in the hopper, and we're trying to

Re: 10 forgotten wonders of 1980s homes

On Wed, 30 Dec 2015, Ian S. King wrote: I've had CL in Seattle for years with minimal disruptions. Nothing compared to my friends/colleagues with ComCrap. I agree, I'm just north of Seattle, in Lake Forest Park. With CL DSL I'm stuck at 5MB/800K. Honestly, the 800K uplink is the real