Re: Screenshots wanted

1999-08-13 Thread James R Curry
> >> But GIF, PCX and PNG are compressed. You of course meant "lossily > >> compressed", but then JPEG is just about the only format which does that. > > > >Anyone transporting image files around in BMP format should also be shot, > >for > >waste of space/bandwidth/time/everything. > > I think

Re: Re : SUUG

1999-08-13 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:03:03 +0100 Fri, 13 Aug 99 11:28:44 BST, "michael sleight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Derek Morgan - That name rings a bell with me too - say more!! Derek used to run 'SAM PD' and 'F9 Software' (the latter title cunningly invented by me!). He was an agent for SAMCo and was

Re: Funny Thing

1999-08-13 Thread Ian Dalziel
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stuart Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>Seems to me, if looking momentarily at the sun made you go blind, the >>only idea we'd have about what it looked like would come from stories >>told by blind people... > >Your eyes _would_ be adjusted to the darkness... Wot

Re: Screenshots wanted

1999-08-13 Thread Stuart Brady
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> But GIF, PCX and PNG are compressed. You of course meant "lossily >> compressed", but then JPEG is just about the only format which does that. > >Anyone transporting image files around in BMP format should also be shot, for

RE: Screenshots wanted

1999-08-13 Thread Justin Skists
I stand corrected :) (I was tired OK...?) :) Justin > -Original Message- > From: Gordon Wallis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 6:58 PM > To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no > Subject: Re: Screenshots wanted > > Justin Skists wrote: > > Isn't JPEG with 0 compr

Re: Screenshots wanted

1999-08-13 Thread Paul Walker
> What about JPEG with the compression level set at zero? Is *THAT* > alright? Why bother, when you could just create a file in a truly lossless format? Paul -- Damian Steele> Please defive reasonable size. Tim Parsons> nable size. Next? -- Tim Parsons and Damian Steele, COMMON-ROOM, 8th Apr

Re: WinCoupe (Was Re: Fred n' Speccy)

1999-08-13 Thread Ian Collier
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 11:38:00PM +0100, Dave Hooper wrote: > (Having said that, I would be very surprised if there wasn't ALREADY some > kind of single-stepping / debugging stuff in the source. Vital for emulator > development, shurely) Not really. The code for xz80 (on which SimCoupé's cpu emu

WinCoupe (Was Re: Fred n' Speccy)

1999-08-13 Thread Dave Hooper
> It would take up almost no extra system resources, it would introduce no > compatibilities, and best of all it would have minimal impact on execution speed. ^ ! That'd be incompatibilities? WinCoupe or Sim32 or whateverthehellitsgonnabecalled should, I agree, feature some kind of deb

Re: Password

1999-08-13 Thread Robert Wilkinson
Thanks for the info Thomas. I found one .pwl file and renamed the .pwl to .ppp That worked so now I will delete the file. One more problem, every time I first start up windows and then go for Outlook Express, I get a box that states "WNetGetUser returned" I can't get the dial up box until I cli

Re: Password

1999-08-13 Thread Thomas Harte
> Does anyone know why Outlook Express will not remember my password. A common windows 95/98 password forgetting problem can be brought down to '.pwl' files in 'c:\windows' (or wherever) - delete your .pwl file (it is associated to whatever name you state in the 'login' window when you sw

Re: Fred n' speccy

1999-08-13 Thread Paul Walker
> > Mm. Sounds like The Tick was a damn sight funnier. Orders of magnitude, in > > fact. > Ahh, what do you know? ;) Nowt, since I've never seen the critic. ;) Earthworm Jim was good too, though. == Begin JIMTAGS.TAG "Earthworm Jim, this time-time-time-time you shall not escape-cape-cape!" "Fe

Re: Re. I hate Outlook Express.

1999-08-13 Thread Paul Walker
> from it but not receive. Of course cough up for the full package and > you'll get that too plus killfile options. I know your probably thinking > 'can't receive emails, what a pile of rubbish' but check it out anyway > if you deal with newsgroups you won't regret it. Free Agent's okay for newsgr

Re: Screenshots wanted

1999-08-13 Thread Paul Walker
> But GIF, PCX and PNG are compressed. You of course meant "lossily > compressed", but then JPEG is just about the only format which does that. Anyone transporting image files around in BMP format should also be shot, for waste of space/bandwidth/time/everything. Paul -- Snorting NoDoz is not

Re: Fred n' speccy

1999-08-13 Thread Andrew Collier
>Andrew > >Try Bob Wilkinson. He did a very good debugger (excuse the language), >called SINGLE STEP, for the Speccy. I'm sure he converted it for the SAM or >was it the Amstrad. Ask him anyway, he needs a project. Ah, that's not quite the point - I already have a good sam-hosted single stepper