madcrow

The site that I'm running is basically an oldskool BBS powered by web technology, but it's currently missing something: online games. Given my theme, I was wondering if there's any source for modern PHP versions of varoius oldskool BBS games like Empire, TradeWars, DopeWars, etc? I'd be especially interested if someone could point me to a web version of the classic C64 BBS game Murder Motel...

This is a cool little "legal exploit." It's certatinly more effective than praying to Pirates (pronounced pie-rat-eez) the Greek god of warez...I used to know a cool Google trick that would let you look at unsecured webcams, but fewer and fewer cams are being left unsecured these days I do know how to make certain models of Coke machine tell you what drinks people are buying, but that's a different story...

Yeah, those AOL policies look pretty bad, but then again, I would never use AOL because they stink in so many other ways too. Still, note that I didn't say that Google/G-Mail was big brother , I just said that the policies of using the contents of e-mails to target ads was a BIT big brother-ish.

I tend to like the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/) and some British newspapers like the Independent and the Guardian have good websites. I certainly don't look at American news sites 'cuz they're too biased and I get the same c**p on TV and Radio anyway.The main "news" site that I visit is http://www.zophar.net/ tho

Well, I was just wondering, does anyone here still run DOS other than me? It may not have all that many features (although DR-DOS/OpenDOS do) but it seems to be the most stable thing ever written for the PC, except perhaps the Linux kernel. Plus, it plays all kinds of games that don't work on more "modern" systems.

I like it a lot. It really is a nice service, even if the targeted ad algorithms are a bit "big brother-ish" It's nice to be able to search mail, and the idea of allowing messages to belong to multiple groups at the same time is cool. And the ever-increasing space quotia ain't bad either.

It's worth checking out. I've figured out how to use it quite nicely as a full-featured CMS, not just a blog system. If you want/need an example of it in action check out my site 8bitnation.astahost.comThe only bummer is that it uses only normal HTML code in the content, it doesn't have BBcode or a wysiwyg editor...

phpbb has one major advantage: it's free! to use ipb for more than a short amount of time, they've turned it into payware...

That's too much work just for a free name... I think I'll stick with a subdomain. That way more people will know about the cool people hosting my site.

After ditching Mambo because it ate too much of my space, I switched to Drupal and MAN is it nice. It's a bit unorthodox in its approach, but I really like how all the content is in the same basic format, even the forums.

Another cool low-programming FPS maker is known as Reality Factory. Visit it's site at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Project 64 1.6 is currently the newest and best N64 emulator. Just remember to get good plug-ins... Also remember, technically ROMs are illegal unless you make them yourself from a cartridge that you already own. While Rare isn't likely to come beating down your door for using a ROM of GE64, it's always a possibility. That said Goldeneye on PC can be a lot of fun, especially if you have a good Keyboard/Mouse configuration. In fact FPS games are usually better on the PC.

I had been using Mambo, but it was so darn big that I deleted it and am looking for something smaller and lighter...

If I were you, I'd steer clear of DirectX. I'd use OpenGL instead. OGL prggys are more portable and can be much easier to create Mac and Linux versions of.

Structurally it's more like AmigaOS than it is like MacOS. And that's a VERY good thing.

I've never really used high-end photo equipment in either the digital or the film world. I was one of those people who always used those dumb disposable camera to take pictures with. Then I got a cheap little didgital camera and it was really quite nice. I was able to take pictures, zap them into my computer, do editing, take small video clips, etc and i never had to buy one of those dumb disposables... until after a few years my didgicam broke. I had to wait a few months then i got a camera that would have been top of the line when i got my first camera, but got it for $50. so now i'm happy again.

The beauty of Java is that it works on any platform for which an interpreter has been written. Mac is one of those platforms, so your friend should have no problem with Java. Actually, Java is good to develop for on a Mac, because you can make programs that will work on PCs, so a lot more people can use them than if you were to make Mac-native programs.

In general, using a non-native language for realtime applications like games is a no-no. Still with 2 GHz computers common and 3 Ghz boxes becoming so, I guess that it doesn't matter as much as it used to.

This IS practical for end users. For the few people still using C64, this is a nice, user-friendly environment that's far nicer than anything else except for maybe GEOS. But GEOS is older, bigger and has less features... The sensor usage is impractical, but on a computer like C64 or Apple II, it's great.

It's amazing, but there's a real operating system that does multitasking, networking, provides a GUI and runs on a C64. It actually looks pretty cool. Check it out at http://dunkels.com/adam/ You can see screenshots and get a file suitable for use on your C64 emulator should you wish.

PS2 linux is a decent implementation and works very well. Sony used to sell and market it to people looking to devlop freeware for the PS2, but they no longer do so because it was used to make software that needed mod chips, which, of course, Sony doesn't support.

Most computer systems with that kind of paranoid security won't let you use programs that weren't installed by an admin, so there goes the possibility of using proggies from a floppy/cd-r/usb drive. booting a linux distro like knoppix or ubuntu live MIGHT work, but your school's computers might have some odd hardware. Plus, you would need to know the various network settings, which would be a pain in the *bottom* to find out w/o access to the settings panel.In the end, though, I can't understand why any place would have security THAT paranoid. Is it really THAT important to the people at schools that students not be able to use a proper web browser or download files?

I like to use Quanta Plus on Linux. It's a source-based editor with nice real-time previews and nice features like setting up the outline of a page and then just letting me code the actually <body> section.

I mainly learned HTML by looking osmosis. I honestly don't know how I learned but I think that it was a combo of most of the various methods, except for taking a class. My "skills" however, aren't really that good. My code is sort of HTML 1 class tags linked to a simple CSS style sheet...

I was using the offical page on port 2086...