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(...) Steve uploads .wav to Janey, and disappears in a puff of smoke before the anvil falls. beep beep (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Not to be confused with the roadrunner's "beep beep" Waves at Steve and Dave, (long time no see) and to distract them from the Acme Anvil hanging right over their NXTs. Giggles Janey "NXT-free Red Brick" (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Oh I'm working up to bid on another--I'm aiming for the same amount of cash--180 to 200 US--maybe i build an off road entry to compete with you--this time you should have a good chance of kicking my heinie :) But i'll use 1 for now--figure it (...) (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) BTW, you can change the "on" sound. If you replace the !startup.rso file with another .rso, you'll get the new sound. And, on this page, there's a program that will convert a .wav file to a .rso file... (URL) all you need is a recording of the (...) (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) One of my favorites is turning a pair of NXTs into a $500USD remote control car, that I won't take out in the snow. (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Got it last night, didn't do much to it besides rip open the box and put some battries in it to hear the 'on' sound (miss the old 'beep beep' of the RCX, but that's neither here nor there...) Today I installed NXT software, update firmware, and then (...) (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Pft, I would have killed for a green and black monitor! My apple was hooked up to the TV (using some sort of magic converter thingum). (18 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yeah, it was a crappy monitor. (...) That was about what the Amiga cost. Calum (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) And thus his future life in a technical field was born... (...) Strangly, I never did have an asembler for the Apple ][. Somehow, my HS friends and I missed that and did everything on graph paper and raw hex code. The best part was when we (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I like my iMac, because it's pretty. -Iain (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Sorry, it's kind of taken a back seat. Something else popped up. :) -Iain (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Ross Crawford wrote: <snip> (...) The 6502... That number seems to be the 'computer geek' equivalent of the number '23'. Seems to show up in many places. Of course, many inside jokes in the video games I (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Zenith!!?! My first PC was a Zenith. 4.77Mhz with a "turbo" button to run it at 8Mhz (thought he games wouldn't run at the fast speed as most of them relied on the clock). Also included: 640k RAM (I upgraded from the factory 512k) 5MB Hard (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I used to sell Apple ][ clones for a mail-order company. (ok so I answered the phone). That was a great high-school job, until the company was raided by customs... And, at one time I had a program that made the floppy drive sound like it was (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Ummmmm TICK TICK HELLO!!!! waiting... whats the latest on this? do i have to do EVERYTHING? like PLAN a date to all gather and agree on a car design. Wonko C= (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hey I learned 6502 assembler on mine, remember the Big Mac macro assembler? And I used it to write a program that could squeeze about 5 times as much data on tapes as the standard firmware (yes, I said tapes). And I did my first paid computer (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Worse. It was a clone Apple II Plus called a "Unitron" with an "NPH" and a "Shamrock" Disk II clone floppy drive. The monitor wasn't even an official Apple one, it was a Zenith Data Systems composite input monitor. However, I did learn a few (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) HEY!!! You dissin' the Apple ][ with green & black monitor???? ROSCO (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Worse, I had an Apple II. With a green and black monitor. Calum (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yeah, but did you go into the disk and rename the files from Sylvia1 to 5 to Sylvia5 to 1 So that, as you won, she'd put her clothes back on? I thought not... Dave (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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