Dropped the sickness but picked up something else instead

**plenderj** · Mar 25th, 2002, 03:35 AM

Yeah, an XBOX.
Mwaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww !!!!

XBox, with 5 games, an extra controller, dvd player kit and lotus steering wheel.
Weeeeeeee

Jethro · Mar 25th, 2002, 03:39 AM

Bill Gates gets another sale....am thinking of porting "Hide the Sausage" over to the xbox.....what do you reckon, think l'm on a winner there...

**plenderj** · Mar 25th, 2002, 03:40 AM

Well actually I'm a fiirm supporter of Microsoft and Bill Gates and his imps

Jethro · Mar 25th, 2002, 03:51 AM

Originally posted by plenderj
Well actually I'm a fiirm supporter of Microsoft and Bill Gates and his imps

Same here, the gagster enforced...shock horror...a standard on the desk top which allowed a hell of a lot of other small to medium sized IT companies get a look in. Woo hoo no more printer driver writing.......have done that in the past

**plenderj** · Mar 25th, 2002, 03:54 AM

Originally posted by Jethro
Woo hoo no more printer driver writing.......have done that in the past

Right so I think I'll print out this lovely report.

Ah ****!
There's horizontal coloured columns in this one.
I'll have to write another ****ing print driver.
Bollox

Jethro · Mar 25th, 2002, 03:57 AM

LOL

Bold print, now where's the line return without carriage return codes.....

Microsoft rock...no bleeding edge technology, and an enforced desk top standard that is relatively easy to develop for...

DerFarm · Mar 25th, 2002, 03:34 PM

I wrote drivers for the C64. Not that big a deal.

Jethro · Mar 25th, 2002, 03:45 PM

Originally posted by DerFarm
I wrote drivers for the C64. Not that big a deal.

But it was when you then had to port it to the other 80 OS's fighting for market share....remember being shocked that my first ever Boss wanted a port done to a BBC computer, (forget the name of it)...and yes there were 101 different European companies at that stage knocking out PCs.....

We remember you Clive Sinclair....how the flock we ever managed to get commercial software written for 64k ram is now beyond me...but at least most machines had inboard langauge chips.

DerFarm · Mar 25th, 2002, 03:48 PM

You got to use 64K? I was never allowed to write anything that
exceeded 32. The company was convinced that memory was
overrated and would gradually drop back....therefore the limit.
Needless to say, they are currently selling real estate in North
Dakota

Jethro · Mar 25th, 2002, 03:54 PM

LOL

But wasn't the IBM AT a shock to the system. What you mean hard drive, *** is one of those, oh like on a mainframe....128k memory whoa.....you could run a whole country on one of them babies......

We still deployed on 8 inch, cause my Boss thought hard disks would be a fad....and maintained that CPM would bet the pants off that new fangled DOS......

He even sent 1000 bucks to the Free Software Foundation to ensure as he put it, that the best OS would be available for any job.....guess windows 3.x would have driven him into permanent melt down.....

DerFarm · Mar 25th, 2002, 04:42 PM

The AT sucked rocks big time. Stupid hard drive kept crashing.
The RAM chips were screwed and half of them had errors.

Everything by IBM sucks. The air around IBM sucks.
The water around IBM suck. Hell, the I and M suck.

**steve65** · Mar 25th, 2002, 06:52 PM

If you haven't tried it it yet, you have got to try Halo. I love that game. I can't get my kids off of it.

**Kzin** · Mar 26th, 2002, 03:47 AM

Originally posted by Jethro

. . . .Boss wanted a port done to a BBC computer, (forget the name of it . . .Clive Sinclair.....

but boy were those babies fast - a BBC model B would cold start maybe 20-30 times faster than a Pentium 4 -
- realtime key response in milliseconds - no waiting five or ten seconds for some system task to finish before your keypresses to come up on the screen (as soooo often happens with Window 95, 98, NT, 2000 etc on a top of the line Athlon or Pentium)

and the reliability - don't get me started now

**plenderj** · Mar 26th, 2002, 03:54 AM

Originally posted by steve65
If you haven't tried it it yet, you have got to try Halo. I love that game. I can't get my kids off of it.

Oh yeah baby.
Haven't stopped playing halo since.
I don't even get up to poo and pee, I just wet myself there and then while playing

**steve65** · Mar 26th, 2002, 06:20 AM

Originally posted by plenderj

Oh yeah baby.
Haven't stopped playing halo since.
I don't even get up to poo and pee, I just wet myself there and then while playing

Man do I know that feeling

Gives a new meaning to the term bladder control.

Have you beat it on legendary on the last level yet?

We actually went out and bought two more controllers so that we can all play at once to keep people from fighting.

**plenderj** · Mar 26th, 2002, 06:25 AM

Originally posted by steve65

Man do I know that feeling Gives a new meaning to the term bladder control.

Have you beat it on legendary on the last level yet?

We actually went out and bought two more controllers so that we can all play at once to keep people from fighting.

Man haven't completed it on normal yet :/
Though we did just get it on saturday afternoon

I'm about to head up inside some huge pyramid, into the control centre methinks

**steve65** · Mar 26th, 2002, 06:30 AM

Originally posted by plenderj

Man haven't completed it on normal yet :/
Though we did just get it on saturday afternoon

I'm about to head up inside some huge pyramid, into the control centre methinks

Well enjoy I won't give anything away. Is your son able to play with you or does he just jump when some alien pops out

?

**plenderj** · Mar 26th, 2002, 06:32 AM

Originally posted by steve65

Well enjoy I won't give anything away. Is your son able to play with you or does he just jump when some alien pops out ?

lol.
I'm 19, I'm the son here

And I get to play as often and as loud as I like in my flat ... unless of course my girlfriend wants to watch telly that is

**Wally Pipp** · Mar 26th, 2002, 06:33 AM

Never thought I'd witness a blow-by-blow account of a computer game ...

**steve65** · Mar 26th, 2002, 06:34 AM

LOL sorry confused you someone else. I have my foot in my mouth again.

Jethro · Mar 26th, 2002, 06:36 AM

Originally posted by Wally Pipp
Never thought I'd witness a blow-by-blow account of a computer game ...

I'm pleased they keeped it to the computer game....

**steve65** · Mar 26th, 2002, 06:37 AM

Originally posted by Wally Pipp
Never thought I'd witness a blow-by-blow account of a computer game ...

Sorry to bore you Wally I just think it is a good game. I can be a little over zealous once and a while.

**plenderj** · Mar 26th, 2002, 06:38 AM

Oh my god the vehicles!
My girlfriend and I have so much fun booting it around on the warthog, or running over ghosts in the tank

**steve65** · Mar 26th, 2002, 06:42 AM

Originally posted by plenderj
Oh my god the vehicles!
My girlfriend and I have so much fun booting it around on the warthog, or running over ghosts in the tank

For $50 you can't beat the variety that you get with this game we gotten our moneys worth out of this game for sure. I have not have a chance to try team play on the Internet yet, that has to be so cool.

**steve65** · Mar 26th, 2002, 06:45 AM

Don't bother looking for cheats for the game there aren’t any. No matter what you may read, they don't work. They’re just some kid spamming.

You do get a small reward for beating the game on legendary though.

**plenderj** · Mar 26th, 2002, 06:53 AM

Not planning on cheating at all at all.
There was one level in the game, where you enter into the underground alien complex or something, and you just end up going around these open rooms, and then into a door, down a lift, across a bridge, and repeat ad nauseum. I thought that was never going to end

**steve65** · Mar 26th, 2002, 07:01 AM

Originally posted by plenderj
Not planning on cheating at all at all.
There was one level in the game, where you enter into the underground alien complex or something, and you just end up going around these open rooms, and then into a door, down a lift, across a bridge, and repeat ad nauseum. I thought that was never going to end

Been there, and if thats the same place I am thinking of you just needed to look up and make a couple of jumps.

Drives you nuts when you look back at it later and say man that was so easy. Or when your kid next to says dad why don't you just jump on that box and go up from there.

After you get done beating him over the head with the controller, you can move on to the next level. Thank goodness for break away controllers The cords keep getting wrapped around his neck all the time.

**plenderj** · Mar 26th, 2002, 07:06 AM

I got past that level all-right, 'twas just seriously wreckin' the head like

But now I'm about to go up into the ginormous pyramid and have a look at whats what. That must be either the last or second last level methinks

**steve65** · Mar 26th, 2002, 07:10 AM

Well if you want a hint, give me a yell. You sound well on you way to be completely screwed up before Easter.

**plenderj** · Mar 27th, 2002, 03:47 AM

Right.
On the swamp level now, 343 or something like that.

God I love that game

Jethro · Mar 27th, 2002, 04:00 AM

*ahem* jamie and friend back to IBM....

Big Blue rock, whole new business unit for U2......Though we did a deployment for China, all they need is a Thinkpad....hello IBM you do sell them right.....

**plenderj** · Mar 27th, 2002, 04:06 AM

What on earth are you on about man ?

Jethro · Mar 27th, 2002, 04:08 AM

Originally posted by plenderj
What on earth are you on about man ?

It's my own world after a few tinnies of kilkeeny......

**plenderj** · Mar 27th, 2002, 04:17 AM

Originally posted by Jethro

It's my own world after a few tinnies of kilkeeny......

Oh yeah I forgot you lot are off there beyond the seas.
Um well 9am over here in Ireland, so no tinnies for me yet.
Gimme another half hour at least like

**Jim Brown** · Mar 27th, 2002, 04:19 AM

Originally posted by Jethro
LOL

....and maintained that CPM would bet the pants off that new fangled DOS......

The story goes that IBM approached Gary whatsiface of Digital Research to develop the OS for the IBM-PC, based on the fact that they'd done CP/M. But he missed a meeting with them or something, so they asked some guy Gates if he could help.... The rest, as they say, is history.

Jethro · Mar 27th, 2002, 04:40 AM

Originally posted by Jim Brown

The story goes that IBM approached Gary whatsiface of Digital Research to develop the OS for the IBM-PC, based on the fact that they'd done CP/M. But he missed a meeting with them or something, so they asked some guy Gates if he could help.... The rest, as they say, is history.

Gary Kiddell(?)....

Yeap and Paul whats his name brought DOS for 60k off some other company, cause MS thought they might lose the language deal........

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