homerwannabee Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 why are dukes of hazard cartridges consider prototypes given the fact that they are roms and were actually in production mode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mock Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 do you feel better now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susuwatari Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 'll feel better when there's a geniue proto post that actually involves a proto and not just a bragging right to be the first to post. I'd lay my near mint Combat Tempest would be the first to make proto related post here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 well um why are dukes of hazard cartridges consider prototypes given the fact that they are roms and were actually in production mode? Well they're really not. Dukes of Hazzard is technically an unreleased production game. The same goes for Off Your Rocker (which was only released in small quantities after Pleasant Valley Video bought the carts from the label manufacturer). Some day I'd like to hear the whole story on why Dukes was mass produced but not released. There are still alot of details that remain unknown. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Csonicgo Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Wow, the first post, and it's spam. Great job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Wow, the first post, and it's spam. Great job. If there wasn't a legitimate question attached to it, it would have been quickly nuked. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Csonicgo Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Wow, the first post, and it's spam. Great job. If there wasn't a legitimate question attached to it, it would have been quickly nuked. ..Al nuked...... I had no idea you have that much power... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 I see nothing cool about having the first post in a new forum..especially if it's meant to be spam. Legitimate question or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homerwannabee Posted January 9, 2004 Author Share Posted January 9, 2004 Ok, Kepone and you had the ask Dr Phil thread. I did ask a serious question, I still don't really understand why a cart like air raid is not a prototype and a mass produced cartridge like Dukes of Hazard is a prototype. Also what exactly is spam, everyone throws around this word but no one ever tries to define it. I always thought spam was a comercial atempt to email a mass amount of people. If spam is a useless post then post I did was not useless. I will now edit the original post so that maybe this issue may be forgotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 Also what exactly is spam, everyone throws around this word but no one ever tries to define it. I always thought spam was a comercial atempt to email a mass amount of people. If spam is a useless post then post I did was not useless. I will now edit the original post so that maybe this issue may be forgotten. There are many forms of spam: spam ( P ) Pronunciation Key (spm)n. Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail. tr.v. spammed, spam·ming, spams 1. To send unsolicited e-mail to. 2. To send (a message) indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [From Spam(probably inspired by a comedy routine on the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which the word is repeated incessantly).] [buy it] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Spam ( P ) Pronunciation Key (spm) A trademark used for a canned meat product consisting primarily of chopped pork pressed into a loaf. [buy it] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. spam n : (trademark) a tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork [syn: Spam] Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University spam 1. (From Hormel's Spiced Ham, via the Monty Python "Spam" song) To post irrelevant or inappropriate messages to one or more Usenet newsgroups, mailing lists, or other messaging system in deliberate or accidental violation of netiquette. It is possible to spam a newsgroup with one well- (or ill-) planned message, e.g. asking "What do you think of abortion?" on soc.women. This can be done by cross-posting, e.g. any message which is crossposted to alt.rush-limbaugh and alt.politics.homosexuality will almost inevitably spam both groups. (Compare troll and flame bait). Posting a message to a significant proportion of all newsgroups is a sure way to spam Usenet and become an object of almost universal hatred. Canter and Siegel spammed the net with their Green card post. If you see an article which you think is a deliberate spam, DO NOT post a follow-up - doing so will only contribute to the general annoyance. Send a polite message to the poster by private e-mail and CC it to "postmaster" at the same address. Bear in mind that the posting's origin might have been forged or the apparent sender's account might have been used by someone else without his permission. The word was coined as the winning entry in a 1937 competition to choose a name for Hormel Foods Corporation's "spiced meat" (now officially known as "SPAM luncheon meat"). Correspondant Bob White claims the modern use of the term predates Monty Python by at least ten years. He cites an editor for the Dallas Times Herald describing Public Relations as "throwing a can of spam into an electric fan just to see if any of it would stick to the unwary passersby." Usenet newsgroup: news:news.admin.net-abuse. See also netiquette. 2. (A narrowing of sense 1, above) To indiscriminately send large amounts of unsolicited e-mail meant to promote a product or service. Spam in this sense is sort of like the electronic equivalent of junk mail sent to "Occupant". In the 1990s, with the rise in commercial awareness of the net, there are actually scumbags who offer spamming as a "service" to companies wishing to advertise on the net. They do this by mailing to collections of e-mail addresses, Usenet news, or mailing lists. Such practises have caused outrage and aggressive reaction by many net users against the individuals concerned. 3. (Apparently a generalisation of sense 2, above) To abuse any network service or tool by for promotional purposes. "AltaVista is an index, not a promotional tool. Attempts to fill it with promotional material lower the value of the index for everyone. [...] We will disallow URL submissions from those who spam the index. In extreme cases, we will exclude all their pages from the index." -- Altavista. 4. To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data. See also buffer overflow, overrun screw, smash the stack. 5. (A narrowing of sense 1, above) To flood any chat forum or Internet game with purposefully annoying text or macros. Compare Scrolling. (2003-09-21) Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2003 Denis Howe spam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1. To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data. See also buffer overflow, overrun screw, smash the stack. 2. To cause a newsgroup to be flooded with irrelevant or inappropriate messages. You can spam a newsgroup with as little as one well- (or ill-) planned message (e.g. asking "What do you think of abortion?" on soc.women). This is often done with cross-posting (e.g. any message which is crossposted to alt.rush-limbaugh and alt.politics.homosexuality will almost inevitably spam both groups). This overlaps with troll behavior; the latter more specific term has become more common. 3. To send many identical or nearly-identical messages separately to a large number of Usenet newsgroups. This is more specifically called `ECP', Excessive Cross-Posting. This is one sure way to infuriate nearly everyone on the Net. See also velveeta and jello. 4. To bombard a newsgroup with multiple copies of a message. This is more specifically called `EMP', Excessive Multi-Posting. 5. To mass-mail unrequested identical or nearly-identical email messages, particularly those containing advertising. Especially used when the mail addresses have been culled from network traffic or databases without the consent of the recipients. Synonyms include UCE, UBE. 6. Any large, annoying, quantity of output. For instance, someone on IRC who walks away from their screen and comes back to find 200 lines of text might say "Oh no, spam". The later definitions have become much more prevalent as the Internet has opened up to non-techies, and to most people senses 3 4 and 5 are now primary. All three behaviors are considered abuse of the net, and are almost universally grounds for termination of the originator's email account or network connection. In these senses the term `spam' has gone mainstream, though without its original sense or folkloric freight - there is apparently a widespread myth among lusers that "spamming" is what happens when you dump cans of Spam into a revolving fan. Source: Jargon File 4.2.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 Nah. Please don't take me too seriously. You have a legitimate question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 Which Dukes are we talking about, the Stunt Cycle-esque one, or the one that is more like a car adventure game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 The 16K version, not the one that Stunt Cycle is a hack of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 Dukes of Hazzard is technically an unreleased production game. Some day I'd like to hear the whole story on why Dukes was mass produced but not released. There are still alot of details that remain unknown. Heh... See my note in the Terminology thread... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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