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OLD CS1

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  1. Dirty little secrete I learned a long time ago about most vendors... next-day delivery means it will arrive the day after they finally decide to ship it. Even if that is a month after you order it.
  2. Shoulda gone with next-hour drone delivery!
  3. I think you have stepping into a whole new world with your C64 Maxi. Too bad it is taking so long to arrive...
  4. Supported files: D64 (1541,) G64 (1541 nibbled,) D81 (1581,) D82 (8250 and SFD-1001 floppy,) CRT (cartridge,) TAP and T64 (tape files,) PRG and P00 (program and program with header.)
  5. Easier to pronounce than my last name. The voices in my head speak French. I do not. Therefore, everyone is safe until I compete my Rosetta Stone courses.
  6. PRG and P00 files. The videos you watched of my Mini are a mix of T64, D64, PRG, and P00 files. I think the P00 format is deprecated in use, but still followed for compatibility. https://retrogames.biz/support/thec64/manuals/ Page 83 of the PDF, 73 of the manual: Not terrible. I think this might have been back-ported to the Mini (for my own purposes,) just have to use Classic Mode. Thanks. It does not get the use it once did. Other tools have become available which pretty much make it obsolete for most users. I still use it for my own stuff as I tend to stay stuck in my ways.
  7. On-line compiler. That is pretty cool. Should make putting stuff on your soon-to-arrive C64 Maxi pretty easy! My tidbit99.com site can produce TIFILES binaries from TidBit source. Would be cool to be able to run that through Harry's compiler and create a cartridge all in one fell swoop. I think TICodEd can do that, though, no website required.
  8. You are missing something. Driving to the haunting is nothing special. But, if while laying your dot trail you pass over one of the ghosts (roamers) moving toward the center building (ZUUL,) you will see it appear at some point in the road. You then have to move the car to touch it and hold the fire button down to activate the ghost vacuum, if you purchased one. Be careful of trying to get ghosts near the end of your dot trail. Many times the ghost will come on-screen as you are moving over to park, but you cannot get it because you cannot move the car to touch it. This might help. It is from the C64 version. Ghost Busters Instructions (Commodore 64).pdf Oh, and if you just see one of the guys on the right then go right back to the map screen, it means you were late and the slimer got away.
  9. There is a joke floating around in various forms about this. One of which is a guy who says he was banned from WalMart for getting caught in the break room. When confronted, the guy said he must work there since he has rung himself out several times. I remember somewhere some pundit said the discount we get from checking ourselves out is the continued low prices. Yeah... about that. At least my Target Debit Red Card gives me 5%, whether I check myself out (which I only do in the mirrors in household goods) or not. But, I have been watching Target service falling to typical Walmart levels over the past couple of years. That is fine. As customer service becomes a lost art, as a free market entrepreneur I see the opportunity for a new experience to arise from the ashes: a place where you can shop which has courteous and helpful employees. The kind of employees who give way when you come down the aisle; the kind who will reach up to shelves for you; the kind who do not have their cell phones in their hands when they see you; the kind who do not have personal conversations with each other while you stand there waiting to "butt in" for assistance; the kind who do no wear their pants below their ass cracks. Oh, what a glorious future we have before us!
  10. I remember this one, too. I remember seeing programs from BBSes which showed "austrospeed-1e" when listed. I found a copy somewhere at the time. ISTR it was pretty easy to use.
  11. Ah, yeah. I found a discussion about it which seems to indicate just what you proposed. I found in my disks that I also have PetSpeed 64. I was testing between the two to see which would do better for my BBS program. Since I only ever made one release and only one person ever ran it besides myself, I never really put much work into the testing and it was just compiled with Blitz!. EDIT: Looks like I might be missing a couple of disks. CSDb has a one-disk copy of it, too. I am not overly concerned.
  12. Could be. Or it could just take your BASIC program and tack on an interpreter. There is/was an open source implementation of CBM BASIC (as well as TI BASIC) for command line.
  13. Okay, this is insane: (Emphasis mine.)
  14. As the fellas in the TI sub about the P-Card. Interesting. I never knew that about Blitz! BASIC, and I have used it (actually own a copy) in the past. I have also used a couple of others, but I always liked BB.
  15. With you. I am always grumpy when I have to go through self-checkout, I give a one-star rating, and I always fill out the surveys and give feedback like, "I don't like being forced to work for you," or "I don't appreciate that no employee was willing to take my money." I might have mentioned this before, but one of the hardest parts I have found about getting older is trying to make people understand I have always been like this.
  16. The 1551 connects to the Plus/4 via the cartridge port. Is there a modern SD2IEC-alike 1551 replacement?
  17. Shame. More legacy tech lost. I get it, though. I had to throw out four CRT monitors after toting them around for over a decade. I could not get anyone to just take the damned things.
  18. There are a couple a few legitimate uses for it. It could, for instance, recognize the product as you run it past without the need for the bar code. Right now, it does a good job recognizing past users, and is mostly used, so far as I have seen, to detect skip-scanning and other methods of theft. Of course, the target for all that ability, aside from trying to cut down on shrink, will be marketing, and being able to do things like, "Hey, TursiLion, good to see you again. Would you like to bill all this to your PayPal? Did you forget that you had canned peas on your shopping list? We can send someone out to grab that for you while you check out!" A lot of these marketing types who do not understand technology, or humans, for that matter, think all this shit actually humanizes the experience. Which, I realize, a lot of people are going along with for the convenience, and lack of responsibility, IMNSHO. But what it really does is creeps a lot of people out. Many of us do not like behind-the-scenes machinations which know so much about us, and sense it as an inherent hazard.
  19. You can also, by way of the XS command use a custom swap list file. While I have done this for some things, I do not necessarily recommend it in general use as you have to issue the command, which is best done with a DOS wedge or programmatic assertion. Once you are in the directory, the autoswap.lst file is ready to take control. I have used this feature to play The Last Ninja on my SD2IEC. When using the autoswap feature, when you CD into the directory (say, "LAST NINJA",) you can see your autoswap.lst file as well as your D64s. You can press Next to load the first D64, and so on. A CD← command breaks the autoswap and returns you to the parent directory of the D64, as you would expect. This is actually quite handy.
  20. One thing missed by a lot of these is that I am not a five year-old who feels excited when I do things for myself. Sure, we all had the Fisher Price register and check-out lanes, right? Not my idea of adulting. Dollar General knows what-up: Aaaaand, social engineering fails, agian:
  21. Walmart, in particular, is losing money on its self-checkouts, due to its investment in the AI that runs it. It has put, conservatively estimated last year, about $500m into its checkout AI which it obviously hopes to license or sell at some point. A financial article I read breaking down its filings indicated Walmart has spent more on self-checkouts and AI than it would have to man the same number of lanes. As well, the promise of self-checkout is not coming to fruition of shorter waits, more convenience, greater reliability, &c. People, on the whole, hate it. But when you go into a store where the only available lanes are self-checkout and one or no manned lanes are available... what are you going to do? Then, they use these traffic numbers to show, look, self-checkout is amazingly popular, to the point in some stores that is all people use! Whenever you read polls or studies like that, e.g. the safety savings of red light cameras, always look deeper into the methodology. You will often find the questions asked of the data, or the methods in collecting the data, are not exactly without bias. To wit, the red light camera safety studies. Several of these touted by the camera monitoring and ticketing companies took legitimate violation data before installation, then compared contrived observations after installation in test municipalities. They would have observers mark down incidents which they perceived could have been a violation: a car came to an abrupt stop at the stop line, or rolled just past, &c.
  22. @carlsson the online manual indicates B-P is supported, but there is no solid data on B-A but rather a ToDo to test.
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