Lord Mushroom

A Norwegian comedian once told a story of one time he was going to the gym. When he arrived, he needed to take a dump. He got all sweaty from taking the dump, so he took a shower.

Then he did what he always does after taking a shower at the gym: He went home. He forgot to exercise.

My parents, who live in Norway, just received a Christmas card that was sent from the U.S. on December 23rd. 10 of those days were our own postal service´s fault, but the rest is someone else´.

I am sure that is not true, you are just not aware of it.

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I just dumped a 2532 EPROM from a VIC-20 cartridge.

My poop joke still makes me laugh.

On a lighter note, I didn´t know cats had a front passenger side.

I don´t mean to alarm you, but our previous cat got a limp too, and the vet told us it was cancer.

I misread that.

Yes, I have had the forum be "temporarily unavailable" or something like that. I have also had some difficulties adding reactions, and it has been slow.

But things have improved in the last hour.

I don´t think I will miss the original cast too much, even though I loved Niles, because their characters have all been played out.

I am, but there is of course a high probability it will suck.

I have seen that conspiracy theory for a long time. Since George W. Bush was president.

A bird has a nest with young ones in my dad´s tractor.

A biography, yes. But an autobiography would probably be called "Rags to Riches: The Tale of a Genius", or something like that.

In Norway we say "goddag mann økseskaft" (hi man axe-shaft). It is from a fairytale about a guy who is hard of hearing, and when a policeman says "hi, man" to him, he thinks he is asking him what he is working on, so he says "axe-shaft".

Some, including my family, say "goddag mann hostesaft" (hi man cough sirup). I think the extra absurdity of that is an improvement.

@Tickled_Pink Sorry for hijacking your Status Update. Maybe you will have more luck posting a thread about it.

Bent is a common male name in Norway, by the way. Which I figure must cause some confusion when introducing yourself in English.

Don´t bother, it is too much trouble relative to how much I would expect to play it.

I managed to increase the size of the screen in DosBox by lowering the resolution, but my eyes get tired when I watch something that is not 720p or higher. I can also increase the size of the screen without lowering the resolution, but then the text becomes too small for my eyes and the game becomes way too slow.

My eyes get tired easily. The only way I potentially could play the game without my eyes getting tired, is if the resolution could be 720p or higher without the text becoming too small. But even then the reduced amount of blinking one does when playing games, would still probably make my eyes tired.

So a thousand thanks for offering to help, but I would feel bad about you wasting your time on this hopeless endeavour. You seem like a great guy who is going to become very popular around here.

I found a place to download (different iterations of) the game and find serial numbers:

http://www.starsfaq.com/download.htm

I got another DosBox version to work. But the screen was small, it made my PC noisy and I needed a serial number. It is just too much pain in the ass to get it to work on my current PC.

According to the biggest Stars! forum I know of, which is basically dead, the problem seems to be running the game on 64-bit Windows. So a guy has tried to make downloadable versions that will work on such a Windows.

The first version I tried was Starswine4. There is a link at the top of the first post:

https://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/index.php?t=msg&th=5622&start=0&rid=0

Stars! is such an obscure game that it is hard to find it now. No one is selling it anymore. I don´t know where you could download it (I haven´t looked closely). And even if you could download it, you would need a serial number to make it work. So I don´t have the original game on my current PC.

Here you can play Stars! by streaming it:

https://classicreload.com/win3x-stars.html

But the resolution is poor, the screen is not full and it makes my PC make a lot of noise (fan).

Here is a guy playing Stars!:

I got the same problem with the other version.

I have the original game installed on an old, slow and noisy PC. I will probably use that one when I feel like playing Stars!. 

I wasn´t able to fix the problem. I came as far as "Virus & Threat Protection". But then it turns out that Microsoft Defender was already turned off, and there didn´t seem to be a way to reach "Manage Settings" and "Exclusions".

I use Windows 10.

The game I downloaded was originally made for Windows 3.11, and the version I downloaded was supposed to use a Linux emulator and Wine or something to enable the game to run on Windows 7 and later.

I am gonna try another version of the game instead that uses DosBox. I will let you know how it goes.

Thanks for the help anyway, and welcome to the forums.

Ok.

Here is a page about the pros and cons about milk:

https://www.healthline.com/health/is-milk-bad-for-you

It is of course not good for you if you are lactose intolerant. Otherwise I think it is good for you.