On Sunday 10 June 2018 08:45:52 dep wrote: > said William Morder: > | On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:19:14 dep wrote: > | > said William Morder: > | > | This is just a wild guess ... but is there any chance that you have > | > | downloaded the Pale Moon browser recently? > | > | > | > | Steven Pusser's repo appears after you download Pale Moon. However, > | > | I don't allow that to happen. I copy the URL of that repo to my > | > | sources.list manually, then backup and maintain my sources.list on > | > | an external hard drive. > | > > | > This reminds me of a DOS game I bought (for I think $5 at a computer > | > show) back in the late 1980s. It had a small install routine that > | > copied the program to the hard drive and overwrote autoexec.bat with > | > the name of the executable file. In those days autoexec.bat could run > | > to a couple of pages, with us all trying to make our machines a little > | > faster and getting use of memory above 640k, which was a delicate > | > thing. To say nothing of the TSR programs many of us ran. Setting > | > comspec right after we copied command.com to a RAM drive. That kind of > | > thing. So autoexec.bat was a nontrivial thing, and turning a > | > well-tuned machine into a single-game console was troublesome. > | > | I swear, this mailing list is sort of like Jurassic Park: a place where > | dinosaurs still roam the earth. > > Well, where were we supposed to go after they closed down Prodigy and the > GeoWorks-based AOL? (Compuserve was too expensive.) I am not complaining; I think it's totally cool. Sometimes the old stuff is the best, and deserves to be maintained somewhere or other, kept alive in some obscure corner of the Internet. Just yesterday I heard about eMovix, which is actually part of k3b. But I had not heard of this use for eMovix, which is to create a bootable CD or DVD of a movie file. An old friend of mine was one of the designers for TSR's version of D & D, and helped to create a lot of games for TSR and Coleco, as well as doing some other interesting stuff. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
