Blogs

Various web goodies I come across and wish to share

*today
Peak Oil - if you don't know, now's the time to learn. Wise up folks, it's really coming and it's beyond scary!

*2007.01.15
M$'s Vista sounds like a massive boondoggle.

Here's a whole web site devoted to BadVista - looks like a nightmare to me!

Apparently, Hollywood controls M$'s Vista's amazing security 'features', read this M$ white paper.

I have sucessfully emulated the Apple IIE text mode and I have coded the GR and HGR. This was the easy part. I am pretty sure Woz did not design the DHGR mode. I believe the Devil had a big hand in it's development. What I wanted to do was add a monochrome mode where I could get 560x192 mode to emulate a monochrome monitor. I also wanted close to the true individual dot color. On the Apple IIE emulator, when you write a 85 into location 8192, it displays differently depending on which monitor you setup. On a monochrome monitor, it appears as 4 monochrome dots. But on a color monitor, it appers as a solid gray line. This conforms to the way it is displayed on a composite monitor. Also, it conforms to Tech Note #3. But this tech note was written before high resolution VGA monitors were on everyones desk.

I hope you know who they are
It's one the best things in America : "The best drama ever" as they say in the ad.
My two prefered surgeons are back (in the US at least, and on my Mac) in new adventures, more and more unbelievable.