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