This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
Search Results (401 messages)
Ironically, the finest 16 bit color I know is still TIGA, originally developed for high-end AutoCAD and animation. I have no trouble scanning, manipulating, etc. true color with my TIGA board. However, it's not at its best with AVI because TI has never optimized the driver for AVI. It is…
No, I think you miss the point here. Tape rentals are the big money in home movies; purchases even now, save for the very cheap promotions (i.e. Beauty and the Beast for $16.95 with rebate…) are a very small percentage of the market, while in laserdiscs the vast majority are…
Well, I have degrees in history, English, geography, geology, and education so I'm hardly somebody who doesn't like learning. I'd probably still be in grad school getting something new if I didn't have to earn a living. I also learned a great deal of electronics because of an involvement in…
Why not? After more than a decade it's clear MicroSoft hasn't quite mastered DOS, so why should end users be any different?
Well, don't install NT if you can't dual boot with it, since it's not just a DOS shell like WIN31 but a real live operating system (actually deep down it's Unix's Mach 3 kernel). I'll wait. I don't expect to see a shrink-wrapped NT before August at best.
I have yet to find an AVI file that runs without some stoppages, although I got the skips down to around 5% by switching the video card to 16 bit "word" mode. Even on the AST system with the Paradise card here AVI is still a bit jerky, and that's…
Actually, DOWN is superior to UP because we drive on the right in this country. Coming south puts you right on the coast rather than inside. Standard wasn't a big thing to me before because I don't use the standard pricing system much and we have fine weather on TV…
Well, if I bump into any other neat software I'll be sure to pass it on.
Yes, and, as I say, the worst thing about the anti-smoking campaign will be when they succeed, and at the rate they're going they will. It will be held up as a model to force people into all sorts of other "desirable" behavioral models. What's next? Anyone who's overweight? That's…
In grad school I participated in a series of experiments monitoring all sorts of pollutants and the like in major metropolitan areas around the U.S. and relating them to a whole catalog of ills. We found that there was actually little statistical difference between smokers and nonsmokers who lived in…
Science fiction writer and colleague of mine Ben Bova once suggested that if we required all of our legislatures to live in army-style barracks, eat standard military-type food in food lines, and take smelly school busses to and from sessions and be paid only living allowances while in session and…
After all, most of government is devoted to controlling behavior. Tax laws are written that way. A simple indexed sliding percentage of income would more than pay the bills, do away with a ton of tax paperwork, and be very efficient, but tax law, particularly income tax law, is not…
Well, live close to a Native Reserve. They don't pay Canadian federal taxes. The Iroquois have one heck of a cigarette business in southern Quebec because their reservation is in both Canada and the U.S. For years I wondered why every time I came through from Canada to the US…
Once upon a time, I taught myself a couple of programming languages. It took some time but I finally got the general flow and was able to do a few programs and look at others, but I suddenly realized that I was having about as much fun as I would…
You can sample it at 5 hours for $5 by using your modem to dial 1-800-365-4636, press return a couple of times when connected, at Password enter CS55. Or, you can get a kit and join or get answers to questions over the voice line, 1-800-695-4005. Aside from the Internet…
Actually, I've discussed other services, both positively and negatively, on almost every service or forum at one point or another. Nobody really cares. The pie's big enough and CIS really is dominant–one reason why ten or eleven thousand or so folks prefer to conduct their email and such on Delphi…
First of all, check your caps lock. All caps seems like SHOUTING and the convention is to type normally. Second, there's no way to really determine your problem without knowing more about your system. Are you using DOS5? COMMAND.COM or NDOS or 4DOS or what? If the latter two, there…
##9 GXI
Message #41517
Believe it or not, I've gotten some dramatic extra speed off the #9 card by switching to Word mode. A lot of screen stuff speeded up so dramatically it's unnerving. CPU use on the VidTest is still at 50%, but it's a lot better than the 97% of the past.…
I've yet to view an AVI file on any machine that didn't have some jerkiness, but what you describe is extreme. Because you are having long pauses with both video and sound, it really points the finger first at the CD ROM. To play AVI files, a CD ROM MUST…
#Strange Service
Message #41515
But, Lynne, the rack rate for CIS is $6hr for 300-1200 baud, I think, $12hr for 2400 baud, and a whopping $22 an hour for 9600 baud! With no reason or justification for it except that they can get it. They're coming down a bit starting next month, but the…
#Useful Utility
Message #41514
I KNOW it won't hold up on challenge for very long; the Supreme Court struck down blue laws over a decade ago and the last I checked the Supreme Court covered Puerto Rico as well (they just struck down an anti-abortion law in Guam, after all). I suspect it is…
I'm back
Message #41513
The USA is every bit what Ed said, but it's not alone. A number of other nations are going along the same road, we're just leading the way. The final "smoking gun," if you'll pardon the pun, was a recent study released by the Environmental Protection Administration based entirely on…
As a diabetic, I take in a lot of Nutrasweet but it's no big deal. I'm not sure about tobacco, but sugar will definitely kill me. In point of fact, the one thing I can prove is that smoking is not dragging down anybody's health care system. If their own…
#I'm back
Message #41511
I don't think there is any question that smoking can cause cancer, but there is certainly a genetic link as well since the vast majority of my family on both sides are/were smokers and cancer is little known in our family. The point is that the inhaling of ANY particulants…
#I'm back
Message #41510
Well, anti-smoking has gotten to be a religious crusade here and is responsible for everything from all deaths from all causes to flat feet. It IS a bad and harmful habit that most governments pushed until about 15 years ago, but the Crusade has given the majority who no longer…
#I'm back
Message #41509
No car? What were they? New Yorkers?
#I'm back
Message #41508
Lynne, if you're using TAPCIS do a Library compile on LIB16 of BORAPP. The customization macros and add-ons for Sprint will astound you. Sprint, however, positively glows when hooked up to a PostScript printer or emulator. There are features in it that are PS specific and weren't broadened out because…
CD ROM Audio to PAS16
Message #41507
Do you have the latest drivers for the PAS16? It sounds as if not all your drivers are properly configured in the Control Panel settings. I have a PAS16/NEC in one of the systems here and it plays both Comptons and the Beethoven disk just fine. If all else is…
Exactly so.
#Music CD/SBP Audio Prob.
Message #41505
If you're not familiar with laser discs then your statements have a nice ring, but the fact is that laserdiscs provide about 70% more scan lines of true video than the best VHS, effectively direct broadcast monitor quality video, as well as (in the best of them) true CD 44Khz…
Music CD/SBP Audio Prob.
Message #41504
Tubes in audio are an oddity. They clip gently, which is a major factor when driving amps hard, but it's also true that with the right tubes they induce an odd sort of distortion that seems to match the hearing curve of listeners. In other words, they sound more like…
#Delphi Sig
Message #41503
Delphi is a competing service to CI$ and is very CompuServe-like in what it does. It's smaller, not having as many forums or specialized groups, but offers much of the same general services and SiGs as here. It's also very friendly, and has about the best EMail system I know.…
#Delphi Sig
Message #41502
Yeah, but the trouble with the Internet is that you need a second life to find things.
Me, too Lynn! Aha! It's not just me! Pageflip is exactly what it complains about. I don't know what the heck is going on!
For the record, I couldn't get the McMillain dictionary demo to run, either. I think there's a bug in there somewhere and I've reported it. I was curious as to whether others would have the same problem, and, if so, if anybody who did have a problem did not already…
It's also important to note with the SoundBlaster that the drivers must be installed in a certain ORDER. Install the AUX driver FIRST, then the WAVE and MIDI, then the MIDI, in that order.
ATI is still reporting some driver problems, and I assume these would be more acute with the local bus, since that's a far newer technology all around. At least it's working. Had to yank my wonderful #9 TIGA board and FedEx it back to #9 for repair this evening. It…
And I suppose a female hibachi is a habitchi?
Actually, the designer of Saddam's supergun was NOT an American; he was a Canadian (too bad Kevin's not here to notice that fact!).
Computer audio except for WAV files remains digital; the standard formats interleave audio and video at a fast enough rate they appear to be simultaneous. Regular CD audio requires a D/A converter to analog and kind of insists on total access to the output channel.
Yes, I have the Grolier's for Windows version and it works just fine (MultiMedia is underused, though) and the user interface and lookup engine is much improved. It's apparently just now getting into the full retail channel, but upgrades were sent out as soon as they had the CD ROMs.…
Could be. It was part of the voice mail offers they give while you're on hold in Customer Service! They have several really fine prices on various items, but no list of them. You have to call the 800 Customer Service number and wait — the specials will feed while…
King's Quest IV is VERY educational. You learn never to go into a dark cave where a dragon lurks real fast.
Nautilus CD
Message #38242
A better way than Ed's suggestion would be to download the Peter & the Wolf demo from the current Nautilus and try that. I am having trouble with it because I suspect its setup routine overwrote some of my existing Viewer files, but others are not. If it plays normally…
That's actually interesting. For a year I couldn't get the true audio (i.e. Windham Hill, etc.) to play although WAV and MIDI played fine. The only way I could get the music was via Corel Audio. On this latest disk, which gave me lots of other troubles, the Windham Hill…
He knows–I'm talking to David!
Actually, the point was that people who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones, or something like that….
You can, of course, choose not to log on, but I wonder why you'd want to if you didn't either want to participate here or have a problem or comment for Nautilus PC. You certainly seem to feel that you can police forums to suit your own interests. I'm involved…
I've heard of similar problems, and they all involve disk compression software and caches. Disk compressors actually roll your entire disk contents into one huge file save for the boot information, etc. Many people have had Windows bomb simply because they forgot to exclude their Windows permanent swap file and…
I think we'd need a lot more hardware information before anybody could give you anything that might help. Like, for example, what's your sound card?
Page 7 of 9