The BN Family

[TampaBrew]

Ok so on the Oregon Trail game everytime I get to a certain point it tells me to flip the disk over. I just dont see where I am suppose to click to do that. I have hit the space bar, I have clicked change disks but nothing works....

on the bottom, under the game there is a button that says, "change disks" ... click that then keep playing. It will seem like nothing happened, but you can continue on. I got hung up at the same place.

[triple-oh-six]

Well done statement about the BN Family, brewtat.

What's with all this talk about modern computers. I designed and built my first computer back in high school in 1964. No integrated circuits at that time (at least not affordable for a high school kid) so I used a box full of 1N34A diodes I hand soldered into a matrix for the cpu. About all it did was convert analog numbers into binary but it did work. No software, all hard wired.

Wayne

Somehow this does not suprise me, Wayne has done it all.

[TheDarkSide]

[quote="Dirk McLargeHuge"]My first computer was a Tandy TSR-80 Color Computer. quote]

We used these in high school but they were not color ones. Came complete with cassette deck for storage. We called them "Trash-80's"

My first owned PC was an Atari 400 ( I think ). The 800 had actual keys not just the thin plastic key pad that went click-click-click, but that was a little too much money for me at the time.

When I started college, all incoming freshmen were required to buy a PC, the AT&T 6400. It had 256K ( yes K ) of memory, but when we started school, we took could take it down to the CS lab and have it upgraded to 512K...awesome!!


Oh, by the way....Suck it TAT

[Brandon]

Ok so on the Oregon Trail game everytime I get to a certain point it tells me to flip the disk over. I just dont see where I am suppose to click to do that. I have hit the space bar, I have clicked change disks but nothing works....

on the bottom, under the game there is a button that says, "change disks" ... click that then keep playing. It will seem like nothing happened, but you can continue on. I got hung up at the same place.

fuck it still doesnt work for me

[motivatedslacker]

Every other forum I frequent has to have constant moderation, many locked topics, and tight censorship of language. (With the exception of the Mobile music scene forum, they all relate to video games, so I would blame it on douchebag teenagers.) The fact that this forum doesn't need any of that speaks highly of the people who use it, the BN Army. Cheers to you, BrewTa2, and the BN Army!

"Good people drink good beer." - Hunter S. Thompson

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

Every other forum I frequent has to have constant moderation, many locked topics, and tight censorship of language. (With the exception of the Mobile music scene forum, they all relate to video games, so I would blame it on douchebag teenagers.) The fact that this forum doesn't need any of that speaks highly of the people who use it, the BN Army. Cheers to you, BrewTa2, and the BN Army!

"Good people drink good beer." - Hunter S. Thompson

There is the occasional use of Beevo's Velvet Glove in the chat, but otherwise +1

[codewritinfool]

Well done statement about the BN Family, brewtat.

What's with all this talk about modern computers. I designed and built my first computer back in high school in 1964. No integrated circuits at that time (at least not affordable for a high school kid) so I used a box full of 1N34A diodes I hand soldered into a matrix for the cpu. About all it did was convert analog numbers into binary but it did work. No software, all hard wired.

Wayne

1N34s! I was looking for one of those the other day to build up a crystal radio to show my nephew. I know, it is cheating to use a diode instead of a cat's whisker, but I don't have any galena around either.

I built a simple 8-light pattern generator with a similar idea. I used a 555 driving several cascaded 4-bit counters, whos outputs served as address lines for a 27xx eprom. The data lines of the eprom drove transistors that drove the lights. One of the address lines went back around and banged the clear input on the counters.

By changing the contents of the eprom I could get different sequences, and by changing the r/c on the 555 I could get different rates.

A programmable light controller without a micro. That was in the early 80's. Now I'd just use a PIC or whatever.

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

Crap! Where'd I put that cap with the propeller on top?