Evolv-ing Thread

[BillW50]

I too loved WordStar. I have the following versions.

WordStar Portable v1.0 (Epson CP/M ROM carrier)
WordStar v2.26 (CP/M)
WordStar v3.3 (CP/M)
WordStar v5.0 (DOS)
WordStar v7.0C (DOS Textbook Edition)

I also have I think WordStar for Windows 1.5 and 2.0. Don't like them at all. Micropro (WordStar) didn't write WordStar for Windows. Rather it was originally Legacy for Windows (I believe) and Micropro bought it and relabeled it and gave it WordStar commands.

A guy named Mike Petrie (UK) wrote WordStar macros that gives Word, WordStar command keystrokes. I haven't chatted with him in years and I have no idea if he still supports it. VDE was created by Eric Meyer and he created it to be WordStar compatible and it is like a lite version of WordStar. VDE was available in CP/M and DOS versions.

 

[awsum140]

I've never gotten into computer games very much. My "big" game is the classic version of Solitaire. I tried LSL and went "ho hum". Pong was OK, but that was a console game. Pacman was fun for about ten minutes. With the rig I have now I could run VR with no problem and still don't find any of the games compelling enough to interest me.

I used WP for years, working for a State agency kind of forced that, then converted to Word in private industry. Even the Nanny State, aka Peoples Republic, of New Jersey is converting to Word. It looks like Microsoft will win in the end, no matter whether you like it or not. I have the Open Office suite on my machines, but that's more for being able to open the latest and greatest versions of Word files than actually using it as a word processor, plus this, forums/bbs, is where I do most of my "word processing" now a days.

 

[CMD-Ky]

I don't think that I have ever played a computer game. My daughter played Frogger and Oregon Trail (which I found very interesting).
The first time I saw the power of graphics and hyperlinks was "book" on CD about Nixon, Watergate and the hearing. I have forgotten the name but, for me, it was jaw dropping, every day stuff now.

 

[Rossum]

The granddaddy of all computer games... The Colossal Cave:

You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully.
>

The last point in the game drove my wife and me nuts for months!

And then there was Zork...

In some ways, games were ruined by early graphics; the visuals from a text-based game in my brain were far better than a CGA adapter could produce.

 

[CMD-Ky]

I thought WordStar 5.0 was the best version. I bought the others but always returned to V 5.0. DrDOS, Wordstar 5.0 and Lotus. If I could, I'd still use them. I use so few of the enhancements, for me word processing is an expensive typewriter. I did make good use of MailMerge to automate a lot of what I did when I ran an office.

I too loved WordStar. I have the following versions.

WordStar Portable v1.0 (Epson CP/M ROM carrier)
WordStar v2.26 (CP/M)
WordStar v3.3 (CP/M)
WordStar v5.0 (DOS)
WordStar v7.0C (DOS Textbook Edition)

I also have I think WordStar for Windows 1.5 and 2.0. Don't like them at all. Micropro (WordStar) didn't write WordStar for Windows. Rather it was originally Legacy for Windows (I believe) and Micropro bought it and relabeled it and gave it WordStar commands.

A guy named Mike Petrie (UK) wrote WordStar macros that gives Word, WordStar command keystrokes. I haven't chatted with him in years and I have no idea if he still supports it. VDE was created by Eric Meyer and he created it to be WordStar compatible and it is like a lite version of WordStar. VDE was available in CP/M and DOS versions.

 

[Rossum]

My daughter played Frogger and Oregon Trail

You have died of dysentery.

 

[CMD-Ky]

There were so many calamites that happened to her along that trail.

You have died of dysentery.

 

[Seiggy]

Who remembers Lemmings ? Best run on a x86 (in the day). Tried running the floppy on an x286 when they came out and the CPU was too fast (for those days) and the game started and finished before a single keystroke. Poor Lemmings.

 

[cigatron]

What, no Castle Wolfenstein? Heretic? Duke Nuke'm? Doom or Doom2? At some point I realized what a complete waste of time vid games were, glad I did.

 

[YePsTeR]

My fun was just messing around with the After Dark screen saver.... Flying toasters!!!!!

 

[tiburonfirst]

well, i forced myself and did the ceiling first definitely, easier cutting in from below than above! only obstacle to a finished project now is a less than one inch space between window frames and ceiling in the bay. anybody got a miracle solution? i checked and i do have a small brush, still worried though i'll hit the ceiling ..... sigh

 

[Rossum]

only obstacle to a finished project now is a less than one inch space between window frames and ceiling in the bay

Is the wall in that space actually visible from anywhere?

 

[SlickWilly]

After XP came along with a cable modem I started playing Quake 3 Arena online, loved playing that game.

I had a funny Win 98 screen saver that had smiling hopping sausages, can't remember the name of it.

 

[tiburonfirst]

Is the wall in that space actually visible from anywhere?

to me it is

possibly i ignored that strip the last time around but the new wall color is darker - no two ways about it, i need to get in there. 2 4-ft windows, one 5' - drat!!!!

 

[BillW50]

Yup, times have changed and fast, but then again my grandparents told me about growing up using horse and buggies, outhouses, kerosene lanterns for lighting and if you wanted to eat vegetables you grew and canned them, that seemed pretty strange to me as a kid.

What? Don't tell me that I am the only one that remembers all of this? Well not the horse and buggy part (although a neighbor a few miles away still offers rides by horse and buggy), but just the rest of it. We would spend 2 to 4 weeks at the hunting cabin during the summer. My grandfather, two uncles, and my dad built the place. No electricity (miles away from electricity). They drove a point into the ground (think pipe with a point attached) and hit an underground spring just over 20ft deep. And that pipe was fitted with a hand pump in the kitchen. Being the only boy, it was my job to pump water if anybody needed any.

There was two cylinder shaped tanks that I would guess today was 18 inches by 4 to 5 feet on the side of the cabin (maybe somebody may correct me). That was for propane that ran the stove, refrigerator, and the wall lighting. There was a couple of kerosene lanterns for portable lighting too (plus a few flashlights). Both propane and kerosene lighting used these sock like things (I was a little kid and called them socks - today I have no idea what the real name is). I think it was the same sock for either one. It was a cloth that was screen like. I don't recall if they got brittle after first use or had taken a number of uses. but they got very brittle. Don't touch them and they last a long time. Otherwise they turn into white ash.

Outhouse? Yes the cabin had a two seater outhouse. Probably like 25 feet away from the side of the cabin in the woods. I remember originally there wasn't a door (and facing away from the cabin or anything). But after a few years the women would complain (you know how they can get), so a door was added. Since it wasn't just us that would use the cabin, someone started to add signs inside. Signs like no parking, 5MPH speed limit, and my favorite was don't use because I am painting under here.

 

[awsum140]

to me it is

possibly i ignored that strip the last time around but the new wall color is darker - no two ways about it, i need to get in there. 2 4-ft windows, one 5' - drat!!!!

Time to break out the masking tape and mask the ceiling, first, above those windows. Then paint and take the tape off once the paint has set, but not dried.
(Thanks Waneyo, in a carb haze from dinner)

 

[ShamrockPat]

Then paint and take the paint off

Take the tape off once the paint has set, but not dried.

 

[Rossum]

Take the tape off once the paint has set, but not dried.

Yeah, but make sure the paint on the ceiling has had plenty of time to fully cure before applying masking tape to it.

 

[tiburonfirst]

Yeah, but make sure the paint on the ceiling has had plenty of time to fully cure before applying masking tape to it.

just finished the second coat on the ceiling saturday morning (yesterday) and don't have a drop of that paint left ......

 

[awsum140]

Let that little space go until next weekend, Tibs. That way the ceiling will be fully cured.