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Note: keep in mind that these devices only work with a CRT TV, due to how they work, since they are triggered by the CRT beam. I figure a lot of these devices are going to fall into obscurity for this very reason. People are not going to be able to actually use them when the final crt tubes go to t...

With the early magazines, sure - A lot of times its just a guy with a camera taking photos of a screen. :lol: I think it took a few years for these magazines to hook up with printers that could handle the job. The goldmine is the letters section. The amount of salt/bitterness is fabulous. Programmer...

How do you mean? Like a unit test? Or prototype?

this is the magazine in question: https://archive.org/stream/crash-magazine-48/Crash_48_Jan_1988#page/n51/mode/2up Page 52 i (painstakingly) typed in everything on the page (the one that says be a bastard) and got an error in 15. is this some sort of joke? :evil: I would be pretty astonished if a t...

Learn something new every day, I didn't know about that spin feature. :lol: It's nice to hear others opinions on issues the wider issues around open source software are fun to go over but probably better on another topic thread :ugeek: Sorry for derailing the current topic. One of the reason I like ...

I am Eggstatic about this. Nice work.

Going to paraphrase Jamie Zawinski... Free software is only free if your time has no value. This sentence implies using free software is more effort, since it typically takes more time to make free software work properly in comparison to commercial alternatives. That's bullsh*t. In certain areas, a...

Ok I was a big fan of the TV show so the game was an easy sell back in the day. Lol I even had the game book that came out.

Going to paraphrase Jamie Zawinski... Free software is only free if your time has no value. This is a good example - you got a commercial solution that solves the problem... $15.99. Think of how much time you are going to have to spend to find another solution? What would the cost of a technical bou...