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Quoting: slaapliedjeI'm on the side with 'needs numpad', there are older games that absolutely require the numpad (I'm talking games like Dungeon Master mostly).

That reminds me. Are there, like, standalone numpads? Seems like with all the people loving their very different setups that would be a thing.

Yes, dozens [External Link].

I remember a cardboard box full of numpads for the Apple II in our school lab. Back in antediluvian times.

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Quoting: GroganThere's no way they'd have chosen that mickey mouse operating system on its own merits. DOS (well, CP/M at the time) was utter garbage, it was sold for a song

CP/M wasn't garbage (http://www.digitalresearch.biz/CPM.HTM [External Link]); it was doing very well at the time (all the beefier micros capable of doing any sort of serious work had a port of it; it was a serious breakthrough in making micros useful for office work. Even the C64 got a cartridge extension eventually). Digital Research & Gary Kildall almost made the deal with IBM; as to why it fell through, there are many legends -- though I wouldn't rule out secret MS interference.

MS then paid a small company in Seattle to put together a shitty clone of CP/M; I believe they had some sort of distribution agreement with Digital Research; so essentially they breached whatever agreement was in place, & then plagiarized the software into DOS. Then they convinced (?!) IBM to license it per machine -- a trick that Bill Gates had tried on Commodore earlier w/ respect to BASIC, only to get rejected by Commodore's founder & then-CEO Jack Tramiel. Tramiel told Gates, "I'm already married."

Ha!
Wasn't it called "QDOS" for "Quick and Dirty OS"?

Yeah that's what the 'clone' was initially called.

Also I shouldn't have said '... all the beefier micros had it ...' -- more precisely, CP/M was written for the 8080 processor, so it worked on micros that had an Intel 8080 or a Zilog-80 clone of the intel. C64, The Apple II, etc. were 6502 based to they got expansion cartridges or cards. Digital Research later released a 'multitasking' DOS, a Mac-clone GUI layer for the Atari 16 bits, etc. The company got sold off, though; & Gary Kildall met an untimely death. He was reportedly very bitter that the 'micro' revolution of the late 70s-early 80s got hijacked by scum like Gates, or the a$$hole salesman Jobs. He had a lot of respect for Steve Wozniak though.

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Quoting: GroganThere's no way they'd have chosen that mickey mouse operating system on its own merits. DOS (well, CP/M at the time) was utter garbage, it was sold for a song

CP/M wasn't garbage (http://www.digitalresearch.biz/CPM.HTM [External Link]); it was doing very well at the time (all the beefier micros capable of doing any sort of serious work had a port of it; it was a serious breakthrough in making micros useful for office work. Even the C64 got a cartridge extension eventually). Digital Research & Gary Kildall almost made the deal with IBM; as to why it fell through, there are many legends -- though I wouldn't rule out secret MS interference.

MS then paid a small company in Seattle to put together a shitty clone of CP/M; I believe they had some sort of distribution agreement with Digital Research; so essentially they breached whatever agreement was in place, & then plagiarized the software into DOS. Then they convinced (?!) IBM to license it per machine -- a trick that Bill Gates had tried on Commodore earlier w/ respect to BASIC, only to get rejected by Commodore's founder & then-CEO Jack Tramiel. Tramiel told Gates, "I'm already married."

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Quoting: MisterPaytwickWait, SuSE is actually picking to have competition over stagnation ? That's nice. Looking a bit harder at it, I guess it's wait and see again, sounds pretty opportunistic.

Yeah; I mean, SuSE the business couldn't act any other way; but what's puzzling is what they're promising -- a 'hard fork' of RHEL that 'plays nice' with clones makes sense if it's meant to receive the care & attention RHEL itself receives. But SuSE isn't making that big of a commitment; & although the news articles stress the $10M they say they're investing into this, that amount is about half of what Rocky started with in the first place. & SuSE already has its own enterprise OS. It's pretty weird. Maybe they want Rocky & Alma to become SLE clones?

.... ok sorry about the weird tangent.
More on topic: fsck Microsoft!

Quoting: ShabbyXYeap, they _have_ done much for computing, mostly in the form of ruining it.

This can't be stressed hard enough.

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Speaking of a$$hole companies, did you all see this?
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/ [External Link]

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Quoting: dziadulewiczOh Zombies even here. To ruin even a Command & Conquer kind of game. WHY ARE THESE THROWN EVERY WHERE

No need to program any sort of tactical AI for the enemies, I guess. They just run towards you.

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Congratulations, and thanks for such a great website!

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Quoting: EikeCan we give the award for the most stupid abbreviation in open source of at least the century to this new "GPL"?

Yeah, I wonder if this GPL will improve the DRM subsystem of the kernel.
I mean, GPL'ed DRM; what a time to be alive I guess.

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Street Fighter first came out in 1987.

& now it looks like we can pick up fights with random people on the streets ... ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!

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Quoting: ArdjeTo be clear: I was at a crossroads 25 years ago: Let windows NT into my life or not. I gave it a fair chance, even at the highest of the FUD wars.
Today the only real purpose in my life is to get rid of windows systems in favor of more service, happiness and less costs for the clients.

As a non-pro who has recently felt the pain of trying to compile a couple of lua packages on windows, I wholeheartedly agree.

(Oh, and WSL2 is a scam; & useless in general.)

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