How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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Shoot me.I have a somewhat dark and shameful secret indulgence of extreme nurdery that even causes the uber geeks amongst us to raise their eyebrows in horror and walk away mid conversation.
I know very little about the humble PC upon which I'm typing right now. Apple Macs just don't do it for me. I'm as un-techie a person as you'll ever meet.
Except I harbour a passion for the humble Commodore Amiga. Yep, given the choice, my ideal computing platform would be something so obscure that even Linux afficionados call me a geek.
A few years back I assembled the mother of all Amigas. At it's heart was a 1992 vintage A1200, however it was modified with an IDE interface, a bridgeboard with four PCI slots, a Soundblaster card, an accelerator card containing a Motorola MC68040 which I'd overclocked to a whopping 40Mhz and 64Mb of RAM and the piece de resistence - a Voodoo 3000 graphics card. This thing kicked arse.
Do doubt you'll all be hugely impressed when I mention that my Amiga was capable of not only running Doom, but also ran Quake at a very acceptable framerate.
The operating system itself had been hugely modified. Forget the white on blue hues of Amigas of old, my patched OS (version 3.9 BB2 for interested parties) featured such boasts as textured window frames, translucent draggable menus, a user configurable GUI and lots of general prettyness which made my Win 98 box look clunky by comparison.
In addition, it had just enough horsepower to play MP3 files through the soundcard while I was web browsing.
Eat that Bill Gates.
*edit*
My Amiga died a death a few years ago when I managed to fit the clocking crystal in the wrong way round, taking out the accelerator card, bridgeboard, motherboard AND frying the CPU to boot. RIP Amiga [sniff]
Hooray for WinUAE...
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 10:25, 2 replies)
Horay for WinUAE...... Which is in your startup folder right?
Hello there fellow Amigan.
I used to run an A1200, towered up myself with Blizzard PPC 040 603e 64meg ram (+2 meg chip of course) BVision. Have the M1438S monitor so no messing about going from Multiscan to PAL modes :) Running Amiga OS3.9 with all the lovely mods, MUI, MCP, MultiCX etc.
My Amiga Kickstarted ass until she was sadly decomissioned in 2004. I had it running as a server for a while as well. Running my website, ftp server, irc server. It was on the ethernet and had samba running so i could access its drives from any PC and vice versa.
I also created a lovely Arexx script pumping out my MP3s on random hooked up to a small FM transmitter so i could listen to my mp3s all over the house with on any radio :)
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 10:56, closed)
Eh?Me no understand!
(, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 16:27, closed)
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