you know whats annoying?
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I second the floating track and roads. That really is annoying because you can spend hours fiddling with the ground versus the tracks to hide the edge. There are some newer roads and tracks which help solve that issue though, which is a good thing.
How about track-side objects that jump down the track a piece when you insert a spline point! I hate this because I then find a missing junction lever or track bumper somewhere in the middle of a through track.
John
That's a good idea, but I thought that may be a bit stale. I was hoping for a fresh batch.
John
MICROSOFT!!!!
Wait, I got it, the answer is MICROSOFT! I bought Windows 3 back in 1986, then when they came out with Windows NT they wouldn't give me a free copy so I had to buy that, Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows XP and I bought all those and I'm STILL waiting for my free copy of Windows 7, how many times do I have to keep buying Windows? THAT is what's annoying, do I win some popcorn?
And how come MSDOS is no longer supported, I paid good money for all those versions and MSDOS 6 was working so GOOD! :'(
Wait, I got it, the answer is MICROSOFT! I bought Windows 3 back in 1986, then when they came out with Windows NT they wouldn't give me a free copy so I had to buy that, Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows XP and I bought all those and I'm STILL waiting for my free copy of Windows 7, how many times do I have to keep buying Windows? THAT is what's annoying, do I win some popcorn?
And how come MSDOS is no longer supported, I paid good money for all those versions and MSDOS 6 was working so GOOD! :'(Wait, I got it, the answer is MICROSOFT! I bought Windows 3 back in 1986, then when they came out with Windows NT they wouldn't give me a free copy so I had to buy that, Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows XP and I bought all those and I'm STILL waiting for my free copy of Windows 7, how many times do I have to keep buying Windows? THAT is what's annoying, do I win some popcorn?
i have to agree with you...... every other year big m will come out with a new os.... biggier & maybe better, but once a month you will get a fix for a bug, every month.. so yea, one ton of popcorn being trainzed to you in a iportal
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Wait, I got it, the answer is MICROSOFT! I bought Windows 3 back in 1986, then when they came out with Windows NT they wouldn't give me a free copy so I had to buy that, Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows XP and I bought all those and I'm STILL waiting for my free copy of Windows 7, how many times do I have to keep buying Windows? THAT is what's annoying, do I win some popcorn?
G'day Sniper297,
Have you ever tried "Dosbox" it's a little free proggy that let you run a lot of software rhar was writen for Dos.
BTW, you make great assets, do not use them myself coz I'm building European based routes, but I recognise great stuff when I see it.:clap:
Have a good one,
E.C.
I'm waiting foe the conversion of TS12 into DOS. I heard the framerates will double under DOS.
Actually I have;
http://www.oldgames.sk/en/
A lot of those old games come with DOSbox preconfigured.
"BTW, you make great assets"
Thanks, I should by now, been uploading addons for computer games since the original Bruce Artwick flightsim 1 so I've certainly had enough practice. :hehe:
http://www.oldgames.sk/en/
A lot of those old games come with DOSbox preconfigured.
"BTW, you make great assets"
Thanks, I should by now, been uploading addons for computer games since the original Bruce Artwick flightsim 1 so I've certainly had enough practice. :hehe:
Actually I have;
http://www.oldgames.sk/en/
A lot of those old games come with DOSbox preconfigured.
"BTW, you make great assets"
Thanks, I should by now, been uploading addons for computer games since the original Bruce Artwick flightsim 1 so I've certainly had enough practice. :hehe:
G'Day,
Used to have stacks of old dos games, mt favourite was "Mega Traveler" which I used to play on my Amiga also. I used to print out fact sheets for every planet.
Now my life is entirely devoted to Trainz:Y:.
Talk about a one track mind:hehe:.
Have a good one,
E.C.
I liked Red Storm Rising on my Commodore 64.
G'day,
The programs I had on my C64 were 99.9% typed in by myself ftom books and magazines. I used to have a lot of fun adapting very old basic programs that were writen for use with a line printer to the C64 and adding sprites, graphics, colour and movement to them.
Have a good one,
E.C.
I remember that game too! DOSBox is great. I've used that for a couple of oldies as well.
I'm staill waiting for my free upgrade from CP/M to Windows 7, but that hasn't happened either. I ended up buying the OS instead.
John
colourlight
New member
You know whats annoying? People who go off subject in a thread.
You know what's annoying? Someone who tries to keep threads on topic. :hehe:
BLACKWATCH
Mechanical Engineer
Nothing is "Annoying" more than "Dosbox" because I still have my Amiga up & running in it's tower & linked into my Micropuke Windows box, it still runs Amidos progs from way back, whilst 'Windows' struggles to run aps from it's own last version. Windows just ripped off everyone elses ideas.
You have to realise that Amiga was more 'Apple-Mac' than Micro-puke, it had 'WINDOW' mode before microcrap got out of command line input.
Therefore it is bound to be more user friendly than a corporate money making machine, which just ripped off somebody elses idea.
Now if this ain't gone (gon for our yank friends) off subject, I suggest our redneck pals from "over the pond" consult the big dictionary on computer systems.
The 'Amiga' was designed & built by COMMODORE, one of thefirst computer companies to give the home user an insight to the new way of logging data.
And to put the boot in, Computers were invented by the BRITISH, not the yanks, look up BABBAGE.
You have to realise that Amiga was more 'Apple-Mac' than Micro-puke, it had 'WINDOW' mode before microcrap got out of command line input.
Therefore it is bound to be more user friendly than a corporate money making machine, which just ripped off somebody elses idea.
Now if this ain't gone (gon for our yank friends) off subject, I suggest our redneck pals from "over the pond" consult the big dictionary on computer systems.
The 'Amiga' was designed & built by COMMODORE, one of thefirst computer companies to give the home user an insight to the new way of logging data.
And to put the boot in, Computers were invented by the BRITISH, not the yanks, look up BABBAGE.
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G'day,
The "Workbench/windows" concept was originaly developed by Xerox.
The Amiga was on the scene before the Apple mac, and was more advanced than the Mac.
When Commodore was syill going, the PC was just an expensive doorstop.:hehe:
It's realy amazing that the PC needs GHZ of speed, and nulriple gigs of memory to do what the Amiga could do with 8Mhz and a few megabites of memory.
Have a good one,
E.C.
amigacooke
Well-known member
The Amiga was excellent but the Mac came first, 1984 as opposed to 1985.
Not to make excuses for Microsoft or the PCs, we have to remember that these were originally business-class machines versus home machines. Way back in the early 1980s when PCs were first developed, they were meant to be connected to mainframes as terminals, but only with local storage. There was no such thing as fancy graphics and sound like we have today.
IBM determined the early specs on the machines, and hired Microsoft to write the first versions of DOS for them after breaking off with Digital Research. Prior to MS-DOS becoming a full-fledged OS, Digital Research wrote a version of CP/M for the early Intel machines and then went on to write a multitasking version of CP/M called MP/M. It was after DR had a falling out with the over-controlling IBM, that the latter company went with Microsoft instead.
Now with IBM in control of things, they determined what MS and other vendors would do. In the early 1990s, IBM and Microsoft jointly developed OS/2. IBM pushed for more control over the project and Microsoft and other fought back. Microsoft eventually split from them and went on to produce NT and the later versions of Windows.
So what we have to work with is actually a late comer to the GUI party. Microsoft through borrowing from other companies (being said nicely here), developed the Windows look we have. Sadly the other O/S vendors never really did anything any better. In part this is due to the original specs developed at MIT, Xerox and other companies.
What MS Windows is today is nothing more than a variant on the same theme. This is due to the X Windows and Open Windows GUI standards that came out MIT's project Athena.
The location of the menu bar with File, Edit, etc. across the top is standard in nearly all GUIs today whether this is KDE, Windows 7, or even the Amiga OS.
What we also see in Windows today is developed through end-user and committee feedback. In the early days of the development cycle, Microsoft solicited feedback regarding what features the users would like to see. Through these surveys, they developed the look and feel we have now. The thing is, the underlying X Windows layout is still there no matter how they try to hide it.
Is this perfect? Hell no! There are annoyances in Windows just like any GUI. What really counts is the stability under the pretty shell, and this is where Windows 7 shines today. This is by far the most stable version of Windows we have today. It may have been a little over 20 years in the making, but they sure caught on fast to give us what we have today.
Here's a Wiki link you might find interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface
John
IBM determined the early specs on the machines, and hired Microsoft to write the first versions of DOS for them after breaking off with Digital Research. Prior to MS-DOS becoming a full-fledged OS, Digital Research wrote a version of CP/M for the early Intel machines and then went on to write a multitasking version of CP/M called MP/M. It was after DR had a falling out with the over-controlling IBM, that the latter company went with Microsoft instead.
Now with IBM in control of things, they determined what MS and other vendors would do. In the early 1990s, IBM and Microsoft jointly developed OS/2. IBM pushed for more control over the project and Microsoft and other fought back. Microsoft eventually split from them and went on to produce NT and the later versions of Windows.
So what we have to work with is actually a late comer to the GUI party. Microsoft through borrowing from other companies (being said nicely here), developed the Windows look we have. Sadly the other O/S vendors never really did anything any better. In part this is due to the original specs developed at MIT, Xerox and other companies.
What MS Windows is today is nothing more than a variant on the same theme. This is due to the X Windows and Open Windows GUI standards that came out MIT's project Athena.
The location of the menu bar with File, Edit, etc. across the top is standard in nearly all GUIs today whether this is KDE, Windows 7, or even the Amiga OS.
What we also see in Windows today is developed through end-user and committee feedback. In the early days of the development cycle, Microsoft solicited feedback regarding what features the users would like to see. Through these surveys, they developed the look and feel we have now. The thing is, the underlying X Windows layout is still there no matter how they try to hide it.
Is this perfect? Hell no! There are annoyances in Windows just like any GUI. What really counts is the stability under the pretty shell, and this is where Windows 7 shines today. This is by far the most stable version of Windows we have today. It may have been a little over 20 years in the making, but they sure caught on fast to give us what we have today.
Here's a Wiki link you might find interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface
John
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