rec.autos.simulators

> > Right!
> > In my day you had to free up 639k of ram - if you were lucky! And we had
to
> > write all the drivers ourselves in assembler starting without a monitor
or
> > even diskdrive, so we hacked it straight into memory.

> You had assembler?  Luxury! In my day we programmed everything in binary
... on
> punch cards.

> <Snip!>
> > In the mean time, here's one for our Australian cousins, gotta give
> > something back to people who have the good taste to run such an exciting
> > series as the Super V8 series or what they call it these days
> > ---

> <Snip!>
> Sniff, sniff... There's nothing like high-brow poetry to get that emotional
> response. ;-)

> > > Right!
> > > In my day you had to free up 639k of ram - if you were lucky! And we
had
> to
> > > write all the drivers ourselves in assembler starting without a
monitor
> or
> > > even diskdrive, so we hacked it straight into memory.

> > You had assembler?  Luxury! In my day we programmed everything in binary
> ... on
> > punch cards.

> Now what I called a cpu cache was really just a soggy piece of soiled
> cardboard from a reused crate of unwrapped pig intestines! We may have
> thought of it as memory, when we scratched out code with a piece of rock
> covered with lichen. And every day when we turned our code in for review
the
> project manager would kick us down 3 flights of stairs dumping us straight
> in a cesspool. If we were lucky!

> /Jens

> Well, *I* spent the first year of my career developing for the Mac. It don't
> get any worse than that!

> ROTFLAMO!!  Yep that's it, & this is the part that just *killed* me.
> Thanks for the laugh, it's a true classic.

> >> Right up there with the dead bird skit.  :-))

> >You mean this one then ?

> >---
> >A customer enters a pet shop.

> >Customer: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.

> Now THAT is a classic skit :)

> Rafe Mc

>> Right up there with the dead bird skit.  :-))

>You mean this one then ?

>---
>A customer enters a pet shop.

>Customer: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.

> (pause)

> O: Well, o'course it was nailed there!  If I hadn't nailed that bird
> down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its
> beak, and VOOM!  Feeweeweewee!

> C: "VOOM"?!?  Mate, this bird wouldn't "voom" if you put four million
> volts through it!       'E's bleedin' demised!

> O: No no!  'E's pining!

> C: 'E's not pinin'!  'E's passed on!  This parrot is no more!  He has
> ceased to be!  'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker!  'E's a stiff!
> Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace!      If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch
> 'e'd be pushing up the daisies!  'Is metabolic processes are now
> 'istory!  'E's off the twig!  'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off
> 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir
> invisibile!!   THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

>>www.pcmag.com

>I agree with shutting down the virus scanner, but not the firewall. If
>you're on cable you shouldn't drop your security just because you're
>in a game.

> >In conclusion, if you can't run your games without shutting down your AV
and
> >FW, you should consider reducing the graphics (or other) settings.
Otherwise
> >you're playing with fire and deserve what you get! YOU were the one who
> >wanted +1 fps instead of security. But the choice is your to make,- I've
> >made mine.

> So what's your firewall?  As I said in another message, it isn't the
framerate
> I'm worried about - it's the lockup.