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Sandeep Mewara6-Jan-23 17:46

Sandeep Mewara

6-Jan-23 17:46

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OriginalGriff6-Jan-23 19:34

6-Jan-23 19:34

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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Amarnath S6-Jan-23 20:09

Amarnath S

6-Jan-23 20:09

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pkfox7-Jan-23 0:20

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7-Jan-23 0:20

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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6

Cp-Coder7-Jan-23 1:11

Cp-Coder

7-Jan-23 1:11

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I got lucky on the first word!

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jmaida7-Jan-23 5:13

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7-Jan-23 5:13

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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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Kent Sharkey6-Jan-23 9:27

Kent Sharkey

6-Jan-23 9:27

Sim Wong Hoo, founder of Sound Blaster maker Creative Labs, has died | PC Gamer[^] Rose | [Rose]

TTFN - Kent

fgs19636-Jan-23 9:47

fgs1963

6-Jan-23 9:47

Those were the days... I had pretty much every AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS command memorized. I felt like a wizard! Friends, family or neighbors would call with a problem ( Dead | X|

), I'd show up, open those two files, make wholesale tweaks and reboot. Voila!

Until they installed the next piece of crappy software and the process repeated. Dead | X|

x 2.

OriginalGriff6-Jan-23 10:38

6-Jan-23 10:38

I remember the sounds in the days Before Sound-Blaster. Rose | [Rose]

I also remember the fun and games tuning AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to get mouse and SB loaded and still have enough ram left to play the game ... I forget how many different boot floppies I had, but it was most of a box.

dandy726-Jan-23 11:01

dandy72

6-Jan-23 11:01

OriginalGriff wrote:
I remember the sounds in the days Before Sound-Blaster

There's not much in terms of SoundBlaster predecessors, except maybe for the Adlib. I remember Sierra's magazine used to promote it rather heavily and I spent...well, I don't remember exactly how much, but it was a lot of money even back then for what you got, especially considering I was still in school. It improved their games a lot, but still, in hindsight...eeeek.

OriginalGriff6-Jan-23 11:24

6-Jan-23 11:24

Yep. That's why most games used the bleeper, or if you were lucky the PC speaker. Dead | X|

Alexey Biriukov9-Jan-23 17:47

Alexey Biriukov

9-Jan-23 17:47

There was! Covox Speech Thing

dandy7210-Jan-23 8:44

dandy72

10-Jan-23 8:44

"Covox" triggered some memories. Glancing at the article however, I can see why I don't remember much of it.

Peter Adam8-Jan-23 21:54

Peter Adam

8-Jan-23 21:54

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330[^]

[00:00] 01 @ECHO OFF
[03:38] 02 PROMPT $p$g
[07:22] 03 SET PATH=C:\METAL
[11:01] 04 SET SOUND=C:\CLASSICAL
[14:29] 05 SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:G MODE:1
[19:18] 06 SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330

Friday Musing: Why Hamsters?

jochance10-Jan-23 7:15

jochance

10-Jan-23 7:15

That needs to be I7... IRQ 5 will conflict. LOL

Craig Robbins6-Jan-23 9:05

Craig Robbins

6-Jan-23 9:05

How did the term Hamsters, which seems to refer to Chris M's team, originate? Is this an Aussie term, European, perhaps Canadian?

No complaints here - just curious. From my memory of my sister's pet, it mostly ate pellets, ran on a squeaky wheel, and produced pellets.

Best wishes to all - Craig

Slacker0076-Jan-23 9:36

Slacker007

6-Jan-23 9:36

I always thought the "hamsters" were like Gremlins - up to no good, mischief. so when something is broken with the site the Hamsters did it.

fgs19636-Jan-23 9:37

fgs1963

6-Jan-23 9:37

It's been a billion or so years* but I seem to recall Chris joking that the servers were powered by hamsters. I don't recall him referring to his staff as hamsters.

*fgs1963 is my 2nd time at CP. My original would have been ~20 years.

RickZeeland6-Jan-23 9:37

RickZeeland

6-Jan-23 9:37

It stems from the early CodeProject days when a bunch of hamsters escaped from the Maunder home and went feral.
Till this day they thrive in the wamth of the CodeProject datacenters.

peterkm6-Jan-23 9:41

peterkm

6-Jan-23 9:41

Good point ... Let's investigate Smile | :)

as I am also quite curious about this, and I never heard this before except in the Lounge ... and, this interview A Coder Interview With Chris Maunder points to Chris Smile | :)

modified 6-Jan-23 15:59pm.

PIEBALDconsult6-Jan-23 9:45

PIEBALDconsult

6-Jan-23 9:45

Dunno, whether or not it pre-existed CP, but I think the concept is that the servers are powered by hamsters running in their wheels. Which would explain why things may appear markedly slower at times -- the hamsters need feeding.
And when the hamsters get out, things go bad.

Single Step Debugger6-Jan-23 10:00

Single Step Debugger

6-Jan-23 10:00

If memory serves, CP severs are built from used iPhones. Tens of thousands of them. You need a lot of minions to service and maintain all these devices. Only a high number of well trained and occasionally electroshocked hamsters can pull of this kind of task.

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OriginalGriff6-Jan-23 10:41