I never got any money directly from users for DiscContent, but I did get
paid by Amstrad Action for the publishing rights.
No, but I do remember when shareware was a thing.
DiscContent was written to use 3" floppies, but was distributed on cassette.
As I've been slowly setting up this vintage Compaq LTE 5000 laptop
with Jvaqbjf 3.1 (not Jvaqbjf sbe Jbextebhcf, mind you) and Internet
access, and furnishing the machine with the period-correct software
which is needed to make it tick, I've found a name I had last heard
more than 25 years ago: "The Association of Shareware Professionals"
(a.k.a. ASP).
Oh, the memories! Anyone around here used to be affiliated with them?
Oh, a computer with a built-in tape drive was cutting-edge.
I never got any money directly from users for DiscContent, but I did get
paid by Amstrad Action for the publishing rights.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:18:27 -0000 (UTC), Roger Bell_West
: Spectrum people, back in the day: "oh, you have to buy a special tape
: drive, I can just use any old tape recorder I find lying around."
:
: Commodore people (including me): "I have never had to fiddle with the
: volume."
The speccy people always knocked the lead after 20 minutes and had to rewind and start again...
On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:03:12 -0000 (UTC), Gary Barnes
DiscContent was written to use 3" floppies, but was distributed on cassette.
On cassete! Now, that *is* vintage.
In the end we found that one solution for that problem was to suspend
the tape drive from under a shelf using those big postie rubber bands.
Things loaded just fine after that.
As I've been slowly setting up this vintage Compaq LTE 5000 laptop
with Jvaqbjf 3.1 (not Jvaqbjf sbe Jbextebhcf, mind you) and Internet
access, and furnishing the machine with the period-correct software
which is needed to make it tick, I've found a name I had last heard
more than 25 years ago: "The Association of Shareware Professionals"
(a.k.a. ASP).
Oh, the memories! Anyone around here used to be affiliated with them?
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 01:55:43 +0100, Juancho wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:03:12 -0000 (UTC), Gary Barnes
DiscContent was written to use 3" floppies, but was distributed on cassette.
On cassete! Now, that *is* vintage.
I remember taping stuff off the radio for the Acorn Electron.
And I also vaguely remember a friend with an Atari who had
software distributed on a record.
Only Jvaqbjf 3.11 was ever called Jvaqbjf sbe Jbextebhcf and was the
first version to include a very rudimentary networking ability.
I was never affiliated with them ohg qvq trg zl Zvpebfbsg
Pregvsvpngvba sbe Jvaqbjf 95 which basically re-did the networking
abilities of 3.11 fairly functionally and improved on it with 98.....
I suspect I may be one of the very few people in the world who paid
the registration fee for John Bradley's `xv` <s>pr0n</s> image viewing
tool. Don't recall what it was, but I got a printed manual and a code
to define on the compiler command line to remove the "UNREGISTERED"
watermark in the UI.
I remember knocking the lead type errors, and having to turn the telly
off whenever the tape drive was in use, ideally with us retreating to
the far side of the room. Step away from the keyboard and your software *might* load.
In the end we found that one solution for that problem was to suspend
the tape drive from under a shelf using those big postie rubber bands.
Things loaded just fine after that.
On 2024-01-19, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
Only Jvaqbjf 3.11 was ever called Jvaqbjf sbe Jbextebhcf and was the
There are traces on the Internet of this: https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-3/wfw-31
Fortunately, slrn has it built-in, and my finger-macroes hit ESC-r before I even realised what I was doing.
Fortunately, slrn has it built-in, and my finger-macroes hit ESC-r before I even realised what I was doing.
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