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Bored? Good news - 16-bit DOS door games now available on CHIMPY::

by jg＠jordi.guillaumes.name

CHIMPY:: has just signed up with BBS Interlink to provide retro door games for anyone, well, connecting to CHIMPY. The games run on a shared server so you might encounter up to dozens of players online at once, so not exactly an MMO portal but good fun to be had still (especially Global Backgammon, still my favourite backgammon game for over 20 years). Just as a reminder, BITXT1 hosts DECWAR, and it should be accessible from anywhere in HECNET. ;)

10 years, 10 months

Bored? Good news - 16-bit DOS door games now available on CHIMPY::

by sampsa＠mac.com

Oh, forgot to mention, log in as "16BIT" to launch these. sampsa On 26 Jan 2015, at 22:51, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: CHIMPY:: has just signed up with BBS Interlink to provide retro door games for anyone, well, connecting to CHIMPY. The games run on a shared server so you might encounter up to dozens of players online at once, so not exactly an MMO portal but good fun to be had still (especially Global Backgammon, still my favourite backgammon game for over 20 years). Anyway, the games on offer are: Global War (risk clone) Global Backgammon LORD LORD 2 Planets: TEOS Operation: Overkill 2 Trade Wars 2002 Pimp Wars Lunatix BBS Crash Enjoy. sampsa

10 years, 10 months

Bored? Good news - 16-bit DOS door games now available on CHIMPY::

by sampsa＠mac.com

CHIMPY:: has just signed up with BBS Interlink to provide retro door games for anyone, well, connecting to CHIMPY. The games run on a shared server so you might encounter up to dozens of players online at once, so not exactly an MMO portal but good fun to be had still (especially Global Backgammon, still my favourite backgammon game for over 20 years). Anyway, the games on offer are: Global War (risk clone) Global Backgammon LORD LORD 2 Planets: TEOS Operation: Overkill 2 Trade Wars 2002 Pimp Wars Lunatix BBS Crash Enjoy. sampsa

10 years, 10 months

DCL Question - weird input problme

by sampsa＠mac.com

Ah it has to be immediately before the command, I did it a few lines before. Cheers - works fine now. sampsa On 26 Jan 2015, at 21:53, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote: To get the behavior you are expecting when invoked from a command file, the command immediately preceding the python invitation should be: $ define/user sys$input sys$command This is from 20+ year old memory, but that should be close.... - Mark On Jan 26, 2015 2:47 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: On 2015-01-26 20:41, Sampsa Laine wrote: > So I've got this Python script which reads commands from stdin, basically in the form of <cmd> + <cr(lf?> > > When I run it standalone, it works fine, but when invoked from a COM file it acts as if stdin is nothing but CRLF's.. > > Any ideas? Are you sure it is not EOF? When run from a command file, programs will get their input from the command file, up to the next line starting with a dollar sign, which would be the next DCL command. So I would assume you'd get an EOF in your python program at that point. Johnny

10 years, 10 months

DCL Question - weird input problme

by Mark＠infocomm.com

To get the behavior you are expecting when invoked from a command file, the command immediately preceding the python invitation should be: $ define/user sys$input sys$command This is from 20+ year old memory, but that should be close.... - Mark On Jan 26, 2015 2:47 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: On 2015-01-26 20:41, Sampsa Laine wrote: > So I've got this Python script which reads commands from stdin, basically in the form of <cmd> + <cr(lf?> > > When I run it standalone, it works fine, but when invoked from a COM file it acts as if stdin is nothing but CRLF's.. > > Any ideas? Are you sure it is not EOF? When run from a command file, programs will get their input from the command file, up to the next line starting with a dollar sign, which would be the next DCL command. So I would assume you'd get an EOF in your python program at that point. Johnny

10 years, 10 months

DCL Question - weird input problme

by bqt＠softjar.se

On 2015-01-26 20:41, Sampsa Laine wrote: So I've got this Python script which reads commands from stdin, basically in the form of <cmd> + <cr(lf?> When I run it standalone, it works fine, but when invoked from a COM file it acts as if stdin is nothing but CRLF's.. Any ideas? Are you sure it is not EOF? When run from a command file, programs will get their input from the command file, up to the next line starting with a dollar sign, which would be the next DCL command. So I would assume you'd get an EOF in your python program at that point. Johnny

10 years, 10 months

DCL Question - weird input problme

by sampsa＠mac.com

So I've got this Python script which reads commands from stdin, basically in the form of <cmd> + <cr(lf?> When I run it standalone, it works fine, but when invoked from a COM file it acts as if stdin is nothing but CRLF's.. Any ideas? sampsa

10 years, 10 months

Number of nodes online a bit low?

by bqt＠softjar.se

On 2015-01-26 20:12, Hans Vlems wrote: Did you have a choice Johnny, was keeping the original meter an option? Nope. Johnny Verzonden vanaf mijn BlackBerry 10-smartphone. Origineel bericht Van: Johnny Billquist Verzonden: maandag 26 januari 2015 19:42 Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low? On 2015-01-26 19:04, G. wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:27:49 -0500, John Wilson wrote: I am much more nervous about the (to my view) really crappy and scary plugs you use in the US. They actually have a fair chance of actually exposing me to contact... I can't argue with that. They'd *never* be approved if they were invented today, but we're used to being careful and people hate change. Same danger here, until they made compulsory (25-30 years ago) to sell only plugs with the first part of the prongs insulated, so that when there is electricity flowing, the accidentally exposed part is not conductive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europlug#mediaviewer/File:Euro-Flachstecker_2.… The nice thing is that it's backward compatible with ancient receptacles :) Right. But with the addition that for the Shuko (which you have in both Sweden and Germany (and other places)), the socket is inset, so when the pins even gets close to the receptacle, the whole thing is already out of each for any part of it. But I know you have weird connectors and sockets in Italy... ;-) Johnny

10 years, 10 months

Number of nodes online a bit low?

by mholmes10＠hotmail.com

Hey Sampsa, You got two more back online (MASON & ROXY). I was out of town and Verizon's crappy router froze up. If I get the SCSI2SD hard drive for the multia working, BOSCO will be back online. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 25, 2015, at 10:12 AM, "Sampsa Laine" <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: So I ran a simple script that tried to get the executable characteristics of a node, for each node in the nodedb. I was surprised to see that only 33 systems seemed to be online. I thought there would've been more up. Any way, here's the list of nodes that were shown as up: ALEPH AXPEE B4GATE BIGV7K BUBBLE DS20 EBOLA ERSATZ FRACK FRICK GLGMSH GORVAX HALO HILANT HPIVAX JOCKE K4VX2 KRYLBO KUHAVX LABVAX MAISA MIM ORAV23 PLUTO PONDUS PYFFLE SGC SHAMS SIMVAX SLAVE SOL STRGTE STUPI VAX780

10 years, 10 months

Number of nodes online a bit low?

by hvlems＠zonnet.nl

Did you have a choice Johnny, was keeping the original meter an option? Verzonden vanaf mijn BlackBerry 10-smartphone. Origineel bericht Van: Johnny Billquist Verzonden: maandag 26 januari 2015 19:42 Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low? On 2015-01-26 19:04, G. wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:27:49 -0500, John Wilson wrote: I am much more nervous about the (to my view) really crappy and scary plugs you use in the US. They actually have a fair chance of actually exposing me to contact... I can't argue with that. They'd *never* be approved if they were invented today, but we're used to being careful and people hate change. Same danger here, until they made compulsory (25-30 years ago) to sell only plugs with the first part of the prongs insulated, so that when there is electricity flowing, the accidentally exposed part is not conductive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europlug#mediaviewer/File:Euro-Flachstecker_2.… The nice thing is that it's backward compatible with ancient receptacles :) Right. But with the addition that for the Shuko (which you have in both Sweden and Germany (and other places)), the socket is inset, so when the pins even gets close to the receptacle, the whole thing is already out of each for any part of it. But I know you have weird connectors and sockets in Italy... ;-) Johnny

10 years, 10 months

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