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My buddy had a VIC-20, I used to go over to his place after school every day to play games loaded from a casette tape. I was so jealous of him.

Then I got an Apple ][ with a 5.25" floppy drive and then he was over at my place all the time. His turn to be jelly.

Then we both got 8086 PCs and we exchanged games over a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem. Then I got the newest, super-duper 8087 math coprocessor and I was King Sh!t once again because I could play Flight Simulator and he couldn't. LOL!
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Oh wow, we spent hours playing Beachhead until we finally blew up the volcano top and the surrender flag started waving!
Wonderful memories.
Thanks for the links.
 
I had a garage sale vic 20 with a bunch of cartridges and a tape player. The only game I remember is raid on fort Knox. We then got a 8088 with a 20 mb hard drive.

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Lightcycle said:
Average age on GTAM is 70 years old.

I'm going to say most people on here pre-date Windows. It's just that some of them aren't in IT, so what "pre-dating Windows" to them means a small hole in the wall to let light in, and to let out smoke from the big fire in the middle of the thatched hut.
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Oh. I remember guys in high school walking around with suitcases of....
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I still have but not use...
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I worked for a video display company in Toronto that was the Canadian distributor for Osborne. We also helped with come of the product development.

One of my first jobs was creating the horizontal screen scroller for the Osborne 1. I worked for a couple of weeks in Adam Osborne's office in Hayward CA writing the code that handled vertical scrolling of the display. The screen was so small it would only display 52 characters wide x 24 tall. We expanded the screen map to 80 characters (later 132) x 32 to match the defacto industry standard, then made the screen smoothly scroll in both directions. For the nerds out there, that was an awesome feat at the time because it made 3270 and VT100 terminal emulations possible.

I wrote a clone of PONG in BASIC that was included in the factory distribution for a while.

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Sunday Rider said:
Oh wow, we spent hours playing Beachhead until we finally blew up the volcano top and the surrender flag started waving!
Wonderful memories.
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I played the hell out of that as well. You had to be millimeter perfect at times, so frustrations abounded.

I still have two Amigas. An A4000/040 and an A2000 with two drives. They were awesome in their day.
 
Shaman said:
I played the hell out of that as well. You had to be millimeter perfect at times, so frustrations abounded.

I still have two Amigas. An A4000/040 and an A2000 with two drives. They were awesome in their day.
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Those are worth money again!
 
In Win 10 you pressed Fn-F6 turned off the screen when utilizing the HDMI output to a screen.
What needs to be pressed to do this in Win 11 because I can't figure it out.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
In Win 10 you pressed Fn-F6 turned off the screen when utilizing the HDMI output to a screen.
What needs to be pressed to do this in Win 11 because I can't figure it out.
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Did your computer flip and now FN is backwards? Try pressing just F6 as maybe FN is now on by default.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
In Win 10 you pressed Fn-F6 turned off the screen when utilizing the HDMI output to a screen.
What needs to be pressed to do this in Win 11 because I can't figure it out.
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This functionality usually isn't built into Windows but added by the laptop manufacturer via their own software. You may need to (re)download that software for your specific laptop from the manufacturer. e.g. Lenovo calls it "Hotkey Features Integration"
 
Issues:
- Had to blow the manufacture installed WIN 11 and re-install from MS Cloud. This was coz I couldn't partition the disk to the size I wanted as the said manufacturer dumped the WIN 11 image right in the middle of the disc instead of at the begining. They are aware of this problem and still they send out laptops with that crappy pre-load.
Does the color "blue" ring a bell?
- This other manufacturer sends out a laptop that has a barrel type power port with a power supply cord that terminates in a USB clip.
Seven phone calls later, their tech support insists that the solution is for me to purchase the correct item from them - this is a brand new and factory dispatched laptop - WTF!
The name rhymes with "bell"

Did I forget to mention that both of the support teams are located in that country that has "curry" as a meal item?

- Dual boot was the only bump in getting linux to run side-by-side with WIN.
Cause: all that BIOS config that is designed to favor the load of WIN.

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GreyGhost said:
Did your computer flip and now FN is backwards? Try pressing just F6 as maybe FN is now on by default.
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No, I'm using the same keys. No luck with just F6.
TwistedKestrel said:
This functionality usually isn't built into Windows but added by the laptop manufacturer via their own software. You may need to (re)download that software for your specific laptop from the manufacturer. e.g. Lenovo calls it "Hotkey Features Integration"
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Ok, I thought it was a Win thing but I'm not tech savvy in the least. Both are Acer laptops.
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