Fatfree Games 
Saturday, June 28, 2008, 12:16 AM
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I was doing a little housekeeping on my Ferrari laptop and I discovered, in the Package Manager, a powerful DOS emulator called DOSBox. It installed in seconds. The first thing I did was try running one of my old Clipper programs - it worked perfectly. Now I have the ability to run Windows programs under WINE, as well as DOS programs - all without leaving my Ubuntu desktop.

With this new toy, I decided to load up one of my old DOS games that I used to love. HUH! I had forgotten that I was an Apple man - I had dozens of games - all for the Apple II and no games for PC-DOS. A quick search on the Internet did, however, find some. I tried Mickey's Space Adventure which was published by Sierra Entertainment in 1986. It was two disks zipped to a 350KB file. It downloaded in a couple of seconds!

The 1986 sound was just so reminiscent of those heady days of the marvels of computers. And press Alt-Enter and you get immersed full-screen into the game. It's funny but I don't notice that there are only a few colours in the graphics - in fact that makes the game more enjoyable. When the graphics become close to reality one's mind notices the inaccuracies and I find those imperfections irritating. Low-res cartoon characters show no imperfections, they illustrate what you need to see and they leave the finer detail to your vivid imagination.
Just think of how many games you can store in 160 GB :)

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Let me work please 
Thursday, May 29, 2008, 03:39 AM
Posted by Administrator
The early hours of the morning is a great time to work because even the pets are sleeping. No disturbances. Until...


Microsoft used to be considerate enough to allow you to click on a button to give you another 15 minutes before it reboots your computer. But this time it allowed just 5 minutes - and the option to postpone the reboot was disabled!

I quickly closed all the files I was busy with and made it with just a minute to spare. I let it reboot into Ubuntu so that I could finish my work.

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Vista breaks Remote Desktop client 
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 07:05 PM
Posted by Administrator
Since Windows 95, Microsoft have provided a client program for Remote Desktop Connection. With a simple URL or IP address, user name and password you could get full access to a suitably configured server. But now with Vista it seems like the server must be also running Vista because when I try to connect I get the following message:


If I select "Yes" the connection fails as if the password is incorrect, without further reason.

Fortunately the remote desktop client that comes with Ubuntu works perfectly.

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