Whit4you | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 04:04 pm     Well it's to big to post here Bob I'll email it |
Gritss | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 04:22 pm     Whit, Windows Commander does everything xtree did, and better. And they ported it to the 32 bit Win w/ long filenames support. Started as a better version of Norton Commander and progressed from there. |
Car54 | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 04:24 pm     Whit, you are not the only DOS girl here! Nice to meet ya! BTW we just changed to a UNIX server at work and it is still giving me chest pains. Gimme a C prompt any time. |
Bob2112 | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 04:45 pm     Car, I got the defibrillator charging as I type. Hope we don't have to perform CPR:\> on you!  |
Whit4you | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 04:56 pm     o/~ Those were the days o/~
If I ever get truely into programming (I plan to have all the stuff for it lol) I'm gonna bring back a Dos revival. What really really sucks is I remember back when I could play for days and days with a itty bitty 20k file - now adays they get a 700 MEGABYTE game and are done with it in a few days lol. The creativity now adays is so limited to these intense graphics games - but in the old days there were truely some fun fun games and of course had to fit in under 340k lol For anyone who's not to computer literate and reading this (would they?)imagine say the difference between 3,400 dollars and 700 million dollars. That's the difference between the size of a great game we all loved in the old days and the games the kids play now. Course it don't help that they get the cheat codes after paying 60 bucks for the game - getting through the game in 3 days and being proud of it?? UM OK lol. I played a game called Bards Tale (II and III) both took me over a month to finish and that was living and breathing them 24/7 lol. Both of them would fit in the space the help manual takes up on the CD roms of these new games I go to the computer store now - and all I see is these huge 700 meg or 1 gig games that all basically look the same. Just sad. We had it good in that sense... we thrilled getting the new Bites magazine and spending hours typing in the (lets see if I can remember the code hehe) 50105 52091 12039 12038 32901 (thousands of numbers like these we typed in and then... we had a fun game to play!) There were people all over the country writing thsese games - now we have a few huge software companies that write them and just copy whatever succesful games other companies wrote. (is this off topic from BB? I am sure I can definately find comparisons and points regarding BB to do with this convo lol - the orignal POST was to do with BB viewing Ok I'll shut up - LOL Hitchikers guide to the galaxy anyone? |
Cathie | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 04:58 pm     LOL, big Hitchhikers fan here, Whit I had forgotten all about it! |
Whit4you | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 05:12 pm     I have Hitchikers guide to the galaxy on my computer Cathie (as well as oh prolly 1700 other old games lol There are some that I want that I don't have though <sigh> Viper (a game I played one night where I laughed so hard my tummy hurt for two days after) and Jumpan Jr - And Pitfall 2 (the ORIGNAL) that game was so fun and like next to impossible to win (I did though lol - by that time I couldnt get that song out of my head for weeks) I never did finish Hitchickers guide to the galaxy - I got stuck um something to do with some vector plotter and the day I figured it out - I got in a car accident ...then a divorce and well I never ever went back and now I have NO clue what I figured out (I was at college at the time so never got to test it but I was sure I was right lol Most of the best games were ones I had to type in - you have NO idea how frustrating it is to type for 6 hours and then have it not work..and go through it line by line and not find the error ACK! So you retype it all from SCRATCH and it works - you compare the files and they are IDENTICAL!!!! (ya I spent a few hours going through line by line just to see where my mistake had been lol) then they came up with the handy chcksum thingy that helped lol - But anyhow I remember playing games like skyshark and river raid for days and days even weeks (I have those both on my computer now too - to bad I dont have time to play any of them...someday..) But it's funny I have 1700 old games on like 3 cd's and some of the new games take 3 cd's by themselves and your DONE with the game in 3 days or maybe 2 weeks if you DONT cheat lol. Most the games now have a beginning and an end with cheats so you don't have to actually challenge yourself to win them - well I suppose the fact that the USA uses more ritilan then the rest of the world COMBINED - prolly explains that. I swear though these younger people have no idea what they are missing by being so focused on the graphics. I remember how proud I was and happy I was to finally get out of that house (take the analgesiac LOL I have so many funny stories about those games um but this could be getting a TAD off topic eh? Well not really I mean do the guys in the BB house get analgesiac? FYI GRITS - if your um reading this - you should know that nothing could ever be BETTER then Xtree LOL Um but I'm interested... is it freeware? shareware? Who makes it and where would I get it (Windows Commander?) |
Flyonthwall | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 05:16 pm     Hey Whit, Well I'm brain dead and I can't read all this with any idea what it says right now but I get the jest of it. hahaha To make a direct link to TVCH I do this: I have DLS and also WinME I just right click on the desktop Then click on NEW SHORTCUT In that box I paste the link to the TVCH Discussion boards.(or anywhere on line I want to go) Then hit finish. There it is on my desktop. I can just click that icon and bam here I am! To me that is the easy way for me. I can change the icon to whatever I want to. I'll have to read your thoughts when I can really understand what I'm reading, but I think this was what you were trying to get at?... Your great BTW! You always come up with things to help! Glad you're around! FLy  |
Bohawkins | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 05:27 pm     Here is another way to have a convenient link right on your taskbar to any webpage. First, find an empty space on your taskbar and right click. Select Toolbars, then check the Links choice. This puts a "Links >>" label on your taskbar. These are the same links that will appear on a bar on your IE browser if you choose that option in IE. Now drag any link (as the one above to the Live Feeds) to your new "Links >>" label. Dragging instructions: Put the cursor on a link to drag. The mouse arrow changes to a tiny hand. Left click and hold down. The mouse arrow changes to a "No" symbol (circle with a diagonal line). Move it, still holding down the left button, to the new Links label on the taskbar. Here the symbol changes to a greyed out square with a tiny arrow (you might not see that well, because it may be off the screen at the bottom, but you can tell it changed). Release the left button. Now click the >> symbol to the right of your Links label. You will see a new choice with this label: 1036711.html-1027658401. Right click on that label, and select Rename. Name it to Live Links (or whatever). Now anytime you want to go to that page, click your >> symbol to the right of the Links label and make your choice. It is quite convenient. If you have any questions, I will answer them. |
Whit4you | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 05:41 pm     Fly - ya I imagine the million posts after the first one prolly have people worried this is something huge but the first post is all you really need to read if your intersted lol The rest is um just a tad off topic stuff hehe Bow - ya that's a good plan to - I have the history of my last 10 days as a pull down menu under the start menu (looks like windows explorer for your visited links basically - very handy if I ever intend to go anywhere I've alraedy been it's just two clicks away lol Also another really handy trick (if anyone wonders what's on the OTHER side of my computer since you've all seen the left side hehe) Right Click anywhere blank on the task bar - then choose Toolbars then new toolbar - choose My computer from the list you see there and then hit OK - THEN (this is the spiffy part) drag the vertical grey 'line' to the left of the words My Computer - all the way to the right (should only see the words My computer now with a few >>'s) Now left click on the >> (to the right of the words my computer .. if you don't see that then you didnt drag that bar correctly (I can explain further if need be) Anyhow so now walla - you have any and all of your drives - and folders and web folders etc one click away (to delete this if you dont want it right click on the word My computer and hit close) |
Whit4you | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 06:31 pm     Grits - I'm checking out WIndows Commaner now - and as I'm sure you know I'll never touch Windows Explorer again (I've always hated it and used flashfxp for some things..size exploer for other and os on and so forth..) but I could never find an alternative that wasn't friggen bulky - this doesnt seem to be.... of course you should know I'll never think it's BETTER then Xtree (you know like the old days when we had the die hard Lotus users (I was one till I sold my soul to Quattro for their pretty tabs in the spreadsheets hehe) like the die hard Norton's vrs (who was it? Powertools keeps coming to mind...? it's been mmmmany years lol) But thanks for the heads up - I imagine by this time tommorow Explorer will be off my task bar for ever If you have any handy tips (thinks you said GEEZ I didnt know this did that) for me toss em my way here if their are just a few or in an email if you have sereral ok Thanks! (WhitInWa@aol.com) |
Llkoolaid | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 06:40 pm     I need the dunce cap award, I kept looking at the title of this thread and thinking "what kind of stupid contest is this, win 98 BB lovers." I thought Big Brother wasn't on in 98. Then I came in here and was reading tech stuff and still didn't get it, I thought I was in the wrong thread. Finally after looking at it I got "Windows 98" arrrrrrgh, what a dummy. |
Whit4you | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 06:45 pm     You still using Dos Llkool? |
Llkoolaid | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 06:49 pm     No I have Windows 98 but I am just a dummy tonight. I just couldn't figure out the title. I tell you guys all the time, I am an idiot on the computer, it is just a fancy typewriter to me. I am learning but very slowly. |
Whit4you | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 06:57 pm     Llkoolaid lol it's ok - Try any of the tips in that first acrhive of this thread they are handy but beware you might actually learn something LOL |
Llkoolaid | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 07:15 pm     scary thought isn't it |
Sanfranjoshfan | Sunday, August 04, 2002 - 11:49 pm     Whit4you - "I just wish I'd stuck around long enough for him to finish the Mac version of Xtree it was looking good (he worked for Apple for many years)" I was curious about what you were talking about so I asked my Mac guru (A Mac user programmer that programs for a non Mac enviroment) who told me(see below). This stuff is all over my head about a thousand miles, but thought you might be interested: --------------------------- My Question: I got into a discussion with a Windoze user who posted the following (see below). My question is this....is there something like what this person is talking about for a Mac on OSX? (Xtree?): His answer: Xtree is a very old fashioned glass TTY file management program. It's replacement in MacOS X is the column view of the finder. But it's available for the terminal of OS X (or the command line of Darwin) at the address http://www.unixtree.org/download.htm where they call it "xt-ppc-osx.tar.Z" ------------------- Btw, Whit....this is just FYI....I am not trying to get into a Mac vs Win thing! :-) |
Whit4you | Monday, August 05, 2002 - 03:07 am     omg! Thanks Sanfran hehe...I can't get the smile off my face Ya and what's so cool about this is the version there is almost carbon copy (or is??) of the version of Xtree I most hold dear Looks like - if I"m not misunderstanding that site the Mac version was developed by someone else the same year I was hoping to get my own special Mac Xtree FYI - tell your friend that Whit says - while she's never seen it or have any idea what it is she thinks suggesting that column find is a replacement for Xtree - is like hmmm.... suggesting an atari 2600 is a good replacement for the xbox While your at it tell him I hope he means "old fashion' in the nicest sense of the world lol. San this isn't about Win vrs Mac - do you know the history of how totally loyal Mac users were for many years - it's the same with many Xtree users and now seeing that website and that it STILL all these years later has a fan club and mods being made to it - tells you I'm NOT the only one who's fiercely loyal to Xtree. Anyhow thank you so much for that link - it's awesome to see (wondering if pong still has a fan club LOL!) |
Paulyaceiii | Monday, August 05, 2002 - 08:22 am     So when you're done with the shortcut, and if you have a good Icon Editor...it might look something like this?
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Bob2112 | Monday, August 05, 2002 - 09:30 am     I liked the Atari 2600!  |
Whit4you | Monday, August 05, 2002 - 03:06 pm     Bob me too I was the world champion Kaboom player River raid - astroids - space invaders were a few of my favorites Pauly cute icon - we don't need an icon editor now hehe we can just right click on that pic you upped and save it |