My meaning was just that I saw it sometimes referenced on HN, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while now. Hence my search and results showing 8 years since.
I guess what I should be doing is looking at the Alexa ranking of Wolfram Alpha.
I had Ultima 6 for the Atari ST. Running off floppies was kind of slow. My friend's Atari ST machine had 4MB of memory. So I set up a 3MB RAM disk. And installed the game to 'hard disk' with the RAM disk as the hard disk. Then all I had to do was format some floppies to really high density. The entire U6 installation fitted on (I think) 2 floppies. I also used a rapid file copy program.
I copied the files to RAM disk, played the game, saved the game, quit the game, and saved the files back to floppies.
I ordered 2 books from Amazon last week. An email said 'delivered' but nothing in the letterbox or outside the house. A chat to a friendly neighbour revealed he had a parcel put in between his dustbins. I went to my bins and there were the books. Not pleased at this, I expect a sane experience.
I had an Amiga 1200 and got it working with a VGA monitor soldered onto the connector (like a VGA adapter on Ebay now) and a setup VGA file in Workbench 3. It looked great in 640x480, no chunkiness. So it is possible.
I once emailed Bob Yannes in 1998 about the C64 SID chip. I mentioned my soft synth (SoftSID) and the Elektron Sidstation. But all he was bothered about was his Ensoniq Fizmo. I'd love to get my hands on one of those now.
I told him of the bad review in Future Music. He was a bit annoyed but explained what they had missed in the review.
I worked with Ted a few years from 2001 and though we kind of stopped working together, I knew him! So I do know him personally. He's a great guy though intolerant of nonsense.
Seen him live in Leeds in 1998. Sat in the cubicle he vacated when he left the place at a Rephlex gig he didn't play at in 2001 (At the Leeds Brudenell Social Club). And I played live at the same venue as a previous Rephlex gig in Edinburgh (the University) in 2001.
I remember running Ultima 6 and installing - using the hard disk option - to a RAM disk. My friend had a 4MB RAM expansion. I was basically having a 2MB hard disk in RAM!
I'd load the whole of U6 from 4 floppy disks, then fire it up and play, and when done, I'd save my position and copy it all back to the 4 floppy disks!
What helped were 2 things:
*Utility to format disks to high capacity
*Fast shareware disk copy utility
I just want to buy a phone with this on. Is this possible? I don't want the hassle of finding a phone on Ebay and installing some bundle of software. I just want to plug and play.