Posts by fwibbler 8 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Nov 2007
Out of the 32k you lost 3-3.5k to the OS then about 10k I think, was taken by the screen mode, leaving you with, well, not a hell of a lot left to play with.
Also, EliteA (an unofficial version) also played on unexpanded BBC B and had extra tasks to complete and allowed you to purchase and fly the other ships. Rock hard to play though.
The problem is that OS makers are trying to cater for an increasingly stupid userbase.
And so as they try to make their OS's (not just MS here) easier and easier to use, so that more thick bastards can use it securely, people who have a clue (increasingly rare it seems) get more and more frustrated when trying to use the OS (Vista UAC anyone?)
This almost makes me laugh.
My Uncle recently upgraded to a brand new HP machine running Vista, Norton all-in-one security and AOL broadband (all without consulting me!).
He is disappointed with the speed of it compared to his previous machine that I built for him heaven knows how many years ago.
That machine was an AMD K6-2 333mhz machine with 96MB RAM running Windows 98 lite!
Progress eh?
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