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Bright's internal flame - THE LAST SHOWDOWN
Hello? Can you hear us? Hey Urs, it WORKS! We are online!
We are sitting in front of a 10 years old PC/XT with a monochrome
monitor and a 300 baud modem. We have put all our money together and
just bought this US$20 system. We are very close to the ruin.
Why did we abandon the IIGS (or vice versa...well)? After five test
flames or so, our two SuperFlameStations selected automatically the
laser-guided terminator supergau-flame mode (some people call it a
burn-in test...). While we two were editing a simple flame document, we
noticed - although we were sitting in different rooms - that the system
became sluggish and the disk drives were spinning faster and faster! We
then thought: "okay, it's prime time, maybe the phone net is way
overloaded - let's go and have lunch." We met at the pizzeria a few
streets away for a small PizzaFest, and then..suddenly...
..suddenly - sitting there peacefully (!) - we heard a low, rumbling,
buzzing sound, and then a loud, hefty detonation right in the
neighbourhood. The sky flashed in ugly neongreen-yellow shades. What a
show!
After the spectacle we decided to return and put some final touches on
the soon to be uploaded flames...but...WHERE THE HECK WAS THE ENTRANCE?
WHERE WAS THE BUILDING? WHERE WAS THE QUARTER? Huh?
After gazing for some minutes at each other, we walked around and saw
some lonely 65816s and Mega-IIs lying around (no pin bent - good work,
Apple!). CodeBurger found some RAM chips (25ns) and a Zip crystal
(48Mhz, 2 pins). Henrik fell over a monitor where the following text
was burnt in:
"FlameStation: flame spooler overflow. Incoming flames rejected -
circular reference with station target CodeBurger detected - doubling
energy ..."
So here we are, no bed, no GS, no washing machine. AND: the ONLY two
copies of FlameStation have been vaporized - hundreds of man years have
gone...
However, we would like to share the results of the whole adventure with
you. FlameStation is (was) a very stable application and worked
perfectly with system 7.0.1 on ROM 06 machines. It also supported non-
and co-prohibitive multitasking and unlimited virtual memory by mapping
several memory blocks to the same location or to the printer (you had
to read the printed memory dump loudly when the system asked for it).
The user interface was extraordinary - it was an improved variation of
the ugly command line outerface, the argument ultraface. The macro
language was fabulous: the program pressed the keys itself on the
keyboard by controlling a virtual finger connected to the monitor. (We
plan to release this innovation in form of an ABC, er, ADB device.)
One last thing: there is NOTHING wrong with my nose.
(CodeBurger nodds heftily - he can't hear the word "flame" anymore)
People, learn from our mistakes! Never eat pizze (pizzas) while
flaming!!
Code Burger and Byte Splitter
[you can find us on comp.sys.ibm =:} ]
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BTW: Some institutions (nuclear power station of the area, the
waterworks [name of a new integrated package?], and some silly
neighbours have filed legal proceedings against us. Anyone willing to
support us financially?)
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