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Hello freedos,

I've installed FreeDOS 1.3 on a Dell Inspiron 1150, A Windows XP-era laptop. This laptop has an Intel Celeron 2.6 GHZ CPU, and it had 256 MB of RAM when I pulled it out of a bin at the landfill.

The laptop will run FreeDOS in safe mode, but it will not run JEMMEX with no EMS, JEMMEX, or JEMM386. It will only run in safe mode or emergency mode. I upgraded the RAM to 256 MB, this made no difference.

For now, I'm able to run most of the DOS games, and I can use Vim, that's all I really care about. I just wanted to ask if this is normal functionality, or if something is not working right.

This article covers a rarely-seen but interesting arcade game: Wyvern F-0 by Taito. This game used a unique graphics system to produce a presudo-3D effect.

Has anyone else heard of this game?

I purchased this last week in Wellington, Colorado. The Model D Executive has an unusual feature for a typewriter: a proportionally-spaced font.

This typewriter still needs a lot of work, I plan to have it professionally serviced soon.

I look forward to using it for writing letters.

The typewriter is HEAVY. When you hit the carriage return and the platen snaps back, it shakes the whole desk.

I read a lot of Harlan Ellison (worked on The Outer Limits, 80's Twilight Zone, Babylon 5), and I was wondering what people thought of this quote from him:

[S]cience fiction is the only 100% hopeful fiction. That is to say, inherent in the form is, "There will be a tomorrow". If you read a science fiction story, it says, "This will happen tomorrow". Now that’s very positive, that’s very pragmatic, "We’ll be here tomorrow. We may be unhappy, we may be all living like maggots, but we’ll be here." So that means it’s 100% positive.

Ellison has even said that his short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is optimistic, because in the climax, there is still room for self-sacrifice and defiance to authority.

I guess it comes down to whether you think a bleak future is better than no future at all.

Shameless plug for my work if you like Ellison or want to learn more: https://ndhfilms.com/ellison

I saw a giant, spiky yellow ball moving along the shoulder of the road near Montezuma, Colorado (east of Keystone Resort). They were kind enough to pose for this picture.

Hi @retrogaming,

Here's our Spring issue for 2024.

Retro Gaming articles in this issue:

• Coverage of ATG Expo 2024 in Waco, TX by AT Gonzalez. He saw an original Soviet-era Tetris computer.
• Grappling to New Heights: Roc’n Rope’s Unintentional Birth of the “Wire Action” Genre by Leland Tursi
• Views From the Road: Cricket's Draft House & Grill in Waco, TX
• Reader responses to last issue's article on the reverse-engineering of Sinistar.

Cover art by Chris Bordenca

These were my reflections on the Dark Horse Saloon in Boulder. Roger Ebert, a writer who I admire and who influenced my life in a big way, would hold court at the Dark Horse when he was in town for the Conference on World Affairs. I will be sad to see it go, so I thought I'd put down a few words while I still had time.

I did an internal flash of the 20240225 version of Libreboot onto my X60 tablet (Core 2 Duo L7400, 64-bit). I'm using Trisquel 11 as my operating system.

If I turn on the laptop when it's plugged in, it boots up just fine. When I turn in on and it's unplugged, I get this message:

Welcome to GRUB!

alloc magic is broken at [memory address here]

Aborted. Press any key to exit.

Pressing any key doesn't do anything for me here, I have to hold down either power button to turn the laptop off.

Some other notes:

• If I have the laptop on when it's unplugged, and then run a command like reboot, it will load fine.
• If I restart the laptop with the button on the login screen, it will load fine.
• If I hit Reboot from the Libreboot menu, it will load fine.
• If I hit Poweroff from the Libreboot menu, I get the 'alloc magic is broken' message.

I can provide the memory address if it helps.

Standstill on the toll road today between I-25 and Quebec. People were driving backwards on the shoulder to take the York exit.

Anyone else get caught in that this morning?

First off, forgive the low quality of the picture, my digital camera has trouble with photos of computer screens.

In order to install Libreboot, it helps to have GNU/Linux installed on the laptop first. This can be tricky with the MacBook 2,1. The official Libreboot docs (https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/macbook21.html) offer two options: install from an external USB drive, which can be quite technical, or install from a DVD. The problem with the DVD option is that the optical drives on these MacBooks tend to fail (the optical drive on the one I bought today wasn't working).

Fortunately, there is a much easier way. If you have a 64-bit version of GNU/Linux already installed on an SSD from another laptop, just put it into the MacBook, and it should work. These MacBooks made it easy to upgrade the drive and RAM, by removing the battery, and then loosening three screws to remove a protective plate. When powering the laptop on, hold down the alt/option key. The drive you just put in should come up as "Windows" in the dual boot menu.

Once the laptop is powered on, if you have flashrom/flashprog and your Libreboot ROM ready, you should be able to internally flash Libreboot, simple as that.

Trisquel GNU/Linux has worked for me when doing this trick. I have had some trouble when using a 32-bit version of Trisquel, a 64-bit version does not give me any problems.

Hello,

I wanted to share one of my ongoing project. This is a directory of works by Harlan Ellison. Ellison was one of the most popular writers of science fiction in his time, but sadly most of his work is out of print. This directory includes summaries of his short stories, essays, book introductions, and teleplays.

Some of Ellison's best-known works include I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman (which influenced V for Vendetta), A Boy and His Dog, Dangerous Visions and the Star Trek episode The City on the Edge of Forever.

So, far, 21 books have been added.

I hope this directory helps keep his work alive. If you're a fan and would like to contribute some write-ups of a book that's not been added yet, let me know.

I woke up this Sunday and the house was dead silent. I had time to lay in bed until 9:30 AM or so. I went downstairs, ground my coffee beans, made a pour-over for myself with some toast.

I wouldn't have it any other way. There's nothing better than having this time alone to just sit and think. On weekdays, I can come home from work and actually have time to decompress and do nothing. I have time for reading and hobbies.

I thought I'd take a moment and count my blessings for being childfree.