Glad you think so. I fixed the terrain generation, but now all of the kittens spawn in the same area, which shouldn't be happening...

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By the way, you should change "www.Katko.us" to "http://www.Katko.us" on your profile page, because currently clicking on the link navigates to "https://www.allegro.cc/members/www.Katko.us" (although the link seems dead either way).

What'd you have on your Web site anyway? I checked the Wayback Machine, but most of the links are incomplete.

I must not be most people then, because I usually get a kick out of seeing people's projects. I especially like blogs, because they can be a bit more personal than static Web pages. It's always cool, I think, when I stumble across a blog that hasn't been touched in 5+ years, yet it's still online... it's like I've opened a time capsule or something.

Hey... you should start a blog so I have something interesting to read.

Edit
A few people had issues with locating kittens in the original release of Kitten Kerfuffle, so I've decided to add a "compass" pointing to the nearest one, instead of just using text (I may drop the text indicator altogether).

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Edit #2

The rewrite is complete. You can play the game here and can read a quick post about it here.

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You might like this one then!

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I spent two days playing around in my free time and figured out how to combine Javascript+ChartJS, Python, and SQLite, and host a website that allows me to remotely view my laptop's (<-ahah) current available memory.

The plan is to add asynchronous data refreshing, as well as a variety of system resource captures. I imagine something like that already exists but who cares, I'd rather spend 4-6 hours LEARNING Python and Javascript then learning how to setup someone's tool.

Thanks!

I'm not sure what I'm doing with it yet but I've always loved graphs and data. I could, for example, have my main computer upload those stats, and then have a remote computer watch my voltages, RAM/CPU statistics, etc.

That's actually freakin brilliant. Have a silly "helicopter rescue" game into the javascript.

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Just added CPU temps, and only took me ~30 minutes. So far so good.

In 40 years, when Allegro is no more, and everyone has moved from C and C++ to something called "*^Q" ("star carrot queue"), this thread will be going strong with more than a million replies. Nothing else will be here aside from this thread. We're it, man. We're the future!

You know, there are probably some really old folks who yell at programmers nowadays for using compilers and high-level languages, because "back in my day, we wrote REAL software in binary or later on using punch cards!"

How about running Turbo Pascal off one 5 1/4" floppy mainly because we didn't have a hard drive.

8086/8088 PC
512kb memory
2 x 5 1/4" floppy (I think only 640kb each)
Hercules graphics card
Green monochrome CRT

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A Windows 95 machine probably would have had floppy disks for backup (hopefully it's not a LOT of data).

In theory, a network solution might work too, but since speeds were so poor in those days I'm not sure that would have been built into the OS at the time. You could probably boot a Linux distro that would be able to do it though if you failed to find Windows 95 compatible software.

You could probably just hook up a slave drive too though (if you could find another PATA disk small enough) and use that as a backup. Or else just remove the hard drive from the ancient PC and hook it up to a modern PC (you should be able to find a PATA to SATA adapter for the hard drive if your machine doesn't support the connection natively, and there are kits you can buy for that if it matters).

Other than that, I'm not sure what else you could use for backup... I don't imagine CD-R drivers would have been available at the time, but perhaps they are available now? Windows 95 definitely supported CD-ROMs though.

Allow me to rephrase: I'm not sure how to easily backup data from such a machine and transfer it to a more modern one. My first thought was over a network, but she didn't have an Internet connection. She used the computer to manually keep track of bills and stuff she received in the mail, as well as recipes, poems, short stories, etc, but nothing from the Internet. And I didn't/don't have a floppy disk reader, and her computer didn't have a CD reader, as I recall. So it was pretty limited in what she could do with the data. I suppose she could have backed things up to her own floppy disks, but I'm not sure she had any extras. To be honest, I didn't really want to get involved, because if data became lost along the way, or something didn't go as she expected, she would've blamed me.

Fixing someone's computer is a good way to score a date.

That might just work... Time to find some hot chicks to try it on.

You didn't notice before now?