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I'm delighted to see the resurrection of the finest desktop manager Microsoft ever designed as the new front end for Windows 8, Metro.

Whatever will these clever chaps in Redmond think of next. I must rush out and upgrade at the first opportunity. Metro's blockier than Bob but that's presumably the tablet influence at work. The concepts are all intact.

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You were stridently aligned

You were telepathic

You had infravision

You didn't know any spells.

You vanquished a rock piercer, 2 floating eyes, 8 grid bugs and a kobold.

You never genocided any monsters

You never polymorphed an object

You used no wishes.

Man I'm so old I remember wasn't that in the mid 90's "Microsoft Bob" what a failure.. :wah::wah: Its all coming back to me now.:-6

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I've been re-reading a book I bought fresh off the press in 1995. The Mother Of All Windows Books. It's frozen a snapshot of history. Compuserve charged to send local email and read anything from the Internet at 15 cents for the first 7,500 bytes and 5 cents per additional 2,500 characters, with the first $9 covered by the standard pricing plan. If you add multiple recipients they multiply up the costs, and they recommend offline readers to cut the connection charge on your v32bis dialup. The three authors all had state of the art 486 processors and were looking forward to buying an overdrive chip - did anyone ever get that to happen? - 50MHz CPU speed and 20MB of memory because they were power users. And a UPS because they all used SmartDrive compression which couldn't cope with power outages. And this is all only 16 years ago!

My daughter's phone has 20 times the CPU speed, 50 times the memory and 50 times the on-board permanent storage and she paid $70 for it on an Orange Upgrade. In just 16 years. It's the rate of change that's such fun.

I remember it all and "Compuserve" as well. It is absolutely amazing what has happened in 16 years. I'm actually gald I was around from the beginning of the digital age I think we appreciate it more. My IPHONE is a incredible device it has given me the freedom to do anything, anytime, any where in the world with a tap or 2 on the screen bam!!! done.

spot;1369681 wrote: You were stridently aligned

You were telepathic

You had infravision

You didn't know any spells.

You vanquished a rock piercer, 2 floating eyes, 8 grid bugs and a kobold.

You never genocided any monsters

You never polymorphed an object

You used no wishes.


Where does NetHack fit into this?

Confoosed of Leicester.

NetHack excretes a short poem when anyone dies, sometimes I like to record them.

spot;1369799 wrote: NetHack excretes a short poem when anyone dies, sometimes I like to record them.


That's 107 poems per minute. I'm impressed.