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Newtons & Babylon 5
Well I got hold of a mint Apple Newton 130 this week, running OS 2. I've been trawling the web for cool little programs to run on it, and I came across a load of Babylon sound clips! And they're cool! It got the following sounds:
B5 Confirmed (computer)
B5 Chirp (computer)
B5 Door chime
B5 Drunk with aliens (Ivanova)
B5 Standby (computer)
B5 Take a look (Ivanova)
B5 Unable to comply (computer)
I had hours of fun with them last night!
And before any of you start quoting that Simpsons epsiode where the newton screws up the text.... that was the first ever newton, so it was flaky! I'm sure the first ever pee cee was the most gratifying experience in the world.
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
Visit my B5 site at: [url="http://www.nialb5.com"]www.NialB5.com[/url].
B5 Confirmed (computer)
B5 Chirp (computer)
B5 Door chime
B5 Drunk with aliens (Ivanova)
B5 Standby (computer)
B5 Take a look (Ivanova)
B5 Unable to comply (computer)
I had hours of fun with them last night!
And before any of you start quoting that Simpsons epsiode where the newton screws up the text.... that was the first ever newton, so it was flaky! I'm sure the first ever pee cee was the most gratifying experience in the world.
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
Visit my B5 site at: [url="http://www.nialb5.com"]www.NialB5.com[/url].
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[b]Well I got hold of a mint Apple Newton 130 this week, running OS 2. I've been trawling the web for cool little programs to run on it, and I came across a load of Babylon sound clips! And they're cool! It got the following sounds:
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See and here i thought you'd found that B5 was not powered by a fusion reactor after all, but powered by Fig Newtons!
Its really cool actually when I make a mistake and the computer sound comes on saying 'Stand By' or 'Unable to Comply'. Turns peoples heads... they think its Star Trek! I quickly point out the error of their ways! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
Visit my B5 site at: [url="http://www.nialb5.com"]www.NialB5.com[/url].
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
Visit my B5 site at: [url="http://www.nialb5.com"]www.NialB5.com[/url].
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
They have just about every B5 sound you'll ever need.
o so much potential, they busted open the PDA market, got alot of the IP sorted fro this sort of thing... but the cost too much.
Apple was in trouble... the Newton got canned and suddenly we had the first wave of robust viruses for Macs...what a strange coincidence... not.
Now every second yuppie has a PalmPilot...
It sucks...
I just hope Apple has the good sense to make a new Newton, for a good price which can run Palm native Apps and still have the Mac qualities most of us adore.
Mac on the forefront... but too far in front this time. A real shame.
The thing is, they'll most likely license PalmOS for it, and tack on their features.
Right now, PalmOS is hot because it is good. It's very flexible, but remains simple to operate. It also has an incredible userbase which puts out an even more incredible number of programs. If you want something for the Palm Pilot, it's probably available for download somewhere on the web.
Just a word of advice for those shopping for PDAs: Don't buy any of the Palm Inc. PDAs. While they've produced great devices in the past, they have lost their touch and seem to be lacking in many areas. The new M5XX series is just getting terrible, with a small, poorly illuminated screen and few features to note. Both Handspring and Sony have clearly one-upped Palm Inc. in all areas right now, with each catering to a specific market, but both complimenting the other.
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[b]Sanfam[/b] - Pixel Pirates
[b][url="http://www.firstones.com/sanfam/guru.doc"]disillusionment[/b] v1.0[/url]; "We will have our day, we will have our future, and we will have our revolution."
Come and listen to the official shoutcast server of Firstones.com! It's Spootastic! [url="http://sanfam.dyndns.org:8000"]http://sanfam.dyndns.org:8000[/url]
"It is the year 2000. Where are the flying cars? I was Promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars." -- Avery "Sisko" Brooks
Sam: That's the one.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
the way Jobbs is talking I expect that everything coming out of infinite loop will be linkable and hot swoppable and part of whats effectively a single system...
interconnectivity is the buzzword of the next decade...
for instance, you use your PDA to access your Mac at home.. it turns on your Hifi, draws you a bath and disarms the alarm so you can walk straight in.
It will get to the point where it becomes truly spooky... your Mac/PC will be there to scratch your back and do the laundry while filtering the spam out of your email... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
brave new world boys and girls, brave new world.
[b]much like classic 9.x software runs under OS-X on a regualar Mac...
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Oh, and that works oh, so very well.
[rant]
Why is it that these folks over in California couldn't figure out how to make their apps work [b]with their own operating system![/b] Classic is the most poorly thought out thing I have ever had the misfortion to use, and I can't believe anyone with a shred of human dignity would allow it to come off the drawing board.
First of all, you have to have Mac OS 9.x installed, which is redundant and wastes harddrive space. Then you have to wait for it to start up 9, which takes a while, when it would be faster just to start up 9 in the first place. Classic is the most buggy part of the Mac, and every single problem I had in X I had with Classic. Once again, just using 9 is less buggy and lets me use all my software.
Couldn't Apple just let X straight out run older apps? Screw protected memory and the like, we don't even get that with Classic. There was hardware emulation in the first Power Macs, so they could run older programs. Why couldn't they do something like that?
[/rant]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Sheridan - We got work to do
Franklin - What do u want
Morden - Im just a shadow of my former self
Starfury guns - on a kernel error
Auto doors sound on maximise
C&C control panel on mouse click
to name but a few [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
[b]Can apps written on PalmOS that use things like the IR port or the serial port for one kind of PDA (let's say a Palm one) run on any device running PalmOS, like a Sony one for example? Or are apps still device dependant even with sharing the OS?[/b][/quote]
THey can indeed use the IR port. They can also use the serial port. I'd assume the PalmOS version supplied is analagous to WinNT's HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer), where it just translates the commands sent by the software to a format compatible with the hardware. The only problem lately appears to be hardware-based. Mainly, the hardware interface ports used by Sony, Handspring, and Palm are of varied shape, which makes connection hard.
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[b]Sanfam[/b] - Pixel Pirates
[b][url="http://www.firstones.com/sanfam/guru.doc"]disillusionment[/b] v1.0[/url]; "We will have our day, we will have our future, and we will have our revolution."
Come and listen to the official shoutcast server of Firstones.com! It's Spootastic! [url="http://sanfam.dyndns.org:8000"]http://sanfam.dyndns.org:8000[/url]
"It is the year 2000. Where are the flying cars? I was Promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars." -- Avery "Sisko" Brooks
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Most manufacturers seem to be making model variants anyway. The problem just seems to lie in the shape of the plug, so they just make adapters for it.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras