Glenn9999

I guess it depends. But I notice something that has been reported that I find true: http://windowssecrets.com/comp/081204#story1 Microsoft Update hasn't ever offered me .NET 3.5 SP1, and it came out after Windows XP SP3 did. So I do have to wonder if there is a problem somewhere. As the article describes, SP2 is just fine regarding offering .NET and related patches but SP3 is not fine in this regard. I have to wonder what else isn't working right? Like IE7?

5 is where the speed and luck thing start coming in. Hint though: Look for sight lines and that will tell you what order you need to approach the level with. Edit: I just googled it. There's two sequels. Edit Again: I just beat it. Really not much to the game. Links to the sequels: http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Tactical-Assassin-2.html http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Tactical-A...Substratum.html Edit Again Again: Beat Tactical Assassin 2, learned it well enough to get #4 on the daily score total. (96724)

It seems to be a speed and luck affair - I can keep firing and miss with the dot on the target. Always hit up to read what you're supposed to do, though. That will help.

Version 0.1 beta (use at your own risk)

I found the older version that would work. Be aware that version 10 is what is doing this message - you will need to install from an archival copy of Flash 9 and not the web at Adobe if you need to reinstall Flash.

I just got done reloading a Windows ME OS and tried to install flash but it refuses to install claiming the OS is unsupported. Anyone know a good work-around or place to get an older, but good version of it? And trying to directly download it from the site: "Sorry, you must use Microsoft Internet Explorer to install Adobe Flash Player with ActiveX."

The interface was always a bit clunky, and they always seemed to be a YMMV affair. At least in my experiences with Turbo Pascal. I never entirely *got* ISRs either in playing with them there. Of course with the interrupt interface, it took register values as input, so one almost has to ask what the point is. { Interrupt $21 Function 9 - write string with "$" terminator } Regs.Ah := 9; Regs.Ds := Seg(astring); Regs.Dx := Ofs(astring); intr($21, regs); I don't know what Intr does, exactly. There might be an advantage in that it doesn't destroy any necessary values in registers, but it seems almost as easy or easier to just throw the ASM values there. In fact, for the code I read over the years, it seems more tend to use ASM than Intr. Just my thoughts, anyway. Edit: Thinking on your post brought out another question. With Windows 95/98/ME I would have figured that it would insist on handling anything with hardware, but I found out on that platform that I had to have assembler in a Windows program to control the system speaker (the case one, not the sound card). Which makes me think, what can you get away with under Windows for these kinds of things? I notice the XP API is more complete (didn't need the ASM for the system speaker there), which makes me wonder if there's a difference even between Windows types/versions on this question.

I'm well aware of these things. In fact, for my short experiences, I wouldn't want to code too many whole programs in assembler if I can't help it. But as you pointed out, there are still uses. I'll add a third, which is my use for it: direct access and manipulation of the system (interrupts). I'll say it probably doesn't take too much knowledge to be able to do that (I get the feeling I've learned enough to write stub routines to do that to be called by the HLL). But I say I might as well learn the whole thing if I'm going to go to the effort, so I can have it for your first point. Of course, though, it's been something I've wanted to learn for a very long time and I got the chance now... Edit: Speaking of which, that's one of my questions. If anyone knows the Delphi asm variant, is there a good reference on how to pass variables to those ASM stub functions? And yes, Delphi (most Borland stuff too I guess) is very handy in that you can inline ASM statements within its functions.

I got started, recently, trying to learn some assembler, and I got to wondering something. How many are using it, and what flavor, type, etc? I know for references, that seem to find many different "appearances" of the source, so I'm generally wondering about that. Personally, that I have five things here that take assembler code, all seem to have different rules and therefore the source appears different. For those that are versed, any good suggestions on references to figure out a few things that I'm not finding answers to?

Most of this is very true with any software you write. There's always the chance of error or of the programmer overlooking something. This is just part of the game, whether it's from Microsoft or someone like myself. Give it enough time, a problem will always crop up somewhere. Most if not all programmers aren't looking to share crap when they share it. They go to the best effort they can, but in being human, there is always the chance of a problem, or something overlooked. Or even if you give it enough time, something may not work that worked before, because something was changed by someone else along the line. An couple examples of my own. I posted a Screen saver that I was working on for myself. The 0.1 revision worked fine (used it since then with no problems), but when I did the 0.2 revision, it seemed to work fine for me. But when I played with it some more after I put it into the thread and realized that I wasn't detecting the screen coming back up right. Did I do it purposefully or negligently? Definitely not! In fact, I felt very bad that I turned the software out with such a problem. I think you'll find that with most if not all programmers when they turn out something that isn't working right. Then there's the other thing you can see within that thread as well as this one. There's always something that can be overlooked, or the program be used in a way that you didn't imagine or expect. No negligence again, just simple human error. I couldn't make the screen saver work the way the user in the thread wanted for what Windows does, but I could trap the problem and I hopefully did that in the new version. With the Batch Patcher program, the user found a situation that I didn't think to test for, and (as far as I know, no feedback!) I corrected it. Of course there is always things that crop up when age and changes are made by others set in. I notice for the Batch Patcher program that the new series of malware scanner (890830) is not detected. So that will probably be changed in a coming version. That being said, most that would post software of varying kinds in forums like this (myself included) do it just because they did something that was greatly useful for themselves (one guess for you on how I apply patches to my computers - you'll get it right) and wanted to share it with others. To that end, most want their software to work well and even want to improve it. That means any feedback (using and pleased with it? Running into an issue?) you provide is valued and is definitely important to those working on the software. I hope that can be seen within those two threads. Of course, I have unresolved questions that people haven't gotten back to me on when I've directly asked them, but I figure that's part of the game, too. But also, perhaps something of a difference between companies like Microsoft and people like me (or the others in this forum). Microsoft has employees working around the clock, and inevitably they will always be able to get around quickly on a problem they encounter if it's important to them to fix. For folks like me, real life tends to intrude, since this stuff is a hobby more than anything else. Other obligations, like working for money (school if younger), house work, family issues and other interests are always out there. Of course, that difference really shouldn't be taken against anyone that does make the effort to try to enrich their own, and others computing experiences. Most if not all will make the best effort with what they do and want others to be pleased in using their software. For what I gather, all those working on this category is no different. Since I really haven't posted about these two pieces of software in this forum, they work on ME (and likely 98). The original reasons for them grew out of the use of a Windows ME box and therefore it was important for me to have them work there. So feel free to try them (and I'll see if I can repost an older version of the screen saver for the time being).

Of course, I have to throw The Godfather Part II out as well if The Godfather is going to be mentioned. Too bad Part III was so bad as to be laughable.

Good. 1237 on my second effort. Really need to figure out the feedback it gives you - that's usually what ends my game. Pounding on a bunch of keys and nothing happens except end of game.

1031 on first effort.

Good guess, I guess. http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...tsrc=hm_ts_head Microsoft releases emergency Windows patch to head off worm attack October 23, 2008 (IDG News Service) Microsoft fixed a critical bug in its Windows operating system Thursday, saying that it is being exploited by online criminals and could eventually be used in a widespread "worm" attack. Microsoft took the unusual step of issuing an emergency patch for the flaw several weeks ahead of its regularly scheduled November security updates, saying that it is being exploited in "limited targeted attacks." It had already announced plans to rush out the patch. I don't have a way to double-check this where I'm at, but it seems to be this patch: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...n/MS08-067.mspx

Here's the MS page on the cleanup utility. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...n/ms08-oct.mspx Microsoft is going to release a security patch for most versions of Windows today (10/23). Since it's not Patch Tuesday, I figure this is probably for some kind of zero-day hole if they wanted to rush it out and couldn't wait until next month.

It depends on how deep you can get, I guess. It's really a challenge, sometimes, to find good descriptions of things. To wit, I've tried to start studying assembly, and found a real good technical description of how computers work. It's very fascinating in fact. It's perhaps a good testament of design that its so transparent to most when it happens. I know I've gone 15 years since I've used computers and 13 years since writing my first program, and I still learned a few things from it. Any kind of knowledge really involves knowing the right places to dig, and the effort to learn it.

I had reasonably good luck with the registry cleaner so far, as well (about 800 entries on the first pass). I'm running the Malware monitor, but I don't know if there's a real way to test it to see whether it works out. I'll probably try their anti-spam thing, as well as a couple of others. The "Memory Firewall" is something I don't quite get - if there is enough utility in it...

I found quite the opposite - that MSJVM was always quite inferior. As for your statements, let me correct them. Sun has always been the only real developer of JVMs. That was the issue of the lawsuit. MS changed their implementation to the point that it became another language. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-251401.html "Sun sued Microsoft for $35 million in 1997, saying Microsoft breached its contract by trying to extend Java so it would work differently, and presumably better, on Windows computers. Consequently, one of Sun's main arguments in the case was that Microsoft wrongfully advertised that its products were Java-compatible because, in Sun's eyes, they were not. Those changes broke the universality of Java, Sun argued." http://www.javaworld.com/jw-10-1997/jw-10-javalobby.html "Ross's response: "I don't know what to call what Microsoft is doing, but it's not Java." Ross describes the "Java core platform" as a combination of the language, the VM and its bytecodes, and the full class libraries. He emphasizes cross-platform portability, and sees Microsoft's decision not to ship what he considers a fully-compliant Java core platform in the new release of IE as evidence that Microsoft wants to balkanize Java." In fact this is very true, as I have observed many times. Writing Java applets wasn't unlike what HTML has been with Internet Explorer. There's Java and there's MS-Java, just like there is HTML and MS-HTML. Fortunately, Microsoft couldn't co-opt Java to the point that it has with HTML. Two different things - different enough that the additional development time was always there. As far as the security issues, there are many known unanswered security vulnerabilities. Serious ones. Not to mention the new ones that have been discovered since then. Six years is a long time. MS-Java is ancient.

If it helps, you should be able to find a full install of Microsoft Java - I have 3805 sitting here on my install disk. Then to upgrade to 3810, MS patch #816093 will do it. I'm not aware of a download for 3812. As the others said, though, it is best to not spend your time with the MSJVM and just get the Sun one. In fact, it hasn't been touched for so many years that I wouldn't be surprised that it's teeming with security vulnerabilities. Better in fact to look for the uninstaller that Microsoft put out and use that more than to look for the JVM.

I went to Comodo's site and got curious about some of the other software listed on the page besides the firewall... Anyway I wanted to know what people thought of those things, if they used them, and so forth...

I don't know if this is the same thing, but I noticed when I went looking for the latest Microsoft e-mail program that they had a thing bundled with it called "Windows Live OneCare Family Safety". Since I couldn't tell anything about it when I had it running, I am wondering if it's the same thing as what is in Vista?

More stuff out of my collection (Category: General Odds and Ends). Again, I don't know the results of any of this on your system so YMMV. SLOWDOS - a software driver to slow down games. THROTTLE - a hardware driver to throttle back the CPU. If the chipset is supported it's the same equivalent as the old turbo button. Again useful for slowing down games. FU_RD19I - a RAMDISK driver set. This is the package that includes XMSDSK.EXE, which I posted earlier. SRDSK209C - another RAMDISK package. WAIT - a wait for keypress driver, returns an error level corresponding to the key pressed. TM - changes the textmode and keyboard repeat rate at the command-prompt. WRITEXT - writes text at a specified position on screen in a specified color. ZENO - a driver for faster screen writes. ATX_SHUTDOWN - does the ATX shutdown or restart at the DOS prompt. Check the batch files first before you use them. PERUSE - a driver which gives scrollback capability for the command prompt. After you load it, Hit "Scroll Lock" to use, and hit it again when you are done using it. MOUSCLIP - Clipboard capability for DOS. Invoke with /H for usage instructions. ESCAPE - press F12 to exit any program. Use with caution. DRVINFO - a "Is Drive Ready?" util. Also has a drive types lister. Hope these are useful to someone...

Just thought I'd mention this as an option, since you mention being an old Pascal programmer. FreePascal might interest you since you are looking for a Mac target as well. Lazarus may also be of interest to you. Of course, you can go to what became of Borland and look into Turbo Explorer as well.

When I was trying to sort out the different versions I was finding, I renamed them with a letter on the end and changed the CONFIG.SYS to check them on my test boot disk. I ended up storing them in the same directory as well, so I left the names alone. Those three files are differing versions of the same thing (USBASPI.SYS).