BERING (Running) - Page 6

djo · #51 July 27th, 2008, 02:40 PM

You youngsters...I'm running Dominions 3 on a hand-built Babbage machine made of recycled toothpicks and bottle caps. It takes me three hours just to input the turn, never mind play it. I transmit my orders back to Pasha over a disused telegraph line. The dots and dashes hit the only Atari 800 connected to the Internet. It runs a ping server that forwards the dots and dashes to Pasha, who is kind enough to run an sh script (not tcsh, not bash, nothing fancy like that) which makes the final translation back to a .2h file.

I hope to upgrade next year to an awk script (if I can get awk to compile on my Babbage machine; I'm spending my vacation on it).

So all in all, I'm comfortable staying with the initially advertised and agreed-upon pace.

Aezeal · #52 July 27th, 2008, 02:52 PM

might be a reason to take you out first.. I'll talk with the others about it

djo · #53 July 27th, 2008, 03:04 PM

There are times when I am picking splinters out of my fingers and wondering which bit did I flip this time that I think it would be a kindness.

But you'll have to find me first...

PashaDawg · #54 July 27th, 2008, 03:33 PM

Turn 8 is out.

Deadline is Monday night.

Pasha

namad · #55 July 27th, 2008, 05:57 PM

hopefully by turn9 I will know the location of every player, then again I bare no ill will towards djo

djo · #56 July 27th, 2008, 06:30 PM

That's ok, I know where you are.

namad · #57 July 27th, 2008, 07:09 PM

by babbage do you mean the old video game and computer parts store babbages? i remember buying a 2meg's of ram upgrade there when i was a kid heh

also hey i wasn't threatening you I was just saying I could find you but that ... if anything... I AM THE ONE TAKING TURNS MOST SLOWLY! yes that's it! it's been me all along !

djo · #58 July 27th, 2008, 08:02 PM

The old computer store "Babbage's" was named after Charles Babbage, a 19th century Englishman who designed/invented mechanical calculation devices that were the forerunners of today's computers. They were meant to do things like calculate tables of logarithms and other tables of data important for engineering and ship navigation. You couldn't actually "program" them (the "program" they ran was determined by how they were put together), but they were revolutionary computation devices for their time.

So I was joking that I was running Dominions on a very old and slow mechanical machine. (On the other hand, some people build them as hobbies today!)

djo · #59 July 27th, 2008, 08:03 PM

And since you are playing one of two water races, it's easy to figure out where you are. Don't worry, apes don't swim very well.

PashaDawg · #60 July 28th, 2008, 08:53 PM

Turn 9 is out. Deadline is Tuesday night.

Thanks.

Pasha