Re: A82: Computer crashed...

To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A82: Computer crashed...
From: ADAMMAN106 <ADAMMAN106@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 21:14:45 EST
Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)
Reply-To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org


In a message dated 98-01-05 17:31:12 EST, you write:

> Stupid computer!  Yesterday, I typed in "clock$" at the DOS prompt and my
>  computer's CMOS RAM was deleted and it took me a long time to get it back
>  so I could log onto my ISP again...still don't know if everything is
>  working right.  So, I couldn't do anything on SQRXZ 82.  Wait, I take that
>  back, I got the jumping/falling routine straightened out by drawing the
>  sprites by hand on my calculator...yuck :)
>  
>  Moral of this story:  Don't ever type "clock$" and press enter at the DOS
>  prompt or your life will be screwed up.  However, if you have a
>  super-clunky network at school and want free-time, tell everyone in the
>  room to boot to DOS by bypassing the network drivers and then type it in
>  and reboot.  Havok will occur on the network in less than 2 minutes :)

just make sure you have a backup of SQRXZ... :-)
drawing the sprites by hand isn't so bad...how do you get your sprites without
first doing this?

~Adamman

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Re: A82: Computer crashed...

From: "Thomas J. Hruska" <thruska@tir.com>