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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Nice one, not bad by any means. Just one thing, though: Where was it 20 days ago? Not to mention those News posts. How come we're only seeing them today?
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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20 days ago, it was on the server. In fact, 20 days ago, it was the #1 Google search result for "PrintMaster Plus 2.0", with the quotation marks. It also wasn't quite done...
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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Great article Syd! I too feel something for Printmaster...I don't know if I can call it nostalgia, because of one psychologically scarring session of trying to print a proper birthday card for my mom with it many moons ago...but I do remember it.
I really liked this article, actually. I love all of your articles of course, but this is a bit of a digression from the usual I feel, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
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The card feature too brought me back to a time when I had would make cards for my parents on PrintShop Gold (I think) on my Windows 3.11 Hewit Packard PC. I still can fold those like a pro!
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Cow Bell Man
Joined: Jul 29 2009
Location: Ontario, OR
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Great article Syd. That took me back to when I was a kid using some kind of PrintMaster on the apple IIe. All I remember that I was so upset that the screen would show my card as green and the printer would print it out in black. What was up with that?
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Syd Lexia
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Cow Bell Man wrote: |
Great article Syd. That took me back to when I was a kid using some kind of PrintMaster on the apple IIe. All I remember that I was so upset that the screen would show my card as green and the printer would print it out in black. What was up with that? |
Hmmm, I don't know. Green was generally the substitue for white on the old school Apples.
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UsaSatsui
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Green was also a popular monochrome monitor color. I had several black-and-green monitors.
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Syd Lexia
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Yes, that should have been mentioned as well.
I'm not sure, but I believe black/green was actually the ONLY monochrome monitor designed for the Apple II. All the black/white Apple II monitors I ever encountered had color support.
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AJ Fox
Title: HylianFox
Joined: Jun 26 2009
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The oldest computer my family ever owned was a Tandy. It had a word possessor and a music program where you could make your own crappy tunes and that was about it.
Old computer technology will always be a source of amusement. How the hell did we ever survive before hi-speed internet?
Also, I'll bet Roberta Williams would have killed to have those crappy images when making Mystery House. That way she wouldn't have had to draw everything by hand....
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sidewaydriver
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Any big plans for artical 100?
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Joined: Sep 01 2007
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It's just not the same with the Christmas border. You might even say that it borders on retarded. HA! HA! HA!
Ha ha ha indeed!
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Syd Lexia
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sidewaydriver wrote: |
Any big plans for artical 100? |
No. In fact, I'm going to try and write the 100th article in its entirety tomorrow. Knowing me, I'll fail miserably at doing so. But that's the plan. It is Nintendo-related.
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aaand its tomorrow
*gos to the site-map to see if its on the server*
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Syd Lexia
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Yes, and it will continue to be "tomorrow" for another 9.5 - 12.5 hours depending on where you live.
And I've had to clean all day, because SOMEONE apparently thinks there's infinite storage space at my house. And that someone is most likely going to have to rent themselves a Pod.
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another 12 hours
And is that someone Dr. Jeebus
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UsaSatsui
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Syd updates "tomorrow" the same way Fernin updates at "midnight"
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its not midnight until fernin updates so its not tomorrow until syd updates
...for those who don't know
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Syd Lexia
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Eh, it's probably not happening, as I'm just starting now and I'm fairly dehydrated. But I shall try.
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TheRoboSleuth
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Joined: Aug 08 2006
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Printmaster 2.0.
Not much for this one, seeing as I never had one and it never came up for me. Nice attempt, but I'll eagerly await your next article on something cool.
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sidewaydriver
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Something Nintendo related you say? Let's try to guess what it is. My guess is that Syd will be eating a box of this stuff:
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Syd Lexia
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I wish. Last unopened box I saw on eBay went for $199. I didn't bid, cuz I figured there'd be another box sooner or later. Nope
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sidewaydriver
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That sucks, the Batman cereal goes for like 20 bucks.
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TheRoboSleuth
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Syd Lexia wrote: |
I wish. Last unopened box I saw on eBay went for $199. I didn't bid, cuz I figured there'd be another box sooner or later. Nope ![Sad](images/smiles/icon_sad.gif) |
If you eat another ancient box of 1980's kitsch food we are all officially changing your name to the "Nostalgia Geek". Just saying.
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