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Acorn Computers Ltd (2006) dissolved

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:50:00 GMT

Engadget says that it's presumably a rebadged Cybernet machine.

Posted by Eric Rucker (bhtooefr) in General
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Acorn Computers Ltd (2006) dissolved

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:22:06 GMT

In other news, it looks like someone's now trying to relaunch the Commodore brand to flog x86 machines. Although admittedly they are using a custom case - a bit more work than I think Acorn Computers '06 ever put in.

http://www.liliputing.com/2010/03/commodore-keyboard-pc-the-eee-keyboard-doesnt-have-much-to-worry-about.html

Posted by Jeffrey Lee (Phlamethrower) in General
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Awesome website of the minute

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:18:30 GMT

Surely short ones are easiest, because there's less letters to play with? Wouldn't it be more fun to find the *longest* word that produced a Tubewhack? Other wise, wouldn't you just use "A" or "I"?

Not a single word, but sums things up nicely.

"Iconbar is scary and Rich is odd", Temple

Posted by Peter Howkins (flibble) in The Playpen
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Awesome website of the minute

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:25:40 GMT

Surely short ones are easiest, because there's less letters to play with? Wouldn't it be more fun to find the *longest* word that produced a Tubewhack? Other wise, wouldn't you just use "A" or "I"?

Posted by Richard Goodwin (rich) in The Playpen
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LCD Monitor Defs for Risc PC

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:50:24 GMT

I might need to add in some borders to compensate, then. Of course, that'll make the timings even tighter.

Also, your monitor may provide some adjustments for the VGA input, so that you can line things up properly.

Posted by Eric Rucker (bhtooefr) in General
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LCD Monitor Defs for Risc PC

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:19:51 GMT

I'm afraid I don't know enough to understand these things.

I presume you're already on the Sibelius mailing list and have checked there (assuming it's still running). I see there's a Hitachi CM751ET MDF by Jonathan Finn available... but I think that's a CRT monitor. I hope you manage to get a further improvement soon.

Posted by Trevor Johnson (trevj) in General
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LCD Monitor Defs for Risc PC

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:19:05 GMT

Hi Eric,
Tried the new modes you produced and thanks for all your work. I edited out the non 60Hz ones as this is needed for my monitor and I thought the otherrs might confuse matters. Then I loaded the 1680 X 1050 one. The picture was very sharp and worked OK with Sibelius. However it does not fill the screen. It ends up being approx the size of a 20 inch CRT screen. There was approx 1 inch black space on LHS and 3 inches on RHS. the image was squashed vertically. The Paul Vigay version of this mode worked well in everything except Sibelius. I'm afraid I don't know enough to understand these things.

Posted by Tony Cliff (funkycornwall) in General
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Acorn Computers Ltd (2006) dissolved

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:53:19 GMT

I queried him about a few of these points, and I got a very interesting email back in response. I had considered not posting it up, but in light of the amount of mystery surrounding this whole thing, I thought it would be worthwhile (and interesting to see what projects they were considering).

I call Walter Mitty. His habit of continually complaining about "Abuse emails" and blaming everyone else is quite tedious.

Posted by James Lampard (Lampi) in General
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Acorn Computers Ltd (2006) dissolved

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:24:40 GMT

Are you sure this guy isn't 16? He quoted Linkin Park!!!

[Edited by highlandcattle at 20:29, 17/3/2010]