It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

I remember the days I only dealt with them when I absolutely needed to for school.  Then, my family received an AST Bravo from my Uncle.  6 MB of RAM, a 486 processor, DOS 5 and Windows 3.11 shell.

That was the start of corruption.  I have hardly been able to be without one since.

When my computer blew up last week, I knew it was quite serious, mainly because it refused to post (you know that beep when you start your computer?  That is called "post".  When it doesn't beep, that generally signals that the processor or the pathways to the processor are FUBAR).  I took it down to people I knew because data recovery was above and beyond what I had time/resources for.  After speaking with them, I received a false hope that maybe just the power supply blew and it wasn't getting enough juice to the processor to fire up.

Nope.

The motherboard is dead as a doornail.  They're getting my data for me onto an external, and hopefully I'll be up and running by tomorrow afternoon with my new unit.

Till then, I'm limited to what I can do at the local library.

I  have over 10,000+ deviations I haven't had a chance to look at (the library computers won't let me look at the naughty bits!) and I haven't been able to get through but a fraction of my stalks on SG.

So I'll hopefully see all of you in your full glory tomorrow.


Before I go for today: has anyone played Zork in any of its beautiful forms?  I think the original counts as abandonware now...not sure.  If you get a chance to get your mitts on the original Zork (it is broken up into 4 games because it was created on an old super computer and the PCs back in the day didn't have enough room on em for the whole thing).  Another one worth exploring is "Beyond Zork", so technologically advanced, it actually has a map!