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I was a Desktop Support Slave. Yeah that's right, I was that 2nd Level Support dude they used to re-route you to after the Front Desk Kiddies could not easily fix your Think Pad problems. (Hi! I'm Buffy, I'm a brain dead sexually confused 20 year old and I am currently going to college. I just had three joints and a half a liter of Jack Daniels. How can I help you? Oh, I'm sorry but I've lost the physical ability to read my step-by-step trouble-shooting guide to you over the phone and make it sound like a have any brain cells left in my body. Can I put you on hold?) I listened to this at IBM Global Services Desktop ...  Read the complete review

The great majority of writing on the subject of "retrogaming" and the like is concerned with the emulation of consoles and arcade machines (Mame being the best-known name here) - that is to say, dedicated gaming systems. But there is another branch of retro computing - that concerned with the emulation (and simulation - I'll explain the distinction later on) of that very 1980s phenomenon, the general purpose home computer. I'm firmly of the opinion that those of us who grew up in the eighties were most fortunate with regard to computing - the basic (pun semi-intended) design of the eight-bit micros means that for many tasks there was simply no ...  Read the complete review

Emulators are great programs, both ingenious in their design and very useful. For those people who don't know an emulator is a piece of software that allows your PC to run software that was designed for another system. In this context I am writing about emulators that emulate old games system, and infact new ones too. From the old Atari to the Playstation, emulators are available, and although there are varying degrees of success a little bit of searching and testing you can find emulators that emulate a system to perfection. In this op I will give details of the emulators that I have used and found to be good. Before I start, just so you can understand what ...  Read the complete review