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http:www.masis.am

 

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Frodo - http://koti.mbnet.fi/~haviital/ (it's the the bottom of the page)

 

Frodo is a Commodore 64 emulator for the for Nokia 9210 and S60 (N7650, N3650, etc.)

 

http://koti.mbnet.fi/~haviital/Frodo/commando.JPG http://koti.mbnet.fi/~haviital/Frodo/ik1.JPG http://koti.mbnet.fi/~haviital/Frodo/ik2.JPG http://koti.mbnet.fi/~haviital/Frodo/cbmbasic.JPG http://koti.mbnet.fi/~haviital/Frodo/menu.JPG http://koti.mbnet.fi/~haviital/Frodo/menu2.JPG

 

 

The question is how do you connect the tape drive to the phone? :)

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I still have my C-64 complete with the FastLoad cartridge (a definite must)! It works perfectly (Still after all these years)!! Once in a while we'll get together with some of the 'old' gang and play C-64 games and see what Atari 2600 cartridges we have kicking around... What a RIOT :lol:

 

Of course, now it's less fun since they have have emulators for just about any sort of machine...

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At some point I had ALL C64 games ever made but I think I accidentally erased it ... I was pretty sure I had them on CD ... but I can't find them. I may have let one of my friends borrow the CD (had other stuff on it) and forgot about it. I also made the cable once to connect my 1541 disk drive to my PC parallel port ... then I could read all my old C64 disks! It was sweeet (info on how to do this is on the web).

 

But I do have all the old Atari games and the emulator is pretty good! I even have the 2600 emulator for my IPAQ so you can play all the games on it!!! :D

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One day when I have more time, I'll ask you for some links/advice - I wonder if there's a PalmOS emulator?

 

Oh, and my original 5 1/4" disks are beginnning to die. Most of them have errors on them, and I'll have to back up the rest that actually DO work.

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https://www.mapAmobile.com/

 

I have always wondered why this was not done earlier. The technology is VERY simple and today is the first time I found a company(Unfortunately currently in UK only) that will give you user location information based on the mobil network using triangulation. No GPS, no special phone needed or anything like so, jut plainly measuring the strength of your phone signal at 3 of the closest towers and pointing out approximately where you may be.

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One more for the day

http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/030902.html

 

RfID chips. this is very cool technology. I am sure many of you know that when you are in a store and you purchase a pair of pants or a shirt or anything the cashiers run the item over a machine that allows you to take the item out the door without the alarm going on. Well those tags use RFID chips.

 

The technology has been getting smaller and smaller and now the computers at the doors not only count for items that are going out the store but also identify what type of item and actually to the exact item as each item gets their unique id that can be checked against the store database.(By the way, J.Crew has the tags sown right into the labels now)

 

What is really cool is that the day when you can walk into the store and pick the items you want and walk out the door and get billed for them on your card is coming soon. It should definitely help the shopping process.

 

Also because the tags are so small .4mm, they are being embedded in all kinds of stuff and even WalMart which carries all kings of Merchandise is experimenting with the idea of complete automation at 1 of their stores in Massachusetts. Very cool.(kind of scary as well with the more info that they will gather on us)

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https://www.mapAmobile.com/

 

I have always wondered why this was not done earlier.  The technology is VERY simple and today is the first time I found a company(Unfortunately currently in UK only) that will give you user location information based on the mobil network using triangulation.  No GPS, no special phone needed or anything like so, jut plainly measuring the strength of your phone signal at 3 of the closest towers and pointing out approximately where you may be.

The technology aint that simple brotha! Actually I think there is an FCC mandate that is going into effect that EVERY mobile phone sold in the US must support this. GSM has been doing this for years and that's why they have that service in europe.

 

The problem with having it in the US is all the different standards, all the different networks, and infrastructures, etc that made implementing this a very complicated process. So maybe I should correct myself that the technology itself is not as complicated as the implementation part. Actually a lot of the new phones now come with GPS built in so that makes things even easier to locate devices that can't be triangulated.

 

Another point to keep in mind in addition to technical/implementation challenges is security and privacy. Anytime a topic like this comes up, a lot of people get very very nervous. So that just adds to the complications.

 

 

By the way, I hate to bring this up, but if they are using signal strength for ranging, then they are trilaterating and NOT triangulating. :P :D

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I know Sip, and understand all you say.

 

Harut - so what? I guess I am not as worried about privacy in that format as most others but one can see many things and almost guess what is in your purse fairly accurately based on just looking at you and what you are wearing and all that.

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Hehehe ... I told you Azat, some people get very very nervous anytime you can pry into their privacy ;) :D

 

I always thought this RFID stuff and similar techniques to do backscatter communication (not using your own energy to transmit) to be really cool.

 

Some guys at Berkeley are working on this thing called "Smart Dust" ... it is a very tiney processor with sensors packaged in about 1 square mm B) One of the methods they are exploring for communication is the use of very small mirrors arranged in the shape of a corner-cube. With MEMs technology, they can move the mirrors so that they either reflect light back or not. So from very far, you can shine a laser on these and read back 1's and 0's in form of reflections!!!!

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