EEG

I have an EEG test scheduled for the 1st of December.
At least it's better than when I had to wait for a hearing test - 9 months!

Writers Tools

This one's for all those
creative writers
on my friends list
I hope I have your attention now

What do you use to write with, as far as software goes?

Now I'm expecting people to say "Notepad" or paper & pencil, but what I'm trying to find out is if you use a specialised program to assist writing stories / novels, such as Writer's Café, WriteItNow or whatever (not the actual text editor/word processor).

And why do you use that software?

I'm thinking of using some of these applications to help me write my comics, and maybe a few short stories and at least a novel I've had kicking around in my head. I've only tried one so far - uWriter - and while it had many interesting features (like character notes and such), I found the application to be extremely irritating to use.

 

 

Oooh - I've just discovered an open-source program called StoryBook
must check this out.

Download Squad

Discovered this DownloadSquad today, that has blogs about things you can download. I found it when looking for a reference to MS Word for DOS which I used professionally between 1989-1995.

The amazing thing is, that it's been available free for download since 1999. Not of course, that if you had anything running anything like Linux, or Windows XP, that you'd actually use this and not Open Office or (heavens forbid) MS Office or equivalent.

Maybe it's nostalgia for me. Earlier I was looking for a simple DOS game that ran in coloured text mode and was a rip-off of something called Boulder Dash. The one I was looking for had a bulldozer clearing out a grid of diamonds, dirt, rocks and dynamite (you can guess what happens when the boulders fall on the dynamite). I got this from the freeware/shareware archives at W.A.I.T used to play it on my XT. Hours of mindless fun including one episode where (and I swear I'm not making this up, or trying to be funny) I saw a vision of a Flaming Jesus above the PC while I played it.

Strange days.

dINO rUN

Yes, a bit of time wasting today.

But Dino Run is a neat little flash game where you (as a running dinsaur) try and get a top score while outrunning extinction. It's better than it sounds.

Writer's Block: Your Invention...

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A StarGate, because travel via wormhole to any number of Earth like worlds would mean that everyone could settle and do what they wanted.

The search for the lost game

I'm looking for Emerald Hunt.

This is the game I mentioned in a previous post - an old DOS game where you moved a bulldozer around to collect Emeralds while dodging boulders and bombs. Do you think I can find it anywhere on the web (I can't even find a screenshot)? I know I used to have a copy of it, but that was on 360k floppies!

Any idea where I can find this?