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I seek information from fellow graybeards!

Old BBS nerds -- I seek your help! I'm looking for information on a DOS app I used to dial out to BBSes in the 90s called "Terminate" written by Bo Bendtsen. Before that I had been using Procomm Plus which did the job, but on installing a copy of Terminate my teenage mind was blown: the program asked "Hello, Keir, do you like intelligent programs?" It had picked up my name from an install of Front Door. The application was *really smart*. During setup you supplied a password to lock certain parts of the app down, etc.

Anyway, the program's functions were handled through the function keys and you could use those to switch between different utilities such as the terminal, phonebook, etc. One of them, though, was curious: on entering that screen, the text scrolled slowly and simply prompted "LOGON:" and waited...

Boeing apologizes for miscalculating how many of you they could kill cutting corners before everyone got all mad

@gaghyogi49 - Someone is going through Babylon 5 hunting for trivia, I see! :D

A gave Second Life in VR a...Second Try. Now that I understand how the controls work, I gave it a real chance, and, you know, once you start treating it as a "nine panel monitor" and realize the center panel is where you should be looking, it's actually kinda nice.

Checking out some of my usual haunts, twice I got hit with vertigo from looking down a cliff. And visiting a friends skybox, I purposely jumped while looking down, and...yeah. 🙂

So, it's very clunky, but if you can touch type (or prefer voice) you can use it for 3D. Not a VR experience, even in mouselook, but pretty decent 3D.

@Mondobizarrro - Yes, and no. The animation is Filmation of the 1970s. It's SUPER simple and in many cases hard on the eyes. But at the same time, it's what animation in the 1970s looked like.

The stories, though, are for the most part, great. The production team was very big on "This is Season 4 of The Original Series, and we will treat it as such" and didn't dumb it down for a kiddie audience. It is simply 30 minutes Star Trek: The Original Series as a cartoon.

Quote of the Day:

"If you don't have the gender you wanted, storebought is fine."

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