sturner

I'm glad to see someone playing on a Mac. I had to stop playing all Combat Mission games when I got my new G5. Shucks, darn, fudge, and other comments. I am still waiting for the new engine for OSX and hoping that they will retrofit CM:BO and CM:BB with the new engine as well. To make it even worse, the game that I migrated to Red Orchestra (an Unreal Tournament 2004 total modification) is going commercial and are orphaning all Linux and Mac players, since they are distributing the game and controlling licencing thrrough Steam. (More unprintable comments) So now I'm back to flying simulations. Sigh.

Considering that the powers that be have stated that they will not update CMBO or CMBB to OpenGL drivers anytime soon, that probably means that they have orphaned the Mac side. Too bad. If that's the way they want to do it, fine. I will go back to playing minatures. The way to lose customers is to piss them off. Basic Business Rules 101.

All the treadheads I ever talked with about brew ups usually said they were really afraid of the cherry juice (the hydraulic fluid). While this was changed in the 60's -70's to a less flammable version, it still burns quite nicely. I always thought it was safer to be infantry.

It could also be in the encoding method used by your email program and the receiving email program. Most modern, or should I say recently made programs use MIME encoding. This is different than UUencoded or for the Mac, AppleSingle or BinHex. If you are using a mail program other than Microsofts, like Eudora, then I know that you can set the encoding. It should be set for AppleDouble (MIME). In Outlook, open the Attachments pane and select the encoding method. Use AppleDouble (MIME).

Ok, guys, remember that the Soviets made an eleventh prinicple of war. Anhilation. They made their best break-throughs and victories using that principle. When you can't outfight them, bury them with material.

Hmmm, just how many NKVD battalions are there? From what I heard, an NKVD battalion is easily the match of an SS Armored Regiment. Now, If I could just get one of them into the front line....

You could do it by hand, but that would really take a long time. No, there is no alternative way to unzip a file. The algorithm used is what is taking so long. The file has been compressed, and you are waiting for it to uncompress. Two things will speed up the action of unzipping: 1. Faster processor, 2. More RAM.

The Russians had the PPsh SMG during WWII. A nice little weapon designed for the rigors of the Eastern Front and the slovenly habits of the Soviet Soldier and his supply system. It would actually increase its rate of fire as it became dirty. The tolerances in the weapon tightening up with the accumulation of dirt. Until it got so crudded up that it stopped. The SKS and AK-47 are not developed from the PPsh, but from the German MP43/44.

Hey Karsten, Whichever way the Apple falls, if you buy a new Mac after the switch date, that is it, as you know. As for BTS and CMBO and CMBB, you can follow my lead if you want. If an when I purchase a new Mac, and it won't let me boot into OS 9, then that's the day CMBO and CMBB had better support OpenGL. If they don't I will simply stop playing. I won't like it much, but if they won't support the platform I use, so be it. I will give my money to the company that makes a product I can use. I always vote with my pocket book. I have done it professionally, eschewing Deneba Canvas, because they didn't add the functionallity they promised in thier marketing, for Adobe Illustrator. I may never find a game like CMBO or CMBB again, but that's life.

I have found that if I partition, or have a second hard drive, I can put a "clean" version of OS 9.2.2 on one, and OS X and the Classic OS 9.2 for OS X's use. I don't have any problems then with OS X trying to reinstall the RAVE engine.

Oh, and by the way, it's Barbarossa. Named after the German King, Warrior, etc, of the 13th? century, maybe it was the 14th or 15th. Good ole Red Beard, he really whupped up on those pesky Russians.

Reading this brought two images to my mind, the first was that of a Napoleonic Corp attacking. The second was what I dreaded during my tour in Germany, '79-81. The Russians, if they came across would present such a target rich environment that we would go through our Battalions entire basic load of ammunition within the first hour and a half. It would take my Support Platoon about 4 hours to return to the Ammo Dump, which probably would be under chemical attack or air attack, for resupply. And even then they would only be allowed to draw half of our basic load for the Tank company and two Infantry companies. Within the first day of combat, we would be down to throwing rocks, and my logistics units would be part of the front line... as it moved through us. [ July 25, 2002, 10:18 PM: Message edited by: sturner ]

Reading this brought two images to my mind, the first was that of a Napoleonic Corp attacking. The second was what I dreaded during my tour in Germany, '79-81. The Russians, if they came across would present such a target rich environment that we would go through our Battalions entire basic load of ammunition within the first hour and a half. It would take my Support Platoon about 4 hours to return to the Ammo Dump, which probably would be under chemical attack or air attack, for resupply. And even then they would only be allowed to draw half of our basic load for the Tank company and two Infantry companies. Within the first day of combat, we would be down to throwing rocks, and my logistics units would be part of the front line... as it moved through us. [ July 25, 2002, 10:18 PM: Message edited by: sturner ]

C rations are moist. K rations often contained powdered food. I saw K rations that my Dad had brought back from WWII in Europe (this was around 20 years after the fact). They were in tolerably good shape. He said that they hated K's. From what I know (questioning an Old Sergeant First Class who had three bronze stars on his jump wings [sicily, Normandy, Rhine River]) K's were universally loathed as unappetizing, hard to make edible, and generally not fit for human consumption. C's (this from personal experience) are fit to keep body and soul together, but the experience is not especially enjoyable without special preparation or condiments. C's cold are really awful, though some are better than others. The grease always congeals at one end. Guess which end usually gets opened on a cold day? The Ham and Lima beans were my worst nightmare. The Lima beans were interspaced between the Ham slices. Which normally meant that you got 7 items in that can, 3 Ham slices and 4 Lima Beans. I kid you not, the beans were that big!

Beer isn't under Class I because it is not an issuable item of sustinence in the US Military. Class VI are the PX (post exchange) items.

I had the same type of problem on my Yosemite (B&W) G3. I finally solved the problem by using a different CD-ROM driver. The one that solved my problem was the Charsimac CD driver. I believe that the newer CD drivers that support iTunes also solves that problem, though you need to be running 9.2.2 for those I think.

You have been tried and found guilty by a tribunal of the People's Republic. Have you anything to say in your defense? Let it be recorded that the defendant had nothing to say. Proceed with the execution.

Tell your friend that he can find Zipit at http://www.versiontracker.com. Another compression program that produces Zip files, and is freeware is MacZip by Dirk Haase. It is very good, and very fast. He can find it at versiontracker, or at: Home page: www.sitec.net/maczip Mirror page: www.haase-online.de/dirk/maczip

Just have the troops cover their eyes, and tap on the ground with their feet. It really is the most effective way. Have you ever seen how fast a mine-detector team works? Your scenario would be over by the time they finished walking just a short area. Besides, I don't think that mine-detectors are modeled in CMBO.

Just hope you aren't working on a hydrolic ram, or you might end up with a water goat.

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You should at least try disabling the speculative access, if you don't disable the backside cache. My B&W G3 runs rock solid now. Of course I also had a CD-ROM problem, where accessing the CD-ROM would eventually cause a freeze. I solved this problem first by using a third-party CD-Rom driver from CharisMac. Then by updating the drivers using the latest Disk-burn drivers from Apple.

When your tanks have those nifty little smoke plumes sprouting from them, then you are TOO close.

In the Troubleshooting section of the manual it specifically state: "MacOS 9 (including 9.04) on a G3 or G4 machine appears to cause random system lockups in some cases. Solution: Disable the backside casche. This can be done using the G3/G4 Cache Profiler from Powerlogix http://www.powerlogix.com" I also found that disabling speculative access helped me. Try one (backside cache/speculative access) and then the other.

Well gee! Anyone who lives in Colorado knows that! The reason it is so windy in Colorado is that Wyoming blows and Texas sucks.