Posted by Tjeerd on May 28, 2009
When I was at my parents house I found an at least fifteen year old (original) box containing my first ISA 8-bit soundcard which I bought from my neighbour for about 90 guilders, somewhere in 1993. It also came with two five watt mini-speakers (not on the photos). The first thing I did was play Wolfenstein 3D on my 80286 (12 MHz.), with sound. Very exciting at that time of course. For those of you interested in the very advanced specifications:
- Full Adlib, Sound Blaster, Covox Speech Thing and Disney Sound Source compatible
- 11 FM Music Synthesizer
- Digitized Audio Playback
- Analog Digital Recording
- Manual and Software Volume Control
- Configuration Setting via Software Control
- Dynamic Filtering
- Built-in MIDI-interface
- CD-ROM interface
- Built-in amplifier
- Microphone Automatic Gain Control Amplifier
- Game port
- Complies with Microsoft Multimedia Level I
- 6 Bundled Software
Posted by Tjeerd on May 27, 2009
Today we finally heard whether our bid on the house – I wrote about in the previous post – was accepted or that of another buyer (colleague of Nina, a very big coincidence). The resolutive conditions about the construction technique were probably a problem for the seller. Now a colleague of Nina has won the bid on the house. A big pity that we didn’t get the house, because there were actually no negative things about the house (location, inside et cetera). Of course there had to be done some upgrading, but that’d be worth the effort. But compared to the previous houses we saw I am actually happy that we came this far and didn’t buy one of the previous houses. So as everyone says “probably this house wasn’t meant for you”, we hope that an even better or at least equal house will come along. Next!
Posted by Tjeerd on May 23, 2009
The house we had an eye on (nearby a trainstation) is finally sold officially, in the meanwhile we have found a “new” house which we visited last week. It is located in a quiet neigbourhood with many big trees and gardens full of plants, so it looks like they like nature. The house itself looks quite good too, although the kitchen is very old-fashioned. There is some work to do in the house. For me there is currently only one minor point and that’s the fact that the house has wooden floors on the first and second level. Because I want to play electronic drums we have to look into that, hopefully we can solve that problem. Upcoming Monday we will have our second visit together with the father of Nina to get a better idea of the state of the house. Click on the pictures below to take a better look at it.
Posted by Tjeerd on May 16, 2009
This morning I discovered a bug in Windows Vista – an OS which I rarely use, only if something really requires 100% Windows. I was exporting photos from Adobe Lightroom and while I was watching the files being written into a folder I also wanted to know the filesize of the exported files. If you are standing on an existing file and then click on a file being written it will report a negative filesize for the new file. That’s a minor bug, but if you then click on any other existing file in that folder, it reports for every file a negative size.
