My computing history
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A few threads recently have got me to reminisce about my computing history which includes Spectrum, C64, Amiga and of course PC and so tonight (or should I say "this morning") I decided to document it once and for all on my blog. You may find it interesting, nostalgic...
http://greyaliengames.com/blog/my-computer-history/Enjoy!
Star Quake - now that brings back memories! Thanks for the nostalgia, GA.
I cut my teeth on a speccy and C=64
You should really try to fix your blog so it can be seen in IE7
yeah I should fix it! Gonna attempt it now.
Grey - you may want to run your site through the HTML validator at
http://validator.w3.orgIts flagging up 18 errors (mostly to do with table structure by the look of it) for the page that is causing problems in IE7.
Yay, fixed it! Thanks for the prompt Tri|Ga|De.
GfK, yeah I ran it throught that before but maybe not recenlty. However now I've fixed the bug I'll hope there are less than 18. Yeah it says 11 now.
Any ideas what I should do about these (or if I should even bother)?
Error Line 45 column 30: there is no attribute "background".
<td height="118" background="/images/logosmall.png">
Error Line 70 column 11: there is no attribute "STYLE".
<div STYLE="position:relative; top:11px; left:-4px;">
Error Line 377 column 27: end tag for "br" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.
<font size="0"><br></font>
Error Line 378 column 41: there is no attribute "href".
...ont color="#000000" size="1"><A href="mailto:?subject=look at this website&bo
I mean some of those seem crazy!
Line 45:
You can fix the background problem by defining it with <td style="Background:'<url to image>'">
Line 70:
For the DIV tag problem, you could use a SPAN tag instead.
Line 377:
Haven't come across that one myself but I'd guess replace it with <br></br>.
Line 378:
Not sure on this one - I can't see this error any more so maybe you fixed it. One thing I did notice was that your ampersand should be written in html as &.
Thanks. I'll look into those. But the w3 validator is not currently working. It was wigging out on me earlier too...
It does take a while sometimes.
For the DIV tag problem, you could use a SPAN tag instead.
Or rather define it in your stylesheet. Same goes for the <td thing>
Haven't come across that one myself but I'd guess replace it with <br></br>.
The correct way to terminate an in-line tag in XHTML is the same as XML: <br />
BTW the simplest way to fix HTML/XHTML errors is using the Firefox DOM Inspector (you need to do an advanced install).
thanks for the advice. So I just have to write <br /> instead of <br> and it will make a line break which is automatically terminated and will keep the validator happy yes?
Can't work that out. I just use <br> and html validator doesn't complain about it.
Maybe it comes down to the context in which its used.
well it talks about omittag no. So maybe the wordpress that I based my blog on contains that in it somewhere?
So I just have to write <br /> instead of <br> and it will make a line break which is automatically terminated and will keep the validator happy yes?
Yes.
Can't work that out. I just use <br> and html validator doesn't complain about it.
That's probably because you doctype is HTML 4.0 (Transitional), and not XHTML 1.0 as Greys.
So maybe the wordpress that I based my blog on contains that in it somewhere?
No. It's because your document is in XHTML 1.0 - thus you need to use the correct syntax for XHTML which is XML based and means that all tags, even empty ones, must be closed. You can do that by doing what GfK suggested and putting an extra close tag on it, or use the shorthand "/>".
Here is a site which explains it all. :o>
That might be the case. I'm just getting my head around HTML after all this time and I was an HTML virgin prior to a month ago. Don't even talk to me about XHTML yet.
FD: Thanks for the informative reply! :-)
GfK: Hah I've been doing HTML for years but never got better than a certain basic level.
nice blog. I started on the other side of the tracks, an Apple II+. I toyed with a friend's commodore one time, and I couldn't believe the built in sprite capabilities. On the apple side, we were stuck with software based "shape tables". It's a miracle I didn't forever swear off making games right then.
John
jtollison78: Thanks! Gotta say my Apple knowledge is very limited up until I got a MAcbook Pro.
Time to jump on the bandwagon and publish mine. :)
Mine is availiable at :
http://bouncybrick.spaces.live.comSo far, 5 parts are up.
Shame your Amiga years were so crap, mine were just fantastic, oh well... I used some of the RISC ACorns, they were pretty neat. My friend converted and sold World Class Leaderboard for it and sold it to U.S. Gold, oh and tetris, not sure it he sold that though...
I suspect it was because I went for an A600, which wasn't terribly well supported...
The RiscOS machines are (and still are) extremely powerful, for what "little" you get - mainly because the ARM processor is so good.
Its just a shame the computers are so expensive...
This was an interesting read, and I thought you were older than you are ;-D
Who me? I'm 31. 32 in June :-)
Here's a brief synopsis of my computer history.
http://www.piddlepup.com/node/93 Who me? I'm 31. 32 in June :-)
You old fart!
I was thinking you were maybe in your late 30's, early 40's. ;-)
Just turned 32 myself, yesterday.
Keith: Yeah Armadillo has tons of crazy options and the HTML for the 3 different screens took me ages too :-)
GfK. Aren't you similar?
Finally found my BB2 review (from 1994) at
http://mirror.gbar.dtu.dk/AmiNet/docs/rview/BlitzBASIC2.txtCant find the furious replies I got when doing that though...
GfK. Aren't you similar?
Yeah. Was 32 in March :/
@GfK ;-p buffer.