Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss
#4 Zack's Death Star fires virtual WARNING SHOT
2 views
Skip to first unread message
ericmatteson...@hotmail.com
Jun 26, 2008, 2:17:52 PM6/26/08
to
Star Wars Saved By The Bell Episode four
Monday June 23,2008
Death Star fires virtual warning shot at Microsoft
by giving way too much assistance to Linux .....
All Volunteer Jury system needed NOW.
Copyright C 2008 by Eric Matteson. Permission is granted to
copy the plain text version of this script and to publish
it on the Internet.
Non-profit uses including student films are also allowed.
Starring Mark Paul Goeselaar as Zack Morris (Death Star President)
Starring Max Battimo as Mikey Gonzales (Vice president in charge of
Data Proc)
Starring Dustin Diamond as Screech Powers.
Starring Mark Hammil as Luke Skywalker.
Written by Eric Matteson
Scene 1. (Screeches Dorm Room on Earth)
Peter Brady meets with Screech powers in his dorm room
at CALU in California.
PETER
Screech, Even though there are articles on the Internet
requesting an all volunteer jury system I have not yet
seen anything in the news about any legislative committee
beginning to work on changing jury duty to voluntary.
As soon as President George Bush finishes his term
the next president might sign at least an all male
military draft bill into law in Spring or summer of 2009.
Congresspeople might assume that voters are allowing them
to pass a military draft because voters in all 50 states
allegedly still tolerate required mandatory jury duty.
If voters are against being required to serve in the
U.S. military then at least one state should exist
where its voters also are against being required to
serve on juries!
SCREECH
I know that being drafted and hurt and killed
is very unfair but
what can I do about it??
PETER
I have heard that you have a powerful friend, Zack Morris,
whom you communicate with by subspace Internet e-mail
and he has a big round space ship that can destroy
an entire planet and has powerful computers.
SCREECH
The DEath Star spacecraft is nowhere near Earth and
is too far away to destroy Earth anytime soon. Even though
Earth will deserve to be destroyed if and when another
U.S. military draft is passed by congress it will be
many years before the Death Star Spacecraft will be
close enough to destroy Earth.
PETER
There is also a science fiction article on the Internet that
says that an organization of Linux supporters is planning on
putting a *.bz2 file on a website that will be downloaded
and give Linux the ability to run applications programs
that were written for Microsoft Windows. When this happens
that possibly free converter added onto free Linux will then
compete with Microsoft and literally put Microsoft out
of business by providing possibly a free replacement for
Microsoft Windows if their stuff even works.
SCREECH
As far as I know Microsoft has never published its binary
applications programming interface ( API ) for Microsoft
Windows. Reverse engineering Windows or disassembling
Windows applications would be very difficult or even impossible.
PETER
What about compiling Windows applications programs that were
written in C on the Linux c compiler gcc with a
proposed header file into a Linux runnable program ??
SCREECH
Linux XWindows is very different internally than Microsoft
Windows. The screen display is different logic numbers
handling of pixels. Even the raw KEYCODES are different.
Microsoft C might include some statements in addition to
regular c that have to be removed to compile on Linux but
with a LOT OF EFFORT it is probably possible to compile
Windows C programs into Linux with Linux gcc plus a
hard-to-make HEADER FILE and some fixing of code.
PETER
Even the science fiction website also had a section
about building their *.bz2 file from source after
uncompressing with its installer routine that
needs SEVEN HOURS to build it at 300 MHz.
It is supposed to be able to help compile
C programs written for Microsoft Windows after the
seven hour install.
I checked that science fiction websites C documentation
for SetDIBitsToDevice and it said that documentation
is not yet available.
SCREECH
Scince that science fiction website has no documentation
about writing c programs for Windows or any programs for
Microsoft Windows we have to assume that their stuff
has ZERO CHANCE OF WORKING !!!!
PETER
Could people use the Microsoft website for information
about how to write Windows programs in C for the
science fiction websites stuff ??
SCREECH
Only temporarily. Microsoft will eventually go out of business
anyway because of repeated mandatory jury duty seperates
skilled programmers and managers from developing and
fixing Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows has been
hopelessly BROKEN scince the loss of Windows 98 Second
Edition. Broken Windows and high tech support costs already
threaten the bottom line at Microsoft.
Instead of wasting SEVEN HOURS on trying to build
the gobeldegook from that science fiction website
send them an e-mail or posting DEMANDING FULL DOCUMENTATION
ABOUT C WINDOWS PROGRAMMING FOR THEIR LIBRARY.
Running Windows Binaries is THEORETICALLY IMPOSSIBLE
if they continue to lack written documentation about the binary
Windows Apllications Programmers Interface (API)
sufficient to write Assembley language applications
programs to run on Microsoft Windows!!
Challenge that website to come up with the written
documentation for applications programmers otherwise
their claim of being able to run Windows programs on Linux
is just an unbeleivable claim.
PETER
Screech, What can we do on our own ??
SCREECH
Current software technology does NOT ALLOW running binary
programs for Microsoft Windows on Linux because we do not
have any information about how to do it.
We might be able to compile c language programs
written for Microsoft Windows onto Linux using a
new header file that we will have to create ourselves.
PETER
I want Zack Morris to use DEATH STAR COMPUTERS to help
create that header file for c Windows programs!
SCREECH
I will call Zack Morris on the sub space viewscreen now.
( Scene 2 On board Death Star- ZAck and Mikey turn on their
viewscreen and Screech and Peter are at the other end.)
SCREECH
Zack, there is still no state legislature beginning to consider
an all volunteer jury system. Peter Brady beside me here is
afraid of being drafted by a new U.S. military draft in 2009.
ZACK
I am trapped out here between galaxies in intergalactic space.
what can I do about it ??
PETER
I saw a science fiction article on the Internet that
includes the theoretical possibility of creating a
MAJIC HEADER FILE that could be used to compile
C applications programs written for Microsoft Windows
into Linux XWindows runnable programs using the
Linux c compiler instead of a Microsoft Windows
c compiler and Windows.
If powerful Death Star computers could participate in
creating that proposed header file it could be used on
Linux so windows programming in c will then be done
on free Linux instead of expensive Windows. Then
Microsoft will be severly DOWNSIZED or even quit
business altogether. That will help prove that
your Death Star spacecraft IS REAL and an all
volunteer jury system MUST BE PASSED in order to
save Microsoft and to also save even Earth itself!!
SCREECH
When CALU changed from Windows 98 SE to Windows XP the
32-bit Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler was erased
and CALU installed an older 16-bit DOS Text only output
C++ compiler that supports plain text programming
only. I want my Windows C graphics programming back
even if I have to compile those Windows c programs
on Linux.
ZACK
Mikey, Is it possible to compile C programs written for
Microsoft Windows onto Linux with a proposed header file
on the standard Linux c compiler ??
MIKEY
It might become possible even though Linux XWindows
is initially very different from Microsoft Windows.
ZACK
Make it so, Mikey!!
(Screech hangs up and dissapears from the viewscreen.)
(Scene 3 Dinner on board the Death Star. Pumpkin pie
for dessert)
MIKEY
Both XWindows programs like edelev10.c for Linux and
Microsoft applications programs often use a subroutine
to convert raw keycodes into standard traditional
DOS ASCII application ready key values.
If the shift key is keyupped a shift indicator is
reset to 0.
If the shift key is keydowned a shift indicator
integer is set to 1.
if any other key is keydowned the converter subroutine
is called with the raw keycode and the most recent value
in the shift indicator variable and then those two things
are converted into a standard DOS ASCII key value.
If there are differences in translation results one
of the translation functions needs to be changed
so both will provide same DOS ASCII result.
ZACK
It sounds hard. Perhaps start by translating the Linux
Raw keycode first into the standard DOS key value
and then enter a loop with all 256 potential Windows
raw keycodes tried on the Windows translator and find
a match with the already existing Linux match and then the
loop counter value that made that match is the Windows
raw keycode for the Linux raw keycode.
That loop will create the INVERSE of the Windows
key translator function to recover the raw
Windows keycode that represents the same key as
the starting Linux keycode.
MIKEY
I want to extend this one step farther. Add on an outer
loop that will go through all 256 possible Linux XWindows
raw keycodes.
The translated value of the current outer loop counter
that represents Linux XWindows key values will be compared
in the inner loop with the translated
inner loop counter representing each
Microsoft Windows raw keycode. The outer loop counter is a
subscript and the inner loop counter value that causes
a match in both translations is the array
element value pointed to by that subscript.
ZACK
Make it so, Mikey!
(Scene 4. Two days later in Death Star control room.)
MIKEY
Zack, I have finished ltowkey.c program. That program ltowkey.c
creates a listing of an array that converts Linux XWindows
raw keycodes into Microsoft Windows 98 raw keycodes.
use
gcc ltowkey.c -o ltowkey.out
./ltowkey.out > bam.h
to make the two arrays in the new header file
bam.h
ZACK
TWO arrays ??
MIKEY
The other array is a bit flipper array that
reverses the order of bits within a byte because
Linux XWindows has its bits within a byte
in reverse order with respect to
Microsoft Windows.
We are now 75% finished with the difficult
creative portion of the Windows to Linux
header file. We have a keycode translator array
and that bitflipper array is half the code of
SetDIBitsToDevice subroutine that Microsoft
Windows uses to draw graphics GDI bitmap
DIB images on the screen.
ZACK
When you write SetDIBitsToDevice I want you to
only support one-bit-per-pixel monochrome
bitmap drawing so Microsoft will be able to
survive. If Microsoft goes out of business
then Linux might stop improving because of
no more Microsoft Windows to compete with!
MIKEY
That will make SetDIBitsToDevice even easier to
finish than I thought that it would be!
..
(Scene 5 A week later Screeches Dorm room
on Earth - Screech and Peter are there
Then Zack and Mikey appear on viewscreen.)
ZACK
Screech, I just e-mailed you a partially completed
header file. I called it bam.h
A powerful computer here on this Death Star Spacecraft
has created two arrays of constants. One of them is
the keycode converter array and the other array reverses
the order of bits within a byte for SetDIBitsToDevice.
MIKEY
I added in three subroutines. A subroutine to get an integer
value out of a backwards collection of bytes and
SetDIBitsToDevice with its 12 arguments that draws a
Windows 98 monochrome bitmap into an array while
using the reversing of order of bits within a byte
array and also drawing the picture upside down.
A Windows bitmap image has lines whose widths are multiples
of 32 bits AND a Linux XWindows compatible array
has lines that are multiples of 8 pixels wide. Both
arrays are sent up to the next whole multiple if not
already whole. SetDIBitsToDevice is a highly complex
drawing function.
Then I wrote EndPaint that draws that array
created by SetDIBitsToDevice onto the
screen.
The difficult part that requires creativity is already done.
Even an unskilled programmer can finish this header file.
ZACK
Screech, you are hereby ordered to finish that header
file!
PETER
I will help screech finish it.
(Scene 6 - Screech and Peter are in the CALU library on Earth with
stacks of books about Windows programming and C programming.
SCREECH
Photocopy The Windows Constants that I have written in this
list and also function descriptions and data structures.
(Peter takes several books with placeholders over to the
photocopier. Screech takes coins out of a small bag
and puts them into the photocopier. They keep
flipping pages in the books and they keep the photocopier
busy for a while.)
(Screech and Peter leave the library with a stack
of photocopies.)
(Scene 7 - Screeches Dorm room on Earth)
SCREECH
We have two example programs edelev17.c text editor and
dfrview2.c DIB bitmap file picture viewer program.
These programs were written in C for Microsoft Windows.
Do I have to change RECT statements into
struct RECT ??
In the C++ book we have
struct cptime
{
int hours;
int minutes;
double seconds;
};
struct cptime rhms;
PETER
No! There is a second version of structure
declarations that is not covered in C++ class textbook.
We are using the other struct....
typedef struct
{
long left;
long top;
long right;
long bottom;
}RECT;
The type of structure RECT appears at
the BOTTOM instead of the top in addition
to adding in the typedef
so instead of declaring
struct RECT windrect;
we use
RECT windrect;
just like Microsoft Windows!!
SCREECH
It was very unfair for our C++ textbook to omit
normal Microsoft Windows format for structure
declarations!!!!!
In WinMain declaration do we have to take some
extra non-C stuff out ??
PETER
WE can use
#define CALLBACK
#define WINAPI
to set those extra terms to blanks
so
int WINAPI WINMAIN(HINSTANCE arg1,HISTANCE arg2,LPSTR arg3.int arg4)
becomes
int WINMAIN(HINSTANCE arg1,HINSTANCE arg2,LPSTR arg3,int arg4)
to the compiler.
AND
LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND Hwnd,UINT Event,WPARAM Wparam,LPARAM
Lparam)
becomes
LRESULT WndProc(HWND Hwnd,UINT Event,WPARAM Wparam,LPARAM Lparam)
which is much easier to compile WITHOUT
having to actually change the Windows C source code!!
Microsoft might have added extra stuff to declarations
to prevent non-Microsoft C compilers from compiling
Windows programs but we will compile them
anyway with Linux!!
We do have to change the one statement
#include <windows.h>
to
#include "bam10004.h"
in both edelev17.c and dfrview2.c to get them to
compile on Linux.
SCREECH
Why not bam.h that Zack sent to us ??
PETER
I am renaming it bam10004.h so we can make more than one
version if needed.
( Scene 8 Two weeks later at CALU computer lab on Earth - Screech
and Mikey are at a Linux computer. 3/4 of all computers
at CALU have been converted from Microsoft Windows
to Linux so the State of California can save money
without raising student fees at CALU in 2008.)
SCREECH
I emailed the completed bam10004.h header file and the two
Windows example programs to Zack Morris yesterday.
Suppose we have a subdirectory
dir
bam10004.h edelev17.c dfrview2.c
Now lets compile them
gcc -Wall edelev17.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -o edelev17.out
gcc -Wall dfrview2.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -o dfrview2.out
then
dir
bam10004.h edelev17.c edelev17.out dfrview2.c dfrview2.out
Now lets run them.
./edelev17.out
then the text editor starts. Even though it is a Windows
program it runs on Linux using bam10004.h instead of
windows.h
using esc twice quits the text editor.
Then screech copies some Windows paintbrush bitmap dib files
onto the hard drive from a thumbdrive.
./dfrview2.out winbroke.bmp
Then a set of four windows
appears in that picture. Three of them are broken.
PETER
What does that picture mean ??
SCREECH
75% of all windows applications programs can be displayed
correctly on one-bit-per-pixel monochrome
without grayscale.
Only 25% of applications programs need color display
capability beyond one bit per pixel. Those programs still
need genuine Microsoft Windows so Windows should still be
bought for one out of every four new computers while
most computers only need free Linux plus the free
bam10004.h header file to compile most c programs that
were written for Microsoft Windows.
(Scene 9 -- Death Star dining room)
ZACK
I got an e-mail from Screech and Peter with the
attached files bam10004.h edelev17.c dfrview2.c
and I found that bam10004.h includes documentation
about C Windows functions so bam10004.h really can
be used to compile c windows programs onto Linux
when bam10004.h is included instead of windows.h
and edelev17.c text editor for Windows and
dfrview2.c bitmap picture viewer program are important
example programs that are used in addition to
the documentation within bam10004,h to help figure out
how to write c language applications programs for
Microsoft Windows then actually compile them on Linux!
Both example c programs written for Windows sucessfully
compiled onto Linux using the new bam10004.h special
Windows to Linux header file!!
MIKEY
This means that traditional common Microsoft c language TEXTBOOKS
about Windows API programming in c can be used to
help develop c graphics pixel programs that will
be compiled onto Linux without needing an actual Linux
textbook !!
(Scene 10 Droids come pick up empty plates. Death Star.)
Mikey and zack load new floppies into the droids. The
success of compiling Microsoft Windows C programming onto
Linux with bam10004.h has inspired Zack and Mikey to come
up with a plan to improve Death Star sheilds.)
After the droids read and return the floppy disks they head for
the Imperial Cruiser bay. The droids get in a Imperial cruiser
and take it outside the Death Star. TV cameras with the droids
show many small craters on the Death Star surface where
massless particles much smaller than neutrinios have
collided with the Death Star Surface at very high speeds.
The Imperial Cruiser flys arround the Death Star spraying
liquid metal alloy onto the Death Star Surface in several
layers. Powerful new deflector electromagnets are also mounted in
a circle arround the Death Star. Subspace particle deflectors
are also added.
Then the droids fly the Imperial cruiser back inside the Death Star
and arrive in the enjine rooms one at a time. The DEath Star
enjines are modified to greatly increase thrust and are retuned
to resonate at a higher harmonic of harmonic quauntum slipstream
operation. Then the intertial Dampers are fixed up and improved.
Then Death Star computers report a massive accelleration.
The Death Star Spacecraft is expected to more
than double its speed even
though automatic saftey protocols are stricter than before.
(Scene 11 Slater meets with Screech and Peter in CALU cafteteria
on Earth.)
SCREECH
The fall catalog has Windows programming in C in it even though
Windows no longer has a working c++ compiler!!
SLATER
When I told a computer science professor about using
bam10004.h header file to compile C Windows programs into
Linux he went onto the Internet and got it and scince
edelev17.c for Windows compiles onto Linux with it in
spite of its high complexity he e-mailed me later confirming
it does work and this will be a historic occasion for CALU.
Fall 2008 will be the first semester of using Linux c compiler
to compile Windows C programs onto Linux instead of genuine
Microsoft Windows. We still can use a genuine Microsoft
textbook for that course!!
PETER
I was very dissapointed when Microsoft discontinued Microsoft
Visual C++ 6.0 and Windows 98 SE. Microsoft Windows is not as
good now as it was in the past. C and C++ are the best high
level languages ever developed and c is fast enough for
graphics pixel programming.
It is also dissapointing that the CALU bookstore is unable or
unwilling to obtain Linux textbooks of any kind.
That bam10004.h header file will make Microsoft Windows textbooks
useful by enabling C Windows programs to be compiled onto Linux
for the first time in history.
SCREECH
Will that professor be dissapointed to find out that
only monochrome one-bit-per-pixel Windows bitmaps can be
displayed on Linux ??
SLATER
He already knows about that limitation. It is a big miricle
even to get monochrome Windows bitmaps to display on
Linux. The homework assignments will not require color.
(Scene 12 Hans Solo meets Luke Skywalker outside near
rebel base on Yabbans moon. X Wing airplanes are visible
in the background.
Luke Skywalker is crying.)
LUKE
Microsoft will soon be going out of business.
I saw a website where a group of Linux supporters
has a link to run the Microsoft Windows API on Linux
so Windows binary files will run with it on Linux.
HANS
Did that website have any documentation about the
Binary Microsoft Windows API for Assembler language
programming ?
LUKE
No it did not. I looked for it but it was not there.
HANS
Then the stuff on that website will NOT RUN
windows binary files. If they had done the
very difficult task of reverse engineering
the Windows binary Applications Programmer Interface
they certainly would have published assembler language
programming information including binary so assembler language
programmers could write code that will assemble
into *.exe files that will run on Windows
and their alleged imitator.
No Documentation means no working
Windows Imitator!!
LUKE
The website also had a claim of a library to compile
C source code for the Windows API onto Linux but when I
checked the C language documentation for
SetDIBitsToDevice it just said that that function
is not documented. Many functions said not
documented and I could not remember seeing documentation
about even C language programming.
HANS
Even though C programming is a lot easier to come up with
than Windows binary programming they still should have
published useful documentation for Windows programming
with their stuff if they want anybody to take the time
to install and use their stuff. Based on lack of documentation
I am declaring that is just a science fiction website
that advocates just a GOAL of compiling
Windows c programs to run on
Linux with the Linux C compiler and a proposed library that
did not initially exist. But that declared GOAL did inspire
someone else to come up with a majic header file called
bam10004.h to use to compile C programs written for
Microsoft Windows C language API onto Linux using the
Linux gcc c compiler.
I want you to understand that it draws only monochrome
one-bit-per-pixel drawings on the screen with Linux
so that genuine Microsoft Windows is still needed
FOR COLOR.
LUKE
Thank you very much for explaining that to me.
HANS
The real
bam10004.h only makes Linux executables with the
Linux c compiler. The Windows constants have the wrong
values. bam10004.h is for the c language only and
will NOT run Windows *.exe files under any
circumstances. bam10004.h includes documentation for
some of its its own functions within its comments
especially drawing functions that are not in
standard C header files.
LUKE
Will Microsoft still suffer from bam10004.h ?
HANS
Microsoft can be protected by passing an all volunteer
jury system in the state of Washington right away so
skilled workers and managers will be AT MICROSOFT
fixing Windows instead of wasting time on juries
while Windows deteriorates while untrained substitute
workers make serious mistakes in Windows.
After Windows is fixed tech support costs will go way down
quickly followed by the retail price going way down also.
LUKE
What else needs to be done to SAVE MICROSOFT WINDOWS??
HANS
Microsoft needs to abolish Windows activation and abolish
rented Windows and abolish all rented software.
Abolish temporary Windows.
Microsoft needs to reinstate an efficient C++ compiler
that is not too hard to install and use and find.
bam10004.h was very hard to make. a very powerful
computer had to calculate the values in the
array of constants that translates Linux raw keycodes
into Windows raw keycodes. Writing even the monochrome
version of SetDIBitsToDevice was very difficult.
bam10004.h never would have been created if Microsoft
would not have discontinued its Visual C++ 6.0 compiler.
Nobody likes csharp or vb.net
We want to write our programs in C or C++.
LUKE
Who else can help save Windows in addition to Microsoft??
HANS
Communnity colleges need to reinstate courses in C and C++
programming languages
and include graphics pixel programming instead of limiting
themselves to plain text output only.
Another thing is that communnity college employees need to keep
all motor vehicles including golf carts and motorized wheelchairs
IN THE STREET. If a pedestrian is hit by a vehicle outside
of the street and ends up in a wheelchair that angry pedestrian
might punish society by putting Microsoft out of business
by upgrading the Windows imitator header file for c programming
eventually to an unlimited amount.
LUKE
Can Microsoft really survive this crisis ??
HANS
Absolutley. Begin by lobbying politicians in Olympia to
pass a totally volunteer jury system in every court
in Washington State.
(Scene 13 - Screeches dorm room on Earth. Peter and Screech
and Slater are there. Screech points a TV camcorder at the
viewscreen and turns it on. Zack Morris and Mikey
then appear on that viewscreen.)
ZACK
I am President Zack Morris of this Death Star Spacecraft.
Mikey here is my vice president in charge of Data Processing.
When people are required to drive to a court that is far
from where they live to attend jury selection they sometimes
have fatal car accidents and become just as dead as
military draftees who died in Vietnam. Mandatory jury
duty is A DRAFT and even causes some drafted jurors
to die.
Mandatory jury duty also creates a hardship for
companies including Microsoft. Skilled workers and managers
are wasting important workdays in jury selection and
trials in courts that they are required to serve on juries
on instead of making and fixing Microsoft Windows.
As a result of constant repeated draftee jury summonses
Microsoft Windows is hopelessly BROKEN so severly
that tech support costs are sky high. Those high tech support
costs push up the price of Microsoft Windows far above
sustainable market value.
Soon 75% of all new computers will be using Linux
instead of Microsoft Windows. The new bam10004.h
header file enables monochrome C applications programs
written to compile on Microsoft Windows to instead
compile on Linux when bam10004.h is included instead
of windows.h
The remaining 25% of new computers that use genuine
Microsoft Windows for color or langauges other than C
are not providing Microsoft with enough income to
meet its payroll forever. Microsoft has probably already
come up with a downsizing plan including lists of
employees to lay off.
If Microsoft corporation wants to survive in the
future Microsoft lobbyists need to begin lobbying
legislators in Olympia to convert every court in
the state of Washington to use totally all volunteer
juries instead of continuing to draft anyone
into required jury duty.
Failure to make legislative progress in an all
volunteer jury system will soon put Microsoft
out of business!!!!
MIKEY
Even though our Windows to Linux c header file
is monochrome only now someone might upgrade it
to color in the future and assign an odd number
to the colored version. Hurry up and PASS
an all volunteer jury system NOW
if you want genuine Microsoft
Windows to continue to be available
in the future!!!!!
This Death Star Spacecraft is helping
Linux compete with Microsoft Windows.
(Scene 14 - Death Star. Zack has dream at night)
Particles are flying through the Death Star and
they draw lines that are faded and mainly transparant.
Hostile particles are smashed by the new sheilds or
deflected. The lines drawn through the Death Star
seem to be at a much higher energy level than before
for those types of particles
but they are from non-threatening massless particles.
Deflected particles passing by the Death Star induce
a brilliance much greater than before. Particles
hitting the sheilds way up front sometimes break into
many bright lines scattering in many directions.
Lines that actually pass through the Death Star
seem to be remarkably non-reactive and non-threatening.
(Scene 15 - Breakfast at Death Star Cafeteria)
ZACK
I had a dream last night about lines through this
Death Star being drawn by particles. But they seemed
non-threatening even though the imaginary portion
of the energy seemed greater than ever before
the real energy making particles seemed to be
more likely to be deflected more than ever before.
MIKEY
This Death Star Spacecraft is now safer than ever
before because of improved sheild and inertial damper
technology. Sheild Technology takes a lot of effort
to protect this target sillohette of 100 Miles in
diameter. At least we are in a sphere with greatest
volume to surface area ratio.
This Death Star Spacecraft is now flying more than
twice as fast as ever before. The upgraded harmonic
quantum slipstream enjines are now cruising at very
close to the theorectical maximum speed that a
spaceship of this large size can fly based on 32-bit
microprocessors.
--------------------------------------------
Internal Links section for THIS EPISODE
Monday June 23,2008
Death Star fires virtual warning shot at Microsoft
by giving way too much assistance to Linux .....
All Volunteer Jury system needed NOW.
Copyright C 2008 by Eric Matteson. Permission is granted to
copy the plain text version of this script and to publish
it on the Internet.
Non-profit uses including student films are also allowed.
Starring Mark Paul Goeselaar as Zack Morris (Death Star President)
Starring Max Battimo as Mikey Gonzales (Vice president in charge of
Data Proc)
Starring Dustin Diamond as Screech Powers.
Starring Mark Hammil as Luke Skywalker.
Written by Eric Matteson
Scene 1. (Screeches Dorm Room on Earth)
Peter Brady meets with Screech powers in his dorm room
at CALU in California.
PETER
Screech, Even though there are articles on the Internet
requesting an all volunteer jury system I have not yet
seen anything in the news about any legislative committee
beginning to work on changing jury duty to voluntary.
As soon as President George Bush finishes his term
the next president might sign at least an all male
military draft bill into law in Spring or summer of 2009.
Congresspeople might assume that voters are allowing them
to pass a military draft because voters in all 50 states
allegedly still tolerate required mandatory jury duty.
If voters are against being required to serve in the
U.S. military then at least one state should exist
where its voters also are against being required to
serve on juries!
SCREECH
I know that being drafted and hurt and killed
is very unfair but
what can I do about it??
PETER
I have heard that you have a powerful friend, Zack Morris,
whom you communicate with by subspace Internet e-mail
and he has a big round space ship that can destroy
an entire planet and has powerful computers.
SCREECH
The DEath Star spacecraft is nowhere near Earth and
is too far away to destroy Earth anytime soon. Even though
Earth will deserve to be destroyed if and when another
U.S. military draft is passed by congress it will be
many years before the Death Star Spacecraft will be
close enough to destroy Earth.
PETER
There is also a science fiction article on the Internet that
says that an organization of Linux supporters is planning on
putting a *.bz2 file on a website that will be downloaded
and give Linux the ability to run applications programs
that were written for Microsoft Windows. When this happens
that possibly free converter added onto free Linux will then
compete with Microsoft and literally put Microsoft out
of business by providing possibly a free replacement for
Microsoft Windows if their stuff even works.
SCREECH
As far as I know Microsoft has never published its binary
applications programming interface ( API ) for Microsoft
Windows. Reverse engineering Windows or disassembling
Windows applications would be very difficult or even impossible.
PETER
What about compiling Windows applications programs that were
written in C on the Linux c compiler gcc with a
proposed header file into a Linux runnable program ??
SCREECH
Linux XWindows is very different internally than Microsoft
Windows. The screen display is different logic numbers
handling of pixels. Even the raw KEYCODES are different.
Microsoft C might include some statements in addition to
regular c that have to be removed to compile on Linux but
with a LOT OF EFFORT it is probably possible to compile
Windows C programs into Linux with Linux gcc plus a
hard-to-make HEADER FILE and some fixing of code.
PETER
Even the science fiction website also had a section
about building their *.bz2 file from source after
uncompressing with its installer routine that
needs SEVEN HOURS to build it at 300 MHz.
It is supposed to be able to help compile
C programs written for Microsoft Windows after the
seven hour install.
I checked that science fiction websites C documentation
for SetDIBitsToDevice and it said that documentation
is not yet available.
SCREECH
Scince that science fiction website has no documentation
about writing c programs for Windows or any programs for
Microsoft Windows we have to assume that their stuff
has ZERO CHANCE OF WORKING !!!!
PETER
Could people use the Microsoft website for information
about how to write Windows programs in C for the
science fiction websites stuff ??
SCREECH
Only temporarily. Microsoft will eventually go out of business
anyway because of repeated mandatory jury duty seperates
skilled programmers and managers from developing and
fixing Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows has been
hopelessly BROKEN scince the loss of Windows 98 Second
Edition. Broken Windows and high tech support costs already
threaten the bottom line at Microsoft.
Instead of wasting SEVEN HOURS on trying to build
the gobeldegook from that science fiction website
send them an e-mail or posting DEMANDING FULL DOCUMENTATION
ABOUT C WINDOWS PROGRAMMING FOR THEIR LIBRARY.
Running Windows Binaries is THEORETICALLY IMPOSSIBLE
if they continue to lack written documentation about the binary
Windows Apllications Programmers Interface (API)
sufficient to write Assembley language applications
programs to run on Microsoft Windows!!
Challenge that website to come up with the written
documentation for applications programmers otherwise
their claim of being able to run Windows programs on Linux
is just an unbeleivable claim.
PETER
Screech, What can we do on our own ??
SCREECH
Current software technology does NOT ALLOW running binary
programs for Microsoft Windows on Linux because we do not
have any information about how to do it.
We might be able to compile c language programs
written for Microsoft Windows onto Linux using a
new header file that we will have to create ourselves.
PETER
I want Zack Morris to use DEATH STAR COMPUTERS to help
create that header file for c Windows programs!
SCREECH
I will call Zack Morris on the sub space viewscreen now.
( Scene 2 On board Death Star- ZAck and Mikey turn on their
viewscreen and Screech and Peter are at the other end.)
SCREECH
Zack, there is still no state legislature beginning to consider
an all volunteer jury system. Peter Brady beside me here is
afraid of being drafted by a new U.S. military draft in 2009.
ZACK
I am trapped out here between galaxies in intergalactic space.
what can I do about it ??
PETER
I saw a science fiction article on the Internet that
includes the theoretical possibility of creating a
MAJIC HEADER FILE that could be used to compile
C applications programs written for Microsoft Windows
into Linux XWindows runnable programs using the
Linux c compiler instead of a Microsoft Windows
c compiler and Windows.
If powerful Death Star computers could participate in
creating that proposed header file it could be used on
Linux so windows programming in c will then be done
on free Linux instead of expensive Windows. Then
Microsoft will be severly DOWNSIZED or even quit
business altogether. That will help prove that
your Death Star spacecraft IS REAL and an all
volunteer jury system MUST BE PASSED in order to
save Microsoft and to also save even Earth itself!!
SCREECH
When CALU changed from Windows 98 SE to Windows XP the
32-bit Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler was erased
and CALU installed an older 16-bit DOS Text only output
C++ compiler that supports plain text programming
only. I want my Windows C graphics programming back
even if I have to compile those Windows c programs
on Linux.
ZACK
Mikey, Is it possible to compile C programs written for
Microsoft Windows onto Linux with a proposed header file
on the standard Linux c compiler ??
MIKEY
It might become possible even though Linux XWindows
is initially very different from Microsoft Windows.
ZACK
Make it so, Mikey!!
(Screech hangs up and dissapears from the viewscreen.)
(Scene 3 Dinner on board the Death Star. Pumpkin pie
for dessert)
MIKEY
Both XWindows programs like edelev10.c for Linux and
Microsoft applications programs often use a subroutine
to convert raw keycodes into standard traditional
DOS ASCII application ready key values.
If the shift key is keyupped a shift indicator is
reset to 0.
If the shift key is keydowned a shift indicator
integer is set to 1.
if any other key is keydowned the converter subroutine
is called with the raw keycode and the most recent value
in the shift indicator variable and then those two things
are converted into a standard DOS ASCII key value.
If there are differences in translation results one
of the translation functions needs to be changed
so both will provide same DOS ASCII result.
ZACK
It sounds hard. Perhaps start by translating the Linux
Raw keycode first into the standard DOS key value
and then enter a loop with all 256 potential Windows
raw keycodes tried on the Windows translator and find
a match with the already existing Linux match and then the
loop counter value that made that match is the Windows
raw keycode for the Linux raw keycode.
That loop will create the INVERSE of the Windows
key translator function to recover the raw
Windows keycode that represents the same key as
the starting Linux keycode.
MIKEY
I want to extend this one step farther. Add on an outer
loop that will go through all 256 possible Linux XWindows
raw keycodes.
The translated value of the current outer loop counter
that represents Linux XWindows key values will be compared
in the inner loop with the translated
inner loop counter representing each
Microsoft Windows raw keycode. The outer loop counter is a
subscript and the inner loop counter value that causes
a match in both translations is the array
element value pointed to by that subscript.
ZACK
Make it so, Mikey!
(Scene 4. Two days later in Death Star control room.)
MIKEY
Zack, I have finished ltowkey.c program. That program ltowkey.c
creates a listing of an array that converts Linux XWindows
raw keycodes into Microsoft Windows 98 raw keycodes.
use
gcc ltowkey.c -o ltowkey.out
./ltowkey.out > bam.h
to make the two arrays in the new header file
bam.h
ZACK
TWO arrays ??
MIKEY
The other array is a bit flipper array that
reverses the order of bits within a byte because
Linux XWindows has its bits within a byte
in reverse order with respect to
Microsoft Windows.
We are now 75% finished with the difficult
creative portion of the Windows to Linux
header file. We have a keycode translator array
and that bitflipper array is half the code of
SetDIBitsToDevice subroutine that Microsoft
Windows uses to draw graphics GDI bitmap
DIB images on the screen.
ZACK
When you write SetDIBitsToDevice I want you to
only support one-bit-per-pixel monochrome
bitmap drawing so Microsoft will be able to
survive. If Microsoft goes out of business
then Linux might stop improving because of
no more Microsoft Windows to compete with!
MIKEY
That will make SetDIBitsToDevice even easier to
finish than I thought that it would be!
..
(Scene 5 A week later Screeches Dorm room
on Earth - Screech and Peter are there
Then Zack and Mikey appear on viewscreen.)
ZACK
Screech, I just e-mailed you a partially completed
header file. I called it bam.h
A powerful computer here on this Death Star Spacecraft
has created two arrays of constants. One of them is
the keycode converter array and the other array reverses
the order of bits within a byte for SetDIBitsToDevice.
MIKEY
I added in three subroutines. A subroutine to get an integer
value out of a backwards collection of bytes and
SetDIBitsToDevice with its 12 arguments that draws a
Windows 98 monochrome bitmap into an array while
using the reversing of order of bits within a byte
array and also drawing the picture upside down.
A Windows bitmap image has lines whose widths are multiples
of 32 bits AND a Linux XWindows compatible array
has lines that are multiples of 8 pixels wide. Both
arrays are sent up to the next whole multiple if not
already whole. SetDIBitsToDevice is a highly complex
drawing function.
Then I wrote EndPaint that draws that array
created by SetDIBitsToDevice onto the
screen.
The difficult part that requires creativity is already done.
Even an unskilled programmer can finish this header file.
ZACK
Screech, you are hereby ordered to finish that header
file!
PETER
I will help screech finish it.
(Scene 6 - Screech and Peter are in the CALU library on Earth with
stacks of books about Windows programming and C programming.
SCREECH
Photocopy The Windows Constants that I have written in this
list and also function descriptions and data structures.
(Peter takes several books with placeholders over to the
photocopier. Screech takes coins out of a small bag
and puts them into the photocopier. They keep
flipping pages in the books and they keep the photocopier
busy for a while.)
(Screech and Peter leave the library with a stack
of photocopies.)
(Scene 7 - Screeches Dorm room on Earth)
SCREECH
We have two example programs edelev17.c text editor and
dfrview2.c DIB bitmap file picture viewer program.
These programs were written in C for Microsoft Windows.
Do I have to change RECT statements into
struct RECT ??
In the C++ book we have
struct cptime
{
int hours;
int minutes;
double seconds;
};
struct cptime rhms;
PETER
No! There is a second version of structure
declarations that is not covered in C++ class textbook.
We are using the other struct....
typedef struct
{
long left;
long top;
long right;
long bottom;
}RECT;
The type of structure RECT appears at
the BOTTOM instead of the top in addition
to adding in the typedef
so instead of declaring
struct RECT windrect;
we use
RECT windrect;
just like Microsoft Windows!!
SCREECH
It was very unfair for our C++ textbook to omit
normal Microsoft Windows format for structure
declarations!!!!!
In WinMain declaration do we have to take some
extra non-C stuff out ??
PETER
WE can use
#define CALLBACK
#define WINAPI
to set those extra terms to blanks
so
int WINAPI WINMAIN(HINSTANCE arg1,HISTANCE arg2,LPSTR arg3.int arg4)
becomes
int WINMAIN(HINSTANCE arg1,HINSTANCE arg2,LPSTR arg3,int arg4)
to the compiler.
AND
LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND Hwnd,UINT Event,WPARAM Wparam,LPARAM
Lparam)
becomes
LRESULT WndProc(HWND Hwnd,UINT Event,WPARAM Wparam,LPARAM Lparam)
which is much easier to compile WITHOUT
having to actually change the Windows C source code!!
Microsoft might have added extra stuff to declarations
to prevent non-Microsoft C compilers from compiling
Windows programs but we will compile them
anyway with Linux!!
We do have to change the one statement
#include <windows.h>
to
#include "bam10004.h"
in both edelev17.c and dfrview2.c to get them to
compile on Linux.
SCREECH
Why not bam.h that Zack sent to us ??
PETER
I am renaming it bam10004.h so we can make more than one
version if needed.
( Scene 8 Two weeks later at CALU computer lab on Earth - Screech
and Mikey are at a Linux computer. 3/4 of all computers
at CALU have been converted from Microsoft Windows
to Linux so the State of California can save money
without raising student fees at CALU in 2008.)
SCREECH
I emailed the completed bam10004.h header file and the two
Windows example programs to Zack Morris yesterday.
Suppose we have a subdirectory
dir
bam10004.h edelev17.c dfrview2.c
Now lets compile them
gcc -Wall edelev17.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -o edelev17.out
gcc -Wall dfrview2.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -o dfrview2.out
then
dir
bam10004.h edelev17.c edelev17.out dfrview2.c dfrview2.out
Now lets run them.
./edelev17.out
then the text editor starts. Even though it is a Windows
program it runs on Linux using bam10004.h instead of
windows.h
using esc twice quits the text editor.
Then screech copies some Windows paintbrush bitmap dib files
onto the hard drive from a thumbdrive.
./dfrview2.out winbroke.bmp
Then a set of four windows
appears in that picture. Three of them are broken.
PETER
What does that picture mean ??
SCREECH
75% of all windows applications programs can be displayed
correctly on one-bit-per-pixel monochrome
without grayscale.
Only 25% of applications programs need color display
capability beyond one bit per pixel. Those programs still
need genuine Microsoft Windows so Windows should still be
bought for one out of every four new computers while
most computers only need free Linux plus the free
bam10004.h header file to compile most c programs that
were written for Microsoft Windows.
(Scene 9 -- Death Star dining room)
ZACK
I got an e-mail from Screech and Peter with the
attached files bam10004.h edelev17.c dfrview2.c
and I found that bam10004.h includes documentation
about C Windows functions so bam10004.h really can
be used to compile c windows programs onto Linux
when bam10004.h is included instead of windows.h
and edelev17.c text editor for Windows and
dfrview2.c bitmap picture viewer program are important
example programs that are used in addition to
the documentation within bam10004,h to help figure out
how to write c language applications programs for
Microsoft Windows then actually compile them on Linux!
Both example c programs written for Windows sucessfully
compiled onto Linux using the new bam10004.h special
Windows to Linux header file!!
MIKEY
This means that traditional common Microsoft c language TEXTBOOKS
about Windows API programming in c can be used to
help develop c graphics pixel programs that will
be compiled onto Linux without needing an actual Linux
textbook !!
(Scene 10 Droids come pick up empty plates. Death Star.)
Mikey and zack load new floppies into the droids. The
success of compiling Microsoft Windows C programming onto
Linux with bam10004.h has inspired Zack and Mikey to come
up with a plan to improve Death Star sheilds.)
After the droids read and return the floppy disks they head for
the Imperial Cruiser bay. The droids get in a Imperial cruiser
and take it outside the Death Star. TV cameras with the droids
show many small craters on the Death Star surface where
massless particles much smaller than neutrinios have
collided with the Death Star Surface at very high speeds.
The Imperial Cruiser flys arround the Death Star spraying
liquid metal alloy onto the Death Star Surface in several
layers. Powerful new deflector electromagnets are also mounted in
a circle arround the Death Star. Subspace particle deflectors
are also added.
Then the droids fly the Imperial cruiser back inside the Death Star
and arrive in the enjine rooms one at a time. The DEath Star
enjines are modified to greatly increase thrust and are retuned
to resonate at a higher harmonic of harmonic quauntum slipstream
operation. Then the intertial Dampers are fixed up and improved.
Then Death Star computers report a massive accelleration.
The Death Star Spacecraft is expected to more
than double its speed even
though automatic saftey protocols are stricter than before.
(Scene 11 Slater meets with Screech and Peter in CALU cafteteria
on Earth.)
SCREECH
The fall catalog has Windows programming in C in it even though
Windows no longer has a working c++ compiler!!
SLATER
When I told a computer science professor about using
bam10004.h header file to compile C Windows programs into
Linux he went onto the Internet and got it and scince
edelev17.c for Windows compiles onto Linux with it in
spite of its high complexity he e-mailed me later confirming
it does work and this will be a historic occasion for CALU.
Fall 2008 will be the first semester of using Linux c compiler
to compile Windows C programs onto Linux instead of genuine
Microsoft Windows. We still can use a genuine Microsoft
textbook for that course!!
PETER
I was very dissapointed when Microsoft discontinued Microsoft
Visual C++ 6.0 and Windows 98 SE. Microsoft Windows is not as
good now as it was in the past. C and C++ are the best high
level languages ever developed and c is fast enough for
graphics pixel programming.
It is also dissapointing that the CALU bookstore is unable or
unwilling to obtain Linux textbooks of any kind.
That bam10004.h header file will make Microsoft Windows textbooks
useful by enabling C Windows programs to be compiled onto Linux
for the first time in history.
SCREECH
Will that professor be dissapointed to find out that
only monochrome one-bit-per-pixel Windows bitmaps can be
displayed on Linux ??
SLATER
He already knows about that limitation. It is a big miricle
even to get monochrome Windows bitmaps to display on
Linux. The homework assignments will not require color.
(Scene 12 Hans Solo meets Luke Skywalker outside near
rebel base on Yabbans moon. X Wing airplanes are visible
in the background.
Luke Skywalker is crying.)
LUKE
Microsoft will soon be going out of business.
I saw a website where a group of Linux supporters
has a link to run the Microsoft Windows API on Linux
so Windows binary files will run with it on Linux.
HANS
Did that website have any documentation about the
Binary Microsoft Windows API for Assembler language
programming ?
LUKE
No it did not. I looked for it but it was not there.
HANS
Then the stuff on that website will NOT RUN
windows binary files. If they had done the
very difficult task of reverse engineering
the Windows binary Applications Programmer Interface
they certainly would have published assembler language
programming information including binary so assembler language
programmers could write code that will assemble
into *.exe files that will run on Windows
and their alleged imitator.
No Documentation means no working
Windows Imitator!!
LUKE
The website also had a claim of a library to compile
C source code for the Windows API onto Linux but when I
checked the C language documentation for
SetDIBitsToDevice it just said that that function
is not documented. Many functions said not
documented and I could not remember seeing documentation
about even C language programming.
HANS
Even though C programming is a lot easier to come up with
than Windows binary programming they still should have
published useful documentation for Windows programming
with their stuff if they want anybody to take the time
to install and use their stuff. Based on lack of documentation
I am declaring that is just a science fiction website
that advocates just a GOAL of compiling
Windows c programs to run on
Linux with the Linux C compiler and a proposed library that
did not initially exist. But that declared GOAL did inspire
someone else to come up with a majic header file called
bam10004.h to use to compile C programs written for
Microsoft Windows C language API onto Linux using the
Linux gcc c compiler.
I want you to understand that it draws only monochrome
one-bit-per-pixel drawings on the screen with Linux
so that genuine Microsoft Windows is still needed
FOR COLOR.
LUKE
Thank you very much for explaining that to me.
HANS
The real
bam10004.h only makes Linux executables with the
Linux c compiler. The Windows constants have the wrong
values. bam10004.h is for the c language only and
will NOT run Windows *.exe files under any
circumstances. bam10004.h includes documentation for
some of its its own functions within its comments
especially drawing functions that are not in
standard C header files.
LUKE
Will Microsoft still suffer from bam10004.h ?
HANS
Microsoft can be protected by passing an all volunteer
jury system in the state of Washington right away so
skilled workers and managers will be AT MICROSOFT
fixing Windows instead of wasting time on juries
while Windows deteriorates while untrained substitute
workers make serious mistakes in Windows.
After Windows is fixed tech support costs will go way down
quickly followed by the retail price going way down also.
LUKE
What else needs to be done to SAVE MICROSOFT WINDOWS??
HANS
Microsoft needs to abolish Windows activation and abolish
rented Windows and abolish all rented software.
Abolish temporary Windows.
Microsoft needs to reinstate an efficient C++ compiler
that is not too hard to install and use and find.
bam10004.h was very hard to make. a very powerful
computer had to calculate the values in the
array of constants that translates Linux raw keycodes
into Windows raw keycodes. Writing even the monochrome
version of SetDIBitsToDevice was very difficult.
bam10004.h never would have been created if Microsoft
would not have discontinued its Visual C++ 6.0 compiler.
Nobody likes csharp or vb.net
We want to write our programs in C or C++.
LUKE
Who else can help save Windows in addition to Microsoft??
HANS
Communnity colleges need to reinstate courses in C and C++
programming languages
and include graphics pixel programming instead of limiting
themselves to plain text output only.
Another thing is that communnity college employees need to keep
all motor vehicles including golf carts and motorized wheelchairs
IN THE STREET. If a pedestrian is hit by a vehicle outside
of the street and ends up in a wheelchair that angry pedestrian
might punish society by putting Microsoft out of business
by upgrading the Windows imitator header file for c programming
eventually to an unlimited amount.
LUKE
Can Microsoft really survive this crisis ??
HANS
Absolutley. Begin by lobbying politicians in Olympia to
pass a totally volunteer jury system in every court
in Washington State.
(Scene 13 - Screeches dorm room on Earth. Peter and Screech
and Slater are there. Screech points a TV camcorder at the
viewscreen and turns it on. Zack Morris and Mikey
then appear on that viewscreen.)
ZACK
I am President Zack Morris of this Death Star Spacecraft.
Mikey here is my vice president in charge of Data Processing.
When people are required to drive to a court that is far
from where they live to attend jury selection they sometimes
have fatal car accidents and become just as dead as
military draftees who died in Vietnam. Mandatory jury
duty is A DRAFT and even causes some drafted jurors
to die.
Mandatory jury duty also creates a hardship for
companies including Microsoft. Skilled workers and managers
are wasting important workdays in jury selection and
trials in courts that they are required to serve on juries
on instead of making and fixing Microsoft Windows.
As a result of constant repeated draftee jury summonses
Microsoft Windows is hopelessly BROKEN so severly
that tech support costs are sky high. Those high tech support
costs push up the price of Microsoft Windows far above
sustainable market value.
Soon 75% of all new computers will be using Linux
instead of Microsoft Windows. The new bam10004.h
header file enables monochrome C applications programs
written to compile on Microsoft Windows to instead
compile on Linux when bam10004.h is included instead
of windows.h
The remaining 25% of new computers that use genuine
Microsoft Windows for color or langauges other than C
are not providing Microsoft with enough income to
meet its payroll forever. Microsoft has probably already
come up with a downsizing plan including lists of
employees to lay off.
If Microsoft corporation wants to survive in the
future Microsoft lobbyists need to begin lobbying
legislators in Olympia to convert every court in
the state of Washington to use totally all volunteer
juries instead of continuing to draft anyone
into required jury duty.
Failure to make legislative progress in an all
volunteer jury system will soon put Microsoft
out of business!!!!
MIKEY
Even though our Windows to Linux c header file
is monochrome only now someone might upgrade it
to color in the future and assign an odd number
to the colored version. Hurry up and PASS
an all volunteer jury system NOW
if you want genuine Microsoft
Windows to continue to be available
in the future!!!!!
This Death Star Spacecraft is helping
Linux compete with Microsoft Windows.
(Scene 14 - Death Star. Zack has dream at night)
Particles are flying through the Death Star and
they draw lines that are faded and mainly transparant.
Hostile particles are smashed by the new sheilds or
deflected. The lines drawn through the Death Star
seem to be at a much higher energy level than before
for those types of particles
but they are from non-threatening massless particles.
Deflected particles passing by the Death Star induce
a brilliance much greater than before. Particles
hitting the sheilds way up front sometimes break into
many bright lines scattering in many directions.
Lines that actually pass through the Death Star
seem to be remarkably non-reactive and non-threatening.
(Scene 15 - Breakfast at Death Star Cafeteria)
ZACK
I had a dream last night about lines through this
Death Star being drawn by particles. But they seemed
non-threatening even though the imaginary portion
of the energy seemed greater than ever before
the real energy making particles seemed to be
more likely to be deflected more than ever before.
MIKEY
This Death Star Spacecraft is now safer than ever
before because of improved sheild and inertial damper
technology. Sheild Technology takes a lot of effort
to protect this target sillohette of 100 Miles in
diameter. At least we are in a sphere with greatest
volume to surface area ratio.
This Death Star Spacecraft is now flying more than
twice as fast as ever before. The upgraded harmonic
quantum slipstream enjines are now cruising at very
close to the theorectical maximum speed that a
spaceship of this large size can fly based on 32-bit
microprocessors.
--------------------------------------------
Internal Links section for THIS EPISODE
link to ltowkey.c program that was already run on Death Star computer
to create raw keycode translation array from Linux to Windows
raw keycode.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/msg/6895350fedd60823?dmode=source&hl=en&
Link to bam10004.h header file that enables C programs
written for Microsoft Windows to compile into Linux.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/msg/c88561bac88d2be2?dmode=source&hl=en&
link to edelev17.c text editor program almost for Windows
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/msg/7e6b80673520fd3e?dmode=source&hl=en&
link to dfrview2.c picture viewer program for monochrome Windows
imitator.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/msg/41661741abe6e028?dmode=source&hl=en&
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
External links section to link to previous scripts
Link to 7th-Heaven episode when Mack wants to save Microsoft Windows
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv/msg/30ac79cca132ea1d?&hl=en
Link to previous Star Wars Saved By The Bell episode
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.starwars/msg/b958f1fcd4c102df?&hl=en
This episode of Star Wars ( Saved By The Bell ) is written by Eric
Matteson.
0 new messages