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Oh, absolutely. Although a lot more of his life is filled up with his extending managerie (Watch out for that axe Eugene!).

Check him out on The Grunting Ox.

No kidding. Look at the freak. Fucking hippies.

Were I buying a DVD today, I'd almost certainly go for a Samsung Extiva N2000, primarily because it comes with Jeff Minter's Virtual Light Machine, and can play his Tempest 3000. Plus, of course, Samsung have a long history of making DVD players that are easily converted to being region free (via a remote -- no need to take the machine apart).

Apparently these guys sell some tape that does that. The RX7 spy car guy detailed his car with the stuff. Looks freaky cool.

If I don't bork up the html, take a look at Jeff's page. There some screens of his latest stuff. It's not been updated too recently though...

I never rated the original myself. For some reason, it just didn't have the appeal of other games at the time. Now Llamatron, on the other hand, had me hooked for ages. Strange...

BTW, any one know what happened to the C64 great programmers? Jeff Minter, Andrew Braybrook, Shaun Southern, Archer Maclean?

Well, I know Jeff Minter's webpage is at http://myweb.magicnet.net/~yak/
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Email address is real.

I'll admit, *I* thought NUON was dead... until I checked out YaK's recent homepage update. Vapourware, it is not... although I'm vaguely worried about the size of that Red Bull mountain. :)

Yea, there's a lot of little (and not so little) inaccuracies in the article. Here's a quick laundry list.

In the early '90s, Sega's Genesis and Nintendo's SNES shared the market after crushing the Atari Lynx

The atari lynx was a handheld system competing with the game boy and game gear. They're different markets... It's like saying the sega genesis trounced the amiga in marketshare in the early 90's...

Playstation can display no more than a few hundred polygons on the screen at one time; if you try to do more, you get jerky action.

Give me a break. The playstation isn't that weak! The specs from sony say 300k polys. 60k is probably more realistic in game.

But rumor has it that the X-Box will incorporate nVidia's GeForce 256 chip -- the most powerful graphics processing hardware yet developed on the personal computer side

Consumer graphics processor. Wow! Geometry transformation in the graphics subsytem! What an innovation!

o far, the only Net-playable game is Sonic Adventure

What aspect of Sonic adventure is net-playable? Yea, I heard it comes with a browser or something, but it's not online multiplayer. There isn't a online multiplayer game out for the dreamcast yet.

Of course, it remains to be proven that console gamers want to play online at all; previous attempts to get them to do so (Sega's Saturn NetLink, Catapult's X-Band for the Sega Genesis and SNES, the Sega Channel and Sony's Net Yaroze)

The net yaroze (despite having the word net in the name of the product) had NOTHING to do with online multiplayer. It was a hobbyist development kit. Very nifty actually, but also pricy at ~$700. And the tools were crippled. Well, at least they tried.

So far, only one -- Power Stone -- has gotten glowing reviews

Ok, the guy is on crack. Power stone!?!? Namco's Soul Caliber was generally considered the Must Buy for the system at launch. Ready 2 Rumble and Sonic adventure were also praised highly by more than a few reviewers.

Secondly, PC games are invariably designed for keyboard and mouse. Some games (notably first-person shooters) are easily adaptable to a console controller

Ok, this isn't strictly an innacuracy, but the idea of playing Quake X on a control pad will make any hardcore fps player laugh out loud.


Of course read any piece of journalism touching on a topic you know a good deal about and you'll probably notice the same kind of innacuracies. The moral of the story: Don't belive everything you read.

On a completely seperate note, what ever happened to Nuon (aka project X). I realize it is subject to the Curse of Minter but it was/is the most revolutionary (no polys!) of the next generation stuff....

I'm currently working on converting this to PDF format, so that it can be printed and bound. If you would like to know when I finish and where to find it, send me an email.

If any of you want something changed in the PDF version of it, let me know.

Hey Berky,

I used to have the same exact problem, you have a couple solutions at hand:

1) Hunt down the settings for Accelerated X, and if you see "PCI retries" or "PCI retry" anywhere, disable it.

2) Alternatively, you can switch to XFree86, which has PCI retries on Matrox cards disabled by default. The performance of the Matrox XFree86 driver is very good, too.

Please feel free to email me at muaddib@magicnet.net so we can get this fixed.

If you haven't tried this before (or in a while), please do: run Powerpoint 97 using Wine. It holds up remarkably well at first, especially considering how big of a program it is. If you get a black box showing up on the screen, open a blank page in powerpoint then click on the box to get rid of it.

For those of you who want to see what it looks like (under KDE), check this image out. The command line to do this is "wine -managed powerpnt.exe".

My only complaint is that 990103 (and possibly earlier ones as well) managed to kill Skyglobe for Windows support.