Re:Obsolescence - with new improved extra oldness!
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Dot.Com.CEO
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· Score: 2, Informative
Germany was Atari ST territory. Some of the best software for the 68k architecture was made there including Callamus (sp?), an amazing dtp program, the fastest text editor I have EVER seen, Tempus, and of course Alladin's Mac Classic emulators that ran Mac software FASTER than Macs. Amigas were amazing machines as well, and yes, when I moved to England (1993 I think) I remember seeing Amigas much more than I did STs. The ST had a big presence in the continent...
-- Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
Re:Obsolescence - with new improved extra oldness!
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Goldberg's+Pants
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· Score: 2, Informative
I went from the Sinclair Spectrum to the Amiga. My friends went from the C64 to the Amiga. I was the last of my friends to abandon the Amiga (a move I've regretted ever since, but it lives on in the new awesome WinUAE which runs full tilt on my machine for the first time).
The fact is, it took Doom and Heretic to make us switch, yet looking back, the Amiga scene was far less of a creative vacuum than the PC. I've been revisiting old games on the emulator and the Amiga was such a great little machine. Check out some of the old demos and you see graphical tricks that I doubt even the most up to date PC's could pull off. Those custom chips were marvelous, and the system was ahead of it's time.
Too bad Commodore fucked it up with their marketing:(
Re:DC emulator
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Shakey_Jake33
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· Score: 2, Informative
Chankast does not actually run host homebrew titles yet.
The main issue is that most homebrew titles use a homebrew OS called KallistOS (that way there's no issue of legality). As of yet, Chankast seems to only run games using the official Sega 'Katana' OS. The emulator is also incompatible with commercial WinCE-based games.
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They obviously don't get the whole point of open source, then...
And what guarantee do we have that they will "eventually" open the source?
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
It's called Zany Golf
It hasn't been mention in /. before, so [....]
Quite wrong.
Germany was Atari ST territory. Some of the best software for the 68k architecture was made there including Callamus (sp?), an amazing dtp program, the fastest text editor I have EVER seen, Tempus, and of course Alladin's Mac Classic emulators that ran Mac software FASTER than Macs. Amigas were amazing machines as well, and yes, when I moved to England (1993 I think) I remember seeing Amigas much more than I did STs. The ST had a big presence in the continent...
Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
I went from the Sinclair Spectrum to the Amiga. My friends went from the C64 to the Amiga. I was the last of my friends to abandon the Amiga (a move I've regretted ever since, but it lives on in the new awesome WinUAE which runs full tilt on my machine for the first time).
The fact is, it took Doom and Heretic to make us switch, yet looking back, the Amiga scene was far less of a creative vacuum than the PC. I've been revisiting old games on the emulator and the Amiga was such a great little machine. Check out some of the old demos and you see graphical tricks that I doubt even the most up to date PC's could pull off. Those custom chips were marvelous, and the system was ahead of it's time.
Too bad Commodore fucked it up with their marketing:(
Chankast does not actually run host homebrew titles yet.
The main issue is that most homebrew titles use a homebrew OS called KallistOS (that way there's no issue of legality).
As of yet, Chankast seems to only run games using the official Sega 'Katana' OS.
The emulator is also incompatible with commercial WinCE-based games.