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2 Scoops of Quickies
Ed Bailey wrote in to
say that the Linux-7K project to get Linux on the Psion has
started
Bearing Fruit
Fict sent in a link to
LinuxApps which recently
got a recamp. Looks strangely familiar
GVeloper wrote
in to say that
gdev has been revamped (to
use Slash) as well as containing some comments about
glide and
glade possibly merging.
Lincoln sent
us a link to a CG short parody of the politics of sfx
which will be of interest to Star Wars fans. my copy of
xanim won't play it, but several people told me it's really
excellent.
freejack wrote in to
say that the Star Tribune rated Slashdot in
top sites
for geek gossip mongers. Whatever that means.
Shave sent in a link to
Jerry Pournelle's
web site a where he talks about Refund Day and Slashdot
(and neither in particularly cheerful terms)
And finally, for the gamers out there,
mgix sent a link
to a N64 Emulator
that can do Zelda64. That game has been a staple in the Geekhouse
for weeks now. Addictive.
Well, I've never been to that site before, and after today, I'll never knowingly go there again. ;-) What a poorly organized website!
Sorry, must be buried somewhere unobvious. This is
like the umpteenth broken link lately. I vote for
testing prior to release. Thanks.
Sorry Rob, but the Star Tribune is the worst newspaper in America. It's too bad Slashdot's good name is being associated with those worthless liars at the Star Tribune.
How would you get the ROM to your computer to play on the EMU? What kind of hardware would be needed?
I read his column starting 'way back when (maybe even the late Seventies or early Eighties). Yes, my first computer was a Commodore Pet. Jerry's column was usually informative, but with a large ratio of noise. Most of the noise was him promoting himself and his pet causes (various citizen space projects). Kinda like the "People Magazine" section of what was a great magazine.
... it had become a clone of PCWeek etc. In my opinion, the best Byte contributor was Steve Ciarcia.
The last few years of Byte were pretty bad
The best comment I ever heard regarding Pournelle was many many years ago on BIX (anyone remember that?) just after he got kicked off of his own forum. Someone said, and this is a loose quote because it's been a while, "Jerry Pournelle is so overwhelmingly incompetent that he couldn't wipe his own [butt] without calling up the president of Charmin personally, convincing him to fly out in person, bringing a hand-written manual done up just for Jerry and his own personal butt-wiping technician."
Well, I used to be bigger in the emulation "scene" (if you can call it that) and came across a couple of N64 years back when it was first released. Trying one of those real old ROM images, it works perfectly! Execpt for the 3Dfx trying to smooth the sprites, it looks perfect. It's a little slow on my P200, but the requirements call for a P2, so I'm not too worried. It's fast enough.
I've only tried Mario 64 thus far, and *yes*, I do own the cartridge.
...that anyone managed to find this article on Pournelle's site and forward notice of it to slashdot. That has to be the worst site I've attempted to negotiate this month, and that's after a harrowing attempt to gather a few simple statistics from some Federal database-driven nightmare.
Now I'd love to be proved wrong... But there is no way an N64 emulator of that quality can appear overnight w/o notice. Meethinks its bullshit.
-jeff Gondek gondek.1@osu.edu
I just had a grad course in operating systems. Every week, one of us would present an operating system and talk about its technical merits and failings. One person--who seemed to be an NT advocate--told us that it was common procedure where he worked to reboot every six weeks, and reinstall every six months. And he said it with a straigt face.
I'm not sure, but I don't think an OS which slowly corrupts itself to the point that you are forced to reinstall it every six months will be showing up in Webster's under "stable" any time soon.
Perhaps they're comparing it to 3.1 and 95? They couldn't really be comparing it to Solaris or Linux, I think.
--
Patrick Doyle
doylep@ecf.toronto.edu
It's been here awhile and it works.
The webpage was fine a few minutes ago, dunno
what happened, probably too many lamers asking
for ROMs and shit
I think it smells a little funny....
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/VIEW/view33.html#Wed nesday
I thought so too, but it is DEFINITELY real. It's a little choppy on my PII 266 voodoo2 but it's still amazing. I tried Mario 64 (I own it) and it was smooth about 60% of the time. Sweet :) There is something to be said for not releasing something until it's playable..
Well, since we already have about 20 windows CD's from previous computers which are no longer in possession, I don't think this will be a huge problem :)
Gack!! I forgot how truly stupid JP really is...
"Which brings us to another Chaos Manor onion: to the "energy savers" like Nader who have
dictated all kinds of silly "green" software that doesn't do what it is supposed to do, and often
costs a great deal more energy in wear and tear on systems. It may or may not be a large energy
saving to put the monitor on standby - my UPS system doesn't notice the change in load when
the monitor is on from when it's 'asleep' - but it certainly doesn't save power to power down
disks and motors. The CPU in your system doesn't use much energy, and you don't dare turn off
the fans, which use more than everything else put together."
Say WHAT!, the fans use more power than the CPU??
What sort of inhalants is he on? Remind me to to use any of them.
My roommate is playing zelda64, after getting tired of mario64. Its for real, however, many games don't work very well. And before you waste any time trying it, it does NOT work with the Glide->D3D wrapper. Now I wish I got the 3dfx instead of the TNT.
Oh, excuse me, I guess there is GnuCash for those of us with money, and a bunch of assorted twiddles for those of us who do science. I suppose any time I need a full-fledged app I can write it in the free C-compiler, right? And when I'm done in 2004, I can finish my project? Stupid dickhead. Nt is light years past Linux.
You know, in another couple of years we will have constructed an effective anti-missile defense. Around South Korea. And Israel. But no, not America, which is reachable by Chinese ICBM's, among other missiles.
If the value and accuracy of your this posting reflects the accuracy of your judgement in general, then that makes you a considerable dumbass.
I think they probably got
1) a nasty letter from a lawyer somewhere
2) lots and lots of email asking for roms
so
3) they quit and took it down
Damn it, MEEEPT!!, where are you? Come out, MEEEEPT!!.
Of course it's not perfect, but it never gives me a bit of trouble.
Shlong. Shlongmeister. Mister "Shlong" Palomar. Palomar is Pounelle's weenie!
He is the shlong, o the big Pournelle shlong is he! Palomar!
Is he/she kidding? No, I don't think so. I find it interesting that I have been running my business and doing my own personal non-trivial computing activities for the past five years with this thing you call a "toy". Kidding? No. Are you intentionally trolling, or just stupid?
Have a look around his Site.
He's got 4 Pages on himself installing LINUX.
I found this quite educational how to rant and
generally behave like a diapered kid.
uwe-klein@foni.ommit.net
Even though the homepage is down, the file is still out there. I've just downloaded the it, but can't try it until I get home to my P2-450 Banshee baby.
/.'ing :-)
Do a search for ultrahle.zip, and then for rom
files. I'm not posting links for fear of
them
AndyJ.
"toy on the desktop..."
Heh, I like that phrase. I have lots of toys on my desktop: games, Lotus Notes, VC++, PowerPoint, and others
When I do real work I log into a unix box.
Still looking. God, what an ugly, disorganized, amateurish-looking web site. And there's a pay portion?
Nothing is better than reading peoples comments about this guy pournell, or however you spell his name. I remember a paridy done of his column, and that was about the funniest thing I have read. I almost died laughing. If nothing else, this guy is fun to make fun of.
The biggest problem with Byte (RIP) was Jerry "Help me
the mouse is too hard to learn" Pournell. This guy is a
consistant moron who gripes endlessly (when he isn't
harping his latest piece of trash fiction). He and Dvorak
should get together and start their own magazine....here's
a working title for ya Jerry, how about "Windoze Whiner"
mag?
And if you're reading this Jerry: WINDOZE WINDOZE
WINDOZE WINDOZE WINDOZE WINDOZE WINDOZE.
Sheesh, our NT servers need to be rebooted almost
on a weekly basis. NT continually corrupts itself just acting
as a file server...shudder, thank god our NFS servers
don't suffer from this kind of 'technology'.
If Jerry "oooh computers are so difficult" Pournell thinks
NT is stable then he obviously doesn't use it for anything
taxing, nor does he try and keep it up and running for
any great lengths of time. I've seen NT boxes sitting IDLE
that need to be rebooted after a week or so as they corrupt
themselves doing NOTHING AT ALL. Pournell is an
idiot, plain and simple.
I use both Linux and NT, and NT4sp3 has almost *never* bluescreened me or crashed. I use it in preference to Windows95 for gaming. My machine stays up for months, and I don't remember it ever really blue screening. If yours does, it may be buggy device drivers.
I'm not an NT advocate, I just prefer it for gaming and Java development. (glide and opengl games run very nice)
My NT box was also never hacked in it.
However, My Redhat5.1 systems got hacked into twice because of various buffer overflow bugs present. Those baby's are firewalled and upgraded now, but of course, I have to waste time watching bugalerts to be safe.
Linux zealots are blind to the flaws in their own OS, but overhype to flaws in others. NT stability and security are attacked ferociously, at the same time, instabilities, and security holes in Linux quietly get fixed and don't raise the ire of
I've worked at both an ISP and large Corporation where there are lots of Unix and NT servers everywhere... NT may be stable under daily desktop use for many(mine's definately not at work, 2 reboots a day, a bluescreen a month, but I'm not a normal user either) but put it in a server(multiuser) situation where it needs to be used fairly heavily and relied upon, and NONE of the NT servers can remain stable, they all require regular reboots and almost every one has held someone hostage overnite trying to get it fixed.
:)
The Unix boxes have NEVER been a problem, except for when we lost a power suply in one, but you can't blame unix for that
It's all a matter of which kind of experience is more common, and I'm willing to bet that my experience is far more common than yours, but that doesn't mean that there aren't (a few) others like you which is fine...
Sure...!!! Post your address, and we'll see how secure NT is. I'll snap my fingers and your NT house of cards will fall. If NT is so secure I DARE YOU TO PROVE IT.
it was so wierd reading his stuff...i remember when he was a cp/m and 8" drive holdout for years, viewing M$ as untrustworthy for real data, etc.
.jpg of a ATM machine crashing under windoze.
and his writings always seem to reflect a rather anti-power/pro individual slant.
yet here is is, anti-linux and pro-microsoft. strange.
but he did post the GREAT email from his Israeli friend, plus the hilarious
Probably shouldn't read too much into his MS support, given the last two items.
Sincerely,
A Very Penitent Dingleberry
Sincerely,
A Very Penitent Anonymous Wanker
Seems like a lot of those gobs of Windows software choices are
utilities for deinstalling, fixing your registry, doing backups, or
recovering your hard drive.
I'm always amused when I see this stuff, selling for $50 a pop,
knowing that it's either unneeded or freely available for Linux.
Pournelle seems quite interested in Linux and a glance at his site shows that he has posted quite a lot that is positive about his Linux experience.
He's (very rightly) not impressed by a lot of the adolescent bullshit on slashdot.
You missed the point entirely. The other parts of the system are interchangeable because they all have full driver support for Windows. The same cannot be said for Linux, especially for hardware that has been on the market for less than six months. That same hardware drives the sales of new systems in the consumer end that is more concerned with flash and thunder than reliability. The same same lack of drivers has often kept NT off these same machines, along with any number of proprietary OSes. Even Microsoft is up against the wall on this issue.
He used to be interesting, but he's written the same column for 15+ years now, and it's gotten very tiresome. And this is a guy who manages to use his GPS and laptop to tell him where he managed to roll his SUV in Death Valley. Gads. I use the same combo, but I think I'll not drive quite so fast.
...phil
"For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
Posted by OGL:
> as well as containing some comments about glide
> and glade possibly merging
heh, that's what we need...a GTK interface builder merging with a 3D API =)
-W.W.
Posted by Jeremy Witt:
MpegTv can play it where xanim failed..
the link is www.mpegtv.com (I think)
Warning: They have some crazy closed license thing for it... (Linux Shareware? What the heck is that?)
JWitt
Loved "The Mote in God's Eye." Hate his MS-Bootlicking attitude. At one point, he describes a complete fiasco with the registry on one machine-- talks about how it took him a day to fix it. Yet he goes on and defends the quality of Microsoft's work? I don't get it.
Secondly, concerning the refund:
Don't most states have lemon laws? Like, if you buy a product that has defects, the manufacturer is responsible? Couldn't that be used against Microsoft? Even after the package is opened, once you start losing work and the computer crashes-- once all this happens, the product is obviously defective. Invoke the lemon law, if your state has one that covers software (it doesn't have to cover software explicitly).
Just a thought. As usual, I am not a lawyer, and would kill anyone who accussed me of being one. So my advice is worse than useless-- it's probably wrong. Standard disclaimers apply.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
Here's a free clue, Jerry: WE DON'T CARE. We don't care if Microsoft ships a pile of rubbish as Windows 2000, because we have a better way: Open Source.
You have no real evidence that people are going to pirate Windows and ask for the refund; few would go through the hassle of dealing with the OEMs and Microsoft for a measly $50-$100 if they didn't really believe in what they were doing.
People are asking for their refund because it's The Right Thing to Do. PC buyers shouldn't have to pay for what they don't want.
Agreed on the sequel, but they've done other good stuff (I dug Lucifers Hammer...)
I'd noticed a couple days ago that the site had been updated.. Just saw how good the improvements had been today. The categories on the left which allow you to expand/collapse just rock. :)
:)
Regarding its similarities to freshmeat, I think linuxapps.com has always been the more complete of the two, with freshmeat mostly geared toward actively developed and new stuff, w/ user reviews.
Freshmeat's email-notification of version changes and the new interface rock, too, imho.
Pournelle indeed does have a point, and that is why, in the Bay Area effort, we will verify in advance that all participants are absolutely legitimate. Other organised refund efforts have been, and are, strongly encouraged to do likewise.
Rick Moenrick@hugin.imat.com
What are you babbling about?
The comment was about stability. MS has pretensions of taking over the server market with NT, but they have a long way to go to achieve the stability of unixen. Linux has plenty of server side apps, and is approaching a decent selection on the client side.
have you ever had to reinstall and it was blatently nothing you did?
Ever heard of a company called Corel...
Do you expect me to pay any attention after you just called someone "penis"???
The sequel wasn't that bad...
Both of the have fairly average books for the industry IMHO.
Has anyone else not been able to get into gDEV
And a great SF writer when he's teamed up with Larry Niven. I know fiction writing is supposed to be much harder than non-fiction, but he'd have contributed a lot more to society if he had dropped the computer article gig ten years ago and put just a tenth of those words into novel form.
I do like several Niven/Pournelle team books (esp. Lucifer's Hammer) better than what either of them has written alone, but Pournelle isn't a bad writer even alone. I just finished reading through his Falkenberg novels, and while they aren't exactly bleeding-heart-liberal, they aren't bad writing or ultraconservative propaganda either.
/. postings on the shuttle - the political failures again far outweighed the technical ones.
As for Reagan, I'm not at all disappointed with the results of his right-wing foreign policies - there are reasons we have one Germany and zero Soviet Unions today, and he was one of them. I'm much less happy with the $2 trillion in debt piled up during his administration, the tax cut and broken economic theory that boosted it, and the inept handling of the air traffic controller strike...
And as for Star Wars, well, hit User Info and see my older
Subject says it all. Niven wears the talent pants in their little "family".
For those of you who don't want to go mucking around in that guy's website trying to find the article that mentions /., go here; it's near the bottom of the page. Not that much about it, just that he doesn't give much credibility to /. posters because they use words like "Windoze," and that he doesn't think Refund Day is all that big because most of the people stating they're going to participate in it have probably booted their computers to Win95/98 at least once.
-mike kania
Compare these two writers, both in a similar situation, having left the warm fuzzy confines of major magazines.
Mr. Katz, in writing on slashdot, becomes a part of the Internet community. He explores exciting new technologies like Linux. Showing himself to be openminded and excited about the things he writes about.
While Mr. Pournelle retreats to Chaos Manor, anticipates people will pay to read his column, in which he revisits all those IRQ clashes, OS crashes -- the reasons most of us left the windows world -- and then has the gall to reiterate tired rhetoric about the Reagan era!
Thinking about the comparison, I don't feel half bad about Katz writing on slashdot.
Jerry is either a very poor web designer or is paying one far too much.
Still, a browse through the available corpus of Linux Advocacy information would do many slashdotters a considerable amount of good.
Terms like "Windoze", besides sounding very stupid around the third time, won't win many hearts.
Since Pournelle charges a subscription for access to part of his site, perhaps that other "professional writer" Jon Katz could be a "subscription only" part of Slashdot.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Think what you will about Jerry (I know I do), but one portion of his brief missive on the subject is extremely important. Jerry believes that some people will use Refund Day as a way to screw MS out of some money while still using Windoze [sic] on their machines.
This must not happen.
If it does happen, you can bet that the Microsoft FUD Factory will play it to the hilt. "Linux Advocates Indicted for Software Piracy," is what the headlines will say.
Please, please, please don't do this. Do not "return" copies of Windows you are still using. Truly, the meager sum you receive is not worth the potential negative impact to the community. Don't do it.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
hah! he reckons NT is "pretty doggone stable" - obviously he doesn't use it for anything more stressful than typing into FrontPage.
It's called 'd0ze' because it's for ppl like him...
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
He says Dell et all standardize on M$ because that's commodities rule, yet doesn't comprehend that just about everything *except* the OS is interchangeable - disk drives, monitors, sound cards, even the bloody processor to an extent. ONLY M$ has a lock on their particular piece of the pie.
He says Linux sucks because you have to recompile to use a different sound card. Duh. No you don't, if you compile all of them, which is what M$ does. Is he so lame as to think that M$ has a single solitary sound driver which can deal with every sound card out there? I don't expect him to know about modules, and changing drivers without rebooting, but this is really pathetic.
If this is what Pournelle thinks of as intelligent reasons for M$ success and Linux failure, then there is nothing to fear for free source fans. These nuts have blinders on AND have their head buried somewhere dark. You must know your enemy to defeat him, and obviously M$ supporters don't.
Like that idiotic PC Week interview where the moron says Linux could have kept the copyright to Linux and been a millionaire by now. Duh!
--
Infuriate left and right
Has it been slashdotted into oblivion already?
The link in the article doesn't seem to work. However, this should take you there. Note that right after the announcement of it's release is an announcement that it's being DISCONTINUED. Prolly Nintendo being understandably upset. Still available for d/l now, though.
So, where can I get a device to make rom images, or where are the specs so I can build one?
-Erik
Blah. Horrible web site! I couldn't find anything on it. And people sent him money? What the hell for, it's utter crap. That site is enough to make you dyslexic.
;)
He's one of those people who thinks that he gets instant credibility because he's published stuff in mainstream press (i.e. books). Remind anyone of a certain other slashdot irregular?
BTW he does write decent SF (and I'm quite picky about SF). Check out his Mote series...quite decent. Lucifer's Hammer is ok too, if a bit pulpy. Footfall is also a good read.
JB
After reading The Mote is God's Eye, I thought he must be a pretty cool dude. After reading his comments on this topic (well, after finding them, his site is crap), I must conclude that Niven wrote the whole damn thing.
What an asshole.
Ringworld kicked ass
The emu "Scene" has become nothing more than snot-nosed 14-year-olds wanting to play games for free. they could care less about the effort put into the emulators, I've seen TONS of letters from people literally pissed at the authors for not having certain games working. I mean, the people are doing this for free, and the kiddies want more. they're not happy with what they have... (oh my god, I'm sounding like my father.)
I own a n64, I own Zelda, and SMB64, and Banjo Kazooie, and when I order my ROM copier tomorrow (email me and ask me where I'm getting it, and for how much), I'll be almost ready to get these games up. I'm the type of people that are being affected the most by the lamers with their "plz g1v m3 r0mz" crap.
heh. I wonder how terribly bad they run on a p133 (if at all). if they don't work, I'll bring my backup system and emu to my friend's house and see what an overclocked celeron can do to it.
oh, and if anyone emails me asking me for roms, I'll put a hex on them and their families.
Pournelle hasn't been relevant in years. The last time I read him was at least five years ago; I see he hasn't acquired a single clue since then.
JT
So what? Even if they did that, where would it get them? What evidence would they have that linux users are any more prone to pirating software than the average joe? How would the actions of a handful of people have any bearing on the moral character of millions of linux users?
They may as well say that linux users are communists, or witches, or heretics... it'd be pointless...
The only thing that MS could do if there was evidence of piracy is use that as an argument to refuse people their refunds. However:
1. MS would find it difficult to actually prove piracy is taking place.
2. Even if they could, that doesn't mean everyone who seeks a refund is guilty of piracy.
3. MS still has to comply with its own EULA.
Furthermore, since when does MS need evidence to spread FUD?? If they really wanted to, they'd do it regardless.
Pournelle may have a point, but it's irrelevant. The issue is not about MS being ripped off by pirates, it's about Linux users being ripped off by MS. There will always be pirates - that's no reason to refuse a refund to linuxers.
Speaking of Open Source, I almost fell over in my chair a couple of weeks ago when a sales rep told me that they used Ghostscript in their (wickedly expensive but wicked fast) printers because it was open source.
In trying to track down a problem, their programmers have looked at the output and are working on a fix. Try that with Adobe. Not.
So, if any of you are looking for high-volume printers with immense duty cycles (repeat after me: a million pages a month), and some cool people (from my limited experience), look at:
http://www.ati-usa.com/
_Deirdre
Actually, aside from the subtly derisive intent behind using a spelling like "Windoze" to refer to Microsoft's OS(s), there is a really sound reason as well--this particular term at least helps distinguish to computing newcomers between Windows9x/NT and the concept of windows for a GUI. I've seen too many instances of people pointing at the Mac's GUI (for one example) and saying that it somehow "immitates" Windoze; I've seen X on Linux refered to on distrib boxes as a "Windows95 clone." Not that I have any particularly fanatical liking for Apple, though I do think their OS is superior in general to anything from Microsoft (NT 4 Workstation wins by a hair for stability but loses overall to MacOS 8.x for basic user-friendliness and general app performance), but the fact is I started working on computers the year before the Mac first appeared and I've been working recently on a book on the history of personal computing, and so I have some idea of who did what (in Microsoft's case you can add "to whom") and when, and where exactly all this nifty stuff comes from. So it angers me when people say Gnome is "just like Windows," because they are basically starting off on the wrong foot in their interpretation of what they see. Anyway it may be a subtle distinction but I think it's an important one. I've also seen the spelling Windoze thrown around in print-chatty Brit PC mags a lot.
/.ers regularly employ which make them look childish. "Microsucks," "Winbloat," etc., etc. While this may give people a pretty clear picture of what someone's opinion of Microsoft or its products is, it's basically ill-humored and on a level with the standard copy one used to find in the pages of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine (anybody remember that beloved old rag?) or junior high-school playground blather. I understand though how pissed people can get when it's Microsoft-in-your-face every day.
I do however want to add that there are numerous other terms that
Yeah. Kinda weird. Exactly what the hell was that all about?
Yeah. I think I'll submit it to webpagesthatsuck.com. Be surprised if it hasn't been already, though.
I just got an e-mail from Vic Flanders after I submitted jerrypournelle.com to him. He says "I'll be using this one for sure."
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/sucker.html
Check out
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/sucker.html
Charming. I see you actually created a /. profile just for this occassion. I guess the dig about "anonymous cowardice" earlier got to you . . . .
What a poorly organized website!
Agreed! At least Truth in Advertising made him call it "Chaos". It seems like he's using M$ Word 97 Save as Html to just barf out whatever's on the top of his head. Bleh!
He used FrontPage to pump that stuff out. yuck!
The animation was spectacular, but unfortunately it wasn't funny. Downhill from the opening sequence: "20th Century Sux".
Emunews is carrying the announcement and mirroring the emulator. Download it here.
'New N64 Emu Plays Commercial ROMs! A major new emulator has debuted. The world's first Nintendo 64 emulator that actually plays commercial games! Epsilon and RealityMan are the authors behind this masterpiece. Called UltraHLE, this one's for Windows 95. It requires at least PII 300 and a 3dfx graphics card
"UltraHLE gives PC owners the first chance ever to run commercially available Nintendo 64 games (rom
images). The current aim of UltraHLE is not to run as many games as possible, it is to run some of the best titles as well as possible (e.g. Super Mario 64, Zelda: Ocarina of Time etc)."'
At least Pournelle has a _constructive_ attitude.
Damn! The n64 emulator needs a voodoo2.
-matt
So where do we dl the emulator? Maybe someone should help this guy port it to Linux...I would...but Im to to shabby when It comes to programmin :P Anyway I want a dl link and a link to the n64 roms!
Natas
Natas of
-=Pedophagia=-
http://www.mp3.com/pedophagia
Also Admin of
http://loki.linuxgames.com
Hear Hear! Pournelle's columns have, historically, been full of mis-information and dreck. For example, in the particular column he posts this month on his site (that slams Linux, by the way) he makes the assertion that you cannot use a Palm III in an old-stlye PalmPilot dock. Funny, mine works fine. The only problem is you have to give the Palm III a light "push" (rather than just dropping it in) to make sure the little I/O door gets pushed aside. Other than that, it works fine. It sits in my old cradle, and syncs on demand.
Fool.
IT is real !!! :)
gee, this humble pie tastes great
I have just been enjoying a game of mario64
it does not run (well) om a k6200 or p200
but it is fine on a pII333
DAMM GOOD JOB !!
You know guys, I've been waiting for this all my life long... A N64 emu... Now why the hell wouldn't Zelda64 work for me??
I remember reading Pournelle's Chaos Manor when
he started it. He always was getting fast new
machines from the manufacturers (who wanted him
to write about their machines) and writing about
all the problems he had setting them up and just
generally getting a big hard-on about how fast they were.
At the time I was envious because it seemed like every week somebody sent him a machine that was even faster. I quit reading byte and picked one
up again several years later and Pournelle is still doing the same thing. He keeps getting new machines and pulling his hair out trying to get everything working the way he wants it to. I would have gotten tired of that after about one month.
But anyway, no matter how much trouble Pournelle has with anything, I am not sure if the manufacuterers will send him new stuff to "review" unless he heaps praise upon it.
http://www.crispypix.com
CrispyPix enhances images right in your browser!
I've seen this a couple of times from you, Rob. You probably need to recompile xanim with the extra (non-free but zero-dollar) codecs:
- Radius Cinepak
- Intel Indeo 3.x
- Creative Technology's CYUV
This may be a problem if you're strict about only running free software, but it really improves compatibility.One wonders if it would be legal just to buy the games and play them on the PC then...
We'll see how Sony treats the VGS, and whether a raftload of Mac users add significantly to their user base.
On the other hand, Nintendo, or any other game company for that matter, would do well by hiring these two guys quick! Heck, even without N64 emulation, these guys could now release a Glide Game Spec/API close to but not the same for N64, the way MESA is close to, but not exactly GL, and in the process, cause every person with a Voodoo card to lose countless hours in sleep and productivity =)
Score one for the programmers here!
-Twinkie
Linux on the Psion, now we are really cookin'. /. effect.
Pity the ftp server appears to be suffering a minor stroke due to the
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