Wow!, I guess authorities must get up to date with video games. I wonder how many copies of these games are still sold. Even en Brazil this games are really oldies. The measure seems to match the age of the games: really outdated. At least that leaves us about 4 years of Q3 to play before they ban it.
Yeah, I know, "Real men don't use preinstalled things", but have you ever thought about how many people want to *get things done* instead of tweaking a system to its limits? IMHO SuSE includes everything you'll ever need to get things done, and with YaST you get an easy (and complete, as opposed to linuxconf) way to administer your system. And if you are going to tweak your system, you are free to install/uninstall/upgrade whatever you need or want, both distros *are Linux* you know?
I admit that their motherboards are well, crappy. But try to imagine this scenario: I am poor student here in Mexico, and I need my own computer badly. What should I do? Of course I go and buy the cheapest motherboard I find, if it has integrated things even better. Now, with this motherboard comes a CD with Linux, and Wordperfect, so instead of "borrowing" WinXX I install it and start playing around, after some time I may even like it, and I can carry the CD wherever I go, and never be called a "pirate". Remember, this is the thir world... few T1 connections, no easy way of finding the latest distros (not for free at least). And belive me, there are a LOT of PC Chips motherboards around here
Oh yes... CGA Hi-Res is 640x200, it was kinda fun to watch such really tall pixels, i remember doing some math and using graph paper to keep the proportions in my bitmaps Hercules Hi-Res was 720x350, and the ROM that contained the patterns for the characters in Text Mode could be changed, to obtain APL chars for example (using fonts the hard way). I don't know if the original could do it, but I had an "Hercules-Compatible" card that had TWO pages for Hi-Res, and you could flip between them those were happy times...
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Wow!, I guess authorities must get up to date with video games.
I wonder how many copies of these games are still sold. Even en Brazil this games are really oldies.
The measure seems to match the age of the games: really outdated.
At least that leaves us about 4 years of Q3 to play before they ban it.
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Yeah, I know, "Real men don't use preinstalled things", but have you ever thought about how many people want to *get things done* instead of tweaking a system to its limits?
IMHO SuSE includes everything you'll ever need to get things done, and with YaST you get an easy (and complete, as opposed to linuxconf) way to administer your system. And if you are going to tweak your system, you are free to install/uninstall/upgrade whatever you need or want, both distros *are Linux* you know?
I admit that their motherboards are well, crappy.
But try to imagine this scenario:
I am poor student here in Mexico, and I need my own computer badly. What should I do?
Of course I go and buy the cheapest motherboard I find, if it has integrated things even better.
Now, with this motherboard comes a CD with Linux, and Wordperfect, so instead of "borrowing" WinXX I install it and start playing around, after some time I may even like it, and I can carry the CD wherever I go, and never be called a "pirate".
Remember, this is the thir world... few T1 connections, no easy way of finding the latest distros (not for free at least).
And belive me, there are a LOT of PC Chips motherboards around here
Just trying another point of view
Oh yes... CGA Hi-Res is 640x200, it was kinda fun to watch such really tall pixels, i remember doing some math and using graph paper to keep the proportions in my bitmaps Hercules Hi-Res was 720x350, and the ROM that contained the patterns for the characters in Text Mode could be changed, to obtain APL chars for example (using fonts the hard way). I don't know if the original could do it, but I had an "Hercules-Compatible" card that had TWO pages for Hi-Res, and you could flip between them those were happy times...