Umm... what about Temple of Ra on the early Macs, and Dungeon Master on the Amiga? Maybe ToR was the first graphic, 1st-person "3d" dungeon crawl? And DM used sound incredible effectively - I remember staying up late, and being positively creeped out when I *knew* a purple worm was around a corner.. and I could hear it getting nearer.. and I knew I was trapped..
For that matter, what about all those insane Amiga games from Psygnosis/Psyclapse like Shadow of the Beast, Killing Game Show, Stryx, etc. Or, one of my favorites, David Braben's Virus (AFAIK, the first 3D 3rd-person shooter/flightsim with real physics), or his later Elite, which spawned an entire genre of space combat/exploration/trading games. At least he got Dune II right. Anyone ever play Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess? OK, so it was basically a puzzle game, but it had the hottest cover chick of 1989, and in what other game do you get to be accompanied by a little talking, floating foetus? It's all coming back to me now...:) how about Archipelagos? Populous and Powermonger? Midwinter? endless fun...
WTF! WHERE'S LEMMINGS? We sold a billllion of those, BITD.
I still play a lot of the old Amiga games, plus Diablo, Diablo II, BFME2, NWN, Tachyon, Outpost, et al., plus some of the browser games like Pardus and Urbandead (which is great because you can only play for ~5 minutes a day so you never get yelled at, too much).
AFAIK, it sounds like someone mixed up vintage, important, and best-selling somewhere along the way. Games like GTA are really boring to me. Maybe it's all the shiite. Maybe it's because "the more you drive, the less intelligent you are". Maybe I should read the book;)
Heya. Despite the rumors, it's not true that Amiga software dev has stopped dead. And even if it were true, that doesn't mean that all the existing software stops working, right? (like what some people seemed to think would happen when CBM went belly-up.) AFAICT, most of those old apps are still working fine.. several are working for me right now:)
It would be somewhat ironic if we came full circle to end up with a collection of "custom" CPUs, each specially suited for particular tasks, all cooperating to perform some higher function.
JM must be shaking his head and smiling, somewhere.
If the roads were smart (yes, a big IF), the car/road would do some quick calculations involving the weight/power of your vehicle and the section of road you were about to be driving on and the other cars around you, and just not let you do anything stupid/dangerous (NASCAR tracks would obviously use a less strict equation).
Even better, if I could get in my car, say "work", and nap for 15 minutes while it drove me there by itself...
DRM on the other hand, as it appears to be evolving, is about as consumer-friendly as BMI/ASCAP coming down on the little coffeshop across the road because one of the unpaid local musicians performing at their weekly open mic night *might* perform a song by a registered artist who has been tricked into believing that BMI/ASCAP is actually looking out for the artists and isn't an obsolete 1930s juggernaut empowered by the US government, collecting money from artists and "violators" alike, yet rarely ever doing anything for artists unless they are considered "worthy" of remuneration (already in *The Machine*).
Maybe the "artists" have such bad hearing that they can't tell the difference between their original multitrack recordings and some crappy mp3 floating around. Maybe people content to listen to crappy mp3s deserve to get the music for free. If John publishes his own music on the web, and I like it, and John wants $1/song for high-quality digital versions, I'll probably buy some songs, and might give one to a friend so that they can decide whether or not to pay $1/song. But if John demands that I buy all of his songs at $2/song, and warns me that if I share any of these songs I'll be sent to Guantanamo, I will laugh at John (I know John, so I can do that and get away with it).
Me? I give everything away for free cause it's my life someday I will die and if I want to be remembered the more people who hear me the better. Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law. Jam The Web!
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Umm... what about Temple of Ra on the early Macs, and Dungeon Master on the Amiga? Maybe ToR was the first graphic, 1st-person "3d" dungeon crawl? And DM used sound incredible effectively - I remember staying up late, and being positively creeped out when I *knew* a purple worm was around a corner.. and I could hear it getting nearer.. and I knew I was trapped.. For that matter, what about all those insane Amiga games from Psygnosis/Psyclapse like Shadow of the Beast, Killing Game Show, Stryx, etc. Or, one of my favorites, David Braben's Virus (AFAIK, the first 3D 3rd-person shooter/flightsim with real physics), or his later Elite, which spawned an entire genre of space combat/exploration/trading games. At least he got Dune II right. Anyone ever play Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess? OK, so it was basically a puzzle game, but it had the hottest cover chick of 1989, and in what other game do you get to be accompanied by a little talking, floating foetus? It's all coming back to me now... :) how about Archipelagos? Populous and Powermonger? Midwinter? endless fun...
WTF! WHERE'S LEMMINGS? We sold a billllion of those, BITD.
I still play a lot of the old Amiga games, plus Diablo, Diablo II, BFME2, NWN, Tachyon, Outpost, et al., plus some of the browser games like Pardus and Urbandead (which is great because you can only play for ~5 minutes a day so you never get yelled at, too much).
AFAIK, it sounds like someone mixed up vintage, important, and best-selling somewhere along the way. Games like GTA are really boring to me. Maybe it's all the shiite. Maybe it's because "the more you drive, the less intelligent you are". Maybe I should read the book ;)
..Sassenrathianism :)
Heya. Despite the rumors, it's not true that Amiga software dev has stopped dead. And even if it were true, that doesn't mean that all the existing software stops working, right? (like what some people seemed to think would happen when CBM went belly-up.) AFAICT, most of those old apps are still working fine.. several are working for me right now :)
It would be somewhat ironic if we came full circle to end up with a collection of "custom" CPUs, each specially suited for particular tasks, all cooperating to perform some higher function.
JM must be shaking his head and smiling, somewhere.
Tired, just feel like blithering...
If the roads were smart (yes, a big IF), the car/road would do some quick calculations involving the weight/power of your vehicle and the section of road you were about to be driving on and the other cars around you, and just not let you do anything stupid/dangerous (NASCAR tracks would obviously use a less strict equation).
Even better, if I could get in my car, say "work", and nap for 15 minutes while it drove me there by itself...
DRM on the other hand, as it appears to be evolving, is about as consumer-friendly as BMI/ASCAP coming down on the little coffeshop across the road because one of the unpaid local musicians performing at their weekly open mic night *might* perform a song by a registered artist who has been tricked into believing that BMI/ASCAP is actually looking out for the artists and isn't an obsolete 1930s juggernaut empowered by the US government, collecting money from artists and "violators" alike, yet rarely ever doing anything for artists unless they are considered "worthy" of remuneration (already in *The Machine*).
Maybe the "artists" have such bad hearing that they can't tell the difference between their original multitrack recordings and some crappy mp3 floating around. Maybe people content to listen to crappy mp3s deserve to get the music for free. If John publishes his own music on the web, and I like it, and John wants $1/song for high-quality digital versions, I'll probably buy some songs, and might give one to a friend so that they can decide whether or not to pay $1/song. But if John demands that I buy all of his songs at $2/song, and warns me that if I share any of these songs I'll be sent to Guantanamo, I will laugh at John (I know John, so I can do that and get away with it).
Me? I give everything away for free cause it's my life someday I will die and if I want to be remembered the more people who hear me the better. Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law. Jam The Web!
(thanks for reading me)