Occasionally they show completely hogwash operating systems and web-design such as the webpages in "The Net" - they take what makes computer things recognisable and then put together their own.
There was this show on TV by saban (i forget what it was called, but it basically sucked) which was your basic 'giant transforming good guy vs giant monster in city' fare, only the fights happened inside cyberspace. I only bring it up because whenever they shwoed the computer itself at all they always had it so it could be VERY clearly seen that it was a Compaq. So much in fact, I beleive they actually *sharpened* the image of the word so it's more noticable on screen.
Write a classic game or simple program for something that is for something completely different. ---- Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
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I heard a while ago the reason was that he wanted a regular, largish number, looked out the window, thought "Forty two" and that was that.
Here's a quote from Douglas Adams, On god, By the way: "I don't beleive there is a God. I don't say 'I dont beleive in God' because that implies there is a God for me not to beleive in."
He said it on a TV interview on the canadian Space Channel, during a special called "Originals from Space"
A good portion of the stuff is done server side now, so it's much much much harder, if not impossible to use a trainer of any use,. ---- Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
Whos to say we wont end up a society like Star Trek, where if they find out you've been geneticly engineered you're court martialled. ---- Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
Sims would work excellently in open source- because physics tweaks could be made by all the code masters out there who think that plane X needs 20% more friction, or somesuch.
"Look at the MAME and console emulators - mind you, that genre is a bad example, since I would imagine you'd get your ass sued if you even tried to make money:) "
Some interesting points: Tiberian Sun-----I think mods were available before the game was. An interesting thing about this was that there was at least one mod that put in some new units, and then Westwood suddenly came up with all sorts of amazing original ideas for their expansion pack- direct copies of that mod. Basically it was the last straw for the mod developers, who called it quits then... since TS was like Daiktana is now, a very 'split' market of people who think it sucks and those who think it's the bes thing since the knife they use to slice the bread.
While this is a small list to be sure, one of the things to remember is that when these games first came out, THEY DID NOT SUCK!!! Vanilla Quake 3 isn't much more than an engine with some flashy guns, to tell the truth. There's just not enough acutal 'substance' - but it's the most amazing engine out there right now making it prime for Modmakers. I remember an article on PlanetQuake how QIII is more of a development environment than a game- and the acual game is provided mostly just stock art and coding examples.
If the above mentioned REAL games had bad mechanics, they would have failed. And should have. TO put this in another angle, you could say that the reason that an open sourced horrible game isn't going to succeed because nobody is going to play the game long enough to give a crap about coding for it. ---- Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
you make it so Game Version X only can authenticate with Game Version X... however a server might be running Game Version Y which all the cahracters glow- only people using that cheat will be able to play. ---- Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
You almost allways have to take tried and true gameplay mechanics, but there are always points where they innovate. Vampire has the storyteller mode. Half-Life had a story. Halo has the realisation of a huge physics-run world. Homeworld took the RTS genre and gave it a whole new feel- RTS without *terrain*!? Are they mad? It worked. ---- Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
The 2D adventure game is very close to being completely dead, unfortunately. With Sierra and Lucasarts sticking their games in 3D engines, it's just being sold out to the graphics card makers. ---- Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
The games of today *are* the use and extrapolation of ideas past. Half-Life, for instance, was a groundbreaking game- but it's based on the gameplay mechanics of quake. Which was based on DooM. Which was based on Wolfenstein.
The fact remains gaming is a visual form of media. A web browser, a word processor, those can get a way with having minimal interfaces- but with gaming the graphics are all the visual feedback you have and also act as the interface.
And certian games, like Half-Life, really benifit from having good graphics to help the immersion factor.
In the oriignal trilogy, 1 was the 'regular' film, 2 was the 'dark' film, and 3 was the 'happy' film. In the new, iot's supposed to be 'happy' then 'regular' then 3 will be the 'dark' film with all the empire-taking-over and dark-side stuff.
"I'm only carrying so much fuel. I can only go so high, and when I run out of fuel, I'll come back down."
I don't doubt that for a second- Gravity helps immensely here. But the question is, will it help too much? ---- Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
BTW, multi-processor, (Strong)ARM-based boards are also being worked upon by companies such as Simtec ; given the average power needs of an ARM processor and the low FPU based needs of a server, this is an interesting alternative (though I am not sure these are out yet). ---- Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
They aren't replacing Yahoo with Google searches as some people think, they're probably replacing the 'search engine' portion of yahoo (once powered by AltaVista, in fact) that comes up if you explicitly ask for it or automatically if the regular yahoo search yeilds no hits.
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"Jurrasic Parc" reminded me of "Jurrasic Sparc"
and don't forget the Game Episode of X-Files. They used a dos window.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
Occasionally they show completely hogwash operating systems and web-design such as the webpages in "The Net" - they take what makes computer things recognisable and then put together their own.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
There was this show on TV by saban (i forget what it was called, but it basically sucked) which was your basic 'giant transforming good guy vs giant monster in city' fare, only the fights happened inside cyberspace. I only bring it up because whenever they shwoed the computer itself at all they always had it so it could be VERY clearly seen that it was a Compaq. So much in fact, I beleive they actually *sharpened* the image of the word so it's more noticable on screen.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
Write a classic game or simple program for something that is for something completely different.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
I heard a while ago the reason was that he wanted a regular, largish number, looked out the window, thought "Forty two" and that was that.
Here's a quote from Douglas Adams, On god, By the way:
"I don't beleive there is a God. I don't say 'I dont beleive in God' because that implies there is a God for me not to beleive in."
He said it on a TV interview on the canadian Space Channel, during a special called "Originals from Space"
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
The collectors edition comes with a DVD of the ingame cinematics and a copy of the AD&D Diablo rulebook (which you can buy seperately)
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
A good portion of the stuff is done server side now, so it's much much much harder, if not impossible to use a trainer of any use,.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
Hello Boys and Girls! Do you know what time it is?
That's right! It's FRANKINSTEIN TIME!
Kids: YAAAAAAY!!!
The phrase of the day si.. "FIRE BAD!"
Can you say "FIRE BAD!" boys and girls?
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
Whos to say we wont end up a society like Star Trek, where if they find out you've been geneticly engineered you're court martialled.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
Sims would work excellently in open source- because physics tweaks could be made by all the code masters out there who think that plane X needs 20% more friction, or somesuch.
:) "
"Look at the MAME and console emulators - mind you, that genre is a bad example, since I would imagine you'd get your ass sued if you even tried to make money
tell that to Bleem!
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
Some interesting points:
Tiberian Sun-----I think mods were available before the game was.
An interesting thing about this was that there was at least one mod that put in some new units, and then Westwood suddenly came up with all sorts of amazing original ideas for their expansion pack- direct copies of that mod. Basically it was the last straw for the mod developers, who called it quits then... since TS was like Daiktana is now, a very 'split' market of people who think it sucks and those who think it's the bes thing since the knife they use to slice the bread.
While this is a small list to be sure, one of the things to remember is that when these games first came out, THEY DID NOT SUCK!!! Vanilla Quake 3 isn't much more than an engine with some flashy guns, to tell the truth. There's just not enough acutal 'substance' - but it's the most amazing engine out there right now making it prime for Modmakers. I remember an article on PlanetQuake how QIII is more of a development environment than a game- and the acual game is provided mostly just stock art and coding examples.
If the above mentioned REAL games had bad mechanics, they would have failed. And should have.
TO put this in another angle, you could say that the reason that an open sourced horrible game isn't going to succeed because nobody is going to play the game long enough to give a crap about coding for it.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
you make it so Game Version X only can authenticate with Game Version X... however a server might be running Game Version Y which all the cahracters glow- only people using that cheat will be able to play.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
UF is never terribly funny. Terrible, maybe. Plus, for a linux comic, it's pretty close to Microsoft mentality.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
You almost allways have to take tried and true gameplay mechanics, but there are always points where they innovate. Vampire has the storyteller mode. Half-Life had a story. Halo has the realisation of a huge physics-run world. Homeworld took the RTS genre and gave it a whole new feel- RTS without *terrain*!? Are they mad? It worked.
----
Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
The 2D adventure game is very close to being completely dead, unfortunately. With Sierra and Lucasarts sticking their games in 3D engines, it's just being sold out to the graphics card makers.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
The games of today *are* the use and extrapolation of ideas past. Half-Life, for instance, was a groundbreaking game- but it's based on the gameplay mechanics of quake. Which was based on DooM. Which was based on Wolfenstein.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
The fact remains gaming is a visual form of media. A web browser, a word processor, those can get a way with having minimal interfaces- but with gaming the graphics are all the visual feedback you have and also act as the interface.
And certian games, like Half-Life, really benifit from having good graphics to help the immersion factor.
----
Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
In the oriignal trilogy, 1 was the 'regular' film, 2 was the 'dark' film, and 3 was the 'happy' film. In the new, iot's supposed to be 'happy' then 'regular' then 3 will be the 'dark' film with all the empire-taking-over and dark-side stuff.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
"I'm only carrying so much fuel. I can only go so high, and when I run out of fuel, I'll come back down."
I don't doubt that for a second- Gravity helps immensely here. But the question is, will it help too much?
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
Is it possible to run a pci-processor-machine with just the card?
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
I once saw a Glitch feature in the back of Maximum PC, it was about using the old ISA bus for an ISA mouse, an ISA keyboard, an ISA light bulb...
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
This:
BTW, multi-processor, (Strong)ARM-based boards are also being worked upon by companies such as Simtec ; given the average power needs of an ARM processor and the low FPU based needs of a server, this is an interesting alternative (though I am not sure these are out yet).
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
How do you pronounce this? See-Pound? See-Hash? See-Number?
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
They aren't replacing Yahoo with Google searches as some people think, they're probably replacing the 'search engine' portion of yahoo (once powered by AltaVista, in fact) that comes up if you explicitly ask for it or automatically if the regular yahoo search yeilds no hits.
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
That this might be a way for the government to take attention off the bad things?
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Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?