Not even $300 would do. Just pay for so for a WinXP home license, and find a dropped Pentium IV 2GHz+ off the side of the road. It's more likely than you think.
Paul Tyma, creator of Mailinator, writes about a greedy algorithm to analyze the huge amount of email Mailinator receives and finds ways to reduce its memory footprint by 90%. Quoting: 'I grabbed a few hundred megs of the Mailinator stream and ran it through several compressors. Mostly just stuff I had on hand 7z, bzip, gzip, etc. Venerable zip reduced the file by 63%. Not bad. Then I tried the LZMA/2 algorithm (7z) which got it down by 85%! Well. OK! Article is over!
What about an OnLive kind of thing? As in, streaming raw data prepared for it through a cable from another machine so we can get Crysis at glorious 256x240
There's that netcode that made Quake4 a lot more playable than online Doom3....
I should mention a Doom3 source Free Data project is impossible due to the lack of scripts in this release, unlike the other past id releases which included all the gameplay code neccessary....
What? It's called the PortableApps.com box now, where you get modified versions of popular software that spam your USB stick with excessive writes. but who cares omg it's portable apps!!! (dot cawm!!1!!)
You can't do paletted textures, 16-bit dithering or table fog.
There. Not exactly backward compatible is it? And that's not even factoring in nvidia's "the way it's meant to be played" broken regressions in drivers.
But yeah, Microsoft was serious about gaming much before the Xbox. Halo kids don't know the huge Win95 "DOS Games are Dead" push, the antics of Alex St. John, that Gates doom video on pushing Doom95, Microsoft GDK and DirectX, the novelty of your dos games in a slowly updated window, the SIDEWINDER JOYSTICK LINE, Microsoft Arcade, the Entertainment Packs, etc.
sorry tykes, master chief didnt invent microsoft gaming.
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Not even $300 would do. Just pay for so for a WinXP home license, and find a dropped Pentium IV 2GHz+ off the side of the road. It's more likely than you think.
Paul Tyma, creator of Mailinator, writes about a greedy algorithm to analyze the huge amount of email Mailinator receives and finds ways to reduce its memory footprint by 90%. Quoting: 'I grabbed a few hundred megs of the Mailinator stream and ran it through several compressors. Mostly just stuff I had on hand 7z, bzip, gzip, etc. Venerable zip reduced the file by 63%. Not bad. Then I tried the LZMA/2 algorithm (7z) which got it down by 85%! Well. OK! Article is over!
TFA right there.
*BEEP BEEP* WARNING. Minor laceration detected *pffthiss* Morphine administered
What about an OnLive kind of thing? As in, streaming raw data prepared for it through a cable from another machine so we can get Crysis at glorious 256x240
But can it run Crysis?
or he'll be screwed.
At least it's not a "Planet"
Happy new year~
There's no better way to kick off the new year on Slashdot with a Microsoft article.
Ironically yesterday there was a SyFy movie about the topic of a madman controlling the weather from his iPhone.
There's that netcode that made Quake4 a lot more playable than online Doom3....
I should mention a Doom3 source Free Data project is impossible due to the lack of scripts in this release, unlike the other past id releases which included all the gameplay code neccessary....
Anyone keeping an eye on the SC/SC2 playercounts before and after this?
slashdot.org the best news site for apple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To be fair it's better than a goat sea hurricane army. But still dishonorably dirty at sugarcoating enough praise to give web sites diabetes.
Anyone going to cook some up?
I may or may not do it because I personally loath MD5's lack of precalculated normals.
Quake4 source is obviously not included so no OpenArena4. Probably something coopey and SPey would be in order (OMG A LINUX FIRST?)
"hidden objects in picture" game.
id didn't really deal with the sound code - Paul Radek did and his crappy DMX library didn't support the GUS very well. I know how problematic it was
:P
Quake had better GUS support.
Those europe and asia-based trackers will still obsess over you.
I'm looking at you, eXtreme-Nosing.
What? It's called the PortableApps.com box now, where you get modified versions of popular software that spam your USB stick with excessive writes. but who cares omg it's portable apps!!! (dot cawm!!1!!)
That's only because the Digital Copyright Millenium Act doesn't exist.
How many times can you "boost" Javascript performance?
FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Snopes, your days are numbered.
You can't do paletted textures, 16-bit dithering or table fog.
There. Not exactly backward compatible is it? And that's not even factoring in nvidia's "the way it's meant to be played" broken regressions in drivers.
But yeah, Microsoft was serious about gaming much before the Xbox. Halo kids don't know the huge Win95 "DOS Games are Dead" push, the antics of Alex St. John, that Gates doom video on pushing Doom95, Microsoft GDK and DirectX, the novelty of your dos games in a slowly updated window, the SIDEWINDER JOYSTICK LINE, Microsoft Arcade, the Entertainment Packs, etc.
sorry tykes, master chief didnt invent microsoft gaming.
I wish my PowerVR PCX2 4mb was on the list.
It can't blend additive, but OMFG TILE RENDERING INFINITE PLANES, 3DFX IS SCREWED
the first killbox.bsp
Fred Figglehorn's speedily redacted channel.
If this thing self-replicates to resemble a Robert Patrick, we're all screwed.