I love matrox cards, infact my current system is using an old 4meg 1064w Mystique and a 2meg Matrox Millenium rev1. Hopefully, my G400max will be here soon:)
Which brings another point, Matrox cards are also the best for multiheading.
Matrox has served me well so far; the only non-matrox cards I have are in my wearable, laptop, and my voodoo2 (oh, aren't you jealous)
You can generally pickup an older Matrox card from co-workers, yard sales, dumpsters (Ive actually found tons of ps/2 keyboards in dumpsters), computer shows, etc... $10-30 would be a reasonable price.
If you have enough pci slots, I'd suggest multihead too. Matrox cards work well together multiheaded, and allow one non-matrox card in the configuration PLUS a Voodoo2 (a voodoo2 is not a vga card but Xfree86 3.9.x+ can use it as one)
They both did/are doing screwy things here and AOL is making horrible mistakes. I am afraid for the sake of Netscape.. most Mozilla developers work for netscape, even with the Open Source movement.
>PSX allows for 4 controllers with the Tap add-on. >And since most people don't have 4 > controllers or always 3 or 4 friends >to play with, it seems a waste to include the 4 >player ability > by default which would increase the >cost of the system.
The 4 controllers built in was one of my favorite features of the N64, and I have used it numerious times. Back when N64 was still project reality, I was bored and started making concept designs and sure enough I put 4 controller ports on it. The addition of 2 controller ports is cheaper in the long run, as the "taps" are usually expensive however cheap to manufacture.. just more money to the company and less to you.
With the use of "taps", I found that 3rd parties were less willing to write games that made use of the 3rd and 4th players as many did not own the multi-player "taps".
It really isn't a terrible port other then being for windows and using directX. When I first started playing it, I found it unusable due to extensive loading times which were fixed by replacing my broken cdrom drive (full install would have worked if my hd wasn't full, and if the AVI's weren't loaded from cd)
Also, my Voodoo2 was bought for one reason... FFVII and it spead it up considerably. The biggest drawback I found was the sound which was horrible without that yamaha synth that killed my system resources, that could have been fixed by a sb64 or better.
These days you can probally get: $100 - Voodoo3 (or find a tnt) $60 - SB64 $40 - 50x cdrom drive $30 - FFVII :$230 # I paid $200 for my 8 meg voodoo2, # $80 for my sb128, and $30 for my 40x cdrom drive # and $50 for FFVII.. and no longer even run # windows so you got a good deal;)
>Ultimately get the new Woo book for OpenGL 1.2 > and the Kilgard book for the interaction with > the X environment.
Looks like I got a bumm deal.. I just picked up the Woo book a couple months ago, for OpenGL 1.1. I haven't had much time to read it, however. I am very glad that before programming I was an ept 3d artist (now only if I was a good programmer)
Ive thought of several designs for an opengl windowmanager myself and do not currently have the experience to make it happen. limited Opengl knowledge and non-xlib knowledge.. perhaps later;)
The processor in the Amiga will be 5x faster then the fastest now-available PIII and will be able to run Java code as fast as native code (smart logic gates finally?) The processor will use the RISC instruction set and according to my source (which unfortunatly is under NDA) claims that the chip is not made by transmeta, however due to the NDA papers this COULD be a lie. Supposedly the people who are working on the new Amiga and it's processor have employed several top guys from SGI too, including the guy who made the super-cheap N64 chip.
The main reason I think that transmeta MAY be involved in this is because Linus said that his work with transmeta was not DIRECTLY related to linux.
I bought my this past March. I located a distributor.. it took a while for delivery since he had to specially order them from Sony and I got them for $600, instead of Sony's $800. The batteries are expensive my 12 hour Lithium Ions cost $140 each and the charger was $120. The Glasstron comes with charger; however, for my wearable computer I needed to charge multiple batteries at once.
They do 640x480 fairly well with the AiTech Pocket Scan Converter (aitech.com, $75), however the Glasstron crops the sides of the image.. requiring your to hack your X modeline entries.
With my 3dfx card I couldn't get it to work with quake3, however with a bit of hacking Im sure it would be possible. The main problem was the lack of a hz chooser (my NTSC > VGA converter requires 60hz) However since my last attempt I found a glide configuration tool (glide control center) which may help if I choose to try it again:)
Hey.. sandals are cool, and I wear contacts, got some dark skin from some pacific islander blood. Dunno about the stare, however. My t-shirts are rumpled sometimes.. and i got some pimples, am I a geek ?
When people find out I am a computer wizard (hey why not use that word?) they ask me if I am a "hacker", at which point I either say "no".. or say "yes" and explain it to them, it is usually easier to just say no.
Where are you from?? Same thing happened here, Lower Bucks Cablevision bought by Time Warner, its not being sold to another company which is being takenover by AT&T.. Yes, soon my cable will be provided by AT&T; however, we are getting DSL connects from several ISP's very soon. (nunet and eventually redconnect)
I see BSOD's with NT all the time.. I have been running linux and my system has NEVER crashed; however, X did restart one time while running gnome. And I don't reboot unless I upgrade my kernel (which unfortunatly is a rare occurance), when was the last time you upgraded your NT kernel?? Shows you how fast NT is developing. Does linux have flaws ? Certainly. Does NT? What flaw doesn't it have? My school uses NT on their networks, perhaps its the stupid system admins, but the security is HORRIBLE. The bios restricted boot from removeable media, however NT was installed on fat16 and a simple edit of boot.ini with the proper bootimage and command.com (and other dos files), I had a fully bootable dos extention to the boot manager which I used to grab the password file and gained admin on the entire network. Lets see a properly secured Linux machine get fscked that bad. True, the system should have used NTFS, but unfortunatly NTFS is slower then fat16, and most systems come with fat16 drives already which many are not willing to convert in fear of dataloss. When is NT gonna come with a compiler, non-qbasic script interpretor (such as perl, python, tcl). How about a fully functional firewall. How great do you think IIS is ?? Even MS admits that it blows chunks.. it killed at rendering my page littered with Server Side Includes... Get a life, get real.. NT is going out and Unix (probally Linux) is going in.
Some say that linux has no applications, I scoff.. checkout http://www.freshmeat.net/, no support (checkout linuxcare.com), no gui (checkout http://e.themes.org), and that it is hard to use (checkout http://www.redhat.com/).
My entire FAMILY uses my linux-equipped computer fine, and understands it better then any Nt machine (however my dad still can't operate the login screen for XDM OR NT) I have thrown every configuration possible at this computer, moving from console to X with fvwm2 to fvwm95 and then to WindowMaker, kde, gnome, kde/gnome combo, etc.. this computer has had ever user interface as I have learned more and as interfaces have developed. I eventually moved to E DR15 and gnome, which has developed to become fast enough for my Pentium 166 to still run faster then windows with a GUI that pars on a userfriendly level with a mac, and every user has a completely different look to their applications and desktops. (my sister uses NextStep'ish look, other sis uses MacOS, mom/dad Win95/NT, and I brushedmetal look).
Linux is configurable, user-friendly, and stable.. And many distributions come with easy installation interfaces not only for the Operating System, but for the applications. Redhat comes with Gnorpm which connects to the redhat databases and has a large collection of software already compiled for you... something even my kid sister can handle. Debian comes with a very well written package manager too which is as good/better then redhat's tool. (I do not currently run redhat, however I have tried gnorpm on a redhat system with good results)
If Windows has it, Linux has it.. faster, prettier, and with a simplier interface (on a properly configured system)
Btw.. how much did you pay for your software? haha
I believe if this happens, Microsoft will work on the Wine project to accept binary modules (if not make them binary kernel modules) to allow linux to run Win32 apps flawlessly (or as good as Win32 apps can get)
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How did you go about finding this out ? :)
I love matrox cards, infact my current :)
system is using an old 4meg 1064w Mystique
and a 2meg Matrox Millenium rev1. Hopefully,
my G400max will be here soon
Which brings another point, Matrox cards are
also the best for multiheading.
Matrox has served me well so far; the only
non-matrox cards I have are in my wearable,
laptop, and my voodoo2 (oh, aren't you jealous)
You can generally pickup an older Matrox card
from co-workers, yard sales, dumpsters
(Ive actually found tons of ps/2 keyboards in
dumpsters), computer shows, etc... $10-30 would
be a reasonable price.
If you have enough pci slots, I'd suggest
multihead too. Matrox cards work well together
multiheaded, and allow one non-matrox card in
the configuration PLUS a Voodoo2 (a voodoo2 is not
a vga card but Xfree86 3.9.x+ can use it as one)
I am currently interested in this myself, however
it will require an OpenGL Xserver.
They both did/are doing screwy things here
and AOL is making horrible mistakes. I am
afraid for the sake of Netscape.. most
Mozilla developers work for netscape, even
with the Open Source movement.
Things could become very bad in the future.
>PSX allows for 4 controllers with the Tap add-on.
>And since most people don't have 4
> controllers or always 3 or 4 friends
>to play with, it seems a waste to include the 4
>player ability
> by default which would increase the
>cost of the system.
The 4 controllers built in was one of my favorite
features of the N64, and I have used it numerious
times. Back when N64 was still project reality,
I was bored and started making concept designs
and sure enough I put 4 controller ports on it.
The addition of 2 controller ports is cheaper in
the long run, as the "taps" are usually expensive
however cheap to manufacture.. just more money
to the company and less to you.
With the use of "taps", I found that 3rd parties
were less willing to write games that made use of
the 3rd and 4th players as many did not own the
multi-player "taps".
It really isn't a terrible port other then being
;)
for windows and using directX. When I first
started playing it, I found it unusable due to
extensive loading times which were fixed by
replacing my broken cdrom drive (full install
would have worked if my hd wasn't full, and if
the AVI's weren't loaded from cd)
Also, my Voodoo2 was bought for one reason...
FFVII and it spead it up considerably.
The biggest drawback I found was the sound which
was horrible without that yamaha synth that
killed my system resources, that could have been
fixed by a sb64 or better.
These days you can probally get:
$100 - Voodoo3 (or find a tnt)
$60 - SB64
$40 - 50x cdrom drive
$30 - FFVII
:$230
# I paid $200 for my 8 meg voodoo2,
# $80 for my sb128, and $30 for my 40x cdrom drive
# and $50 for FFVII.. and no longer even run
# windows so you got a good deal
--
Eric Windisch
>Ultimately get the new Woo book for OpenGL 1.2
> and the Kilgard book for the interaction with
> the X environment.
Looks like I got a bumm deal.. I just picked up
the Woo book a couple months ago, for OpenGL 1.1.
I haven't had much time to read it, however. I am
very glad that before programming I was an ept 3d
artist (now only if I was a good programmer)
other then mash :) showed a similar event..
I ran across the url once but didn't write it down.
I really wish I could run an Xserver at
SVGA resolutions and color depths with
8megs or less memory.
Win3.1 ran on my ps/2 with 8megs of ram fine
at 640x480 with 16 colors, TinyX with the same
setup running Wm2 is almost unusable.
On the other hand Win95 osr1 runs acceptably
(some where between Win3.1 and TinyX) but
with 800x600 and 256 colors.
Ive thought of several designs for an opengl ;)
windowmanager myself and do not currently
have the experience to make it happen.
limited Opengl knowledge and non-xlib knowledge..
perhaps later
Patriot is a joke.
The processor in the Amiga will be 5x faster
then the fastest now-available PIII and will be
able to run Java code as fast as native code
(smart logic gates finally?) The processor will
use the RISC instruction set and according to my
source (which unfortunatly is under NDA) claims
that the chip is not made by transmeta, however
due to the NDA papers this COULD be a lie.
Supposedly the people who are working on the new
Amiga and it's processor have employed several
top guys from SGI too, including the guy who made
the super-cheap N64 chip.
The main reason I think that transmeta MAY be
involved in this is because Linus said that his
work with transmeta was not DIRECTLY related to
linux.
Except one thing.. The Sony Glasstron has a pretty
crappy display (i should know.. I have one)
Other then my wearable, watching a porno-flik ;)
via goggles is wonderful cuz nobody can catch you
doing it
I bought my this past March. I located a
:)
distributor.. it took a while for delivery since
he had to specially order them from Sony and I got
them for $600, instead of Sony's $800. The
batteries are expensive my 12 hour Lithium Ions
cost $140 each and the charger was $120. The
Glasstron comes with charger; however, for my
wearable computer I needed to charge multiple
batteries at once.
They do 640x480 fairly well with the AiTech
Pocket Scan Converter (aitech.com, $75), however
the Glasstron crops the sides of the image..
requiring your to hack your X modeline entries.
With my 3dfx card I couldn't get it to work with
quake3, however with a bit of hacking Im sure it
would be possible. The main problem was the lack
of a hz chooser (my NTSC > VGA converter requires
60hz) However since my last attempt I found a
glide configuration tool (glide control center)
which may help if I choose to try it again
WTF does this article keep saying that Windows will beat Linux, the tests aren't even completed.. God I hate FUD, is Salon under MS's claw too?
Hey.. sandals are cool, and I wear contacts, got some dark skin from some pacific islander blood. Dunno about the stare, however. My t-shirts are rumpled sometimes.. and i got some pimples, am I a geek ?
This would just be perfect..
"HEADLINE NEWS: Hackers bring down abcnews.com, zdnet.com, and cnet.com"
It would just blacken the word even further.
When people find out I am a computer wizard (hey why not use that word?) they ask me if I am a "hacker", at which point I either say "no".. or say "yes" and explain it to them, it is usually easier to just say no.
That is good to a point... yes there is no offical support, but at least you can GET it !
Where are you from?? Same thing happened here, Lower Bucks Cablevision bought by Time Warner, its not being sold to another company which is being takenover by AT&T.. Yes, soon my cable will be provided by AT&T; however, we are getting DSL connects from several ISP's very soon. (nunet and eventually redconnect)
I see BSOD's with NT all the time.. I have been running linux and my system has NEVER crashed; however, X did restart one time while running gnome. And I don't reboot unless I upgrade my kernel (which unfortunatly is a rare occurance), when was the last time you upgraded your NT kernel?? Shows you how fast NT is developing. Does linux have flaws ? Certainly. Does NT? What flaw doesn't it have? My school uses NT on their networks, perhaps its the stupid system admins, but the security is HORRIBLE. The bios restricted boot from removeable media, however NT was installed on fat16 and a simple edit of boot.ini with the proper bootimage and command.com (and other dos files), I had a fully bootable dos extention to the boot manager which I used to grab the password file and gained admin on the entire network. Lets see a properly secured Linux machine get fscked that bad. True, the system should have used NTFS, but unfortunatly NTFS is slower then fat16, and most systems come with fat16 drives already which many are not willing to convert in fear of dataloss. When is NT gonna come with a compiler, non-qbasic script interpretor (such as perl, python, tcl). How about a fully functional firewall. How great do you think IIS is ?? Even MS admits that it blows chunks.. it killed at rendering my page littered with Server Side Includes... Get a life, get real.. NT is going out and Unix (probally Linux) is going in.
Some say that linux has no applications, I scoff.. checkout http://www.freshmeat.net/, no support (checkout linuxcare.com), no gui (checkout http://e.themes.org), and that it is hard to use (checkout http://www.redhat.com/).
My entire FAMILY uses my linux-equipped computer fine, and understands it better then any Nt machine (however my dad still can't operate the login screen for XDM OR NT) I have thrown every configuration possible at this computer, moving from console to X with fvwm2 to fvwm95 and then to WindowMaker, kde, gnome, kde/gnome combo, etc.. this computer has had ever user interface as I have learned more and as interfaces have developed. I eventually moved to E DR15 and gnome, which has developed to become fast enough for my Pentium 166 to still run faster then windows with a GUI that pars on a userfriendly level with a mac, and every user has a completely different look to their applications and desktops. (my sister uses NextStep'ish look, other sis uses MacOS, mom/dad Win95/NT, and I brushedmetal look).
Linux is configurable, user-friendly, and stable.. And many distributions come with easy installation interfaces not only for the Operating System, but for the applications. Redhat comes with Gnorpm which connects to the redhat databases and has a large collection of software already compiled for you... something even my kid sister can handle. Debian comes with a very well written package manager too which is as good/better then redhat's tool. (I do not currently run redhat, however I have tried gnorpm on a redhat system with good results)
If Windows has it, Linux has it.. faster, prettier, and with a simplier interface (on a properly configured system)
Btw.. how much did you pay for your software? haha
Just My 500 cents.
I believe if this happens, Microsoft will work on the Wine project to accept binary modules (if not make them binary kernel modules) to allow linux to run Win32 apps flawlessly (or as good as Win32 apps can get)
I love my X2 modem... 28.8 connects every time!! (and I live less then a mile from Bell Alantic)
I have a Sony Glasstron and I get 640x480 from it, however the quality could be better. I wish I had a 800x600 display :)