I actually did reverse engineer Keen 5 and put together a playable version for Win/Mac/Linux. It was quite a lot of work, though the Commander Keen community had already done a lot of reverse engineering and a few people pitched in, so it wasn't nearly as much work as I'd feared.
The source code for the original games, of course, has been found and (lawyers permitting) will be GPLed, so I've not put much more work into the reimplementation.
Miyamoto is someone who has a lot of weight behind what he says. You can bet that Valve are grinning like idiots and that the teams working on the next Zelda and Mario are breaking a sweat.
No. The Wii already uses the official Flash Player; just an old version. When Adobe re-hires all of the x86 asm coders that they fired, then the Wii will get a new version.
Personally I think that this is a step in the right direction.
Those of us in the southern hemisphere have had to put up with problems that the difference in school term times cause.
Things like NaNoWriMo usually end up in the middle of exams, Summer of Code is in winter, we lack White Christmases yet still sing Jingle Bells, and Google could (if this actually materializes) really boost participation from us southern hemisphere students.
Anything that helps the development of open source projects (and reduces the boredom of southern hemisphere students) can only be positive.
Face it, if it will work on Ubuntu, it won't be too hard to coax it into working under [insert favorite distro here], and Linux is sorely missing out on commercial software. Even though some people will surely say that we should only use the pure, open source software that no large corporation has so much glanced at, there are some jewels of the commercial software world that have no open source equivalent.
Video Editing software, for example; you'd be far better off using one of the many commercial programs than one of the few open source ones.
Having commercial software avaliable for Linux can only help the adoption of Linux on the desktop, and, really, unless you're Steve Ballmer, there is no possible downside to this.
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I actually did reverse engineer Keen 5 and put together a playable version for Win/Mac/Linux.
It was quite a lot of work, though the Commander Keen community had already done a lot of reverse engineering
and a few people pitched in, so it wasn't nearly as much work as I'd feared.
The source code for the original games, of course, has been found and (lawyers permitting) will be GPLed, so I've not put much more work into the reimplementation.
Binaries: http://davidgow.net/keen/omnis...
Code: https://github.com/sulix/omnis...
(I've also started work on an updated port of Keen Dream based on the source release, though it isn't working yet: http://davidgow.net/keen/omnis... )
Sounds like Anne Poole.
http://qntm.org/?ashmore
That is all.
e=m*v^2
Scale that down to ~half: e = 0.5*m*v^2
(Assuming relativistic effects are ignored, of course).
Either way, 30 kWh is ridiculous. You'd need the plates to move quite a bit.
Well, at least he got something right -- the name.
Microsoft Bob is certainly comical -- It's one of the biggest jokes around.
Except perhaps ME and Vista.
It's better to say touche. Touché is too cliche.
Will we have to post live now, just in case posting from home isn't accepted?
Steam Cloud != Steamworks (Steam Cloud may be a _part_ of Steamworks, but they're not the same thing)
Miyamoto is someone who has a lot of weight behind what he says. You can bet that Valve are grinning like idiots and that the teams working on the next Zelda and Mario are breaking a sweat.
No. The Wii already uses the official Flash Player; just an old version. When Adobe re-hires all of the x86 asm coders that they fired, then the Wii will get a new version.
Personally I think that this is a step in the right direction. Those of us in the southern hemisphere have had to put up with problems that the difference in school term times cause. Things like NaNoWriMo usually end up in the middle of exams, Summer of Code is in winter, we lack White Christmases yet still sing Jingle Bells, and Google could (if this actually materializes) really boost participation from us southern hemisphere students. Anything that helps the development of open source projects (and reduces the boredom of southern hemisphere students) can only be positive.
We can only hope that more companies follow suit.
Face it, if it will work on Ubuntu, it won't be too hard to coax it into working under [insert favorite distro here], and Linux is sorely missing out on commercial software.
Even though some people will surely say that we should only use the pure, open source software that no large corporation has so much glanced at, there are some jewels of the commercial software world that have no open source equivalent.
Video Editing software, for example; you'd be far better off using one of the many commercial programs than one of the few open source ones.
Having commercial software avaliable for Linux can only help the adoption of Linux on the desktop, and, really, unless you're Steve Ballmer, there is no possible downside to this.
Since 1996? Y2K problem, where are you now?