There's patches out there for DOSBox's dynamic recompiler, but they're for ARMv4 and I'm not sure how effective they are on the Pi's processor. My unscientific measurements put it somewhere around a low-end 386: Doom runs but isn't playable, while EGA sidescrollers are almost perfect with the occasional stutter. I haven't tried Wolf3D yet, though.
(I should point out this is in X on SlackwareARM which is probably one of the worst environments one could use for this sort of thing.)
Given that the unix port of Nethack is far superior to the msdos or winnt ports, I can't imagine why anyone would use anything other than Linux for gaming.
I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television. In fact, I don't even own one.
I'm not an elitist. It's just that I'd much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen. If I need a fix of passive audio-visual stimulation, I'll go to catch a Bergman or Truffaut film down at the university. I certainly wouldn't waste my time watching the so-called Learning Channel or, God forbid, any of the mind sewage the major networks pump out.
People don't realize just how much time their TV-watching habit -- or, shall I say, addiction -- eats up. Four hours of television a day, over the course of a month, adds up to 120 hours. That's five entire days! Why not spend that time living your own life, instead of watching fictional people live theirs? I can't begin to tell you how happy I am not to own a television.
The trick is to use OpenBSD's manpages. They actually get updated when the code changes, for the most part are relevant to other systems, and don't scold you for not using the texinfo manual.
I did that for a site that wanted to know my best friend's name when I was growing up. Except a few years later when I needed to answer it, I couldn't remember what I used.
Hold on, wasn't his company responsible for Deus Ex?
Yeah, at Ion Storm Austin. Romero himself was at Ion Storm Dallas. That's like saying you worked at IBM in the early 1980s without mentioning that it was on the PCjr.
John R. probably annoyed that the initial port of Doom to Android -- that was added to the Android Market -- included the Final Doom iwads by accident (the person porting it assumed they were free).
On the other hand, about all he had to do with Final Doom was calling the developers a day before they were set to release Evilution online and offer them a deal...
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There's patches out there for DOSBox's dynamic recompiler, but they're for ARMv4 and I'm not sure how effective they are on the Pi's processor. My unscientific measurements put it somewhere around a low-end 386: Doom runs but isn't playable, while EGA sidescrollers are almost perfect with the occasional stutter. I haven't tried Wolf3D yet, though.
(I should point out this is in X on SlackwareARM which is probably one of the worst environments one could use for this sort of thing.)
Given that the unix port of Nethack is far superior to the msdos or winnt ports, I can't imagine why anyone would use anything other than Linux for gaming.
A 486SX 25? Are you made of money!? My Tandy 1000SX is just fine for playing Police Quest 2!
I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television. In fact, I don't even own one.
I'm not an elitist. It's just that I'd much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen. If I need a fix of passive audio-visual stimulation, I'll go to catch a Bergman or Truffaut film down at the university. I certainly wouldn't waste my time watching the so-called Learning Channel or, God forbid, any of the mind sewage the major networks pump out.
People don't realize just how much time their TV-watching habit -- or, shall I say, addiction -- eats up. Four hours of television a day, over the course of a month, adds up to 120 hours. That's five entire days! Why not spend that time living your own life, instead of watching fictional people live theirs? I can't begin to tell you how happy I am not to own a television.
And more importantly, it will allow them to learn the movement commands in Nethack.
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The trick is to use OpenBSD's manpages. They actually get updated when the code changes, for the most part are relevant to other systems, and don't scold you for not using the texinfo manual.
Most TRS-80 operating systems figured 3 bits was enough to store an offset from 1980, so we've already lived through the Y1.988k bug.
Full armor, full ammo, all weapons, but no keys.
I think I'll wait for IDKFA.
Slackware. That is all.
All life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light would be bad.
I just assumed it was named after the guy who wrote MacArthur Park.
Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor... not a bricklayer!
It's good to see that O.J. Simpson and Al Cowlings are working together again.
It's Java interpreters all the way down!
It's an Nvidia Tegra 3. That should answer your question.
I did that for a site that wanted to know my best friend's name when I was growing up. Except a few years later when I needed to answer it, I couldn't remember what I used.
Turns out, it was Tuttle.
Who's the other one?
Yeah, at Ion Storm Austin. Romero himself was at Ion Storm Dallas. That's like saying you worked at IBM in the early 1980s without mentioning that it was on the PCjr.
John R. probably annoyed that the initial port of Doom to Android -- that was added to the Android Market -- included the Final Doom iwads by accident (the person porting it assumed they were free).
On the other hand, about all he had to do with Final Doom was calling the developers a day before they were set to release Evilution online and offer them a deal...
It's nice to see that Firefox has adopted this model, too.
And the only true Catwoman is Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, or Eartha Kitt!
JustOK's sig is "rewriting history since 2109", so it's possible they just copied the Nature article from three weeks in the future.
Robot hand tears Grendel's arm off?
Can I toast stuff other than slices of bread? Or is that forbidden by the EULA?