Absolutely - Magic Carpet gets my vote 100%. Probably one of the best games I've ever played - I have so many fond memories of shooting fireballs at bees and nuking enemy castles... ahhh, memory lane. Mind blowing graphics for its day, too.
Can you imagine a Wii version, using that Tony Hawks skateboard affair as the carpet? How cool would that be?
Or on the iPhone: tilt to steer?
Hey, I can dream.
Wasn't there a/. reference recently to the fact that Moore's law applies quite differently to mobile devices than PCs? For a PC, more transitors per cm2 means more power: for a mobile device, this means the same number of transistors in a smaller package.
So they stay the same (adequate) speed and get a lot smaller. I think you're forgetting just how hilariously huge early 3g phones were.
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Absolutely - Magic Carpet gets my vote 100%. Probably one of the best games I've ever played - I have so many fond memories of shooting fireballs at bees and nuking enemy castles... ahhh, memory lane. Mind blowing graphics for its day, too. Can you imagine a Wii version, using that Tony Hawks skateboard affair as the carpet? How cool would that be? Or on the iPhone: tilt to steer? Hey, I can dream.
... the more [star] systems will slip through your fingers.
Wasn't there a /. reference recently to the fact that Moore's law applies quite differently to mobile devices than PCs? For a PC, more transitors per cm2 means more power: for a mobile device, this means the same number of transistors in a smaller package.
So they stay the same (adequate) speed and get a lot smaller. I think you're forgetting just how hilariously huge early 3g phones were.
That's "attack ships". Sheesh, you'd have thought that /. would be a safe haven for BR quotes. :O