Apple's Quicktime doesn't let me save the.mov either. I happen to LIKE saving movie trailors and backing them up to my "Movies CD".
View Source on the HTML document that links to or embeds the movie and grab the movie's HTTP URL. (This does not work for pnm:// or rtsp:// URLs or URLs whose servers are Referer: protected.) Then make a new HTML document that links to said URL. (In IE, you can enter about:<a href="url">here</a> to create this document on the fly.) Right-click the link, Save Target As..., enter a path on your local filesystem, wait an hour, and your movie is ready to play.
When's the last time you've been able to use a computer with off-the-shelf games
My games are so off-the-shelf that they've never even been on a shelf. Am I correct in inferring a hierarchy analogous to that of New York theater, i.e. "shelf," "off-shelf," and "off-off-shelf"? Besides, there are still some very popular games that don't need a GeForce or a 1 GHz Athlon. For example, TETRIS® and TETANUS(TM) both run just fine on my 25 MHz 486DX. If game makers can't make their software gracefully degrade on old hardware, that's their problem.
and Windows applications, as well as Windows itself, for more than a year or two
Most popular proprietary apps require Windows 95, or Windows 95 with Winsock 2. M$ Office, on the other hand...
If you wish to continue this flamewar, please do so on the NES. GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops is an original game for NES emulators that pits a gnome against the old (pre-dragon) KDE mascot.
Quartz != X11 and Carbon != POSIX
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OS X
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· Score: 4
So, since game developers writing games for OS X will basically be writing their games for a Unix based OS, does this mean that we will see more ports to Linux since it will be considerably less work to port them over?
Mac OS uses proprietary Carbon and Quartz APIs instead of the POSIX and X11 APIs we're used to on *n?x boxen. But good abstraction layer libraries such as Allegro will solve much of the problem.
Except Apple MADE the hardware
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OS X
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· Score: 2
Don't blame Apple or the OS if it's clearly some fault either in your hardware
Well, some of us expected Apple to provide a working solution. Hardware purchased at apple.com is supposed to work with OS software purchased at apple.com, wouldn't you think?
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So when is Pitfall going to be available on Linux?
PE2000 has ROM dumps of many classic games such as the original Pitfall. To run such binaries, you will need an emulator; pick one up at Zophar's Domain.
99% of that is datafiles. The executable code for each platform generally takes up less than 4 MB. Stuffing FreeBSD, Linux PPC, Linux x86, Windows, and Carbon Mac binaries (which will run on Mac OS 8.5 and up) should cover most bases and not take too much space away from the game. So you'll have to bump each image's JPEG level down a notch. So you'll have to bump your game music.ogg files from 192 kbps VBR to 188 kbps VBR and decrease the height of your cut-scene clips by 5%. Big fucking deal.
as long as games are fairly easy to develop on it. Windows is the easiest right now.
Sega Genesis is also quite easy to develop for. So why not just distribute your game as a ROM with DGen?
There are at least 41 versions of Tetris for Linux.
Not accurate. TETRIS® is a registered trademark of The Tetris Company LLC, which has not yet licensed any official conversions for the LINUX® system. But that didn't stop cloners from converting the game and calling it something other than TETRIS.
CXHextris
These are hextris clones, with a hexagonal grid instead of a square grid.
Columns XJewel
These are Columns clones.
Gno3dtet IFRAc VRtris
These are apparently 3D Block clones.
Xpuyopuyo Vitamins 2
No. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, a division of The Open Group. LINUX is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. The generic term for systems with a working implementation of the functions in unistd.h is "POSIX conforming systems."
And when you delete something from an MS-DOS window? Undelete could recover. Not the recycle bin.
<attach name="rm.bat">
@move %1 \trash\
</attach>
I used this batch file on MS-DOS back in the day. It still works.
Syntax: rm foo.txt
And foo.txt will be moved to your trash folder.
If you don't believe, go rent a paltry month old game CD from Blockbuster and observe its condition.
I assume you're limiting your topic to software for game consoles. It's against 17 USC 117(b)(1) to rent software for computers without an explicit license from the copyright holder unless the target platform is one marketed primarily as a video game system.
So when I buy a game, I make a congressionally authorized (which preempts the game makers license) copy for $0.25. If the kids scratch that up after a while, no big loss. Burn another.
Most game consoles do not use standards-conforming compact discs. For example, PlayStation stores some Mode-2 (2,336 bytes per sector) boot code on an otherwise Mode-1 (2,048 bytes per sector) partition; ISOs do not handle this. PlayStation 2 and VaporBox use DVD media; affordable DVD burners are not readily available. Dreamcast and VAPORCUBE use completely proprietary media; good luck even finding a burner.
Better to use an operating system that has not had a remote hole in three years: OpenBSD. (That is, if you can tolerate it's slow-ass filesystem implementation.)
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Apple's Quicktime doesn't let me save the .mov either. I happen to LIKE saving movie trailors and backing them up to my "Movies CD".
View Source on the HTML document that links to or embeds the movie and grab the movie's HTTP URL. (This does not work for pnm:// or rtsp:// URLs or URLs whose servers are Referer: protected.) Then make a new HTML document that links to said URL. (In IE, you can enter about:<a href="url">here</a> to create this document on the fly.) Right-click the link, Save Target As..., enter a path on your local filesystem, wait an hour, and your movie is ready to play.
When's the last time you've been able to use a computer with off-the-shelf games
My games are so off-the-shelf that they've never even been on a shelf. Am I correct in inferring a hierarchy analogous to that of New York theater, i.e. "shelf," "off-shelf," and "off-off-shelf"? Besides, there are still some very popular games that don't need a GeForce or a 1 GHz Athlon. For example, TETRIS® and TETANUS(TM) both run just fine on my 25 MHz 486DX. If game makers can't make their software gracefully degrade on old hardware, that's their problem.
and Windows applications, as well as Windows itself, for more than a year or two
Most popular proprietary apps require Windows 95, or Windows 95 with Winsock 2. M$ Office, on the other hand...
And most of all, that foot just looks COOL
If you wish to continue this flamewar, please do so on the NES. GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops is an original game for NES emulators that pits a gnome against the old (pre-dragon) KDE mascot.
So, since game developers writing games for OS X will basically be writing their games for a Unix based OS, does this mean that we will see more ports to Linux since it will be considerably less work to port them over?
Mac OS uses proprietary Carbon and Quartz APIs instead of the POSIX and X11 APIs we're used to on *n?x boxen. But good abstraction layer libraries such as Allegro will solve much of the problem.
Don't blame Apple or the OS if it's clearly some fault either in your hardware
Well, some of us expected Apple to provide a working solution. Hardware purchased at apple.com is supposed to work with OS software purchased at apple.com, wouldn't you think?
Buy an OS? Hmm... no thanks, I can download one dummy
How? You need an operating system to run an FTP client so you can download an operating system.
Can anyone comment on where people who need an unique domain name, but don't have a organization are supposed to go??
How does a subdomain of .cjb.net not fit your needs?
I'm really sure he loves you for posting his email address on a public archived site for all of the spam-bots to feast upon.
Except registering a domain itself will post your address on a public whois database for all the spam-bots to query.
What ever happened to the ... royalty-free alternative to GIF?
It's called PNG now. Burn all GIFs; use PNG.
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I doubt they would make it a corperate policy to steal GPL code
In fact, Microsoft has a strict policy against this: Microsoft employees may NOT read code licensed under a copyleft license.
No home pages about 'my Amish life'.
Except for this audio clip...
popular sheet music: napsterize that!
You can always go to MIDI Farm, download your favorite songs, fire up LilyPond, and print it.
So when is Pitfall going to be available on Linux?
PE2000 has ROM dumps of many classic games such as the original Pitfall. To run such binaries, you will need an emulator; pick one up at Zophar's Domain.
Besides, most games take up at least one full CD.
99% of that is datafiles. The executable code for each platform generally takes up less than 4 MB. Stuffing FreeBSD, Linux PPC, Linux x86, Windows, and Carbon Mac binaries (which will run on Mac OS 8.5 and up) should cover most bases and not take too much space away from the game. So you'll have to bump each image's JPEG level down a notch. So you'll have to bump your game music .ogg files from 192 kbps VBR to 188 kbps VBR and decrease the height of your cut-scene clips by 5%. Big fucking deal.
as long as games are fairly easy to develop on it. Windows is the easiest right now.
Sega Genesis is also quite easy to develop for. So why not just distribute your game as a ROM with DGen?
There are at least 41 versions of Tetris for Linux.
Not accurate. TETRIS® is a registered trademark of The Tetris Company LLC, which has not yet licensed any official conversions for the LINUX® system. But that didn't stop cloners from converting the game and calling it something other than TETRIS.
CXHextrisThese are hextris clones, with a hexagonal grid instead of a square grid.
Columns XJewel
These are Columns clones.
Gno3dtet IFRAc VRtris
These are apparently 3D Block clones. Xpuyopuyo Vitamins 2
These are Puyo clones.
ksame same-gnome Xinsane FPA Insane
These are SameGame clones.
XTrojka
A bad Klax knockoff.
CrystalSpace
What? That's not a puzzle game; that's a 3D engine.
Here are some tetris clones that don't have the annoying "floating blocks after clearing a line" bug: Quadra | TOD | FPA Tetanus
Oh, by the way, next time use an HTML list (<ul> <li>foo</li> <li>bar</li> </ul>) to separate games in a long list.
There is a generic term. It's "unix"
No. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, a division of The Open Group. LINUX is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. The generic term for systems with a working implementation of the functions in unistd.h is "POSIX conforming systems."
Yeah, a corn plant the doesn't produce seeds (i.e. CORN) should sell really well.
The plant produces seeds, but it produces sterile seeds that cannot reproduce.
The best part is that if it works on OSX it will almost certainly work on Linux.
Not if the app is written to the proprietary Carbon API instead of to the POSIX+X11 API. Porting a Mac app to *N?X is not trivial.
HyperCard is OOOOOLD fucking technology, migrate or DIE bitches!
So how do said "bitches" convert data from the proprietary HyperCard data format into more open data formats?
And when you delete something from an MS-DOS window? Undelete could recover. Not the recycle bin.
<attach name="rm.bat">
@move %1 \trash\
</attach>
I used this batch file on MS-DOS back in the day. It still works.
Syntax: rm foo.txt
And foo.txt will be moved to your trash folder.
If you don't believe, go rent a paltry month old game CD from Blockbuster and observe its condition.
I assume you're limiting your topic to software for game consoles. It's against 17 USC 117(b)(1) to rent software for computers without an explicit license from the copyright holder unless the target platform is one marketed primarily as a video game system.
So when I buy a game, I make a congressionally authorized (which preempts the game makers license) copy for $0.25. If the kids scratch that up after a while, no big loss. Burn another.
Most game consoles do not use standards-conforming compact discs. For example, PlayStation stores some Mode-2 (2,336 bytes per sector) boot code on an otherwise Mode-1 (2,048 bytes per sector) partition; ISOs do not handle this. PlayStation 2 and VaporBox use DVD media; affordable DVD burners are not readily available. Dreamcast and VAPORCUBE use completely proprietary media; good luck even finding a burner.
Better to use an operating system that has not had a remote hole in three years: OpenBSD. (That is, if you can tolerate it's slow-ass filesystem implementation.)
E2 has 848762 nodes, writeups 465248, and 29384 users.
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apparently the node_id numbering system does not start on zero, since there are 848726 nodes and the node-id reaches 1000000.
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Yes, I am a cross-site kwhore.all your mir pieces are belong to us!
You have worse grammar than CmdrTaco. It's piece, singular.
By the way, it's "set UP US", not "set US UP".
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