Yes, the Game Boy Advance console is compatible with almost all official titles that run on Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Color. There is one title (Workboy) that does not function because it requires a special keyboard that can connect only to the original Game Boy's serial port.
It accomplishes this the same way the Sega Genesis plays Master System games and the PlayStation 2 plays PlayStation games: it includes a miniaturized version of the previous system, used in native games for I/O processing. It's as if you had a 386 on an ISA bus and an Alpha or PowerPC on a PCI bus on the same machine.
I'd really like to see a "graphing calculator" attachment for GBC or GBA. That baby would sell because "now you can take your Game Boy console to school and your teacher won't care!"
You mean for licensing purposes? Qt Free is GPL, so you can port it to any platform.
Does NT's POSIX count as a UNIX platform? Does BeOS count as a UNIX platform?
Currently, Qt Free requires a working POSIX subsystem (NT's is subpar but Red Hat Cygwin is good) and an X11 server. XFree86 works on Windows NT/2K but not on 9x because of stupid assumptions in the design of Windows 9x's USER and GDI servers. (Why oh why didn't Microsoft just release NT 4 as Windows 95?)
free for OSS and pay for commercial is one thing. Doing the same for UNIX and Windows is just punishing a developer for not liking *NIX.
It's not punishing but instead "not wasting effort on porting a free software package to an environment that's thought to be hostile to free software."
Despite that fact, I play any Nintendo games I want to on Nesticle.
NESticle's accuracy sucks Big Floppy Donkey Dick; it can't emulate games that rely on precise timing. Use TuxNES or one of the better WinDOS-based emulators instead. The only reason I ever touch NESticle is to make sure NES software I write displays a warning message if it is run on NESticle; it takes only four lines of NES asm to detect NESticle, and from there I display an advertisement for LoopyNES.
A click through is not Law... click-throughs have all the legal binding of any other un-signed, un-witnessed agreement: none at all.
Big-money software licenses (such as Oracle and MSSQL licenses) often require a written contract that has all the consideration and everything, to the effect: "You give up $50,000 and the right to reverse engineer this software and publish benchmarks in exchange for the right to receive this software (we're not giving you the disc until we receive your signature) and use this software in commerce."
Under standard copyright law, something like benchmarks is considered fair use, and is thus not subject to asinine click through agreements. If something is not covered by copyright law, it cannot reasonably be covered by click through
Click-through is like any other contract. Once you agree to it, you are bound by it. The agreements already waive your first sale rights. If you waive fair use, you waive fair use; such are the terms of the agreement. If you don't like it, tough beans. Use free software instead.
They can if the installation wizard handles compiling the software; such an installation package would be similar to a source RPM. And yes, there is a free full-featured GNU compiler for Windows. There are two in fact: MinGW GCC and the GCC from Red Hat Cygwin.
they had brains they wouldn't be using an OS designed for two year olds.
So we're supposed to run games for the Wintendo platform under Wine? Good luck.
I upgrade my software with apt
Pretty hard to do if the distro on your Debian CD doesn't support your network connection hardware and protocols (winmodem, AOL, Juno, NetZero, network card, cable modem, DSL modem, PPPoE, etc.).
I read my docs online
Pretty hard to do if you can't boot or if your video subsystem isn't working.
When I saw that console, my first thought was "What? This is the kind of console that would be packed in a Barbie playset." Then, after a bit of pondering: "No, that's too cute to be Barbie. It looks more like Precious Moments style."
and my Japanese games look just fine.
What region are your console and TV designed for?
... Americans
The screen corruption I mentioned requires that 50fps software be run on 60fps TVs or vice versa. (See other comments nearby about PAL60 TVs; however, it's very hard to find a 50fps TV in the US unless you have a video capture card in your PC.) Because NTSC-U/C and NTSC-J regions use identical 60 Hz NTSC television standards, there is no graphical corruption.
I wrote: "European games are optimized for 50 fps PAL, while North American and Japanese games run on 60 fps NTSC... Games that don't conform to the television will fall out of sync." Did you miss this part?
But I agree that keeping Japanese games out of American hands, especially when not a lot of text is involved and the community accepts bad translations as humorous, is a result of outright greed.
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well, to do a digital lowpass filter, you would use a FFT; i doubt that many commercial audio devices would use time-domain convolution when the FFT is faster
For one thing, it wouldn't necessarily be faster. Filtering with FFT is O(n log w) where w == window size; time-domain convolution is O(nm) where m == filter length. The hard edges of the FFT window creates artifacts that can be audible as a buzzing noise; this is why MP3 and Vorbis spend a few extra cycles on MDCT (an overlapped transform). Besides, you don't need a lot of taps; I know of a decent FOUR tap low-pass filter [11 19 5 -3]/32.
The real, more subtle reason copyright terms are infinite is that bills keep getting passed to lengthen them.
For more information on perpetual copyright, read this writeup on Everything.
Here's how to get around perpetual copyrights and trademarks: Abstract the copyrighted expression away from the uncopyrightable idea by finding antecedents from before 1923 (or are otherwise Free). For example, derive Precious Moments from the Eloi people in chapter 4 of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, and derive Noddy from Pinocchio renditions. This way you can avoid copyright and trademark infringement by taking a stereotype (uncopyrightable under Capcom v. Data East) and "making it yours" by changing just enough that the original expression is distinctive enough to overpower any copied expression.
This is why I no longer like Winnie-the-Pooh, as it has no Free antecedents.
It's basically same as the DVD regions, except only 3 - one for each of Japan, America, and Europe
This is for a good reason. Console software is optimized for a particular television hardware standard. European games are optimized for 50 fps PAL, while North American and Japanese games run on 60 fps NTSC (that is, until 2006 when the USian FCC kills NTSC). Games that don't conform to the television will fall out of sync and produce a scrambled picture. For example, take NES games. The NES is easy to mod-chip (simply cut the power line) but the more timing-sensitive games (especially Rare games such as Rad Racer that use Pole Position-style raster scrolling) crash when played on a different style of television.
This also has the side effect of making it possible to play burned copies of games.
Which may or may not be illegal, depending on the license the game is released under. Backup first, free software second, piracy last.
You can't write free software for the PlayStation unless you need a special mastering process to put the boot code on a real PSX disc. A compatibility chip allows you to burn and run Free Software(TM) designed for PSX using a garden-variety Orange Book conforming CD-R burner.
we would need to say goodbye to slashdot and freshmeat!
We would need to say goodbye to calling them slashdot.org and freshmeat.net, but Andover already owns slashdot.com, and OSDN could buy freshmeat2.com. Or they could just move everything to slashdot.osdn.com, freshmeat.osdn.com, etc. SourceForge could probably keep its.net though, as it does provide hosting services for free software projects.
RIAA v. Napster Is founded on some people can use it for piracy so it should be shut down. Since it is users trading music, all Napster's delivering is indexes.
Contributory copyright infringement. The primary use of this is to pirate music published by the Big Five labels. If you want to promote your band's music or discover independent music, there are better tools such as MP3.com. They'll even manufacture CDs for your band that contain Red Book audio plus a CD Extra track with MP3 files.
I post on Slashdot. I also post on Napdot, but under a different handle. All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
For starters, it's 9x that hold all the legacy code that is supposed to make DOS programs work.
The whole *point* of 9x is to move DOS style applications to NT style applications.
I think that MS would've been overjoyed if it could've dumped DOS & 9x all together long ago, it has a far superior product in its hands (NT).
So why is Microsoft charging twice as much for NT as for 9x? And why couldn't they have just done more work in the DOS virtualization department? For example, Windows 2000's VDM chokes on 32-bit programs that conform to the DPMI spec.
I'm not sure if Linux is suffering from the same problem (having to maitain compatability with legacy code, so you can't solve problems the most efficent way)
Linux has a legacy (POSIX; Single UNIX Spec; X11) but it's a quite well-designed legacy. DOS is nice as an embedded OS, but anything complex is ugly.
Do you really think that, among the other lies and half-truths in your post, that the W3C has specifications for graphics primitives like drawing a line?
I assume you've never heard of SVG, the W3C's "language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML."
It's your lucky day. The browser you're looking for can be found (link to IE).
Some of us aren't as lucky. IE doesn't run on every computer being made today, especially more powerful workstations. (Support for Alpha and other non-Mac RISC machines was dropped back in the NT4 days.) See my previous comment #192 to see the real cost of running IE.
While everyone continues to use software that is in it's 19th beta stage, buggy and unfinished, I can use a very stable commercial product (say, IE for example) that performs well
Not if your computer doesn't have an x86 processor. In that case, you'd need an emulator plus a copy of Windows (USD $320). Even if you are running on an x86, you need a virtualizer ($300) plus Windows. Isn't $600 a bit steep for a web browser? Might as well just pay for Opera.
What's that rule in software development? Something like, adding more members to a project team makes the project later. Or to put it another way, too many cooks in the kitchen...
Currently, one of the most troubling bugs for me is that apparently memory cache isn't implemented for http!
It's not implemented in Mozilla. It's implemented in your file system's disk cache capability. I can't speak for Windows, but Linux uses all RAM that's not used for apps for disk caching.
All I want is for it not to suck up 120 megs of ram while it's running!!!
It doesn't. The top program provides an inaccurate picture of memory utilization, showing how much RAM each process has access to, not necessarily how much each process owns. For example, Mozilla's threads share memory, but top counts each one separately, inflating Mozilla's apparent memory footprint. If you see six 'mozilla' entries in top, count only the one that's using the most memory for a more accurate picture.
Also, much of the memory that XFree86 is reported to be using is mapped from the video card and used to store pixmaps. (Too bad X11 can't scale pixmaps.)
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The snake game sucks
While we're on the topic of Nintendo consoles, you can get a version of the snake game for NES here.
Still, I'd rather play Tetris.
Do you want generic falling tetraminoes, or do you want to pay through your no$e for the Tetris brand?
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Yes, the Game Boy Advance console is compatible with almost all official titles that run on Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Color. There is one title (Workboy) that does not function because it requires a special keyboard that can connect only to the original Game Boy's serial port.
It accomplishes this the same way the Sega Genesis plays Master System games and the PlayStation 2 plays PlayStation games: it includes a miniaturized version of the previous system, used in native games for I/O processing. It's as if you had a 386 on an ISA bus and an Alpha or PowerPC on a PCI bus on the same machine.
I'd really like to see a "graphing calculator" attachment for GBC or GBA. That baby would sell because "now you can take your Game Boy console to school and your teacher won't care!"
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
I'd like to see how they define UNIX platform.
You mean for licensing purposes? Qt Free is GPL, so you can port it to any platform.
Does NT's POSIX count as a UNIX platform? Does BeOS count as a UNIX platform?
Currently, Qt Free requires a working POSIX subsystem (NT's is subpar but Red Hat Cygwin is good) and an X11 server. XFree86 works on Windows NT/2K but not on 9x because of stupid assumptions in the design of Windows 9x's USER and GDI servers. (Why oh why didn't Microsoft just release NT 4 as Windows 95?)
free for OSS and pay for commercial is one thing. Doing the same for UNIX and Windows is just punishing a developer for not liking *NIX.
It's not punishing but instead "not wasting effort on porting a free software package to an environment that's thought to be hostile to free software."
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
video codec ... Sorensen ... Apple
You're thinking of QuickTime, rather than the communist-looking Qt toolkit used as KDE's widget set.
textual display information imbedded into movies now?
<OT>This has been in quicktime for a while (since at least 3.0).</OT>
Back on topic: will qt free edition (or xfree86) ever be ported to windows 9x?
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I don't really know anything else about Bono's career as a politician.
Six words: Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Despite that fact, I play any Nintendo games I want to on Nesticle.
NESticle's accuracy sucks Big Floppy Donkey Dick; it can't emulate games that rely on precise timing. Use TuxNES or one of the better WinDOS-based emulators instead. The only reason I ever touch NESticle is to make sure NES software I write displays a warning message if it is run on NESticle; it takes only four lines of NES asm to detect NESticle, and from there I display an advertisement for LoopyNES.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
A click through is not Law... click-throughs have all the legal binding of any other un-signed, un-witnessed agreement: none at all.
Big-money software licenses (such as Oracle and MSSQL licenses) often require a written contract that has all the consideration and everything, to the effect: "You give up $50,000 and the right to reverse engineer this software and publish benchmarks in exchange for the right to receive this software (we're not giving you the disc until we receive your signature) and use this software in commerce."
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Under standard copyright law, something like benchmarks is considered fair use, and is thus not subject to asinine click through agreements. If something is not covered by copyright law, it cannot reasonably be covered by click through
Click-through is like any other contract. Once you agree to it, you are bound by it. The agreements already waive your first sale rights. If you waive fair use, you waive fair use; such are the terms of the agreement. If you don't like it, tough beans. Use free software instead.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Most windows lusers couldn't compile anyway
They can if the installation wizard handles compiling the software; such an installation package would be similar to a source RPM. And yes, there is a free full-featured GNU compiler for Windows. There are two in fact: MinGW GCC and the GCC from Red Hat Cygwin.
they had brains they wouldn't be using an OS designed for two year olds.
So we're supposed to run games for the Wintendo platform under Wine? Good luck.
I upgrade my software with apt
Pretty hard to do if the distro on your Debian CD doesn't support your network connection hardware and protocols (winmodem, AOL, Juno, NetZero, network card, cable modem, DSL modem, PPPoE, etc.).
I read my docs online
Pretty hard to do if you can't boot or if your video subsystem isn't working.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
I'm sorry but I have a modded PS One
When I saw that console, my first thought was "What? This is the kind of console that would be packed in a Barbie playset." Then, after a bit of pondering: "No, that's too cute to be Barbie. It looks more like Precious Moments style."
and my Japanese games look just fine.
What region are your console and TV designed for?
The screen corruption I mentioned requires that 50fps software be run on 60fps TVs or vice versa. (See other comments nearby about PAL60 TVs; however, it's very hard to find a 50fps TV in the US unless you have a video capture card in your PC.) Because NTSC-U/C and NTSC-J regions use identical 60 Hz NTSC television standards, there is no graphical corruption.
I wrote: "European games are optimized for 50 fps PAL, while North American and Japanese games run on 60 fps NTSC ... Games that don't conform to the television will fall out of sync." Did you miss this part?
But I agree that keeping Japanese games out of American hands, especially when not a lot of text is involved and the community accepts bad translations as humorous, is a result of outright greed.
WHAT YOU SAY !!All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
well, to do a digital lowpass filter, you would use a FFT; i doubt that many commercial audio devices would use time-domain convolution when the FFT is faster
For one thing, it wouldn't necessarily be faster. Filtering with FFT is O(n log w) where w == window size; time-domain convolution is O(nm) where m == filter length. The hard edges of the FFT window creates artifacts that can be audible as a buzzing noise; this is why MP3 and Vorbis spend a few extra cycles on MDCT (an overlapped transform). Besides, you don't need a lot of taps; I know of a decent FOUR tap low-pass filter [11 19 5 -3]/32.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
The real, more subtle reason copyright terms are infinite is that bills keep getting passed to lengthen them.
For more information on perpetual copyright, read this writeup on Everything.
Here's how to get around perpetual copyrights and trademarks: Abstract the copyrighted expression away from the uncopyrightable idea by finding antecedents from before 1923 (or are otherwise Free). For example, derive Precious Moments from the Eloi people in chapter 4 of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine , and derive Noddy from Pinocchio renditions. This way you can avoid copyright and trademark infringement by taking a stereotype (uncopyrightable under Capcom v. Data East) and "making it yours" by changing just enough that the original expression is distinctive enough to overpower any copied expression.
This is why I no longer like Winnie-the-Pooh, as it has no Free antecedents.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
It's basically same as the DVD regions, except only 3 - one for each of Japan, America, and Europe
This is for a good reason. Console software is optimized for a particular television hardware standard. European games are optimized for 50 fps PAL, while North American and Japanese games run on 60 fps NTSC (that is, until 2006 when the USian FCC kills NTSC). Games that don't conform to the television will fall out of sync and produce a scrambled picture. For example, take NES games. The NES is easy to mod-chip (simply cut the power line) but the more timing-sensitive games (especially Rare games such as Rad Racer that use Pole Position-style raster scrolling) crash when played on a different style of television.
This also has the side effect of making it possible to play burned copies of games.
Which may or may not be illegal, depending on the license the game is released under. Backup first, free software second, piracy last.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
You can't write free software for the PlayStation unless you need a special mastering process to put the boot code on a real PSX disc. A compatibility chip allows you to burn and run Free Software(TM) designed for PSX using a garden-variety Orange Book conforming CD-R burner.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
we would need to say goodbye to slashdot and freshmeat!
We would need to say goodbye to calling them slashdot.org and freshmeat.net, but Andover already owns slashdot.com, and OSDN could buy freshmeat2.com. Or they could just move everything to slashdot.osdn.com, freshmeat.osdn.com, etc. SourceForge could probably keep its .net though, as it does provide hosting services for free software projects.
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OpenNIC is an additional root server that claims "DNS" to stand for "Democratic Name System." But for it to actually work, both your computer and your mail server have to have OpenNIC listed in resolv.conf (or whatever the NT equivalent is). I haven't had any success in getting Hotmail to support OpenNIC.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
RIAA v. Napster Is founded on some people can use it for piracy so it should be shut down. Since it is users trading music, all Napster's delivering is indexes.
Contributory copyright infringement. The primary use of this is to pirate music published by the Big Five labels. If you want to promote your band's music or discover independent music, there are better tools such as MP3.com. They'll even manufacture CDs for your band that contain Red Book audio plus a CD Extra track with MP3 files.
I post on Slashdot. I also post on Napdot, but under a different handle.All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
For starters, it's 9x that hold all the legacy code that is supposed to make DOS programs work. The whole *point* of 9x is to move DOS style applications to NT style applications. I think that MS would've been overjoyed if it could've dumped DOS & 9x all together long ago, it has a far superior product in its hands (NT).
So why is Microsoft charging twice as much for NT as for 9x? And why couldn't they have just done more work in the DOS virtualization department? For example, Windows 2000's VDM chokes on 32-bit programs that conform to the DPMI spec.
I'm not sure if Linux is suffering from the same problem (having to maitain compatability with legacy code, so you can't solve problems the most efficent way)
Linux has a legacy (POSIX; Single UNIX Spec; X11) but it's a quite well-designed legacy. DOS is nice as an embedded OS, but anything complex is ugly.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Do you really think that, among the other lies and half-truths in your post, that the W3C has specifications for graphics primitives like drawing a line?
I assume you've never heard of SVG, the W3C's "language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML."
Sprint PCS Free & Clear: More nonsensical than Zero Wing!All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
It's your lucky day. The browser you're looking for can be found (link to IE).
Some of us aren't as lucky. IE doesn't run on every computer being made today, especially more powerful workstations. (Support for Alpha and other non-Mac RISC machines was dropped back in the NT4 days.) See my previous comment #192 to see the real cost of running IE.
"You mentioned"Tiddly-day."
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
While everyone continues to use software that is in it's 19th beta stage, buggy and unfinished, I can use a very stable commercial product (say, IE for example) that performs well
Not if your computer doesn't have an x86 processor. In that case, you'd need an emulator plus a copy of Windows (USD $320). Even if you are running on an x86, you need a virtualizer ($300) plus Windows. Isn't $600 a bit steep for a web browser? Might as well just pay for Opera.
What's that rule in software development? Something like, adding more members to a project team makes the project later. Or to put it another way, too many cooks in the kitchen...
Spoil the broth. See also The Mythical Man-Month.
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Currently, one of the most troubling bugs for me is that apparently memory cache isn't implemented for http!
It's not implemented in Mozilla. It's implemented in your file system's disk cache capability. I can't speak for Windows, but Linux uses all RAM that's not used for apps for disk caching.
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However there is one thing that it's lacking, and that's a "Shop" button.
So make your own. Add a link to http://www.bn.com to your button bar and label it "Shop"
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All I want is for it not to suck up 120 megs of ram while it's running!!!
It doesn't. The top program provides an inaccurate picture of memory utilization, showing how much RAM each process has access to, not necessarily how much each process owns. For example, Mozilla's threads share memory, but top counts each one separately, inflating Mozilla's apparent memory footprint. If you see six 'mozilla' entries in top, count only the one that's using the most memory for a more accurate picture.
Also, much of the memory that XFree86 is reported to be using is mapped from the video card and used to store pixmaps. (Too bad X11 can't scale pixmaps.)
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Somebody Set Us Up the Mozilla!
1. Point of grammar: it's "set up us" not "set us up"
2. Why are you comparing Mozilla to a bomb?
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