Correct. 2600 Hz (a slightly flat E, 2 1/2 octaves above A-440) is the frequency that 1-800 numbers used to use to signify a free line. Phreaks hacked up "blue boxes" to emit that exact frequency; this C program (for Borland Turbo C and DJGPP) does the same thing:
#include <dos.h> int main() { sound(2600); return 0; }
I'd post a binary at my web page, but I'm booted into GNU/Linux at the moment. But don't try phreaking with it: the phone company now has a "blue box" alarm.
1) A bunch of first person gun game clones like House of the Dead.
I'm still waiting for an arcade game where you hold a joystick in your left hand. It'd be like id's Quake: point the gun at the side of the screen to turn; move the joystick to move your body.
And then there's the Dr. Mario patent, which I'm proud to break. I did, however, build a failsafe in that game: change two lines of C code and you get a different, non-infringing game that's just as fun.
Though I must say I hate all that shitty windows shareware. Like who wants to pay $15 for a piece of shit.
There's lots of freebeerware and free software. Point your browser to the Depot to see a sample of free games that run on Windows (mostly in DOS not-emulation; many are portable free software and can be recompiled for Windows), or you can come.to my page and...
Most hits rip other games' concepts. No, Nintendo didn't create the side scroller; Activision did in Pitfall for Atari 2600 (no connection with 2600). Alexey Pajitnov of Tetris® fame didn't create polyminoes; that was from the Romans. I think you might want to play some "infringing" games.
Transparent JPEG: Don't use an annoyingly busy background, and make your JPEG image's background color the same color as the background. This also works to make PNG files compatible with sub-baseline PNG implementations.
Animated JPEG: MPEG. But animated GIFs are annoying enough.
PNG already supports alpha transparency, which is better than that 1-bit mask $#!+ that GIF uses. Animations are part of the MNG specification, a superset of PNG, or you can hack them in with a JavaScript(TM) image-switching script.
Anyway always, when I see png-file, which I can't seen directly with browser
What are you using? The Lynx browser or some other character-cell browser?:-) The latest releases of stable Netscape (4.72) and IE (5.0x) support basic PNG images. Mozilla supported them last time I tried (M14). If you don't have a busy background, you can use non-transparent PNG files the same color as your background. You can test your browser's PNG capabilities at my web page; all the images (except the animated banners which are NOT served from my site) are PNG or JPEG.
There are also clever methods to write run-length-encoded GIF files, useful if your GIF files have large areas of transparency or other single color. (RLE is the compression technique that PCX uses.)
Aren't the 1.1.x versions incorporating more of a (correct) menu-at-the-top-of-the-window approach?
GTK+ menus have a bar at the top with a dotted line. Right click your image, then left click this dotted line, and the menu turns into a window. Move this window to the side of the screen, and you get a somewhat traditional menu. But I would like the right button to draw in the background color like it does in MS Paint and NeoPaint.
Does Nintendo Think Emulation Companies Promote Piracy? Why?
Yes. The only purpose of video game emulators are to play illegal copied games from the Internet.
Nintendo's argument assumes that there are no legal copied games on the Internet, that no Nintendo-console-compatible games are free software or freebeerware. Nintendo also is indirectly slamming Sun's Java technology, an emulated platform commonly integrated into Web browsers.
ObTopic: Will Technopop be the same? Probably not. I assume that the standard GNU tools shipped with Free "BeerOS" 5 will be enough to make software for the Tight system. Is that right?
I thought the GNU GPL and Lesser GPL allowed "mere aggregation" of object files. Can.o files be extracted verbatim from a.so file? If so, the.so creation process is "mere aggregation."
Well for starters, piling all the doodads into one master menu is STOOOOPid. Only a programmer can fuck up like that. seriously.
Or a Microsoft interface designer (the::[+] Start menu). But aren't _all_ menus "one master menu" if you think about it? In most other apps, one master menu (with options "File Edit etc.") is displayed at the top of the screen; when you choose "File", a submenu appears: New, Open, Save, Quit.
Then you have the extreme awkwardness of right clicking to get into the wonderland of overly nested menus, and dragging right from thence to get into the submenus, probably with your middle finger still depressing the right mouse button if you're like most people. Hello joint pain!
Not necessarily. You can right-click on the image, and the menu will pop up, you hover into your command, and you left click. Sort of like the evil monopoly's start menu but different.
But, remember, it's a GTK app. You can also click a menu's dotted line bar to make the menu stick on the screen (click the master menu's to get an interface similar to what you're probably used to), and you can reassign key shortcuts by hovering over a command and pressing a key.
Or you can use a commercial application that had its feature set tuned for photo touch-up. Only the options that make sense are present, they are all tweaked for the subject material, everything is easy to find.
GTK lets you easily change menu key bindings. Simply hover over a menu item and press a key. You can assign single-key shortcuts for all your favorite filter commands.
Please elaborate. I somewhat like having the menu bar at my right-click fingertip, not having to move to the top of the screen just to pull down a menu. It also gives 20 extra pixels of vertical space at the top of the window.
God, after playing with it for hours and hours I just went back to Photoshop on my Windows box. Gimp BLOWS
Probably because you haven't learned to click and shift-click and keep commonly used menus open (click the dotted line at the top of the menu). I use GIMP or WinGIMP depending on what I'm booted into at the moment (I use Windows because some of my critical apps don't run in Wine).
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#include <dos.h>
int main() { sound(2600); return 0; }
I'd post a binary at my web page, but I'm booted into GNU/Linux at the moment. But don't try phreaking with it: the phone company now has a "blue box" alarm.
1) A bunch of first person gun game clones like House of the Dead.
I'm still waiting for an arcade game where you hold a joystick in your left hand. It'd be like id's Quake: point the gun at the side of the screen to turn; move the joystick to move your body.
In the meantime:And then there's the Dr. Mario patent, which I'm proud to break. I did, however, build a failsafe in that game: change two lines of C code and you get a different, non-infringing game that's just as fun.
Though I must say I hate all that shitty windows shareware. Like who wants to pay $15 for a piece of shit.
There's lots of freebeerware and free software. Point your browser to the Depot to see a sample of free games that run on Windows (mostly in DOS not-emulation; many are portable free software and can be recompiled for Windows), or you can come.to my page and...Most hits rip other games' concepts. No, Nintendo didn't create the side scroller; Activision did in Pitfall for Atari 2600 (no connection with 2600). Alexey Pajitnov of Tetris® fame didn't create polyminoes; that was from the Romans. I think you might want to play some "infringing" games.
But very few browsers have any way to display MNG animations, while most can display GIF animations.
Other than ad banners, what are GIF animations really used for? They're distracting.
You mean web2png?
PNG already supports alpha transparency, which is better than that 1-bit mask $#!+ that GIF uses. Animations are part of the MNG specification, a superset of PNG, or you can hack them in with a JavaScript(TM) image-switching script.
Anyway always, when I see png-file, which I can't seen directly with browser
What are you using? The Lynx browser or some other character-cell browser? :-) The latest releases of stable Netscape (4.72) and IE (5.0x) support basic PNG images. Mozilla supported them last time I tried (M14). If you don't have a busy background, you can use non-transparent PNG files the same color as your background. You can test your browser's PNG capabilities at my web page; all the images (except the animated banners which are NOT served from my site) are PNG or JPEG.
There are also clever methods to write run-length-encoded GIF files, useful if your GIF files have large areas of transparency or other single color. (RLE is the compression technique that PCX uses.)
Need something translated into some language, so those poor brown guys can read it?
Brown guys? You mean Jawas?
Of course you're not going to give the job to someone who speaks both English and Brownish well
I want to learn Brownish. Can you point me in the right direction? Jeeves was no help, and neither was Google. Babel Fish doesn't support it.
Aren't the 1.1.x versions incorporating more of a (correct) menu-at-the-top-of-the-window approach?
GTK+ menus have a bar at the top with a dotted line. Right click your image, then left click this dotted line, and the menu turns into a window. Move this window to the side of the screen, and you get a somewhat traditional menu. But I would like the right button to draw in the background color like it does in MS Paint and NeoPaint.
It'd be a nice thing to do with a linmodem.
Nintendo of America Inc., for instance, doesn't take kindly to amateur third-party development on its consoles:
Nintendo's argument assumes that there are no legal copied games on the Internet, that no Nintendo-console-compatible games are free software or freebeerware. Nintendo also is indirectly slamming Sun's Java technology, an emulated platform commonly integrated into Web browsers.
ObTopic: Will Technopop be the same? Probably not. I assume that the standard GNU tools shipped with Free "BeerOS" 5 will be enough to make software for the Tight system. Is that right?
I thought the GNU GPL and Lesser GPL allowed "mere aggregation" of object files. Can .o files be extracted verbatim from a .so file? If so, the .so creation process is "mere aggregation."
I suppose, but you rate code based on efficiency?
Running time to produce a correct answer.
Well for starters, piling all the doodads into one master menu is STOOOOPid. Only a programmer can fuck up like that. seriously.
Or a Microsoft interface designer (the ::[+] Start menu). But aren't _all_ menus "one master menu" if you think about it? In most other apps, one master menu (with options "File Edit etc.") is displayed at the top of the screen; when you choose "File", a submenu appears: New, Open, Save, Quit.
Then you have the extreme awkwardness of right clicking to get into the wonderland of overly nested menus, and dragging right from thence to get into the submenus, probably with your middle finger still depressing the right mouse button if you're like most people. Hello joint pain!
Not necessarily. You can right-click on the image, and the menu will pop up, you hover into your command, and you left click. Sort of like the evil monopoly's start menu but different.
But, remember, it's a GTK app. You can also click a menu's dotted line bar to make the menu stick on the screen (click the master menu's to get an interface similar to what you're probably used to), and you can reassign key shortcuts by hovering over a command and pressing a key.
Sorry guys, but the Gimp UI sucks. I like having a toolbar rather than hunting thru 42 levels of menus to find a function.
So create your own toolbar...on your keyboard. Simply hover over a command (in any GIMP Toolkit app) and press a key; boom, instant shortcut.
Or you can use a commercial application that had its feature set tuned for photo touch-up. Only the options that make sense are present, they are all tweaked for the subject material, everything is easy to find.
GTK lets you easily change menu key bindings. Simply hover over a menu item and press a key. You can assign single-key shortcuts for all your favorite filter commands.
Gimp's gui is deplorable
Please elaborate. I somewhat like having the menu bar at my right-click fingertip, not having to move to the top of the screen just to pull down a menu. It also gives 20 extra pixels of vertical space at the top of the window.
No offsense, but first off it just plain doesn't SUCK. I mean, really, has anyone EASILY created some decent artwork with GIMP yet?
I used it for the art in Vitamins.
God, after playing with it for hours and hours I just went back to Photoshop on my Windows box. Gimp BLOWS
Probably because you haven't learned to click and shift-click and keep commonly used menus open (click the dotted line at the top of the menu). I use GIMP or WinGIMP depending on what I'm booted into at the moment (I use Windows because some of my critical apps don't run in Wine).
Make a split-screen game like freepuzzlearena or Vitamins (get 'em here).
Shawn Hargreaves, the author of Allegro, wrote an essay about open-source games. Artists aren't as quick to work for free (beer) as coders are.
we don't call windows 'win32'
Unless we're distinguishing 3.5+ releases (NT/W2K, W9x/ME) from 3.1. And Windows's kernel is still Microsoft MS-DOS.