By placing it in an image along with some obfuscation designed to confuse OCR, automated response systems would be extremely difficult to write.
Correct; that's the entire point of The CAPTCHA Project, which has previously been discussed on Slashdot. But the current CAPTCHA systems, which rely on human recognition of features of an image, are inaccessible to blind people and to others who can't view images and are thus NOT Section 508 compliant.
If your authentication method requires viewing images, then it is inaccessible to the visually impaired and is thus NOT section 508 compliant, and you're not going to be able to sell your system to the U.S. government.
You still need to dump it on a cartridge so you can play on your GBA, right?
Yes. You can play the game in an emulator, or you can use the MBV2 cable to copy the game from your PC to your GBA's internal RAM. I'm still working on putting the GBA into sleep mode so that you can keep the game in the GBA's RAM between plays.
You don't need an actual physical Legend of Zelda cartridge and NES console to play the game
But if you don't have the cartridge within five meters of the computer you're emulating it on, the IDSA will come and kill you. Besides, most computers don't have TV out; a 27" living room TV is much nicer for multi-player split-screen video gaming than a 17" VGA monitor.
Please be aware that Office Depot is immediately requiring all products that connect to a Personal Computer and Notebook Computer must pass these Designed for Windows XP logo requirements
The specific use of the word "connect" smells strongly like the new policy applies only to hardware products, so that customers aren't scared when they bring home their products and get the "unsigned driver" alert. (Under Windows 2000 and Windows XP, installing an unsigned driver produces such an alert. Installing an unsigned user-mode application program does not produce such an alert.)
I have dr mario on gba as well as a hundred other classic NES games.
How could you afford to purchase genuine copies of "a hundred other classic NES games" without being independently wealthy?
And how did you build your NES cartridge dumper?
but playing mario 1 on a handheld is priceless
You don't need PocketNES to do that because all Super Mario Bros. games except SMB 3 have been ported natively to a Game Boy platform (SMB 1 and The Lost Levels to GBC; SMB2, SMW, and Yoshi's Island to GBA).
Play selection in Madden for set-top consoles is turn-based and 2-player.
The trick is to have all players take their turns simultaneously and then the game animates the result of the round. You wouldn't even need broadband. Sony has implemented a set of such games for PCs on its Game Show Network web site.
The fact is, if you add graphics to a text adventure, it's no longer a text adventure.
Some text adventures had graphics in the top 2/3 of the screen and text in the bottom 1/3. Does that make them "text adventures with graphics" or "graphic adventures with a command line"?
OK, so I started on typical 150 bpm songs such as "Hot Limit". I then tried increasing the bus speed to 200 BPM with the "Paranoia" songs. But why am I having so much trouble passing songs once I've doubled the data rate from 150 bpm to 300 bpm with "Max 300"?
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After all is't any good OCR software enable to transfer those to text?
Test your OCR software against Gimpy and see if you still think OCR can defeat automated Turing tests based on a distorted image of text.
Nobody's twisting your arm so you use it.
Unless your job requires that you contact somebody who uses only it.
By placing it in an image along with some obfuscation designed to confuse OCR, automated response systems would be extremely difficult to write.
Correct; that's the entire point of The CAPTCHA Project, which has previously been discussed on Slashdot. But the current CAPTCHA systems, which rely on human recognition of features of an image, are inaccessible to blind people and to others who can't view images and are thus NOT Section 508 compliant.
If your authentication method requires viewing images, then it is inaccessible to the visually impaired and is thus NOT section 508 compliant, and you're not going to be able to sell your system to the U.S. government.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get my game done in time for the GBAX.com deadline, but here it is: Vitamins, a GPL'd clone of Dr. Mario for GBA. From the looks of things, it appears CmdrTaco would want to play this.
You still need to dump it on a cartridge so you can play on your GBA, right?
Yes. You can play the game in an emulator, or you can use the MBV2 cable to copy the game from your PC to your GBA's internal RAM. I'm still working on putting the GBA into sleep mode so that you can keep the game in the GBA's RAM between plays.
I rank those guys somewhere between The Register and the Weekly World News on the journalistic integrity scale.
This story was in the Inquirer, not the Enquirer.
But is there a difference?
You don't need an actual physical Legend of Zelda cartridge and NES console to play the game
But if you don't have the cartridge within five meters of the computer you're emulating it on, the IDSA will come and kill you. Besides, most computers don't have TV out; a 27" living room TV is much nicer for multi-player split-screen video gaming than a 17" VGA monitor.
who thought RH would manage to get a "Designed for Windows XP" certification!
Perhaps Red Hat Linux 9 includes a port of User Mode Linux designed to run on top of Win32, with DirectXFree86, or something.
If you don't like it, don't buy there.
What if OfficeMax, Staples, Best Buy, and Circuit City adopt a similar policy? Then what national chain will be left?
Please be aware that Office Depot is immediately requiring all products that connect to a Personal Computer and Notebook Computer must pass these Designed for Windows XP logo requirements
The specific use of the word "connect" smells strongly like the new policy applies only to hardware products, so that customers aren't scared when they bring home their products and get the "unsigned driver" alert. (Under Windows 2000 and Windows XP, installing an unsigned driver produces such an alert. Installing an unsigned user-mode application program does not produce such an alert.)
decades-dead musical genre.
If feature-length musical films are dead, then what has Disney been producing all this time?
I have dr mario on gba as well as a hundred other classic NES games.
How could you afford to purchase genuine copies of "a hundred other classic NES games" without being independently wealthy?
And how did you build your NES cartridge dumper?
but playing mario 1 on a handheld is priceless
You don't need PocketNES to do that because all Super Mario Bros. games except SMB 3 have been ported natively to a Game Boy platform (SMB 1 and The Lost Levels to GBC; SMB2, SMW, and Yoshi's Island to GBA).
In fact, here's a GPL'd homebrew port of Dr. Mario to GBA.
know for a fact that none of the big RPG studios (Black Isle, Origin, Bethesda) are working on anything turn based anymore.
What about Squaresoft, who's working on Final Fantasy X Part II for PS2? Or is the Final Fantasy series not big enough for you?
Where you have to wiggle your joystick as fast as you can.
That's called "Max 300" in Dance Dance Revolution, and I still can't pass it on heavy.
Turn based would be a nightmare in multiplayer
Turn-based Pokemon for the Game Boy is 2-player.
Play selection in Madden for set-top consoles is turn-based and 2-player.
The trick is to have all players take their turns simultaneously and then the game animates the result of the round. You wouldn't even need broadband. Sony has implemented a set of such games for PCs on its Game Show Network web site.
The fact is, if you add graphics to a text adventure, it's no longer a text adventure.
Some text adventures had graphics in the top 2/3 of the screen and text in the bottom 1/3. Does that make them "text adventures with graphics" or "graphic adventures with a command line"?
What is dead is the simple 2D space shooters. Now we have space shooters in glorious 3D. Freelancer, for example. Who would want to go back to 2D?
I would. The mechanics of a 2D shooter such as Gradius or Zero Wing are completely different from the mechanics of a 3D shooter such as Star Fox.
And virtual reality games were never really popular enought to say the genre has vanished -- it just never caught on in the first place.
On the contrary: Virtual reality has become first-person shooters.
I wonder if consumers would accept cheaper games, if it meant that some of the more specialized genres could come back.
Look at Wario Ware for Game Boy Advance, coming in May. You have to play 200 different games, each for 3 seconds, to win.
Five dollars? Try free and Free. Milestone 1 of Vitamins, a clone of Dr. Mario on the GBA platform, is released under the GPL.
Yes. Programmers all over are trying to prove various systems Tetris complete.
However, they can't use the name "Tetris".
Isn't Parappa largely a clone of that old "Simon" game?
CmdrTaco wants Dr. Mario for GBA.
CmdrTaco gets open-source Dr. Mario for GBA.
OK, so I started on typical 150 bpm songs such as "Hot Limit". I then tried increasing the bus speed to 200 BPM with the "Paranoia" songs. But why am I having so much trouble passing songs once I've doubled the data rate from 150 bpm to 300 bpm with "Max 300"?
Whos to say games ever 'expire'?
The internal battery used to power the SRAM that saves the state of the game, that's what. It will eventually run out of charge.
I thought fidelity was for audiophiles?
Not the audiofiles that most p2p users download, that is, 128 kbps MPEG-1 layer III.