Does anyone remember this. LOOooong before the Infocom version..in fact, i think the original game may have been subject to a lawsuit? Not sure who it was by, may have a look now.
I dont think it was as good as the Infocom version, but it was one of the first text adventures i played and i quite liked it!
Yeah, i remember a story about some guys in the UK getting hassled/arrested/not sure for supplying banned tech to iraq - turned out they were smuggling motorola 68000 cpus! Wondered at the time why they didnt just send a few Megadrives or Amigas over!
If its anything like the old Amigas of yore, its cos the Amiga hardware used a palettized planar system, rather than the pcs chunky pixel system.
The max number of bitplanes on the amiga was 8, 2^8 = 256. You load whatever colours you want into the 256 colour lookup table (in 24 bit colour, 8 bits each of r,g,b).
On the pc, you generally just write the whole 16/24/32 bits of RGB info into one memory location. Or use an 8 bit palettized mode.
Well, i believe its the intention that counts.
You can cut a hole in someones throat and they die. You can cut a hole in someone throat and they get to breathe again while you try and get the lump of potato out!
The `why` is more important than the `what`.
Yeah, well theres that special new low fat fat that they`ve been putting into crisps and cakes and that. Only i`ve heard nasty things about leakage problems at `the other end`... you brake too hard and the whiplash clears out your lower intestine!
In a breakthrough announced today, scientists believe they may have solved one of natures most enduring problems - how to lose weight.
It appears that by actually putting less food into your mouth, and instead taking a little excercise, you can reduce surplus weight to absolutely any level you require.
"We were astonished" said the scientists. "We always thought the answer had to be in the genes somewhere. But apparantly you dont need expensive, patented drugs to solve this problem. Just a little common sense, and the ability to understand that solving some problems takes a little time and effort."
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He`s amusing, if you go for irony in a big way. I do occasionally, but i still have him blocked.
Perhaps he performs a useful function - i`m sure his poorly thought out articles serve only to spur on people who are considering a similar career in a `if he can do it, maybe i should give it a try after all` kind of way.
But ultimately, to answer your question: No. He sucks, and hard.
Also, no point in getting too excited about the `audio/video capabilities`, or at least the audio ones. Due to lack of commitment from Be, all major audio companies (Steinberg, Emagic etc) have abandoned support for Beos.
Windows 2000 is too slow too, so it looks like professional audio work is still going to be done on w95/98.
The net is still far too slow. It wont peak until everyone has a connection thats about 2000 times faster, so you can download uncompressed audio/video. And phone calls.
It was a show with outtakes from various shows/films.
Brian Blessed (from the BlackAdder series, the Flash Gordon film and about 1000 other things) was trying to open a Palm Pilot which he was giving to a contestant as a prize. He got more and more annoyed, and came up with the priceless :
"Pilm Pilot? Sounds like a fucking wanking machine!"
I got the impression that OfCom will only concern itself with whether people are broad/webcasting naughty words - not that it had anything to do with the infrastructure. Guess we`ll have to wait and see.
Yeah, its not like you are paying for their service. All they are doing is using what you give them, for free, and making something that you use, for free, better.
What is the problem? Its like complaining about traffic lights gathering information about how many people cross the road, when, etc. You`re free to cross elsewhere if you`re that sad!
"I listen to shoutcast radio stations using winamp on a windows OS, which I suspect is a very common way of listening to online radio stations. AFAIK, there is no way of saving the low bitrate stream I am currently listening to. "
If you had a Creative sound card you could use the supplied `Recorder` software which, in `What-U-Hear` (i think!) mode, will stream all audio out to a wav file.
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Does anyone remember this. LOOooong before the Infocom version..in fact, i think the original game may have been subject to a lawsuit? Not sure who it was by, may have a look now.
I dont think it was as good as the Infocom version, but it was one of the first text adventures i played and i quite liked it!
Yeah, i remember a story about some guys in the UK getting hassled/arrested/not sure for supplying banned tech to iraq - turned out they were smuggling motorola 68000 cpus! Wondered at the time why they didnt just send a few Megadrives or Amigas over!
Naaaah man, too much randomness..... you want to try Trinity or Lurking Horror!
"more websites will be forced to close"
Plenty more where they came from. The internet will survive despite lame adverts, not because of them.
Shame Steinberg and emagic have abandoned any plans to release their sequencers on Beos.
If its anything like the old Amigas of yore, its cos the Amiga hardware used a palettized planar system, rather than the pcs chunky pixel system.
The max number of bitplanes on the amiga was 8, 2^8 = 256. You load whatever colours you want into the 256 colour lookup table (in 24 bit colour, 8 bits each of r,g,b).
On the pc, you generally just write the whole 16/24/32 bits of RGB info into one memory location. Or use an 8 bit palettized mode.
Well, i believe its the intention that counts.
You can cut a hole in someones throat and they die. You can cut a hole in someone throat and they get to breathe again while you try and get the lump of potato out!
The `why` is more important than the `what`.
Yeah, well theres that special new low fat fat that they`ve been putting into crisps and cakes and that. Only i`ve heard nasty things about leakage problems at `the other end`... you brake too hard and the whiplash clears out your lower intestine!
In a breakthrough announced today, scientists believe they may have solved one of natures most enduring problems - how to lose weight.
It appears that by actually putting less food into your mouth, and instead taking a little excercise, you can reduce surplus weight to absolutely any level you require.
"We were astonished" said the scientists. "We always thought the answer had to be in the genes somewhere. But apparantly you dont need expensive, patented drugs to solve this problem. Just a little common sense, and the ability to understand that solving some problems takes a little time and effort."
Perhaps SlashDot could publish a public key for comments, and you`d get a +1 bonus for encrypting your comments to that key?
"you point and you grunt. A massive winding down, regressing away from language, in order to address the technological nervousness of the user"
Yeah, nothing keeps the old grey matter in shape like a pointlessly over-complicated interface.
"Has he improved at all lately?"
He`s amusing, if you go for irony in a big way. I do occasionally, but i still have him blocked.
Perhaps he performs a useful function - i`m sure his poorly thought out articles serve only to spur on people who are considering a similar career in a `if he can do it, maybe i should give it a try after all` kind of way.
But ultimately, to answer your question: No. He sucks, and hard.
Also, no point in getting too excited about the `audio/video capabilities`, or at least the audio ones. Due to lack of commitment from Be, all major audio companies (Steinberg, Emagic etc) have abandoned support for Beos.
Windows 2000 is too slow too, so it looks like professional audio work is still going to be done on w95/98.
The net is still far too slow. It wont peak until everyone has a connection thats about 2000 times faster, so you can download uncompressed audio/video. And phone calls.
Yeah, and we ended up with watered down, wrong crap like the bible.
The world would be a better place if everyone spoke (insert language here, even if its a new,crap, made up one)
Cant get them from my pc - any chance of a transcript?
It was a show with outtakes from various shows/films.
Brian Blessed (from the BlackAdder series, the Flash Gordon film and about 1000 other things) was trying to open a Palm Pilot which he was giving to a contestant as a prize. He got more and more annoyed, and came up with the priceless :
"Pilm Pilot? Sounds like a fucking wanking machine!"
I got the impression that OfCom will only concern itself with whether people are broad/webcasting naughty words - not that it had anything to do with the infrastructure. Guess we`ll have to wait and see.
Yeah, its not like you are paying for their service. All they are doing is using what you give them, for free, and making something that you use, for free, better.
What is the problem? Its like complaining about traffic lights gathering information about how many people cross the road, when, etc. You`re free to cross elsewhere if you`re that sad!
User? There`s millions more where they came from.
"Microwaves. It's well known and it's not safe. (Marconi fried himself slowly to death this way). "
No, you`re confusing him with Macaroni.
Trees/plants etc consume oxygen at night, which is why its not a good idea to sleep in (approaching) airtight rooms with loads of plants in.
"I listen to shoutcast radio stations using winamp on a windows OS, which I suspect is a very common way of listening to online radio stations. AFAIK, there is no way of saving the low bitrate stream I am currently listening to. "
If you had a Creative sound card you could use the supplied `Recorder` software which, in `What-U-Hear` (i think!) mode, will stream all audio out to a wav file.