I'll bet the monitor in question is connected with a VGA plug. I've never seen that happen with a laptop display, and your Cinema display uses DVI. It's also a Dell, so what can you expect? "Dude, you're going to Hell!"
That's because the MPAA is tired of getting stonewalled by ISPs. So now they just want you to to cooperate like a good citizen and tell them how to find you before you even start sharing stuff.
Nobody will know until they actually have one to open up. I doubt it will be easy to mod, but it's still possible. It certainly won't be this easy. (I'm glad I got one, because it's unlikely he'll make another production run without a lot of interest. Plus, the MMC slot part isn't available any more, so it needs some re-design, too.)
The 7800 was similar in power to the NES. Where the main difference came in was that Atari (specifically Jack Tramiel) really didn't want to sell home video games. So even after they dug out the 5,000 or so units that had been in storage two years, they didn't want to pay anybody to write new games, and they didn't want to charge enough for the games to make it worth the trouble. In 1988, four years after it was initially released, and in spite of all its problems, the 7800 still had top selling games.
What the NES had going for it was:
* Support from Nintendo
* Almost two years more development time
* A decent sound chip (the 7800 required a chip in the cartridge for decent sound, which was only used in Ballblazer and Commando)
* The "CHRROM" thing. The NES used character mode graphics like the Colecovision did, but brought out the video chip bus to allow tile sets to be accessed without pre-loading them. Having a separate video bus allowed for a bit more performance, compared with the 7800's Maria chip stealing cycles to do DMA for the display.
The only classic game I regularly play is the 7800 version of Robotron. I'm disappointed that they didn't include it (and it was one of the best demos of the 7800's graphics), but they probably would have had to re-license it from Midway. Ms. Pac-Man for the 7800 would have been nice too (it was written by the same people who wrote the arcade Ms. Pac), but that would have similar re-licensing problems.
Beyond that, hacking the hardware and software ranks as my #2 "game". I'm still buying one anyhow, out of technical curiousity as much as anything else.
For what it's worth, two of those games were 7800-only, and three others had both 2600 and 7800 versions, so hopefully they will use the 7800 versions where available.
And Apple spent far too long trying to be anti-IBM. Strange how that worked out, isn't it? Both were so focused on one competitor that they got beaten by another.
I don't know what it is about Totoro, but if someone could figure it out and bottle it up, they could rule the world. For a kids story, Totoro kicks total ass. Even in the dub.
Honestly, though, I think no full-length anime film can ever come close to a full-length anime series with 26~ episodes.
More like 13 episodes. Most 26 episode series these days break it up into two major story arcs, and manage to give you two good stories in 26 episodes. But there are a lot of 13 episode series lately. And for what it's worth, Cowboy Bebop was like this, only they mixed in the episodes from the Vicious story arc (which I didn't care for) throughout the entire run.
Recent good recent anime (by no means exhaustive): Haibane Renmei (13), Kino no Tabi (13), Stellvia (2x13), Scrapped Princess (2x13), Paranoia Agent (13), Samurai Champloo (12 eps so far, out of probably 26), Read Or Die/ROD TV (3 OVA + 2x13).
As for the "giants", they're the old giants. How about they stop drooling over the same old directors and start looking for some new giants? Like Satoshi Kon, for instance.
How are you measuring the memory usage? With top? Yeah, right. It is well known that top reports the same shared memory multiple times for each process. In particular, I recall that when you're running X, your video card frame buffer gets included into the usage of EVERY process running it.
Actually, they always fall. When they're not new. You can get a Blue & White G3 for a pretty decent price these days, it'll run OS X 10.4, take a gig of RAM, and a 1.1GHz CPU. Of course the prices of used Macs still fall a lot slower than the prices of used PCs, due to supply and demand. And while you can upgrade the CPU, the new CPU will probably cost you more than the rest of the computer.
Why? Because even if the cars can be made to work, the drivers can't be trusted to handle it. That's why we have the FAA.
We have enough car accidents where only forward motion is involved. Let me put it this way. Would you want one of these things flying over your neighborhood, piloted (yes, piloted, not driven) by someone who could be a total moron, yakking on his cell phone, or maybe just drank a six pack?
Yeah, I'd sure like one of those things falling through the roof of my house, I can tell you right now. Not.
Roads aren't just to make wheels work. They also provide boundaries of where you can't go.
It was from them calling in that I really want to see this. It sounds kind of like The Thunderbirds Go To the Middle East.
What started all this "movie will be bashing Bush" crap was people who had an early shot of some guy in the movie and ASS-umed that it was supposed to be Bush.
If you're going to be limited to 4K of memory and a raster-follower graphics chip, you might as well get a real Atari 2600 and a RAM cartridge. And I know for certain that the Atari 5200 has a USB-loadable RAM cart available for it.
This does have the one advantage of being a system 1) designed to be programmed by amateurs and 2) available for order in quantity.
You couldn't base a college class on Dreamcasts because you couldn't order them in reliable quantities, or get them repaired easily, and you have to burn CD-Rs all the time. Well, okay, you could, but you'd eventually come to a point where it was more trouble finding units at non-fixed prices off of ebay than it was worth. And DC serial cables are too hard to find and DC BBAs are too expensive.
In fact, I think the best system out there right now for teaching game programming might be the Game Boy Advance. ARM processor, easy to load software over a link cable, easy to buy in quantity.
MAME emulates coin-op video game systems, in which the company making them could come up with a new variation on the architecture for each game if they wanted.
You should stick with MESS, which emulates various home video game systems. Many of these have been documented very well. If you choose one of the really significant ones (like 2600, Colecovision or NES), you can even release the game on a cartridge playable in an actual system.
Step 1, choose a game system
Step 2, write game
Step 3, profit!
8 bit video game systems are still plentiful (just not new in the box), and relatively easy to hack on. Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, 800, Colecovision, NES, etc. There's no need for SMT. (Except maybe to make development RAM cartridges.) TTL chips are still readily available. GAL chips weren't available back in the day, but are also useful. Sub-4MHz bus speeds avoid the need for tricky layouts.
This is an interesting device, and looks fine for teaching purposes, but the price tag combined with the uniqueness of the CPU means that it's a curiousity from out of the gate. They originally wanted to make one with an ARM CPU, which might have been better in being a standard architecture, but I understand their decision that the first cut was "good enough" without an ARM.
As a video game collector and hardware hacker, I'm impressed, but not interested. What this can do that a 2600 or other 8-bit game system can't do due to lack of CPU power might as well be done on a PC or Playstation or Dreamcast anyhow.
I have the original SW/ANH on an old, crappy format of video disk (the RCA capacitance disks)
Ah, needlevision... thanks to confusing the public who couldn't tell the difference ("Duhhh, it was big and it played videos so it must have been one of them there laser thingies"), it probably did more to kill the laserdisc format than most of the real faults of laserdisc combined. Except maybe the one about how LDs cost $8 a disc to manufacture in the low quantities needed for the Home Theatre market. Some of that cost was for the clean room environment that they originally didn't realize they would need for manufacturing discs.
That would be difficult because the only SW laserdiscs with 5.1 are the SE versions. The upcoming DVDs are esentially the SE versions, so there's no need for a bootleg of that. Unless you have a problem with the post-SE changes, which would be stupid if you didn't have a problem with the SE changes in the first place.
If you want Han Solo to shoot first, you'll have to have him shoot first in the original glorious surround stereo.
Trying to merge the SE audio over is a rather difficult proposition not only for the changed scenes, but because the sound track itself was changed in places, the music in particular.
It's called a DVL-909. There are a few other combo player models, such as the DVL-700, and one or two Elite series models such as the DV-09, but the -909 is famous for being easily modded for selectable DVD region and disabling DVD Macrovision.
However, you will still need to use a digitizer card when ripping. Just plug in the S-video to your digitizer card, and the digital audio output into your sound card, and rip away.
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I have both the "Faces" version and the regular widescreen version. (They also made a pan and scan full-screen version, and a time-compressed single-disc version of the three original movies, but I was never interested in those.) And two DVL-909 players (one boxed up and stowed in a closet).
Rumor have circulated about additional changes, but Ward would not deny or confirm them. "We want to encourage our fans to check them out themselves."
All I can say about this is: HA, HA! (insert pic of Nelson here) Of course the people who didn't care that Han no longer shoots first shouldn't care about the new changes, either. If they do care about the new changes, then they got what they deserved for not caring before.
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I'll bet the monitor in question is connected with a VGA plug. I've never seen that happen with a laptop display, and your Cinema display uses DVI. It's also a Dell, so what can you expect? "Dude, you're going to Hell!"
Not knowing any details, I would suspect that these things will work in Windows only, not Linux, not OS X. Am I right?
That's because the MPAA is tired of getting stonewalled by ISPs. So now they just want you to to cooperate like a good citizen and tell them how to find you before you even start sharing stuff.
Nobody will know until they actually have one to open up. I doubt it will be easy to mod, but it's still possible. It certainly won't be this easy. (I'm glad I got one, because it's unlikely he'll make another production run without a lot of interest. Plus, the MMC slot part isn't available any more, so it needs some re-design, too.)
What the NES had going for it was:
* Support from Nintendo
* Almost two years more development time
* A decent sound chip (the 7800 required a chip in the cartridge for decent sound, which was only used in Ballblazer and Commando)
* The "CHRROM" thing. The NES used character mode graphics like the Colecovision did, but brought out the video chip bus to allow tile sets to be accessed without pre-loading them. Having a separate video bus allowed for a bit more performance, compared with the 7800's Maria chip stealing cycles to do DMA for the display.
Beyond that, hacking the hardware and software ranks as my #2 "game". I'm still buying one anyhow, out of technical curiousity as much as anything else.
For what it's worth, two of those games were 7800-only, and three others had both 2600 and 7800 versions, so hopefully they will use the 7800 versions where available.
And Apple spent far too long trying to be anti-IBM. Strange how that worked out, isn't it? Both were so focused on one competitor that they got beaten by another.
I don't know what it is about Totoro, but if someone could figure it out and bottle it up, they could rule the world. For a kids story, Totoro kicks total ass. Even in the dub.
More like 13 episodes. Most 26 episode series these days break it up into two major story arcs, and manage to give you two good stories in 26 episodes. But there are a lot of 13 episode series lately. And for what it's worth, Cowboy Bebop was like this, only they mixed in the episodes from the Vicious story arc (which I didn't care for) throughout the entire run.
Recent good recent anime (by no means exhaustive): Haibane Renmei (13), Kino no Tabi (13), Stellvia (2x13), Scrapped Princess (2x13), Paranoia Agent (13), Samurai Champloo (12 eps so far, out of probably 26), Read Or Die/ROD TV (3 OVA + 2x13).
As for the "giants", they're the old giants. How about they stop drooling over the same old directors and start looking for some new giants? Like Satoshi Kon, for instance.
How are you measuring the memory usage? With top? Yeah, right. It is well known that top reports the same shared memory multiple times for each process. In particular, I recall that when you're running X, your video card frame buffer gets included into the usage of EVERY process running it.
Actually, they always fall. When they're not new. You can get a Blue & White G3 for a pretty decent price these days, it'll run OS X 10.4, take a gig of RAM, and a 1.1GHz CPU. Of course the prices of used Macs still fall a lot slower than the prices of used PCs, due to supply and demand. And while you can upgrade the CPU, the new CPU will probably cost you more than the rest of the computer.
(Mmm... orange smoke...)
We have enough car accidents where only forward motion is involved. Let me put it this way. Would you want one of these things flying over your neighborhood, piloted (yes, piloted, not driven) by someone who could be a total moron, yakking on his cell phone, or maybe just drank a six pack?
Yeah, I'd sure like one of those things falling through the roof of my house, I can tell you right now. Not.
Roads aren't just to make wheels work. They also provide boundaries of where you can't go.
Now we can have all the fun of Ad-Words, in chat mode! Just imagine all the fun advertisements that could be keyed off of your chat sessions!
What started all this "movie will be bashing Bush" crap was people who had an early shot of some guy in the movie and ASS-umed that it was supposed to be Bush.
If you're going to be limited to 4K of memory and a raster-follower graphics chip, you might as well get a real Atari 2600 and a RAM cartridge. And I know for certain that the Atari 5200 has a USB-loadable RAM cart available for it.
You couldn't base a college class on Dreamcasts because you couldn't order them in reliable quantities, or get them repaired easily, and you have to burn CD-Rs all the time. Well, okay, you could, but you'd eventually come to a point where it was more trouble finding units at non-fixed prices off of ebay than it was worth. And DC serial cables are too hard to find and DC BBAs are too expensive.
In fact, I think the best system out there right now for teaching game programming might be the Game Boy Advance. ARM processor, easy to load software over a link cable, easy to buy in quantity.
You should stick with MESS, which emulates various home video game systems. Many of these have been documented very well. If you choose one of the really significant ones (like 2600, Colecovision or NES), you can even release the game on a cartridge playable in an actual system.
Step 1, choose a game system
Step 2, write game
Step 3, profit!
This is an interesting device, and looks fine for teaching purposes, but the price tag combined with the uniqueness of the CPU means that it's a curiousity from out of the gate. They originally wanted to make one with an ARM CPU, which might have been better in being a standard architecture, but I understand their decision that the first cut was "good enough" without an ARM.
As a video game collector and hardware hacker, I'm impressed, but not interested. What this can do that a 2600 or other 8-bit game system can't do due to lack of CPU power might as well be done on a PC or Playstation or Dreamcast anyhow.
Ah, needlevision... thanks to confusing the public who couldn't tell the difference ("Duhhh, it was big and it played videos so it must have been one of them there laser thingies"), it probably did more to kill the laserdisc format than most of the real faults of laserdisc combined. Except maybe the one about how LDs cost $8 a disc to manufacture in the low quantities needed for the Home Theatre market. Some of that cost was for the clean room environment that they originally didn't realize they would need for manufacturing discs.
If you want Han Solo to shoot first, you'll have to have him shoot first in the original glorious surround stereo.
Trying to merge the SE audio over is a rather difficult proposition not only for the changed scenes, but because the sound track itself was changed in places, the music in particular.
However, you will still need to use a digitizer card when ripping. Just plug in the S-video to your digitizer card, and the digital audio output into your sound card, and rip away.
Rumor have circulated about additional changes, but Ward would not deny or confirm them. "We want to encourage our fans to check them out themselves."
All I can say about this is: HA, HA! (insert pic of Nelson here) Of course the people who didn't care that Han no longer shoots first shouldn't care about the new changes, either. If they do care about the new changes, then they got what they deserved for not caring before.
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