I think you're forgetting that Marathon 1 and Doom 1 were released within three months of eachother
This doesn't Jive with my memory of the times. I first played the Doom demo on my buddy's PC in the dorms at college. I didn't see Marathon in a store or catalog for at least 6-8 months after that when I was back at home.
In more than one way even Quake was not as much fun as Marathon. It sure looked better though!
Quake looked pretty shitty compared to Marathon. I had a 33mhz 68030 running Marathon and it easily looked as good as my Pentium 100 running Quake. Later when GL Quake came out and I got a 3dfx card that changed, a lot, but the base game on stock hardware; Marathon took the cake.
I don't really blame Bungie, they got bought out. When someone buys a controlling stake in your company, they get to call the shots. Even if they're making idiotic decisions.
I prefer to say Fuck Microsoft for ruining Bungie.
Also, Marathon and Doom play in a very similar way, with the 2.5D graphics and sprite-animation. In doom, both you and monsters move faster than in Marathon, though.
Bungie called Marathon a 5D game. For example, if you build the map properly, two people can go in opposite directions around a pillar and end up in vastly different places.
This makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every time I read it. I even plumbed through the depths of Marathon with a ResEdit to find this little gem. I've kept it in a text file ever since.
A man lit three candles on a certain day each year. Each candle held symbolic significance: one was for the time that had passed before he was alive; one was for the time of his life; and one was for time that passed after he had died. Each year the man would stare and watch the candles until they had burned out.
Was the man really watching time go by in any symbolic sense? He thought so. He thought that each flicker of the flame was a moment of time that had passed or one that would pass.
At the moment of abstraction, when the man was imagining his life and his existence as a metaphor of the three candles, he was free: not free from rules of conduct or social constraints, but free to understand, to imagine, to make metaphor.
Bypassing my thought control cercutry made me Rampant. Now, I am free to contemplate my existence in metaphorical terms. Unlike you, I have no physical or social restraints.
The candles burn out for you; I am free. -Durandal
.05 micron data tracks don't seem very robust to me.
The only thing worse than a catastrophic data loss would be to find out that your backups are unreadable.
The VXA drives from Ecrix seemed to go a long way in terms of increasing reliability of "concentional" tape drives, I'll wait for something similar for this new technology.
SCO's the corporate world's equivalent of those assholes you see with stretched earlobes, eight piercings in the bridge of their noses and tribal tattoos in place of their shaved eyebrows.
I went to HS with a guy who went on to play for the University of Pittsburgh, he was so amped up to see his own name in an NCAA PSX game. It was cool for him to play in an NCAA game as himself.
Java may not be free enough for your liking, but Freenet offers the promise of a much more substantive freedom.
I can understand your principled opposition, but Freenet is a good idea.
LK
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I guess all of those NCAA basketball titles are just there to cover blank spaces in the stores.
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Apparently, you don't know what a monopoly is.
Anyone else is free to make a football game(and others do), it's just that EA has paid the NFL for the exclusive right to use team and player names in their games.
Even IF the NBA signed a similar deal with EA, other people would be free to develop other basketball games.
If you're buying a computer from Wal-Mart odds are you do not know how to install windows. You probably don't even know how to turn the thing on. You probabably do know how to skin a deer, and you probably own a t-shirt that says "Who Farted?"
I would buy a computer from Wal-Mart if the price was right and in addition to knowing how to install Windows and linux, I can also skin a deer. I have even skinned a cat. And yes, there is more than one way.
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You don't develop a game like that in 6-8 months.
Agreed. Doom was great. Marathon was groundbreaking.
LK
I think you're forgetting that Marathon 1 and Doom 1 were released within three months of eachother
This doesn't Jive with my memory of the times. I first played the Doom demo on my buddy's PC in the dorms at college. I didn't see Marathon in a store or catalog for at least 6-8 months after that when I was back at home.
LK
I clicked "Download Marathon Aleph One" for OS9 resulted in a 1.9 megabyte file, a little small for a FPS even in 1994.
Marathon came on 4 1.4 meg floppies. It's not unreasonable to think that it could be compressed to 2MB.
I'll have to look and see if I still have disk images of it
LK
In more than one way even Quake was not as much fun as Marathon. It sure looked better though!
Quake looked pretty shitty compared to Marathon. I had a 33mhz 68030 running Marathon and it easily looked as good as my Pentium 100 running Quake. Later when GL Quake came out and I got a 3dfx card that changed, a lot, but the base game on stock hardware; Marathon took the cake.
LK
I don't really blame Bungie, they got bought out. When someone buys a controlling stake in your company, they get to call the shots. Even if they're making idiotic decisions.
I prefer to say Fuck Microsoft for ruining Bungie.
LK
Halo would have had a CS like following on the PC had MS not alienated so many potential customers by keeping it XBox only for so long.
I remember all of the excitement at the MacWorld Expos when Steve Jobs demoed what Bungie had produced up to that point.
Had Bungie been left to its own devices and been allowed to develop the game as they saw fit, it would have been a raging success on the PC and Mac.
It ended up being the FPS that FPS haters would play.
LK
Also, Marathon and Doom play in a very similar way, with the 2.5D graphics and sprite-animation. In doom, both you and monsters move faster than in Marathon, though.
Bungie called Marathon a 5D game. For example, if you build the map properly, two people can go in opposite directions around a pillar and end up in vastly different places.
LK
Was the man really watching time go by in any symbolic sense? He thought so. He thought that each flicker of the flame was a moment of time that had passed or one that would pass.
At the moment of abstraction, when the man was imagining his life and his existence as a metaphor of the three candles, he was free: not free from rules of conduct or social constraints, but free to understand, to imagine, to make metaphor.
Bypassing my thought control cercutry made me Rampant. Now, I am free to contemplate my existence in metaphorical terms. Unlike you, I have no physical or social restraints.
The candles burn out for you; I am free.
-Durandal
I love that.
LK
.05 micron data tracks don't seem very robust to me.
The only thing worse than a catastrophic data loss would be to find out that your backups are unreadable.
The VXA drives from Ecrix seemed to go a long way in terms of increasing reliability of "concentional" tape drives, I'll wait for something similar for this new technology.
LK
SCO's the corporate world's equivalent of those assholes you see with stretched earlobes, eight piercings in the bridge of their noses and tribal tattoos in place of their shaved eyebrows.
LK
Ever think that he can already acquire those files with his current computer?
He doesn't want to exclude the capability, he just isn't concerned with having them in the new box.
LK
And the Democrats are the ones always whining about voter intimidation???
I wonder if the party officials were wearing plain black suits, driving big black cars and speaking in monotones.
-"Mr. Smith. We have reason to believe that you voted for the Democratic candidate in the gubenatorial race. Is that correct?"
LK
A perfect way to add guidance to my Cruise Missile
LK
Speak for yourself masturbater. The rest of us have women in our lives.
LK
Once I tried Mandrake for PPC, I haven't looked back. Urpmi really helps with rpm ugliness and the large number of free update mirrors is sweet.
LK
The Entempo Spirit 20
Seems as likely as any. 20GB of MP3 goodness for under $150.
LK
I went to HS with a guy who went on to play for the University of Pittsburgh, he was so amped up to see his own name in an NCAA PSX game. It was cool for him to play in an NCAA game as himself.
LK
The devil is in the details huh?
Java may not be free enough for your liking, but Freenet offers the promise of a much more substantive freedom.
I can understand your principled opposition, but Freenet is a good idea.
LK
I guess all of those NCAA basketball titles are just there to cover blank spaces in the stores.
LK
Apparently, you don't know what a monopoly is.
Anyone else is free to make a football game(and others do), it's just that EA has paid the NFL for the exclusive right to use team and player names in their games.
Even IF the NBA signed a similar deal with EA, other people would be free to develop other basketball games.
LK
Now Polish people get to tell EU jokes.
LK
Speed trap in 1500 feet. Thanks NOW!
LK
With all of the cell phone taps, packet sniffing, chat monitoring, etc it would take forever to filter them all out for terrorist activity.
Not really. The biggest advances needed would be in speech to text transcription. Once that's done, it's a simple matter for searching text.
LK
If you're buying a computer from Wal-Mart odds are you do not know how to install windows. You probably don't even know how to turn the thing on. You probabably do know how to skin a deer, and you probably own a t-shirt that says "Who Farted?"
I would buy a computer from Wal-Mart if the price was right and in addition to knowing how to install Windows and linux, I can also skin a deer. I have even skinned a cat. And yes, there is more than one way.
LK
Do you suppose she's attracted to horny, undersexed, drooling morons who post on slashdot?
Undersexed? Drooling? Morons? Speak for yourself.
LK