Only sort of. The real core software for Factor 5 is their MusyX middleware. As this is reasonably stable on the current platforms, and their Star Wars games could do with a rest for a year or two, they are now concentrating purely on building up middleware solutions for XNA and the other next-gen platforms.
So no more Gamecube games, but no PS2 or XBox ones either.
...when are we going to get a European price drop, that's what I want to know. The low value of the Dollar is making US boxes insanely cheap in comparison to our 139 price point.
Not that I don't have all the current consoles already, but a second machine for chipping would be nice.
When its a Sequel. Most Hollywood "remakes" of previously Hollywood films (with the clear and obvious exception of Gus Van Sandt's Psycho) are just retelling the same basic plot as the original, but doing it in a very different way.
In the game world, however, if it isn't practically exactly the same game with maybe updated graphics (if you're lucky), then it'll get called a sequel anyway. By the above Hollywood logic, every EA soccer game since about '99 should be called a remake, and the same pretty much goes for every other Sports series and half the FPS games as well. There is more difference between New Dawn Of The Dead and Dawn Of The Dead Classic than there is between any Crazy Taxi release, for instance.
Personally, I find using a force-feedback wheel and pedals an awful lot closer to driving a car than mouse and keyboard is to running around, but maybe its just me...
I preferred this when it was called the Evil Bit.
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Somehow its just not as funny this way.
But you could easily combine the two RFCs, causing any machine detecting abuse to simply silently set the evil bit - that way the user is announcing their wrongdoing to the world without realising, and valuable PC resources don't need to be rebuilt. We all read the article on recycling our components, yes?
I'm not American, but I've not idea about cellular tech either.
I can read the post a little way above yours, however, that has it tied to a Siemens phone. Given that I didn't understand the rest of it, there seemed to be no indication of this being 3G, just plain ol' GSM. Am I just misreading it, or do you disagree with the post?
Sure, I'm perfectly prepared to believe there are many out there using it to copy games, just as many people copied Playstation games.
But every chipped XBox owner I know is more interested in playing copies of Genesis or Snes games than illegal XBox ones. Not least because practically every decent XBox game these days is online, and you can't play backups on Live.
Really, none of the mod chip users I know are - they are all running either media players loaded up with their own paid-for music, chipped it to enable prog-scan on DVDs, or play their old NES and so on games on emulators.
Right, there's me thinking that for once a/. banner advert is useful - its got info on a new Sigur Ros and Radiohead thing. So I click on it, only to find out that the bloody thing is iTunes exclusive! Fecking bastages! Some of us are outside the US, and so can't get stuff from there.
If this is the future of music distribution, I'm going back to vinyl.
"These are intelligent, wealthy people, and they did not get that way by filing groundless lawsuits."
Really? Since SCO (nee Caldera) stock was practically worthless before this whole debacle started, I'd say getting rich by filing a groundless lawsuit is precisely what they have done.
"it is pronounced 'Porrr-Sch-A' not 'Porsh'. Calling a Porsche a 'Porsh' is like calling Bill Gates the 'inventor of the internet.'"
Actually, I'd have said its significantly closer to weirdos pronouncing Jaguar as "Jag-wire", rather than "Jag-you-are", except not even half as annoying. Thank God there isn't any stupid way to mispronounce Lotus or TVR, that's all I say.
I take it that Cookie and Cream is the US title, then? Here in the UK they released what appears to be the same game as Kuri Kuri Mix. Its a rather brilliant platformer that you need to play two-player, as each bunny helps the other past obstacles - cue much marital argument as wife falls down abyss yet again...
"I always thought that it was awfully shortsighted of the business owners to place their stores in a combat zone."
Really? Given how the popular the game was in our local arcade at the time, the guy seemed to have been doing a roaring trade. I'd imagine that the insurance costs for siting your premises next to an enemy boss are quite high, but he was always busy.
Yes, the guys on pads would be beaten by those using a mouse to aim.
However, I'd ask why it matters. If the game is written with the control scheme that will be used in mind, I don't care. Sure, Goldeneye would be a lot easier with a mouse. It would be easier if I used auto-aim, as well. It would be really, really easy if I used an aimbot. But if the balance is designed for a pad-user, then it'll be most fun on a pad.
So you don't want to stick pad users up against mouse users, like Dreamcast Quake 3 did, because the result was a massacre. But that doesn't mean that no console FPS can be fun to play. And fun to play is the be-all, end-all as far as I'm concerned.
What does a 50" or more TV have to do with anything? I don't know a single person with a monitor larger than their largest television.
The guy with the fancy Apple CinemaView LCD job has a 43" Plasma in the living room, and everyone else has 17" monitors vs. 28" or 32" 16x9 CRT televisions.
And if you can point me to a 60 graphics card capable of making FarCry playable I'd be most grateful.
That is a fine analogy if your PC is already capable of playing these games anyway. However, the last couple of times I've gone for new hardware at 130 console has been a lot better value than a 250 graphics card that doesn't do anything non-game-related over my current little one.
For doing conference calls, if everyone has XBox Live then set up a chatroom on that - I find its a hell of a lot easier than trying to use NetMeeting, TeamSpeak or any of the other PC-based things.
If you have your Boxes near your PCs you can combine it with another solution as well, of course.
Yes, its handy that stuff - I've just recently bought a new car, and the 'press red for us to send you a brochure' on adverts was less hassle than digging out a website in order to order one from each manufacturer.
Yes, they do have special offers out there (US and Canada) which are only available to card holders - I've had to pay the higher, non-offer price many a time. Its Tourist Tax, basically, designed to penalise people who don't shop there regularly.
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Only sort of. The real core software for Factor 5 is their MusyX middleware. As this is reasonably stable on the current platforms, and their Star Wars games could do with a rest for a year or two, they are now concentrating purely on building up middleware solutions for XNA and the other next-gen platforms.
So no more Gamecube games, but no PS2 or XBox ones either.
...when are we going to get a European price drop, that's what I want to know. The low value of the Dollar is making US boxes insanely cheap in comparison to our 139 price point.
Not that I don't have all the current consoles already, but a second machine for chipping would be nice.
I've seen a couple of those, too - why in God's name would someone actually pay real money for some custom smileys?
When its a Sequel. Most Hollywood "remakes" of previously Hollywood films (with the clear and obvious exception of Gus Van Sandt's Psycho) are just retelling the same basic plot as the original, but doing it in a very different way.
In the game world, however, if it isn't practically exactly the same game with maybe updated graphics (if you're lucky), then it'll get called a sequel anyway. By the above Hollywood logic, every EA soccer game since about '99 should be called a remake, and the same pretty much goes for every other Sports series and half the FPS games as well. There is more difference between New Dawn Of The Dead and Dawn Of The Dead Classic than there is between any Crazy Taxi release, for instance.
Personally, I find using a force-feedback wheel and pedals an awful lot closer to driving a car than mouse and keyboard is to running around, but maybe its just me...
Somehow its just not as funny this way.
But you could easily combine the two RFCs, causing any machine detecting abuse to simply silently set the evil bit - that way the user is announcing their wrongdoing to the world without realising, and valuable PC resources don't need to be rebuilt. We all read the article on recycling our components, yes?
I'm not American, but I've not idea about cellular tech either.
I can read the post a little way above yours, however, that has it tied to a Siemens phone. Given that I didn't understand the rest of it, there seemed to be no indication of this being 3G, just plain ol' GSM. Am I just misreading it, or do you disagree with the post?
Admittedly the firewall stops me actually seeing the page, but how do you tell a Weekly World News April Fool story from anything else they print?
Sure, I'm perfectly prepared to believe there are many out there using it to copy games, just as many people copied Playstation games.
But every chipped XBox owner I know is more interested in playing copies of Genesis or Snes games than illegal XBox ones. Not least because practically every decent XBox game these days is online, and you can't play backups on Live.
Really, none of the mod chip users I know are - they are all running either media players loaded up with their own paid-for music, chipped it to enable prog-scan on DVDs, or play their old NES and so on games on emulators.
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I guess you just hang out with more criminals
Right, there's me thinking that for once a /. banner advert is useful - its got info on a new Sigur Ros and Radiohead thing. So I click on it, only to find out that the bloody thing is iTunes exclusive! Fecking bastages! Some of us are outside the US, and so can't get stuff from there.
If this is the future of music distribution, I'm going back to vinyl.
"These are intelligent, wealthy people, and they did not get that way by filing groundless lawsuits."
Really? Since SCO (nee Caldera) stock was practically worthless before this whole debacle started, I'd say getting rich by filing a groundless lawsuit is precisely what they have done.
I just use Nero - the default options in the wizard, while being a very un-leet thing to use, do the job just fine on my player.
"it is pronounced 'Porrr-Sch-A' not 'Porsh'. Calling a Porsche a 'Porsh' is like calling Bill Gates the 'inventor of the internet.'"
Actually, I'd have said its significantly closer to weirdos pronouncing Jaguar as "Jag-wire", rather than "Jag-you-are", except not even half as annoying. Thank God there isn't any stupid way to mispronounce Lotus or TVR, that's all I say.
Actually, you paid $1800 for an application that runs on a $200 OS, when $500 of hardware would be plenty for doing most things with it.
See? Free-ish hardware, in comparison to the software price. Bill is right after all.
I take it that Cookie and Cream is the US title, then? Here in the UK they released what appears to be the same game as Kuri Kuri Mix. Its a rather brilliant platformer that you need to play two-player, as each bunny helps the other past obstacles - cue much marital argument as wife falls down abyss yet again...
"I always thought that it was awfully shortsighted of the business owners to place their stores in a combat zone."
Really? Given how the popular the game was in our local arcade at the time, the guy seemed to have been doing a roaring trade. I'd imagine that the insurance costs for siting your premises next to an enemy boss are quite high, but he was always busy.
Thanks for that - I always thought it was one of Marcus's gags, so its glad to have confirmation.
The article says that the patent is dated '99, and Demon were definitely doing this long before then. Most of the other ISPs of the time did it, too.
Yes, the guys on pads would be beaten by those using a mouse to aim.
However, I'd ask why it matters. If the game is written with the control scheme that will be used in mind, I don't care. Sure, Goldeneye would be a lot easier with a mouse. It would be easier if I used auto-aim, as well. It would be really, really easy if I used an aimbot. But if the balance is designed for a pad-user, then it'll be most fun on a pad.
So you don't want to stick pad users up against mouse users, like Dreamcast Quake 3 did, because the result was a massacre. But that doesn't mean that no console FPS can be fun to play. And fun to play is the be-all, end-all as far as I'm concerned.
What does a 50" or more TV have to do with anything? I don't know a single person with a monitor larger than their largest television.
The guy with the fancy Apple CinemaView LCD job has a 43" Plasma in the living room, and everyone else has 17" monitors vs. 28" or 32" 16x9 CRT televisions.
And if you can point me to a 60 graphics card capable of making FarCry playable I'd be most grateful.
That is a fine analogy if your PC is already capable of playing these games anyway. However, the last couple of times I've gone for new hardware at 130 console has been a lot better value than a 250 graphics card that doesn't do anything non-game-related over my current little one.
For doing conference calls, if everyone has XBox Live then set up a chatroom on that - I find its a hell of a lot easier than trying to use NetMeeting, TeamSpeak or any of the other PC-based things.
If you have your Boxes near your PCs you can combine it with another solution as well, of course.
Yes, its handy that stuff - I've just recently bought a new car, and the 'press red for us to send you a brochure' on adverts was less hassle than digging out a website in order to order one from each manufacturer.
Yes, they do have special offers out there (US and Canada) which are only available to card holders - I've had to pay the higher, non-offer price many a time. Its Tourist Tax, basically, designed to penalise people who don't shop there regularly.