Sir, I salute your courage in posting a devil's-advocate viewpoint such as this. While I still disagree, your comment at least puts things a bit more in perspective.
What next? Will they require a drop of blood to register every purchase, to compare with a DNA scan before every playback?
Dammit, stop giving them ideas. I can just imagine the wrong person reading that and going "ooooooooh!"....
No mention of NBCC-Miramichi's game-dev program?
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I realize that NBCC-Miramichi might be a little on the obscure side, since it's both quite small and located in Atlantic Canada, but I understand that their Electronic Game Design was one of the very first gaming-specific programs offered anywhere, and was a little disappointed to see no mention of it at all in the article. It's short (two year) and very focused, with a high dropout rate (~50%), but for those willing to seriously dedicate themselves (which is a requirement for getting into the game industry anyway!), it is a very rewarding experience. Graduates of the program have been scooped up right after graduation (sometimes even before) by some fairly well-known companies, and others have gone on to create their own successful (if small) development studios. As a graduate who has gone on to a have a fairly successful career in the gaming industry, I can definately recommend the program, especially considering that it's also quite affordable as far as education goes.
CVS? You've got to be kidding!
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The public CVS version of Cedega is horribly out of date and is missing a lot of pretty criticial stuff, not to mention quite difficult to compile and set up. It's just NOT worth messing with unless you really want to look at the code, rather than just get a 'demo' of Cedega. Rathar that fight to get the CVS code to compile and run, there's a 'timedemo' version of Cedega available at http://nzone.com/object/nzone_cedega_downloads.htm l. It's not Cedega 5.0, but it's a lot better than anything you'll pull out of CVS.
But partitioning and formatting your HDs manually, building your own/etc/fstab, creating user accounts, and the other similar stuff that is needed to set up Gentoo -is- a good way to learn your way around some of the basic stuff that you might not know about otherwise. Plus, it also gives some insight into all the things that are running in the background on the system, because each of them was set up manually by hand, rather than being done invisibly by some automated setup program.
I'm not saying that an automated install is a bad thing, just that by doing it manually, one learns a lot more about what goes into the process than they would otherwise.
Heh, I know it's not to everybody's liking, but I think the manual install process of Gentoo is actually one of it's strengths. I learned more about Linux in the two days it took me to get Gentoo set up the first time than I did after months of playing around with RedHat and Mandrake and the like.
If you have the patience to set it up intially, I think Gentoo might be your best bet, as the flexibility of Gentoo and it's packaging system is second to none. Compiling the initial system shouldn't be a serious problem on any machine beefy enough to run modern games - my last stage-one complete rebuild from scratch took less than a day, including KDE.
Actually, it seems that Halifax isn't quite all there after all. I tried zooming in, and once you go in past the first couple levels, most of Nova Scotia disappears. Some of it is still there - the western half of the area west of Halifax is available at all zoom levels, but it seems they don't have the close-in data for anything east of that.
Oh well, it's still an extremely impressive interface (like somebody else mentioned, one of the best web apps ever), and hopefully they'll expand the range of the available data soon.
The question is not if the Linux version boosts the sales of the game - it's if it boosts the sales of the game -enough- to make up for the man-hours spent making the native Linux version. The sad fact is that the answer to this is quite possibly 'no', and that even if it sometimes might pay off, most game companies don't want to take the risk. Considering the current market, most game companies can't -afford- to take that risk - making a game in the first place is risky enough without the extra development and support costs of a Linux port.
I don't have Hot Pursuit 2 myself, and haven't heard anything about it mentioned, so I can't say about it. I do know that Porsche Unleashed still doesn't work, at least of the last time I tried it (sometime pre-4.0 I think).
Well, you might be having problems with it, but most people, myself included, can get it running without any serious problems. You need to update the game to the newest patch (1.29f I think) and you might need to get a no-cd patch for it as well, as the copy protection doesn't work consistantly for it yet. Also, I don't think the expansions work yet, so if you're trying to play Conquests or Play the World, you might want to try just the base game.
NFSU does has some issues - the installation needs a 'kick' to complete properly, and some of the graphic options will cause the game to crash if enabled, but overall, the game does run really well. If you're starving for a racing game that can be played under Linux, it's definately worth checking out.
in a game, in my opinion, was The Guardian from Ultima VII: The Black Gate. The comments that the Guardian would make at key points in the game added an incredible amount of atmosphere and really 'made' the whole feel of the game. The "Thank you for the information in the notebook, it was -most- useful..." scene remains to this date one of the biggest scares I have ever gotten from a game.
Most of Blizzard's games run near-perfectly - Starcraft, Warcraft 3, Warcraft 2 BNE, Diablo 2 are all virtually indistinguishable from running them on Windows. And Civ3 works very well, with just a couple minor issues that don't affect gameplay at all (font rendering is a little 'off' in places, and the sound sometimes goes a little haywire). I just recently played through Knights of the Old Republic on Linux, and I was able to get through the entire game without a single hiccup.
You realy don't need to go buy the whole Mandrake Gaming Edition anymore to get it. I've bought this, and it works quite well on my Gentoo-based system, thank you very much.
I think you should know that the game was written in Visual Basic. Good luck - you'll need it. Also, the game doesn't seem to work in any flavour of wine that I've tried, including winex, so it looks those of us that have left windows behind are out of luck... Not that I'm complaining about these guys releasing the source to their game - that's only ever a good thing! But it still sucks a little that it looks like, open source or not, this is going to remain a Windows-only game.
Seeing those lonely foundation blocks where the towers once stood is only enough to give one a glimpse of what that huge structure must have been like. We take a lot for granted nowdays, but seeing what is left of one of the first successful attempts to bridge the Atlantic - and imagining how it must have been like then - really makes you realize how big a deal this was at the time. I don't think I've -ever- felt so humbled as when I stood there by those old foundation blocks, looking east out over the ocean.
I've been hooking up my game consoles to my monitor through my PC for years, and I've NEVER seen any kind of lag like you're describing. I'm not using anything fancy either - just an old PCI WinTV card and xawtv and now the awesome tvtime.
The explosion put Homer in a coma, and the rest of the episode was everyone talking around him in his hospital bed, reminiscing, showing clips of earlier episodes.
I tried the recently-released "Developer Edition" that they were giving away a short while back, and I actually was rather impressed. Lindows has to have the most out-of-the-box polish I've ever seen in a commercial distribution. No, it's not very friendly to those of us who know their way around a computer already, but that's not the market they are targeting. It's not exactly going to replace Gentoo on my system, but I could definately see myself recommending Lindows to others.
The only real problem that I had with it was getting it to not mess up my boot settings. Though it can dual-boot with Windows easily enough, it does NOT play nice with other versions of Linux, and it took me a while to get it to not reset the MBR with it's own settings every time it booted. (Solution: delete/rename/remove executable permissions for/sbin/jiffyboot). Other than that though, I liked what I saw. Click-and-run might be the best system update tool I've seen outside of portage, and it has even Gentoo beat in the newbie-friendliness department.
When it says "0.07 cents" it means literally "seven hundreths of a cent". It's not, as you and others making similar comments seem to think, $0.07, but rather $0.0007.
I'm shocked - both the webserver and the VNC server are still up and running. The VNC server is -extremely- slow - you can see it redrawing the individual chars on the screen at the rate of maybe a dozen a second - but it's still going.
What's the matter with you people - has the slashdot effect lost it's teeth to the point where it can't even crash a little embedded system like this? For shame!:c)
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Sir, I salute your courage in posting a devil's-advocate viewpoint such as this. While I still disagree, your comment at least puts things a bit more in perspective.
Dammit, stop giving them ideas. I can just imagine the wrong person reading that and going "ooooooooh!"....
I realize that NBCC-Miramichi might be a little on the obscure side, since it's both quite small and located in Atlantic Canada, but I understand that their Electronic Game Design was one of the very first gaming-specific programs offered anywhere, and was a little disappointed to see no mention of it at all in the article. It's short (two year) and very focused, with a high dropout rate (~50%), but for those willing to seriously dedicate themselves (which is a requirement for getting into the game industry anyway!), it is a very rewarding experience. Graduates of the program have been scooped up right after graduation (sometimes even before) by some fairly well-known companies, and others have gone on to create their own successful (if small) development studios. As a graduate who has gone on to a have a fairly successful career in the gaming industry, I can definately recommend the program, especially considering that it's also quite affordable as far as education goes.
The public CVS version of Cedega is horribly out of date and is missing a lot of pretty criticial stuff, not to mention quite difficult to compile and set up. It's just NOT worth messing with unless you really want to look at the code, rather than just get a 'demo' of Cedega. Rathar that fight to get the CVS code to compile and run, there's a 'timedemo' version of Cedega available at http://nzone.com/object/nzone_cedega_downloads.htm l. It's not Cedega 5.0, but it's a lot better than anything you'll pull out of CVS.
Just in case anybody wants to know more about it, here's the Wikipedia page on that rare disease:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insom
It's an inherited 'prion' disease, the same type of disease as mad cow disease and it's relatives. Scary stuff.
Surprisingly, Slashdot is one of the worst; it's almost completely unusable on a PDA.
Have you tried http://slashdot.org/palm/? It's not ideal, but it's certainly a major improvement over the 'normal' site.
Um, no, no it doesn't. :)
/etc/fstab, creating user accounts, and the other similar stuff that is needed to set up Gentoo -is- a good way to learn your way around some of the basic stuff that you might not know about otherwise. Plus, it also gives some insight into all the things that are running in the background on the system, because each of them was set up manually by hand, rather than being done invisibly by some automated setup program.
But partitioning and formatting your HDs manually, building your own
I'm not saying that an automated install is a bad thing, just that by doing it manually, one learns a lot more about what goes into the process than they would otherwise.
Heh, I know it's not to everybody's liking, but I think the manual install process of Gentoo is actually one of it's strengths. I learned more about Linux in the two days it took me to get Gentoo set up the first time than I did after months of playing around with RedHat and Mandrake and the like.
If you have the patience to set it up intially, I think Gentoo might be your best bet, as the flexibility of Gentoo and it's packaging system is second to none. Compiling the initial system shouldn't be a serious problem on any machine beefy enough to run modern games - my last stage-one complete rebuild from scratch took less than a day, including KDE.
Actually, it seems that Halifax isn't quite all there after all. I tried zooming in, and once you go in past the first couple levels, most of Nova Scotia disappears. Some of it is still there - the western half of the area west of Halifax is available at all zoom levels, but it seems they don't have the close-in data for anything east of that.
Oh well, it's still an extremely impressive interface (like somebody else mentioned, one of the best web apps ever), and hopefully they'll expand the range of the available data soon.
The question is not if the Linux version boosts the sales of the game - it's if it boosts the sales of the game -enough- to make up for the man-hours spent making the native Linux version. The sad fact is that the answer to this is quite possibly 'no', and that even if it sometimes might pay off, most game companies don't want to take the risk. Considering the current market, most game companies can't -afford- to take that risk - making a game in the first place is risky enough without the extra development and support costs of a Linux port.
I don't have Hot Pursuit 2 myself, and haven't heard anything about it mentioned, so I can't say about it. I do know that Porsche Unleashed still doesn't work, at least of the last time I tried it (sometime pre-4.0 I think).
Well, you might be having problems with it, but most people, myself included, can get it running without any serious problems. You need to update the game to the newest patch (1.29f I think) and you might need to get a no-cd patch for it as well, as the copy protection doesn't work consistantly for it yet. Also, I don't think the expansions work yet, so if you're trying to play Conquests or Play the World, you might want to try just the base game.
NFSU does has some issues - the installation needs a 'kick' to complete properly, and some of the graphic options will cause the game to crash if enabled, but overall, the game does run really well. If you're starving for a racing game that can be played under Linux, it's definately worth checking out.
in a game, in my opinion, was The Guardian from Ultima VII: The Black Gate. The comments that the Guardian would make at key points in the game added an incredible amount of atmosphere and really 'made' the whole feel of the game. The "Thank you for the information in the notebook, it was -most- useful..." scene remains to this date one of the biggest scares I have ever gotten from a game.
My own favourite was always support@real.com
Most of Blizzard's games run near-perfectly - Starcraft, Warcraft 3, Warcraft 2 BNE, Diablo 2 are all virtually indistinguishable from running them on Windows. And Civ3 works very well, with just a couple minor issues that don't affect gameplay at all (font rendering is a little 'off' in places, and the sound sometimes goes a little haywire). I just recently played through Knights of the Old Republic on Linux, and I was able to get through the entire game without a single hiccup.
http://www.transgaming.com/sims.php
You realy don't need to go buy the whole Mandrake Gaming Edition anymore to get it. I've bought this, and it works quite well on my Gentoo-based system, thank you very much.
I think you should know that the game was written in Visual Basic. Good luck - you'll need it. Also, the game doesn't seem to work in any flavour of wine that I've tried, including winex, so it looks those of us that have left windows behind are out of luck... Not that I'm complaining about these guys releasing the source to their game - that's only ever a good thing! But it still sucks a little that it looks like, open source or not, this is going to remain a Windows-only game.
Seeing those lonely foundation blocks where the towers once stood is only enough to give one a glimpse of what that huge structure must have been like. We take a lot for granted nowdays, but seeing what is left of one of the first successful attempts to bridge the Atlantic - and imagining how it must have been like then - really makes you realize how big a deal this was at the time. I don't think I've -ever- felt so humbled as when I stood there by those old foundation blocks, looking east out over the ocean.
I've been hooking up my game consoles to my monitor through my PC for years, and I've NEVER seen any kind of lag like you're describing. I'm not using anything fancy either - just an old PCI WinTV card and xawtv and now the awesome tvtime.
The explosion put Homer in a coma, and the rest of the episode was everyone talking around him in his hospital bed, reminiscing, showing clips of earlier episodes.
I tried the recently-released "Developer Edition" that they were giving away a short while back, and I actually was rather impressed. Lindows has to have the most out-of-the-box polish I've ever seen in a commercial distribution. No, it's not very friendly to those of us who know their way around a computer already, but that's not the market they are targeting. It's not exactly going to replace Gentoo on my system, but I could definately see myself recommending Lindows to others.
/sbin/jiffyboot). Other than that though, I liked what I saw. Click-and-run might be the best system update tool I've seen outside of portage, and it has even Gentoo beat in the newbie-friendliness department.
The only real problem that I had with it was getting it to not mess up my boot settings. Though it can dual-boot with Windows easily enough, it does NOT play nice with other versions of Linux, and it took me a while to get it to not reset the MBR with it's own settings every time it booted. (Solution: delete/rename/remove executable permissions for
When it says "0.07 cents" it means literally "seven hundreths of a cent". It's not, as you and others making similar comments seem to think, $0.07, but rather $0.0007.
I'm shocked - both the webserver and the VNC server are still up and running. The VNC server is -extremely- slow - you can see it redrawing the individual chars on the screen at the rate of maybe a dozen a second - but it's still going.
:c)
What's the matter with you people - has the slashdot effect lost it's teeth to the point where it can't even crash a little embedded system like this? For shame!