Er, they were making cards up until the time of the TNT2 ultra. Then, for some reason the company went belly up, and Guillemot bought the rights to the name.
I remember seeing ads for high-end Hercules boards in CAD magazines in the mid-90s, also.
zsazs
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Alright, I'm blowing my mod points on this article, but I need to respond to this troll-ish post.
The St. Louis Business Journal is and has been a well-respected print publication in St. Louis for years. Just because their web site is moronic (they don't really publish it themselves, Microsoft bCentral should really take the blame) doesn't mean you must discredit the entire publication.
I have absolutely nothing to do with the SLBJ, aside from being a resident of St. Louis.
zsazsa (and to think I considered applying at Linuxgruven. I obvously would have refused to take their training course, though..)
It's actually way past a SNES. It supports 65536 colors (SNES had a max of 256), it can do "Super FX" class flat-shaded 3d without any external hardware, it has a 30ish MHz RISC processor (SNES had a 3mhz 65816), and has onboard sprite scaling and rotation (the SNES had to have seperate coprocessors for heavy-duty games like Mario Kart and MegaMan X2 and 3.)
Not even AutoCAD is safe. Their new "i" versions are "Internet Driven" Its new features have drawn the ire of our CAD people.
And to think that they actually charged full price for this "upgrade!"
They actually did purchase the rights from EIS. From Google's cached copy of tradewars.com: Realm [Interactive] has recently purchased the rights to the Trade Wars name from Epic Interactive Strategy and its new title will be called Trade Wars: Dark Millennium(TM).
The real thing to watch for is if the game truly captures the spirit of the original. Right now I'm playing on a telnetable BBS and it's a blast. I'm sure part of the enjoyment is nostalgia, but there's a lot of great gameplay left in the old TW2002.
Diesel Dave writes: "... After much searching I have just found a company called Cinonic Systems that is making low cost Fibre Channel drive and cable adapters that work with plain old CAT5 ethernet cable!..."
Diesel Dave's email address is dave@psychosis.com.
A WHOIS lookup for cinonic.com:
Registrant:
David Cinege
100 PerCenta, Notsure Blvd.
Someplacen, FL 33300
US
... and further down...
Administrative Contact:
Cinege, David dcinege@psychosis.com
I really hope this is either a coincidence or Dave here is just doing the company a favor by registering a domain and hosting it for them after searching so far and wide for them.
This isn't JUST anti-aliasing -- it's subpixel font rendering, which Microsoft calls "ClearType." It's used in their Reader product. For a more technical view of subpixel rendering, check out Steve Gibson's page on the matter.
Anti-aliased text in X isn't new, but subpixel rendering definitely is.
Some people have posted about the color fringes around the edges of the letters. This looks kinda weird on a CRT but the effect on an LCD is very clear. This is only really nice looking on an LCD screen, and that's what subpixel rendering is designed for.
I just love Taco's high-and-mighty posturing here. DNS doesn't just mean web and FTP, it also means mail. I know several rather respectable people who work at Microsoft who have lost their mail.. How sad.:(
There aren't any color photographs. I read in an article in Time magazine that any color film would have been exposed due to the intense radiation. Thus, only black and white film was used during the cleanup.
Unfortunately, the anti-aliasing as shown in these pictures isn't that good. It looks about as fuzzy as my Windows system's anti-aliasing. For an example of great looking anti-aliasing, look at a Mac. Absolutely beautiful.
Also, another thing: anti-aliasing small fonts is BAD. The width of the blur comes awfully close to the width of the strokes of the letters. With proper hinting, unantialised small fonts can look great. Times New Roman unantialiased at 12pt is just great. Fortunately TrueType has an extension for controlling what sizes for which the font should/should not be anti-aliased.
zsazsa
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Odd. I never had the program crash on me. My Win98 system is remarkably stable. I glad that I shelled out the extra bucks for premium RAM in my Duron system.
Anyway, another feature that Scour had: it worked way better through firewalls. I have the hardest time downloading songs from Napster -- a lot of the people on fast connections are firewalled. (I too am behind a firewall.) Scour worked around this much like Gnutella's "push" feature, meaning about 90% reliability compared to Napster's sub-50%.
Actually, the Nitrane and Sonique decoding engines are quite error-prone. mpg123 and the fraunhofer decoders are the only ones proven to be the best. Check out this study which points out the differences in decoder quality. His methodology seems sound.
The only thing that can be output from the jack on the cd-rom drive itself is audio from normal redbook audio tracks. This is handled entirely within the drive itself. Whenever you play a normal audio cd in a cd-rom drive, the computer touches none of the data.
I just posted an article also praising the virtues of the IBM clickies. You can buy new ones at UniComp. I also bought a couple extras on ebay for $5/piece.
My main one shows no signs of slowing down after 14 years, though. I do hope that UniComp makes a USB version shall the PS/2 keyboard jack ever go away permaneantly. Or, does a PS/2->USB converter box exist?
About Taco talking about having to replace his $10 keyboards often -- I say get a real keyboard!
The keyboard that I am typing this on is an IBM Enhanced keyboard that came as original equipment on a PC/AT, manufacturing date: July 10, 1986. It literally has been used CONSTANTLY since then and shows no sign of ever giving up.
Well, the right control key kind of sticks ever since the Kool-Aid accident...
I recommend both the IBM enhanced (Unicomp still sells them brand new at http://www.pckeyboard.com/) and the Northgate Omnikey line. They actually use METAL in their construction, imagine that. The part of your computer that gets beat on constantly shouldn't made of flimsy plastic.
Taking out the pins only disables the functionality about being able to easily adjust the clock multiplier in BIOS. The other way to change the Tbird/Duron's clock multiplier is to modify the copper bridges on the top ceramic of the processor, by cutting some with an X-acto knife and closing others with a conductive pen (or even pencil lead).
Bzzzzt. Read the article at insane hardware. Those pins are required even if you alter the bridges on top of the processor.
I was curious so I ran a Netcraft "What's that site running?" check on plan9.bell-labs.com. Looks like it's being hosted by Plan 9 (of course.) A testament to this neat little operating system's ability is that it is taking the Slashdotting in full stride. I'll definately want to play around with this system.
After doing a quick web search on his name, Mr. Konrad seems rather interested in patents and copyright in general. Here is a posting that I found interesting: http://www.metalab.unc.edu/patent s/txt/111593.txt
I don't know what this patent is that he wrote in about, but maybe he was inspred and set out to file an equally obvious patent... From the posting: "The most likely reaction is going to be disbelief -- 'How could anyone patent something like that?' "
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Er, they were making cards up until the time of the TNT2 ultra. Then, for some reason the company went belly up, and Guillemot bought the rights to the name.
I remember seeing ads for high-end Hercules boards in CAD magazines in the mid-90s, also.
zsazs
Alright, I'm blowing my mod points on this article, but I need to respond to this troll-ish post.
The St. Louis Business Journal is and has been a well-respected print publication in St. Louis for years. Just because their web site is moronic (they don't really publish it themselves, Microsoft bCentral should really take the blame) doesn't mean you must discredit the entire publication.
I have absolutely nothing to do with the SLBJ, aside from being a resident of St. Louis.
zsazsa (and to think I considered applying at Linuxgruven. I obvously would have refused to take their training course, though..)
It's actually way past a SNES. It supports 65536 colors (SNES had a max of 256), it can do "Super FX" class flat-shaded 3d without any external hardware, it has a 30ish MHz RISC processor (SNES had a 3mhz 65816), and has onboard sprite scaling and rotation (the SNES had to have seperate coprocessors for heavy-duty games like Mario Kart and MegaMan X2 and 3.)
zsazsafrazs
thanks to virt for the GBA specs.
I thought PlayStation was a pretty darn fruity name when the thing first came out. And, well.. look how well that one did. :)
zsazsafrazs
Not even AutoCAD is safe. Their new "i" versions are "Internet Driven" Its new features have drawn the ire of our CAD people.
And to think that they actually charged full price for this "upgrade!"
zsazsa
Sorry, it's a closed game running on a BBS with an NUP -- and I don't know the NUP.
zsazsa
They actually did purchase the rights from EIS. From Google's cached copy of tradewars.com: Realm [Interactive] has recently purchased the rights to the Trade Wars name from Epic Interactive Strategy and its new title will be called Trade Wars: Dark Millennium(TM).
The real thing to watch for is if the game truly captures the spirit of the original. Right now I'm playing on a telnetable BBS and it's a blast. I'm sure part of the enjoyment is nostalgia, but there's a lot of great gameplay left in the old TW2002.
zsazsa
Diesel Dave writes: "... After much searching I have just found a company called Cinonic Systems that is making low cost Fibre Channel drive and cable adapters that work with plain old CAT5 ethernet cable! ..."
... and further down ...
Diesel Dave's email address is dave@psychosis.com.
A WHOIS lookup for cinonic.com: Registrant:
David Cinege
100 PerCenta, Notsure Blvd.
Someplacen, FL 33300
US
Administrative Contact:
Cinege, David dcinege@psychosis.com
I really hope this is either a coincidence or Dave here is just doing the company a favor by registering a domain and hosting it for them after searching so far and wide for them.
zsazsa
Whoops! My bad. That's what I get for trusting my memory of an old slashdot story. :)
zsazsa
This isn't JUST anti-aliasing -- it's subpixel font rendering, which Microsoft calls "ClearType." It's used in their Reader product. For a more technical view of subpixel rendering, check out Steve Gibson's page on the matter.
Anti-aliased text in X isn't new, but subpixel rendering definitely is.
Some people have posted about the color fringes around the edges of the letters. This looks kinda weird on a CRT but the effect on an LCD is very clear. This is only really nice looking on an LCD screen, and that's what subpixel rendering is designed for.
zsazsa
A shell account is access to a shell on a unix box, for using pine or mutt if you like, setting up your web space, idling on irc using screen, etc.
zsazsa
Because Trade Wars 2002 and TWGS will now be ported to Linux! See the old Slashdot discussion about this.
:)
Now I don't have to fiddle around with crazy dosemu hacks or depending on Win9x machines to have a real Trade Wars server.
zsazsafrazs
I just love Taco's high-and-mighty posturing here. DNS doesn't just mean web and FTP, it also means mail. I know several rather respectable people who work at Microsoft who have lost their mail.. How sad. :(
zsazsaroonie
There aren't any color photographs. I read in an article in Time magazine that any color film would have been exposed due to the intense radiation. Thus, only black and white film was used during the cleanup.
zsazsa
Unfortunately, the anti-aliasing as shown in these pictures isn't that good. It looks about as fuzzy as my Windows system's anti-aliasing. For an example of great looking anti-aliasing, look at a Mac. Absolutely beautiful.
Also, another thing: anti-aliasing small fonts is BAD. The width of the blur comes awfully close to the width of the strokes of the letters. With proper hinting, unantialised small fonts can look great. Times New Roman unantialiased at 12pt is just great. Fortunately TrueType has an extension for controlling what sizes for which the font should/should not be anti-aliased.
zsazsa
Odd. I never had the program crash on me. My Win98 system is remarkably stable. I glad that I shelled out the extra bucks for premium RAM in my Duron system.
Anyway, another feature that Scour had: it worked way better through firewalls. I have the hardest time downloading songs from Napster -- a lot of the people on fast connections are firewalled. (I too am behind a firewall.) Scour worked around this much like Gnutella's "push" feature, meaning about 90% reliability compared to Napster's sub-50%.
zsazsa
Actually, the Nitrane and Sonique decoding engines are quite error-prone. mpg123 and the fraunhofer decoders are the only ones proven to be the best. Check out this study which points out the differences in decoder quality. His methodology seems sound.
zsazsafrazs
The only thing that can be output from the jack on the cd-rom drive itself is audio from normal redbook audio tracks. This is handled entirely within the drive itself. Whenever you play a normal audio cd in a cd-rom drive, the computer touches none of the data.
zsazsaroo
I just posted an article also praising the virtues of the IBM clickies. You can buy new ones at UniComp. I also bought a couple extras on ebay for $5/piece.
My main one shows no signs of slowing down after 14 years, though. I do hope that UniComp makes a USB version shall the PS/2 keyboard jack ever go away permaneantly. Or, does a PS/2->USB converter box exist?
zsazsaroo
About Taco talking about having to replace his $10 keyboards often -- I say get a real keyboard!
The keyboard that I am typing this on is an IBM Enhanced keyboard that came as original equipment on a PC/AT, manufacturing date: July 10, 1986. It literally has been used CONSTANTLY since then and shows no sign of ever giving up.
Well, the right control key kind of sticks ever since the Kool-Aid accident...
I recommend both the IBM enhanced (Unicomp still sells them brand new at http://www.pckeyboard.com/) and the Northgate Omnikey line. They actually use METAL in their construction, imagine that. The part of your computer that gets beat on constantly shouldn't made of flimsy plastic.
zsazsaroo
Taking out the pins only disables the functionality about being able to easily adjust the clock multiplier in BIOS. The other way to change the Tbird/Duron's clock multiplier is to modify the copper bridges on the top ceramic of the processor, by cutting some with an X-acto knife and closing others with a conductive pen (or even pencil lead).
Bzzzzt. Read the article at insane hardware. Those pins are required even if you alter the bridges on top of the processor.
zsazsa
First you bitched that anime should be a separate topic so you can avoid it. Now it is... and you're still bitching!
Hey! It's there in the "exclude stories" list! Thanks, love and kisses, and an anime smiley for you: ^_^
Ian
Didn't Softimage used to be owned by Microsoft?
zsazsa
I was curious so I ran a Netcraft "What's that site running?" check on plan9.bell-labs.com. Looks like it's being hosted by Plan 9 (of course.)
A testament to this neat little operating system's ability is that it is taking the Slashdotting in full stride. I'll definately want to play around with this system.
zsazsa
After doing a quick web search on his name, Mr. Konrad seems rather interested in patents and copyright in general. Here is a posting that I found interesting: http://www.metalab.unc.edu/patent s/txt/111593.txt
I don't know what this patent is that he wrote in about, but maybe he was inspred and set out to file an equally obvious patent...
From the posting: "The most likely reaction is going to be disbelief -- 'How could anyone patent something like that?' "
zsazsa