An elderly lady confronted Bertrand Russell at the end of his lecture on orbiting planets, saying, "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."
Russell gave a superior smile before asking what the turtle was standing on. "You're very clever young man, very clever," replied the old woman, "but it's turtles all the way down."
Unlike Palm OS's easy Grafitti writing program, Pocket PC's character recognizer is inconsistent. We like the fact that you can actually see the letters as you write them on the device's screen, but we wish that the character recognizer would translate written characters into the correct letters.
Although Pocket PC has many helpful Windows similarities, it also inherited one of the OS's most annoying traits: it crashes. Just like good ol' Windows 98, this little OS crashes more often than we'd like. Our machine froze four times in less than three hours.
Aah, that brings back memories. I remember printing out that web guide and a Paleontology web site sometime in 1993 and emailing it to someone. I had attempted to explain this amazing new "World Wide Web" thing to her but she could not comprehend it. Heh, heh.. oh for the days of all grey backgrounds and images which were impervious to having text wrapped around them.
I found the following info in two issues of Janguar Explorer Online. From Volume 3, Issue 1 we learn that Hasbro has opened the Jaguar platform. This is what allowed Battlesphere to be produced. In Volume 3, Issue 2 we learn that "FOUR new titles - Skyhammer, Protector, Hyper Force, and Soccer Kid - are coming from Songbird Productions, J.U.G.S. ("Jaguar Unmodified Game Server") is slowly creeping out of the shadows, and work continues on The Assassin and Gorf 2000."
//// Hasbro Frees Jaguar! Beverly, MA (May 14,1999) - Leading entertainment software publisher Hasbro Interactive announced today it has released all rights that it may have to the vintage Atari hardware platform, the Jaguar.
Hasbro Interactive acquired rights to many Atari properties, including the legendary Centipede, Missile Command, and Pong games, in a March 1998 acquisition from JTS Corporation.
This announcement will allow software developers to create and publish software for the Jaguar system without having to obtain a licensing agreement with Hasbro Interactive for such platform development. Hasbro Interactive cautioned, however, that the developers should not use the Atari trademark or logo in connection with their games or present the games as authorized or approved by Hasbro Interactive.
"Hasbro Interactive is strictly focused on developing and publishing entertainment software for the PC and the next generation game consoles," said Richard Cleveland, Head of Marketing for Hasbro Interactive's Atari Business Unit. "We realize there is a passionate audience of diehard Atari fans who want to keep the Jaguar system alive, and we don't want to prevent them from doing that. We will not interfere with the efforts of software developers to create software for the Jaguar system."
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Russell gave a superior smile before asking what the turtle was standing on. "You're very clever young man, very clever," replied the old woman, "but it's turtles all the way down."
-- told by Stephen Hawking
From the CNET Review:
Crash City; Poor Character Recognizer
Unlike Palm OS's easy Grafitti writing program, Pocket PC's character recognizer is inconsistent. We like the fact that you can actually see the letters as you write them on the device's screen, but we wish that the character recognizer would translate written characters into the correct letters.
Although Pocket PC has many helpful Windows similarities, it also inherited one of the OS's most annoying traits: it crashes. Just like good ol' Windows 98, this little OS crashes more often than we'd like. Our machine froze four times in less than three hours.
Their not communicating with each other would not be so bad if they actually read /. themselves.
"In a short time, it will be the most popular form of Unix ever. Windows NT will outsell those other incompatible versions of Unix."
-benjy
Aah, that brings back memories. I remember printing out that web guide and a Paleontology web site sometime in 1993 and emailing it to someone. I had attempted to explain this amazing new "World Wide Web" thing to her but she could not comprehend it. Heh, heh.. oh for the days of all grey backgrounds and images which were impervious to having text wrapped around them.
Hasbro Interactive acquired rights to many Atari properties, including the legendary Centipede, Missile Command, and Pong games, in a March 1998 acquisition from JTS Corporation.
This announcement will allow software developers to create and publish software for the Jaguar system without having to obtain a licensing agreement with Hasbro Interactive for such platform development. Hasbro Interactive cautioned, however, that the developers should not use the Atari trademark or logo in connection with their games or present the games as authorized or approved by Hasbro Interactive.
"Hasbro Interactive is strictly focused on developing and publishing entertainment software for the PC and the next generation game consoles," said Richard Cleveland, Head of Marketing for Hasbro Interactive's Atari Business Unit. "We realize there is a passionate audience of diehard Atari fans who want to keep the Jaguar system alive, and we don't want to prevent them from doing that. We will not interfere with the efforts of software developers to create software for the Jaguar system."
...can be found here
http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/index.html
Hopefully, this will let you wean yourself from NT.