I've played Wolfenstein multiplayer test on my iBook. I cranked the graphics all the way down before I begain playing it. It ran smoother than Wolfenstein on my Win2000 box with moderate graphics settings and a GeForce 256. I could probably crank the graphics up quite a bit and still get good performance. Now all I need to do is buy an extra USB mouse for my iBook -- FPS games and trackpads don't mix.
Both my iBook and my Wintel PC are 600mHz, so the iBook is faster.
Graeme, where are the Mac OS X binaries?:) I took my iBook to the parents' for Thanksgiving and really wanted to play some Wolfenstein on it. Unfortunately, the harddrive on my mother's E-machine didn't have enough free space to install Wolf.:(
And now this same system is now in use in Mac OS X. It's pretty neat. The title (and tool, I think) bar of each window in the background is transparent. You can make your CLI transparent. The clock app they ship can reside on your desktop at different levels of user-configurable transparency. The dock background is transparent.
This seems to me that HP was inspired by Apple's Cube. The color scheme looks the same (from the tiny pictures), they tried to minimize cables (Cube had ADC & AirPort), a slot load optical drive, and they are using airflow to control the temperature just like the Cube.
Apple Display Connector (ADC) is much better. It runs power, signal, and USB through the same cable into the same jack. You still only need one cable, and it is much cheaper.
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The Offspring and Bad Religion did the soundtrack for Crazy Taxi.
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Gran Turismo 3 and SSX Tricky look awesome on my 38" direct-view widescreen HDTV with built in line-doubler. Although, I wish it would output 480p like the GameCube does -- it probably wouldn't help much though.
"the developers have the option of making them 16:9 - not by letterboxing, but by having more horizontal resolution."
PlayStation games that support 16:9 TVs, do so by creating an anamorphic game image. This is the same way that widescreen DVDs work. It preserves vertical resolution.
You're right. I got the terminology confused, and then linked to the wrong page. Here is Apple's mirror of the <A HREF="http://bananajr6000.apple.com/1275/home.htm<nobr>l<wbr></wbr></nobr> ">Open Firmware</A> site. Cool stuff.
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Did you buy the PlayStation? It supported LAN parties with it's link cable. I think the PS2 supports LAN parties with FireWire cables (oh, I'm sorry this is Sony so it's called iLink).
You're PC doesn't support racing a Nissan Skyline on a 16:9 TV in anamorphic widescreen mode. Nor does it support snowboarding in Alaska in DTS 5.1 surround sound in anamorphic widescreen.
My PS2 does!
PS - Plus, I don't have to worry about upgrading. But, I still have my PC for Wolfenstein.
Apple needs to make a digital picture frame. They've gone completley LCD now (aside from the iMac), and everyone knows they are the king of product design. Just imagine a nice frame that can hang on your wall either in landscape or portrait mode (with intelligence), that uses an AirPort to display pictures off of your home LAN or its internal memory (8MB should be sufficient) (in case the fileserver goes down).
It is marketing on Honda's part too. Increasing the RPM's on their engines allows them to claim higher ratios of power per liter (which they do), regardless whether or not that power is useable or not (it isn't).
An appeals court decision on a preliminary judgement, also takes into account their belief of whether or not the trial will stick. If the case is without much merit, there is obviously no reason to uphold an injunction.
I'm not saying that is why, just pointing out that it is a factor.
Rio won their lawsuit, but decided to bend over, grab their ankles and implement SDMI anyway. I don't think Apple has anything to worry about with that precedent set.
Why does it need more space? It can already hold 8 hours worth of 44.1KHz WAV files (uncompressed), which is almost the same as the battery. Assuming you actually use it for MP3s, it can hold far more songs than you could play on one battery charge (even with its very long battery life), so you don't need more space.
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I've played Wolfenstein multiplayer test on my iBook. I cranked the graphics all the way down before I begain playing it. It ran smoother than Wolfenstein on my Win2000 box with moderate graphics settings and a GeForce 256. I could probably crank the graphics up quite a bit and still get good performance. Now all I need to do is buy an extra USB mouse for my iBook -- FPS games and trackpads don't mix.
Both my iBook and my Wintel PC are 600mHz, so the iBook is faster.
Graeme, where are the Mac OS X binaries? :) I took my iBook to the parents' for Thanksgiving and really wanted to play some Wolfenstein on it. Unfortunately, the harddrive on my mother's E-machine didn't have enough free space to install Wolf. :(
What was so special about Wil's shirt? This is the second comment I've seen about his shirt.
"Also, please note that Windows 2000 did this before OS X did this. Not that it matters, but it's true."
Not really. The system that Mac OS X uses is from the NeXT OS. So, it predates Windows 2000.
And now this same system is now in use in Mac OS X. It's pretty neat. The title (and tool, I think) bar of each window in the background is transparent. You can make your CLI transparent. The clock app they ship can reside on your desktop at different levels of user-configurable transparency. The dock background is transparent.
It's pretty neat.
This seems to me that HP was inspired by Apple's Cube. The color scheme looks the same (from the tiny pictures), they tried to minimize cables (Cube had ADC & AirPort), a slot load optical drive, and they are using airflow to control the temperature just like the Cube.
Apple Display Connector (ADC) is much better. It runs power, signal, and USB through the same cable into the same jack. You still only need one cable, and it is much cheaper.
The Offspring and Bad Religion did the soundtrack for Crazy Taxi.
Gran Turismo 3 and SSX Tricky look awesome on my 38" direct-view widescreen HDTV with built in line-doubler. Although, I wish it would output 480p like the GameCube does -- it probably wouldn't help much though.
"the developers have the option of making them 16:9 - not by letterboxing, but by having more horizontal resolution."
PlayStation games that support 16:9 TVs, do so by creating an anamorphic game image. This is the same way that widescreen DVDs work. It preserves vertical resolution.
You're right. I got the terminology confused, and then linked to the wrong page. Here is Apple's mirror of the <A HREF="http://bananajr6000.apple.com/1275/home.htm<nobr>l<wbr></wbr></nobr> ">Open Firmware</A> site. Cool stuff.
Damn borken extrans mode.
Apple uses Open BIOS</A>.
Did you buy the PlayStation? It supported LAN parties with it's link cable. I think the PS2 supports LAN parties with FireWire cables (oh, I'm sorry this is Sony so it's called iLink).
You're PC doesn't support racing a Nissan Skyline on a 16:9 TV in anamorphic widescreen mode. Nor does it support snowboarding in Alaska in DTS 5.1 surround sound in anamorphic widescreen.
My PS2 does!
PS - Plus, I don't have to worry about upgrading. But, I still have my PC for Wolfenstein.
Apple needs to make a digital picture frame. They've gone completley LCD now (aside from the iMac), and everyone knows they are the king of product design. Just imagine a nice frame that can hang on your wall either in landscape or portrait mode (with intelligence), that uses an AirPort to display pictures off of your home LAN or its internal memory (8MB should be sufficient) (in case the fileserver goes down).
No, but an iPod or a Audiotron are.
It is marketing on Honda's part too. Increasing the RPM's on their engines allows them to claim higher ratios of power per liter (which they do), regardless whether or not that power is useable or not (it isn't).
An appeals court decision on a preliminary judgement, also takes into account their belief of whether or not the trial will stick. If the case is without much merit, there is obviously no reason to uphold an injunction.
I'm not saying that is why, just pointing out that it is a factor.
My DVD player was $400 new, the first week they were available. This probably led to DVD's very fast acceptance rate.
That is a monstrosity, there is no one anything that ugly will ever have a place in my living room.
Aesthetics do matter!
Rio won their lawsuit, but decided to bend over, grab their ankles and implement SDMI anyway. I don't think Apple has anything to worry about with that precedent set.
"Unfortunately, there never was a NeXT developer community."
As I recall, John Carmack did a good share of his development for Quake on a NeXT workstation.
It's called FireWire.
Why does it need more space? It can already hold 8 hours worth of 44.1KHz WAV files (uncompressed), which is almost the same as the battery. Assuming you actually use it for MP3s, it can hold far more songs than you could play on one battery charge (even with its very long battery life), so you don't need more space.
Isn't USB 12kbps? My cable modem is much faster than that!