OpenGL for any system won't make a difference for the games I like. How about decent Hardware abstraction libraries for Hardware scrolling and sprites?
It is hard to compare games by time it takes to play them. I spend large amounts of money on great (to me at least) arcade games and I really only like arcade games. How many hours of gameplay do you consider Galaga to have for example? 2 minutes? 1000 hours? Does it matter if it is a great game? The replay value in great arcade games is priceless. I have found in the majority (not all) of 3D games of the last few years, they have almost zero replay value. Why pay for a game you are only going to play once or twice? I am sure I will get more replay value from Metal Slug 3 or R Type Final than the majority of other recent releases - garaunteed!
Note also that it is NOT the first gameboy from Nintendo that is either Frontlit or Backlit. They have previously released Lit Gameboy's in the past although they are no-where as common as non-Lit ones.
1 - say a wordprocessor developer decides to get rid of the concept entirely of files - does that mean they have to disclose how they store the information? ie: perhaps using their own disc format and writing sectors/tracks directly?
2 - where does the difference in data and program exist? ok, most of the time it is plain and clear, but what if the text of a wordprocessor wasn't stored as text, but rather a program that was interpretted to give the text layout? Also, is a BASIC program tokenised not data for the BASIC interpreter?
3 - Why should a programmer document how all their data is? They may not even know, it may be purely left to how the language that they used writes their data structures. Some of the data may be specifically not designed for 'users' to exchange? ie: indexes of a database.
4 - forcing people to disclose how their data is - is just not right. A programmer should have the right not to disclose how their program works.
Does your company enforce a single computer policy or single Network card policy? I have 2 Network cards in my ONE machine running TWO OSs that SHARE a network connection - one OS NATting to the Other - how does your company treat this situation?
Funny how when this is done over 10 years ago with Amigas no-one notices, but now when it is done with clonePCs the world sits up? The last thing I want is to have to wait 45 seconds to boot up my so-called CDPlayer replacement or my DVDplayer replacement - clonePCs just simply aren't made for speed (of booting) which is the *most* important aspect of the computer in the living room, noise is another.
Just to think about using a Wintel or Linux/Intel based computer for watching movies etc makes me alsmost laugh my non-false teeth out. Come on, you need to have the computer boot up INSTANTLY before it is remotely useful to do such a thing!
Pitty, my Amstrad CPC & C64 can do this soooo much better than the crap Intel based computer I am typing this on...
So, Linux may eventually run from a HDD on the DC, but so may other homebrew OSs which is where all the fun will be. What has a PC (assuming you mean generic clone hardware rather than Personal Computer) got to do with anything? All my 40+ PCs (personal Computers) of which only a single runs horrible Windoze and none run horrible Linux run other more fun OSs. I don't know if you lived in the 80s computer world, but it was fantastic, not from a hardware specs point of view (when looking back), but from the point of view that everything is different and unique and everything had nice things about them - these days, just horrible beige boxes with Windoze or Linux - yuk!
There is a good thing about Viruses - mostly they work only on Windows - and that is a really good thing I think. The more Windows boxes that get put out of action, my World at least will become a nicer place.
Only 1 of my large collection of 40+ computers has a realtime clock in it? Is this idea intended to force computers without inbuilt RTCs to not run their software? Or will just just run indefinately on these machines?
I think a lot of people miss the point. When computers started to become popular in the late 70s through to the 80s, the people they were popular with were hobbyists. There was never a mainstream during these times and we had a lot of great choice and fun with the variety of computers available. These days, unless you are a collector or into one of the less-mainstream brands (ie: Amiga, BeOS, 8bit OSs or even Linux) the PS2 probably wouldn't appeal to you. As with previous Consoles/Computers (SG1000, SC3000, CD32, Intellivision and probably many more) the PS2 fills in a gap for people who want an alternative *hobby/desktop/home* computer. Sure, consoles aren't optimally designed for general purpose, but not many general purpose computers are designed for games - yet they seem to do their job. I am sure a PS/2 with Linux will site nicely on my desk along side my Amiga4000/WindozeBox/AmstradCPC etc as another cool computer to work on/play with - heck, can probably get rid of the WindozeBox finally to make room for it! It's not *just* the OS that counts, but the fact of not being a horrible clone PC!
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Why not someone write a new browser (or perhaps modify mozilla) to automatically understand a new type of URL, ie: instead of HTTP://www.microsoft.com COOLWEB://www.microsoft.com Whenever this new URL format is clicked on by the browser, the browser will lookup somehow the mapping between this COOLWEB URL and the HTTP URL and redirect it automatically without the user knowing about the redirection. This would be just another layer in the same way current domain names map to IP addresses. There is also no reason why a newstyle domain name needs to be formated in a technically minded way as currently is either. We could have COOLWEB://I hate microsoft alot and point it to http://www.microsoft.com If enough websites eventually were to use the newstyle URLs and the browser was good enough then the world would adopt it. btw - I have a sort-of working webbrowser that was intended to do the above, but it is by far not stable and written in VB (and needs to be rewritten in another language to support threadding properly). It is called GODBrower:) It can also browse websites in a windows explorer fashion to make downloading pictures etc a breeze.
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OpenGL for any system won't make a difference for the games I like. How about decent Hardware abstraction libraries for Hardware scrolling and sprites?
why do you say it is a motherboard without an OS? of course it has an OS, it is on ROM like many other systems (ie: C64, Amstrad CPC...).
or my Amiga
It is hard to compare games by time it takes to play them. I spend large amounts of money on great (to me at least) arcade games and I really only like arcade games. How many hours of gameplay do you consider Galaga to have for example? 2 minutes? 1000 hours? Does it matter if it is a great game? The replay value in great arcade games is priceless. I have found in the majority (not all) of 3D games of the last few years, they have almost zero replay value. Why pay for a game you are only going to play once or twice? I am sure I will get more replay value from Metal Slug 3 or R Type Final than the majority of other recent releases - garaunteed!
Note also that it is NOT the first gameboy from Nintendo that is either Frontlit or Backlit. They have previously released Lit Gameboy's in the past although they are no-where as common as non-Lit ones.
1 - say a wordprocessor developer decides to get rid of the concept entirely of files - does that mean they have to disclose how they store the information? ie: perhaps using their own disc format and writing sectors/tracks directly?
2 - where does the difference in data and program exist? ok, most of the time it is plain and clear, but what if the text of a wordprocessor wasn't stored as text, but rather a program that was interpretted to give the text layout? Also, is a BASIC program tokenised not data for the BASIC interpreter?
3 - Why should a programmer document how all their data is? They may not even know, it may be purely left to how the language that they used writes their data structures. Some of the data may be specifically not designed for 'users' to exchange? ie: indexes of a database.
4 - forcing people to disclose how their data is - is just not right. A programmer should have the right not to disclose how their program works.
Julian
Does your company enforce a single computer policy or single Network card policy? I have 2 Network cards in my ONE machine running TWO OSs that SHARE a network connection - one OS NATting to the Other - how does your company treat this situation?
It will detect my Amiga with 2 network cards running both AmigaOS and MacOS simultaneously (using a network card each) as two computers incorrectly.
Since when haven't PCs been Microcomputers?
Boy do I love my Amiga compared to my PC, 7 years
(with OS upgrades) and ZERO degredation!
Funny how when this is done over 10 years ago with Amigas no-one notices, but now when it is done with clonePCs the world sits up? The last thing I want is to have to wait 45 seconds to boot up my so-called CDPlayer replacement or my DVDplayer replacement - clonePCs just simply aren't made for speed (of booting) which is the *most* important aspect of the computer in the living room, noise is another.
Just to think about using a Wintel or Linux/Intel based computer for watching movies etc makes me alsmost laugh my non-false teeth out. Come on, you need to have the computer boot up INSTANTLY before it is remotely useful to do such a thing!
Pitty, my Amstrad CPC & C64 can do this soooo much better than the crap Intel based computer I am typing this on...
So, Linux may eventually run from a HDD on the DC, but so may other homebrew OSs which is where all the fun will be. What has a PC (assuming you mean generic clone hardware rather than Personal Computer) got to do with anything? All my 40+ PCs (personal Computers) of which only a single runs horrible Windoze and none run horrible Linux run other more fun OSs. I don't know if you lived in the 80s computer world, but it was fantastic, not from a hardware specs point of view (when looking back), but from the point of view that everything is different and unique and everything had nice things about them - these days, just horrible beige boxes with Windoze or Linux - yuk!
There is a good thing about Viruses - mostly they work only on Windows - and that is a really good thing I think. The more Windows boxes that get put out of action, my World at least will become a nicer place.
Only 1 of my large collection of 40+ computers has a realtime clock in it? Is this idea intended to force computers without inbuilt RTCs to not run their software? Or will just just run indefinately on these machines?
I think a lot of people miss the point. When computers started to become popular in the late 70s through to the 80s, the people they were popular with were hobbyists. There was never a mainstream during these times and we had a lot of great choice and fun with the variety of computers available. These days, unless you are a collector or into one of the less-mainstream brands (ie: Amiga, BeOS, 8bit OSs or even Linux) the PS2 probably wouldn't appeal to you. As with previous Consoles/Computers (SG1000, SC3000, CD32, Intellivision and probably many more) the PS2 fills in a gap for people who want an alternative *hobby/desktop/home* computer. Sure, consoles aren't optimally designed for general purpose, but not many general purpose computers are designed for games - yet they seem to do their job. I am sure a PS/2 with Linux will site nicely on my desk along side my Amiga4000/WindozeBox/AmstradCPC etc as another cool computer to work on/play with - heck, can probably get rid of the WindozeBox finally to make room for it! It's not *just* the OS that counts, but the fact of not being a horrible clone PC!
Why not someone write a new browser (or perhaps modify mozilla) to automatically understand a new type of URL, ie: instead of HTTP://www.microsoft.com COOLWEB://www.microsoft.com Whenever this new URL format is clicked on by the browser, the browser will lookup somehow the mapping between this COOLWEB URL and the HTTP URL and redirect it automatically without the user knowing about the redirection. This would be just another layer in the same way current domain names map to IP addresses. There is also no reason why a newstyle domain name needs to be formated in a technically minded way as currently is either. We could have COOLWEB://I hate microsoft alot and point it to http://www.microsoft.com If enough websites eventually were to use the newstyle URLs and the browser was good enough then the world would adopt it. btw - I have a sort-of working webbrowser that was intended to do the above, but it is by far not stable and written in VB (and needs to be rewritten in another language to support threadding properly). It is called GODBrower :) It can also browse websites in a windows explorer fashion to make downloading pictures etc a breeze.