had just released two classic ports to the Game Boy Advance, The Lost Vikings and Blackthorne, which both did not do too well
Hey, I've got a good idea! Lets release a ten year old game at full price! But wait, there's less! Lets remove all the cooperative multi-player that made the game actually worth playing! No wonder The Lost Vikings bombed. It was decent as a 1-player game, but only truly great as a 2-player game.
Hm, well, you may have a point there. And yes, why name it Freespace if its not free? Its like OpenGL being closed, or charging for Freetype or Freecraft. IT MAKES NO SENSE!
The "Linux Port" at least intimates "free", then if you deref the link, it talks about both how hard it is to find the windows version, and how you can check the code out of CVS. Most propritary crap isn't on a public CVS repository.
And the stupid Castle Worfenstien article... don't get me started.
Twice in the last two days you've gotten me all hyped at the prospect of free games. both times its turned out that only part of the game is free, the rest either costs or is binary-only. knock it off. use "somewhat free" to describe games that are not totally free.
FREE AS IN 'COSTS MONEY' IS NOT FREE. FREE AS IN 'CAN'T SEE ALL THE SOURCE' IS NOT FREE. THIS IS NOT A DIFFICULT CONCEPT. GET IT STRAIGHT, DORKS.
So, its available for free download for Linux, but costs $50 on Windows? That makes NO SENSE! And if you go to the linux page, they talk about how the code has been released to the public, but you still need to buy the game to play? Maybe I'm missing something here, but if the code's free, why do you need to buy. free!=costs, if you get my drift.
If this is somehow obvious, if everyone else knows why this is, then for god's sake don't mod me down, reply.:P
Interesting point. Would an angry jedi be less or more powerful than a passive, at rest jedi? Once you're a full-fledged jedi can you borrow power from the dark side? Was Darth Tyrannus ever a full-fledged "good" jedi? Is this whole light/dark side thing mostly just a dichotomy more for scaring jedi-apprentices?
But I was thinking in the shower the other day, the part where Darth Maul and Qwai-Gon are seperated by an force field, its pretty cool how DM paces angrily and QG meditates serenely.
The conclusion of the fight, of course, sucked ass. I mean, c'mon, your name is DARTH MAUL, and you have a chance to mutilate a mortally wounded Jedi's body in front of his apprentice. What kind of a Sith passes that up? Oh, and just force-push Obi down the damn infinate pit.
All that is true, in the body of the article. But the title does not have those qualifications, and invites the feeble minded reader to quickly conclude, wrongly, that 32>64.
Alphas have a 32 bit pointer that you can use if you're too stale to recompile your program for 64 bit. How do you think MS was able to port Windows NT to it?:)
Gee, our 32 bit OS doesn't seem to be selling very well on Alpha.
As to all the other little niggly reasons why you can't test cleanly on other architectures... maybe that's also the reason its a bad idea to make generalizations about 64/32 in the title of the article, while only testing one architecture!
They've at best proved a supposition about a single architecture/process/compiler family. They have not proved a general case. Did they test on amd64? Alpha? Mips? No? Then why are they making unwarranted generalizations? Ah, they're retarded.
Erm, actually, 2/3rds of the earth's crust is covered in water, and there are no self-sustaining settlements on or under the water. I think Dick Cheney and Osama live underground, but their basically the only ones. We are fragile too.
If you want xxx yyy or zzz to include "PowerPoint" then you need to buckle down and rewrite your slideshow. If xxx yyy or zzz merely includes "Slideshow Editor", then you shouldn't. Duh.
Ah, that makes this a LOT worse. You should have said that from the outset. If you ask me, its time for some civil disobedience and some open-letter writing.
So, let me get this straight, you run BSD, and you need to take a class on how to use PowerPoint? Are you some kind of idiot savant, leet enough to grok the command line, but with a crippling mental block that keeps you from being able to intuit your way through what 99% of computerdom considers an easily guessable user interface?
I really only have recent experience with the Star Wars line, and then only the first year and a half of it.
What at first blush looked like specialized pieces were in fact used and re-used throughout the line. If you had multiple sets, you'd end up with useful reps of the so called specialist pieces. These pieces weren't around back in 1986, true, but those also had their own line-specific pieces.
We got a Star Destroyer as a wedding present, and we have no place to put it assembled. Wanna buy one, used, in good condition, with all boxes and docs? email me here: http://www.speakeasy.org/~morse/email.jpg
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had just released two classic ports to the Game Boy Advance, The Lost Vikings and Blackthorne, which both did not do too well
Hey, I've got a good idea! Lets release a ten year old game at full price! But wait, there's less! Lets remove all the cooperative multi-player that made the game actually worth playing! No wonder The Lost Vikings bombed. It was decent as a 1-player game, but only truly great as a 2-player game.
Hm, well, you may have a point there. And yes, why name it Freespace if its not free? Its like OpenGL being closed, or charging for Freetype or Freecraft. IT MAKES NO SENSE!
... don't get me started.
The "Linux Port" at least intimates "free", then if you deref the link, it talks about both how hard it is to find the windows version, and how you can check the code out of CVS. Most propritary crap isn't on a public CVS repository.
And the stupid Castle Worfenstien article
Twice in the last two days you've gotten me all hyped at the prospect of free games. both times its turned out that only part of the game is free, the rest either costs or is binary-only. knock it off. use "somewhat free" to describe games that are not totally free.
FREE AS IN 'COSTS MONEY' IS NOT FREE.
FREE AS IN 'CAN'T SEE ALL THE SOURCE' IS NOT FREE.
THIS IS NOT A DIFFICULT CONCEPT.
GET IT STRAIGHT, DORKS.
So, its available for free download for Linux, but costs $50 on Windows? That makes NO SENSE! And if you go to the linux page, they talk about how the code has been released to the public, but you still need to buy the game to play? Maybe I'm missing something here, but if the code's free, why do you need to buy. free!=costs, if you get my drift.
:P
If this is somehow obvious, if everyone else knows why this is, then for god's sake don't mod me down, reply.
Well, they are choads for declaring victory before the final battle has been fought. The history of space exploration is littered with bones.
Which castle wolfenstein has been open-sourced?
The fantastically old Apple ][ game?
The really old ID game that predated Quake 1?
Some new version I've never heard of?
No, dude, I'm referring to the following Macintosh OSes:
OS1
OS2
OS3
OS4
probably OS5
maybe OS6
They didn't want to "confuse" their users.
Heh, at least its not a bomb with burning wick and the message "an error has occured [ok]".
Interesting point. Would an angry jedi be less or more powerful than a passive, at rest jedi? Once you're a full-fledged jedi can you borrow power from the dark side? Was Darth Tyrannus ever a full-fledged "good" jedi? Is this whole light/dark side thing mostly just a dichotomy more for scaring jedi-apprentices?
Heh.
I forgot about that one.
But I was thinking in the shower the other day, the part where Darth Maul and Qwai-Gon are seperated by an force field, its pretty cool how DM paces angrily and QG meditates serenely.
The conclusion of the fight, of course, sucked ass. I mean, c'mon, your name is DARTH MAUL, and you have a chance to mutilate a mortally wounded Jedi's body in front of his apprentice. What kind of a Sith passes that up? Oh, and just force-push Obi down the damn infinate pit.
they should make a jedi hunter class that can hunt and perma death the jedi
Good idea!
All that is true, in the body of the article. But the title does not have those qualifications, and invites the feeble minded reader to quickly conclude, wrongly, that 32>64.
Alphas have a 32 bit pointer that you can use if you're too stale to recompile your program for 64 bit. How do you think MS was able to port Windows NT to it? :)
... maybe that's also the reason its a bad idea to make generalizations about 64/32 in the title of the article, while only testing one architecture!
Gee, our 32 bit OS doesn't seem to be selling very well on Alpha.
As to all the other little niggly reasons why you can't test cleanly on other architectures
Mods, could this guy have a +1 funny. C'mon, admit it, it made you laugh.
Nice try, but no, the article is indeed retarded.
They've at best proved a supposition about a single architecture/process/compiler family. They have not proved a general case. Did they test on amd64? Alpha? Mips? No? Then why are they making unwarranted generalizations? Ah, they're retarded.
Excuse my ignorance, but what's so patentable about arranging buttons in a circle, and why is this called a wheel?
> 192MB RAM
IIRC this may be the rub. If the other guy's using 64mb or less, mozilla doesn't perform well, and scapegoat 4 sorta hunkers through.
Erm, actually, 2/3rds of the earth's crust is covered in water, and there are no self-sustaining settlements on or under the water. I think Dick Cheney and Osama live underground, but their basically the only ones. We are fragile too.
If you want xxx yyy or zzz to include "PowerPoint" then you need to buckle down and rewrite your slideshow. If xxx yyy or zzz merely includes "Slideshow Editor", then you shouldn't. Duh.
I don't know what to mod you, insightful or funny.
Ah, that makes this a LOT worse. You should have said that from the outset. If you ask me, its time for some civil disobedience and some open-letter writing.
Couldn't you take the cheese way out and export from what-have-you, then import to PowerPoint.
So, let me get this straight, you run BSD, and you need to take a class on how to use PowerPoint? Are you some kind of idiot savant, leet enough to grok the command line, but with a crippling mental block that keeps you from being able to intuit your way through what 99% of computerdom considers an easily guessable user interface?
I really only have recent experience with the Star Wars line, and then only the first year and a half of it.
What at first blush looked like specialized pieces were in fact used and re-used throughout the line. If you had multiple sets, you'd end up with useful reps of the so called specialist pieces. These pieces weren't around back in 1986, true, but those also had their own line-specific pieces.
We got a Star Destroyer as a wedding present, and we have no place to put it assembled. Wanna buy one, used, in good condition, with all boxes and docs? email me here: http://www.speakeasy.org/~morse/email.jpg