1. Are there any VIC 20 games that are actually worth playing, and aren't inferior versions of games available for other formats?
2. Is there a comprehensive list of VIC 20 software (like Cowering's goodtools)?
3. How big would a zip file containing all available software?
You can see where I'm heading with this...
P.S. kids, where are the automated tools to automatically download rom list updates, locate the missing data through various channels (web, news, irc), download, verify and update?
Google indexes 3 billion pages. Most censorware companies claim to review every banned page manually. Guess what? There's no way to make the numbers work. They rely on crudes rules of thump. Which by definition sometimes fail.
Check out my introduction to censorware. Most slashdotters will already be familiar with all of this except maybe some of the arguments.
"No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings
This refers just to title 17. Isn't there any other part of the law that can be used for legal action?
And though making the digital copies seems to be protected, distributing the copies may not be.
"In short, the reported legislation [Section 1008] would clearly establish that consumers cannot be sued for making analog or digital audio copies for private noncommercial use."
Surely making copies available for download by others cannot be classified as "private"? It's more like "possession with intent to distribute".
had fun back in those NES days with the no-name teams and no-name players, but it's alot more fun to be playing as *favorite real life team* than *no name player x*
OK, how about this: no pre-made professionals, but you can customize characters' appearance in many many ways (think recent Tony Hawks - my nieces had so much fun playing dress-up they wouldn't let me play the actual game). Let players upload and download and you're all done - somebody will create every major team / player, and it would be done by actual users rather than developers. Nobody to sue, everybody's happy.
Instead of the real sports people, just use open source "movers and shakers" (they shake when they move!).
But seriously, do you really have to have the likeness of NBA players to enjoy a basketball arcade game? It just increases the barrier of entry for the little guy. The back yard (or whatever it's called) sports series became successful without any licensed playas, didn't it?
Tony Hawk may actually care about the games and spend ages with the developers explaining stuff but most sportonalities don't. Did Jeremy McGrath even played that horrible Dreamcast game after putting his name on it? No, or he would never have agreed to peddle a game where the motorcycles controlled - and sounded - like bees.
Hey, raffle off a chance to get your likeness in the game. Put yourselves and your girlfriends in the game. Work out a deal with a toy company that needs brand recognition in time for the xmas rush. Just stop this 'you must be at least this $$$ rich to create even the suckiest sports game' madness.
Come on, didn't you have fun playing that hockey game on the NES? Did Activision's Atari 2600 Tennis game suck because you were 'black guy' or 'white guy' instead of 16 professionals? Was Atari's Pele's soccer better because of the name? All the soccer players in that title were three rectangles, so I don't think any of them was any more or less Pele than the others.
Every time a kit like this is available, we get little gems from people who wouldn't otherwise have the time to learn the skills the kit lets you get away with not knowing - but with them we get hundreds of nearly-identical, pointless games to wade through to get to them.
Even without viruses, how many of you have automated scripts to bulk-download pages from link sites and binaries from newsgroups?
Now what if one day these sources get 'infected' with illegal content and for some (perhaps unrelated reason) you get search-and-seized before you notice it?
How can you be responsible for content you haven't even checked yet?
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Finally, a way to prove people are stealing my pencils!
Gee, don't you think that's a bit extreme? just use RFID tags like the rest of us, they're like 1 cent apiece now.
I hope I'm don't come off as intolerant, but this got me thinking: Is this a coincidence? Or maybe it's just that video game programmers (or programmers in general) tend to be dissatisfied with their lives, and thus more likely to try something extreme?
The Software Engineers at McMaster University designed a life sized Pac-Man board, thus answering the question of whether or not software engineering is in fact engineering."
That's like saying "The president played the saxophone, thus answering the question of whether or not politics is in fact music".
Establish a legal p2p music network designed only for music that "wants" to be shared ( you have to identify yourself to inject a file into the network initially, p2p clients can be configured to look at cancellation notice lists from whatever sources they choose, etc).
When everybody has a free, easy, legal source for free music, you will (taking a page from the M$ book) "cut off the RIAA's air supply".
In the meantime, how come p2p clients don't require some kind of EULA to connect, so that connecting for the obvious uses is OK but connecting for any other purpose violates the EULA, the DMCA and subjects the violators (RIAA) to hefty fines and cyberterrorism jailtime?
C'mon, you're smart, you're young, you're quick, you should be able to beat them at their own game!
The standards define what's a CD. These - things - whatever they are, wherever they came for, whatever they're trying to do here - are _not_ CDs.
If there is no name for them, they cannot be feared, and despised, and resisted. There is no way to think about them, or talk about them - which is exactly what they want.
Vitamins looks nice, it will be one of the first games I test once I have my hardware (have to decide what to buy first, though).
CmdrTaco may also be interested in the upcoming Gamecube "Nintendo Puzzle Collection" which supposedly lets you download portable versions of the three games included (Dr. Mario, Yoshi's Cookie, and Panel de Pon) to your GBA.
There are several gadget-things allowing you to run code on the GBA, which differ in storage, speed, ability to run GB/GBC stuff, storing multiple games on one cart, saving game states, problems with the newer GBA SP... anybody cares to let us know what's what and where to order it?
The most amazing thing about TiVo is that every keypress has the effect you'd expect. This company actually cares about usability. Most companies don't.
Before trying this thing for a couple of hours, I can't even be sure I'd be willing to use this thing for free.
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1995 was not exactly a banner year for the blue blur. In fact, with the exception of 1997, it may have been his worst year ever.
misread the title as "Rabid open source development"...
1. Are there any VIC 20 games that are actually worth playing, and aren't inferior versions of games available for other formats?
2. Is there a comprehensive list of VIC 20 software (like Cowering's goodtools)?
3. How big would a zip file containing all available software?
You can see where I'm heading with this...
P.S. kids, where are the automated tools to automatically download rom list updates, locate the missing data through various channels (web, news, irc), download, verify and update?
and that makes for a $.66 song. Pretty good competition for the RIAA, really.
Of course, then they'd have $6.66 albums.
Don't you mean $6.60?
Hey baby, you want to come over and play with my twin snakes and super monkey ball?
(please post opinions if you've read them)
Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984
The Ultimate History of Video Games
Arcade fever
High Score! The Illustrated History of Electronic Games
I only own the first one, and it's visually striking; as much an art book as a history book.
Google indexes 3 billion pages. Most censorware companies claim to review every banned page manually. Guess what? There's no way to make the numbers work. They rely on crudes rules of thump. Which by definition sometimes fail.
Check out my introduction to censorware. Most slashdotters will already be familiar with all of this except maybe some of the arguments.
P.S. Yes, I wrote "thump". Intentionally.
"No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings
This refers just to title 17. Isn't there any other part of the law that can be used for legal action?
And though making the digital copies seems to be protected, distributing the copies may not be.
"In short, the reported legislation [Section 1008] would clearly establish that consumers cannot be sued for making analog or digital audio copies for private noncommercial use."
Surely making copies available for download by others cannot be classified as "private"? It's more like "possession with intent to distribute".
had fun back in those NES days with the no-name teams and no-name players, but it's alot more fun to be playing as *favorite real life team* than *no name player x*
OK, how about this: no pre-made professionals, but you can customize characters' appearance in many many ways (think recent Tony Hawks - my nieces had so much fun playing dress-up they wouldn't let me play the actual game). Let players upload and download and you're all done - somebody will create every major team / player, and it would be done by actual users rather than developers. Nobody to sue, everybody's happy.
Instead of the real sports people, just use open source "movers and shakers" (they shake when they move!).
But seriously, do you really have to have the likeness of NBA players to enjoy a basketball arcade game? It just increases the barrier of entry for the little guy. The back yard (or whatever it's called) sports series became successful without any licensed playas, didn't it?
Tony Hawk may actually care about the games and spend ages with the developers explaining stuff but most sportonalities don't. Did Jeremy McGrath even played that horrible Dreamcast game after putting his name on it? No, or he would never have agreed to peddle a game where the motorcycles controlled - and sounded - like bees.
Hey, raffle off a chance to get your likeness in the game. Put yourselves and your girlfriends in the game. Work out a deal with a toy company that needs brand recognition in time for the xmas rush. Just stop this 'you must be at least this $$$ rich to create even the suckiest sports game' madness.
Come on, didn't you have fun playing that hockey game on the NES? Did Activision's Atari 2600 Tennis game suck because you were 'black guy' or 'white guy' instead of 16 professionals? Was Atari's Pele's soccer better because of the name? All the soccer players in that title were three rectangles, so I don't think any of them was any more or less Pele than the others.
OK, I'm all rambled out now.
Every time a kit like this is available, we get little gems from people who wouldn't otherwise have the time to learn the skills the kit lets you get away with not knowing - but with them we get hundreds of nearly-identical, pointless games to wade through to get to them.
Remember pinball construction set?
I suppose this will get some people so angry they'll just go out and club the first baby seal they see.
Even without viruses, how many of you have automated scripts to bulk-download pages from link sites and binaries from newsgroups?
Now what if one day these sources get 'infected' with illegal content and for some (perhaps unrelated reason) you get search-and-seized before you notice it?
How can you be responsible for content you haven't even checked yet?
Finally, a way to prove people are stealing my pencils!
Gee, don't you think that's a bit extreme? just use RFID tags like the rest of us, they're like 1 cent apiece now.
There seems to be a pattern here:
Jessica Mulligan
Dani Bunten Berry
Jamie Fenton
I hope I'm don't come off as intolerant, but this got me thinking: Is this a coincidence? Or maybe it's just that video game programmers (or programmers in general) tend to be dissatisfied with their lives, and thus more likely to try something extreme?
Buzz beer: stay up late and get drunk all over again.
The Software Engineers at McMaster University designed a life sized Pac-Man board, thus answering the question of whether or not software engineering is in fact engineering."
That's like saying "The president played the saxophone, thus answering the question of whether or not politics is in fact music".
Can you still press XX OO Up Down Up down to get extra lives?
The Konami code (used for extra lives and such in many of their games) is actually: Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.
Geez, kids today.
Establish a legal p2p music network designed only for music that "wants" to be shared ( you have to identify yourself to inject a file into the network initially, p2p clients can be configured to look at cancellation notice lists from whatever sources they choose, etc).
When everybody has a free, easy, legal source for free music, you will (taking a page from the M$ book) "cut off the RIAA's air supply".
In the meantime, how come p2p clients don't require some kind of EULA to connect, so that connecting for the obvious uses is OK but connecting for any other purpose violates the EULA, the DMCA and subjects the violators (RIAA) to hefty fines and cyberterrorism jailtime?
C'mon, you're smart, you're young, you're quick, you should be able to beat them at their own game!
>> "Microsoft have released"
> "Microsoft has released..."
Only in the U.S. corporations are considered to be actual people. Until this is fixed (ha) the least you can do is not refer to them as such.
We should definitely embrace this idea, and extend it to books, movies, movies, pictures, sculptures etc.
Won't submit your work for rating? We'll make sure kids don't be exposed to it by mistake and hurt their tiny little souls.
The standards define what's a CD. These - things - whatever they are, wherever they came for, whatever they're trying to do here - are _not_ CDs.
If there is no name for them, they cannot be feared, and despised, and resisted. There is no way to think about them, or talk about them - which is exactly what they want.
You must speak the true name of your enemy.
Vitamins looks nice, it will be one of the first games I test once I have my hardware (have to decide what to buy first, though).
CmdrTaco may also be interested in the upcoming Gamecube "Nintendo Puzzle Collection" which supposedly lets you download portable versions of the three games included (Dr. Mario, Yoshi's Cookie, and Panel de Pon) to your GBA.
There are several gadget-things allowing you to run code on the GBA, which differ in storage, speed, ability to run GB/GBC stuff, storing multiple games on one cart, saving game states, problems with the newer GBA SP... anybody cares to let us know what's what and where to order it?
The most amazing thing about TiVo is that every keypress has the effect you'd expect. This company actually cares about usability. Most companies don't.
Before trying this thing for a couple of hours, I can't even be sure I'd be willing to use this thing for free.