When you were a KID you were at the beginning of game design, as game design advances in a genre or area your expectation bar moves higher
Or, when you were a kid you learned to like a certain style of gameplay, and game development grew away from that over time. In that case, it makes perfect sense to go back and play the great games you missed, rather than wasting time on games that aren't intended to give you that classic experience.
As an avid retro gamer I don't think there's much more to be said. Maybe he forgot how to have fun. The rest of us enjoy classic game play.
Personally though, I don't see the point in retro remakes. I'd rather play the original, in almost every circumstance. Developers should spend their time making new games in the classic genres.
Tempest acutally uses a spinner. Potentiometers can only move so far in one direction, a spinner moves freely. You can build one from an old ball mouse pretty easily.
For missile command, you can get arcade style trackballs still. I have an X-arcade trackball and it's quite good. I wouldn't recommend the joysticks though.
For Battlezone, and other dual stick games like Robotron 2084 I've found the analog sticks on the dual shock to be a very very good replacement. But again, you can buy twin sticks for use with MAME.
Great, can you try to convince the rest of your brethren to have a similar attitude? For some reason moralizing busibodies are disproportionately religious.
Opera has been a damn good browser, and the focus of the company Opera has always been producing a damn good browser. If the focus becomes quarterly profit, I don't see much of a future for the Opera browser.
What about Lua? The syntax is very simple, and you can find Lua interpreters in all sorts of projects these days. It's designed to be light weight, so the beginner isn't overwhelmed by libraries.
With Lua, a kid can write programs for his Rockbox enabled mp3 player for instance. Many games use Lua scripting, which a kid could hack and alter the game. This is an awesome way to get kids interested in what you can do with programming.
That's how I felt about programming Pascal on 68k macs back in High School. Never programmed Pascal again. Never programmed a Mac again. BUT I use the basic concepts I learned every single day. This is exactly what you want from a teaching language.
Indeed. All I watch is the PBS NewsHour, Daily Show & Colbert, and the first half of Conan. PBS NewsHour is free, so that leaves about an hour (sans commercials) of actual paid programming I want to watch. On top of that, they're only on 4 times a week.
Roughly, that's 16 hours of programming for oh $50. That's just not reasonable. If cable TV can deliver 50 channels of programming 24/7 for $50 a month, I should be able to get 1 hour of programming for less than a buck. Much, much less than a buck. $0.25/hour sounds fair. Maybe $0.10/22 minute show. Anything more is just ridiculous.
You're not even looking at the facts and taking them at face value. Frederick was an adult, was not on school grounds, and was not under school custody at the time he made the "bong hits for jesus" statement.
If you look at the legal reasoning and take it at face value, it doesn't get any better. Roberts said that the speech "reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use". Well hell yes it did! Promotoing civil disobedience is political, and therefore, protected speech.
The only possible reason for the ruling is that Roberts et al., hate drug use more than they love the Constitution.
This is why I never liked TF. Can't I just shoot things? I'd rather lob a grenade up your ass than listen to you bitch about me choosing the wrong class.
I can't get into it. I don't want to have to worry about classes or teammates or objectives. I just want to shoot everything that moves. Deathmatch is all I really need from a multiplayer FPS.
Free speech liberals don't like is free speech. Free speech conservatives don't like is "obscenity". Funny how that works out.
I'd happily support an absolutist position on free speech, if the courts were consistant about it. But they are completely hypocritical. "God hates fags" == protected speech. "Bong hits for Jesus" == unprotected.
It's like they're not even trying to hide their bias anymore.
If it's $200, it's not a netbook. It's just a cheap laptop. A real netbook will be in the impulse purchase range. $99.99 in a blister pack at the checkout.
How much did you spend on those two "netbooks"? If it was over $200, it's not a netbook. What passes for a netbook these days is just an ultraportable laptop. Too powerful and too expensive to really be a netbook.
Where's my $100 netbook? Manufacturers have fallen into the trap of making netbooks more and more powerful and more and more expensive. They should be focusing on making it cheaper and lighter.
This is why netbooks are dead. Nobody really makes netbooks. As far as I can tell nobody ever really made netbooks.
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When you were a KID you were at the beginning of game design, as game design advances in a genre or area your expectation bar moves higher
Or, when you were a kid you learned to like a certain style of gameplay, and game development grew away from that over time. In that case, it makes perfect sense to go back and play the great games you missed, rather than wasting time on games that aren't intended to give you that classic experience.
As an avid retro gamer I don't think there's much more to be said. Maybe he forgot how to have fun. The rest of us enjoy classic game play.
Personally though, I don't see the point in retro remakes. I'd rather play the original, in almost every circumstance. Developers should spend their time making new games in the classic genres.
Tempest acutally uses a spinner. Potentiometers can only move so far in one direction, a spinner moves freely. You can build one from an old ball mouse pretty easily.
For missile command, you can get arcade style trackballs still. I have an X-arcade trackball and it's quite good. I wouldn't recommend the joysticks though.
For Battlezone, and other dual stick games like Robotron 2084 I've found the analog sticks on the dual shock to be a very very good replacement. But again, you can buy twin sticks for use with MAME.
All cops are bad. As long as we have unjust laws, cops will be charged with enforcing those laws. Anyone who enforces an unjust law is a bad person.
If cops want respect, they should first put their effort into making a government that is respectible. Only then can police be respected.
Is there an iPhone app that will send recorded video directly to the network? This will be an important feature when recording the police.
No, that means focusing on the short term alone is likely to be bad for the long term.
The Ft. Calhoun nuclear plant has been offline for some time now.
Yep. Doesn't worry me in the least.
Great, can you try to convince the rest of your brethren to have a similar attitude? For some reason moralizing busibodies are disproportionately religious.
Opera has been a damn good browser, and the focus of the company Opera has always been producing a damn good browser. If the focus becomes quarterly profit, I don't see much of a future for the Opera browser.
What about Lua? The syntax is very simple, and you can find Lua interpreters in all sorts of projects these days. It's designed to be light weight, so the beginner isn't overwhelmed by libraries.
With Lua, a kid can write programs for his Rockbox enabled mp3 player for instance. Many games use Lua scripting, which a kid could hack and alter the game. This is an awesome way to get kids interested in what you can do with programming.
That's how I felt about programming Pascal on 68k macs back in High School. Never programmed Pascal again. Never programmed a Mac again. BUT I use the basic concepts I learned every single day. This is exactly what you want from a teaching language.
Indeed. All I watch is the PBS NewsHour, Daily Show & Colbert, and the first half of Conan. PBS NewsHour is free, so that leaves about an hour (sans commercials) of actual paid programming I want to watch. On top of that, they're only on 4 times a week.
Roughly, that's 16 hours of programming for oh $50. That's just not reasonable. If cable TV can deliver 50 channels of programming 24/7 for $50 a month, I should be able to get 1 hour of programming for less than a buck. Much, much less than a buck. $0.25/hour sounds fair. Maybe $0.10/22 minute show. Anything more is just ridiculous.
Can we expect Betelgeuse to go supernova in our lifetimes?
$100 is ideal, but over $200 is the limit. The key word here is inexpensive. $50 less than a full laptop is not really inexpensive.
The point is that the "quintessential" netbooks never lived up to the promise of netbooks.
You're not even looking at the facts and taking them at face value. Frederick was an adult, was not on school grounds, and was not under school custody at the time he made the "bong hits for jesus" statement.
If you look at the legal reasoning and take it at face value, it doesn't get any better. Roberts said that the speech "reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use". Well hell yes it did! Promotoing civil disobedience is political, and therefore, protected speech.
The only possible reason for the ruling is that Roberts et al., hate drug use more than they love the Constitution.
This is why I never liked TF. Can't I just shoot things? I'd rather lob a grenade up your ass than listen to you bitch about me choosing the wrong class.
Evidently they like Westboro more than they like pot smokers.
I can't get into it. I don't want to have to worry about classes or teammates or objectives. I just want to shoot everything that moves. Deathmatch is all I really need from a multiplayer FPS.
Free speech liberals don't like is free speech. Free speech conservatives don't like is "obscenity". Funny how that works out.
I'd happily support an absolutist position on free speech, if the courts were consistant about it. But they are completely hypocritical. "God hates fags" == protected speech. "Bong hits for Jesus" == unprotected.
It's like they're not even trying to hide their bias anymore.
I'm mostly a conservative, and I don't recognize these rulings as conservative. These are corporatist
What's the difference?
If it's $200, it's not a netbook. It's just a cheap laptop. A real netbook will be in the impulse purchase range. $99.99 in a blister pack at the checkout.
How much did you spend on those two "netbooks"? If it was over $200, it's not a netbook. What passes for a netbook these days is just an ultraportable laptop. Too powerful and too expensive to really be a netbook.
Where's my $100 netbook? Manufacturers have fallen into the trap of making netbooks more and more powerful and more and more expensive. They should be focusing on making it cheaper and lighter.
This is why netbooks are dead. Nobody really makes netbooks. As far as I can tell nobody ever really made netbooks.
Alcohol withdrawal can be fatal. Nicotine and heroin withdrawal is not. Enough said.
Did you notice we're talking about pot smokers here?