If you ask me, Nintendo has effectively become another failure similiar to Sega. The Super NES was the last great thing to come from Nintendo, and is in my opinion, still the best gaming console available.
Look at Sega... everyone thinks the Dreamcast is all that because its new. It'll fade just like the SegaCD did before summer of next year. The N64 pales in game support compared the PS.
I think we'll be seeing PS 2 and X-box going at it head to head next year. Its about time for Nintendo to retire anyway.
TVs weren't meant for killer graphics that we have today, that's why we have PCs and 3d accels. IMHO the SNES, with its very well defined graphics (you can actually see what's going on, god forbid!) is the best console system.
Yeah, I saw everybuddy when I first started my project. I had assumed that no Win32 port would be made so I figured that I should I keep pushing the OpenIM project.
The Jabber idea is good, supporting various protocols through XML and then just updating the server to server interface on the server. Wish I could have come up with that.
Well the Oscar protocol opens and closes every now and then, but not in the traditional sense. If you search enough, you can find [outdated] Oscar protocol specifications. In fact, my roommate was working on a C++ Builder library for Win32 to implement what he found of it. Granted he doesn't get the Voice over IP feature (or whatever it is) but he'll get most of the protocol.
The TOC protocol has always been open since they released the specifications for the Java TIC and Tcl/Tk TiK clients some time ago.
Then you have Jabber, which offers free open source clients and servers that bridge between their own open source XML protocol, AOL's [TOC probably] and AOL's/Mirabilis ICQ. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be incredibly popular.
Why not marshall all the protocols together on the client end? MSN, Yahoo!, AIM... whatever.
I've been working on an open source prototype using this idea for a bit now. Its Win32 and written in VB6, but the final product is planned to be compiled in Delphi 5.0: elysium.systemcrash.org.
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If you ask me, Nintendo has effectively become another failure similiar to Sega. The Super NES was the last great thing to come from Nintendo, and is in my opinion, still the best gaming console available.
Look at Sega... everyone thinks the Dreamcast is all that because its new. It'll fade just like the SegaCD did before summer of next year. The N64 pales in game support compared the PS.
I think we'll be seeing PS 2 and X-box going at it head to head next year. Its about time for Nintendo to retire anyway.
TVs weren't meant for killer graphics that we have today, that's why we have PCs and 3d accels. IMHO the SNES, with its very well defined graphics (you can actually see what's going on, god forbid!) is the best console system.
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Is it just me or do we see this question every month?
Yeah, I saw everybuddy when I first started my project. I had assumed that no Win32 port would be made so I figured that I should I keep pushing the OpenIM project.
The Jabber idea is good, supporting various protocols through XML and then just updating the server to server interface on the server. Wish I could have come up with that.
Well the Oscar protocol opens and closes every now and then, but not in the traditional sense. If you search enough, you can find [outdated] Oscar protocol specifications. In fact, my roommate was working on a C++ Builder library for Win32 to implement what he found of it. Granted he doesn't get the Voice over IP feature (or whatever it is) but he'll get most of the protocol.
The TOC protocol has always been open since they released the specifications for the Java TIC and Tcl/Tk TiK clients some time ago.
Then you have Jabber, which offers free open source clients and servers that bridge between their own open source XML protocol, AOL's [TOC probably] and AOL's/Mirabilis ICQ. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be incredibly popular.
Why not marshall all the protocols together on the client end? MSN, Yahoo!, AIM... whatever.
I've been working on an open source prototype using this idea for a bit now. Its Win32 and written in VB6, but the final product is planned to be compiled in Delphi 5.0: elysium.systemcrash.org.