Open-ended gaming has been the future (well, it's tried to be the future) since SSI started making AD&D games for PC. Didn't really get very far until recently. It's not like it's a new idea.
What the fuck?? Why do atheists NEED religious rights? Isn't atheism the belief that there is NO god? It's not like there's any religious practices that need protection, or institutions that deserve tax-exempt status.
And even if your customer manages to illegally acquire and install operating systems elsewhere, it still costs them far more time and money than they bargained for.
Here's how a typical day at my work can go: Get a computer from fedex. It's totally blank. Insert Win2k CD I got from a friend of a friend with a MSDN subscription. Install Win2k. Give computer to new employee.
Where's the part where it costs more in terms of time and money come in?
Ohmygod. The mark of the beast is a fucking metaphor. The mark of the beast on your head is a symbol for evil in the mind, on the hand is a symbol of evil actions. It's not an actual mark.
It's similar to the High Priest having lamb's blood painted on his hand. Hope I don't have to spell that one out too...
Portrait customization was really cool, but the voices really irritated me. Especially when people would say inane things at random times, or when you're approaching some high drama or suspense point and somebody says something along the lines of 'boink!' (just an example..)
Did anyone else not like the original because of the empty space and the talking? IMO, RPG's should not talk. If you need some kind of speech from the characters, it should be left to a bare minimum (Planescape: Torment was very good in this aspect). ESPECIALLY the main character, if s/he's generated by the player. If the point of an RPG is to play the role of another, shouldn't the player be left to fill in all the details about his/her avatar?
Many OEM's do this. Most OEMs suck. Therefore, very few people actually do upgrades that way. And unlike with Mac's, there is no one almighty god of normal PC's. They can be build any number of ways. While it does make sense and would probably be cheaper in the long run, it's not going to happen, simply because my computer is different from my friends'.
True, that. And don't forget that they picked a wierd choice for initial development. While mac G3's and above are relatively easy to develop for, as you don't have to worry as much about driver issues and hardware compatibility, the mac market is so much smaller than the PC market.... Also, while VGS has better game compatiblity than bleem!, the image and sound quality of b! is rediculiously higher, not to mention the emulation is at times -too- fast, where VGS can easily get bogged down.
Proofs! FF8 -and- CC work on older versions of bleem! almost perfectly. The issue with FF8 is that saveing didn't work until 1.5a I think, which is unfortunate because 1.4 was much faster than 1.5b, which is the current version.
And whoever said PSX games are formatted wierd, stick one in your CD drive. It used regular 'ol CDFS.
Exactly. Almost every console since the Atari 2600 has been either sold to distributors for either a loss or at cost. Guess the people at Sony believe there are exactly zero honest people in the world that would rather own a legit PSX disc than use a pirated one.
I use bleem! and only have legit games. Whoever got money for me buying those wouldn't have that money if VGS/bleem! were killed in court. Those corporate types are geniuses.
bleem, inc. (note the lowercase 'b') had to design bleem! in such a way as to work with PAL and NTSC games. The copy protection hardware in the PSX is the same device that holds the region code for the entire machine. Thus, bleem! does not support region codes, and therefore does support the use of CD-R media.
bleem!'s performance is actually increased when using CD-R media, as the reader in conventional CD readers is of high quality, while using a CD-R in a modded PSX degrades performance. The PSX's reader is a really low-quality part, so Sony makes the CD's black, to reduce reflection/refraction of the laser.
My point is that bleem! will play pirated PSX games out of the box, no hacks required. But it can't be used directly for piracy, much the way DeCSS can't. It's a workaround for not having the right hard/software for the media you are licensed to use.
The EULA you agree to when you install the game and use the service (yes, there are two EULA's on this kind of software, and a code of conduct.) says that you agree not to either produce or use the software in any way that the company doesn't like.
Anime... hm. Most of the anime I watch portrays the world in a way I'd like it to be, or I imagine it could be. Big fancy robots and space travel and such. Typical geek things, I guess. Only, painted and drawn instead of described in vague words.
Clock speed is FSB x Multiplier. Retail/OEM Intel chips have a lock on the Multiplier, thus the only way to overclock them is by increasing the FSB. Intel doesn't need to do that, though. They can just maked unlocked chips. So it isn't really overclocking, in that they are working around a lock like you or I would.
No. Pay attention, I'm going to give a fact. I went to a site I shop at a lot, and here's what I saw.
AMD Athlon 1GHz OEM (Socket A) $566.00.
Intel Pentium III 933EB L2 256 Cache $710.00
The P3 933 is the fastest you can buy at most places online. The site I got the prices from is not the lowest on the web, but it's close and they have better salespeople:). www.thechipmerchant.com if you care.
FF7-8 are in the same category of Parasite Eve - (barely) interactive movie. Square has made a few -real- rps's tho. Take Xenogears for example. Or anything on the SNES.
Don't pay much attention do ya? Since the 15th, you can get WinME on OEM machines. Also, if you're in the MSDN you get each and every beta of -every- M$ OS.
Come on. Doesn't giving users access to the likes of Google count as helping them find and download copyrighted material? Please. As much as I hate AOL, I hate music barons more. Go aol.
To use an upgrade install with no previous install: copy:\win98 to:\win98. Run setup.exe. When it tries to find the previous install point it to:\win98. That simple. I promise.
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Open-ended gaming has been the future (well, it's tried to be the future) since SSI started making AD&D games for PC. Didn't really get very far until recently. It's not like it's a new idea.
Did you miss the /. story a few days ago detailing that ISP's are NOT common carriers?
What the fuck?? Why do atheists NEED religious rights? Isn't atheism the belief that there is NO god? It's not like there's any religious practices that need protection, or institutions that deserve tax-exempt status.
Here's how a typical day at my work can go: Get a computer from fedex. It's totally blank. Insert Win2k CD I got from a friend of a friend with a MSDN subscription. Install Win2k. Give computer to new employee.
Where's the part where it costs more in terms of time and money come in?
Kill all your users. No users==significantly less stress.
Ohmygod. The mark of the beast is a fucking metaphor. The mark of the beast on your head is a symbol for evil in the mind, on the hand is a symbol of evil actions. It's not an actual mark.
It's similar to the High Priest having lamb's blood painted on his hand. Hope I don't have to spell that one out too...
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Portrait customization was really cool, but the voices really irritated me. Especially when people would say inane things at random times, or when you're approaching some high drama or suspense point and somebody says something along the lines of 'boink!' (just an example..)
....more empty space and bad voice acting.
Did anyone else not like the original because of the empty space and the talking? IMO, RPG's should not talk. If you need some kind of speech from the characters, it should be left to a bare minimum (Planescape: Torment was very good in this aspect). ESPECIALLY the main character, if s/he's generated by the player. If the point of an RPG is to play the role of another, shouldn't the player be left to fill in all the details about his/her avatar?
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
Many OEM's do this. Most OEMs suck. Therefore, very few people actually do upgrades that way. And unlike with Mac's, there is no one almighty god of normal PC's. They can be build any number of ways. While it does make sense and would probably be cheaper in the long run, it's not going to happen, simply because my computer is different from my friends'.
True, that. And don't forget that they picked a wierd choice for initial development. While mac G3's and above are relatively easy to develop for, as you don't have to worry as much about driver issues and hardware compatibility, the mac market is so much smaller than the PC market.... Also, while VGS has better game compatiblity than bleem!, the image and sound quality of b! is rediculiously higher, not to mention the emulation is at times -too- fast, where VGS can easily get bogged down.
Proofs! FF8 -and- CC work on older versions of bleem! almost perfectly. The issue with FF8 is that saveing didn't work until 1.5a I think, which is unfortunate because 1.4 was much faster than 1.5b, which is the current version.
And whoever said PSX games are formatted wierd, stick one in your CD drive. It used regular 'ol CDFS.
Exactly. Almost every console since the Atari 2600 has been either sold to distributors for either a loss or at cost. Guess the people at Sony believe there are exactly zero honest people in the world that would rather own a legit PSX disc than use a pirated one.
I use bleem! and only have legit games. Whoever got money for me buying those wouldn't have that money if VGS/bleem! were killed in court. Those corporate types are geniuses.
bleem, inc. (note the lowercase 'b') had to design bleem! in such a way as to work with PAL and NTSC games. The copy protection hardware in the PSX is the same device that holds the region code for the entire machine. Thus, bleem! does not support region codes, and therefore does support the use of CD-R media.
bleem!'s performance is actually increased when using CD-R media, as the reader in conventional CD readers is of high quality, while using a CD-R in a modded PSX degrades performance. The PSX's reader is a really low-quality part, so Sony makes the CD's black, to reduce reflection/refraction of the laser.
My point is that bleem! will play pirated PSX games out of the box, no hacks required. But it can't be used directly for piracy, much the way DeCSS can't. It's a workaround for not having the right hard/software for the media you are licensed to use.
The EULA you agree to when you install the game and use the service (yes, there are two EULA's on this kind of software, and a code of conduct.) says that you agree not to either produce or use the software in any way that the company doesn't like.
Anime... hm. Most of the anime I watch portrays the world in a way I'd like it to be, or I imagine it could be. Big fancy robots and space travel and such. Typical geek things, I guess. Only, painted and drawn instead of described in vague words.
Clock speed is FSB x Multiplier. Retail/OEM Intel chips have a lock on the Multiplier, thus the only way to overclock them is by increasing the FSB. Intel doesn't need to do that, though. They can just maked unlocked chips. So it isn't really overclocking, in that they are working around a lock like you or I would.
No. Read that statement again.
A 1.3Ghz CPU from Intel, even though it's been demoed, is still vapour-ware, until it's solid and readily available.
IIRC, Intel demoed a 1.4Ghz P3 at the convention last week. It was only running CPUID, but it's a 1.4GHZ (ooooooOOOOO!) (gag)
No. Pay attention, I'm going to give a fact. I went to a site I shop at a lot, and here's what I saw.
The P3 933 is the fastest you can buy at most places online. The site I got the prices from is not the lowest on the web, but it's close and they have better salespeople :). www.thechipmerchant.com if you care.
FF7-8 are in the same category of Parasite Eve - (barely) interactive movie. Square has made a few -real- rps's tho. Take Xenogears for example. Or anything on the SNES.
Don't pay much attention do ya? Since the 15th, you can get WinME on OEM machines. Also, if you're in the MSDN you get each and every beta of -every- M$ OS.
Come on. Doesn't giving users access to the likes of Google count as helping them find and download copyrighted material? Please. As much as I hate AOL, I hate music barons more. Go aol.
To use an upgrade install with no previous install: copy :\win98 to :\win98. Run setup.exe. When it tries to find the previous install point it to :\win98. That simple. I promise.
Anarchy Online.
zsnes does doesn't it? Dos emu, yessiree.