Yes, but sites that require Java usually say something along the lines of "Sorry, but you need a JVM installed to really view this site." I don't recall any site ever saying something like that about Netscape.
I got scared away when I had to go through a bunch of crap to get Mandrake 7.2 to notice that my hard drive was attached to the Promise Ultra66 built into my A7V motherboard. Am I gonna have to go through that again if I try 8.0? It was a real pisser last time when the installer went in to an infinite loop because it couldn't find a drive to install to.
2) Fund the efforts to advance 3D graphics to the point where realistic child porn can be generated without children.
That will help keep children from being victimized, yes, but, at least in Canada, art that depicts children pornographically, whether they are real or not, is illegal. The demand for kiddie porn isn't *allowed* to be fulfilled here. Most people just want it eliminated altogether, and there is no First Amendment for pedophiles to argue.
I dunno, Tyrannosaurus Tex for the GBC seems pretty Wolf3D-like, and someone has demo'd a 3D engine for the GBA using the first level of Doom2. So, I wouldn't rule out GBA Doom.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, the extra 8-bit CISC CPU that is mentioned there is the GBC processor. Instead of having the Game Boy Advance emulate the old Game Boys for compatability, they're just including the Game Boy Color to run the old games.
Actually, not to nitpick, but the GBA can't display 65536 colors, simply because it hasn't got that many pixels. According to this FAQ the screen is 240 x 160 and can display 32k colors. It also says the processor is 16Mhz and 32-bit, while (I think) the SNES was 16-bit.
Nintendo probably won't do it; they made one for the original (Spinach green) Game Boy, but haven't made one that will work with the others (they have different power requirements). However, other companies definately *will* make battery packs. There's one for the GBC that is supposed to get 10 hours, like you guesstimated, and it will work with the GBA if Nintendo doesn't redesign the battery compartment, which they probably will.
The problem with the Game Gear was that it had a backlit screen sucking up the batteries; all of the Game Boys need external lighting. The GBC runs for 20-25 hours on 2 AAs and I think the GBA is supposed to be the same.
SMA is a Mario 2 remake, just like there is a Mario 1 remake for Game Boy Color (which also included "The Lost Levels" AKA the Japanese Mario 2). It'd be nice if they'd just make a GBA version of Mario Allstars instead of porting each game individually.
The problem with the NGPC was that it wasn't a Game Boy; there are something like 500 GB games available, and the NGPC was released with a dozen. Most of the games released for the Neo Geo Pocket Color were fighting games, with one or two RPGs and nothing I can think of that could compete with good ol' Tetris. It's main market ended up being hardcore gamers, and there aren't too many hardcore gamers who are into portable gaming. SNK realized that their market wasn't large enough to be worth the effort, so they bailed.
They've already gotten away with "Game Boy Pocket" and "Game Boy Color", and *now* you're complaining? The GBC came out over 2 years ago; try to keep up.
You seem to imply that music is part of the information that the online community wants to share. How exactly does music qualify as information, besides that it can be encoded as a series of bits? pr0n is digital too, and I doubt too many people would call that "information".
I think of information as things like news, articles, etc. -- things that are informative. You're not going to argue that music is informative, are you? Sure, some songs are, but people who download songs aren't looking to be informed, they just want something to listen to. And what about music that is just music, no words, like classical? It may be pleasant to listen to, but I wouldn't think of it was information.
Information wants to be free? Sure, but what is "information"?
People still buy CDs, despite music being freely available on the radio.
Um, don't radio stations have to pay the music studios when the play the music? The studios are still making money directly from music on the radio, they just aren't getting it from us. Their problem is that there's no way to do that with mp3s.
a good browser would at least render something usable when faced with crappy HTML!
So, you're saying Netscape isn't a good browser? After all, it's even less tolerant of crappy HTML than IE is.:P
One little problem with your idea: id only released the source to Doom and Quake, not the artwork and levels; you can modify the engines if you like, but if you want to play the games legally you still have to buy them. People who download ROMs want to play the games, not add new special effects or make Sonic run even faster.
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Yes, but sites that require Java usually say something along the lines of "Sorry, but you need a JVM installed to really view this site." I don't recall any site ever saying something like that about Netscape.
All Your Base Are Belong To Us If you really didn't know that, consider yourself lucky. Where the hell have you been?
I got scared away when I had to go through a bunch of crap to get Mandrake 7.2 to notice that my hard drive was attached to the Promise Ultra66 built into my A7V motherboard. Am I gonna have to go through that again if I try 8.0? It was a real pisser last time when the installer went in to an infinite loop because it couldn't find a drive to install to.
That will help keep children from being victimized, yes, but, at least in Canada, art that depicts children pornographically, whether they are real or not, is illegal. The demand for kiddie porn isn't *allowed* to be fulfilled here. Most people just want it eliminated altogether, and there is no First Amendment for pedophiles to argue.
I dunno, Tyrannosaurus Tex for the GBC seems pretty Wolf3D-like, and someone has demo'd a 3D engine for the GBA using the first level of Doom2. So, I wouldn't rule out GBA Doom.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, the extra 8-bit CISC CPU that is mentioned there is the GBC processor. Instead of having the Game Boy Advance emulate the old Game Boys for compatability, they're just including the Game Boy Color to run the old games.
Actually, not to nitpick, but the GBA can't display 65536 colors, simply because it hasn't got that many pixels. According to this FAQ the screen is 240 x 160 and can display 32k colors. It also says the processor is 16Mhz and 32-bit, while (I think) the SNES was 16-bit.
Nintendo probably won't do it; they made one for the original (Spinach green) Game Boy, but haven't made one that will work with the others (they have different power requirements). However, other companies definately *will* make battery packs. There's one for the GBC that is supposed to get 10 hours, like you guesstimated, and it will work with the GBA if Nintendo doesn't redesign the battery compartment, which they probably will.
You left out the best part -- they needed a new US Mario game because they thought their new Japanese one was too hard for Americans :P
The problem with the Game Gear was that it had a backlit screen sucking up the batteries; all of the Game Boys need external lighting. The GBC runs for 20-25 hours on 2 AAs and I think the GBA is supposed to be the same.
SMA is a Mario 2 remake, just like there is a Mario 1 remake for Game Boy Color (which also included "The Lost Levels" AKA the Japanese Mario 2). It'd be nice if they'd just make a GBA version of Mario Allstars instead of porting each game individually.
The problem with the NGPC was that it wasn't a Game Boy; there are something like 500 GB games available, and the NGPC was released with a dozen. Most of the games released for the Neo Geo Pocket Color were fighting games, with one or two RPGs and nothing I can think of that could compete with good ol' Tetris. It's main market ended up being hardcore gamers, and there aren't too many hardcore gamers who are into portable gaming. SNK realized that their market wasn't large enough to be worth the effort, so they bailed.
They've already gotten away with "Game Boy Pocket" and "Game Boy Color", and *now* you're complaining? The GBC came out over 2 years ago; try to keep up.
I think of information as things like news, articles, etc. -- things that are informative. You're not going to argue that music is informative, are you? Sure, some songs are, but people who download songs aren't looking to be informed, they just want something to listen to. And what about music that is just music, no words, like classical? It may be pleasant to listen to, but I wouldn't think of it was information.
Information wants to be free? Sure, but what is "information"?
Um, don't radio stations have to pay the music studios when the play the music? The studios are still making money directly from music on the radio, they just aren't getting it from us. Their problem is that there's no way to do that with mp3s.
a good browser would at least render something usable when faced with crappy HTML! So, you're saying Netscape isn't a good browser? After all, it's even less tolerant of crappy HTML than IE is. :P
One little problem with your idea: id only released the source to Doom and Quake, not the artwork and levels; you can modify the engines if you like, but if you want to play the games legally you still have to buy them. People who download ROMs want to play the games, not add new special effects or make Sonic run even faster.