It may be an old game, but being able to run it on a modern OS is amazing, while running the more recent Ultima 8 on a modern OS wouldn't impress me at all.
It was so complex to configure a working operating environment that could run Ultima 7, you had to understand the whole i386/MS-DOS memory model with all its hacks and subtleties just to run that game. Being able to start a game for the first time was the first quest of the game, even before that of solving the murder in Trinsic.
I've always used Ultima 7 as a hardcore test when I try an emulator. If it runs Ultima 7, it must emulate every feature and bug of the i386 architecture/MS-DOS and passes the test, if it doesn't, it fails. I've only tried VMWare that passed the test (but with no sound), all others failed.
Now thanks to Exult I don't really care anymore if an emulator can run Ultima 7 or not, but it's still a good way to check if an emulator does its work well.
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that's better than 1) Develop new technology 2) Make weapon with new technology 3) ??? 4) Blood and dead bodies everywhere!
I don't watch much TV, and I would prefer buying the shows I like than paying a monthly fee for cable, which I use at most 20 hours per month.
They should release Enterprise season 1 now instead of waiting 10 years after the serie has ended. In 20 years it will be too late, I'll have already been tired of waiting for years and will just download all the series on a napster clone
Same thing for the Simpsons, why is it taking so long to release each new season?
I like to make MP3 copies of my original CD's and burn them to a MP3 CD so I can play them with my portable MP3 CD player and have access to my complete (300+) CD collection at all times, anywhere I am, because it all fits in my 50 CD wallet?
But people aren't stealing movies/music as much as the MPAA/RIAA claim to justify the SSSCA.
So they should stop bothering us honest customers who rip every CD they buy to their personal hard drive which is not shared in any way. I want to be able to use my personal MP3 CD player with copies of any album i BUY, and I want to have backups in case the original CD gets damaged (it's rare, but in my 250 cd collection, at least 5 of them are damaged)
The next they'll do is to say I'm denying them the right to profit by not buying a second copy of the same CD I already have, because I have a backup.
But you won't kill anyone by clicking on the maximimze button, thinking it was the minimize button, you'll just see you clicked the wrong button. In a car, if you hit the acceleration button thinking it was the brake, you'll hit the car in front of you at a higher speed, killing both you and the car.
I bought U7 twice too, once the original version with cloth map, and a second time with the "Ultima Ascension Dragons Edition" which included the soundtrack and Ultima 1 to 8
I knew Ultima 7 was still playable thanks to the wonderful Exult, but Ultima 8? Do you have docs explaining how to do it?
Maybe not for games I already bought when they were first relased, but I would pay full price for re-releases I never had a chance to buy, if I really want to play them.
I don't agree with your car analogy, a car looses value because it's made of matter that degrades over time, but a good book/music album/movie/game is data that can be perfectly reproduced on any media, without any degradation, so a book written centuries ago has the same value than any new book.
For me, abandonware is a temporary solution. If the publisher decides to re-release a game for which I own an unauthorized copy, and which I love to play, I'll buy it, even if they charge the same price they used to charge 10 years ago.
The game still has the same value it used to have, that's why I'm dedicating time to play it.
Wizards are still a form of Computer-Assissted-Copy-Paste, the real way to reuse code should be to put all the reusable code in function/class libraries that are then imported in future projects.
And that way you get the extra benefit that you don't have to waste time writing code for a wizard, which must be updated when the generated code changes.
Most people don't have time to play in MMORPGs.
I already have enough obligations in real life, I don't need more obligations in virtual worlds.
I know I can stop playing a MMORPG for weeks and then continue playing, but then I'll have missed thousand of events that happened while I wasn't there. So I think MMORPGs are doomed to be storyless games for D&D kiddies with +5 swords (who got the virtual sword from ebay with real money). And I hope your prediction won't ever come true.
It will however require them to send each specific message separately rather than sending large cc's or using some sort of relay. That alone is a big step since right now most spammers can get away with sending a single email message and relying on an open relay to retransmit to a larger group
Most spam I get has my real name somewhere in the body of the message, so it doesn't seem like a problem for spammers:(
It's even worse than that...
- Look there's a new Star Wars/LOTR trailer before that crappy movie!!!!!
- Woah let's see it at the theatre! And if the movie sucks we'll just leave after the trailer! The trailer is gonna be the best moment of my life! God is great hallelujah!
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It may be an old game, but being able to run it on a modern OS is amazing, while running the more recent Ultima 8 on a modern OS wouldn't impress me at all.
It was so complex to configure a working operating environment that could run Ultima 7, you had to understand the whole i386/MS-DOS memory model with all its hacks and subtleties just to run that game. Being able to start a game for the first time was the first quest of the game, even before that of solving the murder in Trinsic.
I've always used Ultima 7 as a hardcore test when I try an emulator. If it runs Ultima 7, it must emulate every feature and bug of the i386 architecture/MS-DOS and passes the test, if it doesn't, it fails. I've only tried VMWare that passed the test (but with no sound), all others failed.
Now thanks to Exult I don't really care anymore if an emulator can run Ultima 7 or not, but it's still a good way to check if an emulator does its work well.
that's better than
1) Develop new technology
2) Make weapon with new technology
3) ???
4) Blood and dead bodies everywhere!
What about quickly releasing every show on DVD?
I don't watch much TV, and I would prefer buying the shows I like than paying a monthly fee for cable, which I use at most 20 hours per month.
They should release Enterprise season 1 now instead of waiting 10 years after the serie has ended. In 20 years it will be too late, I'll have already been tired of waiting for years and will just download all the series on a napster clone
Same thing for the Simpsons, why is it taking so long to release each new season?
but neither the parent poster or the RIAA thought about it
I like to make MP3 copies of my original CD's and burn them to a MP3 CD so I can play them with my portable MP3 CD player and have access to my complete (300+) CD collection at all times, anywhere I am, because it all fits in my 50 CD wallet?
but they shouldn't be
That's nice, but does the kernel (which uses zlib) have access to environment variables?
But people aren't stealing movies/music as much as the MPAA/RIAA claim to justify the SSSCA.
So they should stop bothering us honest customers who rip every CD they buy to their personal hard drive which is not shared in any way. I want to be able to use my personal MP3 CD player with copies of any album i BUY, and I want to have backups in case the original CD gets damaged (it's rare, but in my 250 cd collection, at least 5 of them are damaged)
The next they'll do is to say I'm denying them the right to profit by not buying a second copy of the same CD I already have, because I have a backup.
Or better, a "Temporarily switch to default settings, but still let me customize my non-default settings" (like Windows safe mode)
[NITPICK] Clippy was finally removed [microsoft.com] from Office with the XP release. [/NITPICK]
It's not true, he's still there, I want my money back!!!!!!
But you won't kill anyone by clicking on the maximimze button, thinking it was the minimize button, you'll just see you clicked the wrong button. In a car, if you hit the acceleration button thinking it was the brake, you'll hit the car in front of you at a higher speed, killing both you and the car.
I bought U7 twice too, once the original version with cloth map, and a second time with the "Ultima Ascension Dragons Edition" which included the soundtrack and Ultima 1 to 8
I knew Ultima 7 was still playable thanks to the wonderful Exult, but Ultima 8? Do you have docs explaining how to do it?
Maybe not for games I already bought when they were first relased, but I would pay full price for re-releases I never had a chance to buy, if I really want to play them.
I don't agree with your car analogy, a car looses value because it's made of matter that degrades over time, but a good book/music album/movie/game is data that can be perfectly reproduced on any media, without any degradation, so a book written centuries ago has the same value than any new book.
For me, abandonware is a temporary solution. If the publisher decides to re-release a game for which I own an unauthorized copy, and which I love to play, I'll buy it, even if they charge the same price they used to charge 10 years ago.
The game still has the same value it used to have, that's why I'm dedicating time to play it.
And it's also okay for a president to play violent games IN REAL LIFE
Yeah, except that the better of the two (ORO) has inexcusable bugs, even after all the years it's been around.
Like what?
(I'm using it a lot, so I would like to be aware of any bugs I may encounter)
Didn't he give up that right by GPLing the kernel?
Wizards are still a form of Computer-Assissted-Copy-Paste, the real way to reuse code should be to put all the reusable code in function/class libraries that are then imported in future projects.
And that way you get the extra benefit that you don't have to waste time writing code for a wizard, which must be updated when the generated code changes.
Most people don't have time to play in MMORPGs. I already have enough obligations in real life, I don't need more obligations in virtual worlds.
I know I can stop playing a MMORPG for weeks and then continue playing, but then I'll have missed thousand of events that happened while I wasn't there. So I think MMORPGs are doomed to be storyless games for D&D kiddies with +5 swords (who got the virtual sword from ebay with real money). And I hope your prediction won't ever come true.
Clarke says that quote in the Rama serie, but he
says it's from Asimov
A legitimate mail wouldn't be sent to multiple people, so it won't have any impact on anyone
if you start marking your own mail as spam.
(Unless you are subscribed to mailing lists, then you would have to exclude the mailing lists
from your filters)
I LOVE hurting those assholes that make the software, and those that make hundreds of dollars selling MY email adress on CD :)~
It will however require them to send each specific message separately rather than sending large cc's or using some sort of relay. That alone is a big step since right now most spammers can get away with sending a single email message and relying on an open relay to retransmit to a larger group
:(
Most spam I get has my real name somewhere in the body of the message, so it doesn't seem like a problem for spammers
It's even worse than that... - Look there's a new Star Wars/LOTR trailer before that crappy movie!!!!!
- Woah let's see it at the theatre! And if the movie sucks we'll just leave after the trailer! The trailer is gonna be the best moment of my life! God is great hallelujah!