There are actually several developers in the midwest. Before being bought by Microsoft, Bungie was based (and founded) in Chicago. Midway is based out of Chicago. Volition (Descent, Red Faction I & II, Saint's Row) is based out of Champaign, Illinois... etc.
Actually, every copy of Tiger comes with all of Apple's Developer Tools on the installation DVD. This include's Apple's XCode IDE, gcc4, Interface Builder, Profiling apps, Quartz Composer, et al.
So, presumably all of you running osx on your vanilla x86 boxes could get started "contributing to the software community" today...
Yeah. Carbon is clearly holding OS X back. I mean, what Carbon applications can you point to that OS X wouldn't be better off without. The Finder? iTunes? Photoshop? BBEdit? Nearly every single game and cross-platform application, including those ported from the Windows side?
This article doesn't mention Apple's flirtation with clones-- probably the single largest flop in the company's history. I still fondly remember my PowerTower.
I also had the fortune to see ESR give the Keynote at the MacHack 2000 conference. He spent 6 hours espousing the virtue of Open source programming, comparing open source developers to dogs who know their territory, among other things.
Its funny because in 2000, he was still worth several million still from I believe the VA Linux IPO, so he was telling all these propreitary guys how stupid they were for not jumping on the sunny open source revolution. Of course we all know how that turned out....
Anyway, I decided to lampoon his dog comments for my hack that year, Doggie-Style Windows. By patching over some of OS 9's window calls, it would take all the windows behind the front window and make them run away into their own "territory""-- a feature now being introduced by Apple in OS X's Panther.
I released the source to Doggie-Style, but I'm still poor.
Its a hell of a lot better than the old license. And its not like developers working with Darwin have much of a choice. I mean, who is going to use the APSL on a non Apple derived product?
He's hosting large mpegs, and its still early. Who wants to wager how many more comments get posted before someone starts whining about the borked Windows site?
Sorry Longhorn, MacOS X has been able to do rippling, rotating windows for awhile now. In fact, CoreGraphics has an undocumented call specifically for this, CGSetWindowWarp(), that the Genie effect uses.
There were several good examples of this call used at MacHack this year, and interested parties can download some of the hacks here.
I'd say sokoban is one of the most involving puzzle games I've ever played. Levels can take anywhere from minutes to hours to days. You have to push rocks around and get them in their correct goal spots without getting them stuck.
Sokoban was originally created by Hiroyuki Imabayashi in 1982 for a computer-game design contest. You might have seen it as Boxxle on the GameBoy, or Sokomind on Windows, or MacSokoban on your classic macs. Its also got versions out on NES, SEGA Genesis, PlayStation, and probably even ports to the new gen consoles.
I just got into writing DSP plugins for MaltX, an alternative macintosh mp3 player. it wouldn't be that tough to write live audio plugins to allow DJs to match tempos and affect the pitch of their MP3s digitally as well. You could also apply all sorts of other live audio effects and filters to your beats, like flanger, wah wah, and low and high frequency bandpass filters, to give your audio a wider dynamic depth than just scratching.
Carrying this idea further, someone could also write a live record.scratching DSP Plugin for an mp3 player to really acheive true digital 'spinning'.And all you would need to carry around is a laptop.
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There are actually several developers in the midwest. Before being bought by Microsoft, Bungie was based (and founded) in Chicago. Midway is based out of Chicago. Volition (Descent, Red Faction I & II, Saint's Row) is based out of Champaign, Illinois... etc.
Wow, the entire first season of Adam-12! I've been waiting for this.
Actually, every copy of Tiger comes with all of Apple's Developer Tools on the installation DVD. This include's Apple's XCode IDE, gcc4, Interface Builder, Profiling apps, Quartz Composer, et al.
So, presumably all of you running osx on your vanilla x86 boxes could get started "contributing to the software community" today...
Yeah. Carbon is clearly holding OS X back. I mean, what Carbon applications can you point to that OS X wouldn't be better off without. The Finder? iTunes? Photoshop? BBEdit? Nearly every single game and cross-platform application, including those ported from the Windows side?
This article doesn't mention Apple's flirtation with clones-- probably the single largest flop in the company's history. I still fondly remember my PowerTower.
You could also broadcast a live audio from anywhere with network access, as well...
Its funny because in 2000, he was still worth several million still from I believe the VA Linux IPO, so he was telling all these propreitary guys how stupid they were for not jumping on the sunny open source revolution. Of course we all know how that turned out....
Anyway, I decided to lampoon his dog comments for my hack that year, Doggie-Style Windows. By patching over some of OS 9's window calls, it would take all the windows behind the front window and make them run away into their own "territory""-- a feature now being introduced by Apple in OS X's Panther.
I released the source to Doggie-Style, but I'm still poor.
"Part of the ham radio charter is to 'experiment and innovate'"... by clinging on to an anachronistic method of communication?
The frikkin' Amish are beating these guys!
Its a hell of a lot better than the old license. And its not like developers working with Darwin have much of a choice. I mean, who is going to use the APSL on a non Apple derived product?
I always thought Chris Espinosa's Pro Stunt Copter would be a great idea for a game.
This is all well and good, but when am I finally going to see a Mac OS X version of Stunt Copter?
(Here;s a link to the Classic version.)
He's hosting large mpegs, and its still early. Who wants to wager how many more comments get posted before someone starts whining about the borked Windows site?
Sorry Longhorn, MacOS X has been able to do rippling, rotating windows for awhile now. In fact, CoreGraphics has an undocumented call specifically for this, CGSetWindowWarp(), that the Genie effect uses.
There were several good examples of this call used at MacHack this year, and interested parties can download some of the hacks here.
I'd say sokoban is one of the most involving puzzle games I've ever played. Levels can take anywhere from minutes to hours to days. You have to push rocks around and get them in their correct goal spots without getting them stuck.
Sokoban was originally created by Hiroyuki Imabayashi in 1982 for a computer-game design contest. You might have seen it as Boxxle on the GameBoy, or Sokomind on Windows, or MacSokoban on your classic macs. Its also got versions out on NES, SEGA Genesis, PlayStation, and probably even ports to the new gen consoles.
So.. Anyway.. I've got a MacOS X/OS 9 w/Carbon version of my own if you wanna try it out... www.sloppydisk.com/software/sokoban.html
Why stop at just making up a playlist?
I just got into writing DSP plugins for MaltX, an alternative macintosh mp3 player. it wouldn't be that tough to write live audio plugins to allow DJs to match tempos and affect the pitch of their MP3s digitally as well. You could also apply all sorts of other live audio effects and filters to your beats, like flanger, wah wah, and low and high frequency bandpass filters, to give your audio a wider dynamic depth than just scratching.
Carrying this idea further, someone could also write a live record.scratching DSP Plugin for an mp3 player to really acheive true digital 'spinning'.And all you would need to carry around is a laptop.
12.1" is pretty small for anything higher than 800x600, skippy. Remember to think before you speak, maybe someone will mistake you for intelligent.