While it's nice to see Linux and even my old favorite Amiga OS get some new software Midnight Racing is a terrible game.
I picked it up for the equivalent of about $2.50 US and felt thoroughly ripped off. While the screenshots look fine it plays like it was written by someone who's never been in a car much less driven one! On the bright side the DVD style case could be reused after throwing the game out.
I hope their other titles are better but given Autobahn racing looks like it uses the same game engine I don't hold out much hope.
Almost all DVD players in Australia can convert NTSC discs to PAL60 or PAL50 on the fly if necessary.
As for region coding a large percentage of the players sold in Australia are multi region out of the box. Even Sony have started releasing multi region players in an effort to get back the market share they lost to Pioneer and other name brands that have sold multi region players for years.
Similarly many new TV's and VCR's in Australia can handle NTSC signals no problems.
The simple fact is that their is a lot of content only available in NTSC that people in PAL countries want to see.
I had the pleasure of taking a couple of Damians classes in my time at Monash and he is probably the best lecturer their.
While I still think he should let the Perl community buy out his teaching duties it will be a shame for the students who miss out on taking his classes.
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While it's nice to see Linux and even my old favorite Amiga OS get some new software Midnight Racing is a terrible game.
I picked it up for the equivalent of about $2.50 US and felt thoroughly ripped off. While the screenshots look fine it plays like it was written by someone who's never been in a car much less driven one! On the bright side the DVD style case could be reused after throwing the game out.
I hope their other titles are better but given Autobahn racing looks like it uses the same game engine I don't hold out much hope.
Here in Australia we have a thing called sarcasm. Before you accuse some one of racism you might like to work out what it is!
Ah well back to hoping someone turns Combat in to a movie.
Almost all DVD players in Australia can convert NTSC discs to PAL60 or PAL50 on the fly if necessary.
As for region coding a large percentage of the players sold in Australia are multi region out of the box. Even Sony have started releasing multi region players in an effort to get back the market share they lost to Pioneer and other name brands that have sold multi region players for years.
Similarly many new TV's and VCR's in Australia can handle NTSC signals no problems.
The simple fact is that their is a lot of content only available in NTSC that people in PAL countries want to see.
While I still think he should let the Perl community buy out his teaching duties it will be a shame for the students who miss out on taking his classes.