I had the "Opti929" sound card which came with a Diamond Multimedia kit. It had Sound Blaster/adlib compatibility, and also had a built-in wavetable synthesizer when you set up games in MPU401 mode. Only problem with the wavetable was that it had the wrong idea about what a "Synth Drum" sounded like (this card made it a melodic tone shifted several steps above its note), so lots of songs sounded wrong.
Pinball Fantasies (1994) had an amazing sound driver which would play multi-channel MOD files through the PC speaker, of course it also supported sound cards. It also attempted to play digital audio through an Adlib card.
I've heard that the Wii may store information about which games you have purchased locally, on the Wii itself. Pirates have reported that after installing pirated games, they did not need to pay to get a free re-download from the Wii Shop Channel.
No it's not impressive. The physics of the game are terrible (for instance, you can not change direction once you start rolling) and the game is almost completely unplayable.
Is this contract on display down in the dark cellar, with no stairs, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard"?
There was a shareware Windows program called "The Customizer" which recognized a parent window, then would move, resize, hide/show, enable/disable all the child windows (buttons, controls, etc) the way you want it every time that window appears. So you could completely rearrange a dialog box of a program, turn on some hidden controls, enable stuff that's supposed to be disabled, etc.
Then there's also resource file editing, you can change dialogs, or add shortcut keys to menu items or other dialog buttons. I've done that a few times to add shortcut keys to a program.
Scrabble already went to hell the moment QI was considered a word. And with other words like XI, XU, ZA being valid as well, it just turned inside out.
I always used F6 in Firefox to get the location bar, it's the traditional shortcut key for switching between panes in a multi-pane window. That key goes way back to QBasic, you would hit that key to switch between the Help area and the Code area, and also works in text editors with a splitter, like TextPad or Visual Studio. It just so happens that the Firefox developers decided that F6 would be a nice key to go to the location bar for some reason. Maybe because the URL bar is like a second pane in a window. But if there is no visible pane (like in Gnome), how would you ever guess that there was a keyboard shortcut key to turn a series of buttons into a textbox?
How can we make Gnome better? I know! Let's take away that useful button that lets you type in paths. And then yell at you for being stupid when you don't know that button had a Hotkey (Ctrl+L) that still works, even with the button missing.
The TI83 and TI86 had an ASM command for running assembly-language code without requiring a hacked memory backup. (on the original TI83, the ASM command was 'Send(9', but later models used an actual 'Asm(' command.)
Pirates are using modified system software to run disc based games off of USB hard drives. Nintendo wouldn't need to make any changes to the hardware to make games run off of SD cards, they would only need to change their software.
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Recommended alternative terminal program?
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Cygwin 1.7 Released
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· Score: 1
The Windows command interpreter sucks as a terminal program. What's a good alternative for use with Cygwin? I'd prefer Unicode support, so I don't see question marks on all non-ascii filenames.
Do we finally have unicode support?
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Cygwin 1.7 Released
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· Score: 4, Interesting
For a while, I've been using a modified version of Cygwin in order to get proper UTF-8 support. Does the new version finally integrate a similar feature?
I once tried out Services For Unix. I then attempted to build GNU Tar, but couldn't figure out how to make the integrated Unzip part of it work, so I gave up. That's too bad, since Cygwin royally sucks at fork.
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I had the "Opti929" sound card which came with a Diamond Multimedia kit. It had Sound Blaster/adlib compatibility, and also had a built-in wavetable synthesizer when you set up games in MPU401 mode. Only problem with the wavetable was that it had the wrong idea about what a "Synth Drum" sounded like (this card made it a melodic tone shifted several steps above its note), so lots of songs sounded wrong.
Pinball Fantasies (1994) had an amazing sound driver which would play multi-channel MOD files through the PC speaker, of course it also supported sound cards. It also attempted to play digital audio through an Adlib card.
I've heard that the Wii may store information about which games you have purchased locally, on the Wii itself. Pirates have reported that after installing pirated games, they did not need to pay to get a free re-download from the Wii Shop Channel.
I have not confirmed any of this though.
No it's not impressive. The physics of the game are terrible (for instance, you can not change direction once you start rolling) and the game is almost completely unplayable.
Is this contract on display down in the dark cellar, with no stairs, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard"?
Separate electron guns for each color. They excite different phosphors on the screen. Just like a color TV.
There was a shareware Windows program called "The Customizer" which recognized a parent window, then would move, resize, hide/show, enable/disable all the child windows (buttons, controls, etc) the way you want it every time that window appears. So you could completely rearrange a dialog box of a program, turn on some hidden controls, enable stuff that's supposed to be disabled, etc.
Then there's also resource file editing, you can change dialogs, or add shortcut keys to menu items or other dialog buttons. I've done that a few times to add shortcut keys to a program.
Scrabble already went to hell the moment QI was considered a word. And with other words like XI, XU, ZA being valid as well, it just turned inside out.
I always used F6 in Firefox to get the location bar, it's the traditional shortcut key for switching between panes in a multi-pane window. That key goes way back to QBasic, you would hit that key to switch between the Help area and the Code area, and also works in text editors with a splitter, like TextPad or Visual Studio. It just so happens that the Firefox developers decided that F6 would be a nice key to go to the location bar for some reason. Maybe because the URL bar is like a second pane in a window. But if there is no visible pane (like in Gnome), how would you ever guess that there was a keyboard shortcut key to turn a series of buttons into a textbox?
How can we make Gnome better? I know! Let's take away that useful button that lets you type in paths. And then yell at you for being stupid when you don't know that button had a Hotkey (Ctrl+L) that still works, even with the button missing.
Stay classy, Gnome devs.
And that page shows why Flash is so great. Watch the CPU usage meter as the demos play.
I think that would be "Yoshi's Island" for Super Nintendo.
How do we have a thread about Bad Video Game Voice acting and not mention Chaos Wars?
But Bionic Commando can't jump!
The TI83 and TI86 had an ASM command for running assembly-language code without requiring a hacked memory backup. (on the original TI83, the ASM command was 'Send(9', but later models used an actual 'Asm(' command.)
int getRandomNumber() // chosen by fair dice roll. // guaranteed to be random.
{
return 4;
}
Thanks, XKCD
Note: NOT the same JEMM that came with Privateer.
Game Gear had twice the color depth of the Game Boy Color, it could display 16 colors per tile, while the Game Boy Color could only display 4.
Pirates are using modified system software to run disc based games off of USB hard drives.
Nintendo wouldn't need to make any changes to the hardware to make games run off of SD cards, they would only need to change their software.
Too bad OpenGL royally sucks ass on ATI cards.
Javascript games are nothing new. Every game ever made in Flash uses the Javascript language.
I've even made a full clone of the original Atari 2600 game, "Adventure" in flash!
Put a plus sign before the keyword, that will force a particular spelling.
The Windows command interpreter sucks as a terminal program. What's a good alternative for use with Cygwin? I'd prefer Unicode support, so I don't see question marks on all non-ascii filenames.
For a while, I've been using a modified version of Cygwin in order to get proper UTF-8 support. Does the new version finally integrate a similar feature?
I once tried out Services For Unix. I then attempted to build GNU Tar, but couldn't figure out how to make the integrated Unzip part of it work, so I gave up. That's too bad, since Cygwin royally sucks at fork.