The one thing that determines how good a handheld game console is the quality of the controller. For instance, it's impossible to play console-style games on a PDA keypad, or a touch screen. You need an honest-to-god D-PAD or Analog stick and buttons to play console-style games. That's why the Game Boy and Nintendo DS hasn't been displaced already.
You just can't play Super Mario Bros on an iPhone.
It's actually more about subtracting channels being the way to do a "Karaoke" effect (removing the center channel and hopefully the vocals), and while it works great for CDs, it works horribly for MP3 files.
You may not be able to tell the difference between MP3 and the original CD audio, but as soon as you subtract the right channel from the left channel, you sure can. Elements which would perfectly cancel from subtraction instead sound warbly.
That would be Firefox which reveals your bookmarks. By abusing the visited link style, it can conditionally load images depending on whether or not you have visited a specific page. Carpet-bomb enough of those, and you can tell which of the top 5000 websites a user has been to.
I liked Javascript better when Flash used it and called it Actionscript. Actionscript is compiled to stack machine bytecode which can be decompiled back to AS code. That takes out the lexical interpretation step.
Is there any software which actually uses these.NET Helper and Windows Presentation Foundation plugins? Do these expose an API to let javascript code interact with the.NET framework or something? Do they let people write Firefox extensions in a.NET language? Do they let specially crafted Microsoft websites run.NET code in Firefox?
If users have nothing to gain from these plugins, then there is no reason they should exist.
Even without hacking the OS, the calculator will run any Z80 assembly language program you can put on the thing. So there goes your uniformity argument.
NO! There is no "Copy game binary to memory" Stage! These are ROM cartridges which code is executed directly off of, it's not a RAM system which loads games like the NDS.
Then you go stick a UDF formatted CD into a mainstream DVD player, and it fails to play. But another player (one that happens to support MPEG-4 files) plays the disc with no problems.
You want a shining example of a really good educational game? Try Quarky and Quaysoo's Turbo Science, a 1992 MS-DOS game published by Sierra designed to teach scientific concepts to children. Lots of sweet cartoon animation, and stealthfully educational.
That's a problem in how the NTVDM (Windows NT/2000/XP's DOS subsystem) works. It always gives 100% CPU usage to the program, regardless of what it actually needs. Qbasic runs smooth and snappy on a 286, it just might not be using HALT instructions to indicate that it's done with what it's doing.
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So how long until we see bacteria resistant to this device?
The one thing that determines how good a handheld game console is the quality of the controller. For instance, it's impossible to play console-style games on a PDA keypad, or a touch screen. You need an honest-to-god D-PAD or Analog stick and buttons to play console-style games. That's why the Game Boy and Nintendo DS hasn't been displaced already.
You just can't play Super Mario Bros on an iPhone.
It's actually more about subtracting channels being the way to do a "Karaoke" effect (removing the center channel and hopefully the vocals), and while it works great for CDs, it works horribly for MP3 files.
You may not be able to tell the difference between MP3 and the original CD audio, but as soon as you subtract the right channel from the left channel, you sure can. Elements which would perfectly cancel from subtraction instead sound warbly.
It's .NET code. It's already "Open Source" by virtue of tools like Reflector existing.
Do a search, then do another search on another browser with a different cookie. You get very different ads.
That would be Firefox which reveals your bookmarks. By abusing the visited link style, it can conditionally load images depending on whether or not you have visited a specific page. Carpet-bomb enough of those, and you can tell which of the top 5000 websites a user has been to.
I liked Javascript better when Flash used it and called it Actionscript. Actionscript is compiled to stack machine bytecode which can be decompiled back to AS code. That takes out the lexical interpretation step.
I found that the Edimax WiFi card finally survives sleep mode without breaking.
Are there any other filesystems with that feature? If not, I'm very strongly considering writing my own.
Throw MS-DOS and LoopyNES on it. Get some decent NES gaming running on that thing.
No$GMB also works at that kind of slow speed.
Is there any software which actually uses these .NET Helper and Windows Presentation Foundation plugins? Do these expose an API to let javascript code interact with the .NET framework or something? Do they let people write Firefox extensions in a .NET language? Do they let specially crafted Microsoft websites run .NET code in Firefox?
If users have nothing to gain from these plugins, then there is no reason they should exist.
Even without hacking the OS, the calculator will run any Z80 assembly language program you can put on the thing. So there goes your uniformity argument.
I've only seen two games use the CGA 160x100 16 color mode:
Moon Bugs, and some breakout clone.
NO! There is no "Copy game binary to memory" Stage! These are ROM cartridges which code is executed directly off of, it's not a RAM system which loads games like the NDS.
The original GBA was 16MHz, not 33.
Then you go stick a UDF formatted CD into a mainstream DVD player, and it fails to play. But another player (one that happens to support MPEG-4 files) plays the disc with no problems.
I always knew that GCC produced gigantic ELF files, but big enough to knock over an AM tower? This is just ridiculous.
How about a network named "56K AOL Dialup"?
You can transfer licenses from one console to another. You can either do it once a year, or more frequently after calling tech support.
Pause may trigger an interrupt, but that doesn't imply anything about how a game would handle that interrupt.
You want a shining example of a really good educational game? Try Quarky and Quaysoo's Turbo Science, a 1992 MS-DOS game published by Sierra designed to teach scientific concepts to children. Lots of sweet cartoon animation, and stealthfully educational.
That's a problem in how the NTVDM (Windows NT/2000/XP's DOS subsystem) works. It always gives 100% CPU usage to the program, regardless of what it actually needs. Qbasic runs smooth and snappy on a 286, it just might not be using HALT instructions to indicate that it's done with what it's doing.
I don't really like the name. The first time I look at the name, I thought it was short for "Bit Rot Filesystem".
Remember the fake Nintendo ON video? Even that featured mapping real objects into the game world.