Flash's overlay support would be great if it actually worked. It doesn't improve performance by much, and is unavailable before Actionscript 3.0. I once tried to add Full Screen + Overlay mode to some really old flash content. Fullscreen worked fine, even on content published as Flash 8, but overlay mode didn't work at all, no matter what I tried.
So far, I have been completely and utterly unimpressed by Firefox's built in audio and video features. I'm using 3.5 Beta.
Whenever it plays a WAV file, it plays for a few seconds, then skips audio and runs at 100% CPU usage, then plays again. Sounds like a really bad buffering issue, like they can't get something as basic as buffering correct. Audio which is intended to loop does not. OGG Vorbis files also skip the same was as WAV files.
Video performance is dismal, even worse than Flash player. Videos skip and take more CPU power to play back than other players do. Upscaling the video is done slowly through software, even though Overlays surfaces have been around since 1997 with the NVidia Riva 128.
From what I've seen, in terms of CPU usage, the best video player for the web is Windows Media Player, using non-microsoft video codecs (FFDshow).
I don't see how this could compete with the OneStation, which is basically a NES with 100+ pirated games built in for under $40. The onestation is a handheld, there are also other pirated NES clones which are not handhelds, and would thus be cheaper.
Pirated NESs are what will bring gaming to the next billion players, and they've already been doing so in China.
Sorry, but the Atari 2600, with it's 128 bytes of RAM, and graphics rendered on the fly by the CPU as the raster descends the screen, barely counts as a game console. I wouldn't consider anything before Colecovision (a whole kilobyte of RAM!) to be any good.
Swap the hard drive to a better PC and install it there?
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DS cards are not direct mapped, you read them sequentially, and store the data into main RAM. The GBA was directly mapped and executed off the cartridge.
Bad analogy. "Familiar" is not the engine of a car, "familiar" is the acceleration and break pedals, and steering wheel. You don't give those up when you switch to an electric car. It's about the UI, not the kernel that powers it.
I'd love to upgrade Ubuntu, but I can't, because there are no working drivers for the SiS video card found in the Intel D201GLY2 motherboard. The official patched drivers from Intel only work with older versions of Xorg, and nobody has updated Intel's code for the newer version of Xorg. This bug has been around since at least Hardy. But Hardy had the third-party fix available, and subsequent versions did not. I guess I'm stuck with Hardy.
Fake Text Box Trick Hide a textbox using CSS. If anyone types anything into that textbox, they are a bot, ban them. I'm amazed that bots still fall for this one.
This seems like the kind of situation where you don't really need to be faithful to the original game, other than the very basic premise (walking around on huge giants). It has potential, and if they do it right, it can be gold.
Of course, there have been many failures at movies that only shared the original premise with the games (like Wing Commander).
Flash Player may support HD video, but it can't play it back in full screen mode (1680x1050) in realtime without dropping frames, even on a Core 2 Duo. Take the same.MP4 file, and play it in something like VLC or FFDShow, and it plays beautifully. Flash fails as a video player.
Badgerbadgerbadger.com is not connected with the creator of the flash movie, it is just some guy trying to profiteer over the meme. Stick with linking to the original authors, not the leeches.
Ever since Windows 98, Internet Explorer has been integrated into Windows Explorer. If you delete all the files from stand alone Internet Explorer, then enter a URL into Windows Explorer, Windows Explorer will still magically turn into Internet Explorer.
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (WinFLP) also has an option to not install Internet Explorer. If you choose to exclude it, Windows Explorer will still turn into Internet Explorer whenever you enter a URL.
Seems like the only way to really remove Internet Explorer is to use the shell from Windows 95.
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Flash's overlay support would be great if it actually worked. It doesn't improve performance by much, and is unavailable before Actionscript 3.0. I once tried to add Full Screen + Overlay mode to some really old flash content. Fullscreen worked fine, even on content published as Flash 8, but overlay mode didn't work at all, no matter what I tried.
So far, I have been completely and utterly unimpressed by Firefox's built in audio and video features. I'm using 3.5 Beta.
Whenever it plays a WAV file, it plays for a few seconds, then skips audio and runs at 100% CPU usage, then plays again. Sounds like a really bad buffering issue, like they can't get something as basic as buffering correct. Audio which is intended to loop does not. OGG Vorbis files also skip the same was as WAV files.
Video performance is dismal, even worse than Flash player. Videos skip and take more CPU power to play back than other players do. Upscaling the video is done slowly through software, even though Overlays surfaces have been around since 1997 with the NVidia Riva 128.
From what I've seen, in terms of CPU usage, the best video player for the web is Windows Media Player, using non-microsoft video codecs (FFDshow).
Make developers target a slow and memory constrained platform. Then you get stellar performance when it runs on the big machines.
The directional controls on mobile phones are crap compared to a Gameboy. Only touchscreen-based or simple puzzle games work well on a phone.
I think it's odd that Wine running on x86-64 has no problem running 16 bit applications, yet Windows 7 will have problems.
This is old news if you've ever heard of the Korean Gamer who died after a 50 hour game session.
They have that, it's called Ad Blocking CSS files.
"FORMAT C:" doesn't work because Windows refuses to format a drive which is mounted (and therefore locked).
I don't see how this could compete with the OneStation, which is basically a NES with 100+ pirated games built in for under $40. The onestation is a handheld, there are also other pirated NES clones which are not handhelds, and would thus be cheaper.
Pirated NESs are what will bring gaming to the next billion players, and they've already been doing so in China.
Sorry, but the Atari 2600, with it's 128 bytes of RAM, and graphics rendered on the fly by the CPU as the raster descends the screen, barely counts as a game console. I wouldn't consider anything before Colecovision (a whole kilobyte of RAM!) to be any good.
Swap the hard drive to a better PC and install it there?
DS cards are not direct mapped, you read them sequentially, and store the data into main RAM. The GBA was directly mapped and executed off the cartridge.
Bad analogy. "Familiar" is not the engine of a car, "familiar" is the acceleration and break pedals, and steering wheel. You don't give those up when you switch to an electric car.
It's about the UI, not the kernel that powers it.
I'd love to upgrade Ubuntu, but I can't, because there are no working drivers for the SiS video card found in the Intel D201GLY2 motherboard.
The official patched drivers from Intel only work with older versions of Xorg, and nobody has updated Intel's code for the newer version of Xorg.
This bug has been around since at least Hardy. But Hardy had the third-party fix available, and subsequent versions did not. I guess I'm stuck with Hardy.
Fake Text Box Trick
Hide a textbox using CSS. If anyone types anything into that textbox, they are a bot, ban them.
I'm amazed that bots still fall for this one.
This seems like the kind of situation where you don't really need to be faithful to the original game, other than the very basic premise (walking around on huge giants). It has potential, and if they do it right, it can be gold.
Of course, there have been many failures at movies that only shared the original premise with the games (like Wing Commander).
Flash Player may support HD video, but it can't play it back in full screen mode (1680x1050) in realtime without dropping frames, even on a Core 2 Duo. .MP4 file, and play it in something like VLC or FFDShow, and it plays beautifully.
Take the same
Flash fails as a video player.
For being a bastardized Z80, it does have a few frequently used instructions not found on the original Z80:
ldi a,(hl)
ldd a,(hl)
swap a
Badgerbadgerbadger.com is not connected with the creator of the flash movie, it is just some guy trying to profiteer over the meme. Stick with linking to the original authors, not the leeches.
Sumatra Reader can't select text.
I don't think iexplore.exe is a mere stub, otherwise software like MultipleIEs wouldn't work.
Ever since Windows 98, Internet Explorer has been integrated into Windows Explorer. If you delete all the files from stand alone Internet Explorer, then enter a URL into Windows Explorer, Windows Explorer will still magically turn into Internet Explorer.
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (WinFLP) also has an option to not install Internet Explorer. If you choose to exclude it, Windows Explorer will still turn into Internet Explorer whenever you enter a URL.
Seems like the only way to really remove Internet Explorer is to use the shell from Windows 95.
Sorry, should be $15 for each 10GB over the limit, switched the numbers by mistake.
It will get more expensive when you hit Comcast's 250 GB/Month cap, then your rates increase $10 for each 15GB you go over the limit.
Comcast has required email to be on port 587 for a while now.