First I make a website and get people to visit it.
Then I make a EULA. It will have clauses in which the user agrees to give me all their money, property, and become my eternal servant. They will also agree to give me their computer! Everyone who visits the website owes me their soul! They didn't even agree to it!
Heck, I could make a program and put clauses like that in the EULA and get people to click I agree. Nobody reads those things anyway.
Um, PROFIT!!!! BIG BIG PROFIT!!!!
Maybe Bill Gates will visit my site! Or maybe the Sultan of Brunai. Technically he owns a whole country.
Actually the Secret Service has 3 very specific jobs. One of those jobs is to bodyguard and protect important people. That is the most commonly seen job. Their second job is cathing people who counterfeit money. Their third job is catching h4x0rz and pirates. If you are a computer criminal, depending on the exact circumstances of your offense you will either be visited by customs, secret service, FBI, or local police.
As for this whole 156=421 thing. Does this mean I can sell my burner on ebay? It's pretty fast can I say 2 CD burners! only takes up one drive bay!
There's nothing wrong with burning CDs for personal/fair use. However, despite the number of burner discrepancy, this was an actualy piracy operation. It's not only illegal but not right. People like that should get busted.
Nobody is going to see this post, because I posted it way late. However, I think everyone who posted is missing something very key here. It has nothing to do with cost of games, ease of use, etc. There is only one factor. Games.
Look at what games have come out for PC in the past year that are must buy amazing games. Warcraft 3? Civ 3 (was that even this year?). I'm having trouble of thinking of more. There just weren't any amazing pc games this year.
The thing is that there aren't enough people who want to play UT2K3 who will go buy new crazy fast computers. It's not that amazing of a game. Everyone can still get buy with their 2 year old boxen and Half-Life. Half-Life was the last word in PC gaming. All the games that are popular for the PC are half-life and its mods. It's been that way since counter-strike. Now there's natural selection. Nobody needs to buy new computers or new games, because they already have HL, which is still getting patched to this day.
The next time you will see people buy pc games will be Master of Orion 3, Counterstrike 2, and Doom 3. The genres in which the PC really rocks are lacking innovation desperately. The simulation, the rts, the fps. None of these genres have seen anything new or amazing.
Now, as for the consoles they have a zillion new must have games coming out like crazy. Metroid, Metroid, Mario, Mario, Shinobi, Kingdom Hearts, FF... so many! Because the genres where the console rules are being innovated. Metroid Prime is quite possibly the most beautiful game I have ever seen. And people say the upcoming zelda game is BETTER! Is that possible?
When PC game makers start to innovate and come out with something truly new and amazing, then we'll see their sales go back up.
Patent and Copyright! The whipping boys of slashdot. Of course, not just because we have problems with these two things, but because they are partially to blame. Scientists, like corporations, are concerned about money. They don't keep their jobs if they don't patent or copyright anything. Publish or perish. So rather than continue researching/experimenting until they arrive at the truth they will just strive to create something patentable or copyrightable whether it works or not. Then wait for someone else to do a 5 year study on the effects of what they've made.
1. Write paper and cite other papers I haven't read. 2. Publish paper. 3. Profit!
Alternative? work for greater good of humanity and starve.
When I go into a brick and mortar store, there are advertisements. They are advertising the prices of the goods on sale. Their are also ads trying to convince you of which product on sale is better. And there are ads trying to get you to buy things that you didn't come into the store to buy.
How come in an online store there are ads for, other stores? Do they really make more money off advertising than they would if I actually bought something? I think that's the big mistake of online stores with advertising.
I think we can also agree that the more annoying the ad the LESS likely we are to click on it. But the more likely we are to click on it, by accident.
Lastly I think the biggest problem with internet advertising is that you have a bunch of websites providing something for free. Webcomics being the best example. And the people who run those sites try to make money. Some people try to make enough money to live off of their webcomics. If I made a comic, or any other kind of site, I would pay for it myself from my JOB, or I would make just enough money off it to pay for hosting. Too many people are trying to make a profit off of websites that aren't providing a profitable service, but are popular. So they run ads, which don't work, so in desperation they get more and bigger and more annoying ads to make more money. I think more people should look at penny arcade as an example as to how to make money without making ads better. I think gabe talked about this the other day actually.
I think you miss what I'm saying a little bit. What I'm getting at is the point of an RPG is to progress the plot. I don't want progressing the plot to be annoying. I want it to be fun, though provoking, intelligent, but not frustrating or time consuming. I don't want to do a jumping puzzle to advance plot in an RPG. If I did I would have bought a platform game. I don't want to have to shoot things, or play a mini strategy game, or anything of the sort. An RPG is about the role playing, allowing me to make choices as to the players actions and choose what to say and do and where to go is what its all about. I should always be able to progress the plot, and there should never be a time where the player is angry because they can't accomplish something or they don't know what to do next.
An RPG is just like a movie, only there is player interaction. A lot of people play RPGs to level up, get the best items, big spells, etc. I just play to advance the plot.
Basically RPGs don't have to do much to be good, they just have to have an interesting involving story that keeps me interested. However, there are a lot of things an RPG has to NOT do in order to not suck.
First it has to not every make it incredibly difficult and stupidly annoying to advance the plot. Imagine watching a movie and halfway through you have to jump through hoops to see the rest. That's torture, not fun. Not to say that the whole game has to be a piece of cake. But if it is difficult to the point of frustration something is wrong.
Second, it can't be incredibly short. I mean longer doesn't necessarily equal better. But on average RPGs that you can beat in a couple days often suck and RPGs that take a while are often much better.
Probably the most important thing to an RPG is direction. I want to be told where the next plot is. Sure making decisions is good, and multiple endings a la chrono trigger is even better. But I don't ever want to be in a situation where I don't know where to go or what to do in order to advance the plot.
The most important thing for an RPG to have (this is a pet peeve of mine) is short sweet and rare combat. I can't stand those games where you walk two steps and then are forced to fight horrible monsters in a 10 minute battle. And then repeat the process 100 times before getting to the next town. Combat should be rare and quick. It doesn't have to be easy, but I want to either win or lose in about 30-45 seconds tops.
Candidates for best RPG ever?
Chrono Trigger FF6 Golden Sun Dragon Quest (Warrior) Secret of Mana Any Zelda Game Ack! Too many to name!
Yeah, that works. Unless your vinyl collection consist of rare or rarely listened to albums you don't wish to damage.
Oh yeah, there is a plugin for winamp that lets you play songs backwards and search for satan, cthulhu, or other evils. There was a website with a list of songs and what they are saying, but I forget the URL>
let's say there are two laws law A and an law B. You feel both of these laws to be equally unjust. And that both of them should be off the books. The penalty for breaking law A is a fine and the penaly for B is jail. So you break A and not B because you do not have the will power, the guts, the balls, the courage to break law B. So all they have to do is change the penalty for law A to jail, or death, and you'll stop breakign that one. Meaning you will never stand up for what you believe in and your freedoms will slowsly dissapear because you are a pansy. I don't know about you but I'll be overjoyed the day the FBI shows up at my door and tries to arrest me for copyright infringement. Because that means you get a trip to the battle arena, the court. And you can't get there without first breaking the law.
You're unwilling to break the law??? Have you downloaded any mp3s lately? Any DMCA violations?
Law != right. In my life I do what I feel is right, not what is the law. I will freely break laws that I feel are unjust whether or not they are unconstitutional. If I ever get caught and go to court I will tell them I broke that law, however I feel that that law is unjust and why. It's what the civil rights activists did, its what ghandi did. Don't change the way you live your life because some company paid some old man to sign a piece of paper.
Almost everythign there is to say about the issue has been said already in previous slashdot stories. So just about anything I could say would be redundant. Except I just realized something. Let's say I bought all music I wanted on CD and didn't download anything. I would be without all my music from foreign countries and without my video game music remixes! That's the real reason I don't buy CDs. They don't have the music I want and don't have. Seeing as I've already got all the classic rock ever on vinyl.
I'll make a deal with you RIAA. Release a CD with the best of OC Remixes and I'll buy two copies. Until then, make mine winMX.
Rational Rose is the shittiest piece of software I have ever had to use. We have to use it in some CS and SE classes to draw UML diagrams and it is total crap. Not only that but the program costs like thousands of dollars from what I hear. By judging the one piece of software they make that I have used I can tell you that Rational was not a very good company. Hopefully IBM will fix them so another CS student need not suffer.
Nobody will see this because I posted so late, but I gotta say it anyway.
The reason OSS hasn't taken hold is because of usability, hands down. Mozilla, OpenOffice, CDex, gAIM, all are good examples of OSS that is quality, easy, etc. They install graphically and simply, have intuitive interfaces, and work like professional commercial software.
Most other OSS is designed by one person. That person has an idea for a program and they design it to suit their personal needs. This software often does not suit the needs of 10000000 users the way something like Office does. It usually ends up being CLI or a piss poor GUI. It's difficult to install and only compiles correctly on one specific version of one specific distro of linux with one specific kernel. The rpms don't work. And there is often already a commercial product for windows that does the same thing, better, easier, and is free, can be pirated, downloaded, or otherwise obtained.
OSS doesn't fail because it is open source or because of the free as in speech mentality behind it. It fails because most often, it sucks. Look at Winzip. Nobody pays for winzip. They crack it or deal with the I agree box. But zillions of people use winzip, myself included. They use it because it is a high quality piece of software, that is free as in beer (not in the world of law, but in the real world), is easy to use, easy to install, and it works.
If winzip happened to be open source it would do just as well. When more OSS reaches the quality of professional software in the same way that Mozilla/OpenOffice/gAIM/CDex have then more people will use it.
How come other OSs (not just Solaris) seem to have versions for UltraSparc. I know for a fact that Mandrake has a version that works fine on UltraSparc processors. I'm pretty sure BeOS can, and that many other linux/unixes can. I used to know a guy who had DOS running on a sun machine. If everyone else doesn't seem to have a problem why does BSD?
There has been a screenplay for a movie of I. Robot around for a long time. I've owned it for at least 5 years, the book is at my home (I'm in college) or I'd tell you who published it and what not. I'm sure you can find it on Amazon. But after reading it I can assure you that if the movie they are making follows that screenplay you are in for a high quality movie.
Linux costs me anywhere between 1 hour and 5 hours to download an iso of my favorite distro. Win2k costs me 5 minutes to burn a CD-R and 30 cents to buy the blank disc. Overall I would say that since with a minimum wage job I can make 6 dollars in an hour that win2k is by far the better value.
1 cubic centimeter of water = 1 millileter of water = 1 gram.
Even though they are all arbitrary, who cares? There is no such thing as a non-arbitrary unit of measure.
Let's say you set the unit of length equal to the diameter of 1 proton and the unit of mass to the mass of one proton. It's still arbitrary! You could have picked the radius, or the neutron, or the electron. Or a hydrogen atom. No matter what you base it on the process of picking something to base your unit of measure on is itself arbitrary. The metric system is easy, base 10, the way we think. It works.
If you want to watch DivX's on your TV, get a video card with S-Video out. It's a lot easier to plug that into the video in on your television and put another cable from your sound card to your reciever than it is to mod a PS2. And video cards are cheap. Just stick it in a PCI slot and set it as a second display. It's the cheapest solution.
I'll be impressed when somebody has a portable DivX players so I can watch TV episodes on the go.
It's not free, or open, but Sygate's professional firewall is awesome. Much better than ZoneAlarm. There is a free personal version of the software, but it lacks the features that make the professional one so awesome. However, I would reccomend the personal one over ZoneAlarm. Try sygate, It can do almost anything you can think of.
I have a cordless logitech mouse and keyboard. The Elite Duo one. It rocks. And as for cross-platform support the mouse and keyboard work on my linux/2k system in both os's and I know someone who has it working on a mac. On mac or windows you get the added functionality of all the extra buttons because of the itouch software. logitech hasn't written itouch software for linux, but the rest of the keyboard still works fine. In general I have found Microsoft's mice to have crappier buttons, cheaper plastic, a sort of "light" feeling. Logitech mice seem to be much more comfortable, durable, heavy, and the buttons aren't cheap, and they cost less.
I just downloaded and installed the windows version. What the crap? The game comes with like 100000000.png files. That's insane!! I proceeded to look at some of these png files to see what was up. Most of them are almost exactly the same. I'm sure that the original DOS version did not come with as many image files in order to display graphics. It had an algorithm which it followed and proceeded to use drawing commands to draw things on the screen. All these png files make this entirely too bloated.
At least it works.
Hey, if we got Starcon2 where's Starcon 1?
3 I have on CD, so you don't need to release that.
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First I make a website and get people to visit it.
Then I make a EULA. It will have clauses in which the user agrees to give me all their money, property, and become my eternal servant. They will also agree to give me their computer! Everyone who visits the website owes me their soul! They didn't even agree to it!
Heck, I could make a program and put clauses like that in the EULA and get people to click I agree. Nobody reads those things anyway.
Um, PROFIT!!!! BIG BIG PROFIT!!!!
Maybe Bill Gates will visit my site! Or maybe the Sultan of Brunai. Technically he owns a whole country.
Actually the Secret Service has 3 very specific jobs. One of those jobs is to bodyguard and protect important people. That is the most commonly seen job. Their second job is cathing people who counterfeit money. Their third job is catching h4x0rz and pirates.
If you are a computer criminal, depending on the exact circumstances of your offense you will either be visited by customs, secret service, FBI, or local police.
As for this whole 156=421 thing. Does this mean I can sell my burner on ebay? It's pretty fast can I say 2 CD burners! only takes up one drive bay!
There's nothing wrong with burning CDs for personal/fair use. However, despite the number of burner discrepancy, this was an actualy piracy operation. It's not only illegal but not right. People like that should get busted.
Nobody is going to see this post, because I posted it way late. However, I think everyone who posted is missing something very key here. It has nothing to do with cost of games, ease of use, etc. There is only one factor. Games.
Look at what games have come out for PC in the past year that are must buy amazing games. Warcraft 3? Civ 3 (was that even this year?). I'm having trouble of thinking of more. There just weren't any amazing pc games this year.
The thing is that there aren't enough people who want to play UT2K3 who will go buy new crazy fast computers. It's not that amazing of a game.
Everyone can still get buy with their 2 year old boxen and Half-Life. Half-Life was the last word in PC gaming. All the games that are popular for the PC are half-life and its mods. It's been that way since counter-strike. Now there's natural selection. Nobody needs to buy new computers or new games, because they already have HL, which is still getting patched to this day.
The next time you will see people buy pc games will be Master of Orion 3, Counterstrike 2, and Doom 3. The genres in which the PC really rocks are lacking innovation desperately. The simulation, the rts, the fps. None of these genres have seen anything new or amazing.
Now, as for the consoles they have a zillion new must have games coming out like crazy. Metroid, Metroid, Mario, Mario, Shinobi, Kingdom Hearts, FF... so many! Because the genres where the console rules are being innovated. Metroid Prime is quite possibly the most beautiful game I have ever seen. And people say the upcoming zelda game is BETTER! Is that possible?
When PC game makers start to innovate and come out with something truly new and amazing, then we'll see their sales go back up.
Patent and Copyright! The whipping boys of slashdot. Of course, not just because we have problems with these two things, but because they are partially to blame. Scientists, like corporations, are concerned about money. They don't keep their jobs if they don't patent or copyright anything. Publish or perish. So rather than continue researching/experimenting until they arrive at the truth they will just strive to create something patentable or copyrightable whether it works or not. Then wait for someone else to do a 5 year study on the effects of what they've made.
1. Write paper and cite other papers I haven't read.
2. Publish paper.
3. Profit!
Alternative?
work for greater good of humanity
and starve.
What would you do?
You can never get a better toy than an action figure. Or better yet, a Transformer/Voltron type of thing. Robots rule.
When I go into a brick and mortar store, there are advertisements. They are advertising the prices of the goods on sale. Their are also ads trying to convince you of which product on sale is better. And there are ads trying to get you to buy things that you didn't come into the store to buy.
How come in an online store there are ads for, other stores? Do they really make more money off advertising than they would if I actually bought something? I think that's the big mistake of online stores with advertising.
I think we can also agree that the more annoying the ad the LESS likely we are to click on it. But the more likely we are to click on it, by accident.
Lastly I think the biggest problem with internet advertising is that you have a bunch of websites providing something for free. Webcomics being the best example. And the people who run those sites try to make money. Some people try to make enough money to live off of their webcomics. If I made a comic, or any other kind of site, I would pay for it myself from my JOB, or I would make just enough money off it to pay for hosting. Too many people are trying to make a profit off of websites that aren't providing a profitable service, but are popular. So they run ads, which don't work, so in desperation they get more and bigger and more annoying ads to make more money. I think more people should look at penny arcade as an example as to how to make money without making ads better. I think gabe talked about this the other day actually.
I think you miss what I'm saying a little bit. What I'm getting at is the point of an RPG is to progress the plot. I don't want progressing the plot to be annoying. I want it to be fun, though provoking, intelligent, but not frustrating or time consuming.
I don't want to do a jumping puzzle to advance plot in an RPG. If I did I would have bought a platform game. I don't want to have to shoot things, or play a mini strategy game, or anything of the sort. An RPG is about the role playing, allowing me to make choices as to the players actions and choose what to say and do and where to go is what its all about. I should always be able to progress the plot, and there should never be a time where the player is angry because they can't accomplish something or they don't know what to do next.
An RPG is just like a movie, only there is player interaction. A lot of people play RPGs to level up, get the best items, big spells, etc. I just play to advance the plot.
Basically RPGs don't have to do much to be good, they just have to have an interesting involving story that keeps me interested. However, there are a lot of things an RPG has to NOT do in order to not suck.
First it has to not every make it incredibly difficult and stupidly annoying to advance the plot. Imagine watching a movie and halfway through you have to jump through hoops to see the rest. That's torture, not fun. Not to say that the whole game has to be a piece of cake. But if it is difficult to the point of frustration something is wrong.
Second, it can't be incredibly short. I mean longer doesn't necessarily equal better. But on average RPGs that you can beat in a couple days often suck and RPGs that take a while are often much better.
Probably the most important thing to an RPG is direction. I want to be told where the next plot is. Sure making decisions is good, and multiple endings a la chrono trigger is even better. But I don't ever want to be in a situation where I don't know where to go or what to do in order to advance the plot.
The most important thing for an RPG to have (this is a pet peeve of mine) is short sweet and rare combat. I can't stand those games where you walk two steps and then are forced to fight horrible monsters in a 10 minute battle. And then repeat the process 100 times before getting to the next town. Combat should be rare and quick. It doesn't have to be easy, but I want to either win or lose in about 30-45 seconds tops.
Candidates for best RPG ever?
Chrono Trigger
FF6
Golden Sun
Dragon Quest (Warrior)
Secret of Mana
Any Zelda Game
Ack! Too many to name!
Yeah, that works. Unless your vinyl collection consist of rare or rarely listened to albums you don't wish to damage.
Oh yeah, there is a plugin for winamp that lets you play songs backwards and search for satan, cthulhu, or other evils. There was a website with a list of songs and what they are saying, but I forget the URL>
let's say there are two laws law A and an law B. You feel both of these laws to be equally unjust. And that both of them should be off the books. The penalty for breaking law A is a fine and the penaly for B is jail. So you break A and not B because you do not have the will power, the guts, the balls, the courage to break law B. So all they have to do is change the penalty for law A to jail, or death, and you'll stop breakign that one. Meaning you will never stand up for what you believe in and your freedoms will slowsly dissapear because you are a pansy. I don't know about you but I'll be overjoyed the day the FBI shows up at my door and tries to arrest me for copyright infringement. Because that means you get a trip to the battle arena, the court. And you can't get there without first breaking the law.
Is to remember not to ask a bunch of linux geeks on slashdot how to take care of your children.
You're unwilling to break the law??? Have you downloaded any mp3s lately? Any DMCA violations?
Law != right. In my life I do what I feel is right, not what is the law. I will freely break laws that I feel are unjust whether or not they are unconstitutional. If I ever get caught and go to court I will tell them I broke that law, however I feel that that law is unjust and why. It's what the civil rights activists did, its what ghandi did. Don't change the way you live your life because some company paid some old man to sign a piece of paper.
Almost everythign there is to say about the issue has been said already in previous slashdot stories. So just about anything I could say would be redundant. Except I just realized something. Let's say I bought all music I wanted on CD and didn't download anything. I would be without all my music from foreign countries and without my video game music remixes! That's the real reason I don't buy CDs. They don't have the music I want and don't have. Seeing as I've already got all the classic rock ever on vinyl.
I'll make a deal with you RIAA. Release a CD with the best of OC Remixes and I'll buy two copies. Until then, make mine winMX.
Rational Rose is the shittiest piece of software I have ever had to use. We have to use it in some CS and SE classes to draw UML diagrams and it is total crap. Not only that but the program costs like thousands of dollars from what I hear.
By judging the one piece of software they make that I have used I can tell you that Rational was not a very good company. Hopefully IBM will fix them so another CS student need not suffer.
Nobody will see this because I posted so late, but I gotta say it anyway.
The reason OSS hasn't taken hold is because of usability, hands down. Mozilla, OpenOffice, CDex, gAIM, all are good examples of OSS that is quality, easy, etc. They install graphically and simply, have intuitive interfaces, and work like professional commercial software.
Most other OSS is designed by one person. That person has an idea for a program and they design it to suit their personal needs. This software often does not suit the needs of 10000000 users the way something like Office does. It usually ends up being CLI or a piss poor GUI. It's difficult to install and only compiles correctly on one specific version of one specific distro of linux with one specific kernel. The rpms don't work. And there is often already a commercial product for windows that does the same thing, better, easier, and is free, can be pirated, downloaded, or otherwise obtained.
OSS doesn't fail because it is open source or because of the free as in speech mentality behind it. It fails because most often, it sucks. Look at Winzip. Nobody pays for winzip. They crack it or deal with the I agree box. But zillions of people use winzip, myself included. They use it because it is a high quality piece of software, that is free as in beer (not in the world of law, but in the real world), is easy to use, easy to install, and it works.
If winzip happened to be open source it would do just as well. When more OSS reaches the quality of professional software in the same way that Mozilla/OpenOffice/gAIM/CDex have then more people will use it.
How come other OSs (not just Solaris) seem to have versions for UltraSparc. I know for a fact that Mandrake has a version that works fine on UltraSparc processors. I'm pretty sure BeOS can, and that many other linux/unixes can. I used to know a guy who had DOS running on a sun machine. If everyone else doesn't seem to have a problem why does BSD?
A Wise man say, only fools buy RAM right after an earthquake in Taiwan. King.
There has been a screenplay for a movie of I. Robot around for a long time. I've owned it for at least 5 years, the book is at my home (I'm in college) or I'd tell you who published it and what not. I'm sure you can find it on Amazon. But after reading it I can assure you that if the movie they are making follows that screenplay you are in for a high quality movie.
Linux costs me anywhere between 1 hour and 5 hours to download an iso of my favorite distro. Win2k costs me 5 minutes to burn a CD-R and 30 cents to buy the blank disc. Overall I would say that since with a minimum wage job I can make 6 dollars in an hour that win2k is by far the better value.
1 cubic centimeter of water = 1 millileter of water = 1 gram.
Even though they are all arbitrary, who cares? There is no such thing as a non-arbitrary unit of measure.
Let's say you set the unit of length equal to the diameter of 1 proton and the unit of mass to the mass of one proton. It's still arbitrary! You could have picked the radius, or the neutron, or the electron. Or a hydrogen atom. No matter what you base it on the process of picking something to base your unit of measure on is itself arbitrary. The metric system is easy, base 10, the way we think. It works.
As they say, anything less would be uncivilized.
If you want to watch DivX's on your TV, get a video card with S-Video out. It's a lot easier to plug that into the video in on your television and put another cable from your sound card to your reciever than it is to mod a PS2.
And video cards are cheap. Just stick it in a PCI slot and set it as a second display. It's the cheapest solution.
I'll be impressed when somebody has a portable DivX players so I can watch TV episodes on the go.
It's not free, or open, but Sygate's professional firewall is awesome. Much better than ZoneAlarm. There is a free personal version of the software, but it lacks the features that make the professional one so awesome. However, I would reccomend the personal one over ZoneAlarm. Try sygate, It can do almost anything you can think of.
I have a cordless logitech mouse and keyboard. The Elite Duo one. It rocks. And as for cross-platform support the mouse and keyboard work on my linux/2k system in both os's and I know someone who has it working on a mac.
On mac or windows you get the added functionality of all the extra buttons because of the itouch software. logitech hasn't written itouch software for linux, but the rest of the keyboard still works fine. In general I have found Microsoft's mice to have crappier buttons, cheaper plastic, a sort of "light" feeling. Logitech mice seem to be much more comfortable, durable, heavy, and the buttons aren't cheap, and they cost less.
I just downloaded and installed the windows version. What the crap? The game comes with like 100000000 .png files. That's insane!! I proceeded to look at some of these png files to see what was up. Most of them are almost exactly the same. I'm sure that the original DOS version did not come with as many image files in order to display graphics. It had an algorithm which it followed and proceeded to use drawing commands to draw things on the screen. All these png files make this entirely too bloated.
At least it works.
Hey, if we got Starcon2 where's Starcon 1?
3 I have on CD, so you don't need to release that.
What else can I say?
BAD FUCKING ASS!