Is there anything the wonderful TRS-80's of Metro City could not do?
As a side note, these things were made by Archie.
If you enjoy these, you sure enough will love the classic Hostess Fruit Pies ads that ran about the same time as these comics. Check 'em out at www.seanbaby.com
I thought the exact same thing with 3dfx, but look what happened to them. Voodoo 3 did not provide much more, and releasing the Voodoo 4/5 at the same time was a mistake. Were they good cards? Absolutely. But nVidia had already taken a good chunk of their market.
I am a huge fan of the Nintendo Virtual Boy. In fact, I just got done doing some homebrewn work for the system. There should be a port of good 'ol GCC for it soon. The system really had immense power, the CPU is faster and more powerful than that on a GBA. (The VB actually has a divide instruction and floating point opcodes!)
I think this author is exaggerating the effects of Virtual Boy and just running on speculations. I NEVER have known anyone in real life to get sick or loose their vision from playing one of these things. I always have friends give my system a try, it is actually quite fun to play, especially Wario Land and the Japanese niche game Space Squash.
The biggest shame is that the finest games - Bound High, Dragon Hopper, Zero Racers (F-Zero), et. al were never released.:-(
Piracy in China is not necessarily casual copying of games, like in the US. Rater, in China, most games you find are bootlegs of originals. There are still companies making bootleg NES games, and some interesting unique titles. Of course, general copying of games is pretty rampant too. There are countless Chinese-made devices for the SNES that allow you to load games off a floppy disk. There are N64 devices that let you play games off CDs, Zip disks, and hard drives. Perhaps Nintendo wants to forage into this market because the old games are no longer generating profit in Japan / US / Europe / Australia, so why not try China, where a little piracy of old stuff won't sting nearly as bad?
Games getting cancelled happens all the time in the console games world too, it seems. Luckily, on consoles, it is common for a prototype or two to survive. Take Earthbound 0, for example. Some of you may remember the SNES game Earthbound, but it comes from a NES game known as Mother in Japan. Nintendo of America finished translating the game but never released it. Fortunatley, it has been dumped.
Countless prototype games have been dumped that may never have been able to see their light of day. Recently, Star Fox 2 for the SNES was dumped too.
Unfortunatley, playing these dumps is illegal as is distributing them.:-(
Also, I wish some prototypes would surface for my favorite console, the Virtual Boy!
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I have done astro photos before and here is good tip when using a SLR camera: To avoid wobbling the camera as you press the cable to start the exposure, just hold up a sheet of black paper in front of the lens. After the cable is dangling freely, remove the paper. When depressing the cable, do the same.
Also, for anyone with a Sony DV camera, the AE Candel Light mode works great for filming the showers.
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>but when would something like this be necessary >or applicable in the real world (ie >repetitively nesting cygwin and wine)?.
"Well-meaning wireless activists". Yeah. I am sure they are "well-meaning". If you saw these marks, would you understand them? Or are they for other people who understand them to breach your security and get on your network. Do not make this sound like some noble cause because it is not!
I love how unreal the show is. Whenever they need to solve a case, they just make up something. For example, did you know that every e-mail is tagged with the street address it was sent from? Neither did I, but since it was on CSI, it must be true!
I saw this movie and... yuck!
I guess I should've known... The previews said "From the director of Ace Ventura 2". I don't know if you've ever seen Ace Ventura 2 or not, but let's just say it sucked.
Go see "A Beautiful Mind" if you haven't already, it is much, much better.
If it would have been a virus... That would have been catastrophic.
Really though, the/. editors had to have a way to test it. Even if they have no Windows boxes, they could have IM'ed a close friend and asked them to test it...
I also saw the movie. It looked incredibly stupid in the previews but I was surprised by its quality. It's not a Lord of the Rings or A Beautiful Mind, but it is a decent flick. And you get to see Tom Hanks's clone.
The ZDNet article says the device will cost around $2,000. A GBA costs $90. Now, do you think Microsoft will be able to sell millions of these things when the GBA is $90?
The Microsoft XBox, as popular as it may become, also will not be sold in China. As you may know, Microsoft looses money on each XBox they sell. With the realization that piracy is highly rampant in China and they will not sell much software, the console will not be sold there.
Go here if you want to read up a little more on it... http://www.lik-sang.com/catalog/news.php?artc=2380
I sincerly doubt that. Most people never even use the extra features, let alone will they pay $5 for them. Maybe the extra features will just slip away. But how hard is it to include cut scenes and audio commentary? Some audio commentaries I've heard sound like they're recorded with a $2 RadioShack microphone.
Exactly! Stuff _is_ cut for a reason. As others pointed out, if it is a movie you really enjoy, you may love the extra features. Else, they just seem like useless crap.
Now, I am a big Simpsons fanboy. I just bought the Season 1 DVD set and I must say that I love it. The extra features include the Simpsons in about 6 different languages, which is quite comical, a "behind-the scenes" look at pencil sketches used to make an episode, and an original ep that was 70% redone.
Actually, it's not "Photoshop". Animation houses have other products they use. Futurama, for example, is done on computers. But 1/4 of everything is still drawn by hand, computers just cut out the cel coloring process over in Korea.
Anime like Star Ocean EX is heavily dependent on CGI. Anime also moves at like 2 FPS.;-)
Yes, you are correct on all of this.
Also, remember the failed 64DD add-on for the N64 in Japan. It shipped with a modem and users could access the RandnetDD network to send e-mail and play games.
In the SNES days, once again for Japan-only, Nintendo released a deviced called the Satellaview. You would turn your TV to a certain channel during the day and it would download games for your SNES (technically Super Famicom).
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Is there anything the wonderful TRS-80's of Metro City could not do?
As a side note, these things were made by Archie.
If you enjoy these, you sure enough will love the classic Hostess Fruit Pies ads that ran about the same time as these comics. Check 'em out at www.seanbaby.com
I thought the exact same thing with 3dfx, but look what happened to them. Voodoo 3 did not provide much more, and releasing the Voodoo 4/5 at the same time was a mistake. Were they good cards? Absolutely. But nVidia had already taken a good chunk of their market.
I am a huge fan of the Nintendo Virtual Boy. In fact, I just got done doing some homebrewn work for the system. There should be a port of good 'ol GCC for it soon.
:-(
The system really had immense power, the CPU is faster and more powerful than that on a GBA. (The VB actually has a divide instruction and floating point opcodes!)
I think this author is exaggerating the effects of Virtual Boy and just running on speculations. I NEVER have known anyone in real life to get sick or loose their vision from playing one of these things. I always have friends give my system a try, it is actually quite fun to play, especially Wario Land and the Japanese niche game Space Squash.
The biggest shame is that the finest games - Bound High, Dragon Hopper, Zero Racers (F-Zero), et. al were never released.
This has been done before, on a Nintendo Super NES!
Check out a page with some info here: Exertainment
Heck, you can even download the ROM and play it on the SNES emulator of your choice.
Piracy in China is not necessarily casual copying of games, like in the US. Rater, in China, most games you find are bootlegs of originals. There are still companies making bootleg NES games, and some interesting unique titles.
Of course, general copying of games is pretty rampant too. There are countless Chinese-made devices for the SNES that allow you to load games off a floppy disk. There are N64 devices that let you play games off CDs, Zip disks, and hard drives.
Perhaps Nintendo wants to forage into this market because the old games are no longer generating profit in Japan / US / Europe / Australia, so why not try China, where a little piracy of old stuff won't sting nearly as bad?
Games getting cancelled happens all the time in the console games world too, it seems. Luckily, on consoles, it is common for a prototype or two to survive.
:-(
Take Earthbound 0, for example. Some of you may remember the SNES game Earthbound, but it comes from a NES game known as Mother in Japan. Nintendo of America finished translating the game but never released it. Fortunatley, it has been dumped.
Countless prototype games have been dumped that may never have been able to see their light of day. Recently, Star Fox 2 for the SNES was dumped too.
Unfortunatley, playing these dumps is illegal as is distributing them.
Also, I wish some prototypes would surface for my favorite console, the Virtual Boy!
I have done astro photos before and here is good tip when using a SLR camera:
To avoid wobbling the camera as you press the cable to start the exposure, just hold up a sheet of black paper in front of the lens. After the cable is dangling freely, remove the paper. When depressing the cable, do the same.
Also, for anyone with a Sony DV camera, the AE Candel Light mode works great for filming the showers.
>but when would something like this be necessary
>or applicable in the real world (ie >repetitively nesting cygwin and wine)?.
If you have to ask, you are missing the point.
You always seem to get it wrong.
Uhhh... How much exactly do you know about Japan?
Yes, a Beowulf cluster of fabrication plants would rock. Not.
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"Well-meaning wireless activists". Yeah. I am sure they are "well-meaning". If you saw these marks, would you understand them? Or are they for other people who understand them to breach your security and get on your network. Do not make this sound like some noble cause because it is not!
I love how unreal the show is.
Whenever they need to solve a case, they just make up something. For example, did you know that every e-mail is tagged with the street address it was sent from? Neither did I, but since it was on CSI, it must be true!
I saw this movie and... yuck!
I guess I should've known... The previews said "From the director of Ace Ventura 2". I don't know if you've ever seen Ace Ventura 2 or not, but let's just say it sucked.
Go see "A Beautiful Mind" if you haven't already, it is much, much better.
If it would have been a virus... That would have been catastrophic. /. editors had to have a way to test it. Even if they have no Windows boxes, they could have IM'ed a close friend and asked them to test it...
Really though, the
"but I also believe forging SMTP headers should be legally punishable by castration"
I also believe publishing laugable stories about an "XBox emulator" without actually testing it first should be punishable by castration.
I also saw the movie. It looked incredibly stupid in the previews but I was surprised by its quality. It's not a Lord of the Rings or A Beautiful Mind, but it is a decent flick. And you get to see Tom Hanks's clone.
The ZDNet article says the device will cost around $2,000. A GBA costs $90. Now, do you think Microsoft will be able to sell millions of these things when the GBA is $90?
The Microsoft XBox, as popular as it may become, also will not be sold in China. As you may know, Microsoft looses money on each XBox they sell. With the realization that piracy is highly rampant in China and they will not sell much software, the console will not be sold there.
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Go here if you want to read up a little more on it... http://www.lik-sang.com/catalog/news.php?artc=238
I sincerly doubt that. Most people never even use the extra features, let alone will they pay $5 for them. Maybe the extra features will just slip away. But how hard is it to include cut scenes and audio commentary? Some audio commentaries I've heard sound like they're recorded with a $2 RadioShack microphone.
Exactly! Stuff _is_ cut for a reason. As others pointed out, if it is a movie you really enjoy, you may love the extra features. Else, they just seem like useless crap.
Now, I am a big Simpsons fanboy. I just bought the Season 1 DVD set and I must say that I love it. The extra features include the Simpsons in about 6 different languages, which is quite comical, a "behind-the scenes" look at pencil sketches used to make an episode, and an original ep that was 70% redone.
Actually, it's not "Photoshop". Animation houses have other products they use. Futurama, for example, is done on computers. But 1/4 of everything is still drawn by hand, computers just cut out the cel coloring process over in Korea. ;-)
Anime like Star Ocean EX is heavily dependent on CGI. Anime also moves at like 2 FPS.
Yes, you are correct on all of this.
Also, remember the failed 64DD add-on for the N64 in Japan. It shipped with a modem and users could access the RandnetDD network to send e-mail and play games.
In the SNES days, once again for Japan-only, Nintendo released a deviced called the Satellaview. You would turn your TV to a certain channel during the day and it would download games for your SNES (technically Super Famicom).
Come on... With XMAME we get thousands of arcade games at our finger tips. What's better than that?