As far as games development has come, we're still looking at an interactive movie, are we not? Dirk still doesnt even have a shadow. I must admit that I threw more money into the Chopper Attack game (very similiar laser disk based interactive movie) than I ever did into Dragons Lair, but it still looks the same as it did years ago. Is that development?
And surely if the source was openly available, apart from the fact that thousands of free prgrammers would start working for Microsoft, there was also start to become ports of "popular" MS products to other flavours of OS. For instance (very bad example) porting Outlook to solaris. Surely, more MS products on more operating systems means more money, and thats what they're really here for.
If the budget can stretch a bit further, you couldnt go wrong with a pair of Krell power amps (ie:508's) hooked up to Paridigm 4way fronts, a B&W centre bridged and a pair of B&W rears (model numbers elude me)
The Paridigm fronts will blow your mind with their power and depth (hence no subwoofer required to keep price down).
The B&W centre I own is designed with an internal active cross-over to extract the most common dialog frequencies and isolate the dialog from other sounds (clever!)
I actually use B&W bookshelf size 2 ways as rears even tho they are a bit overpowering.
The Krells feed from my (*cough*)Yamaha DTS.
All up it set me back about A$4000 but I'm sure US prices would be much better.
Too true!
The Australian Air Force pilots were all reprimanded several years ago for doing exactly this while out flying sorties over antarctica.
Huge colonies of penguins were left scarred for life.
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As far as games development has come, we're still looking at an interactive movie, are we not?
Dirk still doesnt even have a shadow.
I must admit that I threw more money into the Chopper Attack game (very similiar laser disk based interactive movie) than I ever did into Dragons Lair, but it still looks the same as it did years ago. Is that development?
In preperation for 20xx (or could that be 21xx) just paint it white and the change in surface temperature will change its course.
EASY!!
And its alledgedly travelling at 28 Kilometres per second.
And surely if the source was openly available, apart from the fact that thousands of free prgrammers would start working for Microsoft, there was also start to become ports of "popular" MS products to other flavours of OS.
For instance (very bad example) porting Outlook to solaris. Surely, more MS products on more operating systems means more money, and thats what they're really here for.
If the budget can stretch a bit further, you couldnt go wrong with a pair of Krell power amps (ie:508's) hooked up to Paridigm 4way fronts, a B&W centre bridged and a pair of B&W rears (model numbers elude me) The Paridigm fronts will blow your mind with their power and depth (hence no subwoofer required to keep price down). The B&W centre I own is designed with an internal active cross-over to extract the most common dialog frequencies and isolate the dialog from other sounds (clever!) I actually use B&W bookshelf size 2 ways as rears even tho they are a bit overpowering. The Krells feed from my (*cough*)Yamaha DTS. All up it set me back about A$4000 but I'm sure US prices would be much better.
Too true! The Australian Air Force pilots were all reprimanded several years ago for doing exactly this while out flying sorties over antarctica. Huge colonies of penguins were left scarred for life.