Yup. A few years ago I went in and Bought Sim Golf because of whose name was on it and how much I like his earlyer games. I alwaus bought them.
I get it home and pop it into my CD-R (Only cd-rom I had) a Plextor 4/20 and install it. When I try to play I get a "Please insert original media" message. This was on the original media.
I contact tech support and they tell me I need to buy a new CD-rom drive to play the game. Thats a real nice "Fuck You" from them. I wrote back telling them what I thought of them and the $40 something I cant get refunded for open software and instead cracked it in less time then it would have taken to search pricewatch for a cd-rom.
I dont know how long you have been playing computer games, but no copy protection ever has been the slightest barrier to the most trivial of copying. Back in the 80's we had floppy based protections and they all failed or were trivial to defeat. Most of those old ideas were dropped by sane software companies when it was clear they didnt work but to screw legit customers. Strangely most of todays so called copy protection seems to be re-hashes of the same old ideas just done on optical media instead of magnetic. Clonecd/Alcahol120%/DVDxcopy are todays versions of the copyIIpc and it's ilk.
Yah, it's not like there were any Metroid games before Prime with cyberneticaly enhanced warriors. And the enemies in those non existant metroid games never changed or got stronger after a certain point.
Since when? Robert woodhead of Wizardry fame wrote one AV product for use on Macs back in the early/mid 90's (Interferon). It is true that hardly anyone bothers to write viruses for Apple hardware, but thats is a different thing then there not being any viruses/trojans/worms.
Personally as a human being I find the bombing of civillian cities like Hiroshima with atomic weapons quite evil.
I know it brought about the end of the war and all thaose details, so no need to argue with me why it was a good thing that needed to happen or whatever your opinion might be, but what was done to Hiroshima, Dresden, and many other cities in WWII was IMO evil no matter what side was doing the bombing.
Thats what second HDD drives were for. Or for the brave installing from scratch and laying out the filesystem the way you wanted it. Granted Ecomstation has a much nicer from the get go setup then old OS/@ but it was hardly rocket science.
Shame you are mixing MMO and RPG games. WOW and EQ are MMO it is right to compare them. NWN and BG are RPG games. Totally different audience and not really accurate to compare to WOW and EQ. WOW is as much an RPG as FFXI and SWG.
Also check out "The New Tetris", standard style tetris (a few small special things) but music is by the same artist (demoscene name was sequencer) whose name escapes me at the moment.
I hate to rain on your AC superiority complex but at the same time MS posted those numbers (after the close) they also revised down the numbers for the current and next quarter (or so the financial news tells me). So not everything is perfect in the land of MS software. A stocks price now does not matter much unless you take into account where it is going.
A 3K PC back in 1995 was a cutting edge top of the line machine with ever bell and whistle in it. A "decent" average PC back in the mid 90's was abour 1200 (I cant remember if that included monitor). Then again This is what I was selling to the public in Columbus Ohio. YMMV in other less techniclogicaly advanced areas. DOS + Windows cost about $100 and when win95 came out it was selling at $100.
Things have changed much, IMO you can still buy a decent machine for $1200, and a #K macvhine now is still uber.
Probably, also they might just be trying to have the news be accurate about the scope of the project and who is behind it. I know truth in news broadcasts and accuracy like what you get from actualy checking the facts are a radical idea for todays media, but I think they might be able to really do something with thise new ideas.
please explain to me the magic of getting the PS2 version of GTA:SA to play on a PC, as I do not have a chipped playstation this download would be useless.
(note to the clueless I'm being sarcastic in my reply and even if the PC version was leaked would not download it)
As for chipped Ps2 availability do you know how hard it is to chip one? It's not easy like a PSX was, and even the chips that only allow import play (not copies) are dificult to install.
Everyone I know who played planescape torment bought the vale version that was like $10 It was bundled with something else I dont remember.
A lot of people never heard of it when it came out and IMO the piss poor marketing/advertising is why it didnt sell well.
So instead of blaming the failure of your pet game (a game I like quite a bit) blindly only on piracy maybe you sould think for a moment there was maybe something more the publisher/developer could have done to get more people into it before it became a sleeper hit in the bargain bins.
According to the doc I read Azureus onlt needs 6881 open instead of the range.
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You are so missing the point of what MS and the game studios say.
By encouraging home brew software you are stealing from them. Robbing them of sales they should have. To the game studios homebrew takes as much if not more (since it has cloaked itself in legitamacy) then pirates froom the money they deserve.
Listen closely to the things they say and how they argue it.
Getting back to advertising this makes me think of that movie Looker.
In it Digital Matrix Inc. had some spiffy tech they were about to launch that they could add to advertisement to induce people to buy.
This was on top of the computer simulations and determination of the exact place for every element of an advert for maximum effect. To the point they start digitizing models and getting rid of the pesky IP hogging fleshbags.
The reason they are making more noise this time seems to be that last time when they were not loud about it, local news media made up stories about how some christian school charity was behind it. They even couldnt get the totals for donated $$ and toys right in the news last time.
I was hoping we would have a clasical station and a collage station (playing what back then was soon to be "alternative").Maybe also have an NPR sytle station thats always having a fund drive.
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Yes I am, but the statment I see people make is not "people dont write for OSX", I hear people say "Macs dont have viruses".
Depends on what percentage of each group are total asshats.
Well a good example up until a year or so ago was Star Control II.
Archon, I bet EA support reps cant even remember that. Quite a fun one on one battle game.
Terminal Velocity, pain to get a lan game going but great fun once you do.
Magic Carpet 1 & 2 a lot like the above.
Yup.
A few years ago I went in and Bought Sim Golf because of whose name was on it and how much I like his earlyer games. I alwaus bought them.
I get it home and pop it into my CD-R (Only cd-rom I had) a Plextor 4/20 and install it. When I try to play I get a "Please insert original media" message. This was on the original media.
I contact tech support and they tell me I need to buy a new CD-rom drive to play the game. Thats a real nice "Fuck You" from them. I wrote back telling them what I thought of them and the $40 something I cant get refunded for open software and instead cracked it in less time then it would have taken to search pricewatch for a cd-rom.
I dont know how long you have been playing computer games, but no copy protection ever has been the slightest barrier to the most trivial of copying.
Back in the 80's we had floppy based protections and they all failed or were trivial to defeat. Most of those old ideas were dropped by sane software companies when it was clear they didnt work but to screw legit customers.
Strangely most of todays so called copy protection seems to be re-hashes of the same old ideas just done on optical media instead of magnetic.
Clonecd/Alcahol120%/DVDxcopy are todays versions of the copyIIpc and it's ilk.
Yah, it's not like there were any Metroid games before Prime with cyberneticaly enhanced warriors.
And the enemies in those non existant metroid games never changed or got stronger after a certain point.
Since when?
Robert woodhead of Wizardry fame wrote one AV product for use on Macs back in the early/mid 90's (Interferon).
It is true that hardly anyone bothers to write viruses for Apple hardware, but thats is a different thing then there not being any viruses/trojans/worms.
Personally as a human being I find the bombing of civillian cities like Hiroshima with atomic weapons quite evil.
I know it brought about the end of the war and all thaose details, so no need to argue with me why it was a good thing that needed to happen or whatever your opinion might be, but what was done to Hiroshima, Dresden, and many other cities in WWII was IMO evil no matter what side was doing the bombing.
Maybe he went to type "blasters" but his hand slipped.
Thats what second HDD drives were for. Or for the brave installing from scratch and laying out the filesystem the way you wanted it.
Granted Ecomstation has a much nicer from the get go setup then old OS/@ but it was hardly rocket science.
Shame you are mixing MMO and RPG games. WOW and EQ are MMO it is right to compare them. NWN and BG are RPG games. Totally different audience and not really accurate to compare to WOW and EQ. WOW is as much an RPG as FFXI and SWG.
AGAIN?
We are talking Bomberman fantasy race for the PSX?
OR was there supposed to be a PS2 Bomberman game?
Also check out "The New Tetris", standard style tetris (a few small special things) but music is by the same artist (demoscene name was sequencer) whose name escapes me at the moment.
"ANY religous practice handed down from generations ago teaches peace, compassion and civility, manners, morals and ethics toward fellow citizens,"
I just wish people would listen to those teachings and take them to heart.
I hate to rain on your AC superiority complex but at the same time MS posted those numbers (after the close) they also revised down the numbers for the current and next quarter (or so the financial news tells me). So not everything is perfect in the land of MS software.
A stocks price now does not matter much unless you take into account where it is going.
A 3K PC back in 1995 was a cutting edge top of the line machine with ever bell and whistle in it.
A "decent" average PC back in the mid 90's was abour 1200 (I cant remember if that included monitor).
Then again This is what I was selling to the public in Columbus Ohio. YMMV in other less techniclogicaly advanced areas.
DOS + Windows cost about $100 and when win95 came out it was selling at $100.
Things have changed much, IMO you can still buy a decent machine for $1200, and a #K macvhine now is still uber.
Probably, also they might just be trying to have the news be accurate about the scope of the project and who is behind it.
I know truth in news broadcasts and accuracy like what you get from actualy checking the facts are a radical idea for todays media, but I think they might be able to really do something with thise new ideas.
please explain to me the magic of getting the PS2 version of GTA:SA to play on a PC, as I do not have a chipped playstation this download would be useless.
(note to the clueless I'm being sarcastic in my reply and even if the PC version was leaked would not download it)
As for chipped Ps2 availability do you know how hard it is to chip one? It's not easy like a PSX was, and even the chips that only allow import play (not copies) are dificult to install.
Everyone I know who played planescape torment bought the vale version that was like $10 It was bundled with something else I dont remember.
A lot of people never heard of it when it came out and IMO the piss poor marketing/advertising is why it didnt sell well.
So instead of blaming the failure of your pet game (a game I like quite a bit) blindly only on piracy maybe you sould think for a moment there was maybe something more the publisher/developer could have done to get more people into it before it became a sleeper hit in the bargain bins.
According to the doc I read Azureus onlt needs 6881 open instead of the range.
You are so missing the point of what MS and the game studios say.
By encouraging home brew software you are stealing from them. Robbing them of sales they should have. To the game studios homebrew takes as much if not more (since it has cloaked itself in legitamacy) then pirates froom the money they deserve.
Listen closely to the things they say and how they argue it.
But in Falling down he didnt go into a Pizza Hut....
Also in Falling down did he have an RPG or a Rocket Launcher?
In it Digital Matrix Inc. had some spiffy tech they were about to launch that they could add to advertisement to induce people to buy.
This was on top of the computer simulations and determination of the exact place for every element of an advert for maximum effect. To the point they start digitizing models and getting rid of the pesky IP hogging fleshbags.
The reason they are making more noise this time seems to be that last time when they were not loud about it, local news media made up stories about how some christian school charity was behind it. They even couldnt get the totals for donated $$ and toys right in the news last time.
I was hoping we would have a clasical station and a collage station (playing what back then was soon to be "alternative").Maybe also have an NPR sytle station thats always having a fund drive.