All the true IBM BIOS sets I had for 8088 machines were about 6 chips long and contained a complete version of BASIC. All the other BIOS I used (Phoenix, MR. Bios, ect) were single chip and opted not to include a BASIC. Does it only have the System stuff or does it have the source code to IBM BASIC as well?
I seem to recall the "simple idea" was observing while he was in another country that all the "cool" people seemed to be gong to parties and having fun. Usually around pool's and beaches, thus they often had towels with them. I'd have to dig out my copy of Dont Panic! (I think it was in there) to find the exact way he described it.
Series 4 is quite a bit darker and fatalistic, thats because it's set in the trenches of WWI. It has humor and can be quite funny, but I think since we know the history and human loss it can be hard to laugh at it.
Series one sets Black Adder as an incompetent buffoon unlike the other series. I think there are only a few episodes that themselves are 100 great (the witch sniffer one). I think in this series the rest of the cast steals the screen. How many different meaning did Brian Blessed manage to give to the phrase "Fresh Horses!"? Any scene with the queen, and characters like the scottsman.
One thing I did enjoy about all of them is they tried to keep some aspects of the time the shows were set in, as well as pay attention to some smaller details. The DVD boxset was full of interesting things.
My experiance with software (outside of the library world) has been with both Open Source projects and Proprietary closed source companies. Often with commercial software you dont get support. You have to pay per incident or pay a regular support fee. There is nothing wrong with this, but it does make the cost less attractive. With non commercial software you need to get a feel for what support groups ther are, be it from the developers, newsgroups, user mailing lists or the projects website.
Gamers seem to perfer the GC version of SC. As for AH looking or sounding better, I dont see how thats possible (seriously it's a fairly graphicaly simple game), but maybe I'm not using the right over priced video cables. For Burnout I can't say as I have no Xbox to compare the GC version to, I can say the PS2 version is worse.
This still avoids the issue that these game are fun for more then just little kids and are available on the Cube.
If you ever get a chance to play around with an old game called "Manhole" do it! It's from the era right around the end of INFOCOM when they started to add some graphics.
I think that was the first "death" in a video game that emotionally got me. It was a real kick in the nuts. Why cant todays games have characters you get that attached to? It's strange really, I dont know if it's because your drawn into the character of a lone person on an alien world, but Floyd and his anoying antics was something you grew to like in the game.
Looks like you don't play any games at all any more if what you say is even remotely true.
All games borrow, steal, or are inspired by games of the past.
Every aspect of game play in todays games builds off of what has come before.
GTA was a top down game for 3 releases, then it went to 3D and we have had 3 releases. The basic game play from 10 years ago (GTA) is still there. Do you play GTA:SA if so Mr. AC how does that square with your "I grow up big in 10 year, me need big person games".
How is it there are any games you play? I cant think of a single game that does not take it's mechanics, characters, or story from the past one way or another?
I have no problem with you not enjoying Nintendo game, your reasoning is just mindbogglingly insane. As much as it is a cliché your long AC post boils down to "Nintendo is kiddy because I say they are making the exact same games now that they did 10 years ago" rant, and thats not true at all.
Sucks you cant keep friends but thats hardly Nintendo fault, maybe you should try being less of an asshole.
You don't eat the same food as 10 years ago? So like if you ate pasta and cereal and meat back then you don't now? How does this work?
You never watch any movie from the past, you only exist in the now of today? That must suck. What happens if you miss a film or it does not show in your area?
You never go back to places you used to go? Never to a place from your childhood, or your relatives?
Wait, I figured it out, you are so desperate to sound all growed up, 10 years ago you were still in your mothers womb, thats why you cant do all that stuff.
If you were not so bloody minded and concerned with being "differnt" you might find some things to enjoy in the world, even from 10 years ago.
Reminds me of the Xbox that was not. Demos running only on the developer boxes (twice the memory and more processing power) under the tables because the Xbox consoles were just mockups. I dunno if they tried to pass the mockups off as what was actually runnign the games.
Minor addition for the Gamecube lineup. Paper Mario:Thousand Year Door.
According to gamefaqs there are a lot of RPG games for the Gamecube, but YMMV on the clasification for games like X-Men Lagends, Evolution Worlds (DC port), Lost kingdoms (1&2), and Animal Crossing.
$300 for the PS2, $50 for each game you want to get with it, $30 or so for each aditional controller $30 for a mem card, $ whatever for any kind of hookup above composite, $ whatever for DVD remote. If you actually pay atention to what you end up spending on a console at launce you will realize it is a lot closer to $500 for them then the $300 you think you paid becuse you only thought about the unit itself.
As your elder (31 years old);p Maybe you should take a look at the Gamecube selection of games and you might learn there is more then Zelda, Mario, and Metroid. Now I know games like Eternal Darkness, Soul Calbur, Resident Evil, Alien Homonid, and Burnout are just for the little kiddies, but it's ok for us adults to have fun playing them as well.
How exactly can you directly compare specs for the Xbox and Gamecube? One is a castrated mobile Celeron (it has less cache then a regular mobile celery) and uses an Nvidia GPU with mostly off the shelf PC parts for the rest of the system. The other uses a custom Power PC based chip with a custom GPU made by a company bought by ATI. The designs for both are quite unique and so differnt I can't see a real base to compare them.
Now not all of us can graduate from DeVry but think real hard about your GTA claim. Exactly how is the game play open ended? Think about it. Yes you can ignore the missions and just run around and do mini games or whatever. Sooner or later the basic plot and point of the GTA games, doing the missions and advancing the story line, is all you have left and that is not at all open ended. Dont get me wrong I love GTA series games. But in GTA:VC for instance until you complete certain missions items, or parts of the game world are off limits. From my small time playing GTA:SA (I am not getting into it big till I finish VC) if you go way out of town before the "plot" wants you to suddenly, for just walking down the side of the street you get 4 stars and some redneck cops killing you with a shotgun. How is that "open ended"? I'm stuck on rails to the extent the game designers allow me to move freely only in a limited area.
I personally dont understand how people can only "like" one type of game or another. It's as if they only allow themselves to have fun in certain ways, and that sounds unfun to me. But I guess it's ones own choice. I guess I just have some days that are M days other are T days sometimes I feel like a little E or even A. The fact you can spell TEAM has nothing to do with my use of the goofy ratings system.
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All the true IBM BIOS sets I had for 8088 machines were about 6 chips long and contained a complete version of BASIC.
All the other BIOS I used (Phoenix, MR. Bios, ect) were single chip and opted not to include a BASIC. Does it only have the System stuff or does it have the source code to IBM BASIC as well?
You mean H2GT2G.
I seem to recall the "simple idea" was observing while he was in another country that all the "cool" people seemed to be gong to parties and having fun. Usually around pool's and beaches, thus they often had towels with them.
I'd have to dig out my copy of Dont Panic! (I think it was in there) to find the exact way he described it.
Series 4 is quite a bit darker and fatalistic, thats because it's set in the trenches of WWI. It has humor and can be quite funny, but I think since we know the history and human loss it can be hard to laugh at it.
Series one sets Black Adder as an incompetent buffoon unlike the other series. I think there are only a few episodes that themselves are 100 great (the witch sniffer one). I think in this series the rest of the cast steals the screen. How many different meaning did Brian Blessed manage to give to the phrase "Fresh Horses!"? Any scene with the queen, and characters like the scottsman.
One thing I did enjoy about all of them is they tried to keep some aspects of the time the shows were set in, as well as pay attention to some smaller details. The DVD boxset was full of interesting things.
So your saying they need to do 3 movies for every book?
You do realize this first movie only covers the first book (for the most part).
"justcauseitisn'tlikethebookrealfanswouldneverbeha p pyetcthebooksweredifferenttotheradiosoitsallgoodre ally"
That feels like it is missing an "-expialadocious" on the end.
You havent seen recent Dr. Who effects have you?
My experiance with software (outside of the library world) has been with both Open Source projects and Proprietary closed source companies.
Often with commercial software you dont get support. You have to pay per incident or pay a regular support fee. There is nothing wrong with this, but it does make the cost less attractive.
With non commercial software you need to get a feel for what support groups ther are, be it from the developers, newsgroups, user mailing lists or the projects website.
This is incorrect. A simple Holiday Inn will only get you some sleep, a paper and maybe breakfast.
You have to stay at a Holiday Inn Express to become magically delicious.
Darl?
Looking at the evidence it seams thoe only sane reasonable person in the whole stupid ordeal is Tridge.
Telnet [servername] 5000
[servername]> help
does not seem to me to be evil. But if it will help we can ban all forms of remote system access, to keep companies like bitkeeper safe.
Gamers seem to perfer the GC version of SC.
As for AH looking or sounding better, I dont see how thats possible (seriously it's a fairly graphicaly simple game), but maybe I'm not using the right over priced video cables.
For Burnout I can't say as I have no Xbox to compare the GC version to, I can say the PS2 version is worse.
This still avoids the issue that these game are fun for more then just little kids and are available on the Cube.
If you ever get a chance to play around with an old game called "Manhole" do it!
It's from the era right around the end of INFOCOM when they started to add some graphics.
"I miss Floyd, too"
I think that was the first "death" in a video game that emotionally got me. It was a real kick in the nuts.
Why cant todays games have characters you get that attached to? It's strange really, I dont know if it's because your drawn into the character of a lone person on an alien world, but Floyd and his anoying antics was something you grew to like in the game.
The expansion pack was a memory upgrad that let the system do more texture work IIRC. It wasnt too expensive.
Looks like you don't play any games at all any more if what you say is even remotely true.
All games borrow, steal, or are inspired by games of the past.
Every aspect of game play in todays games builds off of what has come before.
GTA was a top down game for 3 releases, then it went to 3D and we have had 3 releases. The basic game play from 10 years ago (GTA) is still there. Do you play GTA:SA if so Mr. AC how does that square with your "I grow up big in 10 year, me need big person games".
How is it there are any games you play? I cant think of a single game that does not take it's mechanics, characters, or story from the past one way or another?
I have no problem with you not enjoying Nintendo game, your reasoning is just mindbogglingly insane.
As much as it is a cliché your long AC post boils down to "Nintendo is kiddy because I say they are making the exact same games now that they did 10 years ago" rant, and thats not true at all.
Sucks you cant keep friends but thats hardly Nintendo fault, maybe you should try being less of an asshole.
You don't eat the same food as 10 years ago? So like if you ate pasta and cereal and meat back then you don't now? How does this work?
You never watch any movie from the past, you only exist in the now of today? That must suck. What happens if you miss a film or it does not show in your area?
You never go back to places you used to go? Never to a place from your childhood, or your relatives?
Wait, I figured it out, you are so desperate to sound all growed up, 10 years ago you were still in your mothers womb, thats why you cant do all that stuff.
If you were not so bloody minded and concerned with being "differnt" you might find some things to enjoy in the world, even from 10 years ago.
Reminds me of the Xbox that was not. Demos running only on the developer boxes (twice the memory and more processing power) under the tables because the Xbox consoles were just mockups. I dunno if they tried to pass the mockups off as what was actually runnign the games.
How is being roughly the same as Xbox in market share "low"? or is the Xbox also an apple of a different color?
Minor addition for the Gamecube lineup.
Paper Mario:Thousand Year Door.
According to gamefaqs there are a lot of RPG games for the Gamecube, but YMMV on the clasification for games like X-Men Lagends, Evolution Worlds (DC port), Lost kingdoms (1&2), and Animal Crossing.
$300 for the PS2, $50 for each game you want to get with it, $30 or so for each aditional controller $30 for a mem card, $ whatever for any kind of hookup above composite, $ whatever for DVD remote.
If you actually pay atention to what you end up spending on a console at launce you will realize it is a lot closer to $500 for them then the $300 you think you paid becuse you only thought about the unit itself.
As your elder (31 years old) ;p Maybe you should take a look at the Gamecube selection of games and you might learn there is more then Zelda, Mario, and Metroid.
Now I know games like Eternal Darkness, Soul Calbur, Resident Evil, Alien Homonid, and Burnout are just for the little kiddies, but it's ok for us adults to have fun playing them as well.
How exactly can you directly compare specs for the Xbox and Gamecube?
One is a castrated mobile Celeron (it has less cache then a regular mobile celery) and uses an Nvidia GPU with mostly off the shelf PC parts for the rest of the system.
The other uses a custom Power PC based chip with a custom GPU made by a company bought by ATI.
The designs for both are quite unique and so differnt I can't see a real base to compare them.
Atari: Warlords, and I think Combat.
The Colecovision pad was digital as well.
Now not all of us can graduate from DeVry but think real hard about your GTA claim.
Exactly how is the game play open ended?
Think about it.
Yes you can ignore the missions and just run around and do mini games or whatever. Sooner or later the basic plot and point of the GTA games, doing the missions and advancing the story line, is all you have left and that is not at all open ended.
Dont get me wrong I love GTA series games. But in GTA:VC for instance until you complete certain missions items, or parts of the game world are off limits.
From my small time playing GTA:SA (I am not getting into it big till I finish VC) if you go way out of town before the "plot" wants you to suddenly, for just walking down the side of the street you get 4 stars and some redneck cops killing you with a shotgun. How is that "open ended"? I'm stuck on rails to the extent the game designers allow me to move freely only in a limited area.
I personally dont understand how people can only "like" one type of game or another. It's as if they only allow themselves to have fun in certain ways, and that sounds unfun to me. But I guess it's ones own choice. I guess I just have some days that are M days other are T days sometimes I feel like a little E or even A. The fact you can spell TEAM has nothing to do with my use of the goofy ratings system.