One of my favorite games of all time, The Longest Journey, has just announced they are working on at least one, maybe two more games in the series. It seems to me that this whole "adventure games are dead" stuff started when Sierra got bought out and stopped making adventure games. But companies like Revolution are still going strong, and now are trying to get adventure games out to the consoles.
I don't think the genre will ever be truely "dead".
My brother called me one day to say that his new computer had run out of disk space and he didn't know why. I connected to his computer via Remote Desktop and browsed his folder and when I got to his My Music directory it was full of 7 gigs of movie files, none of which he had seen before. I deleted them and suggested he get a firewall program.
Sure enough, as soon as he got his firewall up he got a slew of alerts about people trying to connect to his computer. I make sure I keep my firewall up at all times now.
Actually, having used Quicken for a few years I learned that Quicken gave Quicken a slap in the face. It has to be the slowest program I've ever used. I use MS Money now, it would be interesting to see how this new program performs.
Where I work we recently "upgraded" one of our software applications from using a DB to using a single XML file. It is a LOT cleaner. We don't have the RAM problem that many people are talking about because we don't load the entire XML file into memory... only the data we need. In fact, if our customers want to use a database to store the historical data, we simply give them the schema. And THAT takes a huge burden off of our DBAs who before had to deal with dozens of patch scripts. Everyone walks away happy! Well, so far at least.
I think they've waited too long for that, I think he's a little too decayed..... unless he wants to hang around the Haunted Mansion.... actually that would be pretty damn cool!
I still put appointments, numbers, and sometimes exam dates in my Visor but I've found that I never actually LOOK at the information once its in there. The phone numbers are all out of date, and the one time I used it to get a final exam date I found I had entered the WRONG date and completely missed the exam.
I saw someone mention using the Palm as an ebook application, but I find the screen too hard to read on my visor and the backlighting on it is utterly useless. I do have a dedicated eBook reader, the old Rocket Ebook, and while reading on the ebook is NICE (just as easy on my eyes as a real book), the fact that I can't really take it to the beach and the fact that they don't really make books for it anymore (thanks to RCA) means that its still paper books for me.
Anyway, I love my Visor but I just really don't have a use for it yet.
It looks to me like they are only suing small to medium sized companies that perhaps don't have enough money to fight them. I didn't click on many of the sites on that list, but I don't think you'll ever see a site like Amazon or Microsoft on it because, as you stated, they would kick the crap out of PanIP.
They are just a corporate bully trying to get their lunch money.
A program we use at work sometimes comes up with an error "Catestrophic Failure" with no other description, then crashes. We printed it out and put it on the wall but the developers made us take them down. Still no idea what causes the error, but it sure sounds serious:P.
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One of my favorite games of all time, The Longest Journey, has just announced they are working on at least one, maybe two more games in the series. It seems to me that this whole "adventure games are dead" stuff started when Sierra got bought out and stopped making adventure games. But companies like Revolution are still going strong, and now are trying to get adventure games out to the consoles.
I don't think the genre will ever be truely "dead".
Don't forget, it had a killer soundtrack too.
Thank god they've decided to bless Longest Journey 2.
True, but it costs less to make a CD than it does to make a cassette tape... yet CDs are more expensive.
I wouldn't be surprised if they slapped a "convenience fee" on the downloads.
My brother called me one day to say that his new computer had run out of disk space and he didn't know why. I connected to his computer via Remote Desktop and browsed his folder and when I got to his My Music directory it was full of 7 gigs of movie files, none of which he had seen before. I deleted them and suggested he get a firewall program.
Sure enough, as soon as he got his firewall up he got a slew of alerts about people trying to connect to his computer. I make sure I keep my firewall up at all times now.
Actually, having used Quicken for a few years I learned that Quicken gave Quicken a slap in the face. It has to be the slowest program I've ever used. I use MS Money now, it would be interesting to see how this new program performs.
I believe (tho I'm not certain) that Gold refers to the color of the CD master that goes off to get reproduced for mass consumption.
The textures... are not real.
April Fools Day is NEXT week.
I can't get to the servers. Does anyone know if they're still using the 700 mb ISOs? My ghetto CD burner chokes after about 670mb.
How does Steve pronounce Panther? "Panth-ire"?
Where I work we recently "upgraded" one of our software applications from using a DB to using a single XML file. It is a LOT cleaner. We don't have the RAM problem that many people are talking about because we don't load the entire XML file into memory... only the data we need. In fact, if our customers want to use a database to store the historical data, we simply give them the schema. And THAT takes a huge burden off of our DBAs who before had to deal with dozens of patch scripts. Everyone walks away happy! Well, so far at least.
I doubt the "Hacked by Chinese!" virus we developed by China's government.
But you never know!
Its not hard. You can get a brand new Lindows computer for $200.
I think they've waited too long for that, I think he's a little too decayed..... unless he wants to hang around the Haunted Mansion.... actually that would be pretty damn cool!
I remember back in the days of BBSes people around here would always put ANSI bombs in readme files.
So, no.
I believe freecell was first made available in the Win32 redistribution for Windows 3.x.
And don't forget Pinball that was first released for Plus!
That doesn't sound very fun. What about a young-person simulator for the older folks?
I still put appointments, numbers, and sometimes exam dates in my Visor but I've found that I never actually LOOK at the information once its in there. The phone numbers are all out of date, and the one time I used it to get a final exam date I found I had entered the WRONG date and completely missed the exam.
I saw someone mention using the Palm as an ebook application, but I find the screen too hard to read on my visor and the backlighting on it is utterly useless. I do have a dedicated eBook reader, the old Rocket Ebook, and while reading on the ebook is NICE (just as easy on my eyes as a real book), the fact that I can't really take it to the beach and the fact that they don't really make books for it anymore (thanks to RCA) means that its still paper books for me.
Anyway, I love my Visor but I just really don't have a use for it yet.
Wow, you're ready to pay $200 for an MP3 player and you think you're some kind of genius?
It looks to me like they are only suing small to medium sized companies that perhaps don't have enough money to fight them. I didn't click on many of the sites on that list, but I don't think you'll ever see a site like Amazon or Microsoft on it because, as you stated, they would kick the crap out of PanIP.
They are just a corporate bully trying to get their lunch money.
Damn, where's my registration card for my gamecube?! I still may have time!
Dave
I guess its time to switch to DSL, so you can wait for the telecom industry to screw you.
I'm starting to miss the small ISPs that couldn't screw you as bad because there were many more alternatives.
Oh well... long live monopolies!
It can be used as a CD-RW drive and play DVDs, but can't record DVDs?
And you can watch a whole 1.5 hours of a DVD movie on it too.
Wow.
Where do I sign?
A program we use at work sometimes comes up with an error "Catestrophic Failure" with no other description, then crashes. We printed it out and put it on the wall but the developers made us take them down. Still no idea what causes the error, but it sure sounds serious :P.
Yup.
Good ol' Verizon.
I don't mind, I don't use it.