Jeez, I've got several old tapes for my Atari 400 in a box in my basement. They/sound/ OK if you play them on a stereo (ok, well maybe they sound rather strange), but the Atari doesn't pick up on them very well. I think the 410 (the tape drive) is shot or something. Who knows. --
I'm happy they had a little blurb about 3dfx, but what I would really like them to do with the 3dfx technology is create a nVidia port of the 3dfx API; more to the point, I can't run Unreal on an nVidia card, but I can through 3dfx's proprietary API.
Granted, I haven't checked for updates in a long time (its been about a year since I finished Unreal), but it would be cool to play some of those "Voodoo or Software Only" games on another card.
Actually, Netscape 4.76 still does this... At least on my SPARC Solaris version. The only thing is that since the connection to the internet is so darn fast, the messages flash by faster than you get a chance to read them.
I think the argument that browsers only say "Opening page..." is because that person is using Internet Explorer.
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Itanium is the 1st generation 64bit CPU from Intel. But just keep in mind that the next generation chip was started shortly thereafter because Intel realized how many thing they did wrong in the Merced (oops.. sorry, I mean Itanium).
As far as the slow IA32 performance goes, I think that could be a serious issue due to the amount of time it will take until the chip really starts to get adopted.
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You know, this just points out a nasty little trend that I see in the Linux development world- people who typically develop for Linux are blind to the fact that there are other UNIX systems out there. In particular, I'm bitching about the fact that Everybuddy and Gaim fail to build on Solaris systems simply because the code is written without regard to other systems.
You can say "Well, it says its for Linux" or "GNU isn't UNIX" or some other cop-out, but in reality with these types of programs it doesn't take a lot of effort at the design phase to make it cross (UNIX) platform and still perform just as well.
Before this gets knocked down for being flamebait, I just want to point out that I've identified fixes to 3 open source projects before to make them cross platform and the authors don't respond because "if it isn't linux, they don't care". I can understand if you don't have the hardware to test it on, but at least take a suggestion/patch.
What about AlleyCat? C'mon, it was a PC only game that STILL has my attention 18 years after I first played it.
Ok, so it might not be influential, but it certainly is a blast to play and it is a PC game (it even says it's written for the IBM PC in the title screen).
On the other hand, you can always double major in CS and CIS/MIS. It is essentially what I did, and I'm a more valuable person at my company in the end for it because I have all the business knowledge and I also have all the computer science knowledge.
As a side note, I also had been programming for 10 years before I entered college and knew more than most of my professors, but that's besides the point.
What's wrong with SCSI? Can this do
something that SCSI cannot?
Nothing is wrong with SCSI. Actually, SCSI will always be superior to this standard. I guess, however, if you wanted to say that there is something wrong with SCSI, its that it is far too expensive for most people. The reason for this is that SCSI is a much more intelligent device and thus requires much more sophisticated electronics. That is one reason why IDE is so popular, is because it is far cheaper. But with this reduced cost, you are limited to the number of devices you can put on an IDE chain. IDE=2 per chain, SCSI=8 (including controller) per chain. There are some other technical details (disconnect, for example) which make SCSI better, but again.. price.
Preemptive multitasking? Justify it to your clients? One of the features of WinCE that I am torn on is exactly that: multitasking.
This is a device for managing your contacts, schedule and to-do list. The fact that you can play Chess or Solitaire on it is a bonus. What do you really need multitasking for? You're not calculating spreadsheets on your PDA, are you? This is why we have Laptops (or even the larger WinCE devices the 'sub-notebooks' if you will).
I honestly can't see why you need more than the scheduling capabilities of the PalmOS. I think one of the reasons why the PalmOS is much more popular is because of its simplicity. Introducing concepts such as multitasking would only cause developers to make programs that just confuse the user. For example, making the 'Find' function run in the background only to pop up windows when it has found things. This distracts you from what you're doing on your 3" x 3" screen. These are things you would do on a full size computer.
Were you ever involed on my board (Dronefone)? I've got the whole shebang archived on various media, I just haven't decided what to do with all of it yet. The whole setup still exists, its just sitting in the closet back at my parent's house.
I wonder if anyone would have an interest beyond a few friends of mine that remember the whole thing..
I was an active participant of the 201 area code (northern NJ) BBS scene from about 1985-1992. I used to run my own system 'Dronefone' on an Apple//e (20MB Sider, 5MHz Rocket Chip) on homegrown software. I was part of the 'BBS Triumverate' which included an IBM site called 'Middle Earth' (2AM BBS software) and a C128 run by a man by the handle of IronKnight. We were very popular sites, and we had doors.
Some of the doors that were popular at the time was TradeWars (of course), DopeWars and the Infocom adventures. I wrote a few, the most obscure being a game called 'The Maze' which was written in DragonSoft BBS's scripting language 'Autoscript' for a board run by 'Citizen Stile' (a big Peter Gabriel / Genesis fan).
Those were the days. Back when making a cup of coffee, kicking back and reading some posts on your (or other) boards was quite relaxing and entertaining (regardless of the fact that you were cruising along at 300bps).
I think there is still one site left from those days, a small C64 BBS called North*Link at (973) 376-0816. I think it's only 300/1200 and works best with C64 graphic-enabled programs. They still have a few doors left.
Hopefully this doesn't rule out the possibility of a release in the future. I mean, right now it might be a bad economic decision for them to release it, but they have completed the program (or at least 95% of it), so if the market looks a little better in a year or so, they could release it.
Sounds like how Nintendo required an authentication chip of sorts in each of its NES cartridges or the game wouldn't run. I like the idea from one standpoint (quality software, assures you're not getting a trojan [hopefully]), but from the other standpoint that if I want to write a simple program without validating it, Windows will bark, OR the even scario scenario is that if I write a program that competes with a Microsoft product, they might not allow it to operate at all?
This sounds like a monopoly strength device with a vengance.
I do 90% of my web browsing using Netscape 4.76 on a Sun SPARC Solaris machine. Luckily, Flash has been available for this platform for some time, but I find enough problems out there with just pages coded for "Win32, MSIE5" or even just Netscape on Win32.
The plugin argument has a lot of merit, but I think the problem that needs to be solved before anything else is simply that the browsers are not consistent (try Netscape or IE across different platforms) let alone the plugin availability.
I certainly see the benefit of having an ethernet jack (central dialup, offline storage, etc), however, does TiVo even offer their subscription data service over the internet (read: via DSL/Cable/etc).
I understand that the dialup typically doesn't take much time at all. Its just when the software updates come over the wire that it becomes annoying.
Its worth 2 to mention that the Maniac Mansion in question is NOT the original adventure, but the spin-off entitled "Day of the Tentacle". As mentioned, most of these games are in collections (which you could find a few years back- 3 or 4 of these games in one pack for about $19).
As a side note, this game, Sam & Max Hit the Road and Full Throttle are quite amusing games if you are interested.
Actually, the song has no tie-in with the logic stated before it.. I just had it playing in my head while I was reading other posts, and it slipped into the message.
I didn't mean to have people think that it had any relation other than "New Jerusalem"..
This coincides with an idea that I wrote up a few years ago. Basically, the whole idea that the millenium was going to bring about the apocolypse and the whole bible-fearing thing.. check this line of logic (to summarize the paper):
Adam and Eve eating off the tree of knowledge was a scheme of Satan.
666 conceptually translates into that "Man is his own god".
God is omniscient and man is not, since man cannot have all the knowledge in the world.
The internet is a repository for the world's knowedge.
The exponential growth of people and information on the internet is astounding over the last several years.
The internet's popularity can be looked at as reaching some sort of saturation point (of course, it hasn't, but consider the percentage of people online these days) at the millenium.
With this much information available on the net, man does have a level of knowledge available at his fingertips that in some context can be considered reaching omniscient status.
Basically, if information breeds knowledge and knowledge breeds power and brings one closer to knowing everything there is to know about the world, then the internet is the new Jerusalem.
Lord of lords, king of kings, he has come to take his children home, to take them to the new Jersusalem
Yes, the BeBox/BeOS was described by Jean Louis Gassee (sp?) as "The spiritual decendant of the Amiga" and that they were going to "do correctly what Amiga did wrong" because they had studied Commodore and the Amiga and all of what happened.
I don't think the BeBox/BeOS will go the way of the Amiga, probably more the way of OS/2. There is still a tremendously large interest in the Amiga and its antiquated hardware, a love if you will, and I don't think Be* ever quite gained that status. Maybe it hadn't existed long enough?
I will at least say that when the BeBox was coming out, I was a die-hard Amiga user and I was drooling over the BeBox. I never bought one due to the fact that I didn't quite have the money at the time to buy an experimental box with experimental software. But.. but.. the GEEK PORT. sheesh, how could you pass on something that has one of those?
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Jeez, I've got several old tapes for my Atari 400 in a box in my basement. They /sound/ OK if you play them on a stereo (ok, well maybe they sound rather strange), but the Atari doesn't pick up on them very well. I think the 410 (the tape drive) is shot or something. Who knows.
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Unfortunately, Woz didn't create the floppy drive for the Apple II until 1978.
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Dammit! And just a few days after I threw out my 5.25" floppy notcher!
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Granted, I haven't checked for updates in a long time (its been about a year since I finished Unreal), but it would be cool to play some of those "Voodoo or Software Only" games on another card.
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I think the argument that browsers only say "Opening page..." is because that person is using Internet Explorer.
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yuk yuk yuk
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As far as the slow IA32 performance goes, I think that could be a serious issue due to the amount of time it will take until the chip really starts to get adopted.
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Oh, sorry.. I'm about 10 years too late for that one...
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'Cause IT's only knock and know-all, but I like it...
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You can say "Well, it says its for Linux" or "GNU isn't UNIX" or some other cop-out, but in reality with these types of programs it doesn't take a lot of effort at the design phase to make it cross (UNIX) platform and still perform just as well.
Before this gets knocked down for being flamebait, I just want to point out that I've identified fixes to 3 open source projects before to make them cross platform and the authors don't respond because "if it isn't linux, they don't care". I can understand if you don't have the hardware to test it on, but at least take a suggestion/patch.
<grumble grumble grumble>
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Ok, so it might not be influential, but it certainly is a blast to play and it is a PC game (it even says it's written for the IBM PC in the title screen).
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As a side note, I also had been programming for 10 years before I entered college and knew more than most of my professors, but that's besides the point.
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Nothing is wrong with SCSI. Actually, SCSI will always be superior to this standard. I guess, however, if you wanted to say that there is something wrong with SCSI, its that it is far too expensive for most people. The reason for this is that SCSI is a much more intelligent device and thus requires much more sophisticated electronics. That is one reason why IDE is so popular, is because it is far cheaper. But with this reduced cost, you are limited to the number of devices you can put on an IDE chain. IDE=2 per chain, SCSI=8 (including controller) per chain. There are some other technical details (disconnect, for example) which make SCSI better, but again.. price.
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I honestly can't see why you need more than the scheduling capabilities of the PalmOS. I think one of the reasons why the PalmOS is much more popular is because of its simplicity. Introducing concepts such as multitasking would only cause developers to make programs that just confuse the user. For example, making the 'Find' function run in the background only to pop up windows when it has found things. This distracts you from what you're doing on your 3" x 3" screen. These are things you would do on a full size computer.
My two cents.
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I wonder if anyone would have an interest beyond a few friends of mine that remember the whole thing..
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I was an active participant of the 201 area code (northern NJ) BBS scene from about 1985-1992. I used to run my own system 'Dronefone' on an Apple //e (20MB Sider, 5MHz Rocket Chip) on homegrown software. I was part of the 'BBS Triumverate' which included an IBM site called 'Middle Earth' (2AM BBS software) and a C128 run by a man by the handle of IronKnight. We were very popular sites, and we had doors.
Some of the doors that were popular at the time was TradeWars (of course), DopeWars and the Infocom adventures. I wrote a few, the most obscure being a game called 'The Maze' which was written in DragonSoft BBS's scripting language 'Autoscript' for a board run by 'Citizen Stile' (a big Peter Gabriel / Genesis fan).
Those were the days. Back when making a cup of coffee, kicking back and reading some posts on your (or other) boards was quite relaxing and entertaining (regardless of the fact that you were cruising along at 300bps).
I think there is still one site left from those days, a small C64 BBS called North*Link at (973) 376-0816. I think it's only 300/1200 and works best with C64 graphic-enabled programs. They still have a few doors left.
Anyway...
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Just a thought...
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This sounds like a monopoly strength device with a vengance.
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Sounds just like Silicon ALLEY. Yeah, that sounds about right for where I live in NYC.
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The plugin argument has a lot of merit, but I think the problem that needs to be solved before anything else is simply that the browsers are not consistent (try Netscape or IE across different platforms) let alone the plugin availability.
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I understand that the dialup typically doesn't take much time at all. Its just when the software updates come over the wire that it becomes annoying.
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As a side note, this game, Sam & Max Hit the Road and Full Throttle are quite amusing games if you are interested.
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I didn't mean to have people think that it had any relation other than "New Jerusalem"..
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Basically, if information breeds knowledge and knowledge breeds power and brings one closer to knowing everything there is to know about the world, then the internet is the new Jerusalem.
Lord of lords, king of kings, he has come to take his children home, to take them to the new Jersusalem
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I don't think the BeBox/BeOS will go the way of the Amiga, probably more the way of OS/2. There is still a tremendously large interest in the Amiga and its antiquated hardware, a love if you will, and I don't think Be* ever quite gained that status. Maybe it hadn't existed long enough?
I will at least say that when the BeBox was coming out, I was a die-hard Amiga user and I was drooling over the BeBox. I never bought one due to the fact that I didn't quite have the money at the time to buy an experimental box with experimental software. But.. but.. the GEEK PORT. sheesh, how could you pass on something that has one of those?
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