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You failed to mention BioWare is developing a single player RPG called Knights of the Old Republic. That game looks sweet! It was being shown in a private meeting at E3.
LucasArts is doing a very good job of realizing that they can't make games anymore, but there are others who can make them (and make them good!)
I'm not sure when Tomb Raider was released for Saturn, but the exclusive Sony deal did not include the PC. It was only consoles, and it may have only been that it doesn't show on Nintendo's console (N64).
I guess it really doesn't matter, that was just one of a few examples that console game exclusivity can be bought.
I think Metal Gear Solid 2 can be added to the list as well. MGS2 is a Playstation 2 exclusive. The XBox is getting a version, but not an exact port of MGS2.
Your two-button mouse will work fine out of the box, but there are hardly any apps that will work using the wheel. The only one I could find was IE, but the IE for OSX is slow and a CPU hog right now. Not even the Finder works with the wheel.
Bringing down the DMCA is a small price to pay for shutting down Aimster? I think it would be a very very large price. At that point:
1. DeCSS would then be legal to own and use.
2. SDMI Hack challenge results would be easily accessable, causing SDMI to die a nasty horrible death.
3. Probably many other situations that I can't remember.
Can I modify what I said about smart installers then? And change it to compile when the user wants to compile the application, and install it when the user doesn't want to compile or can't compile it.
Also, I agree with you about Linux. I would actually prefer dl'ing precompiled applications. But if the source is all that is included it should still be easy for me to install.
Is it even clear that a package manager should be dealing with compilation?
Remember, most (95%?) Win32 users don't have a compiler. Also, I've never seen an installer on Win32 run the compiler for me.
A Linux environment is quite different from a Win32 one. A smart cross-platform installer would know when to install an application and when to compile it, taking into consideration that platform's users. So the Linux install would compile the application based on the kernel/etc, and the Win32 would install itself without compilation, and come with the necessary redistributables.
Greg
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You failed to mention BioWare is developing a single player RPG called Knights of the Old Republic. That game looks sweet! It was being shown in a private meeting at E3.
LucasArts is doing a very good job of realizing that they can't make games anymore, but there are others who can make them (and make them good!)
Greg
I'm not sure when Tomb Raider was released for Saturn, but the exclusive Sony deal did not include the PC. It was only consoles, and it may have only been that it doesn't show on Nintendo's console (N64).
I guess it really doesn't matter, that was just one of a few examples that console game exclusivity can be bought.
I think Metal Gear Solid 2 can be added to the list as well. MGS2 is a Playstation 2 exclusive. The XBox is getting a version, but not an exact port of MGS2.
Greg
Actually, John Carmack GPL'ed the entire Quake source code about a year and a half ago. It wasn't Open Source initially, but it is now.
Greg
Your two-button mouse will work fine out of the box, but there are hardly any apps that will work using the wheel. The only one I could find was IE, but the IE for OSX is slow and a CPU hog right now. Not even the Finder works with the wheel.
Greg
Bringing down the DMCA is a small price to pay for shutting down Aimster? I think it would be a very very large price. At that point:
1. DeCSS would then be legal to own and use.
2. SDMI Hack challenge results would be easily accessable, causing SDMI to die a nasty horrible death.
3. Probably many other situations that I can't remember.
Greg
Can I modify what I said about smart installers then? And change it to compile when the user wants to compile the application, and install it when the user doesn't want to compile or can't compile it.
Also, I agree with you about Linux. I would actually prefer dl'ing precompiled applications. But if the source is all that is included it should still be easy for me to install.
Greg
Is it even clear that a package manager should be dealing with compilation? Remember, most (95%?) Win32 users don't have a compiler. Also, I've never seen an installer on Win32 run the compiler for me. A Linux environment is quite different from a Win32 one. A smart cross-platform installer would know when to install an application and when to compile it, taking into consideration that platform's users. So the Linux install would compile the application based on the kernel/etc, and the Win32 would install itself without compilation, and come with the necessary redistributables. Greg