I'd have to say Infocom's "A Mind Forever Voyaging" because it was the first game where I actually cared about the characters. You play an AI who lives in an artificial world that the real world uses to simulate future events. You have a wife and a child and at one point your child grows up and goes off to join a religious cult. I found myself chasing after him absolutely terrified he'd get away before I found him.
The original DOOM had some good moments on some levels. I remember one level in particular that had a wide open space and the wall on one side lowers and a whole row of tough "shaved gorillas demons" comes charging after you. You end up running backwards across the whole level, shooting behind you. It was brilliant.
Civilization II, Alpha Centauri, Duke Nuke'em 3D, and the original Command and Conquer all lured me into "the zone" where a dozen or more hours passed without me moving or noticing as I was lost in the game.
Yeah. One time in the early 90s my uncle got a new MPEG card so he could play this golf game with the cut-scenes. The manual for the card talked about running the setup.exe program. When he booted up his computer it said "Press DEL for setup" so he did and got into the BIOS setup.
He realized after a while that he was in the wrong place, so he picked "restore defaults" to undo any changes he'd made and then exited. This, of course, wiped out his hard drive parameters (this was before auto-detect) so when he rebooted the BIOS said "OS not detected. Insert a boot disk and press any key." Out came the DOS 6 disks which, when they saw that C: was apparently unformatted, began to format it without asking. He saw the formatting going on, knew that it was bad, and turned his computer off.
Maybe this has something to do with Microsoft recently buying Virtual PC. The core OS might not be backwards compatible, but they can have a "Windows-in-a-box" application running older apps on a virtual PC.
Because a lot of us are going to have it rammed down our throats at work whether we like it or not. Then our lives will be made miserable by the viruses, the bugs, and the general awkwardness of Microsoft's legendary innovations.
It's nice to know beforehand what will be eating up all my free time and making me crazy later this year.
20k is still insane, but keep in mind that Word also stores the fact that those two words were written in a specific font and style, on a specific page size, with specific margins, etc, in a specific language, by a specific user, and so on.
20k does seem like a lot, though, even for all that.
I have a 750Mhz PIII Win2k system side-by-side with my 600MHz G3 iBook OS X system. Both have 256M of RAM. The OS X system boots about 10 seconds faster than the Win2k system (RedHat 7.2 with KDE on the same PIII beats them both by about 15 seconds, including me having to log in), but the Win2k system's GUI does seem to be faster some times. Nevertheless I can't complain about the GUI on OS X. It's fast enough for me.
I've used Opera for web browsing for the past two years because it's faster than IE and because I prefer the interface. Likewise, Opera on OS X is a lot faster than IE on OS X. Is Opera on OS X as fast as it is on Win2k? No. It is, however, better than IE on Win2k.
Microsoft is blaming Apple for not bringing.NET to the Mac, now they're blaming them for the speed of IE. Typical.
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I'd have to say Infocom's "A Mind Forever Voyaging" because it was the first game where I actually cared about the characters. You play an AI who lives in an artificial world that the real world uses to simulate future events. You have a wife and a child and at one point your child grows up and goes off to join a religious cult. I found myself chasing after him absolutely terrified he'd get away before I found him.
The original DOOM had some good moments on some levels. I remember one level in particular that had a wide open space and the wall on one side lowers and a whole row of tough "shaved gorillas demons" comes charging after you. You end up running backwards across the whole level, shooting behind you. It was brilliant.
Civilization II, Alpha Centauri, Duke Nuke'em 3D, and the original Command and Conquer all lured me into "the zone" where a dozen or more hours passed without me moving or noticing as I was lost in the game.
Yeah. One time in the early 90s my uncle got a new MPEG card so he could play this golf game with the cut-scenes. The manual for the card talked about running the setup.exe program. When he booted up his computer it said "Press DEL for setup" so he did and got into the BIOS setup.
He realized after a while that he was in the wrong place, so he picked "restore defaults" to undo any changes he'd made and then exited. This, of course, wiped out his hard drive parameters (this was before auto-detect) so when he rebooted the BIOS said "OS not detected. Insert a boot disk and press any key." Out came the DOS 6 disks which, when they saw that C: was apparently unformatted, began to format it without asking. He saw the formatting going on, knew that it was bad, and turned his computer off.
Then he called me to come and fix it. *grin*
Maybe this has something to do with Microsoft recently buying Virtual PC. The core OS might not be backwards compatible, but they can have a "Windows-in-a-box" application running older apps on a virtual PC.
Because a lot of us are going to have it rammed down our throats at work whether we like it or not. Then our lives will be made miserable by the viruses, the bugs, and the general awkwardness of Microsoft's legendary innovations.
It's nice to know beforehand what will be eating up all my free time and making me crazy later this year.
20k is still insane, but keep in mind that Word also stores the fact that those two words were written in a specific font and style, on a specific page size, with specific margins, etc, in a specific language, by a specific user, and so on.
20k does seem like a lot, though, even for all that.
I have a 750Mhz PIII Win2k system side-by-side with my 600MHz G3 iBook OS X system. Both have 256M of RAM. The OS X system boots about 10 seconds faster than the Win2k system (RedHat 7.2 with KDE on the same PIII beats them both by about 15 seconds, including me having to log in), but the Win2k system's GUI does seem to be faster some times. Nevertheless I can't complain about the GUI on OS X. It's fast enough for me.
.NET to the Mac, now they're blaming them for the speed of IE. Typical.
I've used Opera for web browsing for the past two years because it's faster than IE and because I prefer the interface. Likewise, Opera on OS X is a lot faster than IE on OS X. Is Opera on OS X as fast as it is on Win2k? No. It is, however, better than IE on Win2k.
Microsoft is blaming Apple for not bringing