WoW certainy feels like EQ-lite in a lot of ways - there's certainly less hassle involved in tradeskills, world travel (though this can stil be time-consuming), death, rare spawns, unfinished quests, etc...
I've played 5 characters to level 60 (on the Elune server), so I'm a little burned out on WoW. I still don't like raiding. My main motivation for having that many characters is the enjoymentof learning how to finish quests and overcome obstacles using the different approaches dictated by the differnt classes (and the talent and gear choices I made).
Hah, I used to do something similar on Apple ][ machines in stores. I'd do:
] CALL -151 300:A5 00 20 ED FD AD 30 C0 4C 00 03 300G
Or for those that don't read 6502 machine code: LDA $00 JSR $FDED LDA $C030 JMP $0300
This fills the screen with random garbage and clicks the speaker, repeatedly. I feel kind of bad about it now:-).
(I don't remember whether the second byte was $00 or not; it was a zero page location that was ever-changing. I don't have an Apple ][ reference manual anymore:-()
At DefCon a couple of years ago, I got up and asked Steve Wozniak why he chose the 6502 for the Apple ][ (and thanked him for doing so). He said it was all due to price.
The TI-99/4A's box, sitting on the shelf at K-Mart
In those days, I worked at the local K-Mart. At one point, possibly after the TI machine was discontinued, we had a sale on them - they would cost $95. On top of that, there was a $100 rebate.
We only had about a dozen of the machines iin stock, and when they opened the doors that Sunday morning, it was a mob scene as people sprinted to the back of the store to be essentially paid $5 for a free computer.
It's a measure of my computer bigotry at the time that I didn't pick one up for mself. I kick myself now.
I remember playing at least one game with 3 other friends a few times - I think the game was called "Silicon Warrior" by Epyx? I can picture the box, I'm not sure that's the right title.
I agree about the floppy. I remember one of my friends bragging that his floppy drive contained a 6502. I asked how why it was still so slow, and he couldn't answer me... That question is answerd in the book.
I cracked Fort Apocalypse and tried my hand at a few others on my Atari, just for the fun of it. Even back then, I was uncomfortable with the idea of software piracy. Which is not to say I didn't have a few things "borrowed" from friends, but I never got into it the way they did. There were a bunch of posers in my high school (early 80's) who thought they were "hackers" because they had somehow gotten a Locksmith parameter list... (Locksmith was a great copying program for the Apple ][).
I do remember being totally blown away by the EA logo and music the first time I booted Archon on my 800. How I loved that game...
I think deep down I knew or feared that the C=64 was the better machine. I suspect that my C=64-using friends feared the same about my Atari:-). I know the Commodore's sound was better, but the Atari's was good enough that I didn't miss it. We never did any side-by-side comparisons, but one thing we all agreed on was the general crappiness of apple games:-).
I personally don't remember any large number of Amigas scrapped for the "they f***ed it up" message; in fact I'd seriously doubt that. And there were easter eggs in every version of the OS, usually far more extensive than that one.
My copy of the book is on loan to a friend, but I believe it said that it was ROMs which were scrapped, not actual Amiga machines.
The Atari 800 and C=64 were so close to each other in capability, it would be hard to call one significantly better than the other. The C=64 was much cheaper, certainly. And both were far better than the Apple ][ for games.
I noticed the grammar and spelling, too. Aside from that, I enjoyed it a lot. I was an Atari 800 guy back in The Day, but most of my friends used Commodores. I distinctly remember seeing one of my C-64-using friends walking along the side of the road as I drove by one day, and rolling down the window and yelling "Commodore sucks!!". Good times...:-) The Apple ][ was my group of friends' comon ground, because we all used them in high school.
This book was really interesting to read, because I knew so little about Commodore. I really feel bad for the engineers who saw so much innovative work wasted or mismanaged by the company. Even though they were the Enemy back then, it was still almost heartbreaking to read about. Sad that everyone was crushed by the crappy IBM PC (except Apple, and I didn't like their machines too much until OS X came out (and now I use them almost exclusively)).
I was highly impressed by the Amiga when it came out, swallowed my pride and bought a 500, which I loved. I didn't know anything at the time about Amiga having been an independent company at first. I did know that Jay Miner was involved with the design of both my Atari and my Amiga, though.
Then, of course, there's Exchange users (or those forced to use Exchange). My biggest complaint is with web mail users (Yahoo, etc.) who also unwittingly or otherwise spam us all with their 2-4 line adverts for crap no one is interested in.
I really hate that. I don't care what arrangement the person has with Yahoo, etc. to use their free email system. They don't get to spam *me* as a side effect.
It's fun to make fun of Slashdot, but the spelling and grammar here, though not nearly perfect, is for the most part higher than most such sites, in my experience.
It's one of the things that keeps me here- chatspeek makes me grind my teeth together.
(Cue a half-dozen responses to this post by BIFF):-)
I pre-ordered mine, and when I saw the label after it arrived, I became very apprehensive and prepared myself to go into an Al-deprived rage if it didn't work.
Luckily, the stock drive in my PowerMac handled the disk just fine - ripped the audio, watched the videos, no problems. So I don't think there's a problem.
Boring, eh? They're both vigilante attempts to fix the problem, but this one actually downloads and installs a pirated commercial AV software package. Significantly different from Welchia, and the first of its kind, as far as I know.
People have joked for years about releasing a worm that patches Windows systems by installing $LINUX_DISTRIBUTION, this thing just brings us one step closer:-).
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Klugley tells you, "Hail, Deepone".
WoW certainy feels like EQ-lite in a lot of ways - there's certainly less hassle involved in tradeskills, world travel (though this can stil be time-consuming), death, rare spawns, unfinished quests, etc...
I've played 5 characters to level 60 (on the Elune server), so I'm a little burned out on WoW. I still don't like raiding. My main motivation for having that many characters is the enjoymentof learning how to finish quests and overcome obstacles using the different approaches dictated by the differnt classes (and the talent and gear choices I made).
I think that recipe drops in Scholomance.
I, for one, willed having beent welcomed our Future Grammer Nazi overlords.
Hah, I used to do something similar on Apple ][ machines in stores. I'd do:
:-).
:-()
] CALL -151
300:A5 00 20 ED FD AD 30 C0 4C 00 03
300G
Or for those that don't read 6502 machine code:
LDA $00
JSR $FDED
LDA $C030
JMP $0300
This fills the screen with random garbage and clicks the speaker, repeatedly. I feel kind of bad about it now
(I don't remember whether the second byte was $00 or not; it was a zero page location that was ever-changing. I don't have an Apple ][ reference manual anymore
At DefCon a couple of years ago, I got up and asked Steve Wozniak why he chose the 6502 for the Apple ][ (and thanked him for doing so). He said it was all due to price.
In those days, I worked at the local K-Mart. At one point, possibly after the TI machine was discontinued, we had a sale on them - they would cost $95. On top of that, there was a $100 rebate.
We only had about a dozen of the machines iin stock, and when they opened the doors that Sunday morning, it was a mob scene as people sprinted to the back of the store to be essentially paid $5 for a free computer.
It's a measure of my computer bigotry at the time that I didn't pick one up for mself. I kick myself now.
Yeah, Star Raiders was awesome.
I remember playing at least one game with 3 other friends a few times - I think the game was called "Silicon Warrior" by Epyx? I can picture the box, I'm not sure that's the right title.
I agree about the floppy. I remember one of my friends bragging that his floppy drive contained a 6502. I asked how why it was still so slow, and he couldn't answer me... That question is answerd in the book.
I cracked Fort Apocalypse and tried my hand at a few others on my Atari, just for the fun of it. Even back then, I was uncomfortable with the idea of software piracy. Which is not to say I didn't have a few things "borrowed" from friends, but I never got into it the way they did. There were a bunch of posers in my high school (early 80's) who thought they were "hackers" because they had somehow gotten a Locksmith parameter list... (Locksmith was a great copying program for the Apple ][).
:-). I know the Commodore's sound was better, but the Atari's was good enough that I didn't miss it. We never did any side-by-side comparisons, but one thing we all agreed on was the general crappiness of apple games :-).
I do remember being totally blown away by the EA logo and music the first time I booted Archon on my 800. How I loved that game...
I think deep down I knew or feared that the C=64 was the better machine. I suspect that my C=64-using friends feared the same about my Atari
My copy of the book is on loan to a friend, but I believe it said that it was ROMs which were scrapped, not actual Amiga machines.
The Atari 800 and C=64 were so close to each other in capability, it would be hard to call one significantly better than the other. The C=64 was much cheaper, certainly. And both were far better than the Apple ][ for games.
I noticed the grammar and spelling, too. Aside from that, I enjoyed it a lot. I was an Atari 800 guy back in The Day, but most of my friends used Commodores. I distinctly remember seeing one of my C-64-using friends walking along the side of the road as I drove by one day, and rolling down the window and yelling "Commodore sucks!!". Good times... :-) The Apple ][ was my group of friends' comon ground, because we all used them in high school.
This book was really interesting to read, because I knew so little about Commodore. I really feel bad for the engineers who saw so much innovative work wasted or mismanaged by the company. Even though they were the Enemy back then, it was still almost heartbreaking to read about. Sad that everyone was crushed by the crappy IBM PC (except Apple, and I didn't like their machines too much until OS X came out (and now I use them almost exclusively)).
I was highly impressed by the Amiga when it came out, swallowed my pride and bought a 500, which I loved. I didn't know anything at the time about Amiga having been an independent company at first. I did know that Jay Miner was involved with the design of both my Atari and my Amiga, though.
You mean all of the advertising?
And is that 1% by weight, or by volume?
I really hate that. I don't care what arrangement the person has with Yahoo, etc. to use their free email system. They don't get to spam *me* as a side effect.
Please funnymod parpost.
[aol]
Me too!
[/aol]
Agreed. I try to teach by example.
It's fun to make fun of Slashdot, but the spelling and grammar here, though not nearly perfect, is for the most part higher than most such sites, in my experience.
:-)
It's one of the things that keeps me here- chatspeek makes me grind my teeth together.
(Cue a half-dozen responses to this post by BIFF)
Very nicely put.
Aerobestiality?
Have we created a new perversion, right here on Slashdot?
I'd like to know how many of them are in ducks.
You've expressed my attitude almost exactly.
No, just give hime some water and sunshine, and he'll perk right up.
*That* is a good idea. I hope the powers-that-be read your comment...
I pre-ordered mine, and when I saw the label after it arrived, I became very apprehensive and prepared myself to go into an Al-deprived rage if it didn't work.
Luckily, the stock drive in my PowerMac handled the disk just fine - ripped the audio, watched the videos, no problems. So I don't think there's a problem.
Boring, eh? They're both vigilante attempts to fix the problem, but this one actually downloads and installs a pirated commercial AV software package. Significantly different from Welchia, and the first of its kind, as far as I know.
:-).
People have joked for years about releasing a worm that patches Windows systems by installing $LINUX_DISTRIBUTION, this thing just brings us one step closer