My especial recommendations, in no particular order, are:
Last Ninja
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anything by Rob Hubbard (Kentilla, Delta, Flash Gordon/Captain Zapp, Gerry the Germ, Bump-Set-Spike, Warhawk...)
anything by Martin Galway (Comic Bakery title, Parallax title, Short Circuit title, Green Beret/Rush 'n' Attack tape-loader and title, Rambo: First Blood Part Two tape-loader and title...)
anything by Ben Daglish (Trap, Ark Pandora, Krakout, Bombo...)
anything by Chris Huelsbeck (Great Giana Sisters, Turbo Outrun...)
Jeez, I'd better quit before I fill up the space, heh. Also check out http://www.c64audio.com/ for some quality remixes.
And Gremlin Graphics's last Monty Mole game worth mentioning, Auf Wiedersehen Monty, included bottles of wine that had unpredictable effects on your controls if you grabbed one. Rather a pain if one of the required items was surrounded by bubbly!
And speaking of crap games, the denizens of comp.sys.sinclair have been holding contests for the past few years to see who can make the most tongue-in-cheek parodies of rotten games past (and present). The results are the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Compos. This year there's a similar competition for Commodore 64 fans as well. These guys are totally bent, I tell ya. Scan these pages and look at how many of the ideas all of you are coming up with that've already been done.
The spirit of Open Source is to document protocols and specifications such that programmers can code to them in whatever method is their precedence (not to steal others' code and later play Ronald Reagan's "I can't recollect" game, incidentally). The spirit of Open Source is to respond to go from "There's no program that does X!" to "I'll write a program that does X". The spirit of Open Source is to achieve flexibility in one's work and not have to go through the "This program [no specifics mentioned] doesn't do what I want, but it's the standard" runaround.
In short, you have greatly misunderstood the spirit of Open Source. Personally, I think Mitch L and company have done us a much better service than any "real programs" ever would.
On the other hand, do country music listeners even know what 'nturnet is?
Considering most listeners to what Brooks and his ilk try to pass of as "country" are bored desk-bound yuppies who decided to quit listening to the oldies station one day, I'd hazard a guess of yes.
What, nothing with "cyber" or some amalgam of information and highway-ness on that list? Are those passé already? Man, I gotta take more studious notes...
More info on the late, not-so-great Murkowski bill can be found at Southwestern Bell's page about it. The "original Senate bill" link seems to be kaput, but you can still read the following:
Well, hell, NSI (Network Slimeballs Inc) already recommends buying a domain in all three TLD's (although of course I can't find the specific page right now... sigh). Of course it's a plot to make more money; they probably saw the scum-bags at Sams Direct making oodles of money from every companyful of idiots who insisted on leaping into.cc-land headfirst and said "Hey, we've got to get more of this action to ourselves!"
The sad part is other country registrars are following Sams Direct's lead. A few days ago I got an ad imploring me to register under.hm, which the spam claimed to stand for "dot home". No it doesn't -- it stands for Heard and McDonald Islands.
Oh yes, faithfully-produced ports of Deluxe Paint for UNIXoid systems would be great, if for no other reason than because the GIMP is utter shite for working with paletted pictures (old-fashioned as the 320x200x5(!)bpp screen can seem at times).
Electronic Arts have had their heads up their backsides since about 1990, though, so I have to confess that I don't see it happening any time soon. In the meantime, for paletted pics try xpaint or try Paint Shop Pro (even -- especially -- the old 16-bit v3.11) under wine.
However, I am opposing that opinion. As much as I enjoy Japanese Animation... I'm arguing that not all American stuff is in the gutter
Now I really must challenge this incredibly small-minded viewpoint (and I'm not even talking about that "Not all American stuff is in the gutter" throwing-a-bone maneuver); there's an entire planet outside of America and Japan, you know!
Go to a Spike and Mike festival. Read some of the articles in Animation Blast. That might at least give you a start to finding some of the whole continents of artwork being imaginatively brought to life, that could eat Batman for breakfast, and that aren't 'anime-like' or in fact like anything else on Earth.
Note that the Yahoo story says that "McCartney isn't personally suing the fledgling company." As usual, it's the record/publishing companies who grub for every cent they can get while the actual artists don't give a darn.
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You think you're joking, right? Check out the SID Station, a rack-mounted synth that incorporates the Commodore SID chip.
I had to manually edit the XF86Config file to add stuff like setting up my mouse wheel, and taking out all the superfluous screen mode information so it wouldn't start in 640x480. (XFree86 3.3.5 did that too - if you had more than one possible mode, it would start up in the worst one. Why?)
List your favorite resolution first in the "Modes"line under the appropriate screen section. Like so:
Ah, the good ol' Guru Meditation screen, I can remember repeatedly flipping past the program-listings channel, seeing the "Click left mouse button to continue", and pausing to look at the remote a few moments before thinking, "Wait a minute...!"
That was a long while ago, though. I think they've gone Windoze now, spit spit.
this is the first "attempt" where Amiga Inc. doesn't have a parent company above it to choke it with bureaucracy and side interests.
Oh, don't they though? Remember, Gateway still own the Amiga patents; they're only licensing the patents to Amiga Inc. The common fear seems to be that Gateway will pull the carpet out from under Amiga Inc. without any warning, and given Gateway's lackadaisical attitude in the past, I have to confess it doesn't strike me as a completely implausible fear.
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My especial recommendations, in no particular order, are:
Jeez, I'd better quit before I fill up the space, heh. Also check out http://www.c64audio.com/ for some quality remixes.
And Gremlin Graphics's last Monty Mole game worth mentioning, Auf Wiedersehen Monty, included bottles of wine that had unpredictable effects on your controls if you grabbed one. Rather a pain if one of the required items was surrounded by bubbly!
And while we seem to all be in kvetch mode, the new versions of dosemu eject a long EULA when you run them ... gahhhh ...
Oy, you kids. Never played Percy the Potty Pigeon, huh?
And speaking of crap games, the denizens of comp.sys.sinclair have been holding contests for the past few years to see who can make the most tongue-in-cheek parodies of rotten games past (and present). The results are the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Compos. This year there's a similar competition for Commodore 64 fans as well. These guys are totally bent, I tell ya. Scan these pages and look at how many of the ideas all of you are coming up with that've already been done.
Why, of course there is! And another one too...
Isn't modern technology great?
The spirit of Open Source is to document protocols and specifications such that programmers can code to them in whatever method is their precedence (not to steal others' code and later play Ronald Reagan's "I can't recollect" game, incidentally). The spirit of Open Source is to respond to go from "There's no program that does X!" to "I'll write a program that does X". The spirit of Open Source is to achieve flexibility in one's work and not have to go through the "This program [no specifics mentioned] doesn't do what I want, but it's the standard" runaround.
In short, you have greatly misunderstood the spirit of Open Source. Personally, I think Mitch L and company have done us a much better service than any "real programs" ever would.
Wildlife is that rare in Troy that you have to commemmorate one lousy albino squirrel? Ha!
Makes me glad I live in the state of Ohiah, where there're more trees than people. We ain't called the Buckeye State for nothin'...
...which is still pretty ridiculous. As of 27 April 2000, US$1 is equivalent to GB£0.6350. See http://www.x-rates.com/tables/GBP.html.
Some other sites with currency exchange rate info:
Considering most listeners to what Brooks and his ilk try to pass of as "country" are bored desk-bound yuppies who decided to quit listening to the oldies station one day, I'd hazard a guess of yes.
What, nothing with "cyber" or some amalgam of information and highway-ness on that list? Are those passé already? Man, I gotta take more studious notes...
More info on the late, not-so-great Murkowski bill can be found at Southwestern Bell's page about it. The "original Senate bill" link seems to be kaput, but you can still read the following:
s1618.es.txt
s1618.is.txt
s1618.rfh.txt
s1618.rs.txt
The Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny FAQ includes this and other nifty bits of info.
Well, hell, NSI (Network Slimeballs Inc) already recommends buying a domain in all three TLD's (although of course I can't find the specific page right now ... sigh). Of course it's a plot to make more money; they probably saw the scum-bags at Sams Direct making oodles of money from every companyful of idiots who insisted on leaping into .cc-land headfirst and said "Hey, we've got to get more of this action to ourselves!"
The sad part is other country registrars are following Sams Direct's lead. A few days ago I got an ad imploring me to register under .hm, which the spam claimed to stand for "dot home". No it doesn't -- it stands for Heard and McDonald Islands.
Considering how Hasbro has been stingy with their circumstantial intellectual property not to mention unhelpful to hobbyist programmers, I'd say they aren't the real "Stella" either!
Or better yet, call it Linux On-Line -- it'd sure make me want to LOL!
There's one in every crowd, eh?
Oh yes, faithfully-produced ports of Deluxe Paint for UNIXoid systems would be great, if for no other reason than because the GIMP is utter shite for working with paletted pictures (old-fashioned as the 320x200x5(!)bpp screen can seem at times).
Electronic Arts have had their heads up their backsides since about 1990, though, so I have to confess that I don't see it happening any time soon. In the meantime, for paletted pics try xpaint or try Paint Shop Pro (even -- especially -- the old 16-bit v3.11) under wine.
Now I really must challenge this incredibly small-minded viewpoint (and I'm not even talking about that "Not all American stuff is in the gutter" throwing-a-bone maneuver); there's an entire planet outside of America and Japan, you know!
Go to a Spike and Mike festival. Read some of the articles in Animation Blast. That might at least give you a start to finding some of the whole continents of artwork being imaginatively brought to life, that could eat Batman for breakfast, and that aren't 'anime-like' or in fact like anything else on Earth.
MS-Windows version is cashware, UNIX version is downloadable after you fill in a nosy marketing survey ... I mean registration.
Depends what program you're using...
Does it? In my experience, CLUNK ALSA is even worse about the latter than OSS is CLUNK...
Note that the Yahoo story says that "McCartney isn't personally suing the fledgling company." As usual, it's the record/publishing companies who grub for every cent they can get while the actual artists don't give a darn.
You think you're joking, right? Check out the SID Station, a rack-mounted synth that incorporates the Commodore SID chip.
List your favorite resolution first in the "Modes"line under the appropriate screen section. Like so:
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 1024 768
Ah, the good ol' Guru Meditation screen, I can remember repeatedly flipping past the program-listings channel, seeing the "Click left mouse button to continue", and pausing to look at the remote a few moments before thinking, "Wait a minute...!"
That was a long while ago, though. I think they've gone Windoze now, spit spit.
Oh, don't they though? Remember, Gateway still own the Amiga patents; they're only licensing the patents to Amiga Inc. The common fear seems to be that Gateway will pull the carpet out from under Amiga Inc. without any warning, and given Gateway's lackadaisical attitude in the past, I have to confess it doesn't strike me as a completely implausible fear.