The MacOS did gain the ability to use an MMU later on, however(at least by System 7). Apple kept omitting it on the lower-priced Macs using 020's, though.
There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when I discovered several neat-looking shareware games that listed "requires memory-management unit" in their catalog entries, while the family was still poking along with a Mac LC. We eventually upgraded to an LC 3 which gained the MMU, but not the FPU. I remember feeling triumphant when I found a freeware extension that simulated it via the Apple integer math--only to be let down a few minutes later when the 3D visualization program took a full minute to render a viewport.:(
Say you sit in your motorcycle, the traffic slows down due to an accident. You transform the bike into your walking suits and go on the sidewalk instead. That would be so useful.
..but I believe present-day motorcycles already have the capability to use the sidewalk, without the need for transformation.
Allen Steele's "Orbital Decay". One of the main characters uses something similar to escape from a falling space station towards the end of the story.
Of course, as he's riding it down, he's got memories of his flight instructor sternly lecturing that they were meant as an absolute last-last resort, since only about one-in-ten of the dummy tests worked.
Your suggestion then comes down to: it would be great to have a simpler, reliable X configuration tool with the X server.
However, the distributions seem to have this covered already.
Is there any need to spend time on it?
When even Knoppix can't get a DVI-fed LCD monitor working above 1024x768; and the XF86config it produces bears no resemblance to a GTF-produced modeline for the exact same resolution and frequency? I'd say there might be some reason there.
I guess after it tanked with Corel, the developers managed to buy their rights back--Xara X is going strong. I bought a copy just last year--it's a splendid little vector-drawing app, and it's still quite cheap. Doesn't seem to be under a huge active development schedule, though.
..the text file is true, but you could go to the WildTangent Control Panel, which had buttons to access the agreements/info. I guess everybody was more interested in frothing off at the mouth when AdAware added it. However, a lot of the problem seems to have come from HP shipping WT stealthily installed on their Windows builds--maybe they removed the panel. This has some more info.
AFAIK, it does phone home with a unique GUID, but only because they wanted to see which WT apps you're using. They make their money from commercially licensing the technologies out, so they want to see who's a student playing around with the SDK, and who's trying to make commercial games without paying them.
I stopped using it awhile ago..they indicated that they had no interest in getting it to work with other JVMs outside of MS(which pretty much locked it to IE), and were eventually going to switch to.NET. I talked to some of their guys a year ago..they seemed to be going strong, but I've no idea how they're making money these days.
It's not just the environment, it's that the IDE is so well designed to work with the language. You can pull up a dialog and create a new window easily. You can quickly modify the defaults for properties, and connect your callback code.
Should the exact argument order escape you, a quick tooltip will show you what's to be done. Plus, with the documentation being wedded into it, you can quickly explore related API areas and structures, allowing you to come up with more creative solutions.
I'm obviously walking into a trap, but so far you really haven't stated anything above and beyond what's available in the 2.1 Eclipse JDT; not to mention the new features as of 3.0 M7.
It even does efficient code folding for you. And it's not a huge set of ctrl+key shortcuts like Emacs!
Shit! Roll to save vs. buzzwordry!
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..used "Shade" by Feeder for the opening and final battle, and it was great! I remember reading an interview with the band, who had no idea it had been used in that game(probably because a Feeder track or two had been in the Gran Turismo OST, and OB was also developed by Polyphony Digital) Unfortunately, when OB was licensed for the States, Sony removed it and any other non-generic track to replace with Static-X and Wisconsin Death Trip..yawn. Destroyed the feel of the opening video entirely.
..since KoF '03 is featuring MoTW characters. The news that '03 will be on the Atomiswave gives me goosebumps..and a not a small bit of regret for the MVS, the "BSD is dying!" of the console world.
In the arcade, there's also R-Type Leo and R-Type Gallop(super-rare speed challenge version). Besides which, there were much closer lookalikes than arcade Macross 2; see Pulstar on the NeoGeo.
In fact, that's part of the appeal of Final; if the opening video is true, there'l be a flood of playable original R-ships in addition to ships from the other R-Types(including the console-only R-Type 3 and Delta).
...described here. They can be used as gates to different parts of the level(like the common-or-garden usage), or to another server(using the unreal:// url pattern). In contrary to the other posts in the thread, the functionality is in both UT and UT2k3. It's just that nobody really goes to the trouble of setting them up.
Incidentally, there is an SG1-flavored UT2k3 mod in development, Atlantis.
..since you mention that you've worked with LCD projectors. I picked up an old Eiki LC-7000 from a University of Washington auction a month ago. The unit appears to be in good condition(a slight buildup of crud on the air intake, which I cleaned out). I pulled out the bulb assembly to check, and it looked like it was still in good shape(bearing that I know little about metal-halide lamps). The unit starts up OK, with fans going, and audio playing through great. However, there's no picture at all, not even a warm-up(unfortunately, the "BULB DEAD" light is strictly timer-based). Does this sound like a dead bulb or a more fundamental part going south(ballast, main power supply), and is there a way to test it outside of schlepping it to the local projector repair?
And, just to make the conversation useful to other readers, are there any things to be aware of for people buying used projectors at auctions?
Get Amped is built using a custom Java libraries(Keel, similar to the situation with Eclipse and SWT). It comes with an embedded JRE though.
For "cool game-like" applets, you can try BulletML's demo applet, as well as the related BulletMorph applet(genetic evolving of 2D shooter bullets). Kenta also has a Java applet version of Noiz2 available as well.
..is where this sort of stuff really belongs. A family member is working here, and the biggest markets they have lined up for their new design are the mobile-phone vendors, and image processing. They aren't interested at all to pitch it towards general-purpose computing.
Interestingly enough though, the software-defined-radio teams have been eyeing the product with drool in their mouth ever since it was demonstrated. Said family member remembers trade conventions the company's been to, where the SDR teams showed up and literally begged for a test chip to play with.
(not having mod points for the good anonymous reply) "too many perfectly good frameworks already"? Can you name me some on Linux? And keep in mind that we're just talking about MULTIMEDIA?
Speaking as a video tinkerer and 3D animator, I see a good "multimedia framework" to be the same thing as programming using the GNU tools. The tools(yacc, gcc, flex, bison) need not have complicated and explicit linkages to each other; each one just does one simple thing, and passes it on the the next. The framework just defines a standard way for the tools to talk, and keeps the chain going(make, or the shell). make calls yacc to prepare input, calls gcc to create the binary, and then calls rm to clean up after itself. Make doesn't know, or NEED to know anything about these tools in advance. And anything that's aware of the framework now gets all of those capabilities for free--you can call make from a perl script, or chain together the tools in an order that the original developers never thought of. That's the kind of power we're talking about.
Your strawman argument of "every conceivable thing" makes no sense. It's not(and shouldn't be) the job of the framework developers to make it do everything--it's their job to make sure that the module that can do that "conceivable thing" can talk to the rest of the modules in the framework, and that the framework can be extended at the user's discretion.
Granted, I'm not trumpeting gstreamer as a paragon of exemplary code. It sounds like it's still very much in the development stage--but I see nothing wrong with that.
Planning
is where the difficulties should be arising from--bad code can always be optimized, but a bad design is forever.
Instead of seeing Yet Another video player in gstreamer, you should really be seeing another Mozilla. It's big. It's complicated. It's hard work. People ask what the point of it is. It will be awhile before any good results come out of it. But when(if) it bears fruit, you may well find yourself asking how you did without it.
All properly-installed Win32 versions of Unreal Tournament, including 2k3, do this to a degree(don't remember if original Unreal did):
unreal://your.server.name:port
will auto-start UT and jump immediately to that server. UT2k3 servers(probably UT as well, but don't have a copy to check) also have the option to run a mini Web server, internally controllable by UnrealScript, at the same address with a "http://". Handy for dynamic-DNS servers, or for including in forum posts. Don't know offhand if Mac or Linux versions can do this.
Even in the original UT, you can grab the LazyMatrix mutator, and observe that the instahit bullet weapons(Enforcer, Minigun) now fire very fast moving bullets, that work just like the original. It's network issues that generally force lax collision detection, not technology.
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The MacOS did gain the ability to use an MMU later on, however(at least by System 7). Apple kept omitting it on the lower-priced Macs using 020's, though.
:(
There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when I discovered several neat-looking shareware games that listed "requires memory-management unit" in their catalog entries, while the family was still poking along with a Mac LC. We eventually upgraded to an LC 3 which gained the MMU, but not the FPU. I remember feeling triumphant when I found a freeware extension that simulated it via the Apple integer math--only to be let down a few minutes later when the 3D visualization program took a full minute to render a viewport.
Say you sit in your motorcycle, the traffic slows down due to an accident. You transform the bike into your walking suits and go on the sidewalk instead. That would be so useful.
..but I believe present-day motorcycles already have the capability to use the sidewalk, without the need for transformation.
Allen Steele's "Orbital Decay". One of the main characters uses something similar to escape from a falling space station towards the end of the story.
Of course, as he's riding it down, he's got memories of his flight instructor sternly lecturing that they were meant as an absolute last-last resort, since only about one-in-ten of the dummy tests worked.
Your suggestion then comes down to: it would be great to have a simpler, reliable X configuration tool with the X server.
However, the distributions seem to have this covered already.
Is there any need to spend time on it?
When even Knoppix can't get a DVI-fed LCD monitor working above 1024x768; and the XF86config it produces bears no resemblance to a GTF-produced modeline for the exact same resolution and frequency? I'd say there might be some reason there.
I guess after it tanked with Corel, the developers managed to buy their rights back--Xara X is going strong. I bought a copy just last year--it's a splendid little vector-drawing app, and it's still quite cheap. Doesn't seem to be under a huge active development schedule, though.
..the text file is true, but you could go to the WildTangent Control Panel, which had buttons to access the agreements/info. I guess everybody was more interested in frothing off at the mouth when AdAware added it. However, a lot of the problem seems to have come from HP shipping WT stealthily installed on their Windows builds--maybe they removed the panel. This has some more info.
.NET. I talked to some of their guys a year ago..they seemed to be going strong, but I've no idea how they're making money these days.
AFAIK, it does phone home with a unique GUID, but only because they wanted to see which WT apps you're using. They make their money from commercially licensing the technologies out, so they want to see who's a student playing around with the SDK, and who's trying to make commercial games without paying them.
I stopped using it awhile ago..they indicated that they had no interest in getting it to work with other JVMs outside of MS(which pretty much locked it to IE), and were eventually going to switch to
Can someone is can make subtitles near to or exceeding professional quality ones for free?
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It's not just the environment, it's that the IDE is so well designed to work with the language. You can pull up a dialog and create a new window easily. You can quickly modify the defaults for properties, and connect your callback code.
Should the exact argument order escape you, a quick tooltip will show you what's to be done. Plus, with the documentation being wedded into it, you can quickly explore related API areas and structures, allowing you to come up with more creative solutions.
I'm obviously walking into a trap, but so far you really haven't stated anything above and beyond what's available in the 2.1 Eclipse JDT; not to mention the new features as of 3.0 M7.
It even does efficient code folding for you. And it's not a huge set of ctrl+key shortcuts like Emacs!
Shit! Roll to save vs. buzzwordry!
You may want to stop reading the Internet, then.
Seeing how Apple has published all the specs for the QT framework, I'm amazed someone hasn't written a nicer player frontend.
They have.
I haven't had to open a QTPlayer, WiMP, or even install the Real player since I got Media Player Classic.
..used "Shade" by Feeder for the opening and final battle, and it was great! I remember reading an interview with the band, who had no idea it had been used in that game(probably because a Feeder track or two had been in the Gran Turismo OST, and OB was also developed by Polyphony Digital)
Unfortunately, when OB was licensed for the States, Sony removed it and any other non-generic track to replace with Static-X and Wisconsin Death Trip..yawn. Destroyed the feel of the opening video entirely.
..since KoF '03 is featuring MoTW characters.
The news that '03 will be on the Atomiswave gives me goosebumps..and a not a small bit of regret for the MVS, the "BSD is dying!" of the console world.
In the arcade, there's also R-Type Leo and R-Type Gallop(super-rare speed challenge version). Besides which, there were much closer lookalikes than arcade Macross 2; see Pulstar on the NeoGeo.
In fact, that's part of the appeal of Final; if the opening video is true, there'l be a flood of playable original R-ships in addition to ships from the other R-Types(including the console-only R-Type 3 and Delta).
...described here. They can be used as gates to different parts of the level(like the common-or-garden usage), or to another server(using the unreal:// url pattern).
In contrary to the other posts in the thread, the functionality is in both UT and UT2k3. It's just that nobody really goes to the trouble of setting them up.
Incidentally, there is an SG1-flavored UT2k3 mod in development, Atlantis.
..since you mention that you've worked with LCD projectors.
I picked up an old Eiki LC-7000 from a University of Washington auction a month ago. The unit appears to be in good condition(a slight buildup of crud on the air intake, which I cleaned out). I pulled out the bulb assembly to check, and it looked like it was still in good shape(bearing that I know little about metal-halide lamps).
The unit starts up OK, with fans going, and audio playing through great. However, there's no picture at all, not even a warm-up(unfortunately, the "BULB DEAD" light is strictly timer-based). Does this sound like a dead bulb or a more fundamental part going south(ballast, main power supply), and is there a way to test it outside of schlepping it to the local projector repair?
And, just to make the conversation useful to other readers, are there any things to be aware of for people buying used projectors at auctions?
..Seattle Public Utilities loves them.
KOMPRESSOR - crush computerfiles small with industrial might!
Get Amped is built using a custom Java libraries(Keel, similar to the situation with Eclipse and SWT). It comes with an embedded JRE though.
For "cool game-like" applets, you can try BulletML's demo applet, as well as the related BulletMorph applet(genetic evolving of 2D shooter bullets). Kenta also has a Java applet version of Noiz2 available as well.
..is where this sort of stuff really belongs.
A family member is working here, and the biggest markets they have lined up for their new design are the mobile-phone vendors, and image processing. They aren't interested at all to pitch it towards general-purpose computing.
Interestingly enough though, the software-defined-radio teams have been eyeing the product with drool in their mouth ever since it was demonstrated. Said family member remembers trade conventions the company's been to, where the SDR teams showed up and literally begged for a test chip to play with.
"too many perfectly good frameworks already"? Can you name me some on Linux? And keep in mind that we're just talking about MULTIMEDIA?
Speaking as a video tinkerer and 3D animator, I see a good "multimedia framework" to be the same thing as programming using the GNU tools. The tools(yacc, gcc, flex, bison) need not have complicated and explicit linkages to each other; each one just does one simple thing, and passes it on the the next. The framework just defines a standard way for the tools to talk, and keeps the chain going(make, or the shell). make calls yacc to prepare input, calls gcc to create the binary, and then calls rm to clean up after itself. Make doesn't know, or NEED to know anything about these tools in advance. And anything that's aware of the framework now gets all of those capabilities for free--you can call make from a perl script, or chain together the tools in an order that the original developers never thought of. That's the kind of power we're talking about.
Your strawman argument of "every conceivable thing" makes no sense. It's not(and shouldn't be) the job of the framework developers to make it do everything--it's their job to make sure that the module that can do that "conceivable thing" can talk to the rest of the modules in the framework, and that the framework can be extended at the user's discretion.
Granted, I'm not trumpeting gstreamer as a paragon of exemplary code. It sounds like it's still very much in the development stage--but I see nothing wrong with that.
- Planning
is where the difficulties should be arising from--bad code can always be optimized, but a bad design is forever.Instead of seeing Yet Another video player in gstreamer, you should really be seeing another Mozilla. It's big. It's complicated. It's hard work. People ask what the point of it is. It will be awhile before any good results come out of it. But when(if) it bears fruit, you may well find yourself asking how you did without it.
OGRE. They've really been jumping in the past year, and it's excellently suited to all types of 3D games, not just BSP geometry or room shooters.
..which becomes an interesting coincidence, when you realize that the native physics engine embedded in UT2k3 is called "Karma". ;)
All properly-installed Win32 versions of Unreal Tournament, including 2k3, do this to a degree(don't remember if original Unreal did):
unreal://your.server.name:port
will auto-start UT and jump immediately to that server. UT2k3 servers(probably UT as well, but don't have a copy to check) also have the option to run a mini Web server, internally controllable by UnrealScript, at the same address with a "http://".
Handy for dynamic-DNS servers, or for including in forum posts.
Don't know offhand if Mac or Linux versions can do this.
Or we'll hold your precious UI students hostage at WSU indefin...wait, why are you laughing?
Even in the original UT, you can grab the LazyMatrix mutator, and observe that the instahit bullet weapons(Enforcer, Minigun) now fire very fast moving bullets, that work just like the original. It's network issues that generally force lax collision detection, not technology.