Ted: "I don't like it here. I don't know what's going on. We're both stumbling around together in this unformed world whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don't understand."
Allegra: "That sounds like my game all right."
Ted: "That sounds like a game that's not going to be easy to market"
Allegra: "But it's a game everybody's already playing."
2000 is, in my opinion, the peak windows OS. It works, plays well with hardware Unless that hardware is a laptop. XP is much more laptop friendly. Also, if you care about amount of time to boot, XP is a win as well. "and doesn't try and mess with the concept of the UI too much." Under XP:
Switch to Classic Theme (Display->Themes)
Turn off Effects (Display->Appearance->Effects)
Get rid of the rest of the visual effects (System->Advanced->Performance Options->Visual Effects.
"Even "classic" mode is a bear, because the control panel is all munged up. Erg!" As another poster mentioned: switch to the old style control panel.
I like Office 2000 better than XP as well It's faster, it takes less memory... But it's MDI, and it was worth the upgrade to Office XP for me just to get away from Windows 3.1 style MDI windows.
There's open source ways to program Java. Check out the latest versions of GCC, which have Java support(including libraries), or http://www.transvirtual.com for a full JVM.
Many Kubrick fans were disappointed that we'd never get a chance to see AI. If these rumors are true, at least we'll get a chance to see a version of it that has at least some respect for Kubrick's vision.
Yeah, Dungeon master changed the way I thought about games. Superbly crafted, and _way_ ahead of its time. And Chaos Strikes back was just as good. I wonder what happened to the team that created Dungeon Master.
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Really? Which functional language has macros?
Objective Caml via Camlp4
Which functional language lets you redefine stuff in a running image?
Objective Caml using the bytecode intepreter.
Ted: "I don't like it here. I don't know what's going on. We're both stumbling around together in this unformed world whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don't understand."
Allegra: "That sounds like my game all right."
Ted: "That sounds like a game that's not going to be easy to market"
Allegra: "But it's a game everybody's already playing."
Unless that hardware is a laptop. XP is much more laptop friendly. Also, if you care about amount of time to boot, XP is a win as well.
"and doesn't try and mess with the concept of the UI too much."
Under XP:
Switch to Classic Theme (Display->Themes)
Turn off Effects (Display->Appearance->Effects)
Get rid of the rest of the visual effects (System->Advanced->Performance Options->Visual Effects.
"Even "classic" mode is a bear, because the control panel is all munged up. Erg!"
As another poster mentioned: switch to the old style control panel.
I like Office 2000 better than XP as well
It's faster, it takes less memory... But it's MDI, and it was worth the upgrade to Office XP for me just to get away from Windows 3.1 style MDI windows.
There's open source ways to program Java. Check out the latest versions of GCC, which have Java support(including libraries), or http://www.transvirtual.com for a full JVM.
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Many Kubrick fans were disappointed that we'd never get a chance to see AI. If these rumors are true, at least we'll get a chance to see a version of it that has at least some respect for Kubrick's vision.
Yeah, Dungeon master changed the way I thought about games. Superbly crafted, and _way_ ahead of its time. And Chaos Strikes back was just as good. I wonder what happened to the team that created Dungeon Master.