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  1. Re:Smart Move - Nostagia Games! on Arcade ROMs for Download, Legally · · Score: 1

    I would love to have a 100% true version of the old Space Harrier, After Burner 2 and OutRun.

    Can do that on MAME now but if you want to do it legally pick up a copy of SEGA AGES and a Saturn.

  2. Re:It's a good idea... on Arcade ROMs for Download, Legally · · Score: 1
    Just finding a old game is friggin' hard.

    Even with Google, trying to find a ROM to an old game can take some time. But if I knew that I could go to a place where I could legally buy the ROM, know it was a good quality one and not full of a virus or weird messages or something, I'd have no problem plunking down $6 for a game.


    Look harder! It is possible to find DVD's stuffed full of MAME roms for free - just provide your own DVD-R and stamped address envelopes. That's what I did!
    bash-2.05a$ pwd
    /Applications/Emulation/MacMAME 0.71.2.1
    bash-2.05a$ find ROMs/ -name *.ZIP -print | wc -l
    3322
    bash-2.05a$
  3. Re:It's a good idea... on Arcade ROMs for Download, Legally · · Score: 1

    Pong in Forth for Open Firware. It's about 450 lines of code but I'm sure it could be done in < 450 chars of PERL.

  4. Re:But theyre still gonna keep an eye on her. on RIAA Sues the Wrong Person · · Score: 1

    I reckon the RIAA caught her because she was running LawsuitXPress.

  5. Re:would the REAL gcc 3.3 please stand up? on GCC 3.3 Update for Mac OS X Available · · Score: 1

    bash-2.05a$ gcc -v
    Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3/specs
    Thread model: posix
    gcc version 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1435)
    bash-2.05a$

  6. Re:60 in 3.3 seconds? on Microsoft Money Leads To Street-Legal Porsche 959s · · Score: 1

    So, in essence, you'll be able to beat a bog standard $10,000 road going sportsbike if you've got a few hundred thousand to spend

    Alternatively pray for rain and turn up in a 4WD sports car. BillG can use his 959 but a Subaru Impreza WRX ought to see off a bike in a monsoon.

  7. Re:Fink on GCC 3.3 Update for Mac OS X Available · · Score: 4, Informative

    The old compilers are still there. Take a look in /usr/bin and you will see them:

    bash-2.05a$ ls /usr/bin/gc*
    /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc2 /usr/bin/gcc-3.3
    /usr/bin/gcc3

    gcc is a symlink to whatever compliler you are currently using - so to go back to v3.1 just point it to gcc3. Similar stuff applies for g++.

    Also Project Builder doesn't know about gcc3.3 without changing some of the compile options and will default to gcc2.95 so it is important to RTFM before updating!

  8. Re:YOu must be joking on Beatles Bite Apple · · Score: 1
    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction is pretty much it for the Stones? I always thought these were pretty good myself:

    Sympathy For The Devil

    Gimme Shelter

    You Can't Always Get What you Want

    Street Fighting Man

    Ruby Tuesday

    Paint It Black

    Wild Horses

    Let's Spend The Night Together

    Honky Tonk Women

    19th Nervous Breakdown

    Under My Thumb

    Mother's Little Helper

    Get Off My Cloud

    The Last Time

    Not Fade Away

    Jumpin Jack Flash

    Brown Sugar

    Angie

    Start Me Up (Windows 95 Remix)

    Heh - that list will give the RIAA's spiders something to chew on!

  9. Re:Oh boy here we go again. on Initial Half-Life 2 Benchmarks Released · · Score: 1
    John Carmack has had to write special code in Doom 3 to compensate for the NV30 core that doesn't like DX9 as much as it should. Go read some of his .plan files for proof.

    Why would John Carmack have to compensate for DX9 inadequacies when he uses OpenGL? His last on topic .plan file was Jan 29 (Feb 7 is a plug for his wife's company and he seems to be busying himself with rockets ever since - message to JC give the rockets a rest and release DooM III) says:


    At the moment, the NV30 is slightly faster on most scenes in Doom than the
    R300, but I can still find some scenes where the R300 pulls a little bit
    ahead. The issue is complicated because of the different ways the cards can
    choose to run the game.


    So for OpenGL there is not much between them which is fine for all us *nix using /. readers where DX9 performance doesn't really matter.
  10. Re:The Bond Clips on SCO: FSF Reply To GPL Claims, Conference Sponsors Back Off? · · Score: 1

    The Odyssey and The Iliad.

    Written circa 8th century BC - fortunately Homer wasn't working for Disney when he wrote them so they're no longer in copyright.

  11. Re:Sinclair C5 on Sinclair's Answer To The Segway · · Score: 1

    Taht would be this guy and it looks like he's trying again. I hope he gets further than the last two attempts - he's never made it out of Scotland yet!

  12. Re:Don't you just wish... on Blakes Seven To Return · · Score: 3, Funny

    Richard E. Grant as Doctor Who shouldn't be wasted on animated web cartoons. This should be on the big screen as Withnail in fucking space! It's ideal - Withnail was already dressed up suitably as the doctor. It would certainly liven things up if the Doctor turns up drunk in Skaro demanding the finest wines known to humanity^W Dalek-kind. Another episode could have the doctor and assistant searching for 'matter' in the Tardis kitchen sink. Of course plastic bags wrapped around the feet would provide suiable protection from harsh alien environments.

  13. Re:Fond memories working at NeXT on History Of The NeXT Platform · · Score: 5, Informative
    could you PLEASE give me some examples while i hunt these developers down? anything at all, really, i just need a quick fix!

    Will this do?

    Here's some thoughts on NeXT for developers

    Sample quote - John Carmack:

    "We developed lots of products under dos (mostly borland c++), and never want to again. We went through five major iterations of our tools under DOS, and they are all junk below our first iteration of NS tools. You can't really just point at specific things and claim superiority. It is the complete package hat has the appeal. NS is the best tool I have found for MY development work."
  14. Re:Obviously fiction/fantasy on The Bug · · Score: 1

    >I once had a line of code in C++
    > obj->dispose

    MSVC is the real culprit here:

    -fptr.cpp-
    class foo {
    public:
    foo() {}
    ~foo() {}

    int return_zero() {return 0;}
    };

    int main(void)
    {
    foo f;
    if(0 == f.return_zero) { // Doh!
    ;
    }
    return 0;
    }
    -end-

    Build on NT with MSVC
    fptr.exe - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)
    -
    Build on IRIX with SGI compiler
    $CC fptr.cpp
    "fptr.cpp", line 14: error(3381): a pointer to a bound function may only be
    used to call the function
    if(0 == f.return_zero) {
    ^

    1 error detected in the compilation of "fptr.cpp".
    -
    Build on Solaris with SUN compiler
    $CC fptr.cpp
    "fptr.cpp", line 14: Error: Taking address of the bound function foo::return_zero().
    1 Error(s) detected.
    -

    Isn't it nice when the compiler spots errors and saves you the bother of tracking them down?

  15. Re:Still have think that GCC gives a good indicati on Apple Hardware VP Defends Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Motorola own Metrowerks who produce CodeWarrior and most commercial Mac apps are built with it as it outperforms gcc on PPC.

  16. Re:Leidenfrost on Making Ice Cream With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 1

    Feynman's story was covering his hand with acetone and setting it alight. The theory being that the stuff burns really quick so it doesn't have time to heat your hand up. Except hairs == wicks == pain.

  17. Re:I'm wondering... on PPC 970 Powerbooks and Powermacs in Production? · · Score: 1

    I bought a MDD G4 - my previous model was a 4400 with an overclocked upgrade card so I certainly needed something newer to run OS X! I'm not too bothered about the ghetto pimp drive doors as the machine lives on the floor under the desk. What I do care about are the handles and the easy access to the internals. Sounds like they're keeping the handles and I hope they don't lose any of the great internal design when they change the external appearance.

  18. Re:Noonix? on Apple Sued Over Unix Trademark · · Score: 1

    See sig: Mr T is on the BBC's shortlist of the 10 greatest Americans - put in your vote whilst you have the chance.

  19. Re:Whatever happened to Logo? on The Little Coder's Predicament · · Score: 1

    LOGO - I remember when 'turtles' were the fashionable thing to get kids interested in programming. You would tell this lump of plastic to go forwards, turn and draw. A bit of mad skillz and you could get the thing to do a star or some such. At least that was the teacher's intention but the turtle was on a large desk rather than the floor... Evil kids program the thing to go FORWARD 666 and look all innocent when it falls to the floor shattering its plastic case. An early lesson that programming control systems for real world objects needs more stringent QA than the average homebrew computer program - and shouldn't be done by kids.

  20. Re:That title made me think of Slashdot Monopoly.. on Port Mozilla, Collect $3696 · · Score: 1

    What would the purple squares be?

  21. Re:Good to see the Amiga community still alive on Port Mozilla, Collect $3696 · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Mozilla will be ready when AmigaOS4 is released.

  22. Re:Uhhh.. on I, Spammer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, AOL sends commercial messages to its members, but it doesn't spam the rest of the world too

    Does the never ending stream of AOL CD's mailed in the post not count as spam? I agree with the OP - this is a case of carbonised kitchen utensils having an argument.

  23. Re:Take your pick... on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    You can't be a C programmer, we know how to use punctuation.

    Comma splice.

  24. Re:OS X on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    Yes you can add your fancy webcams etc, but they almost all gp through apple, and the os itself just has to worry about the base hardware: mainboard, CPU, RAM, HDD etc, now all of this is set by apple, so why inthe world does it crash. They know excatly the hardware it is going to run on, so why does it crash!!!

    If the hardware requires a driver running in kernel space then it can crash the machine without Apple's involvement. The one thing that crashes my Mac is my Alcatel USB ADSL modem. If you pull the USB lead out you risk a kernel panic. This is all down to Alcatel's ineptitude at writing a kext and has nothing to do with Apple's code.

    I do remember one of the 10.2.x releases had a problem moving directories into themselves so they do make mistakes - but by and large OS X is very reliable. They are also pretty quick at fixing their own bugs - the directory moving one only appeared in a single release. How long did it take Microsoft to fix the 'while (1) printf("\t\b\b");' bug?

  25. Re:C and C++ are the problem on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    > paradigm C C++ Perl Python Lisp
    > functional no no yes ? yes

    in 'you_are_wrong.cpp'
    ----
    #include <functional>
    ----
    end 'you_are_wrong.cpp'