I remember that. back in the day i had an Adlib that i upgraded to a Sound Blaster (pro?) so i could get the voice pack. Was the sound blaster pro the bastard 12-bit sound card that creative put out?
In my area traffic lights respond to a number of different input.
First off Lights are geared by the time of day. There many high traffic situations where traffic is high on certain streets so the lights regulate traffic accordingly.
The rest of the day the lights rely on a combination of pressure censors and lamination levels to determine how many cars are waiting at a particular intersection. In some instances pressure sensors are installed several yards before the intersection to being cycling the lights early.
Finally our city vehicles (with the exception of police, as we are county.) have triggers to over ride the lights at any given time. So ambulances and fire trucks always have the lights working in there favor.
I have worked with all significant Issue and defect tracking solutions and I can say without hesitation, that it is not worth your time to setup, configure and maintain Bugzilla in a windows environment, In fact I would not use it in any corporate setting.
I recommend TeamTrack by Serena software. Even though the licensing comes at a steep price, it's much simpler to configure, and far more robust in features. Plus they offer licensing that scales to any sized company.
I recently developed an appreciation for photography. I picked up a nice Nikon D70 and an Alien bees lighting system. A few beers persuaded my friends to set up a small studio on one of my garages. Now, I do photography for local escorts and exotic dancers in and around my area.
What the hell do Cognac glasses and DVDs have in common? Since when can I buy DVDs in sets of 10? When I buy a DVD I get one copy in the box. Often for anywhere from $25 - $35 bucks a pop and I only get ONE copy of the movie. Sure there are some RARE examples like Who Framed Rodger Rabbit that comes with two copies of the movie. But each version is distinctly different.
And when's the last time you got to shop around for DVDs? I don't mean preordering on Amazon. I mean Do we get to choose out brand of movie for a better price? There's a big difference if I want to buy my Cognac glasses from Nordstrom's or Target. Perhaps Jack Valenti is implying we compare prices between DVDs and VCDs and make our choice? I may not get 10 VCDs but at least I'm getting a better price. Not that the quality is anywhere near the same.
I just wanted to ad this if any one was looking for the info
ARM9 Family:
32-bit RISC processor core with ARM(R) and Thumb(R) instruction sets 5-stage integer pipeline achieves 1.1 MIPS/MHz Up to 300 MIPS (Dhrystone 2.1) in a typical 0.13m process Single 32-bit AMBA bus interface MMU supporting Windows CE, Symbian OS, Linux, Palm OS (ARM920T and ARM922T) Memory Protection Unit (MPU) supporting a range of Real Time Operating Systems including VxWorks (ARM940T) Integrated instruction and data caches Excellent debug support for SoC designers, including ETM interface 8-entry write buffer -- avoids stalling the processor when writes to external memory are performed Portable to latest 0.18m, 0.15m, 0.13m silicon processes. Related links:
The ARM7 family:
Established, high-volume 32-bit RISC architecture Up to 130 MIPs (Dhrystone 2.1) performance on a typical 0.13m process Small die size and very low power consumption High code density, comparable to 16-bit microcontroller Wide operating system and RTOS support - including Windows CE, Palm OS, Symbian OS, Linux and market-leading RTOS Wide choice of development tools Simulation models for leading EDA environments Excellent debug support for SoC designers, including ETM interface Multiple sourcing from industry-leading silicon vendors Availability in 0.25m, 0.18m and 0.13m processes Migration and support across new process technologies Code is forward-compatible to ARM9, ARM9E and ARM10 processors as well as Intel's XScale technology
I'm inclined to believe the DS is equipped with 128MB of RAM. Chances are the reason this system has so much RAM is to allow the GCN to communicate more data to the DS without needing a cartridge.
Of all the games I would like to see an Original ActRaiser Game. A little More "sim" with some great platformer action. I would like to see what else they could do with the series.
Every bar I have been to has a copy of golden Tee Golf or Area 51. Sometimes they have both! Has any one else noticed this? It may very well be just an West Coast thing or even just a San Francisco bay area thing.
I'm sorry but this is a So So MAM arcade cab. I have been building my own for about a month now. (Yes it's a slow process but I'm making constant progress.) Before I started I wanted to get an idea of a good looking mame arcade.
THIS is what I found. Personally I think it's the best looking mame arcade done yet. It's covered in Laminate (not painted black) and decorated tastefully.
That's an easy one. Because the GBA uses an LCD screen it refreshes differently then a normal TV. I have found playback with a standard TV to be jittery or jerky. Screens do not scroll smoothly and characters jitter a bit as they walk off screen.
This is virtually eliminated in progressive scan playback. Creating much smoother game play and player animation.
This might not be a big deal to some users but my eyes tent to be sensitive to subtitle jittering. Prolonged gaming like this makes me feel a little nocuous at times. Or maybe I'm just sitting to close to the TV!? DAMN you mom!
I don't see any mention if this unit handles some key features.
1) Does it scale the image to fit the screen properly? The GBA Player leaves an annoying 1-2" border around the screen 2) Does is offer progressive scan like the Official Nintendo unit? If this is missing, forget it! 3) Does it require a special boot disk? This would truly be a deciding factor as I hate swapping to the GBA player boot disk
I had the one that cliped to the belt. It was the offical nintendo one that looked like a fat wite pager (not that I had a pager back then)I think taht was $29 or $39 but it was good for another 15+ hours if I recall.
The Turbo Express came out around 1991 or 1992 (not 1990. It used 6 AA batteries and lasted more like 8-10 hours on a fresh set of alkaline.
This was the follow up to NECs first portable (though not battery powerd) PC Engine LT. It features a 400x275 resolution Active Matrix Black Lit screen that is still unmatched IMHO.
The Turbo Express came out around 1991 or 1992 (not 1990. It used 6 AA batteries and lasted more like 8-10 hours on a fresh set of alkaline.
This was the follow up to NECs first portable (though not battery powerd) PC Engine LT. It features a 400x275 resolution Active Matrix Black Lit screen that is still unmatched IMHO.
Yes, I posted this on the site too, but it's rare for me to write as much on any subject so I thought I would share.
As a kid I ha a number of these game and watch systems, including the double screen donkey Kong. Portable gaming ever since has been a big part of my daily life.
I had a GameBoy at launch. I think the price was about $89, and it came with Tetris. I was instantly fascinated ability to swap games just like my NES! I must have been 11 years old or so, and $89 was no small amount of money.
With a little convincing (and a lot of annoyance) My mother got me a game boy right at launch. I still have it, with all the games. It's in immaculate condition. The GameBoy traveled with me every where. To school, Vacations or even just as far as my back yard. No I wasn't a very active child.
As the 16 Bit era ushered out the 8 bit cpu the market changed, as did the portable gaming scene. With it came my favorite gaming system, and portable of all time. The NEC Turbo Grafx 16! The Turbo Grafx 16 never had enough respect state side. Its Japanese counterpart the PC Engine was a phenomenal success in Japan. Because of this it spawned of several variations of the hardware including the PC Engine Core systems, The PC Engine Shuttle, PC Engine LT, Super Grafx and the PC Engine GT!
Ah the PC Engine GT. Other wise known as the Turbo Express. Was, and a way still is the best portable game system ever made. It wasn't a complete dog on battery life like the Lynx (which I did enjoy but never owned.) It featured dimensions similar to the GameBoy with an active matrix screen. The best since passed or present ever featured on a portable game system. Sure it had a few poor pixels but it was better looking and more visible then even the GameBoy Advance SP.
I loved this system! It played the same games as my Turbo Grafx 16 and was light years ahead of my game boy. Sadly its high price of $299 (back in 1992) was and still is restrictive. I just could not justify traveling with such a pricy pricey of tech. Because of this it mostly stayed at home.
Now I am a happy owner of the GameBoy Advance (Both the classic and SP.) Its low price point makes it "disposable" and I do so much commuting. It's also the best showcase for some of the best 16 bit 2D gaming the 90's had to offer. With new classic like Advance Wars and Final Fantasy : Tactics, the GBA continues to be one of my all time favorite gaming systems only matched by the failed yet amazing NEC Super Grafx.
Lego Drome Racers is a very pretty 3D racer available on the GBA. It's a solid racer with full 3D Gouraud Shaded Polygon environments and vehicles. I recommend GBA Owners at least play this game. It's not exactly PS1 level graphics, but it shows what the GBA is truly capable of.
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I remember that. back in the day i had an Adlib that i upgraded to a Sound Blaster (pro?) so i could get the voice pack. Was the sound blaster pro the bastard 12-bit sound card that creative put out?
In my area traffic lights respond to a number of different input.
First off Lights are geared by the time of day. There many high traffic situations where traffic is high on certain streets so the lights regulate traffic accordingly.
The rest of the day the lights rely on a combination of pressure censors and lamination levels to determine how many cars are waiting at a particular intersection. In some instances pressure sensors are installed several yards before the intersection to being cycling the lights early.
Finally our city vehicles (with the exception of police, as we are county.) have triggers to over ride the lights at any given time. So ambulances and fire trucks always have the lights working in there favor.
I have worked with all significant Issue and defect tracking solutions and I can say without hesitation, that it is not worth your time to setup, configure and maintain Bugzilla in a windows environment, In fact I would not use it in any corporate setting.
I recommend TeamTrack by Serena software. Even though the licensing comes at a steep price, it's much simpler to configure, and far more robust in features. Plus they offer licensing that scales to any sized company.
I was exadurating for effect. The fact is my wife helps me with the clients. She does makeup and booking. Not to metion, keeping a close eye on me.
I recently developed an appreciation for photography. I picked up a nice Nikon D70 and an Alien bees lighting system. A few beers persuaded my friends to set up a small studio on one of my garages. Now, I do photography for local escorts and exotic dancers in and around my area.
I find it to be both creative and rewarding.
What the hell do Cognac glasses and DVDs have in common? Since when can I buy DVDs in sets of 10? When I buy a DVD I get one copy in the box. Often for anywhere from $25 - $35 bucks a pop and I only get ONE copy of the movie. Sure there are some RARE examples like Who Framed Rodger Rabbit that comes with two copies of the movie. But each version is distinctly different.
And when's the last time you got to shop around for DVDs? I don't mean preordering on Amazon. I mean Do we get to choose out brand of movie for a better price? There's a big difference if I want to buy my Cognac glasses from Nordstrom's or Target. Perhaps Jack Valenti is implying we compare prices between DVDs and VCDs and make our choice? I may not get 10 VCDs but at least I'm getting a better price. Not that the quality is anywhere near the same.
I just wanted to ad this if any one was looking for the info
ARM9 Family:
32-bit RISC processor core with ARM(R) and Thumb(R) instruction sets
5-stage integer pipeline achieves 1.1 MIPS/MHz
Up to 300 MIPS (Dhrystone 2.1) in a typical 0.13m process
Single 32-bit AMBA bus interface
MMU supporting Windows CE, Symbian OS, Linux, Palm OS (ARM920T and ARM922T)
Memory Protection Unit (MPU) supporting a range of Real Time Operating Systems including VxWorks (ARM940T)
Integrated instruction and data caches
Excellent debug support for SoC designers, including ETM interface
8-entry write buffer -- avoids stalling the processor when writes to external memory are performed
Portable to latest 0.18m, 0.15m, 0.13m silicon processes.
Related links:
The ARM7 family:
Established, high-volume 32-bit RISC architecture
Up to 130 MIPs (Dhrystone 2.1) performance on a typical 0.13m process
Small die size and very low power consumption
High code density, comparable to 16-bit microcontroller
Wide operating system and RTOS support - including Windows CE, Palm OS, Symbian OS, Linux and market-leading RTOS
Wide choice of development tools
Simulation models for leading EDA environments
Excellent debug support for SoC designers, including ETM interface
Multiple sourcing from industry-leading silicon vendors
Availability in 0.25m, 0.18m and 0.13m processes
Migration and support across new process technologies
Code is forward-compatible to ARM9, ARM9E and ARM10 processors as well as Intel's XScale technology
Can you say connectivity?
I'm inclined to believe the DS is equipped with 128MB of RAM. Chances are the reason this system has so much RAM is to allow the GCN to communicate more data to the DS without needing a cartridge.
Of all the games I would like to see an Original ActRaiser Game. A little More "sim" with some great platformer action. I would like to see what else they could do with the series.
Every bar I have been to has a copy of golden Tee Golf or Area 51. Sometimes they have both! Has any one else noticed this? It may very well be just an West Coast thing or even just a San Francisco bay area thing.
I'm sorry but this is a So So MAM arcade cab. I have been building my own for about a month now. (Yes it's a slow process but I'm making constant progress.) Before I started I wanted to get an idea of a good looking mame arcade.
THIS is what I found. Personally I think it's the best looking mame arcade done yet. It's covered in Laminate (not painted black) and decorated tastefully.
That's an easy one. Because the GBA uses an LCD screen it refreshes differently then a normal TV. I have found playback with a standard TV to be jittery or jerky. Screens do not scroll smoothly and characters jitter a bit as they walk off screen.
This is virtually eliminated in progressive scan playback. Creating much smoother game play and player animation.
This might not be a big deal to some users but my eyes tent to be sensitive to subtitle jittering. Prolonged gaming like this makes me feel a little nocuous at times. Or maybe I'm just sitting to close to the TV!? DAMN you mom!
I don't see any mention if this unit handles some key features.
1) Does it scale the image to fit the screen properly? The GBA Player leaves an annoying 1-2" border around the screen
2) Does is offer progressive scan like the Official Nintendo unit? If this is missing, forget it!
3) Does it require a special boot disk? This would truly be a deciding factor as I hate swapping to the GBA player boot disk
"Anonymous Coward" that says it all.
I had the one that cliped to the belt. It was the offical nintendo one that looked like a fat wite pager (not that I had a pager back then)I think taht was $29 or $39 but it was good for another 15+ hours if I recall.
oops i put this under the wrong post.
The Turbo Express came out around 1991 or 1992 (not 1990. It used 6 AA batteries and lasted more like 8-10 hours on a fresh set of alkaline.
This was the follow up to NECs first portable (though not battery powerd) PC Engine LT. It features a 400x275 resolution Active Matrix Black Lit screen that is still unmatched IMHO.
$89, I might even till have my original receipt. If I wanted to look that hard...
The Turbo Express came out around 1991 or 1992 (not 1990. It used 6 AA batteries and lasted more like 8-10 hours on a fresh set of alkaline.
This was the follow up to NECs first portable (though not battery powerd) PC Engine LT. It features a 400x275 resolution Active Matrix Black Lit screen that is still unmatched IMHO.
Yes, I posted this on the site too, but it's rare for me to write as much on any subject so I thought I would share.
As a kid I ha a number of these game and watch systems, including the double screen donkey Kong. Portable gaming ever since has been a big part of my daily life.
I had a GameBoy at launch. I think the price was about $89, and it came with Tetris. I was instantly fascinated ability to swap games just like my NES! I must have been 11 years old or so, and $89 was no small amount of money.
With a little convincing (and a lot of annoyance) My mother got me a game boy right at launch. I still have it, with all the games. It's in immaculate condition. The GameBoy traveled with me every where. To school, Vacations or even just as far as my back yard. No I wasn't a very active child.
As the 16 Bit era ushered out the 8 bit cpu the market changed, as did the portable gaming scene. With it came my favorite gaming system, and portable of all time. The NEC Turbo Grafx 16! The Turbo Grafx 16 never had enough respect state side. Its Japanese counterpart the PC Engine was a phenomenal success in Japan. Because of this it spawned of several variations of the hardware including the PC Engine Core systems, The PC Engine Shuttle, PC Engine LT, Super Grafx and the PC Engine GT!
Ah the PC Engine GT. Other wise known as the Turbo Express. Was, and a way still is the best portable game system ever made. It wasn't a complete dog on battery life like the Lynx (which I did enjoy but never owned.) It featured dimensions similar to the GameBoy with an active matrix screen. The best since passed or present ever featured on a portable game system. Sure it had a few poor pixels but it was better looking and more visible then even the GameBoy Advance SP.
I loved this system! It played the same games as my Turbo Grafx 16 and was light years ahead of my game boy. Sadly its high price of $299 (back in 1992) was and still is restrictive. I just could not justify traveling with such a pricy pricey of tech. Because of this it mostly stayed at home.
Now I am a happy owner of the GameBoy Advance (Both the classic and SP.) Its low price point makes it "disposable" and I do so much commuting. It's also the best showcase for some of the best 16 bit 2D gaming the 90's had to offer. With new classic like Advance Wars and Final Fantasy : Tactics, the GBA continues to be one of my all time favorite gaming systems only matched by the failed yet amazing NEC Super Grafx.
Lego Drome Racers is a very pretty 3D racer available on the GBA. It's a solid racer with full 3D Gouraud Shaded Polygon environments and vehicles. I recommend GBA Owners at least play this game. It's not exactly PS1 level graphics, but it shows what the GBA is truly capable of.
Love Hina is a very fun series. I don't think it would be TOO much for CN to show it. it reminds me in a lot of ways as Tenchi or Ranma 1/2.
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