This is exactly what I do. It beats the hell out of a no-CD crack because you can still download and install patches without needing to save/restore the original executable.
Also, the "Is the CD in the drive/?!?!?1!!!1one!" checks go a lot faster.
It's more user-friendly for the less computer savvy, too... they don't need to leave a dozen CDs laying on the desk.
Jeeze, if you're going to the trouble of posting a link to xscreensaver, you might want to use the right one so you get an up-to-date version (4.18 is current).
Unfortunately, the general trend these days are kids that don't want to learn.
If you think that's a new trend for teen-agers, you've probably forgotten what things were like when you were in school.
Unless I just went to a high school in bizarro-land, the vast majority of the kids there were completely uninterested in learning anything, other than how to be "cool" or smoke or whatever.
Showing my age a little, but when I was in highschool (early 80's), video games and computers were a rarity, and things like text messaging and email (at home) were non-existant. I think there are other factors here; I had a video game console and a computer, and spent countless hours playing video games instead of doing homework. And yet, my grades were good.
You see, I had motivation because I wanted to get the heck out of Dodge and go to university. I suspect the kids who don't want to learn have no motivation, they're just there killing time until they can drop out and get the same hopeless job their parents and friends all have.
Yeah, that'll be great. Kinda like how the Shrek 2 DVD forces you to watch the previews before you can get to the menu. They managed to make it even more obnoxious than what Disney's been doing.
I hated having to sit through the FBI/Interpol warnings, but this is worse.
I imagine they're entirely unable to do that because of the third-party IP embedded in the source code... the second edition AD&D rules for example. I know a lot of that information is contained in the data files, but I'm sure it extends into the source as well.
This is pure stupidity on Lexmark's part, but I imagine they've done some market research.
All of these folks getting reamed by their inkjet printers (me included) are going to avoid them when it comes time to buy laser printers at the office. Which is a shame, because the Lexmark Optra lasers are great, and much cheaper than the competition.
Maybe they need to sell them at a good price to overcome the bad karma they've accumulated selling inkjet ink for more than the cost of champagne.
I think one of the major problems with Ultima 9 was the lame-assed story, characters, etc. It was a pale shadow of what people had already experienced in previous Ultima games.
That said, I've been itching to try it out on modern hardware with AA/AF turned on and all the settings cranked.
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I used this to bitch about the non-standard HTML coming out of their site, and an actual human responded a few days after an auto-responder did.
Of course, their HTML still doesn't validate...
This is exactly what I do. It beats the hell out of a no-CD crack because you can still download and install patches without needing to save/restore the original executable.
Also, the "Is the CD in the drive/?!?!?1!!!1one!" checks go a lot faster.
It's more user-friendly for the less computer savvy, too... they don't need to leave a dozen CDs laying on the desk.
$30 for a good aluminum case and a reliable power supply? Let me know where, I can't even find a USB2 enclosure for under $65-ish Canadian.
Let's see...
Plus whatever systems I've never heard about that had Ultima ports. I think we have a winner.
Then again, given what EA did to Origin and the Ultima series, perhaps Final Fantasy is the actual winner.
I do technical editing for tech books, and I do writing for tech books.
I want to make games.
That's specious reasoning, dad.
Thanks, honey!
Whoops... I misread "doctrines" instead of "donations" in there...
Jeeze, if you're going to the trouble of posting a link to xscreensaver, you might want to use the right one so you get an up-to-date version (4.18 is current).
If you think that's a new trend for teen-agers, you've probably forgotten what things were like when you were in school.
Unless I just went to a high school in bizarro-land, the vast majority of the kids there were completely uninterested in learning anything, other than how to be "cool" or smoke or whatever.
Showing my age a little, but when I was in highschool (early 80's), video games and computers were a rarity, and things like text messaging and email (at home) were non-existant. I think there are other factors here; I had a video game console and a computer, and spent countless hours playing video games instead of doing homework. And yet, my grades were good.
You see, I had motivation because I wanted to get the heck out of Dodge and go to university. I suspect the kids who don't want to learn have no motivation, they're just there killing time until they can drop out and get the same hopeless job their parents and friends all have.
Note that the PS2 HDD doesn't connect to the sexy, new, smaller, quieter, cooler PStwo hardware.
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"You're not a team player, I'm writing you up."
Or, if your contract says you can be fired at any time, "You're not a team player, you're fired."
Or, "Um, yeah... I'm going to need you to go right ahead and move your desk down to Storage Room B..."
Yeah, that'll be great. Kinda like how the Shrek 2 DVD forces you to watch the previews before you can get to the menu. They managed to make it even more obnoxious than what Disney's been doing.
I hated having to sit through the FBI/Interpol warnings, but this is worse.
IIRC, fvwm had something like this (GoodStuff?) in the mid-90's (certainly in 1995, probably released earlier).
I don't really think that GNOME and KDE have invented any new UI features, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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I imagine they're entirely unable to do that because of the third-party IP embedded in the source code... the second edition AD&D rules for example. I know a lot of that information is contained in the data files, but I'm sure it extends into the source as well.
This is pure stupidity on Lexmark's part, but I imagine they've done some market research.
All of these folks getting reamed by their inkjet printers (me included) are going to avoid them when it comes time to buy laser printers at the office. Which is a shame, because the Lexmark Optra lasers are great, and much cheaper than the competition.
Maybe they need to sell them at a good price to overcome the bad karma they've accumulated selling inkjet ink for more than the cost of champagne.
You laugh, but those bastards are stealing the jobs of American salmon!
i-Ninja is apparently quite good, and it's available on all three console platforms, I think (at least, I know it's available for GameCube).
You've never seen Thief: The Dark Project or its sequals then, have you?
Whoops, you misspelled "John Carpenter" in there.
Hallowe'en and The Thing were awesome, but, what the hell has he been thinking since then?!?
I was hoping you'd post a link to Unidentified Flying Outrage! but I couldn't remember the author's name.
Bah. I played the Atari ST Populous over my modem against some guy on an Amiga. This would've been 1990-ish.
You left off the part where monsters spawn behind you in the cleared room when you open the locker...
I think one of the major problems with Ultima 9 was the lame-assed story, characters, etc. It was a pale shadow of what people had already experienced in previous Ultima games.
That said, I've been itching to try it out on modern hardware with AA/AF turned on and all the settings cranked.