S3 doesn't give out driver info anymore. So unless you can find someone who still has the specs from way back when, you're out of luck on getting drivers written.
Before complaining about the previous Zelda's availability problem, lets not forget that the initial shipment was 2 million units, or 4x as many as the PS2.
Within a few months of release, Zelda sold almost as many copies as there were n64 units bought to date. Considering the size of Nintendo's marketbase, you can't possibly expect them to have met the demand.
Retro Studios (a recent Nintendo 2nd party developer) is making Metroid. The 1st person Metroid rumor stems from the fact that Retro is working on 2 games, a 3D action adventure and a 1st person shooter. Metroid is the former.
The original launch date was this Christmas. It'll make the currently stated launch date. The hardware is done. They're just waiting on the games, which are already well into development.
Actually, ICQ 2000 uses the OSCAR protocol, just like AIM. It's uses some custom packets to support the features ICQ has that AIM doesn't, but other than that, it's the same.
Mozilla.org was going to write a framework to support chatting within the browser. They created an API with which you could write plugins to support different protocols. All they released was the API for that framework. They might've released a plugin that let you use the Unix Talk protocol, but that's about it. They did not release anything at all that was directly related to AIM.
AOL owns ICQ. So AOL's IM market share is AIM marketshare + ICQ marketshare. 90% between those two programs combined is very believable. I've only met one person who uses Yahoo messenger, and never anyone who uses any of the other networks. (For comparison, I've got ~80 people on my ICQ list, and when I used AIM, I had ~50 people on it)
Well, in this case, both parties involved are in the US, and the domain registrar was in the US, so why would anyone other than the US courts be involved?
Well, lets see. The original NES had a 5.25" floppy disk addon come out in Japan, which was actually rather popular over there, tho it never came out here. The PlayStation was really just the SNES CDROM, but Sony released it as we know it instead because Sony insisted on getting a higher chunk of the profits per game than Nintendo would get. And again the N64 had a disk drive addon come out in Japan, and they were seriously considering releasing it here, until it got delayed for years... So, I'd say the ports are worth it.
And the one factor that makes it most worth it: it comes with a 56k modem, but Ethernet is going to be an addon.
That's why you need the N64 controller. It's great for flight sims and racing games, infinately better than a keyboard. The analog stick is the best, I can barely play those games on anything else anymore, it just feels too unresponsive. But I will give it to you that it's not as good for first person shooters. You can aim far quicker with a mouse than with the analog stick.
The extent of ICQ's marketing research part of the registration is basically just them asking your occupation and where you use ICQ (home/school/work/ec). ICQ lets you enter a user profile, which gets stored in a database on the server searchable by anyone. One of the fields is age, another is birthdate (older ICQ clients only had age; that field is kept for compatibility but is auto calculated from birthdate in newer clients) All fields in the profile are optional. The issue is if someone fills in their profile as being under 13, then the server will notice and complain.
The reason early Nintendo 64 games didn't have graphics anywhere near the demos was because (a) Nintendo kept their performance optimization techniques secret until after the first batch of games came out, and (b) Nintendo's early first party games were things like Mario 64. The Mario team wasn't concerned with blowing the world away graphically (even tho the game was nice for the time), they were concerned with creating an entirely new game experiance, which they did.
One thing I've never understood in the quest to get everything open source is, why should software but not anything else? I mean, I don't see anyone pressuring CocaCola to tell what their secret ingredient is, nor do I see anyone asking Intel to give away full schematics to the Pentium III. Do you feel unsafe in an airplane because the ticket doesn't include blueprints?
The only difference I see is that there are more people who are able to compile/understand source code than there are people able to produce/modify the other things I mentioned.
I think that's why they said there is potential for damage later on. Right now, Linux distributors can't lose money from DeCSS being banned since DeCSS currently isn't good enough to be used as a DVD player. If I remember correctly, the readme for it said you need a P3-600 to play audio and video at once. However, later on, after DeCSS has more work put into it, it can be a DVD player. THEN the Linux distributors would be able to make/lose money based on whether or not DeCSS is legal.
Yeah, but I don't have the serial number to my TNT card, so I can't download the thing. My computer is such a huge mess of wires it takes forever to get inside it to see if the number is on the card.
I checked out the webpage and I'm not sure exactly what's being offered. Is this the source to Glide, the 3D API, or is it an X server for the Voodoo cards? Or something in between? If its the former, then doesn't that mean people can port Glide to work with any 3D card? Being that I have a TNT 2, I'm a little pissed about games that require Glide.
I'm talking more about Windows than Linux here. Normally I hate Windows just as much as (if not more than) your average Linux user does, but gaming is one area where Linux just can't compete with Windows. This is not flamebait, its a legitamite question, even in a crowd of Linux users. Remember, open source can apply to Windows stuff, even if it usually doesn't.
The reason is because Quebec has stricter laws than the rest of Canada. It's not that uncommon for contests to exclude Quebec. And that sentence doesn't imply Quebec isn't part of Canada.
You're a little off on your figures there. SNES got off to a slow start, due to Genesis coming out a lot earlier, but near the end of its lifecycle, its marketshare was at least 67%. N64 is at about 47% (at least in the US). Yeah, N64 bombed in Japan, but not over here.
What are you talking about? Opera is totally unstable. At least on Windows 3.11. It crashes so often that I can't even consider it usable. Maybe Win9x is different, but it's the same code...
GEOS has been doing premptive multithreading & multitasking on PC's since '91 or so. Most apps (like 99%) run with the UI in one thread and the processing in another. Makes the system really responsive and seem faster than it is (not that it isn't already a million times faster than Windows). More threads are extremely easy to create if needed.
Hewlett Packard codenamed the OmniGo 100 series palmtops Jedi. It even shipped with a few libraries having Jedi in the name, and the default system font was called Jedi. I guess they were lucky to get away with that. But I really don't see how you can complain about a codename...
Pay attention to the sentence you quoted. It said "is compliant with all *applicable* requirements". That's the reason for the specific setup. He did do what he is claiming.
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S3 doesn't give out driver info anymore. So unless you can find someone who still has the specs from way back when, you're out of luck on getting drivers written.
Before complaining about the previous Zelda's availability problem, lets not forget that the initial shipment was 2 million units, or 4x as many as the PS2. Within a few months of release, Zelda sold almost as many copies as there were n64 units bought to date. Considering the size of Nintendo's marketbase, you can't possibly expect them to have met the demand.
The altitude at which you look down out the airplane window and it looks like SimCity.
Retro Studios (a recent Nintendo 2nd party developer) is making Metroid. The 1st person Metroid rumor stems from the fact that Retro is working on 2 games, a 3D action adventure and a 1st person shooter. Metroid is the former.
The original launch date was this Christmas. It'll make the currently stated launch date. The hardware is done. They're just waiting on the games, which are already well into development.
Actually, ICQ 2000 uses the OSCAR protocol, just like AIM. It's uses some custom packets to support the features ICQ has that AIM doesn't, but other than that, it's the same.
Mozilla.org was going to write a framework to support chatting within the browser. They created an API with which you could write plugins to support different protocols. All they released was the API for that framework. They might've released a plugin that let you use the Unix Talk protocol, but that's about it. They did not release anything at all that was directly related to AIM.
AOL owns ICQ. So AOL's IM market share is AIM marketshare + ICQ marketshare. 90% between those two programs combined is very believable. I've only met one person who uses Yahoo messenger, and never anyone who uses any of the other networks. (For comparison, I've got ~80 people on my ICQ list, and when I used AIM, I had ~50 people on it)
Well, in this case, both parties involved are in the US, and the domain registrar was in the US, so why would anyone other than the US courts be involved?
Well, lets see. The original NES had a 5.25" floppy disk addon come out in Japan, which was actually rather popular over there, tho it never came out here. The PlayStation was really just the SNES CDROM, but Sony released it as we know it instead because Sony insisted on getting a higher chunk of the profits per game than Nintendo would get. And again the N64 had a disk drive addon come out in Japan, and they were seriously considering releasing it here, until it got delayed for years... So, I'd say the ports are worth it.
And the one factor that makes it most worth it: it comes with a 56k modem, but Ethernet is going to be an addon.
That's why you need the N64 controller. It's great for flight sims and racing games, infinately better than a keyboard. The analog stick is the best, I can barely play those games on anything else anymore, it just feels too unresponsive. But I will give it to you that it's not as good for first person shooters. You can aim far quicker with a mouse than with the analog stick.
The extent of ICQ's marketing research part of the registration is basically just them asking your occupation and where you use ICQ (home/school/work/ec). ICQ lets you enter a user profile, which gets stored in a database on the server searchable by anyone. One of the fields is age, another is birthdate (older ICQ clients only had age; that field is kept for compatibility but is auto calculated from birthdate in newer clients) All fields in the profile are optional. The issue is if someone fills in their profile as being under 13, then the server will notice and complain.
Nope, actually, it's the 5th string of a guitar. The strings are numbered from highest to lowest.
The reason early Nintendo 64 games didn't have graphics anywhere near the demos was because (a) Nintendo kept their performance optimization techniques secret until after the first batch of games came out, and (b) Nintendo's early first party games were things like Mario 64. The Mario team wasn't concerned with blowing the world away graphically (even tho the game was nice for the time), they were concerned with creating an entirely new game experiance, which they did.
One thing I've never understood in the quest to get everything open source is, why should software but not anything else? I mean, I don't see anyone pressuring CocaCola to tell what their secret ingredient is, nor do I see anyone asking Intel to give away full schematics to the Pentium III. Do you feel unsafe in an airplane because the ticket doesn't include blueprints?
The only difference I see is that there are more people who are able to compile/understand source code than there are people able to produce/modify the other things I mentioned.
I think that's why they said there is potential for damage later on. Right now, Linux distributors can't lose money from DeCSS being banned since DeCSS currently isn't good enough to be used as a DVD player. If I remember correctly, the readme for it said you need a P3-600 to play audio and video at once. However, later on, after DeCSS has more work put into it, it can be a DVD player. THEN the Linux distributors would be able to make/lose money based on whether or not DeCSS is legal.
Yeah, but I don't have the serial number to my TNT card, so I can't download the thing. My computer is such a huge mess of wires it takes forever to get inside it to see if the number is on the card.
I checked out the webpage and I'm not sure exactly what's being offered. Is this the source to Glide, the 3D API, or is it an X server for the Voodoo cards? Or something in between? If its the former, then doesn't that mean people can port Glide to work with any 3D card? Being that I have a TNT 2, I'm a little pissed about games that require Glide.
I'm talking more about Windows than Linux here. Normally I hate Windows just as much as (if not more than) your average Linux user does, but gaming is one area where Linux just can't compete with Windows. This is not flamebait, its a legitamite question, even in a crowd of Linux users. Remember, open source can apply to Windows stuff, even if it usually doesn't.
The reason is because Quebec has stricter laws than the rest of Canada. It's not that uncommon for contests to exclude Quebec. And that sentence doesn't imply Quebec isn't part of Canada.
You're a little off on your figures there. SNES got off to a slow start, due to Genesis coming out a lot earlier, but near the end of its lifecycle, its marketshare was at least 67%. N64 is at about 47% (at least in the US). Yeah, N64 bombed in Japan, but not over here.
N64 also launched at $200, then dropped to $150 shortly after Christmas. Most likely Dolphin will launch at that price as well.
What are you talking about? Opera is totally unstable. At least on Windows 3.11. It crashes so often that I can't even consider it usable. Maybe Win9x is different, but it's the same code...
GEOS has been doing premptive multithreading & multitasking on PC's since '91 or so. Most apps (like 99%) run with the UI in one thread and the processing in another. Makes the system really responsive and seem faster than it is (not that it isn't already a million times faster than Windows). More threads are extremely easy to create if needed.
Hewlett Packard codenamed the OmniGo 100 series palmtops Jedi. It even shipped with a few libraries having Jedi in the name, and the default system font was called Jedi. I guess they were lucky to get away with that. But I really don't see how you can complain about a codename...
Pay attention to the sentence you quoted. It said "is compliant with all *applicable* requirements". That's the reason for the specific setup. He did do what he is claiming.