I'm not actually Alan Partridge, you know. He is merely a fictional chat-show host with an unparalleled talent for bon-mots.
Who said anything about BP spending ALL of their money on alternative power? A tiny little bit is all that's required. They actually have the gall to do corporate TV adverts pointing out how "green" they are, while their oil pipeline spews forth into the Alaskan wilderness.
Get a grip. BP is one of the world's largest companies, and yet how much have THEY invested in British wave power technology? Why isn't Steven Salter employed by BP? Why isn't BP funding the entire Scottish wave power research effort? I find it rather difficult to express my incredulity at your naiivity in mere words, alas
isometric and "perspective" 3D don't count in this discussion as "3D", I'm not sure that vector gfx do either - we're talking filled polygons here. I don't recall ANY ZX81 or Spectrum games that had those.
I'll tell you why, because your "render rate" is totally dependant on other factors. Simply reducing the frame size will usually increase the "render rate". What you're struggling to find is a "horsepower" measure for your GFX accelerator - well, there isn't one. Get over it. The point about it being pointless to write to your frame buffer 5 fives faster than you read from it IS valid, you may as well use that extra GPU overhead for higher colour precision ofr a larger frame size. LCD displays have appalling smear and lag characteristics which further marginalise 100fps+ performance. Guaranteed synched performance is FAR more desirable, and we may now have it in out grasp to do this.
ST did everything the Amiga could... just slightly shittier. The only thing it really had going for it was it's excellent MIDI support, in every other sense it was just a Diet Amiga.
is that really true? wow - I stand corrected. Defender of the Crown could hardly be said to have pushed the Amiga's abilities - I had both versions and thought the C64 port just as good.
Defender of the Crown was premiered on the Commodore 64, so it was only an Amiga port rather than a proper Amiga-native game. Xenon 2 couldn't have conceivably run on ANYTHING else at the time (OK, maybe a PC Engine would have had the cahones, but not much else). I have to say my favourite games were Another World, Prince of Persia and Paradroid 90 anyway... but Xenon 2 was fun when you got the "Super Nashwan" power up - yowsa! And then there was Speedball, Stunt Car Racer, James Pond II - Robocod etc etc etc I could go on, the Amiga was THE games computer - probably had the most diverse and challenging set of titles of any games machine ever, what with consoles retreading the same basic themes over and over, and the PC descending into fps hell.
why would they bother when they can get a 6 or 700Mhz CRT iMac (with a built-in CDRW and a fair bit of decent software including 2 OS') for about the same outlay? Mac users are NOT generally homebuilders, neither are they generally insane - which would seem to be a primary qualification needed to actually buy one of these Eyetech (nice pun) abortions.
yep, Apple has long used daughter cards for it's CPUs. This was always highly appropriate for the G3 and G4 class CPUs with their "backside" L2 cache designs, it also makes it easier for Apple t offer single and dual processor configs using the same mobo design.
the Amiga is a mythological computer from before the dawn of the Web. Some say it was 6 feet tall and had a case constructed entirely from diamond encrusted platinum. Others tell tales of it's mighty computing feats, such as it's reputed ability to fold virtual space with a magical application known only as "Imagination...". I once met a traveller who claimed to have once owned such a computer, but he was full of wild tales of a game called "Xenon 2 - Megablast" and talked of a holy ritual required to conjure the Amiga into life - apparently you had to circle it three times before picking it up above you head, holding its platinum case by opposite corners and bending as hard as you could. Mind you, these stories sounded rather fanciful to me, and I told him so. He quickly became very angry, insisting that the Amiga would rise again and we'd all be using "Wordworth" instead of Office before long.
don't get me wrong - I've seen slowdown on a console before, but it didn't count because they were EA Sports titles for the PSX - and we all know how shitty and cynical they are (and I haven't played those two that you mentioned, no). Anyway, these were my first impressions of two new consoles. Underwhelmed by the shitbox, impressed by the gaycube.
WHO FUCKING CARES about rendering abilities? Don't you see that EVERY game for the shitbox will also be released for the PC? And, let's face it, even if the shitbox is more graphically capable than the PS2 - and I haven't seen any evidence that it is yet (and don't quote polygon-per-second numbers at me, we both know how meaningless they can be when applied to radically different architectures) it won't hold a candle to a turbocharged PC. The PS2 is a strange console, it's true, but it's also nearly 3 years old now. The Gamecube is a tightly focused little machine with FUN as it's number one priority, my game of Pikmin was HUGELY more enjoyable than my goes on batman racing and Hello - and it still pisses me off that - out of all the developers MS could have bought - they stole Bungie away from the Mac. Just plain spiteful.
yeah, I was kind of wondering which particular "cool new" shitbox games he was talking about too. I got my first chance to play on both the shitbox and the gaycube this week - loved the gaycube (someone actually seems to understand that a games console is a TOY at last!), couldn't BELIEVE that the shitbox's premier title (ie Halo) suffers from FUCKING SLOWDOWN! ON A CONSOLE!
What a hunk of crap - and where the fuck are these amazing GFX I'd heard about? GT3 looks about a million times better than projectile batman racing. I might just buy a shitbox, break it and return it to the store just to burn up some of Bill's cash - what a waste of space.
since when can MS "choose" to enforce someone else's rules? If the show organisers didn't notice (or more likely, care) that Sony was demoing the PS2 (again!), what the fuck does it have to do with MS? I'm just glad that the show organisers chose to highlight MS' breathtaking presumption.
Oh wake up! the point of the story is that MS COMPLAINED, DENIED IT WAS THEM AND WERE THEN BUSTED. MS is a company run by cunts with a corporate philosophy of fucking the entire world in the ass at every opportunity, and for no reason other than the acquisition of power (they don't seem to care about money - they certainly don't pay any of their profits out as dividends to their OWNERS). It's quite clear that MS should be CLOSED. Not restricted, restrained or restructured, just CLOSED. Ballmer should probably be locked up and fucked to death by his fellow inmates, Gates should walk the Earth and apologise to every single human in turn for stealing their money.
My most reliable drive is a 40MB Conner in an Apple external case from the late 80's. It's been spinning for the best part of 15yrs now... whatever happened to Conner anyway?
we've ALWAYS relied on Fujitsu drives - we've had several failures with Seatgate Cheetahs and IBM Ultrastars in video applications. We find that Fujitsu drives run very cool and quiet - although they usually offer a slightly lower maximum throughput than Seagate's top drives. Look into Fujitsu MAJ or MAN disks - excellent.
Hanzosan's point is actually pretty well made. I personally feel that Mac OS9 is about 5 years ahead in terms of usability than anything else, but HOW does Apple sell it's OS? The truth is that it DOESN'T, it just comes pre-installed on the top 5% most glamourous computers on the market. An dpeople are ALWAYS gonna buy nice 'puters. Apple's REAL competitor isn't Microsoft, it's Sony - or anyone else who manages to design and build FABULOUS hardware. What's nicer? A VAIO running XP or a TiBook running OSX? TiBook right? WHY? Man, that's the most beautiful laptop EVER. If Ferrari's ran on a different type of fuel, we'd STILL want them.
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"Why isn't BP funding the entire Scottish wave power research effort?"
Either you cannot read or are merely very, very stupid. I'm betting it's the latter.
I'm not actually Alan Partridge, you know. He is merely a fictional chat-show host with an unparalleled talent for bon-mots.
Who said anything about BP spending ALL of their money on alternative power? A tiny little bit is all that's required. They actually have the gall to do corporate TV adverts pointing out how "green" they are, while their oil pipeline spews forth into the Alaskan wilderness.
Get a grip. BP is one of the world's largest companies, and yet how much have THEY invested in British wave power technology? Why isn't Steven Salter employed by BP? Why isn't BP funding the entire Scottish wave power research effort? I find it rather difficult to express my incredulity at your naiivity in mere words, alas
isometric and "perspective" 3D don't count in this discussion as "3D", I'm not sure that vector gfx do either - we're talking filled polygons here. I don't recall ANY ZX81 or Spectrum games that had those.
I'll tell you why, because your "render rate" is totally dependant on other factors. Simply reducing the frame size will usually increase the "render rate". What you're struggling to find is a "horsepower" measure for your GFX accelerator - well, there isn't one. Get over it. The point about it being pointless to write to your frame buffer 5 fives faster than you read from it IS valid, you may as well use that extra GPU overhead for higher colour precision ofr a larger frame size. LCD displays have appalling smear and lag characteristics which further marginalise 100fps+ performance. Guaranteed synched performance is FAR more desirable, and we may now have it in out grasp to do this.
do you not recall STUNT CAR RACER? or how about the mystical SENTINEL?
ST did everything the Amiga could... just slightly shittier. The only thing it really had going for it was it's excellent MIDI support, in every other sense it was just a Diet Amiga.
is that really true? wow - I stand corrected. Defender of the Crown could hardly be said to have pushed the Amiga's abilities - I had both versions and thought the C64 port just as good.
Defender of the Crown was premiered on the Commodore 64, so it was only an Amiga port rather than a proper Amiga-native game. Xenon 2 couldn't have conceivably run on ANYTHING else at the time (OK, maybe a PC Engine would have had the cahones, but not much else). I have to say my favourite games were Another World, Prince of Persia and Paradroid 90 anyway... but Xenon 2 was fun when you got the "Super Nashwan" power up - yowsa! And then there was Speedball, Stunt Car Racer, James Pond II - Robocod etc etc etc I could go on, the Amiga was THE games computer - probably had the most diverse and challenging set of titles of any games machine ever, what with consoles retreading the same basic themes over and over, and the PC descending into fps hell.
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Oh, and Apple use IBM G3s as well, but only in the iBook and CRT iMac.
not entirely true. I believe that IBM's PPC 750fx CPU supports DDR for an effective 200Mhz FSB. It also runs up to at least 1Ghz.
why would they bother when they can get a 6 or 700Mhz CRT iMac (with a built-in CDRW and a fair bit of decent software including 2 OS') for about the same outlay? Mac users are NOT generally homebuilders, neither are they generally insane - which would seem to be a primary qualification needed to actually buy one of these Eyetech (nice pun) abortions.
yep, Apple has long used daughter cards for it's CPUs. This was always highly appropriate for the G3 and G4 class CPUs with their "backside" L2 cache designs, it also makes it easier for Apple t offer single and dual processor configs using the same mobo design.
the Amiga is a mythological computer from before the dawn of the Web. Some say it was 6 feet tall and had a case constructed entirely from diamond encrusted platinum. Others tell tales of it's mighty computing feats, such as it's reputed ability to fold virtual space with a magical application known only as "Imagination...". I once met a traveller who claimed to have once owned such a computer, but he was full of wild tales of a game called "Xenon 2 - Megablast" and talked of a holy ritual required to conjure the Amiga into life - apparently you had to circle it three times before picking it up above you head, holding its platinum case by opposite corners and bending as hard as you could. Mind you, these stories sounded rather fanciful to me, and I told him so. He quickly became very angry, insisting that the Amiga would rise again and we'd all be using "Wordworth" instead of Office before long.
that's right! Athletes don't generally take performance enhancing drugs, do they? Oh, wait...
don't get me wrong - I've seen slowdown on a console before, but it didn't count because they were EA Sports titles for the PSX - and we all know how shitty and cynical they are (and I haven't played those two that you mentioned, no). Anyway, these were my first impressions of two new consoles. Underwhelmed by the shitbox, impressed by the gaycube.
WHO FUCKING CARES about rendering abilities? Don't you see that EVERY game for the shitbox will also be released for the PC? And, let's face it, even if the shitbox is more graphically capable than the PS2 - and I haven't seen any evidence that it is yet (and don't quote polygon-per-second numbers at me, we both know how meaningless they can be when applied to radically different architectures) it won't hold a candle to a turbocharged PC. The PS2 is a strange console, it's true, but it's also nearly 3 years old now. The Gamecube is a tightly focused little machine with FUN as it's number one priority, my game of Pikmin was HUGELY more enjoyable than my goes on batman racing and Hello - and it still pisses me off that - out of all the developers MS could have bought - they stole Bungie away from the Mac. Just plain spiteful.
so - let me get this straight - you seem to be implying that Conner may have been bought by Seagate? Well why didn't someone just say so?
yeah, I was kind of wondering which particular "cool new" shitbox games he was talking about too. I got my first chance to play on both the shitbox and the gaycube this week - loved the gaycube (someone actually seems to understand that a games console is a TOY at last!), couldn't BELIEVE that the shitbox's premier title (ie Halo) suffers from FUCKING SLOWDOWN! ON A CONSOLE!
What a hunk of crap - and where the fuck are these amazing GFX I'd heard about? GT3 looks about a million times better than projectile batman racing. I might just buy a shitbox, break it and return it to the store just to burn up some of Bill's cash - what a waste of space.
since when can MS "choose" to enforce someone else's rules? If the show organisers didn't notice (or more likely, care) that Sony was demoing the PS2 (again!), what the fuck does it have to do with MS? I'm just glad that the show organisers chose to highlight MS' breathtaking presumption.
Oh wake up! the point of the story is that MS COMPLAINED, DENIED IT WAS THEM AND WERE THEN BUSTED. MS is a company run by cunts with a corporate philosophy of fucking the entire world in the ass at every opportunity, and for no reason other than the acquisition of power (they don't seem to care about money - they certainly don't pay any of their profits out as dividends to their OWNERS). It's quite clear that MS should be CLOSED. Not restricted, restrained or restructured, just CLOSED. Ballmer should probably be locked up and fucked to death by his fellow inmates, Gates should walk the Earth and apologise to every single human in turn for stealing their money.
My most reliable drive is a 40MB Conner in an Apple external case from the late 80's. It's been spinning for the best part of 15yrs now... whatever happened to Conner anyway?
we've ALWAYS relied on Fujitsu drives - we've had several failures with Seatgate Cheetahs and IBM Ultrastars in video applications. We find that Fujitsu drives run very cool and quiet - although they usually offer a slightly lower maximum throughput than Seagate's top drives. Look into Fujitsu MAJ or MAN disks - excellent.
Hanzosan's point is actually pretty well made. I personally feel that Mac OS9 is about 5 years ahead in terms of usability than anything else, but HOW does Apple sell it's OS? The truth is that it DOESN'T, it just comes pre-installed on the top 5% most glamourous computers on the market. An dpeople are ALWAYS gonna buy nice 'puters. Apple's REAL competitor isn't Microsoft, it's Sony - or anyone else who manages to design and build FABULOUS hardware. What's nicer? A VAIO running XP or a TiBook running OSX? TiBook right? WHY? Man, that's the most beautiful laptop EVER. If Ferrari's ran on a different type of fuel, we'd STILL want them.
tell that to Coke err... the Coca Cola Company I mean.