It's great that we have digital cameras making leaps and bounds on resolutions, but the monitors on our desktop are not making such high leaps. I mean, a 16 megapixel image is nice and everything, but not so much useful unless you have a 16.7 megapixel monitor to enjoy it on.
It will be fun to see the next generation of digital imagery with 500+ dpi displays. maybe someday.
Before UT2004 I used to play Wolfenstein ET quite abit. I was always on chigc.com, one of the few servers that ran a full 64-player campaign. it was full-out war and it was fun.
But UT2004 maxes out at a wimpy 32 players. Surely it can go higher. Some of the 10+ meg maps have more than enough room for 64 players to duke it out.
For as long as I remember, the "tv listings" channels(usually 3) were quite possibly the worst implementations ever. The top half was advertising, the bottom half slowly scrolled. I always had the worst luck tuning into it just after the channel I wanted to see has scrolled off.
Anyone remember AP news plus?
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Back in around '85, we had Continental cablevision. There was an "AP News Plus" service, which had cheesy computer screens of news, that rotated every 30 minutes.
I remember every few months the graphics would be completely messed up without anybody noticing, for a few days. Was funny to watch all the vector graphics mess up.
I remember in Minneapolis there was a "children's stories" cable channel. All it consisted of were computer screens with cheesy(think MS Word clipart) graphics to children's stories. Nobody ever seems to remember these "off" cable channels available in the 80s.
Also on that same Minneapolis cable provider(dont know which one), there was one channel that apparently was just a Commodore 64 reading out numbers. This was not to be confused with the 'local community channels' that used Amigas and such to read out school lunch menus.
if I had more info on this, I'd make a web page about it. Wish we had Teletext in the USA.
Look on the bright side. With the next installment of Grand Theft Auto, they could have a larger library of tunes to play while you're driving around in Liberty/Vice City. beats mere 15 minute tracks per station like GTA3 had.
Of course, they could just make some premium version of GTA that would use something like private shoutcast stations to stream radio stations and have virtually unlimited in-game music.
I gave up on BF1942 when I realized I was spending more time downloading patches(and having to search for them) and trying to connect to servers, downloading maps, than actually playing the game.
Then the patches got up to a point where if I connected to any server(if I was lucky) it just booted me out of the game.
Makes the "lock up when you d/l a new map" in UT2004 seem okay.
...from my 17 inch CRT to an LCD is when it offers a higher resolution, at a low price. Right now all the LCD monitors I see offer nothing in terms of "upgrades" to resolution, etc. I can't justify spending $300 to get some room behind my monitor that was otherwise not there and to have to downgrade resolutions. Its not like I'll find some use for new space behind a new LCD monitor, and my computer desk wouldn't work with said LCD on a wall.
Too bad about the TA machine. I just tried it for the first time 2 weeks ago.
1. The game is an incredibly blatant Mortal Kombat ripoff. The most trivial details of MK seemed to be copied over.
2. There's an anachronistic "INSERT COIN" font that sticks out. it's the same font used on the TI-99/4A. Looks horribly out of place compared to the rest of the GUI.
3. The characters do ridiculous things. One, a Native American seems to do some sort of rain dance each time he wins.
Too bad I can't get to the boss creatures, "prizm" looked funny.
There is still one other Tattoo assassins prototype, according to bunnyears.net at Data East. Maybe it can be bought once they go out of business.
Not to bitch, but... is it really necessary to hyperlink Radio Shack and digikey? pretty easy to find them on the web without the story's assistance. How about we just hyperlink the relevant story?
Let's take for example the quickies: Half the links in a quickies are mailto: links for story submitters. Is there really any pressing need to email them?
1. get a linux system together with some good hardware. Make it mini-itx 2. Take out all non-game-console-specific stuff out. Make it a small distro 3. Buy a game controller from the store, get drivers working for it 4. Setup some crude kiosk frontend that might be what the Phantom would have 5. Install MAME on it or something and pretend the arcade ROMs ae the games Phantom would be selling(this is just an example) 6. Put a fancy plastic case around it.
Then realize you have some crude implmentation of what might have been a Phantom console, only for the cost of hardware, and people's free time to slap together a fancy front end with a Linux engine(not unlike TiVo)
7. wait for lawsuits from Infinium labs to roll in saying you copied their idea
8. brag about it on here and HardOCP. They have a plastic box and hype, you have a somewhat crude , working implementation of what they have promised, but never delivered.
MusicMatch has as many bells and whistles of incentives for you to upgrade. Heaven forbid you accidentally click on an MP3 with it being associated to MM. You can't close it out cleanly without it reminding you(again) to upgrade to pro.
They seem to update the software every other week with it reminding you to upgrade to the latest version(not pro, just the latest free version).
Owning a Triumph Spitfire and cutting myself over the years fixing things on it, I would have claimed ignorance. Would have told them there was no trap, and that's how the car was built.
Legendary and "atari 7800" should never be used in the same sentence. I had a 7800 and was horribly disappointed with the games, notably Choplifter.
The problem with these '80s re-releases of games is that it's the same 100 games over and over again. Yet I can fire up MAME and play around 3000 different aracade games, many of them obscure(the rest being Space Invaders or Pac Man knockoffs).
I think I would rather play 4-player Gauntlet II. Everyone loves Gauntlet II.
or, for that matter, became emotionally attached to it?
The year was 1991. I was running a BBS off my Tandy 1000HX(a POS PC clone). I ran my BBS off its singular 720K drive. The disk failed, about the 3rd time in a row. I took the disk, threw it as hard as I could against the wall, slightly loosening its metal door.
I put it back in the computer. The drive was ruined from the door screwing up the heads.
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It's great that we have digital cameras making leaps and bounds on resolutions, but the monitors on our desktop are not making such high leaps. I mean, a 16 megapixel image is nice and everything, but not so much useful unless you have a 16.7 megapixel monitor to enjoy it on.
It will be fun to see the next generation of digital imagery with 500+ dpi displays. maybe someday.
Before UT2004 I used to play Wolfenstein ET quite abit. I was always on chigc.com, one of the few servers that ran a full 64-player campaign. it was full-out war and it was fun.
But UT2004 maxes out at a wimpy 32 players. Surely it can go higher. Some of the 10+ meg maps have more than enough room for 64 players to duke it out.
C'mon Atari, get with it!
I'm curious why this got modded up. That PA toon link gets posted every month.
For as long as I remember, the "tv listings" channels(usually 3) were quite possibly the worst implementations ever. The top half was advertising, the bottom half slowly scrolled. I always had the worst luck tuning into it just after the channel I wanted to see has scrolled off.
Back in around '85, we had Continental cablevision. There was an "AP News Plus" service, which had cheesy computer screens of news, that rotated every 30 minutes.
I remember every few months the graphics would be completely messed up without anybody noticing, for a few days. Was funny to watch all the vector graphics mess up.
I remember in Minneapolis there was a "children's stories" cable channel. All it consisted of were computer screens with cheesy(think MS Word clipart) graphics to children's stories. Nobody ever seems to remember these "off" cable channels available in the 80s.
Also on that same Minneapolis cable provider(dont know which one), there was one channel that apparently was just a Commodore 64 reading out numbers. This was not to be confused with the 'local community channels' that used Amigas and such to read out school lunch menus.
if I had more info on this, I'd make a web page about it. Wish we had Teletext in the USA.
Look on the bright side. With the next installment of Grand Theft Auto, they could have a larger library of tunes to play while you're driving around in Liberty/Vice City. beats mere 15 minute tracks per station like GTA3 had.
Of course, they could just make some premium version of GTA that would use something like private shoutcast stations to stream radio stations and have virtually unlimited in-game music.
I gave up on BF1942 when I realized I was spending more time downloading patches(and having to search for them) and trying to connect to servers, downloading maps, than actually playing the game.
Then the patches got up to a point where if I connected to any server(if I was lucky) it just booted me out of the game.
Makes the "lock up when you d/l a new map" in UT2004 seem okay.
...from my 17 inch CRT to an LCD is when it offers a higher resolution, at a low price. Right now all the LCD monitors I see offer nothing in terms of "upgrades" to resolution, etc. I can't justify spending $300 to get some room behind my monitor that was otherwise not there and to have to downgrade resolutions. Its not like I'll find some use for new space behind a new LCD monitor, and my computer desk wouldn't work with said LCD on a wall.
Too bad about the TA machine. I just tried it for the first time 2 weeks ago.
1. The game is an incredibly blatant Mortal Kombat ripoff. The most trivial details of MK seemed to be copied over.
2. There's an anachronistic "INSERT COIN" font that sticks out. it's the same font used on the TI-99/4A. Looks horribly out of place compared to the rest of the GUI.
3. The characters do ridiculous things. One, a Native American seems to do some sort of rain dance each time he wins.
Too bad I can't get to the boss creatures, "prizm" looked funny.
There is still one other Tattoo assassins prototype, according to bunnyears.net at Data East. Maybe it can be bought once they go out of business.
Not to bitch, but...
is it really necessary to hyperlink Radio Shack and digikey? pretty easy to find them on the web without the story's assistance. How about we just hyperlink the relevant story?
Let's take for example the quickies: Half the links in a quickies are mailto: links for story submitters. Is there really any pressing need to email them?
Found photo sites are the best.
http://www.spillway.com/ is still the king of "found photos on the Internet."
...more hard drives and CDRs!
(cheap) zing.
Here's a fun idea.
1. get a linux system together with some good hardware. Make it mini-itx
2. Take out all non-game-console-specific stuff out. Make it a small distro
3. Buy a game controller from the store, get drivers working for it
4. Setup some crude kiosk frontend that might be what the Phantom would have
5. Install MAME on it or something and pretend the arcade ROMs ae the games Phantom would be selling(this is just an example)
6. Put a fancy plastic case around it.
Then realize you have some crude implmentation of what might have been a Phantom console, only for the cost of hardware, and people's free time to slap together a fancy front end with a Linux engine(not unlike TiVo)
7. wait for lawsuits from Infinium labs to roll in saying you copied their idea
8. brag about it on here and HardOCP. They have a plastic box and hype, you have a somewhat crude , working implementation of what they have promised, but never delivered.
Whee
MusicMatch has as many bells and whistles of incentives for you to upgrade. Heaven forbid you accidentally click on an MP3 with it being associated to MM. You can't close it out cleanly without it reminding you(again) to upgrade to pro.
They seem to update the software every other week with it reminding you to upgrade to the latest version(not pro, just the latest free version).
If a doctor doesn't make backups of patient records, and just does things anyway without said records, he/she should not be practicing medicine.
I've done a lot of things to my '79 over the years, but not rebuild the engine. All I've done is documented here:
http://british.nerp.net/car/spit.html
Owning a Triumph Spitfire and cutting myself over the years fixing things on it, I would have claimed ignorance. Would have told them there was no trap, and that's how the car was built.
So in a lot of 1930s serials do top scientists get kidnapped as often as journalists in modern day Iraq?
The only thing "custom" is the case.
Any way we can buy a Phantom case shell? It would be fun to get a Mini-itx system in there, and then you can pretend you own a real Phantom console.
AP and /. have no love for weblogs? ;).
Well, considering people can say anything they want on weblogs, whether it's libel(or is it slander?) or just completely false, no, I don't.
*hugz* to character assasination!
First off.. Five Legendary Atari 7800(TM) Games .
Legendary and "atari 7800" should never be used in the same sentence. I had a 7800 and was horribly disappointed with the games, notably Choplifter.
The problem with these '80s re-releases of games is that it's the same 100 games over and over again. Yet I can fire up MAME and play around 3000 different aracade games, many of them obscure(the rest being Space Invaders or Pac Man knockoffs).
I think I would rather play 4-player Gauntlet II. Everyone loves Gauntlet II.
or, for that matter, became emotionally attached to it?
The year was 1991. I was running a BBS off my Tandy 1000HX(a POS PC clone). I ran my BBS off its singular 720K drive. The disk failed, about the 3rd time in a row. I took the disk, threw it as hard as I could against the wall, slightly loosening its metal door.
I put it back in the computer. The drive was ruined from the door screwing up the heads.
If you love something, set it free.
I'm not spending 2 grand and any cable tv fees to watch this.
Why on earth wouldn't they play this on plain 'ol non-HD PBS?
Please tell me when you repo'd MC Hammer's car he ran out and yelled "Can't touch this!"
What I like about Quicktime is you can move the time slider up and down and it will show you that EXACT frame in the video.
WMP never did this. If you move the time marker around, it just shows the time you are at, but the video stays frozen.
Wish they would fix that.