I feel old. Real old. In the thumbnails, it looks awesome, but when you click on the full-sizers, the blocky, ugly models and textures pop out at you. It'd rule if someone would redo all the quake 1 baddies in a high-poly mode and then do a bunch of bumpmapped textures.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go hang up my 28.8 modem and retire. Damn kids and your dsl and your usb and your optical mice.
Hell, the army could even do this -- they already have those automated spy planes with cameras, might as well steal some free broadband from the countries you're about to bomb.
What about the KIDS? Even though most of the robot mowers out today have proximity systems that shut off the blades if it detects something trying to get close to it and reach underneath (pets, children).
Hmm... I'm smelling video game/horror movie marketing opportunity here.
Aaargh, yes. I wish I had the time to take all the hypertalk 'games' that I built (sometimes to around 75%! well, only one), put them in a real language, and finish them.
Hear hear! Marathon is a far better game than Quake. Added so much originality to the genre too (storyline, different level concepts than run, gun + find exit). Too bad Halo seems to go in the opposite direction.
It's Satellite program was cross-platform too, and that's part of the reason why it I liked it so much. I could run it on my Macs, my Windows machine and Linux.
Everything else these days that is aspiring to be cross-platform is either written in uncompiled (read: slow) Java or doesn't have any files to speak of.
Not quite, some crashes had a "Restart" button and a "Continue" button (which was usually grayed out, but it was a red-letter day when it wasn't; that meant you got to continue along your day without exploding in a fit of rage).
And this is coming from someone who's used Macs for a long, long time.
They should just go back to the Color Classic form factor and forget about all this space-shuttle-nosecone concept.
That, and we can smell poseurs from a mile away.
I personally own a dead Mac Plus, I'd love to get it up and running the earlier Mac OS's, but, hell, if I get a PC mobo, I'd much rather run BSD on it.
My friend is off scavenging for classic Macs and such. Can't beat the kindness of people who know nothing about how their 2-year-old machine can be used for something other than WinXP...
Why would anyone with a high-paying corporate job want to work for a large, inadequately-funded government agency?
I'd go if they gave me some new toys to play with.
Too much of that 'extreme sports' crap out there. If we wanted to go out and break things looking like damn idiots, we would. Kids these days...
Well, at least we can keep ourselves from worrying if there might be something quality on the consoles we might miss because we all use comps...
Have they finally realized that they will shortly be THE ONLY operating system that still relies on file extensions as the primary way of identifying files?
Nice to see that at least one person in the new generation has that kind of spirit. You just don't see that nowadays, with the new kids just copying files off of the 'net. No originality anymore.
Is there some kind of incredible controller for the Xbox that is only available in Japan
Yeah, the Japanese pad, which doesn't eclipse the Sun if you hold it at the wrong angle.
If all it is is a certain USB ID, wouldn't you just need some kind of USB male-female cord and a small convertor that changes the ID as it goes through? $10 says that the import shops are already working on this.
The only good use I would see for this feature is locking out unauthorized perhipherals, especially some that might damage the machine.
But the more paranoid of us probably think it's another monopoly move from the Beast. Which it may well be.
Wow. How did they ever get this popular with ideals like that? Back then, I owned a colecovision and a mac 512 and had no concept of gaming outside of my arcade ports and macpaint. They're almost like some sort of uber-parental group.
It looks fine now, I was running Mac OS 8.0 on a P3/450 with 384mb RAM. Now that I cleared out the memory leaks (which, according to Microsoft, don't exist in XP's "protected memory") from various other applications, it runs okay.
But how do you mount a Mac floppy? I've got a bunch of old Mac games that I'd love to see XP butcher and make ugly.
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I feel old. Real old. In the thumbnails, it looks awesome, but when you click on the full-sizers, the blocky, ugly models and textures pop out at you. It'd rule if someone would redo all the quake 1 baddies in a high-poly mode and then do a bunch of bumpmapped textures.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go hang up my 28.8 modem and retire. Damn kids and your dsl and your usb and your optical mice.
Hell, the army could even do this -- they already have those automated spy planes with cameras, might as well steal some free broadband from the countries you're about to bomb.
We could use that to benchmark processors.
Mix these with a pair of Glasstrons and we may have the beginning of a "rigger" system. Shadowrun is coming true! o.o
Low-tech is often better. I vote for a roll of duct tape and possibly cardboard (you could even write your OWN ad on it with a sharpie marker).
Who cares about the kid's bikes?
What about the KIDS? Even though most of the robot mowers out today have proximity systems that shut off the blades if it detects something trying to get close to it and reach underneath (pets, children).
Hmm... I'm smelling video game/horror movie marketing opportunity here.
Aaargh, yes. I wish I had the time to take all the hypertalk 'games' that I built (sometimes to around 75%! well, only one), put them in a real language, and finish them.
Hear hear! Marathon is a far better game than Quake. Added so much originality to the genre too (storyline, different level concepts than run, gun + find exit). Too bad Halo seems to go in the opposite direction.
It's Satellite program was cross-platform too, and that's part of the reason why it I liked it so much. I could run it on my Macs, my Windows machine and Linux.
Everything else these days that is aspiring to be cross-platform is either written in uncompiled (read: slow) Java or doesn't have any files to speak of.
I wonder if there's a web page somewhere with archives of said horribly explicit warning labels.
Not quite, some crashes had a "Restart" button and a "Continue" button (which was usually grayed out, but it was a red-letter day when it wasn't; that meant you got to continue along your day without exploding in a fit of rage).
And this is coming from someone who's used Macs for a long, long time. They should just go back to the Color Classic form factor and forget about all this space-shuttle-nosecone concept.
That, and we can smell poseurs from a mile away.
I personally own a dead Mac Plus, I'd love to get it up and running the earlier Mac OS's, but, hell, if I get a PC mobo, I'd much rather run BSD on it.
My friend is off scavenging for classic Macs and such. Can't beat the kindness of people who know nothing about how their 2-year-old machine can be used for something other than WinXP...
Why would anyone with a high-paying corporate job want to work for a large, inadequately-funded government agency?
I'd go if they gave me some new toys to play with.
Too much of that 'extreme sports' crap out there. If we wanted to go out and break things looking like damn idiots, we would. Kids these days... Well, at least we can keep ourselves from worrying if there might be something quality on the consoles we might miss because we all use comps...
Have they finally realized that they will shortly be THE ONLY operating system that still relies on file extensions as the primary way of identifying files?
They still have Metadata, to an extent.
Plus, he and Jobs used to sell phreaking boxes out of their dorm. Woz has his hands in a lot of tech honeypots.
Nice to see that at least one person in the new generation has that kind of spirit. You just don't see that nowadays, with the new kids just copying files off of the 'net. No originality anymore.
Is there some kind of incredible controller for the Xbox that is only available in Japan Yeah, the Japanese pad, which doesn't eclipse the Sun if you hold it at the wrong angle.
If all it is is a certain USB ID, wouldn't you just need some kind of USB male-female cord and a small convertor that changes the ID as it goes through?
$10 says that the import shops are already working on this.
The only good use I would see for this feature is locking out unauthorized perhipherals, especially some that might damage the machine.
But the more paranoid of us probably think it's another monopoly move from the Beast. Which it may well be.
We could have a 'net-accessible Atari 2600 which you control much the same way. It would take fighting over the controller to the next dimension.
Wow. How did they ever get this popular with ideals like that? Back then, I owned a colecovision and a mac 512 and had no concept of gaming outside of my arcade ports and macpaint. They're almost like some sort of uber-parental group.
Obviously it's still not good enough for some of the half-brain-dead AOL lamers that we see on Dell's "budget" line of personal computers..
It looks fine now, I was running Mac OS 8.0 on a P3/450 with 384mb RAM. Now that I cleared out the memory leaks (which, according to Microsoft, don't exist in XP's "protected memory") from various other applications, it runs okay. But how do you mount a Mac floppy? I've got a bunch of old Mac games that I'd love to see XP butcher and make ugly.