- The player's ship movement and control in Asteroids is more realistic than most of the other videogames: speed and position depend on the acceleration given by the ship's motor instead of the usual unrealistic up down left right controls. The only missing thing is gravitational attraction (which can be found on another vintage game, Gravitar).
The movement of enemy ufos is not so realistic but they are aliens, they know things about instant acceleration in space that we don't;) ).
- The playability of the game is excellent, as the game gets harder my tongue sticks out (that means it keeps me concentrated, good sign for the game, bad sign for me, i'm getting addicted...)
- Unlike many other games, you just don't shoot to everything that moves, you can play using different tactics (one can either split lots of asteroids so the enemy ufos have a tougher time or try to keep the battlefield tidy)
- There are some drawbacks like the randomness when hitting hyperspace button, the ufo which won't shoot on one side of the screen to get you on the opposite one, like you can (hey this is a feature...).But they were addressed in "Asteroids deluxe": 1980 and running on a 1.5 mhz 8 bit processor, according to the MAME emulator. Gee.
Personally my all-time favourite is Xevious, and i love the photorealism of recent games, but if I should vote for the best videogame ever i'd choose Asteroids.
And what does this have to do anyways with MS trying to block access to websites when using anything but
Explorer ? This is an attempt to make ALL their information accessible by a SINGLE program, and NOT an
attempt to make every piece of information accessible by a DIFFERENT program.
Playing with words, here?
"an attempt to make every piece of information accessible by a DIFFERENT program"? People didn't make such attempts, even in the bad old days (Appleworks was word processing, db, spreadsheet for the appleII, for instance).
Berners-Lee said "when
each piece of information need a different program to access it": MSN info (ALL its hypertext info) is the piece of information, MSN browser is the program. That's almost like the old days, i say almost because in the bad old days the app couldn't process foreign data because it wasn't designed to, while in MS case some apps may have been able to access data, but they were actively blocked. So he should have said "the GOOD old days"...
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You surely never heard about the g4 cube... i surely didn't.
I'll probably stick to mac os9 as much as i can, osx is still a little too demanding on the cpu to be used for audio processing, i'm afraid.
- The player's ship movement and control in Asteroids is more realistic than most of the other videogames: speed and position depend on the acceleration given by the ship's motor instead of the usual unrealistic up down left right controls. The only missing thing is gravitational attraction (which can be found on another vintage game, Gravitar). ;) ).
The movement of enemy ufos is not so realistic but they are aliens, they know things about instant acceleration in space that we don't
- The playability of the game is excellent, as the game gets harder my tongue sticks out (that means it keeps me concentrated, good sign for the game, bad sign for me, i'm getting addicted...)
- Unlike many other games, you just don't shoot to everything that moves, you can play using different tactics (one can either split lots of asteroids so the enemy ufos have a tougher time or try to keep the battlefield tidy)
- There are some drawbacks like the randomness when hitting hyperspace button, the ufo which won't shoot on one side of the screen to get you on the opposite one, like you can (hey this is a feature...).But they were addressed in "Asteroids deluxe": 1980 and running on a 1.5 mhz 8 bit processor, according to the MAME emulator. Gee.
Personally my all-time favourite is Xevious, and i love the photorealism of recent games, but if I should vote for the best videogame ever i'd choose Asteroids.
And what does this have to do anyways with MS trying to block access to websites when using anything but Explorer ? This is an attempt to make ALL their information accessible by a SINGLE program, and NOT an attempt to make every piece of information accessible by a DIFFERENT program.
Playing with words, here?
"an attempt to make every piece of information accessible by a DIFFERENT program"? People didn't make such attempts, even in the bad old days (Appleworks was word processing, db, spreadsheet for the appleII, for instance).
Berners-Lee said "when each piece of information need a different program to access it": MSN info (ALL its hypertext info) is the piece of information, MSN browser is the program. That's almost like the old days, i say almost because in the bad old days the app couldn't process foreign data because it wasn't designed to, while in MS case some apps may have been able to access data, but they were actively blocked. So he should have said "the GOOD old days"...