It's nice to see other manufacturers step up to the plate and make a good product that can compete with the iPod.
Now hopefully this will force Apple to quit holding back and put some real innovations into their player instead of bigger hard drives.
Actually, my understanding is the guy who designed the database as a filesystem for Be is working for Apple now. It wouldn't suprise me if Apple had something similar planned for a future release of OS X
Marathon!
Marathon should be on there just because while PC users were freaking out over Doom, Mac users were essentially playing Halo deathmatch. The first "toe shot/hotfoot" was done on a mac playing marathon. Sure, when Quake finally came along it had a far superior graphics engine, but most of the innovations that made Quake such a great game were in fact first invented and executed by Jason Jones and the folks at Bungie.
-WB
Okay. So they test LSF in China.... big deal.
C'mon people! LSF is written by CANADIANS!
This is the country with 90% of its population within 200 miles of our northern border- they are poised for invasion!
This is the country that is secretly spewing tons of CFCs into the atmosphere to drive up their real estate prices through global warming. While the lower 48 is a desert wasteland, those hockey loving, eh sayin' canucks will be living in a tropical paradise!
Do you think it is a coincidence that microsoft is headquartered so close to the Canadian border?
And what about all the money they make selling all that maple syrup? Where does that go? That's right... straight to the ACLU!
I for one won't stand for it! The evil empire must be stopped!;-)
so I didn't have the benefit of a map.
I was just thinking about how cool it would be to do a remake of Pirates! and lo! I'm sad I'm not going to be able to do it now, but I will actually go out and buy two copies of the game to make up for my youthful folly.
We have a highly specialized database (custom code) of the entire human genomic sequence (DNA and translated protein) resident in RAM and it totally works. It works better than anything else out there.
The nay sayers can whine all they want about power failures and cosmic radiation, but from my perspective it WORKS. It works really well. Ask any genomics researcher out there where they do their human genome searches:-)
Marathon is probably the single most important, innovative FPS ever made. Roughly the contemporary of Doom, its engine, story, level design, and art far exceeded iD's offering. For a while, it made the Mac the best gaming platform out there. Any Doom player that sat down at a Mac for 10 minutes of Marathon deathmatch was suddenly faced with two grim realities- that doom royally sucked in comparison to this, and that they were going to have to come up with a lot of cash to buy a Mac. Quake definitely raised the bar as far as engines were concerned, but Marathon could more than hold it's own in the other aspects against it.
Marathon had such a profound effect on me that when I was playing Halo, on the level with the downed dropship on the beach, when I found the crate labelled SPNKR in the wreckage, I suddenly found that I had tears in my eyes.
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As a matter of fact, the draft assembly of the human genome was fit on CD-ROM using 2bit substitution and run length encoding. All the big wigs (including Bill and Hillary) have a copy.
Last year someone setup a life size Pac Man board at burning man and actually played out life size games with real life size people. They had all the sounds and music to go along with it.
Yes, Mac users have cause to worry about Virtual PC... Halo is a perfectly good example of that.
However, my guess is that they are more interested in producing a playstation2 emulator for PC or even XBox. Sony was able to shut down the PS1 emulator, but Connectix didn't have the lawyers then that microsoft has now.
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It's nice to see other manufacturers step up to the plate and make a good product that can compete with the iPod. Now hopefully this will force Apple to quit holding back and put some real innovations into their player instead of bigger hard drives.
Actually, my understanding is the guy who designed the database as a filesystem for Be is working for Apple now. It wouldn't suprise me if Apple had something similar planned for a future release of OS X
Marathon! Marathon should be on there just because while PC users were freaking out over Doom, Mac users were essentially playing Halo deathmatch. The first "toe shot/hotfoot" was done on a mac playing marathon. Sure, when Quake finally came along it had a far superior graphics engine, but most of the innovations that made Quake such a great game were in fact first invented and executed by Jason Jones and the folks at Bungie. -WB
And I ordered a 2.0 GHz Dual! Too bad I'll be at Burning Man when it arrives... :-(
Okay. So they test LSF in China.... big deal. C'mon people! LSF is written by CANADIANS! This is the country with 90% of its population within 200 miles of our northern border- they are poised for invasion! This is the country that is secretly spewing tons of CFCs into the atmosphere to drive up their real estate prices through global warming. While the lower 48 is a desert wasteland, those hockey loving, eh sayin' canucks will be living in a tropical paradise! Do you think it is a coincidence that microsoft is headquartered so close to the Canadian border? And what about all the money they make selling all that maple syrup? Where does that go? That's right... straight to the ACLU! I for one won't stand for it! The evil empire must be stopped! ;-)
That's not off topic. That's funny. I'm gonna go meta right now...
Jobs is still talking.... any minute now he'll spill the beans.
so I didn't have the benefit of a map. I was just thinking about how cool it would be to do a remake of Pirates! and lo! I'm sad I'm not going to be able to do it now, but I will actually go out and buy two copies of the game to make up for my youthful folly.
We have a highly specialized database (custom code) of the entire human genomic sequence (DNA and translated protein) resident in RAM and it totally works. It works better than anything else out there. The nay sayers can whine all they want about power failures and cosmic radiation, but from my perspective it WORKS. It works really well. Ask any genomics researcher out there where they do their human genome searches :-)
That's the sig of a troll if there ever was one.
If they ported BF 1942 I could get rid of my PC once and for all...
Oh and maybe Halo with tools (yeah, right!)
What the Mac gaming community really needs is another break out title that is Mac first or a concurrent release. Another Marathon would be good.
I'll shut up and get to work.
Marathon is probably the single most important, innovative FPS ever made. Roughly the contemporary of Doom, its engine, story, level design, and art far exceeded iD's offering. For a while, it made the Mac the best gaming platform out there. Any Doom player that sat down at a Mac for 10 minutes of Marathon deathmatch was suddenly faced with two grim realities- that doom royally sucked in comparison to this, and that they were going to have to come up with a lot of cash to buy a Mac. Quake definitely raised the bar as far as engines were concerned, but Marathon could more than hold it's own in the other aspects against it. Marathon had such a profound effect on me that when I was playing Halo, on the level with the downed dropship on the beach, when I found the crate labelled SPNKR in the wreckage, I suddenly found that I had tears in my eyes.
As a matter of fact, the draft assembly of the human genome was fit on CD-ROM using 2bit substitution and run length encoding. All the big wigs (including Bill and Hillary) have a copy.
Last year someone setup a life size Pac Man board at burning man and actually played out life size games with real life size people. They had all the sounds and music to go along with it.
Quite clever.
-WB
Yes, Mac users have cause to worry about Virtual PC... Halo is a perfectly good example of that. However, my guess is that they are more interested in producing a playstation2 emulator for PC or even XBox. Sony was able to shut down the PS1 emulator, but Connectix didn't have the lawyers then that microsoft has now. -Weasel Boy
Actually, someone beat you to that as well, but with a twist..
;-)
Have you had the swedish meatballs at Ikea? They aren't terribly addictive, but they sure do put you in a buying mood