What do you think of Microsoft's C# language compared to Java, is MS just cloning Java in an attempt to make it extinct. And if so, could you do anything to stop it if you had the position?
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I would probably never buy one if it wasn't for the exclusive titles on the GameCube. As a huge Metroid fan, I want to see what it's latested incarnation looks like. Luigi's Mansion is also one to watch. If it weren't for the games you can't get on a PC I wouldn't even look twice at a GameCube.
The Amiga 500 had regular color modes up to 64 colors, in 64 color mode (half-brite), only 32 of them were unique the other 32 were half the intensity values of the first 32. Then there was HAM mode, 4096 colors. ECS does allow for up to 256 unique colors before its special modes like the picasso modes of 16-bit color (Of course you needed a picasso board for that). I also can't remember what other built in high color modes the A1200 had.
I've seem some HAM pictures with more than 4096 colors too, but they switch the palette around on an interrupt as the raster draws the screen to achieve this.
From the article: These are old Commodore and Amiga-programmers that know the virtues of small-is-beautifull.
For their time, nothing comes close to Commodore computers, the C64 sold 22 million units between 1981 and 1987. I started out with a C128 (I rarely ran C128 programs, instead I almost always ran it in C64 mode) and migrated to the Amiga's in 1989. I started out with an Amiga 500 and moved up to the A1200. Those machines were way ahead of their time, they were multimedia machines before the phrase was coined.
They had 4 channel digital stereo sound, could display 4096 colors out of a palette of 16 million onscreen at 1 time (this was when 16 color EGA was the rage on PC Clones). They had a fully multitasking operating system, and it was completely GUI orientated. They were also plug and play too, but they called it auto-detecting the hardware. I own a PC now, but at the time I'm glad I was an Amiga user instead of a PC user, I never had to go through all the troubles PC users were plagued with at the time (remember setting jumpers for ALL your hardware, and praying there were no conflicts?).
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I remember the same story too, the author is Larry Niven, but I can't remember what the story was called.
Slashdot covered an almost identical article a few days ago here.
What do you think of Microsoft's C# language compared to Java, is MS just cloning Java in an attempt to make it extinct. And if so, could you do anything to stop it if you had the position?
Slashdot has covered this kind of story before - here, here and here.
Wired also has a story on this article here.
I wonder if this will find it's way into powering devices like laptops?
Technically is should be called a Trojan, not a virus.
I would probably never buy one if it wasn't for the exclusive titles on the GameCube. As a huge Metroid fan, I want to see what it's latested incarnation looks like. Luigi's Mansion is also one to watch. If it weren't for the games you can't get on a PC I wouldn't even look twice at a GameCube.
What, a swallow, carrying a coconut?
Now as long as we don't run into the Knights that say Ni.
SPOON!!! ...gotta love the Tick's battle cry.
The Amiga 500 had regular color modes up to 64 colors, in 64 color mode (half-brite), only 32 of them were unique the other 32 were half the intensity values of the first 32. Then there was HAM mode, 4096 colors. ECS does allow for up to 256 unique colors before its special modes like the picasso modes of 16-bit color (Of course you needed a picasso board for that). I also can't remember what other built in high color modes the A1200 had.
I've seem some HAM pictures with more than 4096 colors too, but they switch the palette around on an interrupt as the raster draws the screen to achieve this.
From the article: These are old Commodore and Amiga-programmers that know the virtues of small-is-beautifull.
For their time, nothing comes close to Commodore computers, the C64 sold 22 million units between 1981 and 1987. I started out with a C128 (I rarely ran C128 programs, instead I almost always ran it in C64 mode) and migrated to the Amiga's in 1989. I started out with an Amiga 500 and moved up to the A1200. Those machines were way ahead of their time, they were multimedia machines before the phrase was coined.
They had 4 channel digital stereo sound, could display 4096 colors out of a palette of 16 million onscreen at 1 time (this was when 16 color EGA was the rage on PC Clones). They had a fully multitasking operating system, and it was completely GUI orientated. They were also plug and play too, but they called it auto-detecting the hardware. I own a PC now, but at the time I'm glad I was an Amiga user instead of a PC user, I never had to go through all the troubles PC users were plagued with at the time (remember setting jumpers for ALL your hardware, and praying there were no conflicts?).