I live in kind of a cowboy town, recently relocated from Ann Arbor. I just kind of took it for granted that there were other techies somewhere around here till I saw myself as the only person registered in this town. The mystery of why I'm getting better speeds up here solved from this post. I could be the only computer geek in this entire town!
That's all this is! A friend of mine whom I'm working with to translate a few games into English picked up Animal Forest last time he was in Japan, and while I thought his playing of zelda 1 with it was neat I never thought that'd make front page of slashdot.
I don't get what it is about gaming that always seems to bring out incorrect assumptions on slashdot. From the inevitable "Dreamcast is powered by windowsCE", to the taking of ports of GBA dev kits to OS X and Linux as meaning there are no windows versions. You'd really think there'd be more people into console development and game translations around here.
*waits to be modded down for making too obscure a joke*
Anyone remember the 3D games for the master system
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This is really exciting news for me, since the 3D games for the master system had gotten my hopes up for 3D tv in my early childhood. After having missles and such fly right out of the screen at you, it always seemed so disapointing going back to watching the A-Team or whatever. Those games gave me an impression I've never been able to shake that 3D TV would be right around the corner, and finally seventeen or so years later I've got some evidence to support that.
It just turns out that my hunch of soon was more along the lines of game release date "soon".
I initially got excited when I saw Problems with Windows. Instead of having the image of a glass window come to mind, my first thought wasy "Hey, you're right! I never see a BSOD come up when the hero's geeky, but for some reason windows 9x using, friend does a two minute hack into some other system to get day saving information.".
Somehow the idea of someone running uncut through a glass panel seems quite normal compared to the idea of windows 9x not waiting for the moment when a crash will hurt you the most, and then killing your data.
The 4.x people not switching over is what keeps surprising me. I could see if someone had an older computer, but I keep hearing about 4.x users who refuse to use anything other than netscape 4 even when their computer could easily handle mozilla. I could see not using IE, but when you've got a product built off the continuation of the source, which won't croak on the things netscape 4 does, and which by default even looks like netscape 4 you'd think that'd be enough.
Somedays I think that we'll be seeing people browsing with their mentally controlled holographic browsers and the great grandchildren of these users will be still happily clicking along in Netscape 4.
Are there any sites set up about the conversion of the old modules? I was a very active user of the old FRUA game, and those were some of my favorite subject matter. The idea of being able to play through those great old ones with my old group, now scattered accross the country has me poised to buy it the very second they ship out the Linux version.
Who could forget the ultimate buzzword, which enabled Sonic to blast through the levels at super sonic speeds! Not that it existed as anything but propaganda in comercials, but as a dedicated mega drive owner I love it nonetheless!
I havn't tried it myself with email, only the html editor, but the spellchecker here might work, depending on what operating system you're on. There's a 1.0/1.0rc3 build near the bottom of the instalation page.
I'd like to have something burnable by next Wednesday for the Ann Arbor Destroyed by Mozilla [schnitzer.at] party...
All this talk about Ann Arbor is bringing me down. I just moved away from there earlier this year to a cowboy town where people look on in fear and incomprehension if you so much as bring out a pda.
You seem to be ignoring one important fact that most people seem to have realized: Linux on the desktop does not work.
Who are you to say whether it's working for him or not? I run Linux on my desktop, and I don't have any of the problems you've mentioned. What exactly is unacceptable about the desktop experience with Linux? The so called aplication gap is pretty much non existant for the average user at this point. And untold thousands of compatibility and consistency problems? What, you mean the fact that I can't plunk down a precompiled binary in some cases and have to "gasp" click once on an srpm? Or the terrible horror of on occasion having to type./configure make make install?
simply means that you folks haven't yet realized the error of your ways.
I think you're getting religion mixed in with computer use here. An operating system is just a tool, it's not some faith you have to evangelise with blind statements. You'd have about as strong arguments by saying "If you use Linux, God will hate you. He told me a couple days ago.".
All the evidence I've seen indicates that, for the most part, commercial software for Linux doesn't sell very well. That seems to indicate that Linux users as a group don't like to buy software.
Hm, All the evidence I've seen indicates that, for the most part, commercial software for Linux does sell very well. That seems to indicate that Linux users as a group like to buy software.
I'm worried now that this is some kind of veiled warning that mars has already been claimed and inhabited by the goatse.cx folks. What a letdown to finally get into space, and be greeted with "D00d! I gots the coolest thing behind this dune, go look!
I read that as "inject a Linux partition", through a bit of a early waking haze. Now that'd be a fun virus. Millions of unsuspecting windows users go to sleep only to wake up to lilo asking whether they want to boot into SuSE, Mandrake, or the insecure system that allowed this to happen in the first place.
I thought the lack of Neverwinter builder tools for Linux and Mac was odd, but obviously attention is being focused on a hush hush port of Neverwinter to the cellphone. All joking aside, couldn't you see this happening at a board meeting?
"So, you want to allocate resources to these non windows thingamagigs, like that commie operating system and that apple thing? It'd never work, focus on the super popular cellphone gaming comunity!"
I'm actually very surprised that MS doesn't put effort into developing IE for Linux.
I've always figured some people in microsoft thought so much of IE, or rather the fact that people wrote pages for IE instead of to w3c compliance that not releasing IE on Linux would keep people from moving to that operating system.
OK, it's a crazy conspiricy theory. But seeing some of Microsoft's statements about Linux in the past, or their view of themselves as benovlent shepards of the ignorent computing masses I wouldn't put it past them.
As much as I hate to say it, I just don't think we have the user base to have any significant effect on how well a game does or dosn't sell at this point. I belive things are getting better, but at the moment I think we'd have about as much effect on the industry by boycotting them as a boycot of Spider-Man by people mauled by spidergoats.
I do think things are getting better though, and agree very much on your point of buying native Linux games if they're released. While I don't think lack of revenue from Linux users for windows games will do much, I know lack of purchase of Linux games will.
Same reason I use MS paint with wine instead of the gimp on occasion when friends are over. Sometimes it's just fun to do apparent vodoo for people unfamilier with Linux.
Have you taken a good long look at the sheer number of projects languishing about on Sourceforge that haven't been contributed to in a year or more? And how many of those are efforts to create a better Notepad?
I think that's a high reason right there why they'd have little interest.
Sometimes I really hate growing old. The first thing I saw when I read the blurb was that the guy was a nut. But you're right, no matter if he lives or dies this guy's a true hero. Almost everyone makes one compramise after another as we grow up, until even the most cherished of dreams becomes forgotten in a life of mediocrity and slavery to a time clock.
This reminds me in a way of the upright citizens brigade. There was a classic episode where a guy who was the manager of a coffie shop relised just how he'd let his dreams of making it to space fall away. In the end he died, eaten by an alligater after his jetpack didn't have enough thrust, but it seemed like he was living more in the time he spent in training than he ever had before. That was inspiring, and it's really a shame I actually see it happening for real, with a good chance for success, and I wasn't inspired at all.
The bad news is that there's a very good chance you'll have to wind up re-encoding them to play on the dreamcast. The upper size limit is somewhere around 400x400, and the support for divX 3 isn't to the same level that DivX 4,5 and Xvid are maintained. You can find it at
http://www.moosegate.com/betaboy/dcdivx/
Note that the FAQ is a little old though, and it's sped up a lot since it was originally written. Originally 500kbs was about the upper limit, but you should be able to get 700kbs now. Also, don't use any of the DivX 5 pro encoding options. bframes will be ignored by the player, but any of the other options will mess up the playback.
The playback is really fantastic. You can get better than vcd quality with twice the amount of time or more to a single cd. I'd been encoding a lot of my old vhs tapes to vcd awhile back, but after the initial release of the divX player I've been doing divX instead. It's really been fantastic.
Support for Ogg Vorbis audio seems to be rather unlikley at this point, but on the forums the main coder has hinted that he's looking into supporting pure Ogg streams of audio/video, which I think would be pretty cool!
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So not only are there geek girls, they'll write your documentation and FAQ's for you!
There are others like me in my town?
I live in kind of a cowboy town, recently relocated from Ann Arbor. I just kind of took it for granted that there were other techies somewhere around here till I saw myself as the only person registered in this town. The mystery of why I'm getting better speeds up here solved from this post. I could be the only computer geek in this entire town!
I just hope they're selling quality dvd players, with rewind buttons.
That's all this is! A friend of mine whom I'm working with to translate a few games into English picked up Animal Forest last time he was in Japan, and while I thought his playing of zelda 1 with it was neat I never thought that'd make front page of slashdot. I don't get what it is about gaming that always seems to bring out incorrect assumptions on slashdot. From the inevitable "Dreamcast is powered by windowsCE", to the taking of ports of GBA dev kits to OS X and Linux as meaning there are no windows versions. You'd really think there'd be more people into console development and game translations around here.
*waits to be modded down for making too obscure a joke*
This is really exciting news for me, since the 3D games for the master system had gotten my hopes up for 3D tv in my early childhood. After having missles and such fly right out of the screen at you, it always seemed so disapointing going back to watching the A-Team or whatever. Those games gave me an impression I've never been able to shake that 3D TV would be right around the corner, and finally seventeen or so years later I've got some evidence to support that.
It just turns out that my hunch of soon was more along the lines of game release date "soon".
I initially got excited when I saw Problems with Windows. Instead of having the image of a glass window come to mind, my first thought wasy "Hey, you're right! I never see a BSOD come up when the hero's geeky, but for some reason windows 9x using, friend does a two minute hack into some other system to get day saving information.".
Somehow the idea of someone running uncut through a glass panel seems quite normal compared to the idea of windows 9x not waiting for the moment when a crash will hurt you the most, and then killing your data.
1 uses Netscape 4.x
The 4.x people not switching over is what keeps surprising me. I could see if someone had an older computer, but I keep hearing about 4.x users who refuse to use anything other than netscape 4 even when their computer could easily handle mozilla. I could see not using IE, but when you've got a product built off the continuation of the source, which won't croak on the things netscape 4 does, and which by default even looks like netscape 4 you'd think that'd be enough.
Somedays I think that we'll be seeing people browsing with their mentally controlled holographic browsers and the great grandchildren of these users will be still happily clicking along in Netscape 4.
There's a project to get the toolkit running in Linux, using wine here.
Are there any sites set up about the conversion of the old modules? I was a very active user of the old FRUA game, and those were some of my favorite subject matter. The idea of being able to play through those great old ones with my old group, now scattered accross the country has me poised to buy it the very second they ship out the Linux version.
who remembers blast processing
Who could forget the ultimate buzzword, which enabled Sonic to blast through the levels at super sonic speeds! Not that it existed as anything but propaganda in comercials, but as a dedicated mega drive owner I love it nonetheless!
I havn't tried it myself with email, only the html editor, but the spellchecker here might work, depending on what operating system you're on. There's a 1.0/1.0rc3 build near the bottom of the instalation page.
I'd like to have something burnable by next Wednesday for the Ann Arbor Destroyed by Mozilla [schnitzer.at] party...
All this talk about Ann Arbor is bringing me down. I just moved away from there earlier this year to a cowboy town where people look on in fear and incomprehension if you so much as bring out a pda.
You seem to be ignoring one important fact that most people seem to have realized: Linux on the desktop does not work.
./configure make make install?
Who are you to say whether it's working for him or not? I run Linux on my desktop, and I don't have any of the problems you've mentioned. What exactly is unacceptable about the desktop experience with Linux? The so called aplication gap is pretty much non existant for the average user at this point. And untold thousands of compatibility and consistency problems? What, you mean the fact that I can't plunk down a precompiled binary in some cases and have to "gasp" click once on an srpm? Or the terrible horror of on occasion having to type
simply means that you folks haven't yet realized the error of your ways.
I think you're getting religion mixed in with computer use here. An operating system is just a tool, it's not some faith you have to evangelise with blind statements. You'd have about as strong arguments by saying "If you use Linux, God will hate you. He told me a couple days ago.".
All the evidence I've seen indicates that, for the most part, commercial software for Linux doesn't sell very well. That seems to indicate that Linux users as a group don't like to buy software.
Hm, All the evidence I've seen indicates that, for the most part, commercial software for Linux does sell very well. That seems to indicate that Linux users as a group like to buy software.
seek solice in the wonders of goatse.cx
I'm worried now that this is some kind of veiled warning that mars has already been claimed and inhabited by the goatse.cx folks. What a letdown to finally get into space, and be greeted with "D00d! I gots the coolest thing behind this dune, go look!
I read that as "inject a Linux partition", through a bit of a early waking haze. Now that'd be a fun virus. Millions of unsuspecting windows users go to sleep only to wake up to lilo asking whether they want to boot into SuSE, Mandrake, or the insecure system that allowed this to happen in the first place.
Soon, even the ever popular "Dungeons & Dragons"
I thought the lack of Neverwinter builder tools for Linux and Mac was odd, but obviously attention is being focused on a hush hush port of Neverwinter to the cellphone. All joking aside, couldn't you see this happening at a board meeting?
"So, you want to allocate resources to these non windows thingamagigs, like that commie operating system and that apple thing? It'd never work, focus on the super popular cellphone gaming comunity!"
I've always figured some people in microsoft thought so much of IE, or rather the fact that people wrote pages for IE instead of to w3c compliance that not releasing IE on Linux would keep people from moving to that operating system.
OK, it's a crazy conspiricy theory. But seeing some of Microsoft's statements about Linux in the past, or their view of themselves as benovlent shepards of the ignorent computing masses I wouldn't put it past them.
As much as I hate to say it, I just don't think we have the user base to have any significant effect on how well a game does or dosn't sell at this point. I belive things are getting better, but at the moment I think we'd have about as much effect on the industry by boycotting them as a boycot of Spider-Man by people mauled by spidergoats.
I do think things are getting better though, and agree very much on your point of buying native Linux games if they're released. While I don't think lack of revenue from Linux users for windows games will do much, I know lack of purchase of Linux games will.
Same reason I use MS paint with wine instead of the gimp on occasion when friends are over. Sometimes it's just fun to do apparent vodoo for people unfamilier with Linux.
OK, it's not a 'good' reason, but...
Have you taken a good long look at the sheer number of projects languishing about on Sourceforge that haven't been contributed to in a year or more? And how many of those are efforts to create a better Notepad?
I think that's a high reason right there why they'd have little interest.
I don't think it really matters at this point. Nowadays, every song you hear on the radio sounds the same or worse than puberty love.
Sometimes I really hate growing old. The first thing I saw when I read the blurb was that the guy was a nut. But you're right, no matter if he lives or dies this guy's a true hero. Almost everyone makes one compramise after another as we grow up, until even the most cherished of dreams becomes forgotten in a life of mediocrity and slavery to a time clock.
This reminds me in a way of the upright citizens brigade. There was a classic episode where a guy who was the manager of a coffie shop relised just how he'd let his dreams of making it to space fall away. In the end he died, eaten by an alligater after his jetpack didn't have enough thrust, but it seemed like he was living more in the time he spent in training than he ever had before. That was inspiring, and it's really a shame I actually see it happening for real, with a good chance for success, and I wasn't inspired at all.
Thanks for the wake up call!
The bad news is that there's a very good chance you'll have to wind up re-encoding them to play on the dreamcast. The upper size limit is somewhere around 400x400, and the support for divX 3 isn't to the same level that DivX 4,5 and Xvid are maintained. You can find it at http://www.moosegate.com/betaboy/dcdivx/ Note that the FAQ is a little old though, and it's sped up a lot since it was originally written. Originally 500kbs was about the upper limit, but you should be able to get 700kbs now. Also, don't use any of the DivX 5 pro encoding options. bframes will be ignored by the player, but any of the other options will mess up the playback. The playback is really fantastic. You can get better than vcd quality with twice the amount of time or more to a single cd. I'd been encoding a lot of my old vhs tapes to vcd awhile back, but after the initial release of the divX player I've been doing divX instead. It's really been fantastic. Support for Ogg Vorbis audio seems to be rather unlikley at this point, but on the forums the main coder has hinted that he's looking into supporting pure Ogg streams of audio/video, which I think would be pretty cool!