It was at the forefront of the "Let's turn videogames into total eye-candy with extremely limited interactivity" movement, which thankfully didn't take off.
Hahaha... that's what Final Fantasy and other PS2 games are about (except without the branching path)... loads of games these days are basically movies with a broken pause button...
US presidents haven't been burglarizing the opposing party's offices?
People in Belfast may wish they were so lucky...
And colour printing is not necessary for good news reporting.
I was referring to the time period (the olden days of B&W) rather than the prettiness of Nixon's mug...
Living as I do in a country where the main item of news (exclusive to all papers) is the daily whereabouts of female pop singers, as shown in grainy telephoto colour, I can appreciate that that improved printing processes do not inevitably lead to great choice of topics...
However colour can make diagrams clearer when papers do cover serious topics.
Do you have something that interesting from since the invention of colour?
Citing watergate, while relevant, is a bit like Bush saying that Saddam is evil because he did bad things (e.g. gassing Kurds) before the gulf war, when the US was supporting him. Can Bush not find anything bad done by Saddam since the gulf war?
Newspapers (here as well as there) like scandals, but they prefer them to be on issues of no substance (e.g. interns dresses) rather than things like who is paying the politicians or what their policies will do.
There is no way most local councils would allow that in the UK. NZ is another matter of course (plenty of whacky structures there).
A local cause celebre in London is the guy who stuck a plastic marlin on his roof... years of court appearances, driving a pink tank around the city and newspaper headlines followed...
Sheesh, we get major battles here over the size of hedges (Leylandii is not liked by those overshadowed by it).
The last prime minister (John Major) once had the job of ensuring all house doors remained painted grey (apparently someone dared paint their door another colour; the council painted it back).
You'll need a reasonably modern TV. PAL televisions five years old or more will probably display it in black and white. Modern ones are more forgiving of NTSC.
has to be Somario... which is sonic the hedgehog running on a NES (bootleg 1) with Mario sprites (bootleg 2). Someone must have spent a while writing that...
For that scheme, companies generally put serial numbers in each hardware unit sold. When the user pays for extra users etc. they get a code that is specific to that serial number.
Open source might mean that variable pricing (i.e. crippled versions of the software for cheap customers) would be easier to break.
that you clearly have the source code to your company's PABX and laser printers. It must be a pain blowing the flash roms and unscrewing the hard drives when you want to recompile the O/S to keep up with kernel patches though.
I don't know about id, but I generally thought "Alpha" meant a game was complete (all levels, full frame rate) and just had a few bugs to fix and the incorrect legals text (publishers are physically incapable of supplying the correct legals text until the game is at least in beta), possibly had some tricky networking bugs and possibly too much memory usage... this release sounds less complete that that (fortunately).
Ah, in that case it may have been one of your minions unintentionally exaggerating his position within Pogo:-)
[i think he's an acrobat in his spare time]
Although I am sure your partner is wonderful also.
when I created my web-pages... It is annoying that they have turned up recently. I doubt that removing my web pages now would cause me to disappear from spam lists.
I love the dinky screen, and how it uses the sensible VIC-20 colours - blue on white with cyan border, instead of blue on blue with blue border.
But the disk drive is out of alignment and AFAIK you can't plug a tape deck into it. My cartridge selection is rather limited! I can connect it to my PC I guess using the PC-parallel - 1541 DIN plug, but I don't know if the software will still work on Windows XP...
You may guess I haven't used it so much recently...
It's not so hard in software. VHDL may be another matter of course. Ugh, hardware:-(
I wrote the guts of a 65816 core in C in a few days, which is a superset of the 6502. The bugs in it were due to inadequate documentation rather than inherent difficulty. e.g. if you perform TXS in native mode with 8 bit indexes, does the high byte of the stack get set to 1 or 0?
6502 is very simple compared to Z80 or other 8 bit chips. I still think the SPC700 is the prettiest though:-) and current RISC chips with their weird special-purpose instructions barely deserve the name. Bring back the One Instruction Computer:-0
My university used to offer distance learning for computers. The students would post their programs in, secretaries would type them in, and the listings of compiler errors would be posted back to the students. At 2-3 weeks turnaround, the students were inclined to think before coding a bit more, and hoped the typists were good...
Soon after I left, the university made having access to a PC a requirement for the course, taking all the fun out of it:-)
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Hahaha... that's what Final Fantasy and other PS2 games are about (except without the branching path)... loads of games these days are basically movies with a broken pause button...
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Either way it is trivial to put a lens on the camera to compensate (and get the picture in mono).
I think this is the oldest extant games magazine, dating from 1980 or so.
A good start is by popularising file formats that don't align dwords on dword boundaries (hehehe "alignment exception")...
People in Belfast may wish they were so lucky... And colour printing is not necessary for good news reporting.
I was referring to the time period (the olden days of B&W) rather than the prettiness of Nixon's mug...
Living as I do in a country where the main item of news (exclusive to all papers) is the daily whereabouts of female pop singers, as shown in grainy telephoto colour, I can appreciate that that improved printing processes do not inevitably lead to great choice of topics...
However colour can make diagrams clearer when papers do cover serious topics.
Citing watergate, while relevant, is a bit like Bush saying that Saddam is evil because he did bad things (e.g. gassing Kurds) before the gulf war, when the US was supporting him. Can Bush not find anything bad done by Saddam since the gulf war?
Newspapers (here as well as there) like scandals, but they prefer them to be on issues of no substance (e.g. interns dresses) rather than things like who is paying the politicians or what their policies will do.
I guess that bloody big kilometre thick ice-sheet on top of greenland is a figment of my imagination then?
It does look beautiful on a nice flying day...
I suppose US newspapars don't show things that might contradict the government line...
A local cause celebre in London is the guy who stuck a plastic marlin on his roof... years of court appearances, driving a pink tank around the city and newspaper headlines followed...
Sheesh, we get major battles here over the size of hedges (Leylandii is not liked by those overshadowed by it).
The last prime minister (John Major) once had the job of ensuring all house doors remained painted grey (apparently someone dared paint their door another colour; the council painted it back).
You'll need a reasonably modern TV. PAL televisions five years old or more will probably display it in black and white. Modern ones are more forgiving of NTSC.
has to be Somario... which is sonic the hedgehog running on a NES (bootleg 1) with Mario sprites (bootleg 2). Someone must have spent a while writing that...
Most likely are pirate versions. These are official, but the 120 games in one jobbies are pirated 2600 cartridges (easier to make, but no front end).
Open source might mean that variable pricing (i.e. crippled versions of the software for cheap customers) would be easier to break.
that you clearly have the source code to your company's PABX and laser printers. It must be a pain blowing the flash roms and unscrewing the hard drives when you want to recompile the O/S to keep up with kernel patches though.
I don't know about id, but I generally thought "Alpha" meant a game was complete (all levels, full frame rate) and just had a few bugs to fix and the incorrect legals text (publishers are physically incapable of supplying the correct legals text until the game is at least in beta), possibly had some tricky networking bugs and possibly too much memory usage... this release sounds less complete that that (fortunately).
Although I am sure your partner is wonderful also.
And in the Bible people were fond of waiting around a hundred years or so before having their first kid...
...goes out with a gorgeous vision of loveliness, so they must be doing something right!
Yearly average spent on limes in the US : $50
Yup, the lime bacardi breezer is very tasty. But at £3.20 a bottle (eep!) it adds up very quickly. Not that I drink 2 bottles a day...
It's only £1.40 at the off-license next door to the pub, but the bouncer takes a very harsh view of people going next door :-(
when I created my web-pages... It is annoying that they have turned up recently. I doubt that removing my web pages now would cause me to disappear from spam lists.
at the Discworld Convention 2002 slave auction ("3 beautiful goth chicks") and hardly anyone bid for them! It can't be that common a fantasy...
I love the dinky screen, and how it uses the sensible VIC-20 colours - blue on white with cyan border, instead of blue on blue with blue border.
But the disk drive is out of alignment and AFAIK you can't plug a tape deck into it. My cartridge selection is rather limited! I can connect it to my PC I guess using the PC-parallel - 1541 DIN plug, but I don't know if the software will still work on Windows XP... You may guess I haven't used it so much recently...
I wrote the guts of a 65816 core in C in a few days, which is a superset of the 6502. The bugs in it were due to inadequate documentation rather than inherent difficulty. e.g. if you perform TXS in native mode with 8 bit indexes, does the high byte of the stack get set to 1 or 0?
6502 is very simple compared to Z80 or other 8 bit chips. I still think the SPC700 is the prettiest though :-) and current RISC chips with their weird special-purpose instructions barely deserve the name. Bring back the One Instruction Computer :-0
My university used to offer distance learning for computers. The students would post their programs in, secretaries would type them in, and the listings of compiler errors would be posted back to the students. At 2-3 weeks turnaround, the students were inclined to think before coding a bit more, and hoped the typists were good... Soon after I left, the university made having access to a PC a requirement for the course, taking all the fun out of it :-)