No remake could ever beat Repton 3. Check out BeebGames for more games, including a large collection of Superior Software games (scroll down on the left-hand nav), as well as AcronSoft and a whole heap of smaller companies games that didn't take off. Oh, and don't forget the emulators. (:
That is when you stop performing and revert to composing. You make the dude sponsor you for that work.
Okaaay. We've got a problem here. There are artists who rely on concerts/cd sales to support their art. There are bootleggers who record/play/distribute the artist's music with no financial benefit going to the artist. There are fans of the artist who opt to download (free) or buy bootlegged (cheap) music. That's where we're at, right? Right. How about YOU go and talk to the bootlegger and get them to "sponsor" the artist and see what they say! Of course, they're going to tell you to jam it because they're making money.
We're always going to have this problem while there are people in this world who put greed before respect for one's intellectual or artistic property, and the solution isn't to simply "stop performing" - you're obviously not a struggling muso. Sure I can download songs for "free" and have my computer "play me the music".. but by doing that you're killing off the artists without them having a say about it. It's that lack of respect towards them that is killing off the live music scene also.
Here in Australia, APRA protects artists who get their material played in public places, radio etc etc.. and without them, there would be a lot fewer small artists around and we'd all be restricted to listening to top 40 crap.
Speaking of which, take a look at this Axel F midi archive! Someone's gone to a bit too much effort collecting them me thinks.
I'm not sure what got the whole MOD thing into my head, but now I can't shake it. I'm messing about with MadTracker and am reminiscing at ModArchive.com!:D
In related news, Microsoft has today announced the successor to its popular WMA format..
.. The new MOD format will allow four independant channels of audio, with a streamlined sampling rate of 22kHz. It is believed Microsoft are releasing the new format with DRM enabled to stem the rising tide of Beverly-Hills-Cop-theme piracy.
A Microsoft representative was unavailable to comment at the time of this submission.
It blows away any keyboard-synth voice I've ever heard before, but it's still not perfect. There's nothing wrong with the tone of the voice for background vocals, but the area they really need to work on is in the vibrato. Hearing a perfectly-oscillating vibrato is a dead-set giveaway and really detracts from the music, especially music that's trying to be old-skool and authentic.
Having said that though, I'm sure they'll have tweaks for that sort of thing in no time.
Shelf it for now..
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Quote from article about the original Concorde:
The companies decided to retire the famous aircraft after 27 years because it was no longer profitable.
What's the chances of a new Concorde (twice the passengers, twice the speed.. read twice the price) being able to succedd commercially in the near future, especially given the state of the post-9/11 airline industry?
I'm getting a mental picture of the staging of a fake moon landing.. then shortly afterwards the staging of a fake moon gold-rush! It just keeps getting better!
It's often easy to forget to treat the internet as if it were a real-life place - shopping centre/cafe/main street/nightclub/whatever.. We all should be bound by and work within the same rules that apply in regular society.
Now the people of Iraq are free and things are improving every day (despite what the news media says)
So... where exactly do you get your news from?
I find your point about the French very interesting: ("France was in it for the money. They were in it for the oil"). Okay. So France wanted the money and oil. Are you saying that the USA was completely, 100% not interested in the oil Iraq posesses? It's a pretty convienient situation for them.. you don't see the USA "liberating" countries every day (even when there are MANY oppressed regions around the world (which suprisingly aren't as resourse-rich). Not that I'm against the freedom of the Iraqi people, I'm just drawing paralells between the greed of the French (like you mentioned), and the USA.
Oh, and back on topic.. how did Steve Ballmer not make the weasel list?
RR>>Maybe they are maybe they aren't, but that's beside the point. They were "FACTS" that were in no way relevant to the discussion. The AC only injected them in to make a purely partisan point.
AC>No, the facts ARE the point.
You just don't fucking get it, do you? Let me quote the original AC:
Let the whining begin. Someone will say it is because George W Bush stopped the Kyoto treaty... Of course, this is wrong on three counts... The United States Senate (including its Democrats) have blocked the treaty, not George W Bush.
Of course! George W did it for the environment's sake only! What a caring, nice guy he is. Anyway, if that's a bipartisan comment, then AC#2 sir you truly live in a fucked-up country.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that games for the BBC microcomputer had some of the worst cover images around. Looking back to Barbarian II (love the boobs!), Frak!, or even Spycat brings back disturbingly nightmarish images from my childhood.
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I'm sorry, the type Messiah is deprecated. Try using the VeryNaughtyBoy type instead. (:
I pick Starbucks, for it is the hub of Dr. Evil's empire
Quick - somebody get that stool sample down to the lab!
There's only one solution to this: Place some cat food on/over one of the power cables connecting your PC. Problem solved.
No remake could ever beat Repton 3. Check out BeebGames for more games, including a large collection of Superior Software games (scroll down on the left-hand nav), as well as AcronSoft and a whole heap of smaller companies games that didn't take off. Oh, and don't forget the emulators. (:
*sigh*.. they don't make 'em like they used to.
That is when you stop performing and revert to composing. You make the dude sponsor you for that work.
Okaaay. We've got a problem here. There are artists who rely on concerts/cd sales to support their art. There are bootleggers who record/play/distribute the artist's music with no financial benefit going to the artist. There are fans of the artist who opt to download (free) or buy bootlegged (cheap) music. That's where we're at, right? Right. How about YOU go and talk to the bootlegger and get them to "sponsor" the artist and see what they say! Of course, they're going to tell you to jam it because they're making money.
We're always going to have this problem while there are people in this world who put greed before respect for one's intellectual or artistic property, and the solution isn't to simply "stop performing" - you're obviously not a struggling muso. Sure I can download songs for "free" and have my computer "play me the music".. but by doing that you're killing off the artists without them having a say about it. It's that lack of respect towards them that is killing off the live music scene also.
Check out APRA
Here in Australia, APRA protects artists who get their material played in public places, radio etc etc.. and without them, there would be a lot fewer small artists around and we'd all be restricted to listening to top 40 crap.
Speaking of which, take a look at this Axel F midi archive! Someone's gone to a bit too much effort collecting them me thinks.
:D
I'm not sure what got the whole MOD thing into my head, but now I can't shake it. I'm messing about with MadTracker and am reminiscing at ModArchive.com!
In related news, Microsoft has today announced the successor to its popular WMA format..
.. The new MOD format will allow four independant channels of audio, with a streamlined sampling rate of 22kHz. It is believed Microsoft are releasing the new format with DRM enabled to stem the rising tide of Beverly-Hills-Cop-theme piracy.
A Microsoft representative was unavailable to comment at the time of this submission.
Thank god we've still got the thrill-a-minute continental drift cam.
Oh man, you gotta check out the Slow Motion Mode... WTF??
There's also instant-message capability, the possibility to change skins and a virtual stalking feature.
The only thing worse than a goatse.cx avatar is a goatse.cx stalker..
Added benefit of this organization technique is that it comes with a free "relationship" thrown in.
:P
Definately not free, as in free beer, I'm assuming. There'd be none of that going on..
How many of your learned about the blackout from Slashdot or some other online news source?
Err.. Just as well Slashdot moved their servers from east coast to west!! (:
I'm hanging out for their next OS release.. Lynx!
It blows away any keyboard-synth voice I've ever heard before, but it's still not perfect. There's nothing wrong with the tone of the voice for background vocals, but the area they really need to work on is in the vibrato. Hearing a perfectly-oscillating vibrato is a dead-set giveaway and really detracts from the music, especially music that's trying to be old-skool and authentic.
Having said that though, I'm sure they'll have tweaks for that sort of thing in no time.
Quote from article about the original Concorde:
The companies decided to retire the famous aircraft after 27 years because it was no longer profitable.
What's the chances of a new Concorde (twice the passengers, twice the speed.. read twice the price) being able to succedd commercially in the near future, especially given the state of the post-9/11 airline industry?
The author Simson Garfinkel could also get whacked because he knows the guy who talked.
The authors could've figured out a more cryptic pseudonym. Expect a knock on your door Simon and Garfunkel! (:
I'm getting a mental picture of the staging of a fake moon landing.. then shortly afterwards the staging of a fake moon gold-rush! It just keeps getting better!
(:
It could be a bit difficult to conference call between two payphones though (:
It's often easy to forget to treat the internet as if it were a real-life place - shopping centre/cafe/main street/nightclub/whatever.. We all should be bound by and work within the same rules that apply in regular society.
Here's the press release.
Interesting to note that Creative is on the list. Will we be seeing a (more) bastardized version of the Nomad?
Hmm.. hope I didn't lose anything in the translation. (:
Now the people of Iraq are free and things are improving every day (despite what the news media says)
So... where exactly do you get your news from?
I find your point about the French very interesting: ("France was in it for the money. They were in it for the oil"). Okay. So France wanted the money and oil. Are you saying that the USA was completely, 100% not interested in the oil Iraq posesses? It's a pretty convienient situation for them.. you don't see the USA "liberating" countries every day (even when there are MANY oppressed regions around the world (which suprisingly aren't as resourse-rich). Not that I'm against the freedom of the Iraqi people, I'm just drawing paralells between the greed of the French (like you mentioned), and the USA.
Oh, and back on topic.. how did Steve Ballmer not make the weasel list?
RR>>Maybe they are maybe they aren't, but that's beside the point. They were "FACTS" that were in no way relevant to the discussion. The AC only injected them in to make a purely partisan point.
AC>No, the facts ARE the point.
You just don't fucking get it, do you? Let me quote the original AC:
Let the whining begin. Someone will say it is because George W Bush stopped the Kyoto treaty... Of course, this is wrong on three counts... The United States Senate (including its Democrats) have blocked the treaty, not George W Bush.
Of course! George W did it for the environment's sake only! What a caring, nice guy he is. Anyway, if that's a bipartisan comment, then AC#2 sir you truly live in a fucked-up country.
What are we all going to do now that 100% of the people actually sharing files have been named? (:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that games for the BBC microcomputer had some of the worst cover images around. Looking back to Barbarian II (love the boobs!), Frak!, or even Spycat brings back disturbingly nightmarish images from my childhood.