Who's community is he talking about? "my" community is linux. I don't want to move to the *BSDs, or GNU/hurd.
In fact nowadays I do almost all of my compiling on icc (intel's compiler).. hmm.. I wonder how close you could get to a working linux machine with nothing offically from GNU?
Chris
Believe me, there is more money in UI design than you can possibly imagine. However it's not really getting us anywhere...
Everyone wants a new UI but no-one can imagine what it will look like.
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If you release software under the GPL then you are letting people have it for free, with (very few strings).
Why is it that so many people release stuff under the GPL and therefore give it away for free, and then want paying for it? If you want paying for your product DON'T GIVE YOU PRODUCT AWAY FOR FREE! You can still give the source code away, but just don't let people give away / sell their own copies of the product.
Well, kindly keep in mind that the reason the GPL is often referred to as "copyleft" is because there's no reason it should exist if it were not possible to copyright software. It's a manner to fight copyright using its own laws.
I hear this all the time, and it's just not true. If copyright didn't exist, I could take someone else's source code, put it in my product, and then not release the source code to my program. BSD is much closer to "no copyright". The GPL is simply trying to force it's own alternative set of rules on everyone (different, and possibly better than "normal", but still a set of rules)
MrJeff
Most people get this wrong. The reason your screen looks better at higher refresh rates is that it reduces flickering, because as soon as a pixel has been activated, it begins to fade. The faster you refresh the screen, the less variation you get.
The human eye can pick up flicker at much higher rates than it can usefully parse things. If the pixels would remain set at a certain brightness the refresh rate could be much lower.
BTW, am I the only person who laughs every time some talks about have a frame rate greater than their refresh rate? It doesn't mean anything!:)
... that is the most stupid thing I've ever heard.
Mathematicians and physicists have been communicating for three hundred years by drawing mathematics, complete with symbol sets. Whenever I want to send / recieve mathematics nowadays, I tend to just write it in latex, because I (along with many mathematicans) can just parse raw latex off the screen. However I'd kill it have the latex (or MathML) parsed by my newsreader / e-mail client / browser in an easy-to-use way
Snatcher did have an English release, on the MegaCD and it was just as good as the Playstation version!
I realise that it is unlikely that people will have a megaCD hanging around any more, but if you pop along to the gens(gens.consolemul.com) homepage you'll find a megaCD emulator that is more than capable of playing it. Then just go p2p for the image! (I just looked and it's not hard to find).
While you are on the megaCD, consider also grabbing SonicCD, in my opinion the best of the sonic games (just make sure you get either the european or japanese version, as the american version had the music replaced with horrible rap remakes of all the songs)
Chris
Traditionally American -> Japan conversions have not done well.. Mortal Kombat and Doom/Quake (three that pop to mind as selling well in Europe / USA) did very badly in Japan.
The Japanese have a lower tolerance for pointless violence than we do in the west. Before anyone complains, I'd note that have a much better tolerance for the kind of sexual acts that two (or more!) people can legally perform in their own home, so I think it's quite clear who actually has the better moral structure set up...
However, they all use HLE (high level emulation) so have to be altered on a game-by-game basis (look at the ".ini" files that are famous for N64 games.. there is a game-specific hack or twenty for every single game). Some day someone will write a "real" N64 emulator that doesn't require these hacks.. but they haven't yet.
UltraHLE was worst, as it almost reinterpreted the code.. what you saw on the screen has almost no relation to what you would see on a real N64.. admitidaly it was actually much better which can be considered cool, but not "emulating".
There is no real N64 emulator (only high-level ones which don't really work on most games).
The Saturn has only just recently got emulators that work well enough to play the games and modern computers are (almost) fast enough to play them.
Screen shots of DC are getting quite far along but the emulator isn't released or anywhere near playable speed.
There is no PS2 or X-box emulator that does much beyond display a title screen or two (this is still a major accomplishment, but not really good enough to play games)
So to be honest the fact there is no GC emulator isn't that suprising:) Now that there are isos floating around and espically if people can put their own programs on the GC (which REALLY helps in emulating machines) then we may see them start. I'll be very suprised if you can play GC games on your PC within 3 year tho
There have already been multiple people who have made unoffical discs, like Datel's action replay and freeloader (disc for allowing the playing of games from a different region) so clearly it isn't too hard (or they don't really spin backwards)
Opinion on IRC seems to be this was done in the same way as the Dreamcast, ie someone produces some method of getting code onto the gamecube which reads the disk and sends it out.
Getting code onto the gamecube without Nintendo's permission has been previously shown to be possible by a number of cheat and "region avoiding" cheats. Therefore this part isn't too hard and to be honest it was only a matter of time.
The much more serious problem is getting a disc of reasonable size that a gamecube can read to burn the games onto. Obviously it can be done but perhaps only on a large scale. I wouldn't hold my breath to the point where we are all burning gamecube games to be honest.
Of course, in 4 or 5 years we'll all be playing gamecube emulators and then these rips will be in hard demand! Start hoarding now!:)
This is only related to the encryption. Those of us who have been using winzip for a long time will remember that winzip never used to handle multiple part zips, so if you wanted to handle them you had to point winzip at a "real" pkzip. I will be very suprised if the same system doesn't occur here. Also who is going to use zip's build in encryption anyway?
The GBA has the advantage that it is a very easy machine to do home development on. Grab yourself a flash cart and get going.
I should put some references in now.. instead I'll just say any of the top ten links from goodle under "gba development" are good. If you can't be bothered to search for it deving is probably too much hard work for you.
The most recent beta versions let you get to everything without the GBA (except for some shiny subgames) although it looks like if you are going to try for 4-player split-screen it's going to get awful crowded if you force it to display stuff on the screen instead of on a GBA.
While I do like the GBA SP, and it's screen, I'm sticking with my GBA and AfterBurner ( http://www.tritonlabs.com/ ) internal light (which is in my opinion as good as the GBA SP light), just because I can't use the GBA SP without getting cramp..
I'd live nintendo to release a new GBA SP about 50% bigger, then those of us with larger hands (or it seems normal man-sized hands) can hold it without cramp!
Am I the only person who found this deeply insulting. It basically seems to say that either you are a professional marketer, or some kind of brain-dead paranoid retard...
Isn't is possible to write good software and have it sell without huge amounts of thought about marketing (which is what seems to have happened with mIRC for example)
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Who's community is he talking about? "my" community is linux. I don't want to move to the *BSDs, or GNU/hurd. In fact nowadays I do almost all of my compiling on icc (intel's compiler).. hmm.. I wonder how close you could get to a working linux machine with nothing offically from GNU? Chris
Believe me, there is more money in UI design than you can possibly imagine. However it's not really getting us anywhere...
Everyone wants a new UI but no-one can imagine what it will look like.
If you release software under the GPL then you are letting people have it for free, with (very few strings).
Why is it that so many people release stuff under the GPL and therefore give it away for free, and then want paying for it? If you want paying for your product DON'T GIVE YOU PRODUCT AWAY FOR FREE! You can still give the source code away, but just don't let people give away / sell their own copies of the product.
I hear this all the time, and it's just not true. If copyright didn't exist, I could take someone else's source code, put it in my product, and then not release the source code to my program. BSD is much closer to "no copyright". The GPL is simply trying to force it's own alternative set of rules on everyone (different, and possibly better than "normal", but still a set of rules) MrJeff
Most people get this wrong. The reason your screen looks better at higher refresh rates is that it reduces flickering, because as soon as a pixel has been activated, it begins to fade. The faster you refresh the screen, the less variation you get.
:)
The human eye can pick up flicker at much higher rates than it can usefully parse things. If the pixels would remain set at a certain brightness the refresh rate could be much lower.
BTW, am I the only person who laughs every time some talks about have a frame rate greater than their refresh rate? It doesn't mean anything!
... that is the most stupid thing I've ever heard.
Mathematicians and physicists have been communicating for three hundred years by drawing mathematics, complete with symbol sets. Whenever I want to send / recieve mathematics nowadays, I tend to just write it in latex, because I (along with many mathematicans) can just parse raw latex off the screen. However I'd kill it have the latex (or MathML) parsed by my newsreader / e-mail client / browser in an easy-to-use way
Snatcher did have an English release, on the MegaCD and it was just as good as the Playstation version! I realise that it is unlikely that people will have a megaCD hanging around any more, but if you pop along to the gens(gens.consolemul.com) homepage you'll find a megaCD emulator that is more than capable of playing it. Then just go p2p for the image! (I just looked and it's not hard to find). While you are on the megaCD, consider also grabbing SonicCD, in my opinion the best of the sonic games (just make sure you get either the european or japanese version, as the american version had the music replaced with horrible rap remakes of all the songs) Chris
Traditionally American -> Japan conversions have not done well.. Mortal Kombat and Doom/Quake (three that pop to mind as selling well in Europe / USA) did very badly in Japan.
The Japanese have a lower tolerance for pointless violence than we do in the west. Before anyone complains, I'd note that have a much better tolerance for the kind of sexual acts that two (or more!) people can legally perform in their own home, so I think it's quite clear who actually has the better moral structure set up...
However, they all use HLE (high level emulation) so have to be altered on a game-by-game basis (look at the ".ini" files that are famous for N64 games.. there is a game-specific hack or twenty for every single game). Some day someone will write a "real" N64 emulator that doesn't require these hacks.. but they haven't yet.
UltraHLE was worst, as it almost reinterpreted the code.. what you saw on the screen has almost no relation to what you would see on a real N64.. admitidaly it was actually much better which can be considered cool, but not "emulating".
Chris
Not going to tell you where to get these ISOs, other than they are floating around the usual warez spots, particularily on IRC.
However you can see what has been ripped so far at:
http://www.nforce.nl/nfos/index.php?do=1&s=20
There is no real N64 emulator (only high-level ones which don't really work on most games).
:) Now that there are isos floating around and espically if people can put their own programs on the GC (which REALLY helps in emulating machines) then we may see them start. I'll be very suprised if you can play GC games on your PC within 3 year tho
The Saturn has only just recently got emulators that work well enough to play the games and modern computers are (almost) fast enough to play them.
Screen shots of DC are getting quite far along but the emulator isn't released or anywhere near playable speed.
There is no PS2 or X-box emulator that does much beyond display a title screen or two (this is still a major accomplishment, but not really good enough to play games)
So to be honest the fact there is no GC emulator isn't that suprising
There have already been multiple people who have made unoffical discs, like Datel's action replay and freeloader (disc for allowing the playing of games from a different region) so clearly it isn't too hard (or they don't really spin backwards)
Opinion on IRC seems to be this was done in the same way as the Dreamcast, ie someone produces some method of getting code onto the gamecube which reads the disk and sends it out. Getting code onto the gamecube without Nintendo's permission has been previously shown to be possible by a number of cheat and "region avoiding" cheats. Therefore this part isn't too hard and to be honest it was only a matter of time. The much more serious problem is getting a disc of reasonable size that a gamecube can read to burn the games onto. Obviously it can be done but perhaps only on a large scale. I wouldn't hold my breath to the point where we are all burning gamecube games to be honest. Of course, in 4 or 5 years we'll all be playing gamecube emulators and then these rips will be in hard demand! Start hoarding now! :)
This is only related to the encryption. Those of us who have been using winzip for a long time will remember that winzip never used to handle multiple part zips, so if you wanted to handle them you had to point winzip at a "real" pkzip. I will be very suprised if the same system doesn't occur here. Also who is going to use zip's build in encryption anyway?
The GBA has the advantage that it is a very easy machine to do home development on. Grab yourself a flash cart and get going. I should put some references in now.. instead I'll just say any of the top ten links from goodle under "gba development" are good. If you can't be bothered to search for it deving is probably too much hard work for you.
While I agree the SP is too small.. the Xbox controller fits your hands perfectly?? It's bloody huge! I thought I had big hands!
Nintendo's cunning plan is that via nuclear power YOU become the light... now you never need be in the dark again!
The most recent beta versions let you get to everything without the GBA (except for some shiny subgames) although it looks like if you are going to try for 4-player split-screen it's going to get awful crowded if you force it to display stuff on the screen instead of on a GBA.
While I do like the GBA SP, and it's screen, I'm sticking with my GBA and AfterBurner ( http://www.tritonlabs.com/ ) internal light (which is in my opinion as good as the GBA SP light), just because I can't use the GBA SP without getting cramp.. I'd live nintendo to release a new GBA SP about 50% bigger, then those of us with larger hands (or it seems normal man-sized hands) can hold it without cramp!
Installing Cygwin a 10 minute job?
Not over any kind of small internet connection...
also cygwin is a fairly huge install if all you want is some md5 sums.
Am I the only person who found this deeply insulting. It basically seems to say that either you are a professional marketer, or some kind of brain-dead paranoid retard... Isn't is possible to write good software and have it sell without huge amounts of thought about marketing (which is what seems to have happened with mIRC for example)
Can we have a new moderation? "Person who said 'I bet I'll get moderated down for this'. OK then" -1