I'd have to reccomend Fallout 1 and 2, sure you do have a goal you need to complete, but the way you do it and the methods you employ can be radically different. Still are my favorite PC Rpg games. You can get both games in a valupak for pretty cheap now.
Snood is fun, but it's hardly original, Taito's Bust-a-Move has been around for years prior to the emergence of snood, and has seveal arcade games, and ports on the PSX, PS2, GBC, GBA, PC and probbably others as well. It's interesting that almost enveryone in college has played snood, but most have never heard of the original. I don't really think there's any sort of analogy for it.
To be honest, it does not seem to be any different from the software kit availiable for the PS2 that allows you to play files from a host computer once you have the network adaptor.
Considering that "Playstation 2" is a pretty long name, and The Playstation and Playsion have always has the abbreviations "PSX" and "PS2" respectively, I woud not be suprised if the next console is simply called the PS3.
I'm no DJ, so I couldn't really tell you what's decent as far as turntables go, so I simply did a quick search and picked a price from the middle of the pack. So there is still a $200 price difference between LP and equivalent Digital Equipment.
Not technically difficult, though a "Blank" LP would need to be made of softer stuff that a normal pressed LP, as you need to carve the grooves in them. Because of this, they probbably wouldn't last very long, especially up to the kind of abuse a DJ would put on them.
There is equipment that lets you scratch with CD's and MD's, but they aren't vwery popular because of the prohibitive cost involved. ($400 for a single-disc MD 'turntable' Or like $250 for a decent dual LP set).
Nobody buys deer, but they do pay to have their kills processed. The state also profits from the sale of Deer Hunting Licenses, and local retailers benefit from the sale of long guns, bows, ammunition, camo/blazewear, tree stands, etc. Hunting equipment is a very profitable industry.
Except for the fact that a deer is not a person. Do you feel bad for the cows that are lined up every day and summarily executed for hamburger? Do you think hunting turkey is bad a well? As opposed to the turkeys that are grown for consumption?
The donated meat usually come from the meat processing plants (you give these guys your dead deer, and they give you back the interesting meaty bits, cut and shrinkwrapped, and they dispose of the skin and organs) The hunters don't donate the food directly, but when they send their kill to be processed, they can have X% sent to charity, so the local food bank gets venison steak and whatnot.
They have come out with special rules (or really recomendations) for handling deer in Wisconsin, like wear elbow length gloves while gutting it and don't use the field knife on the family turkey when you get home, but most of that it common sense. The state had also set up services to get the deer carcass tested for CWD before it was determined to be safe to eat, orherwise the state would have the deer destroyed.
You can't even flash a BIOS from within Windows, even if you wanted to. Curiously, I have never needed to do this with linux, is the only option to get ahold of a DOS boot disk for this?
To quote the Recent EGM: "2001: Microsoft releases a Halo TV adaptor called the Xbox..."
Though there are some interesting games coming out, I'm still going to spen my money on the PS2.
"A port of Galaga to (say) the Vs. Super Mario Bros. hardware can be done only with Namco's permission...."
That's why they were bootleg games, but anyway, I was intending to point out that reprogramming an arcade game to work on different hardware would be similar in task to writing a game for one of the mame hardwares, (writing software on a platform different from wich it will be run on).
Actually I read a ruling that ROMS are legal ony if you have the actual media the roms came from. i.e. the ROM chips (or things like the MVS cart that Neo-Geo used). If you meant cartriges as in having the NES version of Galaga allows you to play Galaga in MAME, that's still illegal, oddly enough. Though owning things like the Playstion Namcomuseum does allow you to do this, because the Roms are included on the CD.
It's definatley possible, but because mame emulates specific sets of hardware, you'd almost have to have the devkit for that specific hardware to test you game on. It's really no different than the various bootleg games that appeared throuought the 80's like Galaga being rewritten to run on different hardware.
Not sure about that, but CSS2 I've written to be 100% correct according to W3C.org renders correctly in IE and Netscape, but does not in Mozilla. (I'm Referring to CSS2, not just CSS).
I'd use Mozilla if it could render CSS2 properly, unfortunatley it can, so that leaves quite a few sites you just can't browse properly. Forget all of these features, Mozilla needs to support the standats, so you can see websites with it.
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Err. sony has it's own audio compression (ATRAC3) and seems to have figured out DRm with it's OpenMG software. All of Sony's portable hardware uses this.
I'm thinking that this technology is geared for the palm/laptop market. The manufacturer's site shows it on a palmtop (just an illustration), for example.
No, the display uses interference to generate a particular color (RGB) and they are arranged in the familar subpixel pattern on the screen. The interference is simply a different way to generate the colors for a pixel from an LCD which uses polarization of light, I believe.
And that would also make hunt and peck typing impossible, which I'd imagine you'd doo quite a bit, seing as there is no tactile feedback with this keyboard.
I do like the idea of this thing, add a pressure sensitive stylus and you could have a keyboard, mouse and tablet in one device, that would be cool.
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I'd have to reccomend Fallout 1 and 2, sure you do have a goal you need to complete, but the way you do it and the methods you employ can be radically different. Still are my favorite PC Rpg games. You can get both games in a valupak for pretty cheap now.
Snood is fun, but it's hardly original, Taito's Bust-a-Move has been around for years prior to the emergence of snood, and has seveal arcade games, and ports on the PSX, PS2, GBC, GBA, PC and probbably others as well. It's interesting that almost enveryone in college has played snood, but most have never heard of the original. I don't really think there's any sort of analogy for it.
To be honest, it does not seem to be any different from the software kit availiable for the PS2 that allows you to play files from a host computer once you have the network adaptor.
Considering that "Playstation 2" is a pretty long name, and The Playstation and Playsion have always has the abbreviations "PSX" and "PS2" respectively, I woud not be suprised if the next console is simply called the PS3.
No, it just means you've bought the right to listen to it in stereo.
That would lead to a massive increase of trackball sales, as they don't move.
I'm no DJ, so I couldn't really tell you what's decent as far as turntables go, so I simply did a quick search and picked a price from the middle of the pack. So there is still a $200 price difference between LP and equivalent Digital Equipment.
Not technically difficult, though a "Blank" LP would need to be made of softer stuff that a normal pressed LP, as you need to carve the grooves in them. Because of this, they probbably wouldn't last very long, especially up to the kind of abuse a DJ would put on them.
There is equipment that lets you scratch with CD's and MD's, but they aren't vwery popular because of the prohibitive cost involved. ($400 for a single-disc MD 'turntable' Or like $250 for a decent dual LP set).
Nobody buys deer, but they do pay to have their kills processed. The state also profits from the sale of Deer Hunting Licenses, and local retailers benefit from the sale of long guns, bows, ammunition, camo/blazewear, tree stands, etc. Hunting equipment is a very profitable industry.
Except for the fact that a deer is not a person. Do you feel bad for the cows that are lined up every day and summarily executed for hamburger? Do you think hunting turkey is bad a well? As opposed to the turkeys that are grown for consumption?
The donated meat usually come from the meat processing plants (you give these guys your dead deer, and they give you back the interesting meaty bits, cut and shrinkwrapped, and they dispose of the skin and organs) The hunters don't donate the food directly, but when they send their kill to be processed, they can have X% sent to charity, so the local food bank gets venison steak and whatnot.
They have come out with special rules (or really recomendations) for handling deer in Wisconsin, like wear elbow length gloves while gutting it and don't use the field knife on the family turkey when you get home, but most of that it common sense. The state had also set up services to get the deer carcass tested for CWD before it was determined to be safe to eat, orherwise the state would have the deer destroyed.
You can't even flash a BIOS from within Windows, even if you wanted to. Curiously, I have never needed to do this with linux, is the only option to get ahold of a DOS boot disk for this?
To quote the Recent EGM: "2001: Microsoft releases a Halo TV adaptor called the Xbox..." Though there are some interesting games coming out, I'm still going to spen my money on the PS2.
"A port of Galaga to (say) the Vs. Super Mario Bros. hardware can be done only with Namco's permission...." That's why they were bootleg games, but anyway, I was intending to point out that reprogramming an arcade game to work on different hardware would be similar in task to writing a game for one of the mame hardwares, (writing software on a platform different from wich it will be run on).
Actually I read a ruling that ROMS are legal ony if you have the actual media the roms came from. i.e. the ROM chips (or things like the MVS cart that Neo-Geo used). If you meant cartriges as in having the NES version of Galaga allows you to play Galaga in MAME, that's still illegal, oddly enough. Though owning things like the Playstion Namcomuseum does allow you to do this, because the Roms are included on the CD.
It's definatley possible, but because mame emulates specific sets of hardware, you'd almost have to have the devkit for that specific hardware to test you game on. It's really no different than the various bootleg games that appeared throuought the 80's like Galaga being rewritten to run on different hardware.
Wal-mart sells them for $20, though the controller is awful huge.
Not sure about that, but CSS2 I've written to be 100% correct according to W3C.org renders correctly in IE and Netscape, but does not in Mozilla. (I'm Referring to CSS2, not just CSS).
I'd use Mozilla if it could render CSS2 properly, unfortunatley it can, so that leaves quite a few sites you just can't browse properly. Forget all of these features, Mozilla needs to support the standats, so you can see websites with it.
Err. sony has it's own audio compression (ATRAC3) and seems to have figured out DRm with it's OpenMG software. All of Sony's portable hardware uses this.
I'm thinking that this technology is geared for the palm/laptop market. The manufacturer's site shows it on a palmtop (just an illustration), for example.
No, the display uses interference to generate a particular color (RGB) and they are arranged in the familar subpixel pattern on the screen. The interference is simply a different way to generate the colors for a pixel from an LCD which uses polarization of light, I believe.
And that would also make hunt and peck typing impossible, which I'd imagine you'd doo quite a bit, seing as there is no tactile feedback with this keyboard. I do like the idea of this thing, add a pressure sensitive stylus and you could have a keyboard, mouse and tablet in one device, that would be cool.