Just a bit to the east and southeast of the Victorian Steampunk community of Caledon, you'll find some IBM regions, they've got their own private grid as well.
Yep, concurrency is about 10x what it was back in 2006. It's not super-huge, but it does have a core of dedicated users, and a small number of new people joining every day.
And the only way Jim could know that is if he was in SL, which he was. It's a bit of an in-joke, see Jim sees his avatar as one of SL's "popular people" while Dwight has dedicated himself to duplicating the drudgery of his farm and doesn't do things like hang out in clubs/socialize or even dress his avatar well. And if you check the rezdates of Jim's and Dwight's avatars, you'll see another little in-joke...Jim was in SL before Dwight.
Considering I just plugged in one of those cheap USB to Playstation2 controller adapters in to my PS2 and it worked fine, as well as a USB hard drive I don't think it "blocks" much at all. Except perhaps controllers from certain suspect companies that made that special USB chip (that doesn't properly follow the USB specs) that could be used to exploit the PS3.
I feel your pain, there's a few PS2 games where network play doesn't work on a PS3, specifically the Snowblind Engine Diablo clones: the two Champions of Norrath games, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, X-Men Legends 2. Single player and local multiplayer work fine.
You did know that the different models of PS3's have different capabilites/hardware and are identified by their model numbers? A la CECHA, CECHEB, and so forth?
For example, mine is a CECHE01 MGS4 model, which means: North American Deluxe model PS3 (with the chrome trim), built in card reader, 4 USB ports, backwards compatible with PS2 games using a combination hardware and software solution, SACD support, built in wifi, bundled with Dual Shock 3 and Metal Gear Solid 4, released on June 12 of 2008.
If I'd known that before I bought it, I wouldn't have shelled out $300.
Says right on the back of the box whether it was or wasn't, can't miss it. Also it's been in all the gaming press that SCEfoo stopped making backwards compatible PS3's when the Slim PS3 became the standard model.
CECHA, CECHB, CECHC and CECHE models all have PS2 emulation, and even in the CECHE the emulation is partly hardware based. They were still selling CECHE's in summer of 2008. my CECHE has played every PS2 game I've put in it, and the number of games that have had problems on it is small.
That actually happened under Fedora 12 for me as well...freaky isn't it, to not actually have to "do" anything. Though for me, printing under Linux has been relatively easy to set up. My first Linux was Sony's wack Kondara-ized Red Hat 6 for the PS2. To get a HP deskjet working with it I had to open up a terminal and:
modprobe printer
and then run the printtool gui and choose my printer.
On YDL6 on my PS3 all I had to do was run system-config-printer, and choose my printer.
In EQOA That's easy, you follow the road, there's one spot where the road kinda peters out a bit, think it's in a sort of arid area, but it picks up again soon after, there's also a couple of spots where aggro mobs can get a little close, but if you're careful even a Level 1 can do it. Course it helps that in EQOA, that even though there are zones, the world is seamless, no loading times when you cross a zone line.
True, but they also don't stop you from doing what practically everyone does immediately after an install...add the rpmfusion repo. IIRC there's even a sticky thread on how to do so on the offical Fedora forums.
You don't use tabbed browsing? Using firefox all you would have had to do is to select Google TV or Boxee in the summary, right click, select search via google and it would put the search results in a new tab.
And bad, because it means Salem's Lot is full of Vampires (because "one for the road" takes place after) and that "It" isn't dead because two Tommyknocker altered people saw Pennywise in Derry after the "Losers" supposedly destroyed "It".
Any game that uses the standard PS3 text input thingy supports USB keyboards by default for text input....quite handy for naming spells and enchanted items in Oblivion. Haven't seen any other use of the keyboard supported though, except in UT of course.
and even if you DO boot it into GameOS it will not update the firmware unless you actively do so. In fact you have to confirm that you want to, TWICE. I updated mine, so no more YDL for me. I do miss it though.
but most people don't know it exists because it's not sold in stores.
And wouldn't give a damn even if it was.
are likely into consoles precisely because there aren't a lot of games made for the PC with major-label production values that support multiple gamepads.
Babysitting gave you a warped view of console gamers. I rarely play local multiplayer on my PS3 or my PS2. In fact, I'd love it if my gaming buddy got his PS2 hooked up to the net so we could play Champions of Norrath multiplayer as the gaming gods intended...online...with our own screens. It doesn't bother me at all that the PS3 version of Ghostbusters has no local multiplayer, I can play online whenever I want..on my schedule.
Does this mean I need to develop those games myself?
Yes, but you'd be developing them for yourself. There really isn't a large market for such games.
Why is this the case, now that just about every PC still in use has a USB port for a hub to connect gamepads and a VGA or DVI/HDMI output for HDTVs?
Because of tradition.
1. PC gamers, until relatively recently, tended to be older and more affluent than their console brethren. This is the source of the old meme "consoles are for kids"
2. PC games DID have same screen games...before internet access became cheap and easy.
3. It is more convenient to play multiplayer over the network than drag machines around or invite friends over who have their own schedules and might not be able to come over.
4. The genres favored by PC gamers tended to not need local multiplayer. Back in the old days flight sim grognards, turn based, hex map strategy grognards and RPG grognards were a higher proportion of the PC game market.
Putting it bluntly, no one gives a damn about same screen multiplayer in PC games. Designing such a game is futile, there is no real market for them. Design such games for consoles, though in that case you're mostly designing for the after-school/dorm-room/frat-boy/married gaming couple market, because everyone else wants online multiplayer.
Since Sony makes their money from games, a PS3 with Linux installed (whether by an individual owner or as part of some sort of cluster) wouldn't make any money for Sony, so they took away the option, even if the owner bought it just for the OtherOS option.
PS3's with Linux installs on them were still PS3's with all the other capabilities of a PS3. Running OtherOS didn't take away the ability to use what sony called: "GameOS". You could boot between OtherOS and GameOS (standard normal PS3 mode) as you wanted. Even now, while PS3's with OtherOS can't use PSN, they still can play PS3 games (and PS2 games and PS1 games depending on the model)
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Just a bit to the east and southeast of the Victorian Steampunk community of Caledon, you'll find some IBM regions, they've got their own private grid as well.
Yep, concurrency is about 10x what it was back in 2006. It's not super-huge, but it does have a core of dedicated users, and a small number of new people joining every day.
And the only way Jim could know that is if he was in SL, which he was. It's a bit of an in-joke, see Jim sees his avatar as one of SL's "popular people" while Dwight has dedicated himself to duplicating the drudgery of his farm and doesn't do things like hang out in clubs/socialize or even dress his avatar well. And if you check the rezdates of Jim's and Dwight's avatars, you'll see another little in-joke...Jim was in SL before Dwight.
Blast I mean I plugged those devices into my PS3 with 3.50 firmware.
Considering I just plugged in one of those cheap USB to Playstation2 controller adapters in to my PS2 and it worked fine, as well as a USB hard drive I don't think it "blocks" much at all. Except perhaps controllers from certain suspect companies that made that special USB chip (that doesn't properly follow the USB specs) that could be used to exploit the PS3.
What are you smoking? DVD's are far more durable than VHS tapes that degrade with every viewing. I've never seen a scratched DVD rental.
I feel your pain, there's a few PS2 games where network play doesn't work on a PS3, specifically the Snowblind Engine Diablo clones: the two Champions of Norrath games, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, X-Men Legends 2. Single player and local multiplayer work fine.
While you can voice skype with a PSP, the PS3 doesn't have any skype capability, though you can video/audio chat with other PSN members.
Adobe released a new 64 bit Flash for Linux last week.
You did know that the different models of PS3's have different capabilites/hardware and are identified by their model numbers? A la CECHA, CECHEB, and so forth?
For example, mine is a CECHE01 MGS4 model, which means: North American Deluxe model PS3 (with the chrome trim), built in card reader, 4 USB ports, backwards compatible with PS2 games using a combination hardware and software solution, SACD support, built in wifi, bundled with Dual Shock 3 and Metal Gear Solid 4, released on June 12 of 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Model_comparison
Says right on the back of the box whether it was or wasn't, can't miss it. Also it's been in all the gaming press that SCEfoo stopped making backwards compatible PS3's when the Slim PS3 became the standard model.
CECHA, CECHB, CECHC and CECHE models all have PS2 emulation, and even in the CECHE the emulation is partly hardware based. They were still selling CECHE's in summer of 2008. my CECHE has played every PS2 game I've put in it, and the number of games that have had problems on it is small.
You didn't use the 128 version of GEOS? (it uses the autoboot feature)
That actually happened under Fedora 12 for me as well...freaky isn't it, to not actually have to "do" anything. Though for me, printing under Linux has been relatively easy to set up. My first Linux was Sony's wack Kondara-ized Red Hat 6 for the PS2. To get a HP deskjet working with it I had to open up a terminal and:
and then run the printtool gui and choose my printer.
On YDL6 on my PS3 all I had to do was run system-config-printer, and choose my printer.
In EQOA That's easy, you follow the road, there's one spot where the road kinda peters out a bit, think it's in a sort of arid area, but it picks up again soon after, there's also a couple of spots where aggro mobs can get a little close, but if you're careful even a Level 1 can do it. Course it helps that in EQOA, that even though there are zones, the world is seamless, no loading times when you cross a zone line.
Actually the Commodore 128 can have self booting disks as well and it slightly predates the first Amiga.
True, but they also don't stop you from doing what practically everyone does immediately after an install...add the rpmfusion repo. IIRC there's even a sticky thread on how to do so on the offical Fedora forums.
You don't use tabbed browsing? Using firefox all you would have had to do is to select Google TV or Boxee in the summary, right click, select search via google and it would put the search results in a new tab.
And bad, because it means Salem's Lot is full of Vampires (because "one for the road" takes place after) and that "It" isn't dead because two Tommyknocker altered people saw Pennywise in Derry after the "Losers" supposedly destroyed "It".
Any game that uses the standard PS3 text input thingy supports USB keyboards by default for text input....quite handy for naming spells and enchanted items in Oblivion. Haven't seen any other use of the keyboard supported though, except in UT of course.
No. Capcom wanted to do a 3D Mega Man game, no Sony pressure at all.
and even if you DO boot it into GameOS it will not update the firmware unless you actively do so. In fact you have to confirm that you want to, TWICE. I updated mine, so no more YDL for me. I do miss it though.
PS3's can do those things on their own, though admittedly you're limited to webmail with GameOS.
And wouldn't give a damn even if it was.
Babysitting gave you a warped view of console gamers. I rarely play local multiplayer on my PS3 or my PS2. In fact, I'd love it if my gaming buddy got his PS2 hooked up to the net so we could play Champions of Norrath multiplayer as the gaming gods intended...online...with our own screens. It doesn't bother me at all that the PS3 version of Ghostbusters has no local multiplayer, I can play online whenever I want..on my schedule.
Yes, but you'd be developing them for yourself. There really isn't a large market for such games.
Because of tradition.
1. PC gamers, until relatively recently, tended to be older and more affluent than their console brethren. This is the source of the old meme "consoles are for kids"
2. PC games DID have same screen games...before internet access became cheap and easy.
3. It is more convenient to play multiplayer over the network than drag machines around or invite friends over who have their own schedules and might not be able to come over.
4. The genres favored by PC gamers tended to not need local multiplayer. Back in the old days flight sim grognards, turn based, hex map strategy grognards and RPG grognards were a higher proportion of the PC game market.
Putting it bluntly, no one gives a damn about same screen multiplayer in PC games. Designing such a game is futile, there is no real market for them. Design such games for consoles, though in that case you're mostly designing for the after-school/dorm-room/frat-boy/married gaming couple market, because everyone else wants online multiplayer.
PS3's with Linux installs on them were still PS3's with all the other capabilities of a PS3. Running OtherOS didn't take away the ability to use what sony called: "GameOS". You could boot between OtherOS and GameOS (standard normal PS3 mode) as you wanted. Even now, while PS3's with OtherOS can't use PSN, they still can play PS3 games (and PS2 games and PS1 games depending on the model)