But by actively screwing with the models people had already purchased and removing the functionality, they pretty much ended any ability they have to market a PS* model as "capable of running Linux". Which means the whole point of offering it is killed dead - if you can't use it as a selling point for the device, what purpose does it have?
I never saw mention of OtherOS in SCEfoo marketing materials, other than the manual, and webpage that mentions it. It's not a marketing point, but there to encourage people to learn the ins and outs of programming for the Cell. Hobbyist development. Being able to run a real web browser like Firefox (or Opera) or OpenOffice because of that is secondary.
Don't blame Sony, blame Geohot. If he hadn't found that hole, they'd have left it in. And yes, I did have Linux on my PS3.
Not exactly. The Cell has one PPE core, that's hyperthreaded with Altivec, and 7 SPE's, one of which is reserved, so you get access to 6 under Linux. Still, it's a number crunching beastie. Untill quite recently most of the processing power of Folding@home was in all those PS3's running it, and they're still about one third of it.
It's not installed by default in Fedora 12 (wasn't in Yellow Dog either).:-( Not that I'm a programmer or anything, but it's needed if you want to compile the original Adventure code. Had to install compat-gcc-34-g77 to get it.
Who came up with that idea, requiring miniatures...not every tabletop gamer is an affluent teenager from Shermer Illinois.
So if someone showed up with a bunch of homemade cardboard chits representing units, they wouldn't be able to play? Someone can say, "if you don't own the $80 Bloodscrim Snotling set, you can't play."
I remember seeing a Mandrake box in a Wal-Mart in a small town in central Illinois some years back The tread where other Linux distros feared to, at the time...marketing to the masses. Not even Ubuntu has had shrink wrapped boxes in Wal-Mart.
I do not know about the PS3 (I recall an article that said that a PSN purchase usually allowed 5 downloads, so people were sharing them?)
Unlimited number of downloads on up to 5 devices. An example of how it works:
I have a PS3, a PSP 3000 and a PSP-1000 (with broken UMD drive). I can pay for a PSN PSone title and have it on all three. If I happen to accidentally delete it on one of them, I can re download it, no problem. If I get a PSP Go and another PS3, I can also have it on them too. If I go to a friends house and want to show him the PSone title, I can download it on his PS3, as long as I have less than 5 "authorized machines", once I do, by setting up my user account on his box (in addition to his) his machine becomes one of the 5 "authorized".
Why would you need to do that, since you and your friend could play online together...online. One of the plusses of online play is NOT having to take the time to go over to a friends house.
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You are confusing UK based Games Workshop (GW) who does Warhammer-foo with Game Desigers Workshop (GDW( who did Traveller and Twilight 2000 and is defunct.
My parents taught me proper LP record/45 single handling skills when I was young, before that, no touching. You need to do the same in regards to optical media.
Miyamoto is batshit, but in a good way, but should never be let near controller design people. In some ways is a very bad designer, the best example being the Super Mario Bros white block trick in 1-3. How many people found that on their own, rather than seeing it done in "The Wizard" or reading a magazine. That sort of thing is counter-intuitive and there's stuff like that in many other Miyamoto games. He's done a few clunkers himself, Zelda II and Luigi's Mansion being most notable.
True, but they're all buying the exact same few first party games, and ignoring the third party games which means it's the N64 and Gamecube all over again, so in 5 years you'll see a fuckton of Wii's and a fuckton of Wii Play/Fit's on pawn shop/used game store shelves but not much else. Not exactly encouraging to Third parties.
Sony has ignored the fact that console players want simple, fun games.
No, Sony knows it's market and it's biggest fans. While Nintendo IS selling plenty of Wii's to grandparents and soccer moms, Sony knows that not ALL console players want to do Yoga or play Wii Sports and buy no other games.
Sony's all about the "little bit of this, little bit of that." these days, kind of like how they were during the PS2 days. During the early PS3 days they were a little too focused on the kind of testosteroney young male demographic that likes Halo and Madden, but things are a touch better now. More RPG's would do the PS3 some good since the PS2's biggest fans these days are RPG gamers who haven't needed to buy PS3's since there are still new RPG and RPG-ish games coming out for the PS2.
The Wii is like that Monopoly or Life set everyone has that they pull out at family/friends get-togethers and holidays, but doesn't see much use otherwise.
Actually it probably was the SNES versions of Rock n Roll Racing and the Lost Vikings that did it. Blizzards first game was an SNES game, believe it or not. Their last "directly designed for " console game was in 1995. Though Diablo, Warcraft II and Starcraft did get ports.
I've told you a million times, you really can't do a good console game as a one man in a garage setup. You do a prototype, using Flash, pygame + SDL, whatever. That, you put in your portfolio to show off to potential employers/ dev houses/ publishers/partners. Then you do that, and that either gets you money or access to a devkit.
If you want to be a console developer you actually have to DO stuff rather than whine about the barriers to entry all the time. Take vacation time to interview if you have to, but just do something.
Console, singular, DEIW was Xbox only. Funny thing is the first game has a PS2 port with minimal differences from the PC version (mostly interface), but you can still play it with mouse+keyboard if you want.
Actually, you DO want to level up, a few of the Daedric quests have a level requirement, and some set loot is leveled to your level when you first pick it up, so if you want the strongest version of it, you have to be above a certain level.
I remember Craig Kubey's "Winner's Book of Video Games" had some good general strategies that are even somewhat applicable today. Let's see if I can remember some:
1. Choose life, avoid death. If you stay alive, you can play forever, racking up tons of points.
2. Defense Defense. Defense is more important than offense, but sometimes a good offense can compensate for a weak defense.
3. Not to much, or too little, but just right. Don't waste your most powerful weapons on weak opponents. Then again, if you're about to die, using your superweapon might save you.
4. Pig out when the slop is handy. Some games give you moments where you can really rack up points/items/foo...take advantage
5. Be ship/character centric. Don't focus so much on your opponents that you fail to see that you're about to run out of smart bombs or energy.
6. A person's got to know their limitations. Meaning know the limits of your on screen representations abilities, if you can only shoot half way across the screen, don't bother shooting at something all the way across.
I used to have a copy of the book, but I can't find it.
It's even easier if the remote machine has CUPS setup so you can access the printer remotely via IPP. You can then just add the printer via whatever GUI frontend you want and print directly to it from your applications.
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I never saw mention of OtherOS in SCEfoo marketing materials, other than the manual, and webpage that mentions it. It's not a marketing point, but there to encourage people to learn the ins and outs of programming for the Cell. Hobbyist development. Being able to run a real web browser like Firefox (or Opera) or OpenOffice because of that is secondary.
Don't blame Sony, blame Geohot. If he hadn't found that hole, they'd have left it in. And yes, I did have Linux on my PS3.
Not exactly. The Cell has one PPE core, that's hyperthreaded with Altivec, and 7 SPE's, one of which is reserved, so you get access to 6 under Linux. Still, it's a number crunching beastie. Untill quite recently most of the processing power of Folding@home was in all those PS3's running it, and they're still about one third of it.
It's not installed by default in Fedora 12 (wasn't in Yellow Dog either). :-( Not that I'm a programmer or anything, but it's needed if you want to compile the original Adventure code. Had to install compat-gcc-34-g77 to get it.
Who came up with that idea, requiring miniatures...not every tabletop gamer is an affluent teenager from Shermer Illinois.
So if someone showed up with a bunch of homemade cardboard chits representing units, they wouldn't be able to play? Someone can say, "if you don't own the $80 Bloodscrim Snotling set, you can't play."
Fuck em.
I remember seeing a Mandrake box in a Wal-Mart in a small town in central Illinois some years back The tread where other Linux distros feared to, at the time...marketing to the masses. Not even Ubuntu has had shrink wrapped boxes in Wal-Mart.
Unlimited number of downloads on up to 5 devices. An example of how it works:
I have a PS3, a PSP 3000 and a PSP-1000 (with broken UMD drive). I can pay for a PSN PSone title and have it on all three. If I happen to accidentally delete it on one of them, I can re download it, no problem. If I get a PSP Go and another PS3, I can also have it on them too. If I go to a friends house and want to show him the PSone title, I can download it on his PS3, as long as I have less than 5 "authorized machines", once I do, by setting up my user account on his box (in addition to his) his machine becomes one of the 5 "authorized".
Why would you need to do that, since you and your friend could play online together...online. One of the plusses of online play is NOT having to take the time to go over to a friends house.
"But enough talk...have at you."
You are confusing UK based Games Workshop (GW) who does Warhammer-foo with Game Desigers Workshop (GDW( who did Traveller and Twilight 2000 and is defunct.
My parents taught me proper LP record/45 single handling skills when I was young, before that, no touching. You need to do the same in regards to optical media.
10 hours, not likely, unless that rented disk had gunk on it or something
Miyamoto is batshit, but in a good way, but should never be let near controller design people. In some ways is a very bad designer, the best example being the Super Mario Bros white block trick in 1-3. How many people found that on their own, rather than seeing it done in "The Wizard" or reading a magazine. That sort of thing is counter-intuitive and there's stuff like that in many other Miyamoto games. He's done a few clunkers himself, Zelda II and Luigi's Mansion being most notable.
True, but they're all buying the exact same few first party games, and ignoring the third party games which means it's the N64 and Gamecube all over again, so in 5 years you'll see a fuckton of Wii's and a fuckton of Wii Play/Fit's on pawn shop/used game store shelves but not much else. Not exactly encouraging to Third parties.
No, Sony knows it's market and it's biggest fans. While Nintendo IS selling plenty of Wii's to grandparents and soccer moms, Sony knows that not ALL console players want to do Yoga or play Wii Sports and buy no other games.
Sony's all about the "little bit of this, little bit of that." these days, kind of like how they were during the PS2 days. During the early PS3 days they were a little too focused on the kind of testosteroney young male demographic that likes Halo and Madden, but things are a touch better now. More RPG's would do the PS3 some good since the PS2's biggest fans these days are RPG gamers who haven't needed to buy PS3's since there are still new RPG and RPG-ish games coming out for the PS2.
There have been RTS games on consoles, though there haven't been many lately. I own 4 PSone RTS's and they all support the PSone mouse.
2.8 GHz Dual Core Athlon here and the scrolling is slow and knocks both cores to 100%. It's fine in Chrome though
Yes, me too. Don't know what's going on with it.
The Wii is like that Monopoly or Life set everyone has that they pull out at family/friends get-togethers and holidays, but doesn't see much use otherwise.
Actually it probably was the SNES versions of Rock n Roll Racing and the Lost Vikings that did it. Blizzards first game was an SNES game, believe it or not. Their last "directly designed for " console game was in 1995. Though Diablo, Warcraft II and Starcraft did get ports.
I've told you a million times, you really can't do a good console game as a one man in a garage setup. You do a prototype, using Flash, pygame + SDL, whatever. That, you put in your portfolio to show off to potential employers/ dev houses/ publishers/partners. Then you do that, and that either gets you money or access to a devkit.
If you want to be a console developer you actually have to DO stuff rather than whine about the barriers to entry all the time. Take vacation time to interview if you have to, but just do something.
Console, singular, DEIW was Xbox only. Funny thing is the first game has a PS2 port with minimal differences from the PC version (mostly interface), but you can still play it with mouse+keyboard if you want.
Actually, you DO want to level up, a few of the Daedric quests have a level requirement, and some set loot is leveled to your level when you first pick it up, so if you want the strongest version of it, you have to be above a certain level.
I remember Craig Kubey's "Winner's Book of Video Games" had some good general strategies that are even somewhat applicable today. Let's see if I can remember some:
1. Choose life, avoid death. If you stay alive, you can play forever, racking up tons of points.
2. Defense Defense. Defense is more important than offense, but sometimes a good offense can compensate for a weak defense.
3. Not to much, or too little, but just right. Don't waste your most powerful weapons on weak opponents. Then again, if you're about to die, using your superweapon might save you.
4. Pig out when the slop is handy. Some games give you moments where you can really rack up points/items/foo...take advantage
5. Be ship/character centric. Don't focus so much on your opponents that you fail to see that you're about to run out of smart bombs or energy.
6. A person's got to know their limitations. Meaning know the limits of your on screen representations abilities, if you can only shoot half way across the screen, don't bother shooting at something all the way across.
I used to have a copy of the book, but I can't find it.
It's Cub scouting, for younger kids. In the US, it's the regular Scouts that do all that compass reading, map using, hiking, woodcraft stuff.
It's even easier if the remote machine has CUPS setup so you can access the printer remotely via IPP. You can then just add the printer via whatever GUI frontend you want and print directly to it from your applications.