Toy Soldiers: War Chest - $19.99 on PC, $25.75 on Xbox One.
Actually the game is the same price on all platforms. If you double check, you will see that the more expensive version you saw is the "Hall of fame edition" (which probably was on sale at the time, it was on sale on PSN), Which is $29.99 on Steam, Xbox store AND PSN.
[quote]the RSVP sheet for this weekend's party was an Excel Online document.[/quote]
And THIS is the problem with spreadsheets, people are using them for columnar text formatting, for lists and the like, and NOT calculations. If they wanted an RSVP list there's @#$@#$ iCal/Webcal/Google Calendar
No thanks, if I can't play my game in an off-line mode, I really am not interested in it... which is why I have no interest at all in the latest generation of consoles.
What makes you think you can't play games off-line in the latest generation of consoles? AFAIK on the PS4, the only games you can't play offline are games that are online-multiplayer only to begin with, like MMO's. Even with MOBA's like Transgalactic tournament you can play singleplayer with bots, and not play with others.
You mean the Reaganphone, since the "subsidize phone service" program started under Reagan, expanded under Clinton, and then expanded to cell phones under that Commie Socialist Bush the Second.
When becoming a transgender is trendy, they become transgender...
That's not how the real world works. People aren't "becoming" transgendered, there were always transgendered people. It's just that it's now safer and easier to come out.
[quote]When Apple is trendy, they will buy the overpriced Apple...[/quote]
Apple is trendy because they make attractive consumer electronics for the non-technical masses. And then they actually spend money showing what you can do with them.
Apple Ad: Dancing silhouettes, itunes, people using them to make music, taking pictures, apps for everything, excercising with the iWatch on.
When people see an Apple ad, they want to BE like the people in the ad.
Typical android ad: tech specs, black shell, screen size. No "emotion" or aspirational appeal.
Ah it's extremely slow, but will come up eventually. Their gopher server is faster. Yes they have one of those too. You'll need a gopher to web proxy, the OverbiteFF addon or something like lynx to see that:
Your kids would rather spend that time playing current games. Take the money you would have blown on this and buy a PS4.
Considering that there are games on the PS4 that are intentionally trying to mimic the look of games of the past so I don't think that taking kids to a video game museum would be "that" boring.
Why aren't PC games on Blu-ray yet? I understand digital downloads are a thing, use them myself, but you can't beat the bandwidth of a truck full of blu-rays.
This reminds me of the early "aughts" when PC games were still coming on multiple CD's when the console versions were shipping on DVD's.
You may not agree, but it's Common Knowlege that there is no market for same-screen multiplayer games on PC. Do you know of any PC gamers that play same screen multiplayer on their PC? Do you know any games that support same-screen multiplayer on PC that aren't already on console? There is NO need to research. All this "research" you talk about it just a distraction and a delay tactic on your part. You KNOW what you need to do and yet you keep on NOT doing it, I think in part because you know your limitations.
You can either:
Write a game by yourself or with others that is good enough. You CAN self publish. The barriers aren't that high, here are SCEA's rules:
For all the years you've been posting on Slashdot, you have done neither and the console makers are friendlier to Indies than they've ever been, so what are you waiting for?
[CronoCloud ~]$ ssh ai.mit.edu The authenticity of host 'ai.mit.edu (128.52.32.80)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is SHA256:s2JBWJC3Mg1/fNR2qEZQk1Nr8szla0NZ9leWLO/E1aA. RSA key fingerprint is MD5:0f:59:9d:f4:cf:52:be:19:f6:51:87:63:91:a6:af:ff. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added 'ai.mit.edu,128.52.32.80' (RSA) to the list of known hosts. Password:
prep.ai.mit.edu still runs an ftp server.
I figure MIT is the sort of place that keeps legacy gopher/archie/veronica/telnet or whatever servers open administered by some bearded member of the old Unix Priesthood.
There is NO market for Big Picture living room gaming on the PC! They're majority of them are mouse+keyboard elitists as you can see on Slashdot. The people who want to play games on big screens with controllers are doing so on console.
You want to develop same-screen multiplayer games on the big screen? You need to do it on console, it's that simple. And if Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft don't hand out devkits to every guy with a dream, well you have to deal with the reality of the real world situation and do what you need to do to meet their requirements to get a game published.
In other words, quit yer bitchin and DO something.
Yeah, this. I have a launch PS4 with the 500GB drive. Luckily I'm not a " must have the brown military shooter of the week/seasonal sports game" sort of person so the space is not that restrictive...yet. But it probably will be by next year.
Some indie's are running close to a GB these days though.
I've summed up more of the Peasants' talking points
Excuse me? You of all people, who was once obsessed with same-screen after-school multiplayer on SDTV, and who was obsessed with becoming a CONSOLE developer, shouldn't be using the word "peasant".
My feeling is that a Raspberry Pi is about the best option you're going to find. This is what it was designed for, after all.
Agreed, they're known systems unlike whatever one could dumpster dive (in many places you are NOT going to find computers dumpster diving) or get at goodwill...if your goodwill/resale shop even has any computers. Some don't take them in.
Yes, you need at least a power supply and a flash card to make it work. Those will cost a few dollars extra. You can live without a case for a while if you're careful with it. The mouse and keyboard are generic items that can usually be scrounged up somewhere. Then use a TV for the monitor, just like we did back in the old Atari and Commodore days.
powerlord above mentions this kit, which comes with practically everything except a Pi 2 composite cable for those who don't have a display with HDMI:
There was PLENTY of copy protected software sold in 1985, on practically every platform. DOS, C64, whatever. Were you a Speccy user stuck using cassette tapes or something?
Can you name, off the top of your head, any of the distributions that he endorses?
While I'm not the greatest fan of RMS, I can name two. gNewSense and Trisquel (which RMS currently uses)
Of course the only reason I know about those is because of the articles mentioning RMS endorsements. Otherwise...is anybody other than RMS and a few other hardcore people working for the GNU/FSF using them? (The gNewSense people must be running their web server on a C64 or something)
Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, CentOS, those are distros with serious user numbers. Heck I'd bet even Slackware and Gentoo have more users than Trisquel or gNewSense.
Surprisingly the term itself is "safe" From wikipedia:
"Oekaki on the Internet refers to a bulletin board system allowing artists to draw online and share their pictures. The drawings are generally not uploaded; pictures are done using an online drawing program inside the web browser. "
It is probably a "weeaboo" thing outside of Japan.
Slashdot Mirror
Toy Soldiers: War Chest - $19.99 on PC, $25.75 on Xbox One.
Actually the game is the same price on all platforms. If you double check, you will see that the more expensive version you saw is the "Hall of fame edition" (which probably was on sale at the time, it was on sale on PSN), Which is $29.99 on Steam, Xbox store AND PSN.
https://store.playstation.com/...
https://store.xbox.com/en-US/X...
http://store.steampowered.com/...
The base "war chest" version is $14.99 on Steam, PSN and the Xbox store.
http://store.steampowered.com/...
https://store.playstation.com/...
https://store.xbox.com/en-US/X...
quoted from the summary:
[quote]the RSVP sheet for this weekend's party was an Excel Online document.[/quote]
And THIS is the problem with spreadsheets, people are using them for columnar text formatting, for lists and the like, and NOT calculations. If they wanted an RSVP list there's @#$@#$ iCal/Webcal/Google Calendar
No thanks, if I can't play my game in an off-line mode, I really am not interested in it ... which is why I have no interest at all in the latest generation of consoles.
What makes you think you can't play games off-line in the latest generation of consoles? AFAIK on the PS4, the only games you can't play offline are games that are online-multiplayer only to begin with, like MMO's. Even with MOBA's like Transgalactic tournament you can play singleplayer with bots, and not play with others.
If the Ubuntu privacy thing bothers you there's always:
sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping
There are also plenty of other distros. I personally recommend XFCE spins of Fedora/RHEL/CentOS.
You mean the Reaganphone, since the "subsidize phone service" program started under Reagan, expanded under Clinton, and then expanded to cell phones under that Commie Socialist Bush the Second.
The current president had nothing to do with it.
When becoming a transgender is trendy, they become transgender...
That's not how the real world works. People aren't "becoming" transgendered, there were always transgendered people. It's just that it's now safer and easier to come out.
[quote]When Apple is trendy, they will buy the overpriced Apple...[/quote]
Apple is trendy because they make attractive consumer electronics for the non-technical masses. And then they actually spend money showing what you can do with them.
Apple Ad: Dancing silhouettes, itunes, people using them to make music, taking pictures, apps for everything, excercising with the iWatch on.
When people see an Apple ad, they want to BE like the people in the ad.
Typical android ad: tech specs, black shell, screen size. No "emotion" or aspirational appeal.
Ah it's extremely slow, but will come up eventually. Their gopher server is faster. Yes they have one of those too. You'll need a gopher to web proxy, the OverbiteFF addon or something like lynx to see that:
gopher://themade.org/
The might want to level up their website host as well.
Your kids would rather spend that time playing current games. Take the money you would have blown on this and buy a PS4.
Considering that there are games on the PS4 that are intentionally trying to mimic the look of games of the past so I don't think that taking kids to a video game museum would be "that" boring.
Why aren't PC games on Blu-ray yet? I understand digital downloads are a thing, use them myself, but you can't beat the bandwidth of a truck full of blu-rays.
This reminds me of the early "aughts" when PC games were still coming on multiple CD's when the console versions were shipping on DVD's.
You may not agree, but it's Common Knowlege that there is no market for same-screen multiplayer games on PC. Do you know of any PC gamers that play same screen multiplayer on their PC? Do you know any games that support same-screen multiplayer on PC that aren't already on console? There is NO need to research. All this "research" you talk about it just a distraction and a delay tactic on your part. You KNOW what you need to do and yet you keep on NOT doing it, I think in part because you know your limitations.
You can either:
Write a game by yourself or with others that is good enough. You CAN self publish. The barriers aren't that high, here are SCEA's rules:
https://partners.playstation.c...
Or you can join an already existing company.
For all the years you've been posting on Slashdot, you have done neither and the console makers are friendlier to Indies than they've ever been, so what are you waiting for?
yes there's a need for FTP but MIT doesn't need to run one on every subdomain they have! For example:
http://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu...
ftp://aeneas.mit.edu/pub/gnu/
http://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu...
ftp://aeneas.mit.edu/pub/gnu/c...
and don't forget:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/
ai.mit.edu has ssh access open
[CronoCloud ~]$ ssh ai.mit.edu
The authenticity of host 'ai.mit.edu (128.52.32.80)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is SHA256:s2JBWJC3Mg1/fNR2qEZQk1Nr8szla0NZ9leWLO/E1aA.
RSA key fingerprint is MD5:0f:59:9d:f4:cf:52:be:19:f6:51:87:63:91:a6:af:ff.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'ai.mit.edu,128.52.32.80' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Password:
prep.ai.mit.edu still runs an ftp server.
I figure MIT is the sort of place that keeps legacy gopher/archie/veronica/telnet or whatever servers open administered by some bearded member of the old Unix Priesthood.
There is NO market for Big Picture living room gaming on the PC! They're majority of them are mouse+keyboard elitists as you can see on Slashdot. The people who want to play games on big screens with controllers are doing so on console.
You want to develop same-screen multiplayer games on the big screen? You need to do it on console, it's that simple. And if Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft don't hand out devkits to every guy with a dream, well you have to deal with the reality of the real world situation and do what you need to do to meet their requirements to get a game published.
In other words, quit yer bitchin and DO something.
you have to manually move all the saves[/quote]
Well, no, Saves are backed up to the cloud storage automatically
[quote]upgrade the drive, then re-download and re-install all the games again.
That's not quite accurate. You CAN backup the PS4 HDD itself, including games, to external storage, you just can't run them from there.
Yeah, this. I have a launch PS4 with the 500GB drive. Luckily I'm not a " must have the brown military shooter of the week/seasonal sports game" sort of person so the space is not that restrictive...yet. But it probably will be by next year.
Some indie's are running close to a GB these days though.
Five? Only 4 by my count:
FFIV (realm reborn and heavensward don't count as a separate games)
Type-0
FFX and FFX-2 HD remasters which are bundled together..
aren't USB 3.0 drives slower than SATA? The speed in Real-world situations being more around 3Gb per second?
I've summed up more of the Peasants' talking points
Excuse me? You of all people, who was once obsessed with same-screen after-school multiplayer on SDTV, and who was obsessed with becoming a CONSOLE developer, shouldn't be using the word "peasant".
My feeling is that a Raspberry Pi is about the best option you're going to find. This is what it was designed for, after all.
Agreed, they're known systems unlike whatever one could dumpster dive (in many places you are NOT going to find computers dumpster diving) or get at goodwill...if your goodwill/resale shop even has any computers. Some don't take them in.
Yes, you need at least a power supply and a flash card to make it work. Those will cost a few dollars extra. You can live without a case for a while if you're careful with it. The mouse and keyboard are generic items that can usually be scrounged up somewhere. Then use a TV for the monitor, just like we did back in the old Atari and Commodore days.
powerlord above mentions this kit, which comes with practically everything except a Pi 2 composite cable for those who don't have a display with HDMI:
http://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-...
Then use a TV for the monitor, just like we did back in the old Atari and Commodore days.
(classic insensitive clod joke follows) I use a TV for monitor now you insensitive clod!
It's true that the Pi is a "some assembly required" system, but at least every system is the same and there are tutorial manuals available
The kit above comes with a manual. I'm tempted to pick one up myself, if only to have a little debian box.
There was PLENTY of copy protected software sold in 1985, on practically every platform. DOS, C64, whatever. Were you a Speccy user stuck using cassette tapes or something?
Can you name, off the top of your head, any of the distributions that he endorses?
While I'm not the greatest fan of RMS, I can name two. gNewSense and Trisquel (which RMS currently uses)
Of course the only reason I know about those is because of the articles mentioning RMS endorsements. Otherwise...is anybody other than RMS and a few other hardcore people working for the GNU/FSF using them? (The gNewSense people must be running their web server on a C64 or something)
Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, CentOS, those are distros with serious user numbers. Heck I'd bet even Slackware and Gentoo have more users than Trisquel or gNewSense.
Gee there's been Total Commander clones on Linux for years: mc, tuxcmd, Krusader.
Besides there is no "best", only the one that works "best" for YOU.
Pinta? xpaint? mypaint? mtpaint?
Surprisingly the term itself is "safe" From wikipedia:
"Oekaki on the Internet refers to a bulletin board system allowing artists to draw online and share their pictures. The drawings are generally not uploaded; pictures are done using an online drawing program inside the web browser. "
It is probably a "weeaboo" thing outside of Japan.