Robotech dude, battletech was a cheap ripoff made by americans that just copied the mecha designs and eventually got their license revoked after using them in videogames without paying their royalties (or somesuch).
You sure?
Last I checked SDL has a wrapper around opengl, and I believe it has an audio output driver for openAL, dunno if you can actually get complete api access from within it though.
One is impossible to recover while the other has a chance of being recovered?
Kinda like accidentally overwriting the File Allocation table compared to completely wiping the hard disk. The data's still there, you just need to figure out how to find/put it back together.
It'll also help if they don't keep b0rking the ABI's in the C++ libraries every two or three revisions of gcc.
I've got Terminus, one of the original Win32/Linux/MacOS games and it no longer runs on my system's since it was compiled with gcc 2.95 or something. So in order to run it I'd need to compile the entire library dependency set for it using 2.95 and end up wasting 50-200meg in duplicated libraries.
Quite frankly with many of the changes GNU have been making to their utilities (not to mention linux kernel changes) I'll be amazed if anyone CAN still run their non-opensource games in 5 years for these exact reasons.
-- vranash
Dude, you DO realize SE4 has run fine using WINE (NOT WINEX!) for like over 2 years right? I've been playing it off and on on just about all of my linuxboxes and with the exception of bugs in the game itself (had some access violations that showed up more often in WINE than under windows, were present in both however) it ran just peachy.
Well, yeah, apple doesn't want an anti-trust suit against them because they didn't bother to include their competitor's browser in the box, because that would be wrong don'tcha know:)
My thoughts exactly, I just got through spending a grand on a 12" iBook G4 so I'd have something that got better battery time than my HP Pavilion ze5285us, which hovers around 45-1:45 battery time depending on if it's idle or in full use.
Amusingly the iBook had better linux hardware support out of the box (except for the lack of a wireless card and the fact that the official apple wireless card is a broadcom.. DAMN YOU BROADCOM!) Plus it gets 2 or 3 hours under full load at 800 or 600 mhz. Idling I can get about 4.
Plus for 700 less the apple has dedicated video memory, albeit only 32 megs, and a slightly better GPU (Radeon 9200 mobility vs an IGP 345M max 128 shared memory).
Performance-wise and battery-wise I'll probably look at a centrino for my next laptop, but I gotta say for the moment the ibook ain't bad.
Oh yeah, and just to rankle all those maccies out there, when OSX took more than 5 seconds to boot up, I restarted held down C and installed Gentoo linux instead:-P
On the minus I'll have to replace all my power adapters with 110v 85Hz versions, but on the plus side I can run all my old monitors at 60 Hz without it coming out fuzzy:)
You don't *NEED* to, you just have them configure their searchpath to go through 'blah.home.net' for example and if they type in 'foo' for example they'd poll 'foo.blah.home.net' first instead of foo.com/net/org
Actually if you're talking about a Zaurus or whatnot, most of them use compactflash, or at least have the option of using compactflash.
Currently my Zaurus (if I can ever FIND the damn thing) is set up to store everything on the internal flash, system settings and whatnot, and uses the SD-MMC slot to store all the programs/music I want to listen to.
So in fact while some of the original linux based PDAs had that problem, for the most part there's aftermarket distros that take care of the problem, as well as official distros/pdas that no longer have it (My Zaurus had 64 megs of sdram and a 16 meg flash rom.. newer models only have 32 megs of sdram but have 64 megs of flash inside)
Thus your complain is probably no longer an issue.
Is it a compression module in the crypto framework.. not zlib, srecb or somesuch? If that's the module that fails it requires an external library to compile.
Dunno, be interesting to try and find out though.. May go dig up my 486 DX 33 later and try it on that, if the regular ogg codec doesn't work, maybe the integer version will work.
I'm still trying to find a pair of those dual ross hypersparc cards, and an 8meg vsimm that aren't going to cost me as much as a dual opteron motherboard.. or that gig of pc3200 ddr I need to play SWG:)
-- vranash
Uhmm, WTF are you talking about? Ogg will decode on a freaking SuperSparc 50Mhz with pretty much no lagging. Given the performance of modern embedded processors anything 32bit at 75+ mhz should have no problem with ogg, even less if they use the non-fp decoder.
-- vranash
More importantly, think how much more expensive nike's will be without all that cheap chinese labor.. do you know what war with China would do to many of america's current businesses?
There's a reason we haven't gone to war with china, and 'freedom' has nothing to do with it.
-- vranash
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Robotech dude, battletech was a cheap ripoff made by americans that just copied the mecha designs and eventually got their license revoked after using them in videogames without paying their royalties (or somesuch).
-- vranash
You sure? Last I checked SDL has a wrapper around opengl, and I believe it has an audio output driver for openAL, dunno if you can actually get complete api access from within it though.
One is impossible to recover while the other has a chance of being recovered?
Kinda like accidentally overwriting the File Allocation table compared to completely wiping the hard disk. The data's still there, you just need to figure out how to find/put it back together.
It'll also help if they don't keep b0rking the ABI's in the C++ libraries every two or three revisions of gcc. I've got Terminus, one of the original Win32/Linux/MacOS games and it no longer runs on my system's since it was compiled with gcc 2.95 or something. So in order to run it I'd need to compile the entire library dependency set for it using 2.95 and end up wasting 50-200meg in duplicated libraries. Quite frankly with many of the changes GNU have been making to their utilities (not to mention linux kernel changes) I'll be amazed if anyone CAN still run their non-opensource games in 5 years for these exact reasons. -- vranash
Dude, you DO realize SE4 has run fine using WINE (NOT WINEX!) for like over 2 years right? I've been playing it off and on on just about all of my linuxboxes and with the exception of bugs in the game itself (had some access violations that showed up more often in WINE than under windows, were present in both however) it ran just peachy.
Go Check out SDL[libsdl.org]. 'Nuff said.
--vranash
I could be wrong but what I heard was that M$ bought a source license to VMS from DEC and that was the basis of NT. -- vranash
Well, yeah, apple doesn't want an anti-trust suit against them because they didn't bother to include their competitor's browser in the box, because that would be wrong don'tcha know :)
It would be but the USMC has already trademarked that term for their next generation of soldiers :-P
Easy, they all got taken to prison, I mean where else can you get killed, then raped, then eaten, but in prison? :-P
-- vranash
Depending on your girlfriend/wife it could STILL be an improvement :-P
-- vranash
My thoughts exactly, I just got through spending a grand on a 12" iBook G4 so I'd have something that got better battery time than my HP Pavilion ze5285us, which hovers around 45-1:45 battery time depending on if it's idle or in full use.
:-P
Amusingly the iBook had better linux hardware support out of the box (except for the lack of a wireless card and the fact that the official apple wireless card is a broadcom.. DAMN YOU BROADCOM!) Plus it gets 2 or 3 hours under full load at 800 or 600 mhz. Idling I can get about 4.
Plus for 700 less the apple has dedicated video memory, albeit only 32 megs, and a slightly better GPU (Radeon 9200 mobility vs an IGP 345M max 128 shared memory).
Performance-wise and battery-wise I'll probably look at a centrino for my next laptop, but I gotta say for the moment the ibook ain't bad.
Oh yeah, and just to rankle all those maccies out there, when OSX took more than 5 seconds to boot up, I restarted held down C and installed Gentoo linux instead
-- vranash
On the minus I'll have to replace all my power adapters with 110v 85Hz versions, but on the plus side I can run all my old monitors at 60 Hz without it coming out fuzzy :)
-- vranash
You don't *NEED* to, you just have them configure their searchpath to go through 'blah.home.net' for example and if they type in 'foo' for example they'd poll 'foo.blah.home.net' first instead of foo.com/net/org
-- vranash
No, you do not. -- vranash
Maybe they learned english and programming off of DalNet or EFNet? :-P
-- vranash
Actually if you're talking about a Zaurus or whatnot, most of them use compactflash, or at least have the option of using compactflash.
Currently my Zaurus (if I can ever FIND the damn thing) is set up to store everything on the internal flash, system settings and whatnot, and uses the SD-MMC slot to store all the programs/music I want to listen to.
So in fact while some of the original linux based PDAs had that problem, for the most part there's aftermarket distros that take care of the problem, as well as official distros/pdas that no longer have it (My Zaurus had 64 megs of sdram and a 16 meg flash rom.. newer models only have 32 megs of sdram but have 64 megs of flash inside)
Thus your complain is probably no longer an issue.
-- vranash
Well seeing as there's a movie called FoxFire, why not call the email client ThunderCat? :-P
Is it a compression module in the crypto framework.. not zlib, srecb or somesuch? If that's the module that fails it requires an external library to compile.
It's on PC too I might add, I got it.
Heh, that's somewhat promising then :)
Dunno, be interesting to try and find out though.. May go dig up my 486 DX 33 later and try it on that, if the regular ogg codec doesn't work, maybe the integer version will work.
I'm still trying to find a pair of those dual ross hypersparc cards, and an 8meg vsimm that aren't going to cost me as much as a dual opteron motherboard.. or that gig of pc3200 ddr I need to play SWG :)
-- vranash
Uhmm, WTF are you talking about? Ogg will decode on a freaking SuperSparc 50Mhz with pretty much no lagging. Given the performance of modern embedded processors anything 32bit at 75+ mhz should have no problem with ogg, even less if they use the non-fp decoder. -- vranash
More importantly, think how much more expensive nike's will be without all that cheap chinese labor.. do you know what war with China would do to many of america's current businesses? There's a reason we haven't gone to war with china, and 'freedom' has nothing to do with it. -- vranash