Sega sold the genesis, which had a 2 year jump on the market (in the US).
Super Nintendo CRUSHED the genesis eventually.
Midway 'censored' MK, not Nintendo. They did so because of all the hooplah over the arcade release.
Mortal Kombat 2 shipped for SNES with all the blood, gore and fatalities.
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 was to be the "killer app" for PSX, since it truly had the power to reproduce the arcade game. The horrendous load times between bouts took the wind out of its sales, and PSX languished with the rest of the pack - Saturn, Jaguar, 3DO, CDi. Most folks just hung on to their SNES's. Final Fantasy 7 was really the game that "saved" PSX from extinction.
RCA Video and Audio out jacks. You can find the real estate for it.
I should be able to plug into any TV with convenient front a/v jacks and play up on the big screen.
The A/V hack for GBA is by far the coolest, IMO. Build this functionality in, don't try to sucker me by offering me a 60 dollar addon for a 100 dollar console to play my games on TV (GBA player).
I'd spend so much more time playing the games (and consequently buy more games) at home on the TV. As it stands, GBA is good to occupy you while you take a dump, but it's not something you sit down to play.
The "problem" with IRC is that it connects people. IRC isnt a breeding ground for weird stuff, humanity is.
The main beef is that IRC is an old, open protocol with countless free servers out there. How are you supposed to charge 10 cents per instant message when such things exist?
Babies are safer when you write a lot of checks. Beware free things, they're inherently evil and unamerican. IRC is like a slum (he doesnt mention which network, I'll assume they're all the same). AOL chat rooms are where high class individuals masturbate.
Wow, talk about your corporate motivated propoganda.
the Internet has come to resemble a pleasant, well-policed suburb
I guess the key here is well-policed, huh. Wouldn't want to offend.
The problem that the corporate world has with IRC is that it's a network of humans, exchanging ideas and conversing freely. And, to make matters worse, they aren't paying a monthly/weekly/hourly fee to do so.
I've read a lot of these "watch out for these free social based things on the internet, the only way to keep your kids safe is to stay on amazon.com with your credit card in hand" articles.
Thats a crock of shit, I could build apps for your roommate's PDA, and would if it existed in the market in sufficient numbers. So would any developers. WinCE, and PalmOS are simple to develop for.
With devices like this the lifetime is limited by the hardware. All the tinkering and improving (ie; fixing bugs that it shipped with) in the world won't get it running Halo.
Sure, people who want a PDA and for whom 650 bucks doesnt mean anything.
Dont you know that to status seekers, ultra-consumerists, whatever you want to call them, more expensive = higher quality = you are a better person for owning it.
Windows users for server and desktop seems to find AMD price/performance compelling even if they're restricted to running full time in 32 bit compatability mode.
Or they're being mislead into thinking the 64 means something to them, which at the moment it doesnt.
Bigger numbers = better in the comp section at Best Buy.
a) impress nerds online by listing all your specs and benchmarks in your.sigs
or
b) play games well
ATI benchmark faster than nVidia. nVidia actually works correctly in games.
I have a 9800, I'm just not a fanboy. It's a decent card, but having serious problems with almost every major recent title (Call of Duty, Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, etc, etc) is really pissing me off. I could care less about missing effects that are nVidia specific - I'm pissed about stuff that should work, yet doesnt. Ie; ATIs smartgart (or some shit, who cares) causes CoD to hardlock all the time. I've never been able to complete more than two levels.
Any serious use of PS2.0 right now slows a game to a slideshow, even on higher end cards.
Like Halo on a 9800 XT.. There was lots of bitching about how "shitty a job" they did porting Halo to PC (hells its XBox native so it couldnt be too much of a port), but the poor performance goes away if you turn of the pixel shader effects.
From what I've seen, PS speeds would have to increase 10 fold to make mutiple full scene PS effects useful.
The fanboy following video cards is endlessly annoying. I own a Radeon 9800, and it was good value for the dollar all around, but quite frankly, the support sucks.
ATI relies on big benchmark numbers over real world results, I guess that's what 'uber pc geeks' want. nVidia seems to cater to gamers by working with developers to make sure games USE all those fancy new functionalities of the GPU. Ie; nVidia's "The Way it was Meant to be Played" program. ATI plays lip service to it with it's "Get in the Game" program, but they don't provide the same support (like sample codes for killer shader effects, etc)
So we end up with TRON 2.0 having really cool glowing effects on nVidia, but flat and tacky looking on ATI. We have soft shadows in Splinter Cell for nVidia, blocky PSX-era crap for ATI.
Hell, I could go on for months listing all the anomalies in actual real-life games I've encountered. Texture corruptions in Tomb Raider: AOD, outright crashes in Halo.
For all the hype around FSAA and anisotropic filtering - just about EVERY GAME I've enabled them for has crashed hard. Unreal 2, Halo, XIII.
Oh, and the worst, the absolute worst, is frame drops to 5fps and worse in CounterStrike when there's smoke onscreen. I mean COME ON, I had a RivaTNT2 that played the game properly. There's no excuse for that, save a piss poor opengl implementation.
So I tried Will Rock, the game whos screenshots were on my 9800's box, and is a member of the "get in the game" program. This ought to SMOKE on an ATI card, right? Almost, awful looking texture corruption in menus, stuttering in-game for no apparent reason (nothing on screen).
Missing proprietary nVidia features is fine, substitute your proprietary ATI features. Just make them stable and working.
I've used ATI forever, they used to be a cut above the other retail level cards. Now they've slipped hard.
This is a case where nVidia will slowly strangle the competition, because the competition sucks. I'd really like to see ATI turn around and focus on the gaming experience, not the mutual masturbation you see on rage3d.com (the unofficial "support" forum) - with a bunch of kids comparing benchmarks and overclocks, with two or three frustrated folks chronically posting for advice on with mishmash of driver files will actually work with Counter Strike.
Anyhow, hooray for leapfrogging nVidia in phony-baloney do-nothing benchmarks. Will this fabulous new technology actually work with games or is this just more MARKETING BULLSHIT for the likes of toms hardware and hardocp to spread?
The funniest part of it is, if you look at the nuts and bolts of it, they're almost identical schemes.
The level of DRM is up to the content producer. They could leave it really loose, let you make unlimited copies, etc, or they could tighten it up (no CD burning, no copying) etc..
I'm constantly labelled a "MS Troll" by you morons for saying things like I'm going to say now.
Just a few days ago you were all creaming your pants over Apple's "warm and fuzzy" version of DRM. You were falling all over yourselves to be the first to proclaim how fair it is that you can listen to your songs on up to X computers, and burn up to Y CDs (or no CDs at all if the file is so flagged - but noone mentioned that yet).
DRM is an inevitability. Quit bitching about your "right" to do what you want with the content (code for "get it free off kazaa"), look at it the other way. Don't pay for content with which you cannot do what you want.
Ie; I can't watch Star Wars XIV though my VCR - I won't buy Star Wars XIV, etc.
I mean, I can't drink at Chuck E Cheeses, so I don't go there anymore. I don't write letters and throw a fit about it.
People lived before pasteurization, people lived before water filtration, people even lived before MOUTHWASH! And they were all... O-K.
To be fair, people live a lot longer now. Once we became aware of germs, and how disease spreads, the average human lifespan has skyrocketed. Once upon a time, 40 was "old age".
This article is alarmist tripe, but it serves a purpose, just to remind folks what should be common sense. Keep your bathroom and kitchen clean because bacteria thrive in warm, moist places.
And for the love of god people, keep your milk in the fridge. Or failing that, a cool wet sack.
Well, this is a lossless codec, so it makes sense for archiving.
The other contenders (MPEG2? MPEG4 is for streaming content, IIRC) would be proprietary. Maybe they learned the lesson from that knowledge-collecting thingamajoo that noone could access because the proprietary equipment it ran on no longer existed.
At least they can store the source with the media, so in 50 years you at least have the knowledge around to decode it.
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Because I want to play the SAME game on TV as on the bus. I want to pause my RPG, unplug it from the TV, pick it up on the bus, etc, etc.
Why the artificial distinction between "handheld" and "home" consoles?
There's a demand for this, hence Nintendos Super Gameboy and now GBA Player for Gamecube.
Sega sold the genesis, which had a 2 year jump on the market (in the US).
Super Nintendo CRUSHED the genesis eventually.
Midway 'censored' MK, not Nintendo. They did so because of all the hooplah over the arcade release.
Mortal Kombat 2 shipped for SNES with all the blood, gore and fatalities.
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 was to be the "killer app" for PSX, since it truly had the power to reproduce the arcade game. The horrendous load times between bouts took the wind out of its sales, and PSX languished with the rest of the pack - Saturn, Jaguar, 3DO, CDi. Most folks just hung on to their SNES's. Final Fantasy 7 was really the game that "saved" PSX from extinction.
RCA Video and Audio out jacks. You can find the real estate for it.
I should be able to plug into any TV with convenient front a/v jacks and play up on the big screen.
The A/V hack for GBA is by far the coolest, IMO. Build this functionality in, don't try to sucker me by offering me a 60 dollar addon for a 100 dollar console to play my games on TV (GBA player).
I'd spend so much more time playing the games (and consequently buy more games) at home on the TV. As it stands, GBA is good to occupy you while you take a dump, but it's not something you sit down to play.
The "problem" with IRC is that it connects people. IRC isnt a breeding ground for weird stuff, humanity is.
The main beef is that IRC is an old, open protocol with countless free servers out there. How are you supposed to charge 10 cents per instant message when such things exist?
Babies are safer when you write a lot of checks. Beware free things, they're inherently evil and unamerican. IRC is like a slum (he doesnt mention which network, I'll assume they're all the same). AOL chat rooms are where high class individuals masturbate.
Wow, talk about your corporate motivated propoganda.
the Internet has come to resemble a pleasant, well-policed suburb
I guess the key here is well-policed, huh. Wouldn't want to offend.
The problem that the corporate world has with IRC is that it's a network of humans, exchanging ideas and conversing freely. And, to make matters worse, they aren't paying a monthly/weekly/hourly fee to do so.
I've read a lot of these "watch out for these free social based things on the internet, the only way to keep your kids safe is to stay on amazon.com with your credit card in hand" articles.
Meh, fuckit.
They find out the location of the person who won the car, not every coke drinker.
Fuck, if any of you slashtools win, dont press the button. Give it to me, I'm not worried about being "tracked" by the "man" at coca cola.
Thats a crock of shit, I could build apps for your roommate's PDA, and would if it existed in the market in sufficient numbers. So would any developers. WinCE, and PalmOS are simple to develop for.
With devices like this the lifetime is limited by the hardware. All the tinkering and improving (ie; fixing bugs that it shipped with) in the world won't get it running Halo.
Sure, people who want a PDA and for whom 650 bucks doesnt mean anything.
Dont you know that to status seekers, ultra-consumerists, whatever you want to call them, more expensive = higher quality = you are a better person for owning it.
Windows users for server and desktop seems to find AMD price/performance compelling even if they're restricted to running full time in 32 bit compatability mode.
Or they're being mislead into thinking the 64 means something to them, which at the moment it doesnt.
Bigger numbers = better in the comp section at Best Buy.
Last time I installed it prompted me for an administrator password, and warned me when I tried to leave it blank.
Now, slackwares default install leaves you to log in as root with no password. Luckily virtually no networking gear works out of the box.
Decide what you want your ultra-l337 box to do.
.sigs
a) impress nerds online by listing all your specs and benchmarks in your
or
b) play games well
ATI benchmark faster than nVidia. nVidia actually works correctly in games.
I have a 9800, I'm just not a fanboy. It's a decent card, but having serious problems with almost every major recent title (Call of Duty, Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, etc, etc) is really pissing me off. I could care less about missing effects that are nVidia specific - I'm pissed about stuff that should work, yet doesnt. Ie; ATIs smartgart (or some shit, who cares) causes CoD to hardlock all the time. I've never been able to complete more than two levels.
X = 10
Dont you know every cool product must have an X in it? Or if you use a numbering scheme, always go pseudo-roman numerals once you pass 9.
It's Xtreme to the MaxXXX!
Any serious use of PS2.0 right now slows a game to a slideshow, even on higher end cards.
Like Halo on a 9800 XT.. There was lots of bitching about how "shitty a job" they did porting Halo to PC (hells its XBox native so it couldnt be too much of a port), but the poor performance goes away if you turn of the pixel shader effects.
From what I've seen, PS speeds would have to increase 10 fold to make mutiple full scene PS effects useful.
with ultra shit support.
The fanboy following video cards is endlessly annoying. I own a Radeon 9800, and it was good value for the dollar all around, but quite frankly, the support sucks.
ATI relies on big benchmark numbers over real world results, I guess that's what 'uber pc geeks' want. nVidia seems to cater to gamers by working with developers to make sure games USE all those fancy new functionalities of the GPU. Ie; nVidia's "The Way it was Meant to be Played" program. ATI plays lip service to it with it's "Get in the Game" program, but they don't provide the same support (like sample codes for killer shader effects, etc)
So we end up with TRON 2.0 having really cool glowing effects on nVidia, but flat and tacky looking on ATI. We have soft shadows in Splinter Cell for nVidia, blocky PSX-era crap for ATI.
Hell, I could go on for months listing all the anomalies in actual real-life games I've encountered. Texture corruptions in Tomb Raider: AOD, outright crashes in Halo.
For all the hype around FSAA and anisotropic filtering - just about EVERY GAME I've enabled them for has crashed hard. Unreal 2, Halo, XIII.
Oh, and the worst, the absolute worst, is frame drops to 5fps and worse in CounterStrike when there's smoke onscreen. I mean COME ON, I had a RivaTNT2 that played the game properly. There's no excuse for that, save a piss poor opengl implementation.
So I tried Will Rock, the game whos screenshots were on my 9800's box, and is a member of the "get in the game" program. This ought to SMOKE on an ATI card, right? Almost, awful looking texture corruption in menus, stuttering in-game for no apparent reason (nothing on screen).
Missing proprietary nVidia features is fine, substitute your proprietary ATI features. Just make them stable and working.
I've used ATI forever, they used to be a cut above the other retail level cards. Now they've slipped hard.
This is a case where nVidia will slowly strangle the competition, because the competition sucks. I'd really like to see ATI turn around and focus on the gaming experience, not the mutual masturbation you see on rage3d.com (the unofficial "support" forum) - with a bunch of kids comparing benchmarks and overclocks, with two or three frustrated folks chronically posting for advice on with mishmash of driver files will actually work with Counter Strike.
Anyhow, hooray for leapfrogging nVidia in phony-baloney do-nothing benchmarks. Will this fabulous new technology actually work with games or is this just more MARKETING BULLSHIT for the likes of toms hardware and hardocp to spread?
What kind of stupid moron would steal something like that. Probably some crackhead shmuck who didn't know what it was and figured it was worth a buck.
Who'd you sell it to? Dude will be busted. Someone walks up to you in an alley and say "wassup cuz you wanna buy a ds3 innernet?" it raises eyebrows.
Thanks for listening.
Fuck you, you whiny douchebags! .. remember, this doesnt apply 'till I'm dead.
Aw, shucks.. You can have it now.
The funniest part of it is, if you look at the nuts and bolts of it, they're almost identical schemes.
The level of DRM is up to the content producer. They could leave it really loose, let you make unlimited copies, etc, or they could tighten it up (no CD burning, no copying) etc..
I'm constantly labelled a "MS Troll" by you morons for saying things like I'm going to say now.
Just a few days ago you were all creaming your pants over Apple's "warm and fuzzy" version of DRM. You were falling all over yourselves to be the first to proclaim how fair it is that you can listen to your songs on up to X computers, and burn up to Y CDs (or no CDs at all if the file is so flagged - but noone mentioned that yet).
DRM is an inevitability. Quit bitching about your "right" to do what you want with the content (code for "get it free off kazaa"), look at it the other way. Don't pay for content with which you cannot do what you want.
Ie; I can't watch Star Wars XIV though my VCR - I won't buy Star Wars XIV, etc.
I mean, I can't drink at Chuck E Cheeses, so I don't go there anymore. I don't write letters and throw a fit about it.
Simple enough - my only complaint was that the shower head was directly over the toilet...
No, the bidet was merely upside down.
People lived before pasteurization, people lived before water filtration, people even lived before MOUTHWASH! And they were all... O-K.
To be fair, people live a lot longer now. Once we became aware of germs, and how disease spreads, the average human lifespan has skyrocketed. Once upon a time, 40 was "old age".
This article is alarmist tripe, but it serves a purpose, just to remind folks what should be common sense. Keep your bathroom and kitchen clean because bacteria thrive in warm, moist places.
And for the love of god people, keep your milk in the fridge. Or failing that, a cool wet sack.
Bacteria likes to grow in warm, humid to moist places!
Be more concerned about the vast amounts of fecal coliforms (poo germs) on your toothbrush (re, a mythbusters episode a few months back).
If they aren't smart enough to write a little script to do it for them, I'm less worried about my job being offshored.
Well, this is a lossless codec, so it makes sense for archiving.
The other contenders (MPEG2? MPEG4 is for streaming content, IIRC) would be proprietary. Maybe they learned the lesson from that knowledge-collecting thingamajoo that noone could access because the proprietary equipment it ran on no longer existed.
At least they can store the source with the media, so in 50 years you at least have the knowledge around to decode it.
Who said they plan to broadcast it?
Sounds like this is geared towards their upcoming online archive, or achival in general.
40 years from now, players may not exist, but at least to code to watch those overrated monty python skits will exist.