They appear to have removed the minimum specs. Not sure why. Anyhow, here they are:
System Requirements: PC: Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, or Linux with kernel 2.4 or greater; 1 GHz Pentium III or Athlon processor; 256 MB RAM; DirectX 8.1 or better; 3D Hardware Accelerator - Fully DirectX 8.1 or OpenGL compatible 32MB Video Card, Hardware Transformation & Lighting (T&L), and latest drivers; Sound Card; Keyboard/Mouse and CD-ROM; 200 MB Uncompressed Hard Drive Space; 56k internet connectivity
Macintosh: MacOS X 10.2.8 or better (10.3.5 recommended); 1GHz G3/G4; 384 MB of RAM; 3D Hardware Accelerator - Fully OpenGL compatible 32MB Video Card with Hardware Transformation & Lighting (T&L); Keyboard/Mouse and CD-ROM; 200 MB Hard Drive Space; 56k internet connectivity
Actually, it runs fine on a 450Mhz P3 with a 16MB ATi Rage 128. But I didn't tell ya that.:P
Will I ever see new article submissions?:D
Really, I'm kinda working on a php-based built-in article submitter and creator. But it's slow work, and taking awhile,.
I've been betatesting this game for, um, a few years now. It's the greatest game ever. Here's some reasons:
Scalable Graphics engine- works on the lowest of low end, is beautiful on high end
Engrossing Gameplay- What can I say? It's entirely unique, and entirely fun.
Great Community- this is not like CS, where it's all the 13373573R5 mouthing off. It's got a RPG-worthy community.
Great Dev Team- 4 guys. And they did it all. If you have a bug, they fix it. They're available pretty much all the time. What more can a player want?
A Future- They've got a capital-ships addon underway (will be *supposedly* a free download), and they release updates every week or so, with new features and bugfixes.
Tri-Platform- OS X, Linux, Windows, whatever suits you, the game runs great. It even kinda runs on BSD and BeOS!
If you're not playing this game already, you're missing out on a great game. So GO JOIN!
It's not for the legal weight. It's so that if I, J. Lawyer, e-mail my client a copy of his will and his psycho son intercepts it and murders him, I'm not criminally liable.
You mean something more accessible like a flashing red light that says "A critical security update is available", and appears in an easily visible place? Darnit, why didn't they think of that?
And most clamshells are 640x240, actually. The Psion Series 7/netBook is one of the only good larger-format clamshells, IMO. As for the iPaq, well, it's not a clamshell. And it, unlike the ones you mentioned, fits in your pocket. If I was getting a linux handheld, I'd probably get an Agenda VR3. Cheap enough that I can break without fear.
Yep. The demo is just the first three levels. The Rocket Launcher, Plasma Gun, BFG9000 and Chainsaw aren't in them. I don't even know if the Chaingun is in them.
IE is preloaded on Windows startup, Firefox isn't. If they invented a Firefox "preload tray icon" like OpenOffice.org has, it'd start faster. But system startup would be slower. 6 of one, a half-dozen of another.
Then you have a magic system, because I can't run Windows XP (without apps) on a 128MB system. I can't run XP with less than a 512MB system, actually. 256MB and it still is using the virtual memory. This is on a stock, factory install on about a dozen Dells and Compaqs. 64MB is below the XP minimum, so that's an impossible conjecture. 128MB is unusable. 256MB works fine in Linux and with a little fiddling works alright in XP. But you really need 512MB to run Windows XP...
And Firefox is lighter than IE, but it doesn't have the "pre-loaded from startup" advantage.
Actually, everything's been faster than 1.4. 2.0 might not have been a great release, but it was much speedier (except for Nautilus, which didn't get fast until 2.6). Anyhow, I've been using all the 2.7.x release and it's mighty fast on my TBird 950.
Actually, it is hardware accelerated on NVIDIA cards if you have RenderAccel set to "True". The RENDER extension is also used in conjunction with the new COMPOSITE extension in xorg-x11 for translucency.
Both can learn. The cursive mode was what is now known as Calligrapher and Transcriber (by ParaGraph and Microsoft). The Print was the Newton Recognizer, now known as Inkwell and present in every copy of OS X.
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They appear to have removed the minimum specs. Not sure why. Anyhow, here they are:
:P
System Requirements:
PC: Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, or Linux with kernel 2.4 or greater; 1 GHz Pentium III or Athlon processor; 256 MB RAM; DirectX 8.1 or better; 3D Hardware Accelerator - Fully DirectX 8.1 or OpenGL compatible 32MB Video Card, Hardware Transformation & Lighting (T&L), and latest drivers; Sound Card; Keyboard/Mouse and CD-ROM; 200 MB Uncompressed Hard Drive Space; 56k internet connectivity
Macintosh: MacOS X 10.2.8 or better (10.3.5 recommended); 1GHz G3/G4; 384 MB of RAM; 3D Hardware Accelerator - Fully OpenGL compatible 32MB Video Card with Hardware Transformation & Lighting (T&L); Keyboard/Mouse and CD-ROM; 200 MB Hard Drive Space; 56k internet connectivity
Actually, it runs fine on a 450Mhz P3 with a 16MB ATi Rage 128. But I didn't tell ya that.
Will I ever see new article submissions? :D
Really, I'm kinda working on a php-based built-in article submitter and creator. But it's slow work, and taking awhile,.
AFAIK, the minimum time is one month for $9.99. Not really a lot, if you ask me. And the accounts get deleted after six months of inactivity.
I've been betatesting this game for, um, a few years now. It's the greatest game ever. Here's some reasons:
If you're not playing this game already, you're missing out on a great game. So GO JOIN!
It's not for the legal weight. It's so that if I, J. Lawyer, e-mail my client a copy of his will and his psycho son intercepts it and murders him, I'm not criminally liable.
It was a close race. Unfortunately, the ballot boxes weren't stuffed well enough. The final answer is in... NO!
You mean something more accessible like a flashing red light that says "A critical security update is available", and appears in an easily visible place? Darnit, why didn't they think of that?
Try a psion. :P
And most clamshells are 640x240, actually. The Psion Series 7/netBook is one of the only good larger-format clamshells, IMO. As for the iPaq, well, it's not a clamshell. And it, unlike the ones you mentioned, fits in your pocket. If I was getting a linux handheld, I'd probably get an Agenda VR3. Cheap enough that I can break without fear.
Hmm. That's a good argument. Perhaps I'll change my ~/.sig from the one about short-sighted politicians and NASA funding to this one.
Wow. IE6 won't even start in under 15 seconds on an Athlon XP 3000 sometimes.
Of course, once you turn off shadows, the whole game is pointless and the engine worthless because the focus of it -is- the shadows...
Yep. The demo is just the first three levels. The Rocket Launcher, Plasma Gun, BFG9000 and Chainsaw aren't in them. I don't even know if the Chaingun is in them.
IE is preloaded on Windows startup, Firefox isn't. If they invented a Firefox "preload tray icon" like OpenOffice.org has, it'd start faster. But system startup would be slower. 6 of one, a half-dozen of another.
Like, Seriously!
Then you have a magic system, because I can't run Windows XP (without apps) on a 128MB system. I can't run XP with less than a 512MB system, actually. 256MB and it still is using the virtual memory. This is on a stock, factory install on about a dozen Dells and Compaqs. 64MB is below the XP minimum, so that's an impossible conjecture. 128MB is unusable. 256MB works fine in Linux and with a little fiddling works alright in XP. But you really need 512MB to run Windows XP...
And Firefox is lighter than IE, but it doesn't have the "pre-loaded from startup" advantage.
Actually, everything's been faster than 1.4. 2.0 might not have been a great release, but it was much speedier (except for Nautilus, which didn't get fast until 2.6). Anyhow, I've been using all the 2.7.x release and it's mighty fast on my TBird 950.
Actually, it is hardware accelerated on NVIDIA cards if you have RenderAccel set to "True". The RENDER extension is also used in conjunction with the new COMPOSITE extension in xorg-x11 for translucency.
Except for sniffers like ettercap that work on switched networks...
killall xcompmgr
Have you even tried it? It's quite nice.
Just make a BFS driver. :P
Great work Microsoft! After all the beta-testing, SP2 is still broken. Here's what I've found so far that's messed up badly:
What I find funny is that ZoneAlarm's AntiVirus monitor feature detects AVG and Norton properly.:P
I give up on the title... I tried all the usual slashdot titles (varying caps and w/ and w/o punctuation)...
"md5 cracked?"
"crack this!"
"GNAA"
"In Soviet Russia, MD5 cracks you!"
"fp!"
"First Post!"
I just don't get it...
I'll take your serial cable. :P
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q= Microsoft+Mira&btnG=Search
Both can learn. The cursive mode was what is now known as Calligrapher and Transcriber (by ParaGraph and Microsoft). The Print was the Newton Recognizer, now known as Inkwell and present in every copy of OS X.