ewwwww. all the times i've been here and i've never made that connection before.. (i dunno about in the US, but here, having a slash is getting your weener out, and dotted.. well you can figure that out, the classic porn end-move - unless AC was being totally innocent!)
yeah, you're not wrong, but it comes back to how fussy you are about the "real thing" issue that some people seem to get very anal about. witness the scanlines debates, filtering, and so on, some people will purposefully turn down options to give a more authentic experience.. i'm just happy for the games to look & sound as good as possible, but there's a significant number of people who played the originals who will notice every little thing that's 'wrong'.. and these are the poeple still messing with old consoles.. but yes arguably the SNES generation are the hardest to emulate because they were (and probably always will be) the most complex systems ever to use almost exclusively low level programming, custom chips in carts, direct hardware access, exploiting bugs for effects, and so forth.. but i have a feeling even if you get The Perfect Emu, you'll have people swearing on the Real Thing instead.. it's like Audiophiles or something. whatever floats your boat.
yeah, what's with that awful name, almost so bad it's good - irony or something? it's a bunch of guys who play Goldeneye and PD, apparently. "known as The Elite" or they call themselves the elite.. whatever, being linked to really made their day.
i'll go futher than that.. if it's so hard to get the NES right (and it is), the more advanced systems (we're not talking a bit more advanced either, even a SNES is much much more complex than a NES to emulate) will probably never be done perfectly. So yeah, it depends whether "playing most of the games alright" outweighs the convenience factor for you or not. for me it does, but there's a lot to be said for 'backup' units.// most serious gamers swear by them over f***ing around with emulators. even now. so back to this guys sticking all the original hardware in a box - yeah there's a point. i just wouldn't do it.
difficult to make it much tighter given the size of the motherboards and the fact that you must be ablet get carts/discs in&out, you could squeeze them in a little harder (b**ger getting them in and out then) and use a thinner material for the case, but that's about it unless anyone has a brainwave? of course Nintendo, with the designs and money to burn could shrink them all onto one board but that's way beyond what a hobbyist can do - maybe this'll give N an idea for us nostalgia freaks, hehe:p
I still think it will be unstable, possibly only showing up in long gaming sessions. the conductivity of air is much lower than aluminium, and he's removed the heatsinks from the n64 internal (CPU&RSP) and 4MB RDRAM expansion. i can tell you these get hot even with the heat sinks on (and convection flow).
So i _would_ doubt the stability of this thing.
Secondly, assuming you can get enough cooling off the surface of these chips, you have to give thought to the actual airflow inside the case, even with a big fan, with all these bits everywhere it's very possible that the air will take the path of least resistannce, there'll be dead spots and not cool the chips effectively. just my speculation, but he doesn't say whether he's tried it. Apart from this, the GCN will probably be fine 'cos he left that pretty much intact, and IIRC the NES&SNES don't produce much heat (could be wrong, been a while since i handled those).
"CRN Test Center engineers evaluated a release candidate two (RC2) version of SP2... To remedy the problem, CRN Test Center engineers reached out to Microsoft... engineers had to rename "spuninst.txt... Test Center engineers had to open the registry..."
See! Not their fault, it was their engineers that did it! You see, it takes an engineer to install a service pack.
God, didn't anyone else get irritated by the way this article was written? I hate people who write about themselves in the third person, it's so self-important. What's wrong with "we did this..we did that.. we f**ked up a simple installation of SP2 and had to call MS. Now we're trying to make ourselves feel better by bashing it in our third person writeup".
(Now i hope SP2 install goes smoothly for me or i'm gonna feel a right tit;)
what a great point. just underlines how much of a devide there really still is between makers and users. Now you mention it, i wonder what the h*ll those hotfixes (some of which begin "Windows XP hotfix" and others that don't) are doing in amoungst all the users' apps? surely OS components should have their own list or be hidden by a checkbox or something to mark them out as being different, important and basically not be there when a user is looking to make some more hard disk space or whatever..
most people don't know or care that Xbox is from Microsoft. and it's doing quite well. btw i'm a Nintendo fan so i'm biased the other way. the sad truth is MS probably can "win" by having the Xbox2 out early enough with enough pretty but not too special games at launch. I hope i'm wrong, i'd like a Nintendo comeback and for people to recognise Nintendo and Sega for the great games hardware/software design companies they are. As for Sony.. it's such a vast company you can't sum it up easily, but i'll be surprised if their PSP is a threat to Xbox2.
unless the Xbox1 games will work with the Xbox2 and then maybe I could pay ~$150 (after selling the Xbox for $50) for a new console and I wouldn't have to buy any games right away.
No offense, but: what's the point of buying the new console then? if you aren't going to buy any new games for it straight away? So you can say you have an Xbox2? I don't get it.
I agree with your main point though that it's too soon, the Xbox has only just caught on in the mainstream, and most people only have one console (or none).
oh, well GF3 *is* the min spec. we must be on the wrong tack then, they must be asking for something else in dx9 (ideas?) i think without PS2.0 you'll get much lower image quality anyway, plus the cards are slower of course. I expect GeforceFX is a realistic minimum really.
it can be more sinister. blocking access secretely reduces the pressure on them to vet what's on the blocklist properly. this should get the civil rights people all worked up. i wish the article had clarified this point. i guess it's "too technical" for their readers:/
BT can't guarantee that they've covered everything?
well of course not, but it lets them quote nice statistics. also philosophicaly, is not being able to do something good, perfectly, a reason not to do it at all? i'm anti censorship but can't make my mind up in this case, because, well, i would like to do something nasty to some pedophiles. sorry for the awful spelling in this post.
well yes and no. probably there are plenty of people with an interest in child porn who are not technically competent enough to find it if their websites are blocked. so it could save some people. i still want to know if that "Website not found" message is a custom page saying child porn is blocked or a generic error msg made to look as if the site doesn't exist or there's a technical problem... this is a very important detail i think.
RTFA. this time they actually explain this important point somewhat:
Websites assessed by the IWF as "illegal to view" under the 1978 Child Protection Act were targeted by BT.
The IWF keeps a real-time live database which is updated every time an illegal site is found.
i haven't checked out how the IWF work, or ever heard of them before now, but on the face of this this has some credibility. anyone know otherwise? notice also they would appear to be blocking racist material also. interesting.. what were those comments about slippery slopes last time this came up? seems you (plural) may have been right..
thanks, that gets MPC to open it, now i just need to work out how to get it to render (have real alternative installed but apparently doesn't work). streaming stuff never works for me:/ probably because i refuse to use IE/WMP/whatever you're supposed to use.
lots of discussion of George Bush and politics, but can someone tell me what an RTSP is and how i can get it to play. i use Opera and when i click on the one suggested ('Dubya Sez: I can't do my job!') it says 'address type is unknown or unsupported'. i did a search for RTSP and found this http://www.rtsp.org/2001/implementations.html but don't know where to go from there. sorry if i'm being stupid, i read the player troubleshooting on WebJay but that only covered M3U and SMIL. am i alone in not knowing what this is? any advice please?
look at Opera, the web browser, a closed source but very modify-able (sp.?) app. almost every good skin has a "native" version, which means (roughly, i haven't looked this up) the icons of the skin mixed with the surround colour and other things from the OS settings.
a perfect compromise for me - if you want to go crazy with colour and size and layout you can, but i have it looking just about like any other (un-skinned) windows app.
though unfortunately imho, they set the default skin and layout to something odd so many people may not realize it doesn't have to look 'funky', it can be nice & 'normal' and fit with whatever you've got.
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ewwwww. all the times i've been here and i've never made that connection before.. (i dunno about in the US, but here, having a slash is getting your weener out, and dotted.. well you can figure that out, the classic porn end-move - unless AC was being totally innocent!)
i dunno, that's probably crap, seems right though.
yeah, you're not wrong, but it comes back to how fussy you are about the "real thing" issue that some people seem to get very anal about. witness the scanlines debates, filtering, and so on, some people will purposefully turn down options to give a more authentic experience.. i'm just happy for the games to look & sound as good as possible, but there's a significant number of people who played the originals who will notice every little thing that's 'wrong'.. and these are the poeple still messing with old consoles.. but yes arguably the SNES generation are the hardest to emulate because they were (and probably always will be) the most complex systems ever to use almost exclusively low level programming, custom chips in carts, direct hardware access, exploiting bugs for effects, and so forth.. but i have a feeling even if you get The Perfect Emu, you'll have people swearing on the Real Thing instead.. it's like Audiophiles or something. whatever floats your boat.
yeah, what's with that awful name, almost so bad it's good - irony or something? it's a bunch of guys who play Goldeneye and PD, apparently. "known as The Elite" or they call themselves the elite.. whatever, being linked to really made their day.
i'll go futher than that.. if it's so hard to get the NES right (and it is), the more advanced systems (we're not talking a bit more advanced either, even a SNES is much much more complex than a NES to emulate) will probably never be done perfectly. So yeah, it depends whether "playing most of the games alright" outweighs the convenience factor for you or not. for me it does, but there's a lot to be said for 'backup' units.// most serious gamers swear by them over f***ing around with emulators. even now. so back to this guys sticking all the original hardware in a box - yeah there's a point. i just wouldn't do it.
That's what Nintendo was worried about..
difficult to make it much tighter given the size of the motherboards and the fact that you must be ablet get carts/discs in&out, you could squeeze them in a little harder (b**ger getting them in and out then) and use a thinner material for the case, but that's about it unless anyone has a brainwave? of course Nintendo, with the designs and money to burn could shrink them all onto one board but that's way beyond what a hobbyist can do - maybe this'll give N an idea for us nostalgia freaks, hehe :p
So i _would_ doubt the stability of this thing.
Secondly, assuming you can get enough cooling off the surface of these chips, you have to give thought to the actual airflow inside the case, even with a big fan, with all these bits everywhere it's very possible that the air will take the path of least resistannce, there'll be dead spots and not cool the chips effectively. just my speculation, but he doesn't say whether he's tried it. Apart from this, the GCN will probably be fine 'cos he left that pretty much intact, and IIRC the NES&SNES don't produce much heat (could be wrong, been a while since i handled those).
See! Not their fault, it was their engineers that did it! You see, it takes an engineer to install a service pack.
God, didn't anyone else get irritated by the way this article was written? I hate people who write about themselves in the third person, it's so self-important.
What's wrong with "we did this..we did that.. we f**ked up a simple installation of SP2 and had to call MS. Now we're trying to make ourselves feel better by bashing it in our third person writeup".
(Now i hope SP2 install goes smoothly for me or i'm gonna feel a right tit ;)
what a great point. just underlines how much of a devide there really still is between makers and users. Now you mention it, i wonder what the h*ll those hotfixes (some of which begin "Windows XP hotfix" and others that don't) are doing in amoungst all the users' apps? surely OS components should have their own list or be hidden by a checkbox or something to mark them out as being different, important and basically not be there when a user is looking to make some more hard disk space or whatever..
most people don't know or care that Xbox is from Microsoft. and it's doing quite well. btw i'm a Nintendo fan so i'm biased the other way. the sad truth is MS probably can "win" by having the Xbox2 out early enough with enough pretty but not too special games at launch. I hope i'm wrong, i'd like a Nintendo comeback and for people to recognise Nintendo and Sega for the great games hardware/software design companies they are. As for Sony.. it's such a vast company you can't sum it up easily, but i'll be surprised if their PSP is a threat to Xbox2.
No offense, but: what's the point of buying the new console then? if you aren't going to buy any new games for it straight away? So you can say you have an Xbox2? I don't get it.
I agree with your main point though that it's too soon, the Xbox has only just caught on in the mainstream, and most people only have one console (or none).
interesting? come on. that's just a crap joke. (i guess this is informative now..).
oh, well GF3 *is* the min spec. we must be on the wrong tack then, they must be asking for something else in dx9 (ideas?) i think without PS2.0 you'll get much lower image quality anyway, plus the cards are slower of course. I expect GeforceFX is a realistic minimum really.
It's a shorthand way of saying "we expect pixel shaders v2.0". So my GF3Ti is right out.. (PS 1.1 == DX8 IIRC).
it can be more sinister. blocking access secretely reduces the pressure on them to vet what's on the blocklist properly. this should get the civil rights people all worked up. i wish the article had clarified this point. i guess it's "too technical" for their readers :/
well of course not, but it lets them quote nice statistics. also philosophicaly, is not being able to do something good, perfectly, a reason not to do it at all? i'm anti censorship but can't make my mind up in this case, because, well, i would like to do something nasty to some pedophiles.
sorry for the awful spelling in this post.
well yes and no. probably there are plenty of people with an interest in child porn who are not technically competent enough to find it if their websites are blocked. so it could save some people. i still want to know if that "Website not found" message is a custom page saying child porn is blocked or a generic error msg made to look as if the site doesn't exist or there's a technical problem... this is a very important detail i think.
Websites assessed by the IWF as "illegal to view" under the 1978 Child Protection Act were targeted by BT.
The IWF keeps a real-time live database which is updated every time an illegal site is found.
i haven't checked out how the IWF work, or ever heard of them before now, but on the face of this this has some credibility. anyone know otherwise? notice also they would appear to be blocking racist material also. interesting.. what were those comments about slippery slopes last time this came up? seems you (plural) may have been right..
to get angry.
and probably quite a few people on /. who'll start flaming the guy (i'm assuming it's a guy) who did this.
btw, aren't flash intros annoying when you're listening to music and they come on all loud?
and what is the price btw?
(hehe, i don't know, maybe it'll still work ;).
thanks, that gets MPC to open it, now i just need to work out how to get it to render (have real alternative installed but apparently doesn't work). streaming stuff never works for me :/ probably because i refuse to use IE/WMP/whatever you're supposed to use.
lots of discussion of George Bush and politics, but can someone tell me what an RTSP is and how i can get it to play. i use Opera and when i click on the one suggested ('Dubya Sez: I can't do my job!') it says 'address type is unknown or unsupported'. i did a search for RTSP and found this http://www.rtsp.org/2001/implementations.html but don't know where to go from there. sorry if i'm being stupid, i read the player troubleshooting on WebJay but that only covered M3U and SMIL. am i alone in not knowing what this is? any advice please?
a perfect compromise for me - if you want to go crazy with colour and size and layout you can, but i have it looking just about like any other (un-skinned) windows app.
though unfortunately imho, they set the default skin and layout to something odd so many people may not realize it doesn't have to look 'funky', it can be nice & 'normal' and fit with whatever you've got.