Pfft. Until the later tours, the only ship that had shields was the Assault Gunboat, and that thing moved like a tranquilized turtle. The only ship LESS fun to fly was the TIE Bomber. I doubt anyone ever played a GUN mission and thought "Yay, shields!" and not "Here we go again."
The T/A was bad, though. It was easy mode once you started flying those. TIE Defender was just stupid broken.
TL;DR: TIE Interceptor 4 Life, shields are for pussies.
no hope for a new TIE Fighter or X-Wing vs TIE fighter game
Sadly, holding out hope for one of those, even before the buyout, seemed to have a strong correlation with believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
Once the crappy "Rogue Squadron" rail-shooters came out, and XWA was a slipshod mess, my dreams of the X-Wing series living on into the new century were shattered.
Submitter's question seems to be asking two different things, so I'm not sure what exactly he's after.
If you want to get into *using* Linux, then the suggestions of Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, et. al. are the ones you want to go with. With snazzy GUI package managers and "app stores", they hand-hold and shelter you almost completely from the command line and the ugly under-workings as long as you don't try to mess around with them too much. They also tend to get in your way if you ARE trying to twiddle with the guts.
If you want to LEARN Linux, then go with a minimalist, hands-dirty distro. Slackware was my first Linux love many years back, but I hear Arch is pretty good in that respect, with a few more modern conveniences. I never messed with Gentoo, personally. Using one of those, you'll learn a lot about Linux, but it'll be some time before you get a "usable" system out of it. You'll probably also end up learning bash scripting and at least one of TCL, perl, or python as a bonus.
If your aim is the latter, though, then as far as books go, I don't think you can go wrong with the ORA "Animal" books, unless that's changed in the past few years.
With the exception of the GBA, the patents on the other systems would be expired by now, yes. And since none of the systems the Retron supports require a BIOS image to emulate, there's no copyright dickery to hit it with, either.
Knowing Nintendo, if there *were* GBA patents in play, they would already be firing up the lawyer cannon. We'll have to see.
Sorry, but it already is "us vs them," and that's the way it's going to be as long as the SOP of feminism is to mirror Orwell's "Napoleon."
If you choose not to recognize that, that's your right. Just as the regular folks in the Tea Party are free to choose to fight against their own interests, the "White Knights" have the same right.
You can't force someone to stop taking what they're told at face value and question things.
[0]"All animals are created equal. Some are just more equal than others."
Oddly, the only people interested in filling that niche seem to be the Asian knock-off companies like JXD. I picked up their latest version a few weeks ago. It's a ~7" Android tablet that looks like the WiiU tablet controller (the abominable Kindle/Game Gear crossbreed).
Sadly, it's disappointing. The power is impressive, I'll give it that, in that I was able to play the original Legacy of Kain in the PSX emu with nary a stutter.
The controls, however, are a mess. I've confirmed that the thumbsticks are legitimate analog sticks (unlike what happened with the old GP2X). Or rather, that the LEFT thumbstick is. The right is apparently completely unsupported in the driver or the "controller mapping" software.
The bundled emulators also don't bother to treat the analog sticks as analog, and also aren't compatible with the aforementioned mapping software, which means re-buying emulators and losing the nice "no stupid overlay on the screen" modifications that the "stock" seems to have.
It also runs hot. Really, really hot.
I knew it was a risk when I bought it, and I know there's some folks working on CFW. This is based on stock FW.
Show me a feminist actively petitioning for mandatory selective service registration for women, and I'll accept that there's the possibility of there being at least one feminist who's actually interested in "equality."
Probably for as long as it takes to get her to admit she supports one of the myriad other one-sided, gender-discriminating laws.
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Your "high tech" A-wings aren't so impressive now, are they, you Rebel rabble.
And your cute little in-cockpit atmospheres make your vapor clouds so pretty when you get splashed as you traitors so richly deserve!
Pfft. Until the later tours, the only ship that had shields was the Assault Gunboat, and that thing moved like a tranquilized turtle. The only ship LESS fun to fly was the TIE Bomber. I doubt anyone ever played a GUN mission and thought "Yay, shields!" and not "Here we go again."
The T/A was bad, though. It was easy mode once you started flying those. TIE Defender was just stupid broken.
TL;DR: TIE Interceptor 4 Life, shields are for pussies.
you could skip the jump&run sequence in Rise of the Dragon
How dare you bring that game up? How DARE YOU?!
Geez, I had to watch Hunter's girlfriend get zapped to death so many times... Never did figure out how to get the collar off her.
Trigger warnings next time, man.
*goes off to cry in a corner*
After setting off every TLA alert system to make a point on slashdot, user "rodrigoandrade" received a midnight visit and was never heard of again.
no hope for a new TIE Fighter or X-Wing vs TIE fighter game
Sadly, holding out hope for one of those, even before the buyout, seemed to have a strong correlation with believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
Once the crappy "Rogue Squadron" rail-shooters came out, and XWA was a slipshod mess, my dreams of the X-Wing series living on into the new century were shattered.
"Alpha 2, Mission Critical Installation Destroyed."
I've never done much video editing, but I can tell you for sure that MEncoder can at least do cutting and merging.
Might be a good starting point to look at.
I can't believe APK hasn't ROT13'd his post too.
Even if he had, how could you even tell?
Shut up. The crosswords are still good.
Bad example. That's actually what Freddie sang.
I didn't know BT was renamed. I thought it had just petered out. Thanks for that.
I thought it was more of a forensic distro, though.
Two things:
1: The poster is fully aware of the proper lyrics. It's a copypasta troll, and you just swallowed the hook down to your kidneys.
2: Of course Betty's next. She's the last one.
They're not even pronounced the same as themselves, depending on the word they're used in.
It's Mass, FFS. They'd try to tax air if they thought they could get away with it.
Submitter's question seems to be asking two different things, so I'm not sure what exactly he's after.
If you want to get into *using* Linux, then the suggestions of Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, et. al. are the ones you want to go with. With snazzy GUI package managers and "app stores", they hand-hold and shelter you almost completely from the command line and the ugly under-workings as long as you don't try to mess around with them too much. They also tend to get in your way if you ARE trying to twiddle with the guts.
If you want to LEARN Linux, then go with a minimalist, hands-dirty distro. Slackware was my first Linux love many years back, but I hear Arch is pretty good in that respect, with a few more modern conveniences. I never messed with Gentoo, personally. Using one of those, you'll learn a lot about Linux, but it'll be some time before you get a "usable" system out of it. You'll probably also end up learning bash scripting and at least one of TCL, perl, or python as a bonus.
If your aim is the latter, though, then as far as books go, I don't think you can go wrong with the ORA "Animal" books, unless that's changed in the past few years.
There's a special place in hell for these people.
Yeah, on the board.
And it's just worth mentioning: given my experiences with Samsung android-based hardware, yeah, they fit my original assertion anyway.
I was talking about built-in, like the device I'm talking about.
Gamepads are all well and good, but having to carry around a controller roughly the size of the phone seems a little ass-backwards to me.
With the exception of the GBA, the patents on the other systems would be expired by now, yes. And since none of the systems the Retron supports require a BIOS image to emulate, there's no copyright dickery to hit it with, either.
Knowing Nintendo, if there *were* GBA patents in play, they would already be firing up the lawyer cannon. We'll have to see.
Sorry, but it already is "us vs them," and that's the way it's going to be as long as the SOP of feminism is to mirror Orwell's "Napoleon."
If you choose not to recognize that, that's your right. Just as the regular folks in the Tea Party are free to choose to fight against their own interests, the "White Knights" have the same right.
You can't force someone to stop taking what they're told at face value and question things.
[0]"All animals are created equal. Some are just more equal than others."
Oddly, the only people interested in filling that niche seem to be the Asian knock-off companies like JXD. I picked up their latest version a few weeks ago. It's a ~7" Android tablet that looks like the WiiU tablet controller (the abominable Kindle/Game Gear crossbreed).
Sadly, it's disappointing. The power is impressive, I'll give it that, in that I was able to play the original Legacy of Kain in the PSX emu with nary a stutter.
The controls, however, are a mess. I've confirmed that the thumbsticks are legitimate analog sticks (unlike what happened with the old GP2X). Or rather, that the LEFT thumbstick is. The right is apparently completely unsupported in the driver or the "controller mapping" software.
The bundled emulators also don't bother to treat the analog sticks as analog, and also aren't compatible with the aforementioned mapping software, which means re-buying emulators and losing the nice "no stupid overlay on the screen" modifications that the "stock" seems to have.
It also runs hot. Really, really hot.
I knew it was a risk when I bought it, and I know there's some folks working on CFW. This is based on stock FW.
Her job is to make a good impression for her employers with geeks, she doesn't need to be a programmer to do that.
Bang-up job!
Show me a feminist actively petitioning for mandatory selective service registration for women, and I'll accept that there's the possibility of there being at least one feminist who's actually interested in "equality."
Probably for as long as it takes to get her to admit she supports one of the myriad other one-sided, gender-discriminating laws.
Not sure if hypocrite, or completely ignorant as to what "feminism" has been about for, at least, the past 25 years. </fry>
"M$ Windoze?"
Jesus, I think this *post* is ten years old.
It must have gotten clogged in the queue or something.
Except that that's not true, either.