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modern pcs still have a midi synth and modern display systems can happilly output the old low res art.
making a source based port that works with the original game data shouldn't really be a huge problem
Try playing Doom on the 19" screen with the original sprites, textures. keyboard controls and synth sound.
Then upgrade to a mouse-driven DX8 engine like Doomsday. Plug-in new textures, character models, visual f/x and an mp3 score. You'll never look back.
Sorry publishers, the future of education is free.
Tell that to the students whose tuition helps subsidize the cost of MIT's "free" course ware.
Similarly, MIT's one-laptop-per child assumes massive state funding (taxation) for the machines, the infrastructure and, ultimately, the software.
In the states, selecting textbooks for grades K-12 is the product of heated negotiations among various interest groups. In which "Intelligent Design" is simply one flashpoint among many.
Navigating these mindfields is not for the inexperienced.
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Note that what ages is not the arts etc. but the binaries. I can't easily play System Shock anymore, even if I own it. The game is essentially lost. With the source code we could at least keep it in a runnable state.
But the "art" does age and it is the more difficult problem to fix.
Someone at the studio forgot to register/renew it, so it passed to the public domain. TV networks started airing it at christmas because it was royalty-free, and it became a big hit.
Howard Hawk's "His Girl Friday" (1940) also fell by chance into the public domain.
"It's a Wonderful Life" was released in post-war 1946. Not a good time for so fragile a fantasy. But I strongly suspect the film would have it's true audience on television in the mid-fifties and after, as did "The Wizard of Oz," royalty-free or not.
This is the prime reason why Hollywood is dead against any changes in copyright. There is simply no longer any way of knowing when or where a production will strike gold. Disney feature animation has always been expensive, some of the studio's best loved films did not show a profit until their release on home video.
How many people wouldn't have encountered Miro's work if they hadn't seen it on Google's site?
Joan Miro is one of the most easily recognizable artists of the late twentieth century. You'll find his designs reproduced on coffee mugs, for god's sake. The Escape Ladder
Google's use of Miró's style was a tribute to his art and most likely got millions of users interested in his works and his life
Miro's style is distinctive and instantly recognizable, which is why Google chose it for a logo.
Miro died in 1983 and his family is (quite rightly, I would think) still quite touchy about the unauthorized commercial exploitation of his work.
Miro's "Portrait of Madame K" went for $ 12.6 million at auction in 2002. This is not an artist whose work is in any immeadiate danger of being forgotten.
It would only help increase the value's of their works, and peoples awareness of them
Miro's "Portrait of Madame K' sold for $ 12.6 million in 2002. Art in America
When the post office releases a commemorative stamp, it does so in cooperation with surviving family members. There is no reason why Google shouldn't be held to the same standard.
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If they release the source not only will you be able to obtain it whenever you want, but you can port the code to play on modern systems (meaning you don't need the silly hack of emulators or having an old DOS machine sitting about
The source code is the least of your problems.
You will it far more difficult to "port" game assets to a modern system.
The background art, sprite animation, and MIDI musical score for "Maniac Mansion Deluxe" were new. The game engine was off-the-shelf AGS.
Manic Mansion is a trivial problem compared to recreating the background art and character animation for a late LucasArts game like The Dig or Grim Fandango.
iD has been generous in releasing older game engines. But Commander Keen, Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake still have commercial potential.
millions have never had a choice... they're victims of Microsoft's monopolistic abuses in the OEM market...
The OEMs have been crying all the way to the bank for the last twenty-five years.
The commodity PC running MSDOS and Windows sold in the kind of numbers no one had seen before. It was affordable. It was adaptable. There was big money to be made in after-market sales.
why else do you find the Dell Linux machines well buried in the website with no direct links to them... you have to actively search for them.
You'll be searching the back pages at Walmart.com as well, and for the same reason: OEM Linux scarcely exists as a viable consumer product.
we'd all benefit if some Asian companies got together and presented an open, extensible, non-DRM media disc. Even if I was stuck buying Chinese, Bollywood, and independent films for the first few years, I'd support it
Goblet of Fire grossed $290 million in its American theatrical release. For an Asian OEM selling HD product in the West, this is the market.
Aren't all these crippled by DRM so we should just dismiss them anyway?
Microsoft has made the argument for mandatory managed copy in HD-DVD: Backup copies. HDD storage. Home network distribution. Low-res downloads to portable devices. That defines Fair Use for the user who is not uploading DVDs to share with ten million of his closest friends on the P2P nets.
When you have $2000 to $25,000 invested in home theater projection and sound you want HD content from the majors. Serenity is the appetizer, not the main course. Think films like Braveheart, Master and Commander, The Mask of Zorro. 1080 progressive and a sixty-inch screen.
DRM is not a deal-breaker when Netflix rents HD disks without a surcharge and Amazon.com discounts A-list titles like Apollo 13 to $25.
Serenity is #178 on the Amazon DVD sales chart. (Noon EDT)
Interesting as well are Amazon's prices, $20-$25 for HD DVD. Netflix has said it won't be charging a premium for HD rentals.
There are mass market titles on the releae schedule. Apollo 13 next week. Ice Age, Harry Potter, Bravehart, The Lord of the Rings, not that far down the road. This technology could take off a lot faster than Slashdot's skeptics may be willing to admit.
The Open Graphics Project recently released schematics for their first product and are steadily making progress towards completing it for sale...Despite being unfunded since early 2005..they are still managing to make some headway.
They have a design, but do they have a manufactuer?
hearing about the amount of bittorrent traffic there is gives hope to idea that those using it will switch to more open providers, thus giving those providers a market edge.p.
or more likely driving them into bankruptcy.
As a Linux user living in China, I'd've thought Chairman Hu would have had better judgment than to visit Mr Gates', the person who's single-handedly done more damage to the computer industry than anyone else.
Estimates of Windows' installed base range from 300 to 500 million systems. Would you care to guess what that means for China's balance of trade?
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making a source based port that works with the original game data shouldn't really be a huge problem
Try playing Doom on the 19" screen with the original sprites, textures. keyboard controls and synth sound.
Then upgrade to a mouse-driven DX8 engine like Doomsday. Plug-in new textures, character models, visual f/x and an mp3 score. You'll never look back.
Tell that to the students whose tuition helps subsidize the cost of MIT's "free" course ware.
Similarly, MIT's one-laptop-per child assumes massive state funding (taxation) for the machines, the infrastructure and, ultimately, the software.
In the states, selecting textbooks for grades K-12 is the product of heated negotiations among various interest groups. In which "Intelligent Design" is simply one flashpoint among many.
Navigating these mindfields is not for the inexperienced.
But the "art" does age and it is the more difficult problem to fix.
Howard Hawk's "His Girl Friday" (1940) also fell by chance into the public domain.
"It's a Wonderful Life" was released in post-war 1946. Not a good time for so fragile a fantasy. But I strongly suspect the film would have it's true audience on television in the mid-fifties and after, as did "The Wizard of Oz," royalty-free or not.
This is the prime reason why Hollywood is dead against any changes in copyright. There is simply no longer any way of knowing when or where a production will strike gold. Disney feature animation has always been expensive, some of the studio's best loved films did not show a profit until their release on home video.
Joan Miro is one of the most easily recognizable artists of the late twentieth century. You'll find his designs reproduced on coffee mugs, for god's sake. The Escape Ladder
Miro's style is distinctive and instantly recognizable, which is why Google chose it for a logo.
Miro died in 1983 and his family is (quite rightly, I would think) still quite touchy about the unauthorized commercial exploitation of his work.
Miro's "Portrait of Madame K" went for $ 12.6 million at auction in 2002. This is not an artist whose work is in any immeadiate danger of being forgotten.
Miro's "Portrait of Madame K' sold for $ 12.6 million in 2002. Art in America When the post office releases a commemorative stamp, it does so in cooperation with surviving family members. There is no reason why Google shouldn't be held to the same standard.
The source code is the least of your problems.
You will it far more difficult to "port" game assets to a modern system.
The background art, sprite animation, and MIDI musical score for "Maniac Mansion Deluxe" were new. The game engine was off-the-shelf AGS.
Manic Mansion is a trivial problem compared to recreating the background art and character animation for a late LucasArts game like The Dig or Grim Fandango.
iD has been generous in releasing older game engines. But Commander Keen, Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake still have commercial potential.
The OEMs have been crying all the way to the bank for the last twenty-five years.
The commodity PC running MSDOS and Windows sold in the kind of numbers no one had seen before. It was affordable. It was adaptable. There was big money to be made in after-market sales.
why else do you find the Dell Linux machines well buried in the website with no direct links to them... you have to actively search for them.
You'll be searching the back pages at Walmart.com as well, and for the same reason: OEM Linux scarcely exists as a viable consumer product.
Vista Basic won't support it. But Basic is for systems that are very low-end.
Walmart is moving up-market, where the money is.
32 bit Vista will run 16 bit apps. There isn't much out there to persuade home users to migrate to 64 bit Windows. Who wants or needs 64 bits?
Goblet of Fire grossed $290 million in its American theatrical release. For an Asian OEM selling HD product in the West, this is the market.
It would be the norm.
Exporting culture, whether it be in the form of a game, a book, a movie, or a high-tech gadget is difficult.
First, the PS3 absolutely will drive adoption. PS3 will probably sell 10 million units within two years.
The game console as media player makes sense only if you have very limited space and budget. That is not the American HD market.
HD-DVD still has three or four studios to convince to support its format.
But even Disney is wavering. 15 GB HD-DVD disks are marketable now. Cheaper players and a 45 GB disk are serious threat to Blu-Ray.
Microsoft really likes HD-DVD...what more reason do you need to root for Blu-Ray? ;-)
That Microsoft's take on DRM is less restrictive than Blu-Ray? That iHD support will be integrated into Vista's home distributions?
Microsoft has made the argument for mandatory managed copy in HD-DVD: Backup copies. HDD storage. Home network distribution. Low-res downloads to portable devices. That defines Fair Use for the user who is not uploading DVDs to share with ten million of his closest friends on the P2P nets.
When you have $2000 to $25,000 invested in home theater projection and sound you want HD content from the majors. Serenity is the appetizer, not the main course. Think films like Braveheart, Master and Commander, The Mask of Zorro. 1080 progressive and a sixty-inch screen.
DRM is not a deal-breaker when Netflix rents HD disks without a surcharge and Amazon.com discounts A-list titles like Apollo 13 to $25.
You pay your ISP for access to the net. You do not pay your ISP for content.
"Bill Gates brought computing to the masses, pity they weren't ready for it."
The masses seem to be quite comfortable with Windows, thank you very much.
The XPS is a desktop replacement, an eight pound laptop, with top-of-the-line components.
This is not a DIY project.
"plausible deniability" doesn't count for much with the sort of people who extract this kind of information for a living.
and they don't always play by the rules.
Interesting as well are Amazon's prices, $20-$25 for HD DVD. Netflix has said it won't be charging a premium for HD rentals.
There are mass market titles on the releae schedule. Apollo 13 next week. Ice Age, Harry Potter, Bravehart, The Lord of the Rings, not that far down the road. This technology could take off a lot faster than Slashdot's skeptics may be willing to admit.
DRM may not even be a speed-bump.
They have a design, but do they have a manufactuer?
You will be able to access on-line content from the HD player,
hearing about the amount of bittorrent traffic there is gives hope to idea that those using it will switch to more open providers, thus giving those providers a market edge.p. or more likely driving them into bankruptcy.
We have had two engineer presidents:
Thomas Jefferson, architect.
His ideal an agrartian society of small independednt farmers.
His reality a tidewater plantation worked by black slaves.
Jefferson died just as the completion of the Erie Canal had begun to transform and enrich the commercial and industrial society of the New York City,
Herbert Hoover, mining. The favorite of both Main Street's Rotarians and big business.
His ideological resistance to direct relief in the Depression echoed in Bush's Day-Late-And-A-Dollar-Short response to Katrina.
Estimates of Windows' installed base range from 300 to 500 million systems. Would you care to guess what that means for China's balance of trade?