An Indy, which in the early 1990s cost around $14,000, can be picked up on eBay these days for maybe $40, plus another $200 for a monitor.
$200 for a monitor? Or $10 for an adapter.
Shipping is what kills on old computer hardware. The stuff is pretty heavy, and can easily cost $50-$100 to ship it. Which in many cases is more than the unit is worth in the first place.
Here's what my parents used for me, back in my BBS days:
"Get off the computer. Now."
If you were on the computer when you weren't supposed to, the phone cord from the computer to the wall would dissappear. Eventually they found the phone cord I bought at the hardware store, then the damn wall jack dissappeared.
A friend of mine was using his Powerbook (Firewire) to do professional photography for his uncles studio. He was scanning slides in with his Nikon slide scanner, and recording them to CD's.
One day, the Powerbook quit recognizing the scanner. If you've worked with Macs (OS 9) you know how they can be. They 'just work'. But when something goes wrong...
The first thing he tried was buying a SCSI card, and installing it in his new Compaq PC with Windows 2000. Downloaded the drivers, installed the scanner...seemed to work great untinl he tried to scan some slides. Only half the slide would show up. The whole thing would show up in the preview mode, however...
After screwing around with Nikon support, re-installing the drivers, and even a fresh install of Windows, I joked that he should try it under Linux.
We took the SCSI card out of the Compaq, and put it in a Pentium 166MMX he got from TigerDirect for $49.99. We loaded up Redhat, SANE recognized it, and everything worked perfectly on the very first try. Odd thing was, it ran faster than it did on the Powerbook.
The Playstation sucked as far as hardware goes. Long load times, crap graphics, the console itself wore out in a short amount of time (only a new PSX sits right side up), the controller is an ergonomic nightmare.
I'm going to state the the SNES was the greatest console to ever grace the earth. Now that I have that out of the way...
The PSX was expensive and not very good. Why did it succeed? Nearly anyone could develop for it. It wasn't THAT hard to program for. Unlike the Saturn. You could distribute on CD-ROM. Unlike Nintendo 64 where you had to use expensive ROM chips which only came from, you guessed it, Nintendo.
Nintendo had problems back in the SNES/Genesis days with third parties. Green blood in Mortal Kombat? Missing Fatalities? People don't want watered down games. Sony fulfilled the gore/sex that adult gamers wanted.
The games were usually graphical nightmares, and the console wasn't impressive AT ALL compared to a PC in 1995. A Pentium 100MHz was pretty good in software rendering, and if you throw in a 3Dfx card that came out about a year later...It's no contest. When I saw my friends raving over a PSX FPS, and the sports games, I went back to playing my GLQuake, and NHL 96 at 640x480.
Compare an SNES to a PC game in 1990. No comparison.
Sony won by having a TON of games. They also didn't care what you made. They were glad to have you as a developer. They also made demo discs popular. You can't distribute cartridges with a magazine or pass them out at sporting events. Well, you could, but you'd lose a ton of money.
It seems like every car repair garage I go to has a shop computer for looking up parts etc.
They almost always are in the main garage, and aren't heated at night. They seem to work fine.
You will have mice and other animals trying to live in it, and using the bathroom in it. A guy that worked at a lumberyard brought a PC in for us to upgrade, and the first thing we found when we opened the case was mouse turds.
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What about if you throw in KDE or GNOME, Mozilla, etc, everything that you'd have to add to really equal the features of Windows XP....
If anyone remembers, Tecmo Bowl (along with many other sports games) didn't have the league license, but had the players association license.
Real players, but no real teams. The cities are correct, but the team names aren't.
Anyone know if the NFLPA license is still out there?
NHLPA Hockey used a similar thing in the 90's.
I had Flash. At least I thought I did.
Please obtain Flash Player version 6 or newer.
Sigh...I'll just read something else.
What's so bad about this?
Other than "It's not fair"
An Indy, which in the early 1990s cost around $14,000, can be picked up on eBay these days for maybe $40, plus another $200 for a monitor.
$200 for a monitor? Or $10 for an adapter.
Shipping is what kills on old computer hardware. The stuff is pretty heavy, and can easily cost $50-$100 to ship it. Which in many cases is more than the unit is worth in the first place.
The whole 'UNIX workstation' market is gone.
Sun? SGI? HP? DEC?
Computers became powerful and inexpensive too fast. Clusters killed the big servers.
Here's what my parents used for me, back in my BBS days:
"Get off the computer. Now."
If you were on the computer when you weren't supposed to, the phone cord from the computer to the wall would dissappear. Eventually they found the phone cord I bought at the hardware store, then the damn wall jack dissappeared.
Did anyone else notice the bong in his blog?
Imagine the people who leave a house key under the doormat/porch/etc
Yea. Where's the Mac version?
Sorted results by popularity are now available.
Is that a good way to do it?
"You might as well not bother voting for your favorite, since it only has 13 votes."
Or cross-compile on a (cheap, fast) x86 box.
I run a Pentium II 450MHz, 512MB, 20GB.
Slackware 9.1, Fluxbox...very fast with Mozilla, XMMS, etc etc
A friend of mine was using his Powerbook (Firewire) to do professional photography for his uncles studio. He was scanning slides in with his Nikon slide scanner, and recording them to CD's.
One day, the Powerbook quit recognizing the scanner. If you've worked with Macs (OS 9) you know how they can be. They 'just work'. But when something goes wrong...
The first thing he tried was buying a SCSI card, and installing it in his new Compaq PC with Windows 2000. Downloaded the drivers, installed the scanner...seemed to work great untinl he tried to scan some slides. Only half the slide would show up. The whole thing would show up in the preview mode, however...
After screwing around with Nikon support, re-installing the drivers, and even a fresh install of Windows, I joked that he should try it under Linux.
We took the SCSI card out of the Compaq, and put it in a Pentium 166MMX he got from TigerDirect for $49.99. We loaded up Redhat, SANE recognized it, and everything worked perfectly on the very first try. Odd thing was, it ran faster than it did on the Powerbook.
Either buy a slide scanner, or go to a local photography shop and have them scan them for you. They'll charge you $15 a piece, at least.
You'll never get a quality slide from a flatbed+adapter.
Just like the 'Turbo-Grafx16', 'Nintendo 64', and the '64-bit Atari Jaguar'.
That is the only thing Sony did right.
The Playstation sucked as far as hardware goes. Long load times, crap graphics, the console itself wore out in a short amount of time (only a new PSX sits right side up), the controller is an ergonomic nightmare.
I'm going to state the the SNES was the greatest console to ever grace the earth. Now that I have that out of the way...
The PSX was expensive and not very good. Why did it succeed? Nearly anyone could develop for it. It wasn't THAT hard to program for. Unlike the Saturn. You could distribute on CD-ROM. Unlike Nintendo 64 where you had to use expensive ROM chips which only came from, you guessed it, Nintendo.
Nintendo had problems back in the SNES/Genesis days with third parties. Green blood in Mortal Kombat? Missing Fatalities? People don't want watered down games. Sony fulfilled the gore/sex that adult gamers wanted.
The games were usually graphical nightmares, and the console wasn't impressive AT ALL compared to a PC in 1995. A Pentium 100MHz was pretty good in software rendering, and if you throw in a 3Dfx card that came out about a year later...It's no contest. When I saw my friends raving over a PSX FPS, and the sports games, I went back to playing my GLQuake, and NHL 96 at 640x480.
Compare an SNES to a PC game in 1990. No comparison.
Sony won by having a TON of games. They also didn't care what you made. They were glad to have you as a developer. They also made demo discs popular. You can't distribute cartridges with a magazine or pass them out at sporting events. Well, you could, but you'd lose a ton of money.
Sealed case?
I'm thinking you might get condensation without any circulation.
It seems like every car repair garage I go to has a shop computer for looking up parts etc.
They almost always are in the main garage, and aren't heated at night. They seem to work fine.
You will have mice and other animals trying to live in it, and using the bathroom in it. A guy that worked at a lumberyard brought a PC in for us to upgrade, and the first thing we found when we opened the case was mouse turds.
Since when?
Samus - Metroid
Pikacho - Pokemon
James Bond
Jak+Dexter
Crash Bandicoot
Mario is still going strong
Making a really bad console game based on a movie?
or
Making a really bad movie based on a console game?
It stinks. I don't like it. Not just because its new.
Google has become corporate. Now they'll start ruining the things that made them great. Whats next, banner ads?
I always thought it was 'Akklaim'. Thats how it looks, but it wouldn't make any sense.
http://www.muad.com/photos/E3-00/sudwest03.jpg
I get funny lines on my TV. Same goes for the dehumidifier.
Gonna recall those, too?
Sarge, Woody, Potato, Sid...
All characters from Pixar's Toy Story.
Previous versions were Bo, Hamm, Slink, Rex, etc