It's actually possible, here in the present, to buy games and get none of those extras.;) I got Thief with a Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer, no printed manual. (Then again, the recent Eidos Platinum Collection with Thief and Thief 2 has no paper manuals either.) I got Morrowind (plus Ghost Recon and Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project) with a MSI GeForce 4 Ti 4200 some time back. No manuals, etc.
How would we get a definitive "hours/cost" rating on these games? Some people can really blaze through some games in a few hours, others might spend days.
Hah, I wonder how many people are downloading (or even buying) Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, just to see how bad it is. Every single review I've been witness to has said it's bad.
Ah, but it's much easier, with the right mindset, to sit around in your chair without moving, and search and download a game, than it is to go out and buy something from a store. Of course, you could perhaps order something from some website (Best Buy, ebgames, etc.), but then you come to the people who just don't have any money. Or they want a game and don't actually want to pay for it. Then you have people who do actually buy games, but STILL pirate them, they install the games on multiple computers (such as so they can play multiplayer with other members of the family), violate their licenses, etc. Because they don't want to buy multiple copies of the game (or have their brother, etc., have to buy another copy)
I saw Robosaurus maybe around 10 years ago, at some car show in Arizona. It looks like the same one I saw, but I can't even recall the name of the show or where, exactly, it was.;)
I believe that somewhere in there, is the secret to anti-gravity. All you need to do is keep turning to the right while accelerating (upward force, lose grip with the pavement), and you should go right over the wall and continue going upwards.
Morrowind has a "linear" story, a main quest, yet you can ignore it pretty much completely if you really want to. You can go off exploring or taking jobs from random people, or even kill important characters involved in the quest (and thus being unable to complete it).
I don't know how well its story would translate into a movie, though.
Another way to put it, some buses (and cars) have poor suspension, and there's a whole lot of acceleration, up, down, everywhere, as you're practically thrown around mercilessly. And some (dirt) roads are really, really bad and no matter how good your suspension is, you're still going to get considerable shaking, acceleration.
For.. using.. Google? Oh my goodness, I've used Google too! Mozilla can use Google!! Let's sue the entire internet! Quick, before someone else does it!!
I agree it'd make more sense, cost-wise, to use something free. You don't have to pay anything to develop Windows software, however. There's various bits and pieces that can be used for Windows programming: MinGW, Dev-C++. SDL, wxWidgets. perl, tcl, etc.
The problem isn't necessarily violent games, it's the "people who can't accept responsibility for themselves"..
You can survive 50 foot falls in Grand Theft Auto games, too. If someone doesn't know you generally can't handle that in real life (i.e. major injuries or death), something's wrong with them. Either they haven't been educated in some basic way, they have no common sense, they're psychotic, or they've lived an incredibly sheltered life. It's not the game at fault, it's the person. Sure, it's a little different, stealing cars and killing people vs jumping off of tall buildings, but still, the same - common sense, not being psychotic, etc.
You could always "break the rules" of GTA and be a law-abiding pedestrian and never steal cars, never beat anyone up, etc. too. The point is, it's a game. If someone's going to cross over their violent behavior from the game into real life, something's wrong with them. I haven't seen hordes of people out and about suddenly stealing every car in sight because they played Grand Theft Auto games.
Now if you excuse me, I have to get the large, floating, endlessly rotating heart-shaped healing icon I've been saving up out of the fridge, and the floating, rotating rocket launcher, and go outside to kill the pink demons driving around in cars. And I'll climb into my tank, which drives exactly like a car.
You could try LiteStep, or other open/free programs, for virtual desktops. Windows (at least with TweakUI) allows you to focus windows by moving the mouse over them. Of course, I believe, this caused some problem with "What's this?" tooltips not showing up. There are other programs obtainable for window shading, probably for snap-to, and probably most everything else.
Of course, getting Microsoft to incoporate this themselves is another can of worms. (Except XP does have some kind of virtual desktops, with some downloadable addon.)
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It's actually possible, here in the present, to buy games and get none of those extras. ;)
I got Thief with a Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer, no printed manual. (Then again, the recent Eidos Platinum Collection with Thief and Thief 2 has no paper manuals either.)
I got Morrowind (plus Ghost Recon and Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project) with a MSI GeForce 4 Ti 4200 some time back. No manuals, etc.
How would we get a definitive "hours/cost" rating on these games? Some people can really blaze through some games in a few hours, others might spend days.
Hah, I wonder how many people are downloading (or even buying) Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, just to see how bad it is.
Every single review I've been witness to has said it's bad.
Ah, but it's much easier, with the right mindset, to sit around in your chair without moving, and search and download a game, than it is to go out and buy something from a store.
Of course, you could perhaps order something from some website (Best Buy, ebgames, etc.), but then you come to the people who just don't have any money. Or they want a game and don't actually want to pay for it.
Then you have people who do actually buy games, but STILL pirate them, they install the games on multiple computers (such as so they can play multiplayer with other members of the family), violate their licenses, etc. Because they don't want to buy multiple copies of the game (or have their brother, etc., have to buy another copy)
I saw Robosaurus maybe around 10 years ago, at some car show in Arizona. ;)
It looks like the same one I saw, but I can't even recall the name of the show or where, exactly, it was.
I believe that somewhere in there, is the secret to anti-gravity.
All you need to do is keep turning to the right while accelerating (upward force, lose grip with the pavement), and you should go right over the wall and continue going upwards.
Thanks to Google, I've found other speed runs:
http://www.planetquake.com/sda/other/
Morrowind has a "linear" story, a main quest, yet you can ignore it pretty much completely if you really want to.
You can go off exploring or taking jobs from random people, or even kill important characters involved in the quest (and thus being unable to complete it).
I don't know how well its story would translate into a movie, though.
I guess the movie would just keep you gripping your seat, guessing as to who the main character really is.
Another way to put it, some buses (and cars) have poor suspension, and there's a whole lot of acceleration, up, down, everywhere, as you're practically thrown around mercilessly.
And some (dirt) roads are really, really bad and no matter how good your suspension is, you're still going to get considerable shaking, acceleration.
For.. using.. Google? Oh my goodness, I've used Google too!
Mozilla can use Google!! Let's sue the entire internet! Quick, before someone else does it!!
Well, I think his comment was pointed towards everyone, all of the sue-happy morons, telling all of them to not be assholes.
By the way, if anyone sues me for this comment, it's obviously admittance of being a moron. So there.
I'm on a 56k modem, no browser in the world will make webpages load instantaneously for me. (Oh, except lynx/links might come close.)
What about the person who wrote IE's engine and made it trust and execute viral code?
(As for getting a +x redundant,)
"how are users supposed to protect themselves from this one?"
Don't use Outlook!!!
I agree it'd make more sense, cost-wise, to use something free.
You don't have to pay anything to develop Windows software, however. There's various bits and pieces that can be used for Windows programming: MinGW, Dev-C++. SDL, wxWidgets. perl, tcl, etc.
1) Shove them up your nose
2) Repackage them as chicken fingers
3) Mugger Supply Depot
I think PSG stands for "programmable sound generator", the Sega Genesis had one, as well as FM.
He seems to be saying that the emulators intentionally add the slowdown. Some (Nintendo) emulators let you play without it.
Already beat you, I've patented the concept of using a binary numeric system!
The problem isn't necessarily violent games, it's the "people who can't accept responsibility for themselves"..
You can survive 50 foot falls in Grand Theft Auto games, too. If someone doesn't know you generally can't handle that in real life (i.e. major injuries or death), something's wrong with them. Either they haven't been educated in some basic way, they have no common sense, they're psychotic, or they've lived an incredibly sheltered life. It's not the game at fault, it's the person.
Sure, it's a little different, stealing cars and killing people vs jumping off of tall buildings, but still, the same - common sense, not being psychotic, etc.
You could always "break the rules" of GTA and be a law-abiding pedestrian and never steal cars, never beat anyone up, etc. too. The point is, it's a game.
If someone's going to cross over their violent behavior from the game into real life, something's wrong with them. I haven't seen hordes of people out and about suddenly stealing every car in sight because they played Grand Theft Auto games.
Now if you excuse me, I have to get the large, floating, endlessly rotating heart-shaped healing icon I've been saving up out of the fridge, and the floating, rotating rocket launcher, and go outside to kill the pink demons driving around in cars. And I'll climb into my tank, which drives exactly like a car.
DOSBox is even able to run Zone66, which is pretty finicky about DPMI and EMS and XMS.
There is also Inkscape for editing SVG.
The domains of cybersquatters/spammers should be somehow restricted to .biz
Didn't they do the sound effects too?
You could try LiteStep, or other open/free programs, for virtual desktops.
Windows (at least with TweakUI) allows you to focus windows by moving the mouse over them. Of course, I believe, this caused some problem with "What's this?" tooltips not showing up.
There are other programs obtainable for window shading, probably for snap-to, and probably most everything else.
Of course, getting Microsoft to incoporate this themselves is another can of worms. (Except XP does have some kind of virtual desktops, with some downloadable addon.)