That's why I wish there were more emulators for the Sharp Zaurus. The built-in keyboard makes a huge difference, and would be perfect for playing the old Ultima games!
Atari 400/800, PC, Atari ST, C64, Gameboy (orig/color/Advance), Mac, PalmPilot, MAME, MESS, ScummVM, SNES, TRS-80, Genesis, NES, Spectrum, TI85, Wonderswan, Amiga. If they're not at the link above then do a search of some Japanese zaurus sites.
In defence of Total Recall 2070, that "movie" is just the first two episodes of the series welded together. I thought it was a bit cheesy at first, but continued watching anyway. It turned out that the series itself is really good as a whole, one of the best SciFi series I've seen. It has virtually nothing to do with the Arnie film, apart from the fact that there is a company called Rekall. It deals with some really interesting ideas to do with mind control, religion, androids, drug use, and all kinds of stuff in later episodes. It's a shame it got killed after one season, but at least the end ties up quite nicely.
>I once conned someone ten minutes after he conned
>me, in exactly the same way, to teach him a
>lesson, and he fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
What was the con?
You process the left and right channels so that when the sound hits your ears, the left and right channels cancel each other out.
If you're using Windows, download this Host-based Player 3D and have a play with it yourself.
In speakers mode there is crosstalk-cancellation present.
Mais non. The keyboard is really nice. Photo's are always deceiving. They are raised up and have just the right amount of clickage. Exactly as clicky as the keys on a Nokia 6110 phone, in fact. It's very nice to type on.
I found out about this the other and leapt over to the babelfish. It appears to be identical to the SL-C760 but with some extra software loaded onto the ROM. Namely, a JapaneseEnglish dictionary and built-in support to connect to some of Japan's Wireless ISPs.
But not specifically for the N-Gage. J2ME is super-slow compared to writing direct to Symbian, so obviously all of the N-Gage-only (well they were exclusive before this crack) games are not written using Java.
How come this gets a news item and BIT Livedidn't? This sounds very weedy in comparison.
BITLive 4 was an amazing event. Nearly 300 people at the night concert, I believe. Commodore64 music legend Rob Hubbard played some of his classics on the piano, SID80's was quickly formed consisting of more legends (Monty On The Run live with real violin!), and Press Play On Tape put on a great show.
It was a truly outstanding evening, and I can't wait for the next one.
I find that the tool that I'm using affects output even more so with music. My music sounds markedly different when I use a tracker rather than a sequencer, and also when I use one certain type of tracker or sequencer over another. The interface has a great deal to do with it, as does the ease of generating certain tonal effects in different programs. My personal sequencer of choice is Bars & Pipes on the Amiga. It's interface and features are like no other, and being pretty old it has no recording facilities so the emphasis is on pure music data. Consequently my best and most creative work has come from using that program.
At the end of the day, the end result is what is most important, but the method you choose can greatly affect that result. Computers are just tools and the "latest and greatest" tool just might not bring out the best in the individual user.
Individual Computers made/make the Catweasel to begin with and to continue with. He's a clever swine, he is (Catweasel Flipper, for instance) and has made a lot of cool stuff.
The Killing Game Show on the Amiga (also released as "Fatal Rewind" on the Megadrive/Genesis) had a great feature that I haven't seen since.
If you died on a level, it would take you back to the beginning, but show you a replay of what you had just been doing on the level. You could fast-forward the replay and then take over at any time just by moving the joystick.
The Antares Auto-tune has been around for years. I thought it was sent from hell when it first appeared, but then I produced an album with a not-so-perfect singer, and oh my god it was sent from the heaven of audio legend.
The fact is that the voice is just another instrument. There is obviously a skill in singing, and those skillful singers will shine through, but using the Auto-tune is a life-saver when your human instrument won't quite do what you want it to.
You see, they haven't just tacked on a "One". What they've done is cleverly considered the results of their focus groups. Palm owners commented that their friend's Palm was so good that they wanted one too.
And so the company changed it's name not to "p-ah-m wonn", but to "Pal moan", with the emphasis on the "Oh".
It's worth every penny of the pointless millions they spent on it, I guarantee you! I don't think I consider myself worthy of purchasing such a device whose creators have a such high order of intelligence. No, sir.
The CAPS project is starting with the Amiga, preserving everything it can. Not just the games, but archiving scans of the boxes and manuals as well. They are also storing the disks in a format which retains the copy protection of the original.
Many of the biggest games companies today started on the Amiga, so this history needs to be preserved. The CAPS project will be moving onto other formats later.
I used to work for one of those companies and I know that these days its heritage has largely been forgotten. It's obvious that the companies who created the games in the first place don't really care very much about anything other than the latest sale. Any attempt to preserve these games should be lauded.
Just look at the situation with the BBC who lost some early Dr.Who episodes and loads of Beatles footage because they didn't see the value in it at the time.
I've got a stunning Zaurus SL-C750 which uses OpenPDA (see the official spec and check out this quote from this article:
"Sharp Electronics, the first OpenPDA licensee, had originally included Lineo's Embedix PDA software stack in the Zaurus. But when Embedix was subsequently acquired by Metrowerks last December, Sharp migrated to OpenPDA, which is similar in many respects to Embedix, especially in its inclusion of the Qtopia GUI framework and PDA app-suite, Opera web browser, and Jeode JVM. Additional OpenPDA licensees will be announced soon, Metrowerks said."
We got it going fine at Psygnosis when I worked there. Used to play it every lunch time and every night. It was so popular that we had up to 4 servers running at once with 8 players on each. Every one had "Fox and Hounds" on it. It is just the best game ever made. Single or multi-player. Instant replays on single player are hilarious, as was when, during a LAN game, everyone would be chasing the fox down a hill when someone would skid causing mayhem and cars would fly over your head. Marvellous.
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Just like to point out that the Japanese drive on the left too.
That's why I wish there were more emulators for the Sharp Zaurus. The built-in keyboard makes a huge difference, and would be perfect for playing the old Ultima games!
How many more do you want? There are loads of them.
Atari 400/800, PC, Atari ST, C64, Gameboy (orig/color/Advance), Mac, PalmPilot, MAME, MESS, ScummVM, SNES, TRS-80, Genesis, NES, Spectrum, TI85, Wonderswan, Amiga. If they're not at the link above then do a search of some Japanese zaurus sites.
In defence of Total Recall 2070, that "movie" is just the first two episodes of the series welded together. I thought it was a bit cheesy at first, but continued watching anyway. It turned out that the series itself is really good as a whole, one of the best SciFi series I've seen. It has virtually nothing to do with the Arnie film, apart from the fact that there is a company called Rekall. It deals with some really interesting ideas to do with mind control, religion, androids, drug use, and all kinds of stuff in later episodes. It's a shame it got killed after one season, but at least the end ties up quite nicely.
It should really be renamed the "the top 10 personal computers of all time in the US".
>I once conned someone ten minutes after he conned >me, in exactly the same way, to teach him a >lesson, and he fell for it hook, line, and sinker. What was the con?
Try Besonic instead.
You process the left and right channels so that when the sound hits your ears, the left and right channels cancel each other out. If you're using Windows, download this Host-based Player 3D and have a play with it yourself. In speakers mode there is crosstalk-cancellation present.
Read all about it!
Again, I'll point you at Sensaura where there are white papers that you can read about 3D sound processing and reproduction.
It's surely a gimmick? If you're using HRTFs, you don't need 5 speakers in there. We've only got two ears so you only need two speakers!
Proper 3D sound has been around for years, the best being from Sensaura, as licensed on the Xbox and most PC sound chips.
Is that a joke? Beta was made by Sony!
Mais non. The keyboard is really nice. Photo's are always deceiving. They are raised up and have just the right amount of clickage. Exactly as clicky as the keys on a Nokia 6110 phone, in fact. It's very nice to type on.
I found out about this the other and leapt over to the babelfish. It appears to be identical to the SL-C760 but with some extra software loaded onto the ROM. Namely, a JapaneseEnglish dictionary and built-in support to connect to some of Japan's Wireless ISPs.
So not more powerful at all.
But not specifically for the N-Gage. J2ME is super-slow compared to writing direct to Symbian, so obviously all of the N-Gage-only (well they were exclusive before this crack) games are not written using Java.
The screenshots look identical to my SL-C750, and so I'm doubtless that it is 640x480. It's an amazing screen.
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How come this gets a news item and BIT Livedidn't? This sounds very weedy in comparison.
BITLive 4 was an amazing event. Nearly 300 people at the night concert, I believe. Commodore64 music legend Rob Hubbard played some of his classics on the piano, SID80's was quickly formed consisting of more legends (Monty On The Run live with real violin!), and Press Play On Tape put on a great show.
It was a truly outstanding evening, and I can't wait for the next one.
Nice article
I find that the tool that I'm using affects output even more so with music. My music sounds markedly different when I use a tracker rather than a sequencer, and also when I use one certain type of tracker or sequencer over another. The interface has a great deal to do with it, as does the ease of generating certain tonal effects in different programs. My personal sequencer of choice is Bars & Pipes on the Amiga. It's interface and features are like no other, and being pretty old it has no recording facilities so the emphasis is on pure music data. Consequently my best and most creative work has come from using that program.
At the end of the day, the end result is what is most important, but the method you choose can greatly affect that result. Computers are just tools and the "latest and greatest" tool just might not bring out the best in the individual user.
Individual Computers made/make the Catweasel to begin with and to continue with. He's a clever swine, he is (Catweasel Flipper, for instance) and has made a lot of cool stuff.
The Killing Game Show on the Amiga (also released as "Fatal Rewind" on the Megadrive/Genesis) had a great feature that I haven't seen since.
If you died on a level, it would take you back to the beginning, but show you a replay of what you had just been doing on the level. You could fast-forward the replay and then take over at any time just by moving the joystick.
Simple, brilliant idea.
The Antares Auto-tune has been around for years. I thought it was sent from hell when it first appeared, but then I produced an album with a not-so-perfect singer, and oh my god it was sent from the heaven of audio legend. The fact is that the voice is just another instrument. There is obviously a skill in singing, and those skillful singers will shine through, but using the Auto-tune is a life-saver when your human instrument won't quite do what you want it to.
You see, they haven't just tacked on a "One". What they've done is cleverly considered the results of their focus groups. Palm owners commented that their friend's Palm was so good that they wanted one too.
And so the company changed it's name not to "p-ah-m wonn", but to "Pal moan", with the emphasis on the "Oh".
It's worth every penny of the pointless millions they spent on it, I guarantee you! I don't think I consider myself worthy of purchasing such a device whose creators have a such high order of intelligence. No, sir.
The CAPS project is starting with the Amiga, preserving everything it can. Not just the games, but archiving scans of the boxes and manuals as well. They are also storing the disks in a format which retains the copy protection of the original.
Many of the biggest games companies today started on the Amiga, so this history needs to be preserved. The CAPS project will be moving onto other formats later.
I used to work for one of those companies and I know that these days its heritage has largely been forgotten. It's obvious that the companies who created the games in the first place don't really care very much about anything other than the latest sale. Any attempt to preserve these games should be lauded.
Just look at the situation with the BBC who lost some early Dr.Who episodes and loads of Beatles footage because they didn't see the value in it at the time.
The new Zaurii are OpenPDA.
I've got a stunning Zaurus SL-C750 which uses OpenPDA (see the official spec and check out this quote from this article:
"Sharp Electronics, the first OpenPDA licensee, had originally included Lineo's Embedix PDA software stack in the Zaurus. But when Embedix was subsequently acquired by Metrowerks last December, Sharp migrated to OpenPDA, which is similar in many respects to Embedix, especially in its inclusion of the Qtopia GUI framework and PDA app-suite, Opera web browser, and Jeode JVM. Additional OpenPDA licensees will be announced soon, Metrowerks said."
I think the "Missing Manual" series should be renamed to the "I've got a cracked version" series.
We got it going fine at Psygnosis when I worked there. Used to play it every lunch time and every night. It was so popular that we had up to 4 servers running at once with 8 players on each. Every one had "Fox and Hounds" on it. It is just the best game ever made. Single or multi-player. Instant replays on single player are hilarious, as was when, during a LAN game, everyone would be chasing the fox down a hill when someone would skid causing mayhem and cars would fly over your head. Marvellous.