There was the series of books based upon the game. Mind you it wasn't quite on track when it was compared to the game's storyline, but I found both books rather enjoyable and worthy of a B-rated or straight to video movie.
Yes you can. There are several other devices that can be attached to a mini-PCI slot, modem, network card, I believe there's others too (just do an ebay search for mini-PCI). The laptop I got had a Pentium M, but I can exchange or take out the wireless card, if needed, and replace it with something else. Even my older AMD one had a mini-PCI slot that didn't have wireless.
AFAIK most main board manufacturers give the ability to add a wireless add-on card easily (like those AMR/CNR connectors), but due to costs, often offer the board in with and without wireless flavors.
VMDSound has worked great for me too. In fact on my game PC (AMD 2200+) it allows me to get most of my DOS games including a few tricky ones, to work.
The problem I've ran into was VESA mode at 640x480 and above in Windows XP. It seems there's some kind of block preventing DOS Mode in windows to run in this mode, but there is a patch! Go here and scroll down to VESA 2.0, download NOLFB.ZIP and read the instructions. This has enabled Duke Nukem 3D and alot of games to work, with VDMSound quite nicely. It's not going to fix everything but it has bumped up compatibility of DOS Games in WinXP to 80-90%. Now if VDMSound was properly tuned so the audio wouldn't stutter a bit...
The judge ruled that the evidence provided from the CRIA's experts (MediaSentry) was inconclusive to provide statistics of actual copyright infringement. Essentially if the item is shared, it doesn't mean people have downloaded it. It also doesn't mean they got what they expected when they downloaded either.
Changing Canada's copyright laws will not change the fact that such evidence was found to be insufficient for cause of copyright infringement. It was even found the evidence and information provided from MediaSentry was heresay.
Most laptops that use the integrated chipset video card will use shared memory for video (like the i855GM, ATI IGP320), but for the radeon 7500, 9000, 9200, etc, and the Geforce FX series cards, they use their own memory (hence why the amount of video ram stated is uniform and cannot be upgraded without a board replacement).
It still works under Windows XP last time I tried, as long as you can find a Windows 95 CD (any Windows 95 CD seems to have it since my Upgrade and OEM Discs contain the folder). And best of all it's only ~20MB if you want to run it off the harddrive instead of the CD.
I remember watching a report with companies hired by the MPAA saying that they put out fake copies of movies on the internet, so a user gets frustrated when they realize its not the movie they wanted and may go out and see or buy it.
Is this shooting themselves in the foot, by saying "anyone can post a file that is mislabeled, duping people to think its a movie when its a 3 sec clip over and over?". I would like to see this used as a defense in court, because unless they actually downloaded the full movie from the user, theres no way for sure to see if they're distributing the movie instead of a random file. And I doubt they have the patience to download a full movie from a person on slow access (dialup, low speed cable), so they have to confirm that the user is sharing the actual movie don't they?
Don't you mean 486 DX 50? The DX/2 50 had one of those lame multipliers that made the CPU run 50MHz internally, but the FSB was still only 25MHz. Now, if it were one of those original 486 DX 50's, those things were incredibly fast for the time since it's FSB was 50MHz. But the real fun started with VESA Local Bus cards at such a high bus speed.
Instead of lugging 10 CDs worth of games because each game requires a CD check, I find a no-CD cracked version of the game for my laptop. No point risking the loss or damage of the CDs when its entirely unnecessary (most games these days copy 90% of their data to the harddrive anyways, so swapping has no real purpose).
Once again, game developers inconvienence legit paying users by putting them through this nonsense, while games get cracked regardless of the copy protection used anyways.
The individual in the parent thread said himself that Windows 2000 drivers were beta, even as late as Feb 2001.
I can atest to this, I had an All-In-Wonder 128 card, and although it works "okay" in 98SE, I went to Windows 2000 as soon as I could.
However, ATI had on their driver site that Windows 2000 was a business-oriented OS and that they were only providing beta drivers at the time. And when I say beta drivers, these drivers make a beta of Windows 98 look like Windows NT. Random crashing, inverted colours during TV-out, etc.
It took them well over a year to provide any kind of final drivers for Windows 2000 after the OS was released (and remember, they could have had more time to work on the drivers before Windows 2000 was released).
For memories, I decided to check archive.org to verify my dates. Here's the link to Win2K drivers for the Rage 128 Pro, 1 year after Win2K was RTM.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010123215700/suppor t. atitech.ca/products/pc/rage128pro/win2k/rage128pro _win2k_drivers.html
Nice to see that their only driver option for a new product on a new OS has no technical support nor is even a final driver.
I agree that ATI will work closely with Microsoft in designing the drivers, but their track record with the PC in the past does not have me jumping for joy.
I agree. I have a P3-550 with a Savage4 video card, and besides the random problems switching back and forth between Xfree and bash, the card just doesn't perform as fast as an ATI Rage Pro even (which is 2 years older, if I'm not mistaken). Not to mention driver and specs for the chipset is lacking, and since S3 doesn't even support driver downloads for the products, I doubt the situation will improve.
Actually, back when Law & Order was on A&E, I remember during commerical periods seeing ads for Rogers Cable, CBC Radio and other Canadian things over the american-based ads. However the program's source did not change at all (i.e. Law & Order was still and only being aired on A&E, which is American).
I've questioned about the legal nature of this (because the switch from the A&E feed to the commericals put by the cable companies were noticable and quite loud, and even at times, would make me miss part of the show). However, someome told me this is normal pratice, and is legal.
Something close to this exists in Canada. We have a levy on blank CDs here, with the money going to the RIAA to recoup costs. Fortuneatly, with the creation of the levy, the copyright rules changed slightly, allowing other users to make copies of music CDs they don't own as long as I don't do it for them physically.
But on the negative side, how many people back up their data on CD-Rs? I'm sure that most of us have used at least 1-2 CD-Rs to back up data for work, for school or what not. I mean let's be realistic, we're not going to back up that 20GB drive of ours onto floppies and DDS DAT drives are too expensive. So whenever I use a CD-R to back up data I made, part of the cost of that media goes to the RIAA, which is unfair and in my opinion stealing. They're assuming with their large ego's that whenever a CD is burned, they're losing money. I have done some consulting work in the past for copies that use CD-Rs to back up important database files because the unit and the media is still fairly inexpensive. But the media could be even cheaper without this assumption of being guilty of a crime without even committing it yet.
What happens if the invididual sharing the files in question is out of jurstidiction of the United States? As far as I know ISPs in Canada, Australia, England, won't give out user information without a court order. Since the DMCA or whatever law it is that allows the RIAA to get information from ISPs does not exist in these countries, these users don't have to worry (at least in theory).
And even worse, what about those who have filenames that are similar but not exactly the same as commerical music? They're going to have to download every song they can to verify it, otherwise it will be tossed out of court (and on 56K, that can be hours if not days).
The thing is, most onboard sound cards are codec based, meaning they do have the functionality of sound cards, but the CPU does most of the leg work. On today's systems, thats hardly noticable, but back on a p200 or p2-300, one can see that the audio is sensitive to the cpu usage.
Problem is, for some of these system's, it can be easier just to rent a game for a week or two, finish it and return it, and rent another one. For the longest time I bought a SNES back in the day, without any games at all for $100cdn. I didn't buy any games for the longest time (must of been over 2 years), but rather rented games, due to the price. And yes, the cost of renting games after a while ended up more than the cost of buying games, but for a game that's easy to finish or that I got bored of easily, this was a more economical solution.
The point is, that people can do that today. Buy an X-Box or PS2, and just rent games (depending on their frequency of free-time, how often they play games, etc). Yes the companies will lose money by selling the systems below cost, but this is a gamble they made when they set their price. I don't know how many people do this now with newer systems, but if it still happens, they are unaware of the fact that that both the game company and the system manufactuer are losing money because they decided to rent a game vs buying it.
As far as I know, the Microprose Version was one of the best versions that allowed single player duels to take place. Unfortuneatly, after the Spells of the Ancients Add-on (Which gave Arabian Nights, Antiquties and *some* Legend and Dark expansion cards), Microprose had difficulty continuing the game and gave up. People have made patches for the game to run in Windows XP, but no one, as of yet, knows how to add more cards (and probably won't).
Alternatives I've seen so far include the Magma Magic Machine at http://clik.to/magma and the Magic Workstation at http://www.magicworkstation.com/ is suppose to, have Computer AI support in the future (but they want money for their program). Other than, my search has yielded nothing.
No matter what the cause, censoring information does absoultely nothing except shield people from the truth and reality. Not to mention, should I trust and leave censorship in the hands of others to deal with? It should be up to the parents (in this case) to figure out which content is good for their children. Since anything can be accessed on the internet easily no matter what, I think this is just a waste of money.
After 10 months of owning the Collectors Edition of this movie, I was annoyed to find that it, in fact was unplayable at all. After closer inspection, it looked like the center of the first disc had been cracked in several places, while other DVD discs that I have played (for longer periods too) have stayed in perfect shape. I never noticed this because, until they are being viewed, my movies stay in their respective containers. This is the primary reason why I often resort to DivX and shifting formats of video. Other movies, I find, are very sensitive to layer changes, and once again, when I play back a DivX copy off a CD, I don't experience such problems (except the lack of extra features I probably won't use).
What happens to users who have trojans on their machines, sharing their files or who are unaware that their entire C:\ drive is shared (because of an improper File & Print Sharing setup)? Due to a lack of knowledge of how security works in Windows, they can get fined (at least in theory) if they have any copyrighted works on their machine. Not cool if you're the average joe consumer.
Its stating that although the Nvidia GeForce FX is in production, we will most likely not see any version of the card avaliable to consumers until Mid-January to Feburary.
I agree, who cares about the process, but its nice to see an alternative video card that may have some performance for a decent price compared to ATI and Nvidia (who also make quality cards). Sounds like something OEM's might use on some machines for its price.
Unfortuneatly its a long way and it has not ruled that the use of DeCSS is legal.
My point is I paid for a DVD drive. I also paid to watch a movie unlimited times (hence the purchase of a DVD movie on a disc). However I am restricted at watching the movie legally, because I use an open source Operating System. With copy protection, we are slowly losing our rights as a group of consumers, for the interests of the movie industry that claims they have lost money. But their estimated profits for the year are just that, estimates. Piracy has been a blamed since the invention of video tape (in terms of video) for the industry not achieving these estimated figures.
I find it disgusting that the only legitatment DVD player for PCs is for Windows, and that there is no open source alternative, for those who don't wish to spend money for a bloated operating system that makes my purchases obsolete in a week's time.
So how are we to play DVDs in our *nix Operating systems? We're not, we're suppose to buy Windows, and shell out extra money for a DVD player. This makes a purchase of a DVD drive useless for an open source based PC.
It depends on the grade of tape and the media used. Granted CD-R is more prone to failure, in the same respect, tape is as well. Most TV stations tend to back up their BetaCam tapes after 10 years, as that is the recommended shelf life before the tape starts showing noticable problems. Umatic 3/4 inch tape seems to last longer, although most footage has been backed up to BetaCam in some insitutions for simplicity.
Time will always be an enemy when backing up data, as nothing lasts forever, so you always have to be one step ahead (and backup your data regularly before its too late).
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There was the series of books based upon the game. Mind you it wasn't quite on track when it was compared to the game's storyline, but I found both books rather enjoyable and worthy of a B-rated or straight to video movie.
Yes you can. There are several other devices that can be attached to a mini-PCI slot, modem, network card, I believe there's others too (just do an ebay search for mini-PCI). The laptop I got had a Pentium M, but I can exchange or take out the wireless card, if needed, and replace it with something else. Even my older AMD one had a mini-PCI slot that didn't have wireless.
AFAIK most main board manufacturers give the ability to add a wireless add-on card easily (like those AMR/CNR connectors), but due to costs, often offer the board in with and without wireless flavors.
VMDSound has worked great for me too. In fact on my game PC (AMD 2200+) it allows me to get most of my DOS games including a few tricky ones, to work.
The problem I've ran into was VESA mode at 640x480 and above in Windows XP. It seems there's some kind of block preventing DOS Mode in windows to run in this mode, but there is a patch! Go here and scroll down to VESA 2.0, download NOLFB.ZIP and read the instructions. This has enabled Duke Nukem 3D and alot of games to work, with VDMSound quite nicely. It's not going to fix everything but it has bumped up compatibility of DOS Games in WinXP to 80-90%. Now if VDMSound was properly tuned so the audio wouldn't stutter a bit...
The judge ruled that the evidence provided from the CRIA's experts (MediaSentry) was inconclusive to provide statistics of actual copyright infringement. Essentially if the item is shared, it doesn't mean people have downloaded it. It also doesn't mean they got what they expected when they downloaded either.
Changing Canada's copyright laws will not change the fact that such evidence was found to be insufficient for cause of copyright infringement. It was even found the evidence and information provided from MediaSentry was heresay.
Most laptops that use the integrated chipset video card will use shared memory for video (like the i855GM, ATI IGP320), but for the radeon 7500, 9000, 9200, etc, and the Geforce FX series cards, they use their own memory (hence why the amount of video ram stated is uniform and cannot be upgraded without a board replacement).
It still works under Windows XP last time I tried, as long as you can find a Windows 95 CD (any Windows 95 CD seems to have it since my Upgrade and OEM Discs contain the folder). And best of all it's only ~20MB if you want to run it off the harddrive instead of the CD.
I remember watching a report with companies hired by the MPAA saying that they put out fake copies of movies on the internet, so a user gets frustrated when they realize its not the movie they wanted and may go out and see or buy it.
Is this shooting themselves in the foot, by saying "anyone can post a file that is mislabeled, duping people to think its a movie when its a 3 sec clip over and over?". I would like to see this used as a defense in court, because unless they actually downloaded the full movie from the user, theres no way for sure to see if they're distributing the movie instead of a random file. And I doubt they have the patience to download a full movie from a person on slow access (dialup, low speed cable), so they have to confirm that the user is sharing the actual movie don't they?
What if its the passenger in the back seat on the phone instead?
Don't you mean 486 DX 50? The DX/2 50 had one of those lame multipliers that made the CPU run 50MHz internally, but the FSB was still only 25MHz. Now, if it were one of those original 486 DX 50's, those things were incredibly fast for the time since it's FSB was 50MHz. But the real fun started with VESA Local Bus cards at such a high bus speed.
I agree.
Instead of lugging 10 CDs worth of games because each game requires a CD check, I find a no-CD cracked version of the game for my laptop. No point risking the loss or damage of the CDs when its entirely unnecessary (most games these days copy 90% of their data to the harddrive anyways, so swapping has no real purpose).
Once again, game developers inconvienence legit paying users by putting them through this nonsense, while games get cracked regardless of the copy protection used anyways.
The individual in the parent thread said himself that Windows 2000 drivers were beta, even as late as Feb 2001.
r t. atitech.ca/products/pc/rage128pro/win2k/rage128pro _win2k_drivers.html
I can atest to this, I had an All-In-Wonder 128 card, and although it works "okay" in 98SE, I went to Windows 2000 as soon as I could.
However, ATI had on their driver site that Windows 2000 was a business-oriented OS and that they were only providing beta drivers at the time. And when I say beta drivers, these drivers make a beta of Windows 98 look like Windows NT. Random crashing, inverted colours during TV-out, etc.
It took them well over a year to provide any kind of final drivers for Windows 2000 after the OS was released (and remember, they could have had more time to work on the drivers before Windows 2000 was released).
For memories, I decided to check archive.org to verify my dates. Here's the link to Win2K drivers for the Rage 128 Pro, 1 year after Win2K was RTM.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010123215700/suppo
Nice to see that their only driver option for a new product on a new OS has no technical support nor is even a final driver.
I agree that ATI will work closely with Microsoft in designing the drivers, but their track record with the PC in the past does not have me jumping for joy.
I agree. I have a P3-550 with a Savage4 video card, and besides the random problems switching back and forth between Xfree and bash, the card just doesn't perform as fast as an ATI Rage Pro even (which is 2 years older, if I'm not mistaken). Not to mention driver and specs for the chipset is lacking, and since S3 doesn't even support driver downloads for the products, I doubt the situation will improve.
Actually, back when Law & Order was on A&E, I remember during commerical periods seeing ads for Rogers Cable, CBC Radio and other Canadian things over the american-based ads. However the program's source did not change at all (i.e. Law & Order was still and only being aired on A&E, which is American).
I've questioned about the legal nature of this (because the switch from the A&E feed to the commericals put by the cable companies were noticable and quite loud, and even at times, would make me miss part of the show). However, someome told me this is normal pratice, and is legal.
Something close to this exists in Canada. We have a levy on blank CDs here, with the money going to the RIAA to recoup costs. Fortuneatly, with the creation of the levy, the copyright rules changed slightly, allowing other users to make copies of music CDs they don't own as long as I don't do it for them physically.
But on the negative side, how many people back up their data on CD-Rs? I'm sure that most of us have used at least 1-2 CD-Rs to back up data for work, for school or what not. I mean let's be realistic, we're not going to back up that 20GB drive of ours onto floppies and DDS DAT drives are too expensive. So whenever I use a CD-R to back up data I made, part of the cost of that media goes to the RIAA, which is unfair and in my opinion stealing. They're assuming with their large ego's that whenever a CD is burned, they're losing money. I have done some consulting work in the past for copies that use CD-Rs to back up important database files because the unit and the media is still fairly inexpensive. But the media could be even cheaper without this assumption of being guilty of a crime without even committing it yet.
What happens if the invididual sharing the files in question is out of jurstidiction of the United States? As far as I know ISPs in Canada, Australia, England, won't give out user information without a court order. Since the DMCA or whatever law it is that allows the RIAA to get information from ISPs does not exist in these countries, these users don't have to worry (at least in theory).
And even worse, what about those who have filenames that are similar but not exactly the same as commerical music? They're going to have to download every song they can to verify it, otherwise it will be tossed out of court (and on 56K, that can be hours if not days).
You mean this article?
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http://www6.tomshardware.com/game/20030405/inde
The thing is, most onboard sound cards are codec based, meaning they do have the functionality of sound cards, but the CPU does most of the leg work. On today's systems, thats hardly noticable, but back on a p200 or p2-300, one can see that the audio is sensitive to the cpu usage.
Problem is, for some of these system's, it can be easier just to rent a game for a week or two, finish it and return it, and rent another one. For the longest time I bought a SNES back in the day, without any games at all for $100cdn. I didn't buy any games for the longest time (must of been over 2 years), but rather rented games, due to the price. And yes, the cost of renting games after a while ended up more than the cost of buying games, but for a game that's easy to finish or that I got bored of easily, this was a more economical solution.
The point is, that people can do that today. Buy an X-Box or PS2, and just rent games (depending on their frequency of free-time, how often they play games, etc). Yes the companies will lose money by selling the systems below cost, but this is a gamble they made when they set their price. I don't know how many people do this now with newer systems, but if it still happens, they are unaware of the fact that that both the game company and the system manufactuer are losing money because they decided to rent a game vs buying it.
As far as I know, the Microprose Version was one of the best versions that allowed single player duels to take place. Unfortuneatly, after the Spells of the Ancients Add-on (Which gave Arabian Nights, Antiquties and *some* Legend and Dark expansion cards), Microprose had difficulty continuing the game and gave up. People have made patches for the game to run in Windows XP, but no one, as of yet, knows how to add more cards (and probably won't).
Alternatives I've seen so far include the Magma Magic Machine at http://clik.to/magma and the Magic Workstation at http://www.magicworkstation.com/ is suppose to, have Computer AI support in the future (but they want money for their program). Other than, my search has yielded nothing.
No matter what the cause, censoring information does absoultely nothing except shield people from the truth and reality. Not to mention, should I trust and leave censorship in the hands of others to deal with? It should be up to the parents (in this case) to figure out which content is good for their children. Since anything can be accessed on the internet easily no matter what, I think this is just a waste of money.
After 10 months of owning the Collectors Edition of this movie, I was annoyed to find that it, in fact was unplayable at all. After closer inspection, it looked like the center of the first disc had been cracked in several places, while other DVD discs that I have played (for longer periods too) have stayed in perfect shape. I never noticed this because, until they are being viewed, my movies stay in their respective containers. This is the primary reason why I often resort to DivX and shifting formats of video. Other movies, I find, are very sensitive to layer changes, and once again, when I play back a DivX copy off a CD, I don't experience such problems (except the lack of extra features I probably won't use).
What happens to users who have trojans on their machines, sharing their files or who are unaware that their entire C:\ drive is shared (because of an improper File & Print Sharing setup)? Due to a lack of knowledge of how security works in Windows, they can get fined (at least in theory) if they have any copyrighted works on their machine. Not cool if you're the average joe consumer.
Its stating that although the Nvidia GeForce FX is in production, we will most likely not see any version of the card avaliable to consumers until Mid-January to Feburary.
I agree, who cares about the process, but its nice to see an alternative video card that may have some performance for a decent price compared to ATI and Nvidia (who also make quality cards). Sounds like something OEM's might use on some machines for its price.
Unfortuneatly its a long way and it has not ruled that the use of DeCSS is legal.
My point is I paid for a DVD drive. I also paid to watch a movie unlimited times (hence the purchase of a DVD movie on a disc). However I am restricted at watching the movie legally, because I use an open source Operating System. With copy protection, we are slowly losing our rights as a group of consumers, for the interests of the movie industry that claims they have lost money. But their estimated profits for the year are just that, estimates. Piracy has been a blamed since the invention of video tape (in terms of video) for the industry not achieving these estimated figures.
I find it disgusting that the only legitatment DVD player for PCs is for Windows, and that there is no open source alternative, for those who don't wish to spend money for a bloated operating system that makes my purchases obsolete in a week's time.
So how are we to play DVDs in our *nix Operating systems? We're not, we're suppose to buy Windows, and shell out extra money for a DVD player. This makes a purchase of a DVD drive useless for an open source based PC.
It depends on the grade of tape and the media used. Granted CD-R is more prone to failure, in the same respect, tape is as well. Most TV stations tend to back up their BetaCam tapes after 10 years, as that is the recommended shelf life before the tape starts showing noticable problems. Umatic 3/4 inch tape seems to last longer, although most footage has been backed up to BetaCam in some insitutions for simplicity.
Time will always be an enemy when backing up data, as nothing lasts forever, so you always have to be one step ahead (and backup your data regularly before its too late).