Man many of my best gaming memories from college were playing Thunderwalker. It helped that the creators lived on the same dorm floor and the whole floor was basically the playtest team.
Glad to think that you believe that there is a shortage of embedded system coders because that's the area I'm primarily interested in going into.
I'm a 21 year old student about to graduate in December from college with my CS degree and I would like to find a good place to do that sort of development. Hopefully in Minnesota. If by upper-midwest you mean Minnesota I would guess you're working for Medtronic or Guidant.
Anyone able to give me some leads as to where I might consider looking?
Wipeout 2097 is a very good game. I somewhat doubt we'll ever be able to play that incarnation of the series over the net. Games will most likely have to be written to take advantage of multiplayer capabilities.
I have a decent PC and hope to keep it "shit-cool" if I can. I also own consoles and will continue to own consoles. They serve very different purposes in my mind. For gaming I would much rather sit down in the midst of many friends and tromp them on my TV screen rather than crowding around my computer to play. For programming and productivity and the like I very much prefer to sit at my desk and use the computer. (or in my recliner and use the laptop.:-) )
Things they are a changin' Mr Anonymous Coward. Let's see.
1. You don't like modems. Well, the upcoming Dreamcast is purported to eventually have LAN adaptors and such available for communication.
2. Resolution, bit of a sore point still. No 1024x768 yet but it is possible to display on a monitor at higher resolutions with the DC VGA box. Most upcoming consoles should have similar functionality
3. Gamepads: Hmm, for FPS and such I agree. The controller used depends on the type of game more than the fact it's on a console. That's why they market gamepads for the PC as well. That's also why you can get joysticks and other controllers for consoles. Once again, since it's the only new console I have real knowledge of the Dreamcast already has a keyboard and mouse coming out.
4. Sound: This is just silly. All current consoles can output Stereo at least and the new Dreamcast has a very nice Yamaha sound processor that can do 3D positional sound, Stereo and all those nifty thing.
5. HD: Well, if all you need to do is save game states then do you really need a hard drive? N64 has that Dex drive thing, DC will have a ZIP drive.
>However, to play a lot of old console system >games and arcade games, nothing beats a real >computer.:)
Almost, almost. however to REALLY play a lot of old console system games and arcade games nothing beats playing them on the old console system and arcade machines. It's not too hard to get the systems and arcade machines while a bit harder can be found. Not to knock MAME and similar endeavours since they are indeed wonderful.
I'm replying at this level but I have comments for both parents of this response. I too have paid up some money for the Dreamcast. Awfully nice system, good price range and first out the gate with MANY nice titles already lined up.
The Dreamcast has the option of running libraries from Windows CE but most of the games developed so far do not use these and instead use an alternate API provided by Sega which I believe will be the primary choice for most developers. Basically whatever OS is chosen is put on the disk, not in the console.
As far as I've heard (and I've checked out a lot of info) I don't believe you'll need to use Sega's ISP for Network access. You will most likely have to use their online network to actually connect up with other Sega gamers however. If all you want to do is surf with your Dream Passport software then any ISP will do.
Also, on a non-Dreamcast note I also collect classic consoles, particularly the Intellivision. The Intellivision Lives emulator CD has been mentioned here. There is a small group of people (myself included) who have been actually doing a bit of development for the emulator. No means of burning or presenting an image to a real machine has come up yet. It's quite fun and in my opinion the Intellivision seems like a pretty nice machine to become familiar with assembly or to just use.
Hmm, your subject says Netware is nowhere but the message says Lotus. If you meant Lotus then I must disagree, they still provide the leading Groupware product available. They are slowly losing some ground to Exchange but have a long way to go before they're overtaken. I believe that they're also going to be becoming more popular once again after having seen some of the things that R5 can do.
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Man many of my best gaming memories from college were playing Thunderwalker. It helped that the creators lived on the same dorm floor and the whole floor was basically the playtest team.
Glad to think that you believe that there is a shortage of embedded system coders because that's the area I'm primarily interested in going into.
I'm a 21 year old student about to graduate in December from college with my CS degree and I would like to find a good place to do that sort of development. Hopefully in Minnesota. If by upper-midwest you mean Minnesota I would guess you're working for Medtronic or Guidant.
Anyone able to give me some leads as to where I might consider looking?
Wipeout 2097 is a very good game. I somewhat doubt we'll ever be able to play that incarnation of the series over the net. Games will most likely have to be written to take advantage of multiplayer capabilities.
:-) )
I have a decent PC and hope to keep it "shit-cool" if I can. I also own consoles and will continue to own consoles. They serve very different purposes in my mind. For gaming I would much rather sit down in the midst of many friends and tromp them on my TV screen rather than crowding around my computer to play. For programming and productivity and the like I very much prefer to sit at my desk and use the computer. (or in my recliner and use the laptop.
Things they are a changin' Mr Anonymous Coward. Let's see.
1. You don't like modems. Well, the upcoming Dreamcast is purported to eventually have LAN adaptors and such available for communication.
2. Resolution, bit of a sore point still. No 1024x768 yet but it is possible to display on a monitor at higher resolutions with the DC VGA box. Most upcoming consoles should have similar functionality
3. Gamepads: Hmm, for FPS and such I agree. The controller used depends on the type of game more than the fact it's on a console. That's why they market gamepads for the PC as well. That's also why you can get joysticks and other controllers for consoles. Once again, since it's the only new console I have real knowledge of the Dreamcast already has a keyboard and mouse coming out.
4. Sound: This is just silly. All current consoles can output Stereo at least and the new Dreamcast has a very nice Yamaha sound processor that can do 3D positional sound, Stereo and all those nifty thing.
5. HD: Well, if all you need to do is save game states then do you really need a hard drive? N64 has that Dex drive thing, DC will have a ZIP drive.
>However, to play a lot of old console system >games and arcade games, nothing beats a real >computer. :)
Almost, almost. however to REALLY play a lot of old console system games and arcade games nothing beats playing them on the old console system and arcade machines. It's not too hard to get the systems and arcade machines while a bit harder can be found. Not to knock MAME and similar endeavours since they are indeed wonderful.
I'm replying at this level but I have comments for both parents of this response. I too have paid up some money for the Dreamcast. Awfully nice system, good price range and first out the gate with MANY nice titles already lined up.
The Dreamcast has the option of running libraries from Windows CE but most of the games developed so far do not use these and instead use an alternate API provided by Sega which I believe will be the primary choice for most developers. Basically whatever OS is chosen is put on the disk, not in the console.
As far as I've heard (and I've checked out a lot of info) I don't believe you'll need to use Sega's ISP for Network access. You will most likely have to use their online network to actually connect up with other Sega gamers however. If all you want to do is surf with your Dream Passport software then any ISP will do.
Also, on a non-Dreamcast note I also collect classic consoles, particularly the Intellivision. The Intellivision Lives emulator CD has been mentioned here. There is a small group of people (myself included) who have been actually doing a bit of development for the emulator. No means of burning or presenting an image to a real machine has come up yet. It's quite fun and in my opinion the Intellivision seems like a pretty nice machine to become familiar with assembly or to just use.
Hmm, your subject says Netware is nowhere but the message says Lotus. If you meant Lotus then I must disagree, they still provide the leading Groupware product available. They are slowly losing some ground to Exchange but have a long way to go before they're overtaken. I believe that they're also going to be becoming more popular once again after having seen some of the things that R5 can do.