Is it really a US company? All the board members and the advisors have dutch names, and their pressroom sites a dutch press release on their intent to buy the Commodore brand from Tulip.
I really wonder how this will affect the C64 DTV stick just released. I'm in Europe, so I still haven't been able to get one of these.
I think Intels turnaround is anything but fast, and I think they have to far more responsive to the changes in the processor market than they have been so far. AMD is on the up and Intel is partly responsible for this, what with their flawed introduction of the Itanium and their steadfast reliance on the again Pentium 4.
Don Davis left for health reasons. Richard Dean Anderson wanted to leave to spend more time with the family, but agreed to stay on in a less active role.
I can't image this will be changed in the new Groups, as Google use the Usenet protocol to propagate messages, and sending messages through Usenet is a *lot* slower than, say, sending email (but that's really comparing apples & oranges).
Aha, didn't know that, but then I don't go live either. Maybe one of these days I'll get a new, unmodded xbox to go live with. It's not like they're expensive anymore.:)
The Halo2 DVD contains a file called dashupdate.xbe. If you have a modded XBox and a storebought copy of Halo2, you can rip the game to a PC, remove the file and burn a new copy to use with the box. However, you have to do this before you start playing it for the first time...
There was even an Amiga version, which was quite similiar to the MS-DOS version of WP. It was actually pretty decent, and I sometimes even use it today when I'm booting up my Amiga.
On the PC side, Wordperfect never managed to make the transition to the GUI/Win95. It ruled on MS-DOS, but the GUI versions were slow, buggy and annoying.
how realistic is this $50 price tag on games?! I've seen that same price for over 10 years now and I wonder, do gaming companies make a lot of money, or is the profit on a game pretty slim?
In reality, this means that the price is considerably lower today than it ever was.:) What other products cost the same today as it did ten years ago?
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Going gold -> the game is finished and ready to be duplicated (from a master copy, often referred to as the "gold" copy).
Ready to ship -> the duplicating is done, the discs are packed in boxes and are about to head to the stores. Slashdot may have jumped the gun on the previous story.
Definitely. PS2 may have thousands of games, but I've only got time to play one or two a month so I care about the quantity - only quality, and the XBox delivers every time. In the past few months I've played Star Wars KOTOR, Riddick, Prince of Persia, GTA 3 & VC, and right now I'm churning along with Fable - which is a truly excellent game. Besides, the original Xbox controller (the big one) is really the best of the bunch.:)
I agree with you. The parent poster is obviously an anti-MS troll who probably hasn't even got an X-Box. To add to your list:
Fable - truly f**ing awesome
Riddick (of course)
And four that's available on other console's, but which are better on the X-Box:
Outrun 2 (Burnout 3 is better, but the nostalgic factor is *huge*)
Larry - MCL
GTA3 & GTA: Vice City (I've played both the PS2 version and the Xbox versions, and the Xbox versions beats the PS2 versions hands down).
Yes, the Tex Murphy series were awesome. I remember playing Under A Killing Moon so well - it was one of those games (along with Doom, Alone in the dark & the Sierra series of games) that justified spending unbelieavable amounts of money on PC hardware at the time. I have the original UAKM in my shelf, although I'm not sure if all the CD's are still in the box (I think I lost one of them at some point).
I've been waiting for this ever since Sierra got sold out. Man, the adventure games you could make with a game engine like Doom 3 or the forthcoming Half-Life 2 engine. If it were done right, I'm damn sure it'd re-energize the adventure game market.
They should've contacted Ken Williams (of former Sierra fame - http://www.sierragamers.com/), and maybe they'd gotten some input of how to make games that appeal to the cerebral part of the marketplace as well.
Greg Zeschuk. Bioware -- ring a bell? Bioware did the enormously successfull Neverwinter nights game. It's even got a Linux client, for heaven's sake. http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
I'd vote for the guy who got three purple hearts, a silver star, and a bronze star, anytime, over the guy who took the rich boy coward's way out and won't admit there was anything even remotely improper about it.
I do *not* want to compare anyone to Hitler, but I'd like to point out that if Hitler was an American soldier in WW1, he would have gotten at least two purple heart for his injuries on the front. He was a dedicated soldier and a war hero. This didn't stop him from creating a dictatorship in a democratic country, go to war to most of the world, and orchestrating unspeakable atrocities to jews, gypsys and a lot of other innocent peoples.
Very cool - as editing Doom 3's config files can give tremendous results. For instance, setting the following gave me a noticable boost (enabling me to go from 800x600 in medium quality to 1024x768 on high quality without loosing speed):
Ah, Stunt Car Racer. It even holds up to this day - it was an amazing game:).
Geoff Crammond (creator of the original) announced last year he was working on Stunt Car Racer Pro together with developer Lost Toys. Haven't heard any info about it since, but I hope it comes to pass. It would be awesome to get an update to this game.
I see your point, but if they're offering 1GB of space they HAVE to assume that peeps will use it to store stuff. I mean... c'mon... if I never, ever deleted a single (non-work) email in my whole life I doubt it would come close to 1GB... INCLUDING spam.
I don't know about that. I've been using Gmail for a few weeks, and I'm already up to 2%. That includes a hundred outgoing emails, a few hundred saved emails and quite a bit of spam (which Gmails for the most part automatically detects and puts away). Spam is the big factor here, so Google would do well to put in a button that would empty the junk folder. Right now, you can only delete a hundred at a time.
BTW, I've got a couple of invites - if anyone wants them, mail me (address in journal pages).
Just tell her to upgrade Windows to Service Pack 2 and then explain how IE's new inbuilt popup blocker will suppress those pop up windows. Everyone's happy.
...Or maybe you mean the way that every new version is incompatible not only with the settings and profiles of the old one but the extensions too, forcing me to uninstall and delete the old version before upgrading?...
Yeah, if there's one thing that annoys me about Firefox, it's the really annoying hoops you got to go through when you update it. You'd think it'd be a easy thing keeping your preferences, themes and extensions when updating the browser - but na-ah, no such thing...
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Is it really a US company? All the board members and the advisors have dutch names, and their pressroom sites a dutch press release on their intent to buy the Commodore brand from Tulip.
I really wonder how this will affect the C64 DTV stick just released. I'm in Europe, so I still haven't been able to get one of these.
They won't touch the Amiga. That's a separate brand under a separate ownership. And OS4 is still "coming"... :)
I think Intels turnaround is anything but fast, and I think they have to far more responsive to the changes in the processor market than they have been so far. AMD is on the up and Intel is partly responsible for this, what with their flawed introduction of the Itanium and their steadfast reliance on the again Pentium 4.
Don Davis left for health reasons. Richard Dean Anderson wanted to leave to spend more time with the family, but agreed to stay on in a less active role.
I can't image this will be changed in the new Groups, as Google use the Usenet protocol to propagate messages, and sending messages through Usenet is a *lot* slower than, say, sending email (but that's really comparing apples & oranges).
Oh man, I hope not. They'll make a sports game out of it. ;P
Aha, didn't know that, but then I don't go live either. Maybe one of these days I'll get a new, unmodded xbox to go live with. It's not like they're expensive anymore. :)
The Halo2 DVD contains a file called dashupdate.xbe. If you have a modded XBox and a storebought copy of Halo2, you can rip the game to a PC, remove the file and burn a new copy to use with the box. However, you have to do this before you start playing it for the first time...
On the PC side, Wordperfect never managed to make the transition to the GUI/Win95. It ruled on MS-DOS, but the GUI versions were slow, buggy and annoying.
Going gold -> the game is finished and ready to be duplicated (from a master copy, often referred to as the "gold" copy).
Ready to ship -> the duplicating is done, the discs are packed in boxes and are about to head to the stores. Slashdot may have jumped the gun on the previous story.
Definitely. PS2 may have thousands of games, but I've only got time to play one or two a month so I care about the quantity - only quality, and the XBox delivers every time. In the past few months I've played Star Wars KOTOR, Riddick, Prince of Persia, GTA 3 & VC, and right now I'm churning along with Fable - which is a truly excellent game. Besides, the original Xbox controller (the big one) is really the best of the bunch. :)
I agree with you. The parent poster is obviously an anti-MS troll who probably hasn't even got an X-Box. To add to your list:
Fable - truly f**ing awesome
Riddick (of course)
And four that's available on other console's, but which are better on the X-Box:
Outrun 2 (Burnout 3 is better, but the nostalgic factor is *huge*)
Larry - MCL
GTA3 & GTA: Vice City (I've played both the PS2 version and the Xbox versions, and the Xbox versions beats the PS2 versions hands down).
Did you hear about the Tex Murphy radio adventure? The official site which hosted it are down, but here a Google cache link: http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:KaUxV1cZVvYJ: unofficialtexmurphy.com/theater/episode1.shtml+%22 Tex+Murphy+Radio+Theater%22+mirror&hl=no
Also, there was two other Tex Murphy games, preceding UAKM and the others: Mean Streets (review: http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,50 and Martian Memorandum (review: http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,49))
The Underdogs has both, I think, so if you're in for a quick fix, there you go. Here's the Martian M. link, anyway: http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=1901 :)
The point is: even if someone gets a medal or two from the army, it doesn't say anything about that person's morals or integrity.
I've been waiting for this ever since Sierra got sold out. Man, the adventure games you could make with a game engine like Doom 3 or the forthcoming Half-Life 2 engine. If it were done right, I'm damn sure it'd re-energize the adventure game market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell
They should've contacted Ken Williams (of former Sierra fame - http://www.sierragamers.com/), and maybe they'd gotten some input of how to make games that appeal to the cerebral part of the marketplace as well.
Trip Hawkins tried to compete in the market with 3D0. No sucess, but I'm sure it taught him something about the console biz.6
http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=10049
Steven Kent. Writer - here's his book:/ qid%3D1015862334/sr%3D1-5/gamingageonli-20/002-162 5945-0001657
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0970475500
Greg Zeschuk. Bioware -- ring a bell? Bioware did the enormously successfull Neverwinter nights game. It's even got a Linux client, for heaven's sake.
http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
Very cool - as editing Doom 3's config files can give tremendous results. For instance, setting the following gave me a noticable boost (enabling me to go from 800x600 in medium quality to 1024x768 on high quality without loosing speed):
seta image_useCache "1"
seta image_cacheMegs "256"
seta image_cacheMinK "20480"
Geoff Crammond (creator of the original) announced last year he was working on Stunt Car Racer Pro together with developer Lost Toys. Haven't heard any info about it since, but I hope it comes to pass. It would be awesome to get an update to this game.
I see your point, but if they're offering 1GB of space they HAVE to assume that peeps will use it to store stuff. I mean... c'mon... if I never, ever deleted a single (non-work) email in my whole life I doubt it would come close to 1GB... INCLUDING spam.
I don't know about that. I've been using Gmail for a few weeks, and I'm already up to 2%. That includes a hundred outgoing emails, a few hundred saved emails and quite a bit of spam (which Gmails for the most part automatically detects and puts away). Spam is the big factor here, so Google would do well to put in a button that would empty the junk folder. Right now, you can only delete a hundred at a time.
BTW, I've got a couple of invites - if anyone wants them, mail me (address in journal pages).
Just tell her to upgrade Windows to Service Pack 2 and then explain how IE's new inbuilt popup blocker will suppress those pop up windows. Everyone's happy.
...Or maybe you mean the way that every new version is incompatible not only with the settings and profiles of the old one but the extensions too, forcing me to uninstall and delete the old version before upgrading?...
Yeah, if there's one thing that annoys me about Firefox, it's the really annoying hoops you got to go through when you update it. You'd think it'd be a easy thing keeping your preferences, themes and extensions when updating the browser - but na-ah, no such thing...