Look at a lot of the Anonymous Coward replies to this story. They have signatures, and all seem to be in response to something different, a cell phone story.
Not the OS, not the hardware. The documentation. If you read his post, he was talking about something that doesn't work on install, but seems to have drivers floating around the net that he'd like to add manually. I've had the same sort of problem with sound and video cards (odd OEM things of a common brand, but weren't recognized by the distro automatically), and it was a headache.
I'm more knowledgable of Linux now, but the stuff I had to learn to do that was scattered about everywhere. I had to find a seperate page or seperate post for each step, or each strange term, since none of them were geared at a Linux newcomer. I want to learn Linux completely and not be stuck to these "do it all for you" distros, but it isn't simple with the way it's currently documented.
Doesn't sound exactly like the Rush Hour song, but it's dang close. Could just be the compression tricking me, but it seems remixed to be more "Spacey" or whatnot.
I noticed that most (or about 50%, can't remember) of the modded up posts in that story were responding to those people; saying things like "It's a useful thing because I don't want two monster consoles in my living room" and etc.
The emulators are generally direct ports of the popular (open source) Windows/Linux equivalants. The only emulators I've noticed that are a bit flaky are the Playstation and N64 ones. "How it should" probably means exactly that, the ROMs play just like they would on the original consoles.
The big guys (NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboys, Mame) are the ones I use the most, and seem flawless. I've not seen a single bug with the latest versions of the emulators.
Most of the best emulator ports are from XPort, though a few aren't. Good site to see info on them.
You can also download ports of Doom Legacy (runs Doom 1 and 2 WADs), Quake, and Quake 2, all of which need the shareware or full version data to use. There are free games too, like a couple ports of shooters from ABA Games (Google them), and some other okay games. Not to mention the Xbox Media Center, and other non gaming things.
You have to go through a very well known IRC channel to download anything that is compiled because of issues with the legality of compiling with the Xbox SDK and such, but the channel is very well known and has been up for years without Microsoft intervention of any sort.
The reason I'm thinking that the revolution hasn't been put on the front page is because it's expected that the main "revolution" of the Revolution has yet to be announced. The input method or whatever it is that they've been trying to keep secret.
I'm still betting on the input method being it, and not this new download thing, since Nintendo is the only company that we don't have controller pictures from yet.
But heck, this whole downloading thing is just great. After the N64 I thought I would never buy another Nintendo console (I fell into the "Nintendo makes kiddy games" thing, which is mostly a fear that kids and teens have...), but I think they've won me back. The back catalog for download? Backwards compatibility with the Gamecube, which I don't own? It's just too perfect.
You know, much of the space in current console games is eaten up by the video cinematics and other extra things. Since the next gen consoles will be more powerful, they could realtime render the cinematics, reducing the amount of space required. More powerful compression for textures and music and the like could also be used because of their increased CPU power. A problem, but not incredibly so.
The Gamecube uses a format right now that only holds a bit less than 50% of what a normal DVD does. It doesn't seem too bad off for it.
Heck, they could just fit games on multiple DVDs like they've been doing for years for games with many prerendered cutscenes like Final Fantasy.
Yes, due to the hype and marketing (and a bit of fanboyism). That's the point he's making, the games sucked and yet people stuck to them like sticky things.
Parent is right. They said Fable was "live aware", but all it does is keeps the friends list active while you're playing. Otherwise it's completely single player.
Not harder, easier! It's is the point of "XNA"
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If you havn't heard all of Microsoft's blah blah blah over "XNA", I will see if I can recall basic points:
The Xbox 360 uses the XNA architecture, which is like Direct X but taken further
Longhorn, and perhaps XP at this rate, will both have XNA
Games created for the Xbox 360, using XNA, will be far easier to port to the PC because the high level programming won't need to change much, if at all. Only Microsoft's part, the OS's XNA code, will need a lot of changes
The Xbox 360 controllers will even be compatible with Windows
And there has been talk of Longhorn running games, as consoles do, without installation
This strategy really helps Microsoft. Game developers like EA who make PC games and console games could more easily/cheaply port from one to another, giving them more incentive to support Microsoft versus, say, Sony. And since most PC games are made for Windows (evil monopoly, etc.), this is even more interesting a plan.
Honestly, wasn't Sega was starting to suffer BEFORE the dreamcast? I mean, look at the Sega Saturn, which suffered horribly compared to the N64 and Playstation:
"The Saturn came out only a couple months apart from the Sony Playstation. The PSX's lower price tag attracted many buyers, while the difficulty of developing games on the Saturn helped to keep away 3rd-party developers."Source (just because it is the "source")
The Dreamcast was riding on the downhill course set by the Saturn. Not to mention how expensive the thing started out being, and how lackluster their marketing was compared to Sony's.
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"Your", not "You're", tool.
People have opinions. If you prefer something else, or just hate the Microsoft there's no need to question someone else's sexuality over it. It just makes you look insecure.
(Fixing my last post. I really don't get this KDE Klipper clipboard thing, and so quoted myself)
No idea what you're talking about with the "Don't expect this to mean Final Fantasy XIII or even IV or V will be on the Revolution unless it's 10x more powerful than they purport it to be."
The true performance of the PS3 is not yet known (other than rumours, hype, and "leaked" info), and I've heard absolutely nothing solid or reliable about the Revolution.
"Heavily Support" seems to indicate that they will support it more like they are the PS2, less like they are the GameCube.
No idea what you're talking about with the "Yeah, no idea what this guy is talking about. The true performance of the PS3 is not yet known (other than rumours, hype, and "leaked" info), and I've heard absolutely nothing solid or reliable about the Revolution.".
The true performance of the PS3 is not yet known (other than rumours, hype, and "leaked" info), and I've heard absolutely nothing solid or reliable about the Revolution.
"Heavily Support" seems to indicate that they will support it more like they are the PS2, less like they are the GameCube.
Battlefield seems to work fine with Gamespy, as do the other games I have that use a Gamespy masterserver / browser. Some game companies just use Gamespy's sample code with the SDK and work it into the game horribly, that's hardly Gamespy's fault.
Honestly, Slashdot is the only page I've seen that incorrectly renders itself in a long time (internet-wise, think "Phoenix" or maybe "Firebird" versions).
The only time I get a few sites looking wacky is when I enlarge the font size so that I don't have to focus much on looking at it. That's not an issue most of the time though, and isn't Firefox's problem.
Yes, I thought the big Xbox controller was okay. However, I do like the S but I can't stand PS2 controllers. This new one looks like it's getting too small, they're probably aiming for the larger (easily influenced OR small handed) market, those who go for the tiny controllers like that of the PS2.
This is what a lot of game review sites seem to lack in reporting (they do it, but giving an epic RPG 10 out of 10 for "replayability" doesn't seem accurate 90% of the time). Games like Sim City 4 or strategy games like Galactic Civilizations or Command and Conquer * seem to offer the most in this respect, or online games of almost any sort.
The big RPG games are fun, but I'm always tempted to buy them and sell them, or simply rent them. In the end, I just don't buy most. It's the big replay factor of other games, combined with either the fact that it gives you the ability to improve your skills and ramp up the difficulty as you like (taking on harder opponents online, or increasing the difficulty level), or the sheer fun and creativity of a sandboxing game like Sim City, that really draw me into games like that.
Me, I'm not a huge RPG fan though. I don't treat games as I do books, I like to "make my own story", or just have fun for awhile.
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Congratulations, for trying to dictate what parts of the net are "waists" you get the First Annual Internet Dictator Cookie.
Look at a lot of the Anonymous Coward replies to this story. They have signatures, and all seem to be in response to something different, a cell phone story.
Wacky.
Perhaps it's because bittorrent users have begun to use/abuse Tor? The network can't handle that type of bandwidth.
Not the OS, not the hardware. The documentation. If you read his post, he was talking about something that doesn't work on install, but seems to have drivers floating around the net that he'd like to add manually. I've had the same sort of problem with sound and video cards (odd OEM things of a common brand, but weren't recognized by the distro automatically), and it was a headache.
I'm more knowledgable of Linux now, but the stuff I had to learn to do that was scattered about everywhere. I had to find a seperate page or seperate post for each step, or each strange term, since none of them were geared at a Linux newcomer. I want to learn Linux completely and not be stuck to these "do it all for you" distros, but it isn't simple with the way it's currently documented.
Doesn't sound exactly like the Rush Hour song, but it's dang close. Could just be the compression tricking me, but it seems remixed to be more "Spacey" or whatnot.
Yay for off topicness.
I noticed that most (or about 50%, can't remember) of the modded up posts in that story were responding to those people; saying things like "It's a useful thing because I don't want two monster consoles in my living room" and etc.
Fun anyways
The emulators are generally direct ports of the popular (open source) Windows/Linux equivalants. The only emulators I've noticed that are a bit flaky are the Playstation and N64 ones. "How it should" probably means exactly that, the ROMs play just like they would on the original consoles.
The big guys (NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboys, Mame) are the ones I use the most, and seem flawless. I've not seen a single bug with the latest versions of the emulators.
Most of the best emulator ports are from XPort, though a few aren't. Good site to see info on them.
You can also download ports of Doom Legacy (runs Doom 1 and 2 WADs), Quake, and Quake 2, all of which need the shareware or full version data to use. There are free games too, like a couple ports of shooters from ABA Games (Google them), and some other okay games. Not to mention the Xbox Media Center, and other non gaming things.
You have to go through a very well known IRC channel to download anything that is compiled because of issues with the legality of compiling with the Xbox SDK and such, but the channel is very well known and has been up for years without Microsoft intervention of any sort.
I'd vote to go with the Xbox.
The reason I'm thinking that the revolution hasn't been put on the front page is because it's expected that the main "revolution" of the Revolution has yet to be announced. The input method or whatever it is that they've been trying to keep secret.
I'm still betting on the input method being it, and not this new download thing, since Nintendo is the only company that we don't have controller pictures from yet.
But heck, this whole downloading thing is just great. After the N64 I thought I would never buy another Nintendo console (I fell into the "Nintendo makes kiddy games" thing, which is mostly a fear that kids and teens have...), but I think they've won me back. The back catalog for download? Backwards compatibility with the Gamecube, which I don't own? It's just too perfect.
You know, much of the space in current console games is eaten up by the video cinematics and other extra things. Since the next gen consoles will be more powerful, they could realtime render the cinematics, reducing the amount of space required. More powerful compression for textures and music and the like could also be used because of their increased CPU power. A problem, but not incredibly so.
The Gamecube uses a format right now that only holds a bit less than 50% of what a normal DVD does. It doesn't seem too bad off for it.
Heck, they could just fit games on multiple DVDs like they've been doing for years for games with many prerendered cutscenes like Final Fantasy.
Same thing was said a lot about the PS2. It doesn't really matter, it just sounds / looks fancy, and can fit in some situations a bit better.
Yes, due to the hype and marketing (and a bit of fanboyism). That's the point he's making, the games sucked and yet people stuck to them like sticky things.
1 Linksys Router
2 Desktop PCs (one with XP, one with XP and Linux)
1 Xbox (Xbox Live, Xbox Media Center, etc.)
As for typical, there is no typical. Geeks are all pretty different (products of which include the insane number of Linux distros).
Parent is right. They said Fable was "live aware", but all it does is keeps the friends list active while you're playing. Otherwise it's completely single player.
This strategy really helps Microsoft. Game developers like EA who make PC games and console games could more easily/cheaply port from one to another, giving them more incentive to support Microsoft versus, say, Sony. And since most PC games are made for Windows (evil monopoly, etc.), this is even more interesting a plan.
Or the next PS2, relative to the Xbox 1.
Honestly, wasn't Sega was starting to suffer BEFORE the dreamcast? I mean, look at the Sega Saturn, which suffered horribly compared to the N64 and Playstation:
"The Saturn came out only a couple months apart from the Sony Playstation. The PSX's lower price tag attracted many buyers, while the difficulty of developing games on the Saturn helped to keep away 3rd-party developers." Source (just because it is the "source")
The Dreamcast was riding on the downhill course set by the Saturn. Not to mention how expensive the thing started out being, and how lackluster their marketing was compared to Sony's.
"Your", not "You're", tool.
People have opinions. If you prefer something else, or just hate the Microsoft there's no need to question someone else's sexuality over it. It just makes you look insecure.
(Fixing my last post. I really don't get this KDE Klipper clipboard thing, and so quoted myself)
No idea what you're talking about with the "Don't expect this to mean Final Fantasy XIII or even IV or V will be on the Revolution unless it's 10x more powerful than they purport it to be."
The true performance of the PS3 is not yet known (other than rumours, hype, and "leaked" info), and I've heard absolutely nothing solid or reliable about the Revolution.
"Heavily Support" seems to indicate that they will support it more like they are the PS2, less like they are the GameCube.
No idea what you're talking about with the "Yeah, no idea what this guy is talking about. The true performance of the PS3 is not yet known (other than rumours, hype, and "leaked" info), and I've heard absolutely nothing solid or reliable about the Revolution.".
The true performance of the PS3 is not yet known (other than rumours, hype, and "leaked" info), and I've heard absolutely nothing solid or reliable about the Revolution.
"Heavily Support" seems to indicate that they will support it more like they are the PS2, less like they are the GameCube.
Battlefield seems to work fine with Gamespy, as do the other games I have that use a Gamespy masterserver / browser. Some game companies just use Gamespy's sample code with the SDK and work it into the game horribly, that's hardly Gamespy's fault.
Honestly, Slashdot is the only page I've seen that incorrectly renders itself in a long time (internet-wise, think "Phoenix" or maybe "Firebird" versions).
The only time I get a few sites looking wacky is when I enlarge the font size so that I don't have to focus much on looking at it. That's not an issue most of the time though, and isn't Firefox's problem.
Yes, I thought the big Xbox controller was okay. However, I do like the S but I can't stand PS2 controllers. This new one looks like it's getting too small, they're probably aiming for the larger (easily influenced OR small handed) market, those who go for the tiny controllers like that of the PS2.
A "Redundant" modding before anyone else posted this? I love you, mods who have points to waste =)
They original author(s) can demand that the "creator" open sources it, yes. Demands are just demands (many definitions).
If they don't open the source, however, they have to either stop distributing it or are potentially faced with a lawsuit.
This is what a lot of game review sites seem to lack in reporting (they do it, but giving an epic RPG 10 out of 10 for "replayability" doesn't seem accurate 90% of the time). Games like Sim City 4 or strategy games like Galactic Civilizations or Command and Conquer * seem to offer the most in this respect, or online games of almost any sort.
The big RPG games are fun, but I'm always tempted to buy them and sell them, or simply rent them. In the end, I just don't buy most. It's the big replay factor of other games, combined with either the fact that it gives you the ability to improve your skills and ramp up the difficulty as you like (taking on harder opponents online, or increasing the difficulty level), or the sheer fun and creativity of a sandboxing game like Sim City, that really draw me into games like that.
Me, I'm not a huge RPG fan though. I don't treat games as I do books, I like to "make my own story", or just have fun for awhile.
Agreed. Some Linux vendors sell them with Tux on them, quite neat.