That's one of the few reasons I still have Windows installed...awaiting the release of DX2
I just setup a Gentoo gaming drive this weekend (too the whole weekend also) and will defentaly be loading DX...of course, Fallout had to come first;)
I had the same problem with Wasteland back in the '80s on my C64...12 dead 5 1/4 floppys (game used 4 and you played off the copies as it wrote your progress straight to the disks) and 2 floppy drives later...
...I got my 386 and Wasteland for the PC ran off of one 3 1/2 floppy =)
Not to mention that most of the ex-Looking Glass members now work at Ion Storm Austin (not to be confused with Ion Storm Dallas, ie: John Ramero)
They are finishing up Deus Ex 2: Invisable War and soon to be announced Thief 3
All the Fallout games are great, I'm even considering buying a PS2 so I can get Fallout:Brotherhood of Steel
Of course Fallout would not of been as cool if it wasn't for Interplay's Wasteland.
I think I spent 2 years playing that game over and over and over again. I even burned out the floppy drive for my C64 playing it...of course I had to get a new drive so I could play it some more!
I still play this game...and it still scares the bejeebies out fo me:)
Best way to play it is with headphones (turned up loud), in the dark and with extrenal distractions.
Always intense whe you are being swarmed by aliens and you have one clip of ammo left...
Speaking of FMV, whatever happened to that ? I remember every stinking PC game in the 90's had FMV sequences.
As you said, everyone got sick of it. It is more immersive to run the cut-scenes using the games engine and more cost-effective to do so also (FMV is expensive)
Speaking of FMV, whatever happened to that ? I remember every stinking PC game in the 90's had FMV sequences.
Arrgg! The repressed memories are returning!!!
But what happened to adventure fusion genres like Alone In The Dark and Flashback...Today they've been bastardized into Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell
They will be back, hopefully. I've also never been a fan of the 'military action adventure" games. The comical and silly ones have always been more of my taste. Too bad all the horror ones were gawd awful.
Defiantly not dead. There have been many good-decent adventure games released and more to come (the new S+M is scheduled for Q1 2004).
Just because these are not getting as much press as Doom 3, doesn't mean they are not being made any more. I'd say the main reason people aren't looking at these very much is because of the horror that was in the mid '90s using FMV (Full Motion Video).
Now those were bad...and have been burned into reviewers brains forever
48C is pretty cool for an Athlon. My 1600+ runs around 53C, AMD specs them upto and past 65C...I wouldn't worry about it, just make sure the HS/Fan doesn't fall off =)
I don't understand why anyone would even want to overclock a CPU that is already running over 2Ghz...it made since back when you could overclock a 400Mhz to a 600Mhz, but with the new CPUs these days there is no need to overclock!
I enjoyed every release of the Fallout series. Even though Fallout Tactics is not as much RPG as 1 & 2, I still enjoy playing it. No Mutants Allowed is an excellent Fallout resource. Maps, levels, editors, reviews, news...
...that DirectX would go away and everyone would start using a more portable language like OpenGL or SDL...but MS would never let that happen and already have DirectX available for.NET
People don't seem
to think before posting, they are purposely rude, they blatantly
violate copyrights, they crosspost everywhere, use 20 line signature
files, and do basically every other thing the postings (and common
sense and common courtesy) advise not to.
Here's to 20 more years of a complete waste of time!
Three people thought this was a Windows beta test.
The game has been available on Windows for over a year and there were some people that thought this was a Windows test? Yet...why doesn't this suprise me?
With "Half-Life 2", Valve will once again offer the source code to modders.
So when will they let the guys from icculus.org re-write the code for Linux? I know Valve has been asked but they seem to ignore the requests...maybe they won't be as rude with HL2?
Why did you choose to use Lindows instead of a more creative, catchy name? Was the name purely for attention? Everyone know that getting sued by Microsoft generates a lot of press...was this intentional, knowing that the case wouldn't hold up in a court?
Lindows is based off of the Debian code and uses apt-get to install software from the Click-n-Run repository.
What is in place to keep people from changing the apt-get sources from CnR to the Debian sources and install something like Synaptic (and getting newer, updated packages for free) instead of paying the $99/year (with a few execeptions)?
For those that want to read the article but can't due to the slashdotting...
Darth Vader It's slow, but works,
Link brought to you by archive.org
Then here's the text only version...
About Darth Vader
As Washington National Cathedral approached completion, the west towers rose towards the sky, striking toward heaven. During the building a startling idea was hatched: hold a competition for children to design decorative sculpture for the Cathedral.
Darth Vader Drawing (img.)
Word of the competition was spread nationwide through National Geographic World Magazine. The third-place winner was Christopher Rader, with his drawing of that fearful villain, Darth Vader. The fierce head was sculpted by Jay Hall Carpenter, carved by Patrick J. Plunkett and placed high upon the northwest tower of the Cathedral...
Newspaper Clipping (img.)
Darth Vader Location (img.)
To Find Darth Vader you have to leave the building through the ramp entrance. This is located at the northwest corner of the nave, through the double wooden doors of Lincoln Bay. Go down the ramp, and step into the parking lot. Then, turn around and look back up at the tower closest to you. He is almost impossible to see without the assistance of binoculars.
Way way way up, almost at the top of the tower is a gablet, or small peaked roof, located between the two huge louvered arches. At the bottom of each slope of this gablet is a carved grotesque. Darth Vader is on the north, or right-hand, side. There is a carved skull situated on a gablet much closer to the ground which many people often mistake for Darth Vader. From this skull, Darth Vader is up and to the left.
I really, honestly, haven't seen much innovation from Linux.
Innovation is more then a pretty theme. Anyone can take a bucket of manure and put some lovely flowers in to make it look nice
The ONE advantage MS has over Open-Source is that MS can hire Artists and other Design Specialists to put the flowers in the bucket of crap.
Open-Source is just started to get the Artists to plant the flowers, but they are planting in a bucket of soft soil that is made for growing.
I'm sure if more programmers were artists, a lot more OSS projects would look more appealing to people
Maybe if he learned how to use the 3D acceleration on his graphics card in Linux it would run better. If you run OpenGL without 3D you'll be lucky to get 5fps no matter how fast your system is, turn 3D accel on and an average system (1.3Ghz, GeForce 3) can easily get 80fps with the Quake engine...learn how to use your system before you flame a product
Could someone explain how that works? I realize that this is made by the same people that made RtCW, but skimping out of the original engine doesn't seem right. It's a faily new engine (tweaked off of Quake 3, but updated) so I don't see how/why they would do this.
Oh, but you see...SCO owns about 30,000 patents on System V, so even if BSD split off of the tree...they are still using SCO code from the spit
All Your Base(code) Belong To Us?
We're the source of AIX, HP UX, Solaris, Linux, Mac OSX. It all comes from us. ... System V is the basis for all operating systems outside of Redmond, AIX, HP UX, Solaris, Apple and Linux.
This sound very arrogant and egotistical to me.
So SCO is saying that they own every operating system available...except BSD. That's good to know, in a few years the world will be either SCO free, or two OS's to use...BSD or SCO =(
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That's one of the few reasons I still have Windows installed...awaiting the release of DX2 ;)
I just setup a Gentoo gaming drive this weekend (too the whole weekend also) and will defentaly be loading DX...of course, Fallout had to come first
I had the same problem with Wasteland back in the '80s on my C64...12 dead 5 1/4 floppys (game used 4 and you played off the copies as it wrote your progress straight to the disks) and 2 floppy drives later...
...I got my 386 and Wasteland for the PC ran off of one 3 1/2 floppy =)
Not to mention that most of the ex-Looking Glass members now work at Ion Storm Austin (not to be confused with Ion Storm Dallas, ie: John Ramero)
They are finishing up Deus Ex 2: Invisable War and soon to be announced Thief 3
All the Fallout games are great, I'm even considering buying a PS2 so I can get Fallout:Brotherhood of Steel
Of course Fallout would not of been as cool if it wasn't for Interplay's Wasteland.
I think I spent 2 years playing that game over and over and over again. I even burned out the floppy drive for my C64 playing it...of course I had to get a new drive so I could play it some more!
I still play this game...and it still scares the bejeebies out fo me :)
Best way to play it is with headphones (turned up loud), in the dark and with extrenal distractions.
Always intense whe you are being swarmed by aliens and you have one clip of ammo left...
Speaking of FMV, whatever happened to that ? I remember every stinking PC game in the 90's had FMV sequences.
As you said, everyone got sick of it. It is more immersive to run the cut-scenes using the games engine and more cost-effective to do so also (FMV is expensive)
Speaking of FMV, whatever happened to that ? I remember every stinking PC game in the 90's had FMV sequences.
Arrgg! The repressed memories are returning!!!
But what happened to adventure fusion genres like Alone In The Dark and Flashback...Today they've been bastardized into Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell
They will be back, hopefully. I've also never been a fan of the 'military action adventure" games. The comical and silly ones have always been more of my taste. Too bad all the horror ones were gawd awful.
Defiantly not dead. There have been many good-decent adventure games released and more to come (the new S+M is scheduled for Q1 2004).
Just because these are not getting as much press as Doom 3, doesn't mean they are not being made any more. I'd say the main reason people aren't looking at these very much is because of the horror that was in the mid '90s using FMV (Full Motion Video).
Now those were bad...and have been burned into reviewers brains forever
48C is pretty cool for an Athlon. My 1600+ runs around 53C, AMD specs them upto and past 65C...I wouldn't worry about it, just make sure the HS/Fan doesn't fall off =)
I don't understand why anyone would even want to overclock a CPU that is already running over 2Ghz...it made since back when you could overclock a 400Mhz to a 600Mhz, but with the new CPUs these days there is no need to overclock!
Sure 300k is nothing to those of us that have broadband. But those poor dial-up people will have to wait 30 seconds for the 15 second add to start!
I enjoyed every release of the Fallout series. Even though Fallout Tactics is not as much RPG as 1 & 2, I still enjoy playing it. No Mutants Allowed is an excellent Fallout resource. Maps, levels, editors, reviews, news...
...that DirectX would go away and everyone would start using a more portable language like OpenGL or SDL...but MS would never let that happen and already have DirectX available for .NET
So exactly what does that bar code on the back on my neck mean? I had it scanned at the grocery store, it seems I'm cheap and can be bought for $6.66
and nothing has changed
People don't seem to think before posting, they are purposely rude, they blatantly violate copyrights, they crosspost everywhere, use 20 line signature files, and do basically every other thing the postings (and common sense and common courtesy) advise not to.
Here's to 20 more years of a complete waste of time!
Three people thought this was a Windows beta test.
The game has been available on Windows for over a year and there were some people that thought this was a Windows test? Yet...why doesn't this suprise me?
With "Half-Life 2", Valve will once again offer the source code to modders.
So when will they let the guys from icculus.org re-write the code for Linux? I know Valve has been asked but they seem to ignore the requests...maybe they won't be as rude with HL2?
Why did you choose to use Lindows instead of a more creative, catchy name? Was the name purely for attention? Everyone know that getting sued by Microsoft generates a lot of press...was this intentional, knowing that the case wouldn't hold up in a court?
Lindows is based off of the Debian code and uses apt-get to install software from the Click-n-Run repository.
What is in place to keep people from changing the apt-get sources from CnR to the Debian sources and install something like Synaptic (and getting newer, updated packages for free) instead of paying the $99/year (with a few execeptions)?
For those that want to read the article but can't due to the slashdotting...
Darth Vader It's slow, but works,
Link brought to you by archive.org
Then here's the text only version...
About Darth Vader As Washington National Cathedral approached completion, the west towers rose towards the sky, striking toward heaven. During the building a startling idea was hatched: hold a competition for children to design decorative sculpture for the Cathedral.
Darth Vader Drawing (img.)
Word of the competition was spread nationwide through National Geographic World Magazine. The third-place winner was Christopher Rader, with his drawing of that fearful villain, Darth Vader. The fierce head was sculpted by Jay Hall Carpenter, carved by Patrick J. Plunkett and placed high upon the northwest tower of the Cathedral...
Newspaper Clipping (img.)
Darth Vader Location (img.)
To Find Darth Vader you have to leave the building through the ramp entrance. This is located at the northwest corner of the nave, through the double wooden doors of Lincoln Bay. Go down the ramp, and step into the parking lot. Then, turn around and look back up at the tower closest to you. He is almost impossible to see without the assistance of binoculars.
Way way way up, almost at the top of the tower is a gablet, or small peaked roof, located between the two huge louvered arches. At the bottom of each slope of this gablet is a carved grotesque. Darth Vader is on the north, or right-hand, side. There is a carved skull situated on a gablet much closer to the ground which many people often mistake for Darth Vader. From this skull, Darth Vader is up and to the left.
I really, honestly, haven't seen much innovation from Linux.
Innovation is more then a pretty theme. Anyone can take a bucket of manure and put some lovely flowers in to make it look nice
The ONE advantage MS has over Open-Source is that MS can hire Artists and other Design Specialists to put the flowers in the bucket of crap.
Open-Source is just started to get the Artists to plant the flowers, but they are planting in a bucket of soft soil that is made for growing.
I'm sure if more programmers were artists, a lot more OSS projects would look more appealing to people
Maybe if he learned how to use the 3D acceleration on his graphics card in Linux it would run better. If you run OpenGL without 3D you'll be lucky to get 5fps no matter how fast your system is, turn 3D accel on and an average system (1.3Ghz, GeForce 3) can easily get 80fps with the Quake engine...learn how to use your system before you flame a product
Could someone explain how that works? I realize that this is made by the same people that made RtCW, but skimping out of the original engine doesn't seem right. It's a faily new engine (tweaked off of Quake 3, but updated) so I don't see how/why they would do this.
Bullet time with the bullets bigger then YOU!
Oh, but you see...SCO owns about 30,000 patents on System V, so even if BSD split off of the tree...they are still using SCO code from the spit
All Your Base(code) Belong To Us?
We're the source of AIX, HP UX, Solaris, Linux, Mac OSX. It all comes from us.
...
System V is the basis for all operating systems outside of Redmond, AIX, HP UX, Solaris, Apple and Linux.
This sound very arrogant and egotistical to me.
So SCO is saying that they own every operating system available...except BSD. That's good to know, in a few years the world will be either SCO free, or two OS's to use...BSD or SCO =(