The demos run on a 9700. And Carmack says the game will run well on considerably less than that. It's OpenGL, so you don't even need the latest version of DirectX (9.0b) to run it. A ti-4600 or an overclocked ti-4200 will serve, if that's what you already have. A Radeon 9600 Pro/XT will give you the best bang for buck. And a 9800 will put a large dent in your wallet. But avoid the new Nvidia cards unless you're not interested in being able to play Half-Life 2 when that comes out.
The alpha was only optimized for certain hardware configurations - namely a Radeon 9700 pro. And it is an Alpha, which serves as a preview of the story but doesn't reflect the final product at all. They have at least 4 months to work on the game, during which time things could improve considerably. Finally, realize that with Doom, Id is not only writing the game nut also writing the engine that the game uses, unlike about 90% of the games out there. So some of the "poop" comes from the engine itself.
It's about economics. The same thing often occurs late in a processor's production line (recent examples are the Pentium III and certain Athlon XP silicon cores). While the hardware is capable of running faster, the company still has to provide a low-end (cheap) solution. Otherwise, their competitor(s) might snag some purchases with their cheaper chips/hardware. One other reason is that the clock jump from one model to another might be large. In the old Pentium days, the leap from 33MHz to 66MHz was large, and a chip that might perform well at, say, 61MHz would be sold as a 33MHz chip. Again, a business decision that could be a boon for someone brave enough to try overclocking.
Notice the sudden increase in space-related stories on Slashdot (and everywhere else) since the Mars landing? Not to mention Bush's Mars/Moon announcement.
Also, more variety of vehicles (both drivable and non-drivable) would be cool. Some I'd like to see: air boat, jet ski, regular air plane, jumbo jet, cruise ship, horse!, hot air balloon:)
Segway. They have to add a Segway to GTA. Maybe one with JATO, or rockets.
US laws would apply in this case because the people breaking th laws-corporations-are based in the US and it's a simpe matter. There's no Dmitri-like parallel here.
I've seen a guy with a program that looked like derive on his Palm, plugging away during math class. It had pretty print and everythin, but it was a beta and tended to crash or do wierd things.
Very good point. By forcing companies headquartered in the US to pay US minimum wage to all of their employees, regardless of where they are, we could prevent the slave-labor some companies are getting away with.
Another reason to hate Fiorina. Always knew she was bad, and now this confirms it. Too bad for Compaq-a lot of my friends are still devoted to the Torx-screw legacy, but Hewlett-Packard doesn't sit with them as well.
My Dad, involved with computers at the time, always thought Microsoft had stuck it to IBM by licensing DOS-and that in doing so Microsoft was challenging status quo. That opinion began to disappear when he became an early adopter of Win95 and got burned for it.
Unlike som of you guys, I was born to late to enjoy Nethack in it's early glory. But in my mind there is no alternative to an RPG as intensely rich and detailed as Netahack and it's cousins that I've played, Slash'em and Angband/Mangband. It's curious, since in every other respect I'm a rabid FPS guy. But the game is intriguing at first, and then absolutely addicting. I haven't gotten the Amulet yet-come very, very close though. Until I do, Nethack stays on my desktop in a hallowed position.
XP Home? For one thing, I doubt the cost is only $15. Secondly, I would refuse to buy XP Home-strictly Win2k or XP Pro. Thirdly, I don't buy anything that someone else put together - I build my own systems. Finally, Linux is free as in beer. It doesn't get better than that.
Yes, in about 20 years big blue has changed from the evil empire (with some saying it was beeing challenged by upstart Microsoft-although I never would have thought) to a worthy comrade in open-source armor. Way to go, IBM, for taking the final plunge.
I actually had a teacher who would walk over and pick up a ringing cellphone that was interupting his class. "No, Shiela can't come to the farging phone right now. Goodbye". I think that people would be less annoying with their cell phones if people made them aware of just how incosiderate they are.
It's times like these that make me glad I was home schooled, and that the system administrators and lab assistants at my college encouraged innocent, playful hacks like this. My favorite: accessing an empty floppy drive through the network. If you had 2-3 people doing it to the same drive at the same time, you could actually get them to vibrate. Scared the hell out of some of my classmates when we did it.
It's about time Slashdot picked up on this. So does this make Tivo a bad guy now? Probably more important though is the effect this might have on the open source time-shifting software out there.
Everything that's good about HD Radio is better when you spend (less) money on an in-car MP3 player. Flash memory, thank you, and it doesn't skip. And commercials don't exist. After all, I think most of us probably have a very diverse, vast collection of music on our hard drives already.
The truly great thing is that DVD Jon (who is a free man) has recently produced a way to run iTunes on a Linux platform. If I only had money for an iPod...
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The demos run on a 9700. And Carmack says the game will run well on considerably less than that. It's OpenGL, so you don't even need the latest version of DirectX (9.0b) to run it. A ti-4600 or an overclocked ti-4200 will serve, if that's what you already have. A Radeon 9600 Pro/XT will give you the best bang for buck. And a 9800 will put a large dent in your wallet. But avoid the new Nvidia cards unless you're not interested in being able to play Half-Life 2 when that comes out.
Are you using 0.7? Is it a recent build? Becaus mine is, and it shows the site just fine, thank you very much.
Not only is there no word on a Linux version yet, the only other version I've even heard rumors of is the XBox !
The alpha was only optimized for certain hardware configurations - namely a Radeon 9700 pro. And it is an Alpha, which serves as a preview of the story but doesn't reflect the final product at all. They have at least 4 months to work on the game, during which time things could improve considerably. Finally, realize that with Doom, Id is not only writing the game nut also writing the engine that the game uses, unlike about 90% of the games out there. So some of the "poop" comes from the engine itself.
It's about economics. The same thing often occurs late in a processor's production line (recent examples are the Pentium III and certain Athlon XP silicon cores). While the hardware is capable of running faster, the company still has to provide a low-end (cheap) solution. Otherwise, their competitor(s) might snag some purchases with their cheaper chips/hardware. One other reason is that the clock jump from one model to another might be large. In the old Pentium days, the leap from 33MHz to 66MHz was large, and a chip that might perform well at, say, 61MHz would be sold as a 33MHz chip. Again, a business decision that could be a boon for someone brave enough to try overclocking.
Notice the sudden increase in space-related stories on Slashdot (and everywhere else) since the Mars landing? Not to mention Bush's Mars/Moon announcement.
Segway. They have to add a Segway to GTA. Maybe one with JATO, or rockets.
US laws would apply in this case because the people breaking th laws-corporations-are based in the US and it's a simpe matter. There's no Dmitri-like parallel here.
I've seen a guy with a program that looked like derive on his Palm, plugging away during math class. It had pretty print and everythin, but it was a beta and tended to crash or do wierd things.
How the hell can I pay off student loans while making minimum wage? Shit, I might as well work at McDonalds if that's the way these people think.
Very good point. By forcing companies headquartered in the US to pay US minimum wage to all of their employees, regardless of where they are, we could prevent the slave-labor some companies are getting away with.
Another reason to hate Fiorina. Always knew she was bad, and now this confirms it. Too bad for Compaq-a lot of my friends are still devoted to the Torx-screw legacy, but Hewlett-Packard doesn't sit with them as well.
My Dad, involved with computers at the time, always thought Microsoft had stuck it to IBM by licensing DOS-and that in doing so Microsoft was challenging status quo. That opinion began to disappear when he became an early adopter of Win95 and got burned for it.
Unlike som of you guys, I was born to late to enjoy Nethack in it's early glory. But in my mind there is no alternative to an RPG as intensely rich and detailed as Netahack and it's cousins that I've played, Slash'em and Angband/Mangband. It's curious, since in every other respect I'm a rabid FPS guy. But the game is intriguing at first, and then absolutely addicting. I haven't gotten the Amulet yet-come very, very close though. Until I do, Nethack stays on my desktop in a hallowed position.
XP Home? For one thing, I doubt the cost is only $15. Secondly, I would refuse to buy XP Home-strictly Win2k or XP Pro. Thirdly, I don't buy anything that someone else put together - I build my own systems. Finally, Linux is free as in beer. It doesn't get better than that.
Yes, in about 20 years big blue has changed from the evil empire (with some saying it was beeing challenged by upstart Microsoft-although I never would have thought) to a worthy comrade in open-source armor. Way to go, IBM, for taking the final plunge.
Hmm...
It has RAM, and a DVD drive. Therefore, it can be made to run Linux!
I actually had a teacher who would walk over and pick up a ringing cellphone that was interupting his class. "No, Shiela can't come to the farging phone right now. Goodbye". I think that people would be less annoying with their cell phones if people made them aware of just how incosiderate they are.
I don't see how this will make the Nethack experience on a phone any better.
It's times like these that make me glad I was home schooled, and that the system administrators and lab assistants at my college encouraged innocent, playful hacks like this. My favorite: accessing an empty floppy drive through the network. If you had 2-3 people doing it to the same drive at the same time, you could actually get them to vibrate. Scared the hell out of some of my classmates when we did it.
It's about time Slashdot picked up on this. So does this make Tivo a bad guy now? Probably more important though is the effect this might have on the open source time-shifting software out there.
Everything that's good about HD Radio is better when you spend (less) money on an in-car MP3 player. Flash memory, thank you, and it doesn't skip. And commercials don't exist. After all, I think most of us probably have a very diverse, vast collection of music on our hard drives already.
I'm guessing you speak Arabic then.
The truly great thing is that DVD Jon (who is a free man) has recently produced a way to run iTunes on a Linux platform. If I only had money for an iPod...
It wouldn't be a smart idea. Remember Apollo 1? Oxygen-rich environment? BOOM?