You must never have played these games then: Archon - 1983 M.U.L.E. - 1983 The Bard's Tale - 1985 Starflight - 1986 among others
Although EA later became a 'cookie cutter' publisher/distributor, it started out as a very innovative company that helped many good independent designers publish their software.
>Install Windows, and send out an email for help?
You mean: Install Windows and find out as the battery dies that you don't have the windows driver disk for the modem, so you can't use the modem.
Or install Linux, which includes massive numbers of drivers, and have a better than zero percent chance of getting the modem working.
(the ONLY modem drivers that come on the windows CD are the standard modems which are also automatically supported with Linux)
I've got an agenda, and here are my thougnts:
The first thing I thought of on seeing it was the original Star Trek Communicator.
It is almost as small as a Palm V, and the same weight.
The PDA applications are better than those that come with the Palms.
The speed somewhat slow now, and the Handwriting recognition is a bit weak, but Agenda Computing is working on a new ABI toolkit that gives a 2-3 times speed boost.
It includes a Commercial Infrared Transmitter, so you can use it as a remote control.
The LED is a tricolor, and is application controllable.
With the newest Kernel/Romdisk, you can set it up so that it unsuspends when you take out the stylus, and suspends when you put it back.
It uses AAA batteries - NiMH or regular alkalines last about 6-10 hours of active use, and 2-3 weeks of normal use. I use Duracell Ultra batteries and get about 1.5 times as long.
This is still a developer's unit - and the software is undergoing heavy development, but I am using it as a useful PDA.
In addition to the XFree86 that Agenda Computing is using, QT embedded, GTK Embedded, Pocket Linux, TinyX, and Microwindows are being ported to this PDA.
I dispute that MOO2 was the king of X4 games.
Galactic Civilizations 2 was MUCH better!
(Note: GalCiv 2 was an OS/2 only game released
before Master of Orion original)
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You must never have played these games then:
Archon - 1983
M.U.L.E. - 1983
The Bard's Tale - 1985
Starflight - 1986
among others
Although EA later became a 'cookie cutter' publisher/distributor,
it started out as a very innovative company that helped many
good independent designers publish their software.
The light saber that Ben Kenobi gave Luke in Episode IV was nothing more than a flash handle from a 1930's era Graflex camera. See:
http://www.racprops.com/issue1/howto_lightsaber/
>Install Windows, and send out an email for help?
You mean: Install Windows and find out as the battery dies that you don't have the windows driver disk for the modem, so you can't use the modem.
Or install Linux, which includes massive numbers of drivers, and have a better than zero percent chance of getting the modem working.
(the ONLY modem drivers that come on the windows CD are the standard modems which are also automatically supported with Linux)
If you lose, you declare personal bankruptcy. All prior debts are voided. The RIAA is out $2,000,000. Your lawyer is out $50,000.
I've got an agenda, and here are my thougnts:
The first thing I thought of on seeing it was the original Star Trek Communicator.
It is almost as small as a Palm V, and the same weight.
The PDA applications are better than those that come with the Palms.
The speed somewhat slow now, and the Handwriting recognition is a bit weak, but Agenda Computing is working on a new ABI toolkit that gives a 2-3 times speed boost.
It includes a Commercial Infrared Transmitter, so you can use it as a remote control.
The LED is a tricolor, and is application controllable.
With the newest Kernel/Romdisk, you can set it up so that it unsuspends when you take out the stylus, and suspends when you put it back.
It uses AAA batteries - NiMH or regular alkalines last about 6-10 hours of active use, and 2-3 weeks of normal use. I use Duracell Ultra batteries and get about 1.5 times as long.
This is still a developer's unit - and the software is undergoing heavy development, but I am using it as a useful PDA.
In addition to the XFree86 that Agenda Computing is using, QT embedded, GTK Embedded, Pocket Linux, TinyX, and Microwindows are being ported to this PDA.
I dispute that MOO2 was the king of X4 games.
Galactic Civilizations 2 was MUCH better!
(Note: GalCiv 2 was an OS/2 only game released
before Master of Orion original)