More likely I expect them to code the game so that it will be "playable" technology-wise for as long as possible / as many people as possible. So they try to make the low ugly settings still playable on old crap, but still make it so the highest settings can hardly or can't be used on even the newest cards. That way someone can buy and still enjoy the game one year later and think it looks nice.
If the highest settings was designed for old crap the hard core gamers and future consumers would diss the game because it looked so bad. (Screenshots and hype from them is probably a huuuge selling point for many of the more popular titles.)
But then it's the best of them as well, you can still get the card which I've only seen in the article yet, the HD4670, or if $60 is to much for you something like a 7600 GT or 8600 GT or something such, maybe, or something used. HD4850 is really nice, and I guess it may be one of those more expensive cards, haven't read it thru yet as I said.
HD4870 is the same GPU but with higher clock and GDDR5, Hd4870X2 beats everything there is (?) and has two of the same GPUs on one card.
And so far from the article it looks like the 4650 is more or less the same GPU as well except with less processors (and probably lower clock rate and slower memory.)
Yeah, lots of people said so, I've downloaded it since it works without a key or anything if one have the current iLife, or something such, can be downloaded from their webpage anyway.
Sadly enough I haven't given it a go yet. I appreciated the idea of "make a short home movie in 5 minutes" but when you have made the clips with your digital photo camera and have to cut them a little here and there. Add the text, change the times all the f-cking time, look thru it so it's easy to read, maybe add and sync some music and so on we are not talking 5 minutes longer =P
The idea was supposedly a developer saying "what if I could do this fast?!", sure, it's fast for drawing some part of a couple of movie clips in and make one of them, everything else takes time, and the options is very limited.
I have no idea how to make music, but since I've got the mac I've wanted to because now I can finally have the software and except the hardware to work... But I haven't been able to decide on the Novation SL compact (eventually with a Korg ChaosPad for the drums and X-/Y-pad), a normal SL or maybe the AKAI MPK49 but it don't have their automap thingy so I'm afraid to much midi setup may make me less likely to actually use it.
ASUS P5Q SE motherboard. Intel Q9550 2.83 GHz Quad 12MB cache processor. 4GB of Corsair PC6400 DDR2. Thermaltake Armor case. Corsair 750 watt PSU. 2* 500GB Samsung F1 HDDs. PowerColor HD4870X2 2048MB GDDR5. LG GH22LP20 burner. Asus Xonar DX soundcard.
Samsung T220 22" 1680x1050 TN-panel. Some JVC home cinema system.
His choice of Creative fatality headphones, Logitech MX518 mouse and Logitech G15 keyboard.
Still the Mac Pro on the front page of Apple lists for 20% more than that system would cost, all included. I wonder what gives most bang for the buck..;D
I have only had two PCs myself which I have really used.
(SVI-728, Amiga 500+, Amiga 1200, mothers PII, Sun Ultra 30)
* My Athlon-XP-system with a Gigabyte motherboard. For some reason I had to run it at 100 MHz FSB instead of 133 MHz and at some time a capacitor around the CPU socket burned.
* For a short while (and to use as OS X hack) a used Athlon64 on MSI motherboard (did not burn.)
(This Macbook Pro.)
ASUS and other serious manufacturers sell motherboards with supposedly more reliable capacitors today.
Yeah, cube-styled shuttle-like system with software included would be awesome. Just make a list of supported hardware and let the consumer put in whatever they want.
As always, stupid Apple. (shit, these kinds of articles always burn my karma so fast!:D)
iMovie: Very limited and don't work as "fast" as Apple makes it seem. Making your 10 minute youtube clip can easily take an hour even if it's rather simple. I wouldn't be surprised if there existed a similar but better free alternative. Still the iLife application I use because it's the only one I have and it work.
iWeb: Suck.
iDVD: Never used it, probably ok if all you want to do is to use the pre-made themes for your imovie clips.
Garageband: I've got the impression some people actually like this! I don't have a MIDI keyboard or such so I wouldn't know. There is some application for making audio which also runs on Linux which is supposed to be rather cheap and work good, I have no idea what the name was.
Personally I feel the Apple applications (and computers) would be so much more interesting if.mac was free.
Cool and easily managed photo albums is nice, to pay $99 / year for them not so very much.
If.mac was free for everyone with a mac I think many would see that as a nice touch and advantage of getting a mac. Easy blog, web, photo, video and calendar sharing for everyone!
Also I don't think you can for instance export a web photo album to any web server for instance? Sucks.
Which is because it's not a real port but just a Cider emulation and Cider don't run on the 950 GMA. Sure it don't help him but it's not really Apples fault in this case (except 950 GMA suck but many laptops have similar graphics) but rather EAs.
It's not a "mac game", it's a "windows game with emulation layer for running it on OS X."
Most real mac games would run on it, not as fast as on equivalent hardware in Windows but anyway.
But how does it matter if they use a pre-patched image if they own a genuine copy of the software as well? Maybe they don't just know how to patch their own DVD.
One rather cheap way to obtain the OS X disc is to become a ADC student member (you are not supposed to get OS X with that, at least they don't promise it, I still did though.)
Luckily enough for us non-christians there is no hell, and most of us would probably don't have much moral difficulties clicking thru that license and some would even go so far to say that the EULA is probably not valid either.
Though I personally think one should respect the wishes of the developers, if one don't do that just don't use their product.
But then often I don't behave as they expect, but at least I don't try to cover up my wrongdoings with lame excuses. I'm just too cheap / poor / want the best application for the work / "if it's there and I can get it, why shouldn't I?"
.. and if I remember things right they use a lot of customization for the characters, which also looks better in HD, and "Miis" is just an absurb idea, how good do they look? Not much. I'd rather have a small rag doll designed in the way I want thank you.
(No, I'm not a troll or try to start a war, I thought the Wii seemed like the most interesting console before release and wishes Nintendo all luck. So don't moderate me in a retarded way like people always do when you say people they don't want to hear.)
Except Little Big Planet have always looked awesome (and is innovative) and there is no chance in hell it would look as good in SD on a Wii. And you know, other consoles can have innovative games as well. And I can't see how it would be hard to play with a normal controller either.
I really doubt the wiimote feels better as a normal controller than the PS3 controller as well, utter bullshit. More classic? Yes. More ergonomic? No.
The gamecube controller is nice though.
Life like textile and such would never look as good on the Wii. Wii lacks poorly in the HD area and it would show. (Just like 3D games or games with lots of "light effects" looks like shit on the DS.)
I never read phone ads and don't care since that bullshit is how they always puts the prices and I'm so fucking tired of it. Just tell me what it will cost, not what I will pay when I get it.
Also I kind of never makes cellular phone calls so a phone without anything + pre-paid card would work just fine for me.
I don't know if I like the looks of this phone, too bad since I'd really like something open.
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More likely I expect them to code the game so that it will be "playable" technology-wise for as long as possible / as many people as possible. So they try to make the low ugly settings still playable on old crap, but still make it so the highest settings can hardly or can't be used on even the newest cards. That way someone can buy and still enjoy the game one year later and think it looks nice.
If the highest settings was designed for old crap the hard core gamers and future consumers would diss the game because it looked so bad. (Screenshots and hype from them is probably a huuuge selling point for many of the more popular titles.)
Just ask the russians! :D
I wouldn't be surprised if the HD4650 is enough for kind of all games at mid settings and 1280x1024.
But then it's the best of them as well, you can still get the card which I've only seen in the article yet, the HD4670, or if $60 is to much for you something like a 7600 GT or 8600 GT or something such, maybe, or something used. HD4850 is really nice, and I guess it may be one of those more expensive cards, haven't read it thru yet as I said.
HD4870 is the same GPU but with higher clock and GDDR5, Hd4870X2 beats everything there is (?) and has two of the same GPUs on one card.
And so far from the article it looks like the 4650 is more or less the same GPU as well except with less processors (and probably lower clock rate and slower memory.)
Yeah, lots of people said so, I've downloaded it since it works without a key or anything if one have the current iLife, or something such, can be downloaded from their webpage anyway.
Sadly enough I haven't given it a go yet. I appreciated the idea of "make a short home movie in 5 minutes" but when you have made the clips with your digital photo camera and have to cut them a little here and there. Add the text, change the times all the f-cking time, look thru it so it's easy to read, maybe add and sync some music and so on we are not talking 5 minutes longer =P
The idea was supposedly a developer saying "what if I could do this fast?!", sure, it's fast for drawing some part of a couple of movie clips in and make one of them, everything else takes time, and the options is very limited.
I have no idea how to make music, but since I've got the mac I've wanted to because now I can finally have the software and except the hardware to work... But I haven't been able to decide on the Novation SL compact (eventually with a Korg ChaosPad for the drums and X-/Y-pad), a normal SL or maybe the AKAI MPK49 but it don't have their automap thingy so I'm afraid to much midi setup may make me less likely to actually use it.
I'd probably "try" reason or something such.
.. forgot the Steelseries 5L, but who cares? =P
I just put together a system consisting of:
ASUS P5Q SE motherboard.
Intel Q9550 2.83 GHz Quad 12MB cache processor.
4GB of Corsair PC6400 DDR2.
Thermaltake Armor case.
Corsair 750 watt PSU.
2* 500GB Samsung F1 HDDs.
PowerColor HD4870X2 2048MB GDDR5.
LG GH22LP20 burner.
Asus Xonar DX soundcard.
Samsung T220 22" 1680x1050 TN-panel.
Some JVC home cinema system.
His choice of Creative fatality headphones, Logitech MX518 mouse and Logitech G15 keyboard.
Still the Mac Pro on the front page of Apple lists for 20% more than that system would cost, all included. I wonder what gives most bang for the buck .. ;D
But... But... Amiga never dies!!
Amiga rules, now and forever!* =P
(Yes, moderate me insightful, you know you want to!)
(* It's just the owners of the brand name which suck!)
I have only had two PCs myself which I have really used.
(SVI-728, Amiga 500+, Amiga 1200, mothers PII, Sun Ultra 30)
* My Athlon-XP-system with a Gigabyte motherboard. For some reason I had to run it at 100 MHz FSB instead of 133 MHz and at some time a capacitor around the CPU socket burned.
* For a short while (and to use as OS X hack) a used Athlon64 on MSI motherboard (did not burn.)
(This Macbook Pro.)
ASUS and other serious manufacturers sell motherboards with supposedly more reliable capacitors today.
Wouldn't that somehow break the legality of the product if they had "cracked" the well known encryption key?
Yeah, cube-styled shuttle-like system with software included would be awesome. Just make a list of supported hardware and let the consumer put in whatever they want.
As always, stupid Apple. (shit, these kinds of articles always burn my karma so fast! :D)
Yeah, I hate this "show me a configuration as retiredly speced as Apples then and let us compare the prices!!"
Why can't a similar but smarter one be sufficient?
Slower cpu, better graphics and higher resolution screen on the laptop anyone!?!
Non-Xeon CPU, FB-DIMM and a real graphics card?!
If the dongle was enough to support your hardware, its hardware support is rather limited.
iPhoto: Suck.
iMovie: Very limited and don't work as "fast" as Apple makes it seem. Making your 10 minute youtube clip can easily take an hour even if it's rather simple. I wouldn't be surprised if there existed a similar but better free alternative. Still the iLife application I use because it's the only one I have and it work.
iWeb: Suck.
iDVD: Never used it, probably ok if all you want to do is to use the pre-made themes for your imovie clips.
Garageband: I've got the impression some people actually like this! I don't have a MIDI keyboard or such so I wouldn't know. There is some application for making audio which also runs on Linux which is supposed to be rather cheap and work good, I have no idea what the name was.
Personally I feel the Apple applications (and computers) would be so much more interesting if .mac was free.
Cool and easily managed photo albums is nice, to pay $99 / year for them not so very much.
If .mac was free for everyone with a mac I think many would see that as a nice touch and advantage of getting a mac. Easy blog, web, photo, video and calendar sharing for everyone!
Also I don't think you can for instance export a web photo album to any web server for instance? Sucks.
Which is because it's not a real port but just a Cider emulation and Cider don't run on the 950 GMA. Sure it don't help him but it's not really Apples fault in this case (except 950 GMA suck but many laptops have similar graphics) but rather EAs.
It's not a "mac game", it's a "windows game with emulation layer for running it on OS X."
Most real mac games would run on it, not as fast as on equivalent hardware in Windows but anyway.
But how does it matter if they use a pre-patched image if they own a genuine copy of the software as well? Maybe they don't just know how to patch their own DVD.
One rather cheap way to obtain the OS X disc is to become a ADC student member (you are not supposed to get OS X with that, at least they don't promise it, I still did though.)
Luckily enough for us non-christians there is no hell, and most of us would probably don't have much moral difficulties clicking thru that license and some would even go so far to say that the EULA is probably not valid either.
Though I personally think one should respect the wishes of the developers, if one don't do that just don't use their product.
But then often I don't behave as they expect, but at least I don't try to cover up my wrongdoings with lame excuses. I'm just too cheap / poor / want the best application for the work / "if it's there and I can get it, why shouldn't I?"
.. oh, and btw, most software on my genuine mac is pirated software as well. Aaargh!
Yeah, but it will be harder to get that Q9550 quad core, 8 GB ram, 4*500 GB HDD, HD4870X2 2048MB crossfire machine from Apple ..
Especially not for a lower price than a Mac Pro .. :D
Ah, so THAT's the reason everyone hanged around in #jas-dvd or similar ...
Oh well, I guess a small channel lacking the skilled people is ok to ..
(Yeah, I'm trolling, but some of the people helping with hacks know their stuff, the average mac user not so much :D)
Like this:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/images/LittleBigPlanet%20Screenshot%2063.bmp (BMP!!)
http://ludologia.blogs.ca.ua.pt/files/2007/04/little_big_planet2.jpg (overly compressed JPEG)
would look good or remotely close like this in 640x480 anyway?
The graphics quality is a huuuuuuge deal for little big planet. It looks fucking awesome and life like, the Wii would destroy that.
.. and if I remember things right they use a lot of customization for the characters, which also looks better in HD, and "Miis" is just an absurb idea, how good do they look? Not much. I'd rather have a small rag doll designed in the way I want thank you.
(No, I'm not a troll or try to start a war, I thought the Wii seemed like the most interesting console before release and wishes Nintendo all luck. So don't moderate me in a retarded way like people always do when you say people they don't want to hear.)
Except Little Big Planet have always looked awesome (and is innovative) and there is no chance in hell it would look as good in SD on a Wii. And you know, other consoles can have innovative games as well. And I can't see how it would be hard to play with a normal controller either.
I really doubt the wiimote feels better as a normal controller than the PS3 controller as well, utter bullshit. More classic? Yes. More ergonomic? No.
The gamecube controller is nice though.
Life like textile and such would never look as good on the Wii.
Wii lacks poorly in the HD area and it would show. (Just like 3D games or games with lots of "light effects" looks like shit on the DS.)
I never read phone ads and don't care since that bullshit is how they always puts the prices and I'm so fucking tired of it. Just tell me what it will cost, not what I will pay when I get it.
Also I kind of never makes cellular phone calls so a phone without anything + pre-paid card would work just fine for me.
I don't know if I like the looks of this phone, too bad since I'd really like something open.
Except that's AROS and not AmigaOS.
It looks somewhat like Workbench, it uses similar APIs, but it can't run AmigaOS apps and it's not AmigaOS.
AmiKit in UAE eventually running from some very small Linux dist or whatever would be more of an Amiga in that case.
And I've actually sometimes considered putting all my stuff in AmiKit and use that instead of the modern oses ;/
Too bad they killed it /: