Those oldschool Lucasfilm adventures were truly great. From "Labyrinth" (based off the old movie with David Bowie) to "Maniac Mansion" (a true classic) and "ZacMcKraken" (took me about 6 hours to complete).
I played all of these on a Commodore 64 back in the day. Completed all three of them. And who can forget the Green Tentacle?
All memorable highlights of my misspent game playing youth;) The C64 didn't have the Sierra Police and Space Quests, but the Lucas games were the next best thing.
If you haven't played these adventures yet, GET THEE TO A C64 EMULATOR! NOW!
Good memories of waiting forever for the tape deck of the C64 to load. Good ol' 300 baud.
Those were the days of using the tape counter, waiting 5-20 minutes for a game to load, and then doing a voodoo dance around the room hoping that there would be no load error on the 13th load attempt with a bad tape! Oh the joys of tape turboloaders, munched cassettes, and azimuth head alignment!
Sadly those days are gone, and are never coming back! (Thank God!)
I'd always envisaged Sun as a company with a rock solid quality OS, and faultless hardware for mission critical apps with top-notch support.
And then they have to go the Walmart route with a cheap box.
That's almost like Ferrari deciding that it's sick of making luxury cars, and opting to make bicycles instead.
There's a place for cheap linux boxes for those who want their internet/mail/office... but for Sun to do it??? This is going to take some getting used to....
Just curious.... but who wipes out MacOSX on the G5 to replace it with Linux?
Call me a troll, but I just don't see the point when there are cheaper architectures out there.
In comparison to other sports and games, video games are disparaged because:
* Anti-social (With sports, you are pretty much forced to play with someone else) * Waste of money (Kicking a football once you have bought it costs nothing, but arcade machines eat coins) * Lack of exercise (Sitting around the house all day) * No chance of professional achievement (as, say, with popular sports) * Addiction (I've never heard of someone who played/survived an 8 hour match of soccer, and still wanted more) * Viewed as being "mindless" (Chess, and other boardgames aren't - but even then they have a social element, professional rankings, etc.) * Violence (Contact sports are violent too... but not in the deliberate blood-splatting way some video games are) * The loser sub-culture stigma (Anyone here old enough to remember the 1981 film "Joysticks" ?) * Fanatical Christians think role playing games are evil (I'm not kidding on that one: they reckon that creating character as a personification as oneself is idolatory, and then giving them magic powers makes it all look worse.)
No such thing as subliminal messages, but you might want to look into NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It's used for therapy and marketing a lot, and there's even one guy who uses it for seduction....
Actually I was talking to my friend about her relationship one day, and she said that it's absolutely amazing when YOU'VE MET SOMEONE YOU REALLY LIKE. For example, she met THIS GUY who made her have.... certain *thoughts*.... about what it must be like to really FEEL ATTRACTED TO SOMEONE.... ME... in my experience, I've felt something like this before in other women, but when you REALLY FEEL SOMETHING POWERFUL FOR THIS PERSON... it's like everything just FADES AWAY, and your EYES CLOSE.... and you being to RELAX and just THINK WONDERFUL THOUGHTS about THIS PERSON. After a while YOU WILL COME... OVER AND OVER.... to the conclusion that you really have to MEET THIS PERSON RIGHT NOW!
PDTP eh? Try saying that too quickly.... I can barely get my tongue around half these transfer protocol names. I wish people would mind their T's and P's.
Excel is not just limited to creating spreadsheets.
Some inventive Japanese people even turned Excel into a gaming platform. If you can wade through the Japanese, you'll find all sorts of classic games for Excel. Check out the tabs on the top page (they're all separated into game genres)
For sure, outback australia has some real problems getting internet access. Everyone has moaned to Telstra for ages about this, so it's good to see soemthing get done about it.
Australia likes the idea of wireless.... or at least we don't want to have to look at masses of wires all over our skyline.
There was a broadband cable rollout some years back, and a lot of residents complained that the extra overhead cable would wreck their view and lower their houses values due to the nasty look of an extra cable floating above them. Several local councils petitioned to have the cables dug underground, but after a feasibility test was done, putting the cables underground was found to be too expensive.... so the phone company did nothing in those areas. Now the local governments that protested the cable roll-out are all stuck using dial-up modems.
The Latest Tomb Raider game is quite enjoyable actually....
I'm surprised they even bothered with a sequel of the film considering the first one was so bad.
The problem is that Lara Croft is too serious and unemotional to be involving as a character, and then the plot includes some silly scenes and ghoulish monsters that are too unbelievable to be scary. It would all be better suited to a cartoon... but then it'd be too violent.
Indiana Jones at least had a cocky sense of humour, a sort of grudging acknowledgement that let us know that we are clearly in a fantasy world!
Seems like the record industry has hedged it's bets here.
It figures that it can make the most money by selling CDs, riding the P2P wave of free marketing, and then making money out of suing file traders.
It would make no sense from the perspective of their bottom line to endorse piracy... to them it's a free marketing & settlement cash cow!
Maybe they figure that there's more money to be had in doing things that way, as opposed to embracing the new technology? Worth a thought....... especially if they're making more money than ever.
Jeff Minter made some really whacked out games back in the day. No one could ever accuse him of being unoriginal with some of his titles.... (except maybe in the Llama department) in fact most of the games he made MUST have been done when he was high or something... and usually had something to do with Llamas.
So maybe "Attack of the Mutant Camels" was an Atari2600 "Empire Strikes back" rip-off and "Sheep in Space" was a weird "Defender"-like game, but just fire up your C64 emulator and look at "Batalyx" or "Anticipal". I suppose the experience of those games is multiplied further if you've downed a few magic mushrooms beforehand.
"Hovver Bovver" must have been one of the most interesting third-person mow-the-lawn-ups I've ever played too. Gimme back my mower!
Blah, there were never any decent games on the Apple. We were all Commodore's slaves back in those days. By the time the Amiga went away, we were all slaves to the PC.
The reason why Things like LinuxBIOS are important is because having a PC boot with the Linux kernel is not only a cool trick, but it saves people who build clusters a heck of a lot of money on Hard Drives and CD-ROM drives, when a cluster node only really needs a mainboard, CPU, and RAM.
Maybe with faster, bootable USB on motherboards in future, and cheaper flash RAM, flashing the BIOS to run Linux will seem a little less necessary.
Maybe there's some other use for Linux in the BIOS, but someone will have to teach me as to what that is.
I didn't say it was terrorism ya fool. I say the math they're usuing to get the desired effect isn't far removed from the math that terrorists use to get us.
Just for the record, the RIAA et al. are well within their rights to prosecute people for illegal copyright infringements.
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I was looking at one of the Solaris vulnerabilities, and I saw "sadmind".
I thought it was some kind of nasty name for a hacking daemon - until I found out that sadmind was the "Solaris ADMIN Daemon"
We are fucking pilgrims. The news just showed a couple american contractors dangled and burned publicly in Iraq. Where's the damn label for the news.
I really doubt that whoever committed those murders was inspired to do it by a videogame too.
A bigger factor may have been American occupation. Seems like American occupation is to blame for all the murders these days.
Those oldschool Lucasfilm adventures were truly great. From "Labyrinth" (based off the old movie with David Bowie) to "Maniac Mansion" (a true classic) and "ZacMcKraken" (took me about 6 hours to complete).
;) The C64 didn't have the Sierra Police and Space Quests, but the Lucas games were the next best thing.
I played all of these on a Commodore 64 back in the day. Completed all three of them. And who can forget the Green Tentacle?
All memorable highlights of my misspent game playing youth
If you haven't played these adventures yet, GET THEE TO A C64 EMULATOR! NOW!
Good memories of waiting forever for the tape deck of the C64 to load. Good ol' 300 baud.
Those were the days of using the tape counter, waiting 5-20 minutes for a game to load, and then doing a voodoo dance around the room hoping that there would be no load error on the 13th load attempt with a bad tape! Oh the joys of tape turboloaders, munched cassettes, and azimuth head alignment!
Sadly those days are gone, and are never coming back! (Thank God!)
Bollocks. The Running Man C64 game sucked big time. I finished the game on my second shot. It was too easy and barely any enemies
I'd always envisaged Sun as a company with a rock solid quality OS, and faultless hardware for mission critical apps with top-notch support.
And then they have to go the Walmart route with a cheap box.
That's almost like Ferrari deciding that it's sick of making luxury cars, and opting to make bicycles instead.
There's a place for cheap linux boxes for those who want their internet/mail/office... but for Sun to do it???
This is going to take some getting used to....
Just curious.... but who wipes out MacOSX on the G5 to replace it with Linux? Call me a troll, but I just don't see the point when there are cheaper architectures out there.
In comparison to other sports and games, video games are disparaged because:
* Anti-social (With sports, you are pretty much forced to play with someone else)
* Waste of money (Kicking a football once you have bought it costs nothing, but arcade machines eat coins)
* Lack of exercise (Sitting around the house all day)
* No chance of professional achievement (as, say, with popular sports)
* Addiction (I've never heard of someone who played/survived an 8 hour match of soccer, and still wanted more)
* Viewed as being "mindless" (Chess, and other boardgames aren't - but even then they have a social element, professional rankings, etc.)
* Violence (Contact sports are violent too... but not in the deliberate blood-splatting way some video games are)
* The loser sub-culture stigma (Anyone here old enough to remember the 1981 film "Joysticks" ?)
* Fanatical Christians think role playing games are evil (I'm not kidding on that one: they reckon that creating character as a personification as oneself is idolatory, and then giving them magic powers makes it all look worse.)
So yeah..... anyone for tennis?
No such thing as subliminal messages, but you might want to look into NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It's used for therapy and marketing a lot, and there's even one guy who uses it for seduction....
Actually I was talking to my friend about her relationship one day, and she said that it's absolutely amazing when YOU'VE MET SOMEONE YOU REALLY LIKE. For example, she met THIS GUY who made her have.... certain *thoughts*.... about what it must be like to really FEEL ATTRACTED TO SOMEONE.... ME... in my experience, I've felt something like this before in other women, but when you REALLY FEEL SOMETHING POWERFUL FOR THIS PERSON... it's like everything just FADES AWAY, and your EYES CLOSE.... and you being to RELAX and just THINK WONDERFUL THOUGHTS about THIS PERSON. After a while YOU WILL COME... OVER AND OVER.... to the conclusion that you really have to MEET THIS PERSON RIGHT NOW!
Go away, I'm not gay.
PDTP eh? Try saying that too quickly.... I can barely get my tongue around half these transfer protocol names.
I wish people would mind their T's and P's.
Can someone tell me WHY you need an original copy of Quake to run this?
This kind of game reminds me of all the original telnet MUD games which just involved exploring areas and killing other people indiscriminantly.
Excel is not just limited to creating spreadsheets.
Some inventive Japanese people even turned Excel into a gaming platform.
If you can wade through the Japanese, you'll find all sorts of classic games for Excel. Check out the tabs on the top page (they're all separated into game genres)
http://cgi30.plala.or.jp/chikada/vba/sht.shtml
With that Power chip, I can forsee a future where I can build a PC that can triple boot between Windows, MacOS, and Linux!
The next question I'd have to ask myself is what possible gain I could actually get from doing that...
For sure, outback australia has some real problems getting internet access. Everyone has moaned to Telstra for ages about this, so it's good to see soemthing get done about it.
Australia likes the idea of wireless.... or at least we don't want to have to look at masses of wires all over our skyline.
There was a broadband cable rollout some years back, and a lot of residents complained that the extra overhead cable would wreck their view and lower their houses values due to the nasty look of an extra cable floating above them. Several local councils petitioned to have the cables dug underground, but after a feasibility test was done, putting the cables underground was found to be too expensive.... so the phone company did nothing in those areas. Now the local governments that protested the cable roll-out are all stuck using dial-up modems.
The Latest Tomb Raider game is quite enjoyable actually....
I'm surprised they even bothered with a sequel of the film considering the first one was so bad.
The problem is that Lara Croft is too serious and unemotional to be involving as a character, and then the plot includes some silly scenes and ghoulish monsters that are too unbelievable to be scary. It would all be better suited to a cartoon... but then it'd be too violent.
Indiana Jones at least had a cocky sense of humour, a sort of grudging acknowledgement that let us know that we are clearly in a fantasy world!
Seems like the record industry has hedged it's bets here.
It figures that it can make the most money by selling CDs, riding the P2P wave of free marketing, and then making money out of suing file traders.
It would make no sense from the perspective of their bottom line to endorse piracy... to them it's a free marketing & settlement cash cow!
Maybe they figure that there's more money to be had in doing things that way, as opposed to embracing the new technology? Worth a thought....... especially if they're making more money than ever.
Jeff Minter made some really whacked out games back in the day. No one could ever accuse him of being unoriginal with some of his titles.... (except maybe in the Llama department) in fact most of the games he made MUST have been done when he was high or something... and usually had something to do with Llamas.
So maybe "Attack of the Mutant Camels" was an Atari2600 "Empire Strikes back" rip-off and "Sheep in Space" was a weird "Defender"-like game, but just fire up your C64 emulator and look at "Batalyx" or "Anticipal". I suppose the experience of those games is multiplied further if you've downed a few magic mushrooms beforehand.
"Hovver Bovver" must have been one of the most interesting third-person mow-the-lawn-ups I've ever played too. Gimme back my mower!
I hear PM Howard is set to sign that thing pretty soon.
Free trade is OK, if maybe the US can outsource some jobs there for a change.
Blah, there were never any decent games on the Apple.
We were all Commodore's slaves back in those days. By the time the Amiga went away, we were all slaves to the PC.
The reason why Things like LinuxBIOS are important is because having a PC boot with the Linux kernel is not only a cool trick, but it saves people who build clusters a heck of a lot of money on Hard Drives and CD-ROM drives, when a cluster node only really needs a mainboard, CPU, and RAM.
Maybe with faster, bootable USB on motherboards in future, and cheaper flash RAM, flashing the BIOS to run Linux will seem a little less necessary.
Maybe there's some other use for Linux in the BIOS, but someone will have to teach me as to what that is.
Just for the record, the US has killed way more people in the Iraqi war than any of the terrorists have done to the US and their allies. *ducks*
I didn't say it was terrorism ya fool. I say the math they're usuing to get the desired effect isn't far removed from the math that terrorists use to get us. Just for the record, the RIAA et al. are well within their rights to prosecute people for illegal copyright infringements.
Still, only close to 2000 lawsuits is only a fraction of the entire music-swapping community.
It is a weak terrorist-like tactic. Even though they only get a tiny fraction of the population, they hope that this will scare everyone individually.
Well, good luck to them.
Dammit.... well it was a nice try. How about 'GnuDE' then?
GnuDE ?