This is by far the strangest: from my brother, I received a small button with a picture of Dilton from Archie comics, looking confused. He's prided himself this year on strange, nonsensical gifts.
She, not he. ^.~ And, yes, I am new to Linux. AmigaOne computers currently come preinstalled with Debian, prior to AmigaOS 4's release. I've purchased a machine and have been using Debian for a couple of months now; I've not previously had very much Linux experiences.
As a Debian user fairly new to Linux, I find that Debian a) is stable, b) runs all the software I've tried (except that which has issues with my PowerPC procsesor) and c) is the easiest to install software for. I may not be a highly technical user, but for everything I've tried to do, Debian far from "sucks."
KDE has only ever crashed for me when I was suffering from DMA issues that often corrupted IDE transfers. Once that was fixed, KDE never crashed; the only reason it did was because it didn't load properly due to hardware issues. I've tried GNOME, but don't like its interface; it strikes me as much clunkier than KDE's.
RealPlayer is available for Linux. They even provide binaries for many different processor types; I use PowerPC, so a fair amount of commercial Linux software doesn't work for me, but RealPlayer does. It's also better than the Windows version, I might add; rather like the Mac version, I've heard.
Does its MT-32 emulator support custom patches? If not, it's useless for almost all Sierra games and the Ultima games, among others. Very, very few games use only the default patches, and all of the "MT-32 compatible" devices I've seen support only the MT-32's default patches.
Various MIDI devices will have a MT32 mapping mode, so MIDI files will sound about right but for the real effect you'd need the real device.
Not really; none of those devices support the MT-32's custom instruments, so any songs using instruments other than the MT-32's default 128 patches won't sound right at all.
DOSBox does have a Linux port; I've used it for Quest for Glory II using my actual MT-32 under Debian. Presumeably, the author of the MT-32 emulator hasn't contributed his code to the main DOSBox project yet because he wishes to wait until his emulator is finished to a more fully-functional stage.
It was a synthesizer module, not a keyboard. It can be attached to anything that can communicate via MIDI; I have it connected to my AmigaOne right now, but it would work just as well with a MIDI keyboard. As the above poster points out, there was also the LAPC-1, which was basically a Roland MPU-401 MIDI port and a Roland MT-32 in one ISA card. (They used the same idea later with the SCC-1, which is an MPU-401 and an SC-55 in one ISA card.)
A professional synthesizer module produced by Roland during the mid to late 1980s. It had 128 built-in samples, but could also store custom samples using LA synthesis based on the existing samples. It's most desired by fans of older computer games; many games, especially adventure games, prior to about 1992 were written specifically for the MT-32. Since no other devices (other than a few devices based on the MT-32, also by roland) can play MT-32 MIDIs properly, they're quite desirable especially to fans of Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games, as well as fans of the Ultima RPGs.
So you entirely ignored the parent's points, discrediting your arguments, just to basically restate your opinion over again? Nice argument. No, the parent has an excellent point; the only way for the individual person to make money from their works is by copyright protecting them. Otherwise, independant work wouldn't even be an option, as the bigger companies could simply take what you made and replicate it infinitely beyond your capacity without your permission.
As someone pointed out the other day, there was plenty of quality art available before copyright. Shakespeare and Mozart were happy to create art without it, and (AFIAK) made money from performance and patronage.
And as I poined out in a reply to that same post, it's because copying was much more difficult. Without printed versions of Shakespeare's plays, producing illicit versions was almost impossible, and those that were produced were of such awful quality, due to flawed memories of actors, that they were generally spurned.
That's utterly ridiculous. You've jumped to the other end of the argument entirely, ignoring a more rational level in the middle. Abolishing copyright will very likely reduce the amount of quality art available quite drastically; the publishers should be looking to alternate sale methods rather than draconian tariffs and lawsuits. Abolishing copyrights will solve the problem only as much as this will.
How about the many geeks who mirrored and attemped to publicize the leaked Diebold documents despite Deibold's attempts to stop it? I'd say that probably had a fair effect.
Haha, quite true. ^.^ I don't know whether I'll get an MP3 player or not; but if I do, the Neuros sounds like the one to get for my needs. (The iRiver is much more expensive, the iPod has sketchy support outside of MacOS/Windows and is expensive...)
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This is by far the strangest: from my brother, I received a small button with a picture of Dilton from Archie comics, looking confused. He's prided himself this year on strange, nonsensical gifts.
Or Ogg, for that matter!
Something *to* stick and/or make come apart? Actually, I suppose you could stick the WD-40 and make the duct-tape come apart...
She, not he. ^.~ And, yes, I am new to Linux. AmigaOne computers currently come preinstalled with Debian, prior to AmigaOS 4's release. I've purchased a machine and have been using Debian for a couple of months now; I've not previously had very much Linux experiences.
As a Debian user fairly new to Linux, I find that Debian a) is stable, b) runs all the software I've tried (except that which has issues with my PowerPC procsesor) and c) is the easiest to install software for. I may not be a highly technical user, but for everything I've tried to do, Debian far from "sucks."
KDE has only ever crashed for me when I was suffering from DMA issues that often corrupted IDE transfers. Once that was fixed, KDE never crashed; the only reason it did was because it didn't load properly due to hardware issues. I've tried GNOME, but don't like its interface; it strikes me as much clunkier than KDE's.
Er, bother. I meant to preview that first. x_X The link is here: http://security.openwares.org/
On the first page for the patch on their site, they link to this> page, which has the source.
RealPlayer is available for Linux. They even provide binaries for many different processor types; I use PowerPC, so a fair amount of commercial Linux software doesn't work for me, but RealPlayer does. It's also better than the Windows version, I might add; rather like the Mac version, I've heard.
I've finished all of mine already. ...then again, I'm also a girl, so take that as you will. ^.~
Mm, I'm aware of that, and I think it's a good idea. I was commenting on the GUS and other devices that claimed MT-32 compatibility.
Does its MT-32 emulator support custom patches? If not, it's useless for almost all Sierra games and the Ultima games, among others. Very, very few games use only the default patches, and all of the "MT-32 compatible" devices I've seen support only the MT-32's default patches.
Ah, sorry; my mistake. That sounds definately nicer!
DOSBox does have a Linux port; I've used it for Quest for Glory II using my actual MT-32 under Debian. Presumeably, the author of the MT-32 emulator hasn't contributed his code to the main DOSBox project yet because he wishes to wait until his emulator is finished to a more fully-functional stage.
It was a synthesizer module, not a keyboard. It can be attached to anything that can communicate via MIDI; I have it connected to my AmigaOne right now, but it would work just as well with a MIDI keyboard. As the above poster points out, there was also the LAPC-1, which was basically a Roland MPU-401 MIDI port and a Roland MT-32 in one ISA card. (They used the same idea later with the SCC-1, which is an MPU-401 and an SC-55 in one ISA card.)
A professional synthesizer module produced by Roland during the mid to late 1980s. It had 128 built-in samples, but could also store custom samples using LA synthesis based on the existing samples. It's most desired by fans of older computer games; many games, especially adventure games, prior to about 1992 were written specifically for the MT-32. Since no other devices (other than a few devices based on the MT-32, also by roland) can play MT-32 MIDIs properly, they're quite desirable especially to fans of Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games, as well as fans of the Ultima RPGs.
Or Bram Stoker's We, the Undead.
So you entirely ignored the parent's points, discrediting your arguments, just to basically restate your opinion over again? Nice argument. No, the parent has an excellent point; the only way for the individual person to make money from their works is by copyright protecting them. Otherwise, independant work wouldn't even be an option, as the bigger companies could simply take what you made and replicate it infinitely beyond your capacity without your permission.
That's utterly ridiculous. You've jumped to the other end of the argument entirely, ignoring a more rational level in the middle. Abolishing copyright will very likely reduce the amount of quality art available quite drastically; the publishers should be looking to alternate sale methods rather than draconian tariffs and lawsuits. Abolishing copyrights will solve the problem only as much as this will.
How about the many geeks who mirrored and attemped to publicize the leaked Diebold documents despite Deibold's attempts to stop it? I'd say that probably had a fair effect.
Haha, quite true. ^.^ I don't know whether I'll get an MP3 player or not; but if I do, the Neuros sounds like the one to get for my needs. (The iRiver is much more expensive, the iPod has sketchy support outside of MacOS/Windows and is expensive...)
True; and I don't actually *have* USB2.0, or plans to get a USB2.0 card.
Ick, sounds unpromising... I think I'll keep away; thank you for the advice!