But the demo was running on Silicon Graphics workstations, not Nintendo hardware. It's impossible to tell from those shots what a game would have looked like on the N64.
Why on earth go with a 250Mhz arm for the processor?
Nokia use the OMAP in their phones. That means they're familiar with it and the tools, can reuse designs etc. Remember that this is really a pilot/prototype project.
Some people also still believe it's legal do download whatever you want as long as you delete it within 24 hours. It really makes you wish you could smack these people over the head over the net.
Keep in mind that these are only ATI's reference cards. The actual chips are compatible with AGP bridges, so it's almost certain some card manufacturer will make AGP versions of these. It's only a question of when and for how much.
Java is *not* slow and has a very comparable average execution to C/C++ code.
That depends entirely on your JVM. For a while I was running a Gentoo PPC system, and the only JVM I could use was IBM's which lacked a JIT compiler. With that setup, even something as CPU-unintensive as editing text with jEdit was unbearably slow even though the system was relatively fast (1GHz G4+).
SLI would be attractive if I could use several lower-end cards to achieve a decent performance without the heat and noise issues. Unfortunately it's only aimed at the very high-end at the moment.
Thanks for the link. If you look at page four of the document, it explains that because the UUHash algorithm used by Kazaa hashes only a small part of the file it is feasible to change other parts and produce hash collisions through brute-force attacks. Then the attacker just pretends to be a normal node and feeds bad data into the network. The obvious way to counter this is to either fix Kazaa or switch to a network where the whole file is hashed.
Adobe haven't released their reader for "Linux", but for "Linux running on x86". Now that other people have begun to realise that not everyone is running Windows, why must Linux people still insist that everyone is using a PC?
My take is that he's admitting that in terms of graphical and computational power Nintendo's next machine will not be in the same league as Sony's and Microsoft's offerings. Third parties that have switched over to "next-gen" development may not be interested in scaling down their processes for Nintendo's sake if they don't expect sales to make up for the investment. On the other hand, Nintendo are planning on including some "gimmick" (like the DS touch-screen) unique to their hardware that might attract developers. It would be interesting to know what the feature will be, but knowing Nintendo it will probably be aimed at getting people to play games together (IMO the big reason why they are so uninterested in online games for the Gamecube).
Heh, wonder why they cut out part of Linus' post quoted at the beginning? (The original post read "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu".)
Not POWER, but there are several PowerPC boards available. Genesi's Pegasos 2 is based on a Marvell system controller and Mai Logic make both chipsets and motherboards. Momentum make PPC970 evaluation boards, but I don't know if they qualify for the "open market" requirement.
Horrible, horrible shaky-cam, horrible horrible drums-only soundtrack. It's like watching NYPD Blue - In Space! Does it get better or is the whole series this unwatchably shit?
Adblock doesn't fix the "popups from links" problem, and neither does Firefox 1.0.1. To see them in action, go to Zophar's Domain (an emulation site) and click on any link in the sidebar.
"In order to realize the Global Consciousness Project, Princeton University has decided to build a series of giant robots, one of which is to be piloted by the estranged, whiny 14-year old son of Roger Nelson, the project director."
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Seeing as it never ran on Nintendo hardware, my guess is "no."
But the demo was running on Silicon Graphics workstations, not Nintendo hardware. It's impossible to tell from those shots what a game would have looked like on the N64.
Some people also still believe it's legal do download whatever you want as long as you delete it within 24 hours. It really makes you wish you could smack these people over the head over the net.
Keep in mind that these are only ATI's reference cards. The actual chips are compatible with AGP bridges, so it's almost certain some card manufacturer will make AGP versions of these. It's only a question of when and for how much.
Call it "Spiders in a Park" and you'll get Samuel L. Jackson to do it for free.
SLI would be attractive if I could use several lower-end cards to achieve a decent performance without the heat and noise issues. Unfortunately it's only aimed at the very high-end at the moment.
Is there any difference in the CPU overhead?
Or, as the submitter would have written it, "Angr'y Flowe'r."
Thanks for the link. If you look at page four of the document, it explains that because the UUHash algorithm used by Kazaa hashes only a small part of the file it is feasible to change other parts and produce hash collisions through brute-force attacks. Then the attacker just pretends to be a normal node and feeds bad data into the network.
The obvious way to counter this is to either fix Kazaa or switch to a network where the whole file is hashed.
Adobe haven't released their reader for "Linux", but for "Linux running on x86". Now that other people have begun to realise that not everyone is running Windows, why must Linux people still insist that everyone is using a PC?
The V-Dragon apparently has Midori Linux embedded in the chip.
The SNES used a WDC 65c816, not related to the M68k at all.
My take is that he's admitting that in terms of graphical and computational power Nintendo's next machine will not be in the same league as Sony's and Microsoft's offerings. Third parties that have switched over to "next-gen" development may not be interested in scaling down their processes for Nintendo's sake if they don't expect sales to make up for the investment.
On the other hand, Nintendo are planning on including some "gimmick" (like the DS touch-screen) unique to their hardware that might attract developers. It would be interesting to know what the feature will be, but knowing Nintendo it will probably be aimed at getting people to play games together (IMO the big reason why they are so uninterested in online games for the Gamecube).
Heh, wonder why they cut out part of Linus' post quoted at the beginning? (The original post read "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu".)
Not POWER, but there are several PowerPC boards available. Genesi's Pegasos 2 is based on a Marvell system controller and Mai Logic make both chipsets and motherboards. Momentum make PPC970 evaluation boards, but I don't know if they qualify for the "open market" requirement.
Thanks, looks like I'll give it a miss then.
Horrible, horrible shaky-cam, horrible horrible drums-only soundtrack. It's like watching NYPD Blue - In Space!
Does it get better or is the whole series this unwatchably shit?
Adblock doesn't fix the "popups from links" problem, and neither does Firefox 1.0.1. To see them in action, go to Zophar's Domain (an emulation site) and click on any link in the sidebar.
Ubisoft is "French as in 'From France'".
"In order to realize the Global Consciousness Project, Princeton University has decided to build a series of giant robots, one of which is to be piloted by the estranged, whiny 14-year old son of Roger Nelson, the project director."
The one and the same. So at least there's hope the script will be good.
Didn't read very cerfully then? The livecd is currently supported only for the Pegasos, the Mac version is still "in the works".