Looks like someone (ie Bungie) is staging a rampancy. Rampacy is what happened to the AI's in the Marathon game. Ie they broke lose from the safeguards imposed on them and went wild. The new black box looks very very similar to the console info in the original Marathon games when Durandel went wild.
Bungie has a highly evolved back story for their universe very similar to Larry Nivens known space universe. Niven also wrote the book Ringworld, in which more then a little bit of Halo cribs from. Halo = ringworld. If I remember correctly back from the original marathon back story we are right about the time the first AI went rampant, on earth. I think it was an accidentle ai not created by man but from the interconnectedness of computers.
AI's have always featured prominantly in Bungie games as plot conveyers, and info distributers. Here is partial list of Marathon backstory, that also ties into Bungies first fps title "Pathways into Darkness" AI history
It is imcomplete but does give some more info. Bungie has admitted that Halo fits in the Marathon/Pathways universe but until now has not tied it together. Many insignias and parts of the game are stolen from Marathon. A good discussion on Marathon/Halo connections
I have always been a Marathon fan as I have mention in previouse posts, as many game play feature predated many pc fps titles for a few years. Unreal Tourny did not invent king of the hill, tag, or kill the man with the ball. These had been around on Marathon for a few years. Bungie also allowed people to mod the games and gave tools out to make maps change graphics, and physics way before people started modding games on pc's. It is unfortunate that one of the most ground breaking FPS titles was on the MAC and gets so little recognition. I still lode up marathon games sometimes and reveal in the map design and story. I feel as well as most people that have played the marathon series that Half-life's story line and maps pale in comparison to what Bunigie did on 1995-1999.
I'm running sp2 rc2 and I am running fine.
amd 2400
asus a7v333
sb live
gf4 4200
no problem, althogh the new secruity center is annoying you have to hunt a little to turn off the automatic warnings when you disable the firewall and use an anti virus that MS does not recognize... For new users it will be a problem finding the "I choose to monitor this myself" option buried 2 menus down, that and on the faceof it many users will not realize that this stops the warning windows on boot.
Mealstom is great one of Ambrosia's first releases... I played this for years on my first powerpc. One of the nice things about many old mac games and almost all of the ambrosia offerings was all the graphics and sprites where in the resource fork. So using apples freely available resedit program you could mod almost any game for sound and graphics, then do a res compare and make an installer for your custom mod. Many people did this with the Marathon series from Bungie (the precurser to Halo) and moded games even before they where called mods. That with the physics and map editors that bungie released allowed for many conversion (as they where called then) to proliferate on AOL of all places as the WWW was still an infant...
You would think that a team that can build a car that gets 1,000 miles to the gallon could build a website out of something other then frontpage. I submit for your review
Cal State LA's website
Big suprise... since alpine makes the radios for BMW's... And the whole Apple BMW launch. Granted this will be full functionality to Alpine ans BMW steroes not the limited funct that we see now, where the ipod is a glorified cd-changer.
But does mean a static ipod interface?
For the most part it looks aimed at idiots with alot of money. And high end 3d animators esp with the workstation specs of the mobo's. It still doesn't make all that much sense untill nvidia finally opens up the graphic cards to non-graphic processing. Granted the programmable pixel shaders are in the right direction, but we need more functionality.
For gameing it seems redundant, wether or not you have these you will still have to upgrade in 2 years, when the next dx hits or what ever new architexture comes out. I personally never spend more than $220 on a video card. I got a 4200ti ($180) when alot of gamers got 4600 ($450+)for 10% more speed and 3 times the money. I can still play all the games on the market at high FPS, and now we both have to upgrade to dx9 cards for doom III and HL II...
"Father, Thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight. Thank you for the priviledge of being able to be in this position; to be up in the wonderous place, seeing all these many startling wonderful things that you have created. Help guide and direct all of us that we may shape our lives to be much better Christians, trying to help one another, and to work with one another rather then fighting and bickering. Help us to complete this mission successfully. Help us in our future space endouvors that we may show the world that democracy really can compete, and still able to fo things in a big way, and are able to do ersearch, developement, and can conduct many scientific and very technical programs. We with our families. Give them guidence and encouragement, and let them know that everything wil be OK. We ask in Thy name. Amen"
Prayer of Astronaut Gordon Cooper, pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission, during 17th orbit of the Earth in the "Faith 7".
While looking for a prayer for astronauts that I swore existed I found this. While I am not of any religion I hope that the mission will be on your minds, as private companies going to space will help speed up the exploration of space. The last thing we need is a setback on the first try.
I posted this as it is a great look back to 1962 and how the US felt in contrast to today. While some things stayed the same...
Or the car... Or the Indian Bird... Wait MS needs to rethink WORD... you don't want people to think it is an actual word! Or Frontpage... your not buying a index.htm page. Oh man Photoshop... you get a whole 1 hour photo store!!!!! No wonder it costs so much. Sid Miers Pirates...
And a live action T-birds movie will be out this summer... Directed By Number 1 aka Johnathan Frakes
I liked how gamespy had no info as to the status of interplay being open. They are less then 3 miles from each other. In Irvine CA. You would think a quick drive by would have helped clear that little bit of info up.
No offense... I like nokia.. but 17 games out, a few games in developement on their home page cancelled. And a replacement on the horizon... If you listen carefully you can here the giant sucking noise... but only if you sidetalk or mod for backtalk... hmm reartalk...
Some of the stuff in this thread is just insane. And far and beyond normal idiocy.
1.Since this camera was announced we knew it would be hacked it was just a matter of time.
2.Canon knew it would be hacked.
3.If you only knew how many times products are crippled/disabled and priced lower so that high end stuff still sells? anyone remember 3.5 single sided floppies? Companies do what is in there own best interest.. err in the stockholders best interest. Do some of you really think Canon is doing this to pull one over on you? No they are doing what will make the most money for their shareholders.
4.I think the anaology to overclocking is not valid. Chips are clocked at set speeds becuase they are stable at that speed, If AMD/Intel sold the 2.4 rated chip as a 3.0 which it is in some cases IDENTICAL, people would complain since the 2.4 rated chips can't really handle those speeds and crash. AMD and Intel love overclockers cuz they buy more chips then anyone else, since they fry things all the time.
5.All in all this will not really affect 10d sales, for all the reasons listed above, stability, ability to interface with higher end equipment, better case, higher quality parts, and certain features that the 300d can't so at all.
6.300d sales will go up since this just became the geek camera of the year.
Also on a side note no one has mentioned that people have been hacking the Canon lenses to get more f-stops and zoom out of them for awhile. Canon restricts some lenses since the quality becomes adversly affected at min and max. So some people have removed the stops and taken the quality hit for more versitility.
Since few of you are/where Mac gamers. In 1984 Bungie released Marathon. This very very early precusor to Halo, introduced so many things to the FPS genre. Many features on this mac game took years to come out on the PC. 8 person network play. Dynamic lighting. True 3d aiming unlike Quake, (not first implemented in Dark Forces as previously mentioned.) Decent AI in monsters. Fully mod-able from textures, models, maps, sound, storyline, and physics, either by resource haxs or Bungie supplied editors. These games are still being moded and even have been ported to linux/unix with upgraded graphics. 8 player networked games had many modes, from kill the man with the ball, king of the hill, tag, Free-for all, and team versions of all of the above. Any fps player that ever played 1 of the 3 Marathon games will tell you how amazing the storyline and map design was. Marathon featured a very in-depth story that IMHO has not been bettered, with maps that had puzzels or different variables to break up the kill rinse repeat cycle found in so many other early FPS's. Where was Doom compared to all of this?
Bungie gets little respect in its role as a pioneer in FPS's as Pathways into Darkness was released at almost the same time as Wolf 3d.
Isn't this old news?? Back in the BBS days alot of files floated around that purported to be installers. But when run they would trash your system folder, drop alot of viruses, and then install joke extensions. I know many of the So Cal mac BBS's had to clean out alot of files due to installers like these. So 10-11 years ago we had the same problem.
All of the cd's that I have that have "rotted" or lost the metal layer that holds that data. Have been blank topped cd's ie no printing no nothing on top, just shiny metal. The cd's that I have that are labled or printed on don't seem to have any problem. I live in southern california and leave my cd's in my dark colored truck year round. Commercial Cd's and branded printed cd's seem fine as well as cd's with stickers on them.
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They also have the 10 WORST video game box-arts
Gamespy 10 worst boxes
You know what I just called over there and it seems that almost everyone is at work... POSERS!!!
CNN: Look at Cassini. He's headed for that small moon.
Nasa: I think we can get a pic of the moon before he gets there...he's almost in range.
The small moon begins to take on the appearance of a monstrous spherical battle station.
Dubya: That's no moon! It's a space station.
Random Slahdot comment: It's too big to be a space station.
General US Population: I have a very bad feeling about this.
Looks like someone (ie Bungie) is staging a rampancy. Rampacy is what happened to the AI's in the Marathon game. Ie they broke lose from the safeguards imposed on them and went wild. The new black box looks very very similar to the console info in the original Marathon games when Durandel went wild. Bungie has a highly evolved back story for their universe very similar to Larry Nivens known space universe. Niven also wrote the book Ringworld, in which more then a little bit of Halo cribs from. Halo = ringworld. If I remember correctly back from the original marathon back story we are right about the time the first AI went rampant, on earth. I think it was an accidentle ai not created by man but from the interconnectedness of computers. AI's have always featured prominantly in Bungie games as plot conveyers, and info distributers. Here is partial list of Marathon backstory, that also ties into Bungies first fps title "Pathways into Darkness"
AI history
It is imcomplete but does give some more info. Bungie has admitted that Halo fits in the Marathon/Pathways universe but until now has not tied it together. Many insignias and parts of the game are stolen from Marathon. A good discussion on Marathon/Halo connections
I have always been a Marathon fan as I have mention in previouse posts, as many game play feature predated many pc fps titles for a few years. Unreal Tourny did not invent king of the hill, tag, or kill the man with the ball. These had been around on Marathon for a few years. Bungie also allowed people to mod the games and gave tools out to make maps change graphics, and physics way before people started modding games on pc's. It is unfortunate that one of the most ground breaking FPS titles was on the MAC and gets so little recognition. I still lode up marathon games sometimes and reveal in the map design and story. I feel as well as most people that have played the marathon series that Half-life's story line and maps pale in comparison to what Bunigie did on 1995-1999.
Just my rant...
I'm running sp2 rc2 and I am running fine. amd 2400 asus a7v333 sb live gf4 4200 no problem, althogh the new secruity center is annoying you have to hunt a little to turn off the automatic warnings when you disable the firewall and use an anti virus that MS does not recognize... For new users it will be a problem finding the "I choose to monitor this myself" option buried 2 menus down, that and on the faceof it many users will not realize that this stops the warning windows on boot.
All the stories on EPO and Human growth hormone will get to us no matter what... I was kinda hopeing for a break from it.
Speaking of Marathon it is now in open source and can be reached at Bungie
Mealstom is great one of Ambrosia's first releases... I played this for years on my first powerpc. One of the nice things about many old mac games and almost all of the ambrosia offerings was all the graphics and sprites where in the resource fork. So using apples freely available resedit program you could mod almost any game for sound and graphics, then do a res compare and make an installer for your custom mod. Many people did this with the Marathon series from Bungie (the precurser to Halo) and moded games even before they where called mods. That with the physics and map editors that bungie released allowed for many conversion (as they where called then) to proliferate on AOL of all places as the WWW was still an infant...
You would think that a team that can build a car that gets 1,000 miles to the gallon could build a website out of something other then frontpage. I submit for your review Cal State LA's website
microwae radiation will not cause sterility.. that is an urban legend....
Big suprise... since alpine makes the radios for BMW's... And the whole Apple BMW launch. Granted this will be full functionality to Alpine ans BMW steroes not the limited funct that we see now, where the ipod is a glorified cd-changer. But does mean a static ipod interface?
For the most part it looks aimed at idiots with alot of money. And high end 3d animators esp with the workstation specs of the mobo's. It still doesn't make all that much sense untill nvidia finally opens up the graphic cards to non-graphic processing. Granted the programmable pixel shaders are in the right direction, but we need more functionality. For gameing it seems redundant, wether or not you have these you will still have to upgrade in 2 years, when the next dx hits or what ever new architexture comes out. I personally never spend more than $220 on a video card. I got a 4200ti ($180) when alot of gamers got 4600 ($450+)for 10% more speed and 3 times the money. I can still play all the games on the market at high FPS, and now we both have to upgrade to dx9 cards for doom III and HL II...
"Father, Thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight. Thank you for the priviledge of being able to be in this position; to be up in the wonderous place, seeing all these many startling wonderful things that you have created. Help guide and direct all of us that we may shape our lives to be much better Christians, trying to help one another, and to work with one another rather then fighting and bickering. Help us to complete this mission successfully. Help us in our future space endouvors that we may show the world that democracy really can compete, and still able to fo things in a big way, and are able to do ersearch, developement, and can conduct many scientific and very technical programs. We with our families. Give them guidence and encouragement, and let them know that everything wil be OK. We ask in Thy name. Amen"
Prayer of Astronaut Gordon Cooper, pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission, during 17th orbit of the Earth in the "Faith 7".
While looking for a prayer for astronauts that I swore existed I found this. While I am not of any religion I hope that the mission will be on your minds, as private companies going to space will help speed up the exploration of space. The last thing we need is a setback on the first try. I posted this as it is a great look back to 1962 and how the US felt in contrast to today. While some things stayed the same...
Or the car... Or the Indian Bird... Wait MS needs to rethink WORD... you don't want people to think it is an actual word! Or Frontpage... your not buying a index.htm page. Oh man Photoshop... you get a whole 1 hour photo store!!!!! No wonder it costs so much. Sid Miers Pirates...
And a live action T-birds movie will be out this summer... Directed By Number 1 aka Johnathan Frakes
I liked how gamespy had no info as to the status of interplay being open. They are less then 3 miles from each other. In Irvine CA. You would think a quick drive by would have helped clear that little bit of info up.
No offense... I like nokia.. but 17 games out, a few games in developement on their home page cancelled. And a replacement on the horizon... If you listen carefully you can here the giant sucking noise... but only if you sidetalk or mod for backtalk... hmm reartalk...
Some of the stuff in this thread is just insane. And far and beyond normal idiocy.
1.Since this camera was announced we knew it would be hacked it was just a matter of time.
2.Canon knew it would be hacked.
3.If you only knew how many times products are crippled/disabled and priced lower so that high end stuff still sells? anyone remember 3.5 single sided floppies? Companies do what is in there own best interest.. err in the stockholders best interest. Do some of you really think Canon is doing this to pull one over on you? No they are doing what will make the most money for their shareholders.
4.I think the anaology to overclocking is not valid. Chips are clocked at set speeds becuase they are stable at that speed, If AMD/Intel sold the 2.4 rated chip as a 3.0 which it is in some cases IDENTICAL, people would complain since the 2.4 rated chips can't really handle those speeds and crash. AMD and Intel love overclockers cuz they buy more chips then anyone else, since they fry things all the time.
5.All in all this will not really affect 10d sales, for all the reasons listed above, stability, ability to interface with higher end equipment, better case, higher quality parts, and certain features that the 300d can't so at all.
6.300d sales will go up since this just became the geek camera of the year.
Also on a side note no one has mentioned that people have been hacking the Canon lenses to get more f-stops and zoom out of them for awhile. Canon restricts some lenses since the quality becomes adversly affected at min and max. So some people have removed the stops and taken the quality hit for more versitility.
Is it me or do spot codes look vaguely like the Imperial emblem from star wars? **Insert funny star wars quote/joke here as I can't think of one**
Ok that should read 1994... not 84 I am a tard. and the true 3d aiming should not read Quake... Mental note no more slashdoting after 2am.
Since few of you are/where Mac gamers. In 1984 Bungie released Marathon. This very very early precusor to Halo, introduced so many things to the FPS genre. Many features on this mac game took years to come out on the PC. 8 person network play. Dynamic lighting. True 3d aiming unlike Quake, (not first implemented in Dark Forces as previously mentioned.) Decent AI in monsters. Fully mod-able from textures, models, maps, sound, storyline, and physics, either by resource haxs or Bungie supplied editors. These games are still being moded and even have been ported to linux/unix with upgraded graphics. 8 player networked games had many modes, from kill the man with the ball, king of the hill, tag, Free-for all, and team versions of all of the above. Any fps player that ever played 1 of the 3 Marathon games will tell you how amazing the storyline and map design was. Marathon featured a very in-depth story that IMHO has not been bettered, with maps that had puzzels or different variables to break up the kill rinse repeat cycle found in so many other early FPS's. Where was Doom compared to all of this?
Bungie gets little respect in its role as a pioneer in FPS's as Pathways into Darkness was released at almost the same time as Wolf 3d.
pear to osx to classic emulation to old virtualpc version(pre osx) to windows xp to a dos emulator to run the original Zork?
Isn't this old news?? Back in the BBS days alot of files floated around that purported to be installers. But when run they would trash your system folder, drop alot of viruses, and then install joke extensions. I know many of the So Cal mac BBS's had to clean out alot of files due to installers like these. So 10-11 years ago we had the same problem.
But antenna theater developed these and now supplies alot of big museams with these. Here is the hardware website
http://www.antenna-audio.com/
All of the cd's that I have that have "rotted" or lost the metal layer that holds that data. Have been blank topped cd's ie no printing no nothing on top, just shiny metal. The cd's that I have that are labled or printed on don't seem to have any problem. I live in southern california and leave my cd's in my dark colored truck year round. Commercial Cd's and branded printed cd's seem fine as well as cd's with stickers on them.
well in theory most of the genetic patents are "found" since we are not makeing up our own dna codes yet, but patching together what we have found.