Not sure you'd find decent prices for electronics in Japan. I think I saw a DVD player somewhere around $200-300, a 25" CRT HD set for about $1800, and crappy 17" LCD monitors with really thick bezels for around $500. No, thanks.
second question, i had 4 japanese girls come and ask me if i was searching for a girlfriend...interpret that as you will, that is all i have to say about that
Time to figure out what the Kanji on the back your T-shirt says?
Yeah, haha. The filename of that video I have saved to my home machine is called, "You Have to Be Japanese to Play This Game.mpg"
This video justs reinforces my idea that Japanese people are inherently better at playing games than westerners (ok, supposedly Bayou Billy was harder than its Japanese region counterpart, but otherwise...)
Left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right, *line*, jump off the pad, wait three seconds, jump back on the back, WORLD LONG JUMP RECORD!!!!
I was the grand master at World Class Track Meet....for a couple days. I think that pad got two days of use. Even kids could see right through it being presented as a game controller and looked at it as another lame attempt to force them to get excercise. I think the jumping off the pad cheat was retaliation:)
I wish. Remember when they had the McRib? Yeah, uh, after that failed in the early 90s, they brought it back in Bakersfield. Talk about redneck - or at least wannabe redneck (No real redneck would touch it with a ten-foot pole). I guess they had local success with it.
Whatever happened to the Georce Carlin way of getting your old pet again?
"The good thing about dogs is that they don't live too long...After a while, you can get a new dog - looks just like the old one. That way, you don't have to change any of your pictures. You go to the pet shop with a picture and say, 'Get me one a'dese!'"
Compared to Windows 95, 3.1 was rock solid - at least for me. I think the only things I saw were runtime errors caused by crap programming in applications that ran on top of it.
This was probably helped in part to all the drivers being run in real mode in DOS (minimalist environment) with just the video drivers to worry about.
Lemme get this straight. You found a whole bunch of cool old computers ready to be thrown away, then you found out you hadn't really taken them home with you?
It makes me wonder what the point was. That sucks that you didn't really get to mess with them.
n the Apple II he had difficulty making it display an NTSC colour signal the "proper" way (modulating the phase of the chroma subcarrier) so he took great advantage of the artifacting side effect of NTSC (basically a "monochrome" display made up of fine, closely-spaced vertical lines--making the luma signal pulse digitally at frequencies near that of the chroma subcarrier...cool hack!).
Weird. I always thought that was just to ensure cross-compatibility for color images being displayed on monochrome screens and vice versa.
It did make paint programs a bitch though because of the reduced res of working with solid colors. Then there's the white, purple, and green text caused by using single pixels in HGR modes.
Of course, the Apple II was only revolutionary for a couple of years or so. Then they refused to die and lived on for about 12 years or so as old crusty machines. Even longer in public schools. Ahh, the memories of Apple ][e and ][+ machines. Go Number Munchers!
Not to mention, it's a straight link to a JPEG. Last time I checked, those were pretty inert and doesn't appear to be, uh, malformed and ready for an unchecked buffer exploit or anything.
I still laugh my ass off thinking about playing "Ghost ride your crappy bike down a long ramp". Something hilarious about seeing a bike wobble on its own for 10+ seconds, slowly gaining speed.
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- Japan, get some cheap DVD players
Not sure you'd find decent prices for electronics in Japan. I think I saw a DVD player somewhere around $200-300, a 25" CRT HD set for about $1800, and crappy 17" LCD monitors with really thick bezels for around $500. No, thanks.
second question, i had 4 japanese girls come and ask me if i was searching for a girlfriend...interpret that as you will, that is all i have to say about that
Time to figure out what the Kanji on the back your T-shirt says?
Yeah, haha. The filename of that video I have saved to my home machine is called, "You Have to Be Japanese to Play This Game.mpg"
This video justs reinforces my idea that Japanese people are inherently better at playing games than westerners (ok, supposedly Bayou Billy was harder than its Japanese region counterpart, but otherwise...)
Oops, that was an obvious one, too.
Left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right, *line*, jump off the pad, wait three seconds, jump back on the back, WORLD LONG JUMP RECORD!!!!
:)
I was the grand master at World Class Track Meet....for a couple days. I think that pad got two days of use. Even kids could see right through it being presented as a game controller and looked at it as another lame attempt to force them to get excercise. I think the jumping off the pad cheat was retaliation
Xbox and PS2 game media can hold up to 7.95 GiB.
Aren't dual-layer DVDs more like 8.7 GB, or is there some other limit I don't know about?
Not sure if I want to play Pop'n Music now
I wish. Remember when they had the McRib? Yeah, uh, after that failed in the early 90s, they brought it back in Bakersfield. Talk about redneck - or at least wannabe redneck (No real redneck would touch it with a ten-foot pole). I guess they had local success with it.
Pretending to be a four-star restaruant since 1957?
How about Qoo? Check out the video section. It's great.
Kuuuuuuuu!
Don't forget "Air Bud Plays Jai Alai"
Good thing you decided to clone the "l" in your subject block as well!
Alllllllllllllllright!
Sam: Where can I put this so it doesn't hurt anybody we know or care about?
Max: Out the window, Sam. There's nothin' but strangers out there.
*BOOM!*
Sam: I hope there was nobody on that bus.
Max: Nobody we know, at least.
Whatever happened to the Georce Carlin way of getting your old pet again?
"The good thing about dogs is that they don't live too long...After a while, you can get a new dog - looks just like the old one. That way, you don't have to change any of your pictures. You go to the pet shop with a picture and say, 'Get me one a'dese!'"
You might want to go to the E.R. and get that checked out. Put it on ice.
Keep digging, Waston. I'm sure you'll find more.
Compared to Windows 95, 3.1 was rock solid - at least for me. I think the only things I saw were runtime errors caused by crap programming in applications that ran on top of it.
This was probably helped in part to all the drivers being run in real mode in DOS (minimalist environment) with just the video drivers to worry about.
Even if the users themselves aren't!
* runs away really fast to avoid Frankenstein rakes *
Lemme get this straight. You found a whole bunch of cool old computers ready to be thrown away, then you found out you hadn't really taken them home with you?
It makes me wonder what the point was. That sucks that you didn't really get to mess with them.
n the Apple II he had difficulty making it display an NTSC colour signal the "proper" way (modulating the phase of the chroma subcarrier) so he took great advantage of the artifacting side effect of NTSC (basically a "monochrome" display made up of fine, closely-spaced vertical lines--making the luma signal pulse digitally at frequencies near that of the chroma subcarrier...cool hack!).
Weird. I always thought that was just to ensure cross-compatibility for color images being displayed on monochrome screens and vice versa.
It did make paint programs a bitch though because of the reduced res of working with solid colors. Then there's the white, purple, and green text caused by using single pixels in HGR modes.
Of course, the Apple II was only revolutionary for a couple of years or so. Then they refused to die and lived on for about 12 years or so as old crusty machines. Even longer in public schools. Ahh, the memories of Apple ][e and ][+ machines. Go Number Munchers!
Homer: It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain't ketchup!
Not to mention, it's a straight link to a JPEG. Last time I checked, those were pretty inert and doesn't appear to be, uh, malformed and ready for an unchecked buffer exploit or anything.
Yes, but the question is: did you get a sudden craving for Smucker's Jelly?
My favorite was playing "Practice locking your bike's back tire while it's directly over a banana peel"
Not quite like cartoons, but you could get a nice banana trail going.
Then there were friends who played "Fluorescent light sabers with cardboard boxes over their heads"
wooommm wooooommmvv vvvwooooomm *CRSSSSHHHHHSHHSHSH!*
I still laugh my ass off thinking about playing "Ghost ride your crappy bike down a long ramp". Something hilarious about seeing a bike wobble on its own for 10+ seconds, slowly gaining speed.
Maybe I should have stayed indoors...