I believe Skies of Arcadia did originally come on two discs. The trick was that it was compressed in a manner that was transparent to the game. The only penalty was slightly longer load time.
And it worked so well, you didn't even need a mod chip. Seriously, most games were less than 700 MB anyway, but if they did exceed it, the data could just be compressed, with only a small load time penalty in-game to show for it.
Yes, that allows a lot of bloat for computer applications. Windows anyone? Sorry.
It's not just Windows. I can't even get SuSE 9.1 Personal below 2 GB. For one thing, it likes to find very weird places to hide temp files permanently (does that make sense?)
Let's see, it took seven years for affordable DVD writing, and dual layer discs are still either unavailible or expensive to the asinine degree. Prepare to wait a while.
I, also, have never understood the discreet VHS-esque categorizations of quality shown on DVD-R discs. Maybe it's under the same assumption as those who use DVD Shrink to get a dual layer disc to fit on a single layer disc and not think that any quality at all was lost.
I think I the minigames were in 4-6, but I'm not sure Keen Dreams had it. Its menu interface was different than Keens 4-6, and actually was nearly identical to another EGA Softdisk game, Rescue Rover.
With a -85C ambient temperature, think of how much you could overclock your Athlons...
I remember a forum post somewhere a while ago (from the pre GHz days) of some guy in Ohio during the winter who overclocked his computer to a ridiculously high settting and set it up outdoors. He called it the "Snow Bunny". According to the guy, it made it to the desktop and ran for a while.
In other news, internet ad agencies that are fed up with popup blockers in the newest generation of web browsers are adopting technology originating from children's popout books in their new campaign for traditional magazine advertising.
Once you realized that when you picked up that 'too good to be true' item, you'd be blitzed by ten monsters suddenly spawning, it got old REAL quick.
I didn't really witness too much of that. If you want to see a real pain in the ass, try Serious Sam. A mere +2 health vial will cause about 300 monsters to spawn and attack you.
As for trying to be too much like Doom 2, I wish it actually was more like Doom 1 or 2, but instead you get closed, dark areas, overly difficult monsters, and few scenery changes.
Well, was posting to provide a link to the infamous C-Note video just to joke about voice chat. Of course, I'd hate to socialize with the guy in the video in real life.
Someone should conduct a survey on why people keep coming back to Slashdot for mod points, doing meta moderating to get mod points, and post comments that earn mod points.
For me, it's because I'm working long hours being the IT version of the Maytag repairman. It's just one thing to keep me occupied while I ensure systems stay up. Before I worked this job, I couldn't have cared less about getting an account here.
Trust me, in school, we had enough of Macs. It's all most schools had in CA if you were lucky enough to have those instead of Apple// computers. Where students could have been learning real skills for future workplaces which most likely use PCs instead of screwing around with Hypercard. Not that intuitive learning on computers was ever encouraged anyway; nobody dared getting ahead of the instructor when they were teaching.
It should be Software Developers patching their Software for new versions of the OS if they break not the other way round.
Even better would be the software developers not putting artificial restrictions to prevent installing on older operating systems (Adobe, I'm looking in your direction). Not to mention that Doom 3 runs just fine in Windows 98 if you merely hex edit the 16 bits of plain text from the last two letters of "GlobalMemoryStatusEx" to 0x00, 0x00.
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I believe Skies of Arcadia did originally come on two discs. The trick was that it was compressed in a manner that was transparent to the game. The only penalty was slightly longer load time.
Or, maybe they'll start using some sort of caddy...
*click*.....*click*.......*click*...
Damn...
Nice troll. Mod up :)
Oh, my 96 CD wallet of Dreamcast *coughbackups* is about full. Someone help me buy another one.
And it worked so well, you didn't even need a mod chip. Seriously, most games were less than 700 MB anyway, but if they did exceed it, the data could just be compressed, with only a small load time penalty in-game to show for it.
Yes, that allows a lot of bloat for computer applications. Windows anyone? Sorry.
It's not just Windows. I can't even get SuSE 9.1 Personal below 2 GB. For one thing, it likes to find very weird places to hide temp files permanently (does that make sense?)
Disclaimer: SuSE is my favorite Linux distro
Let's see, it took seven years for affordable DVD writing, and dual layer discs are still either unavailible or expensive to the asinine degree. Prepare to wait a while.
Next month Sony plans to announce a 200GB 8-layer version of BD-ROM according to MacWorld."
Today is November 5, 2006, and in today's news, angry video store owners with pitchforks are lined up in front of Sony's front doors.
Kids will love these discs.
I, also, have never understood the discreet VHS-esque categorizations of quality shown on DVD-R discs. Maybe it's under the same assumption as those who use DVD Shrink to get a dual layer disc to fit on a single layer disc and not think that any quality at all was lost.
Hey, it worked for Super Nintendo.
"32 megabits! Cool!"
I think I the minigames were in 4-6, but I'm not sure Keen Dreams had it. Its menu interface was different than Keens 4-6, and actually was nearly identical to another EGA Softdisk game, Rescue Rover.
Warning: one of the photos contains somebody in a furry suit.
There, that oughta help throttle back the server, at least for somethingawful.com types who might be viewing the page.
With a -85C ambient temperature, think of how much you could overclock your Athlons...
I remember a forum post somewhere a while ago (from the pre GHz days) of some guy in Ohio during the winter who overclocked his computer to a ridiculously high settting and set it up outdoors. He called it the "Snow Bunny". According to the guy, it made it to the desktop and ran for a while.
"The Thing from another world", or just "The Thing"
Or yet another video game that's been defiled by the use of Cam Clarke's voice.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Anybody find it a bit ironic that I'm getting this message on an article about a telescope?
How about the bottom of my birdcage?
Damn, it was a challenge to be a messy slob before. Now we have to compete with budgies that post to Slashdot!
I agree with this guy; carriage returns are overrated.
Mechanic: "Well, how the hell am I supposed to change the oil if you don't have a car?.....Oh, I get it. You guys are do-it-yourselfers."
Butt-head: "Uhh...Beavis is a do-it-yourselfer."
Oh, this is print?
In other news, internet ad agencies that are fed up with popup blockers in the newest generation of web browsers are adopting technology originating from children's popout books in their new campaign for traditional magazine advertising.
user@localhost>make o'reilly
No rule to make target 'o'reilly'. Stop.
Fuck. Not for me, I guess.
Once you realized that when you picked up that 'too good to be true' item, you'd be blitzed by ten monsters suddenly spawning, it got old REAL quick.
I didn't really witness too much of that. If you want to see a real pain in the ass, try Serious Sam. A mere +2 health vial will cause about 300 monsters to spawn and attack you.
As for trying to be too much like Doom 2, I wish it actually was more like Doom 1 or 2, but instead you get closed, dark areas, overly difficult monsters, and few scenery changes.
Well, was posting to provide a link to the infamous C-Note video just to joke about voice chat. Of course, I'd hate to socialize with the guy in the video in real life.
Even with voice chat, I think it's less social when someone spends too much time looking for "ma bazooka!"
Someone should conduct a survey on why people keep coming back to Slashdot for mod points, doing meta moderating to get mod points, and post comments that earn mod points.
For me, it's because I'm working long hours being the IT version of the Maytag repairman. It's just one thing to keep me occupied while I ensure systems stay up. Before I worked this job, I couldn't have cared less about getting an account here.
Trust me, in school, we had enough of Macs. It's all most schools had in CA if you were lucky enough to have those instead of Apple // computers. Where students could have been learning real skills for future workplaces which most likely use PCs instead of screwing around with Hypercard. Not that intuitive learning on computers was ever encouraged anyway; nobody dared getting ahead of the instructor when they were teaching.
It should be Software Developers patching their Software for new versions of the OS if they break not the other way round.
Even better would be the software developers not putting artificial restrictions to prevent installing on older operating systems (Adobe, I'm looking in your direction). Not to mention that Doom 3 runs just fine in Windows 98 if you merely hex edit the 16 bits of plain text from the last two letters of "GlobalMemoryStatusEx" to 0x00, 0x00.