This is nothing new, until the Windows platform completely wiped out the homegrown competition, we always had educational games in schools in the UK. Companies like Sherston, 4Mation and others released loads of 'games' for schools. Googling about now, I've found a few of the old-skool education games still knocking aroung (for example Granny's Garden), and some others that never seem to have made the jump from the 8 bit days (like Suburban Fox).
Some of the games that were created back in the 90s were very closely tied in with specific National Curiculum targets, and still manages to be quite fun to play - albeit made on quite a small budget, with the sort of money that EA has to throw at production, these new generation of education games could be really good.
And anyway, the rebels wipe out Endor by exploding a large metallic 'moon' in a low orbit. Thats gotta hurt! Red hot metal fragments and unexploded armoments raining down on the planet for a while.
There is more plot in the game(s) than in anything (computer based) that I've ever played. The plot builds and builds.
So yes, at the start you dont really have much of a clue whats going on, but as you play plot is passed to you in small pieces. (and the information absolutely necessary to move the game along is given for the slower amoungst us).
Diablo was fun, I'll grant you, but it was nethack with cool graphics.
Baldurs gate is a role playing gate, not a dungeon bash, I get the impression that RPGs with depth arent your cup of tea.
where, prey tell, did the 500J come from? Infact, where did most of your calculations come from. My understanding is that "1J = the energy needed to raise a weight of 1N to a height of 1m"
therefore if the weight (no newtons) is lowered then the amount of energy needed to raise the weight to the height is reduced.
And the comments about accelerating things to 10 meters per second is meaningless (unless you meant m/s^2 of course -- but then the figure dont add up anyway) unless you specify how quickly the body is brought up to that speed (ie, its acceleration).
That way leads to Tranny Riots!
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Amusing attitude, considering that this if being built in Wales. I doubt that they teach the Rebecca Riots in the US (Hell the dont even teach about them next door in England), but toll roads (which is what "the only people who paid for them were the ones that used them" means), have a problematic history in Wales.
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Mostly correct, but the Welsh, english and scottish have flags as well. And ours (Red dragon on a green field against a white sky) is the oldest still used flag in the world today -- not to mention the coolest looking one... boring geometric shapes pah!
5 BBC stations, and countless local fm/am stations. If you dont like the music Radio1 plays, you tune to a different station - just not a bbc one. Its not hard. So there is no reduced choice. Mostly crap music yes (UK/US/European most of its crap nowadays) but a huge choice of crap music, without adverts (Radio1) or with Adverts (Xfm/ChilternFM/Red dragon/Swansea Sound) just depending on where you are.
I think the Ark of the Covenant is in Ethiopia, not Turkey. A friend is trying to arrange a holiday to see it. Apparently they (the people that guard it) parade it around their village once a year.
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This is nothing new, until the Windows platform completely wiped out the homegrown competition, we always had educational games in schools in the UK. Companies like Sherston, 4Mation and others released loads of 'games' for schools. Googling about now, I've found a few of the old-skool education games still knocking aroung (for example Granny's Garden), and some others that never seem to have made the jump from the 8 bit days (like Suburban Fox).
Some of the games that were created back in the 90s were very closely tied in with specific National Curiculum targets, and still manages to be quite fun to play - albeit made on quite a small budget, with the sort of money that EA has to throw at production, these new generation of education games could be really good.
And the third was a reworking of a Dr Who script that he never got made.
That was harbouring terrorists.
Carpet-bombing-Afghanistan parallels anyone?
And anyway, the rebels wipe out Endor by exploding a large metallic 'moon' in a low orbit. Thats gotta hurt! Red hot metal fragments and unexploded armoments raining down on the planet for a while.
Those Ewoks are toast.
How far did you play?
There is more plot in the game(s) than in anything (computer based) that I've ever played. The plot builds and builds.
So yes, at the start you dont really have much of a clue whats going on, but as you play plot is passed to you in small pieces. (and the information absolutely necessary to move the game along is given for the slower amoungst us).
Diablo was fun, I'll grant you, but it was nethack with cool graphics.
Baldurs gate is a role playing gate, not a dungeon bash, I get the impression that RPGs with depth arent your cup of tea.
oh well.
Interesting physics...
where, prey tell, did the 500J come from? Infact, where did most of your calculations come from. My understanding is that "1J = the energy needed to raise a weight of 1N to a height of 1m"
therefore if the weight (no newtons) is lowered then the amount of energy needed to raise the weight to the height is reduced.
And the comments about accelerating things to 10 meters per second is meaningless (unless you meant m/s^2 of course -- but then the figure dont add up anyway) unless you specify how quickly the body is brought up to that speed (ie, its acceleration).
Gyroscopic problems, if memory serves.
Flywheels dont like going round corners.
Amusing attitude, considering that this if being built in Wales. I doubt that they teach the Rebecca Riots in the US (Hell the dont even teach about them next door in England), but toll roads (which is what "the only people who paid for them were the ones that used them" means), have a problematic history in Wales.
lol
epoc had enough trouble running on HC110s, so I dont want to think about older machines, and other OSs.
Imagine having to compile the kernel in TopSpeed.
Lucky that this project aint in England then huh?
Mostly correct, but the Welsh, english and scottish have flags as well. And ours (Red dragon on a green field against a white sky) is the oldest still used flag in the world today -- not to mention the coolest looking one... boring geometric shapes pah!
I think the people giving me relativity lectures a decade ago, would disagree with you there...
5 BBC stations, and countless local fm/am stations. If you dont like the music Radio1 plays, you tune to a different station - just not a bbc one. Its not hard. So there is no reduced choice. Mostly crap music yes (UK/US/European most of its crap nowadays) but a huge choice of crap music, without adverts (Radio1) or with Adverts (Xfm/ChilternFM/Red dragon/Swansea Sound) just depending on where you are.
They who? the afghani people? The red cross?
A few non-afghani terrorists commited a horrific act. The USA started a war.
didnt quite finish the text, he wrote "oh shit" if memory serves.
wasnt there one about a ray to turn white people black too?
'cept excalibar wasnt the sword from the stone. Why does everyone confuse the swords of arthur?
And from another post around here somewhere why would a british king have an irish named sword? I think a welsh/cornish name is far far more likely.
Price seems fair enough. Same price range as any other RISCOS machine. You want a quality UI you pay for it.
I think the Ark of the Covenant is in Ethiopia, not Turkey. A friend is trying to arrange a holiday to see it. Apparently they (the people that guard it) parade it around their village once a year.