There _ARE_ USB adapters for pretty much everything
Neither of the links you gave are even close to proving with that statement.
Second, the Amiga thread doesn't have any... conclusion. I've only looked in to hooking up the Amiga drive so far and I've read that exact same thread already.
My reply here was just to point out that there are not usb adapters for pretty much everything.
I actually started digging around just last week for a way to get my data off my old Amiga and Commodore 128 disks.
For the Amiga I turned up this gem. It's basically instructions to build a piece of hardware that will plug the Amiga floppy drive's (23-pin?) connector in to a parallel port. If you still have a parallel port.
So like you said, I'd better hope that old floppy drive still works. If it does though, then I can rely on the huge processing power and storage increases since Amiga's heyday to pack off all those old disk images and fire up the emulator.
The interesting conclusion, to me, is that if I'd tried to copy these disks over shortly after retiring that old computer, the hardware interface would be easier but the disk images would have been large and unwieldy compared to hard drives available at the time. And there'd be no way to use the files because there wasn't a fast emulator available.
Agree with your points but I might have some practical insight for your situation.
First (sorry I have to say it) Wine is not an emulator. Really. It doesn't emulate the Windows API, it is an implementation of the Windows API.
That said, OpenGL should be faster than D3D. I'm pretty sure the implementation of D3D in Wine just doesn't use all the available graphics hardware. That's just a guess but everything else I've read (and my own experience with WoW on Linux) has shown OpenGL is faster. Maybe spend more time tweaking the graphics settings.
Second, I'd like to know (out of curiosity) how long ago it was you switched to Linux on the laptop. Shattrath can be really hard on the graphics card. Your laptop probably has 256MB dedicated to graphics but it's most likely not as fast as a dedicated card is.
I have a Windows XP laptop that used to run WoW okay. I have a Linux desktop that used to run WoW okay. Since Burning Crusade performance went downhill. Then I got a 512MB nVidia 8500GT graphics card for the desktop and performance is much better. Framerates vary, but I'm happy with it at 1280x1024.
The single-core problem is interesting. My desktop is dual-core and I sometimes see WoW taking at 100% utilization, which I guess is of one core.
Yeah I did that for one of my toons but it becomes a pain when you take several days to finish the quests around some remote town in Kalimdor. You end up spending a lot of time on the gryphon.
I can kind of get what you're saying. My main is a 70 mage and it took me about a year and a half to get there. Almost exclusively solo questing. I was mid-40s when TBC came out so I missed the rush while the rest of my guild was leveling for 70.
Now looking at getting one of my other toons that range from 30-45 up to 70 seems like a lot of effort. That is to say, getting one up there fast. Leveling my druid is actually a lot of fun when I have the time for it. Thinking about how long it will be before she's 70 (or 80) is a little frustrating.
I don't think it speeds your character up (although it's definitely doable it should also be easy to detect).
Blizzard is making changes that make it easier to get place to place but it takes time and effort. They've added a lot of new flight paths since I started (a couple years ago). They've added a couple teleport mechanics. In the new expansion (Wrath of the Lich King) they'll make travel to the new area easy from a major city. Apparently a side-effect of this will also make it easier for low-level characters to get from continent to continent.
As for travel speed they recently reduced the level requirement for mounts from 40 to 30. They also reduced experience requirements for getting from level 20 up to 60 (and with the next expansion they'll make 60 to 70 progression faster).
Balancing is still a trick though since people enjoy the challenges that come with leveling and one of those challenges is, oddly enough, organizing where to be in order to finish quests quickly.
okay... gonna go blog instead of rambling on forever...
Interesting ideas. More eyes might improve things. And having a place where you can play with your bot friends really reduces the people using bots on the "no-bot" servers to just cheaters.
I think a large part of the griefers are people who have power-levelled
I think that's just a reflection of a desire to vilify the 70 jackass that keeps ganking your level 34 toon in STV. Just as likely that 70 is the main of the 34 toon you killed 20 minutes ago. Or his buddy.
Great. I can have an NPC ask me to spell the word in the picture. Sounds like a great addition to the game. Now if only I could buy a program that sent those off to someone else to answer so I wouldn't have to...
That's the one thing I don't like about my new Nokia e51. It checks all the other feature boxes for me (unlocked, microsd, camera, wifi, voip, bluetooth, 3rd party apps) but not that one. Thankfully there are USB chargers for it that are cheap and small and one is speeding to my house from Hong Kong as I type. I really don't get why the built-in USB port on the phone can't be used for charging.
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I wish they all would... Imagine that, only advertising products that you're selling.
Here's one.
I'll save you the trouble of searching. Here's the one I've seen.
Fist off, the post I'm replying to says
There _ARE_ USB adapters for pretty much everything
Neither of the links you gave are even close to proving with that statement.
Second, the Amiga thread doesn't have any... conclusion. I've only looked in to hooking up the Amiga drive so far and I've read that exact same thread already.
My reply here was just to point out that there are not usb adapters for pretty much everything.
I actually started digging around just last week for a way to get my data off my old Amiga and Commodore 128 disks.
For the Amiga I turned up this gem. It's basically instructions to build a piece of hardware that will plug the Amiga floppy drive's (23-pin?) connector in to a parallel port. If you still have a parallel port.
So like you said, I'd better hope that old floppy drive still works. If it does though, then I can rely on the huge processing power and storage increases since Amiga's heyday to pack off all those old disk images and fire up the emulator.
The interesting conclusion, to me, is that if I'd tried to copy these disks over shortly after retiring that old computer, the hardware interface would be easier but the disk images would have been large and unwieldy compared to hard drives available at the time. And there'd be no way to use the files because there wasn't a fast emulator available.
Okay, get me an adapter for my Amiga 3 1/2" drive and another one for my Commodore 1571 5.25" floppy drive.
And here, I believe, is a link to his guild.
Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware OpenGL doesn't work in the new patch. Mine must've switched to D3D and I didn't know it.
Agree with your points but I might have some practical insight for your situation.
First (sorry I have to say it) Wine is not an emulator. Really. It doesn't emulate the Windows API, it is an implementation of the Windows API.
That said, OpenGL should be faster than D3D. I'm pretty sure the implementation of D3D in Wine just doesn't use all the available graphics hardware. That's just a guess but everything else I've read (and my own experience with WoW on Linux) has shown OpenGL is faster. Maybe spend more time tweaking the graphics settings.
Second, I'd like to know (out of curiosity) how long ago it was you switched to Linux on the laptop. Shattrath can be really hard on the graphics card. Your laptop probably has 256MB dedicated to graphics but it's most likely not as fast as a dedicated card is.
I have a Windows XP laptop that used to run WoW okay. I have a Linux desktop that used to run WoW okay. Since Burning Crusade performance went downhill. Then I got a 512MB nVidia 8500GT graphics card for the desktop and performance is much better. Framerates vary, but I'm happy with it at 1280x1024.
The single-core problem is interesting. My desktop is dual-core and I sometimes see WoW taking at 100% utilization, which I guess is of one core.
Yeah I did that for one of my toons but it becomes a pain when you take several days to finish the quests around some remote town in Kalimdor. You end up spending a lot of time on the gryphon.
K, I can see that. Big time commitment still.
If that money cheat in the rts let you beat other people playing the rts. And camp their corpses.
lol - 7 of the 11 logololz are blood elves at http://www.wowarmory.com/search.xml?searchQuery=legololz&searchType=characters
In some cases they do. Here's the oblig. wikipedia reference.
You're going to level a few 40s up to 70 in a month and a half? PvE or PvP realm?
I can kind of get what you're saying. My main is a 70 mage and it took me about a year and a half to get there. Almost exclusively solo questing. I was mid-40s when TBC came out so I missed the rush while the rest of my guild was leveling for 70.
Now looking at getting one of my other toons that range from 30-45 up to 70 seems like a lot of effort. That is to say, getting one up there fast. Leveling my druid is actually a lot of fun when I have the time for it. Thinking about how long it will be before she's 70 (or 80) is a little frustrating.
I don't think it speeds your character up (although it's definitely doable it should also be easy to detect).
Blizzard is making changes that make it easier to get place to place but it takes time and effort. They've added a lot of new flight paths since I started (a couple years ago). They've added a couple teleport mechanics. In the new expansion (Wrath of the Lich King) they'll make travel to the new area easy from a major city. Apparently a side-effect of this will also make it easier for low-level characters to get from continent to continent.
As for travel speed they recently reduced the level requirement for mounts from 40 to 30. They also reduced experience requirements for getting from level 20 up to 60 (and with the next expansion they'll make 60 to 70 progression faster).
Balancing is still a trick though since people enjoy the challenges that come with leveling and one of those challenges is, oddly enough, organizing where to be in order to finish quests quickly.
okay... gonna go blog instead of rambling on forever...
I think a large part of the griefers are people who have power-levelled
I think that's just a reflection of a desire to vilify the 70 jackass that keeps ganking your level 34 toon in STV. Just as likely that 70 is the main of the 34 toon you killed 20 minutes ago. Or his buddy.
Great. I can have an NPC ask me to spell the word in the picture. Sounds like a great addition to the game. Now if only I could buy a program that sent those off to someone else to answer so I wouldn't have to...
The G1 will be SIM-locked to T-Mobile.
Dissapointed? Me too.
Point of order: I'd like to believe that most slashdotters don't shit in their sleep. Or if they do, I'd like to never ever think about it again.
Okay so you understand the question, now what's the answer?
That's the one thing I don't like about my new Nokia e51. It checks all the other feature boxes for me (unlocked, microsd, camera, wifi, voip, bluetooth, 3rd party apps) but not that one. Thankfully there are USB chargers for it that are cheap and small and one is speeding to my house from Hong Kong as I type. I really don't get why the built-in USB port on the phone can't be used for charging.
Hilarious but, sadly, not real. At least according to snopes.
I, for one, was eager to see the shelf with the exhumed barbie-head and rusty craftsman wrench.
Yeah but that's nothing new. That's the same as it's been for many years while Via did just fine.