Mod parent up. I've resurrected several old (Win95/98 era) PCs around the house with LFS. Only downside is you'd be compiling for dozens of hours, if not days on those rigs. Of course, you could always cross-compile from a modern PC.
Likewise. I paid $10 - Devs 100% although I do realize that the bundle is worth far more. It was an unplanned purchase on my part. Lots of expenses this month. I would have gladly shelled out $30-$40 if this was an on-going offer instead of just several days. I have a feeling a number of people share my sentiments. In any case, the experiment appears to be a smashing success, in terms of demonstrating that this is a workable business model and that a number of people want to see more quality games on Linux.
Thanks man. Once went through a somewhat similar situation to the poster you replied to. Read all the other replies. Yes even those who were being jerks about it. It all makes sense now. Didn't actually think I'd find great advice on stuff like this on/.
I would like to see someone use it to create a Linux gaming CD with popular open source games on it, to help convert the GameHeads to Linux from Windows.
This may be an imperfect analogy, but just like 1E AD&D, you'd be like a strong, high-level Magic-User (with a high Strength score) who'd be shifting to Fighter. If need be, you could always go and cast those spells that would save the day. If I were party-leader, I'd pick you over a regular Fighter.
With music, the stuff that really matter to me, the musicians I really like, e.g. U2, Def Leppard, etc. I still buy the physical CD even though I could just as easily buy the digital versions from the comfort of my room. Not only am I a completist, I am a fan of those bands. My "B-class" bands or one-hit wonders, yeah I do buy the digital versions.
Same principle with games. I've been waiting for StarCraft II, Diablo III, etc. Even if I could get them digitally (if offered), I'd still buy them from the local store when they come out. I've gladly paid a premium for the physical copies of the games I really like over the years. Not just for the nostalgia, but also to support our local store.
I guess its not just 'where', but who you live with. A lot of posters have said that living in picture-perfect, tranquil, warm, less-populated places would give them better moods. Living with a bitchy/unreasonable spouse and noisy kids, like what a poster said a few comments up will make all the difference regardless of where you live. Given a choice between an unpleasant place with nice people and the other way around, I'd almost certainly choose the latter.
Does anyone remember Matrix Layout (which later became Objects Layout) from the early 90s? You made flowcharts from ready-made blackboxes. The whole thing was drag and drop. It was pretty impressive during the days of DOS. You had a choice of generating EXEs, or C++, Pascal and BASIC (if you wanted to fine-tune your code). An ad in Byte magazine read: "Not a single damn line of code ever again!" And I had thought back then that the days of mainstream coding would be over by the next decade.
The same could be said, and in fact could be more true with Microsoft:
Listen, and understand. That Microsoft is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
i used to listen to mp3s while programming on my first linux box , and that was a pentium 166mhz with 64mb of ram.....kernel 2.2.dontknow, can you guys tell me where 1.6ghz of processor with usb/wifi/bluetooth/1gb of ram/3d accelerated graphics is stone age? i wonder why they allow this kind of bullshit to reach slashdot's front page T__T
That's true. I did pretty much the same thing on a 128 MB Celeron 366. I programmed on it, surfed, listened to my mp3s. (It got a bit sluggish then but got the job done.) I played Q3 on it at 1024x768 - well I had a Riva TNT2 card. Sure, you won't be playing Crysis on a typical netbook anytime soon (except maybe on an Asus N10, albeit slowly) but calling it stone age tech is a bit of a stretch.
$1800? That's pretty pricey for those specs in 1999. I got my Celeron 366, 1x4GB HD, 32 MB RAM, 4 MB SiS Graphics Card for a little under $500 in 1999. I do get your point though. Things are cheap these days you could build a decent gaming rig for that amount.
Why not read the reviews? Or ask people who've played them if they're any good? Or you could test drive them (full versions) yourself at a friend's house. Works for me.
Yes it does go both ways. I have a list like yours but one of my favorite examples is HOMM. I downloaded the demo for HOMM2 on a whim around half a decade ago. (Even by then it was already pretty dated.) It had a single large map but like Diablo, the placement of monsters, treasures were different each time. Plus you could set the difficult level, etc so no two games were alike. In theory, that would have been "more than enough" as an earlier poster had said. Heck, I wasn't even into that genre but somehow, I got hooked! I promptly got out and got the HOMM Platinum Edition that had HOMM 1, 2 & 3 plus expansion packs for about $39. (Same with StarCraft 1, KKND2.)
Demos that were "enough" for me were American McGee's Alice, Sacrifice, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, etc. Didn't go out to buy the full versions. Well, that's just me. Its a matter of taste.
I have the GalCiv demo and I most probably will buy the full version.
In short, I think the net effect of demos is more positive than negative on sales. I don't download every single demo that comes out. Sometimes, I just read the reviews and make a decision based on that. (Didn't get Spore or RA3.)
And demo or not, I'm definitely getting StarCraft 2!
War of Conquest has a similar model. Its free, but you can buy upgrades, items, tech, etc. They even give out points that you convert to either cash or buy more items, tech, etc.
Absolutely nostalgic. Myspace turned out www.freediskspace.com. Friendster had four results. Spore turned out Spatially Oriented Research in Ecology. Hmmm. I'd give anything for a temporal search engine that can search the future.
Has anybody had experience with Trygames.com? They don't have the latest and the greatest, but they got Civ IV, Warhammer 40k, Supreme Commander, World in Conflict, Shogun, etc. Also classics like the Might and Magic Series plus a ton of casual games. I'm not sure if their games have DRM.
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Mod parent up. I've resurrected several old (Win95/98 era) PCs around the house with LFS. Only downside is you'd be compiling for dozens of hours, if not days on those rigs. Of course, you could always cross-compile from a modern PC.
Likewise. I paid $10 - Devs 100% although I do realize that the bundle is worth far more. It was an unplanned purchase on my part. Lots of expenses this month. I would have gladly shelled out $30-$40 if this was an on-going offer instead of just several days. I have a feeling a number of people share my sentiments. In any case, the experiment appears to be a smashing success, in terms of demonstrating that this is a workable business model and that a number of people want to see more quality games on Linux.
By then, we'd be playing DNF on ReactOS or Hurd 3.0, running on our mega-core phones.
It already did 10 years ago. It will launch from Macross Island before the year is over, when the Zentraedi fleet attacks.
Thanks man. Once went through a somewhat similar situation to the poster you replied to. Read all the other replies. Yes even those who were being jerks about it. It all makes sense now. Didn't actually think I'd find great advice on stuff like this on /.
Sounds great! I'll download it and try to run it in a VM.
I would like to see someone use it to create a Linux gaming CD with popular open source games on it, to help convert the GameHeads to Linux from Windows.
This is one of the best I've seen so far.
This may be an imperfect analogy, but just like 1E AD&D, you'd be like a strong, high-level Magic-User (with a high Strength score) who'd be shifting to Fighter. If need be, you could always go and cast those spells that would save the day. If I were party-leader, I'd pick you over a regular Fighter.
With music, the stuff that really matter to me, the musicians I really like, e.g. U2, Def Leppard, etc. I still buy the physical CD even though I could just as easily buy the digital versions from the comfort of my room. Not only am I a completist, I am a fan of those bands. My "B-class" bands or one-hit wonders, yeah I do buy the digital versions.
Same principle with games. I've been waiting for StarCraft II, Diablo III, etc. Even if I could get them digitally (if offered), I'd still buy them from the local store when they come out. I've gladly paid a premium for the physical copies of the games I really like over the years. Not just for the nostalgia, but also to support our local store.
Oops. Yeah, the former. My bad.
I guess its not just 'where', but who you live with. A lot of posters have said that living in picture-perfect, tranquil, warm, less-populated places would give them better moods. Living with a bitchy/unreasonable spouse and noisy kids, like what a poster said a few comments up will make all the difference regardless of where you live. Given a choice between an unpleasant place with nice people and the other way around, I'd almost certainly choose the latter.
Does anyone remember Matrix Layout (which later became Objects Layout) from the early 90s? You made flowcharts from ready-made blackboxes. The whole thing was drag and drop. It was pretty impressive during the days of DOS. You had a choice of generating EXEs, or C++, Pascal and BASIC (if you wanted to fine-tune your code). An ad in Byte magazine read: "Not a single damn line of code ever again!" And I had thought back then that the days of mainstream coding would be over by the next decade.
Crysis on Maximum settings ON Vista Ultimate!
The same could be said, and in fact could be more true with Microsoft:
Listen, and understand. That Microsoft is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
i used to listen to mp3s while programming on my first linux box , and that was a pentium 166mhz with 64mb of ram.....kernel 2.2.dontknow, can you guys tell me where 1.6ghz of processor with usb/wifi/bluetooth/1gb of ram/3d accelerated graphics is stone age? i wonder why they allow this kind of bullshit to reach slashdot's front page T__T
That's true. I did pretty much the same thing on a 128 MB Celeron 366. I programmed on it, surfed, listened to my mp3s. (It got a bit sluggish then but got the job done.) I played Q3 on it at 1024x768 - well I had a Riva TNT2 card. Sure, you won't be playing Crysis on a typical netbook anytime soon (except maybe on an Asus N10, albeit slowly) but calling it stone age tech is a bit of a stretch.
$1800? That's pretty pricey for those specs in 1999. I got my Celeron 366, 1x4GB HD, 32 MB RAM, 4 MB SiS Graphics Card for a little under $500 in 1999. I do get your point though. Things are cheap these days you could build a decent gaming rig for that amount.
3. Think carefully about whether you'd really like to inflict Windows XP and Compaq hardware on a new generation of students.
This sort of reminds me of Jason X...
Why not read the reviews? Or ask people who've played them if they're any good? Or you could test drive them (full versions) yourself at a friend's house. Works for me.
Yes it does go both ways. I have a list like yours but one of my favorite examples is HOMM. I downloaded the demo for HOMM2 on a whim around half a decade ago. (Even by then it was already pretty dated.) It had a single large map but like Diablo, the placement of monsters, treasures were different each time. Plus you could set the difficult level, etc so no two games were alike. In theory, that would have been "more than enough" as an earlier poster had said. Heck, I wasn't even into that genre but somehow, I got hooked! I promptly got out and got the HOMM Platinum Edition that had HOMM 1, 2 & 3 plus expansion packs for about $39. (Same with StarCraft 1, KKND2.)
Demos that were "enough" for me were American McGee's Alice, Sacrifice, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, etc. Didn't go out to buy the full versions. Well, that's just me. Its a matter of taste.
I have the GalCiv demo and I most probably will buy the full version.
In short, I think the net effect of demos is more positive than negative on sales. I don't download every single demo that comes out. Sometimes, I just read the reviews and make a decision based on that. (Didn't get Spore or RA3.)
And demo or not, I'm definitely getting StarCraft 2!
I think this might be a good start.
I haven't finished Ultima ][ yet, you insensitive clod! I hate you.
War of Conquest has a similar model. Its free, but you can buy upgrades, items, tech, etc. They even give out points that you convert to either cash or buy more items, tech, etc.
Absolutely nostalgic. Myspace turned out www.freediskspace.com. Friendster had four results. Spore turned out Spatially Oriented Research in Ecology. Hmmm. I'd give anything for a temporal search engine that can search the future.
Has anybody had experience with Trygames.com? They don't have the latest and the greatest, but they got Civ IV, Warhammer 40k, Supreme Commander, World in Conflict, Shogun, etc. Also classics like the Might and Magic Series plus a ton of casual games. I'm not sure if their games have DRM.
I'm using a 71.86.04 driver (released last January 2008) for my Riva TNT2 on an old PII-366. Works pretty fine on a vanilla 2.4.x kernel.