That's the main reason I'm interested in it. A lot of those old games will run too fast on modern hardware (if they run at all), and finding old enough hardware that runs well enough and will continue to be reliable is getting more and more difficult. A VM + FreeDOS seems like a good solution to me, though I suppose DOSBox would work too.
The crashing's not an issue, it's an accurate reproduction of the official Flash player!
Seriously, the official one locks up my browser on a regular basis, so the main question for me with regards to gnash is "what official version is it equal to in compatibility?"
How is gnash, by the way? I'm currently using the proprietary Flash player with a 32-bit browser on my AMD64 Linux machine and not only does using a non-free player leave a bad taste in my mouth, but it's really not very good. On the other hand, the last Free player I used was stuck at version 4. Any significant change since then?
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That's the dream, but from what I've heard the reality is that it's not any more Windows-compatible than WINE is, and with Vista coming out soon it may become largely irrelevant.
Picture some piece of trailer trash stumbling out of his Airstream in the middle of the day with a bottle of whiskey in one hand and bruised knuckles on the other from punching his wife. What do you picture this guy wearing? Most people would probably picture a white tank top undershirt, possibly covered in stains from spilled food and liquor, which is where the association comes from. It was something that "white trash" would wear alone (most other people would wear them as undershirts), but now they're popular and they bring the white trash wife-beater association with them.
Funny addition to that: Henry Rollins says that the man most responsible for Straight Edge was actually Ted Nugent. Back before Henry, Ian, and their friends knew about punk, they would go to arena rock shows, and the Nuge was apparently the craziest rocker around at the time. To top it off, he swore that he didn't do drugs or drink, so the boys figure that if he could rock that hard without booze or drugs, then they didn't need to do them either.
Tell me it's not at least a little funny to think of Ian MacKaye's philosophy as descended from Ted Nugent.
I've got one, and I'm pretty happy with it. Right now it's got a pretty good number of emulators running at or near full speed (the Genesis emulator in particular is great, and there's a very accurate PC Engine emulator that just hit 1.0 that does most games full speed with sound). Some emulators are still coming along though, which should be expected somewhat with a machine that's only about 6 or 7 months old. There are also some pretty good "interpreters" out for it (ports of Doom, Commander Keen, Quake, and Duke3D are all notable.) Batteries are a bit of a sore spot for some people, but if you can get your hands on some good 2500mAh NiMH rechargeables, you can expect about 5-6 hours per pair. Not great, but better than a PSP's battery life and you can swap them out when they die. Like I said, I'm happy with mine but it's got its quirks so it's not for everyone. Do a bit of googling and find out if it's for you.
Porting stuff is easy because it's Linux + SDL for the most part. Optimising is the tricky part, and at the moment the second processor in the unit is mostly useless (at least as far as emulation goes) because it has no MMU and a very small cache. It's a fairly capable machine though and I'm pretty happy with mine.
Then you wind up with the same thing that happens when movies aren't submitted for ratings. They get a "de facto" adult only rating hardly any theatres will run them. If 3D Realms decided not to submit DNF to the ESRB, large mainstream retailers would refuse to carry it and sales would suffer horribly as a result.
cd has its own man page. I just tested this on the Solaris machine I connect to at work, and I have little doubt that it would be the same on my Linux and BSD machines at home.
Original GBA cases also work great. My gf got me one a while back but when I got my DS I didn't have much use for it (the DS was only slightly too big.) The GP2X fits right in there, though, and there's even room for a cardreader, extra SD cards, and a spare set of batteries.
It's funny that you mention all of Atari's attempts to turn their consoles into computers since they were actually fairly successful as a computer company at the time. You'd think they'd have done a better job of it with their consoles.
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Actually, I think that reinforces the GP's point. For the most part they're unobtrusive, they're not in your face screaming at you "CLICKME!CLICKME!CLICKME!CLICKME!", they just present the name of whatever it is you're after and a couple of quick lines about it, and yet people click through them like crazy. It was relevant to what they were after and caught their interest. Why the fuck, then, are we being subjected to irritating obnoxious ads everywhere we look when Google's are so effective?
I get by just fine with 256MB of RAM on my PC. More is always nice but it's not like I have anything that refuses to run, except for Eclipse (which doesn't so much "refuse to run" as grind my computer to a screeching halt).
Ubuntu does this. To the left of the point is the year and to the right is the month of release. "Breezy", which I'm using right now, is 5.10 or October, 2005. It seems like a good system to me, once you're out of the alpha/beta stages.
To quote Jerry Holkins, "This would be great if I were buying it with money I used to have, or perhaps spending valuable, inflation adjusted 'Future Bucks.'"
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I'm not familiar with the technical specifics of different kinds of flash memory either, but I'm fairly sure it's because 99% of everything else on the market uses either CF or SD, so the Memory Stick reeks of a Sony cash grab. It doesn't really do anything special and Sony's the only company supporting it.
As TFA article states, saying it's in CVS isn't a useful answer to the end user.
Actually, I think the big problem here is more an issue of semantics than anything. To someone like me, "it's in CVS" means that it will probably be in the next release, but if I'm desperate or I can't wait, I can grab the code and give it a go myself. To Joe User, it's got the rude connotations of OSS snobbery. He wants it fixed and he wants it done now, not at the next point in the release cycle. The same problems exist with proprietary/commercial software, but I think the author singles out OSS because the closer relationships there between users and devs makes it more personal when you're told to either wait or fix it yourself. It's not a form letter from a PR department, it's a real person and his or her response feels like a he's insulting you, or at best blowing you off. You're right that there's no simple solution, because users will always want it NOW! NOW! NOW! and developers have to work within the real-world constraints of their projects, but perhaps more diplomatic language could bridge the gap a bit.
I'm just posting to echo another post about screenshots for Blitzkreig Onslaught. I don't have a 770 but it would be nice to see what the game looks like. You've got some neat apps on that page though, they've piqued my interest in the 770.:)
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That's the main reason I'm interested in it. A lot of those old games will run too fast on modern hardware (if they run at all), and finding old enough hardware that runs well enough and will continue to be reliable is getting more and more difficult. A VM + FreeDOS seems like a good solution to me, though I suppose DOSBox would work too.
The crashing's not an issue, it's an accurate reproduction of the official Flash player!
Seriously, the official one locks up my browser on a regular basis, so the main question for me with regards to gnash is "what official version is it equal to in compatibility?"
How is gnash, by the way? I'm currently using the proprietary Flash player with a 32-bit browser on my AMD64 Linux machine and not only does using a non-free player leave a bad taste in my mouth, but it's really not very good. On the other hand, the last Free player I used was stuck at version 4. Any significant change since then?
That's the dream, but from what I've heard the reality is that it's not any more Windows-compatible than WINE is, and with Vista coming out soon it may become largely irrelevant.
Based on the title, I actually thought this article was going to have something to do with the sex scenes in the European version of Indigo Prophecy.
Picture some piece of trailer trash stumbling out of his Airstream in the middle of the day with a bottle of whiskey in one hand and bruised knuckles on the other from punching his wife. What do you picture this guy wearing? Most people would probably picture a white tank top undershirt, possibly covered in stains from spilled food and liquor, which is where the association comes from. It was something that "white trash" would wear alone (most other people would wear them as undershirts), but now they're popular and they bring the white trash wife-beater association with them.
Funny addition to that: Henry Rollins says that the man most responsible for Straight Edge was actually Ted Nugent. Back before Henry, Ian, and their friends knew about punk, they would go to arena rock shows, and the Nuge was apparently the craziest rocker around at the time. To top it off, he swore that he didn't do drugs or drink, so the boys figure that if he could rock that hard without booze or drugs, then they didn't need to do them either.
Tell me it's not at least a little funny to think of Ian MacKaye's philosophy as descended from Ted Nugent.
I've got one, and I'm pretty happy with it. Right now it's got a pretty good number of emulators running at or near full speed (the Genesis emulator in particular is great, and there's a very accurate PC Engine emulator that just hit 1.0 that does most games full speed with sound). Some emulators are still coming along though, which should be expected somewhat with a machine that's only about 6 or 7 months old. There are also some pretty good "interpreters" out for it (ports of Doom, Commander Keen, Quake, and Duke3D are all notable.) Batteries are a bit of a sore spot for some people, but if you can get your hands on some good 2500mAh NiMH rechargeables, you can expect about 5-6 hours per pair. Not great, but better than a PSP's battery life and you can swap them out when they die. Like I said, I'm happy with mine but it's got its quirks so it's not for everyone. Do a bit of googling and find out if it's for you.
Porting stuff is easy because it's Linux + SDL for the most part. Optimising is the tricky part, and at the moment the second processor in the unit is mostly useless (at least as far as emulation goes) because it has no MMU and a very small cache. It's a fairly capable machine though and I'm pretty happy with mine.
Then you wind up with the same thing that happens when movies aren't submitted for ratings. They get a "de facto" adult only rating hardly any theatres will run them. If 3D Realms decided not to submit DNF to the ESRB, large mainstream retailers would refuse to carry it and sales would suffer horribly as a result.
cd has its own man page. I just tested this on the Solaris machine I connect to at work, and I have little doubt that it would be the same on my Linux and BSD machines at home.
The articles you linked to are both fairly old. The "scientific doubts" one in particular refers to a technique that TFA states Allerca didn't use.
Original GBA cases also work great. My gf got me one a while back but when I got my DS I didn't have much use for it (the DS was only slightly too big.) The GP2X fits right in there, though, and there's even room for a cardreader, extra SD cards, and a spare set of batteries.
I manage to do lots of things with the 256MB of RAM in my computer. More is always nice but I really haven't run into a problem yet.
It's funny that you mention all of Atari's attempts to turn their consoles into computers since they were actually fairly successful as a computer company at the time. You'd think they'd have done a better job of it with their consoles.
Actually, I think that reinforces the GP's point. For the most part they're unobtrusive, they're not in your face screaming at you "CLICKME!CLICKME!CLICKME!CLICKME!", they just present the name of whatever it is you're after and a couple of quick lines about it, and yet people click through them like crazy. It was relevant to what they were after and caught their interest. Why the fuck, then, are we being subjected to irritating obnoxious ads everywhere we look when Google's are so effective?
I get by just fine with 256MB of RAM on my PC. More is always nice but it's not like I have anything that refuses to run, except for Eclipse (which doesn't so much "refuse to run" as grind my computer to a screeching halt).
If a Vaio was my only exposure to PCs I'd claim I don't need a PC anymore either.
Ubuntu does this. To the left of the point is the year and to the right is the month of release. "Breezy", which I'm using right now, is 5.10 or October, 2005. It seems like a good system to me, once you're out of the alpha/beta stages.
You've got it backwards. AGS is gratis (free as in beer), not libre (free as in speech).
By the way, there are also Free implementations of AGI and SCI available, as well as a development studio for making SCI games.
To quote Jerry Holkins, "This would be great if I were buying it with money I used to have, or perhaps spending valuable, inflation adjusted 'Future Bucks.'"
I'm not familiar with the technical specifics of different kinds of flash memory either, but I'm fairly sure it's because 99% of everything else on the market uses either CF or SD, so the Memory Stick reeks of a Sony cash grab. It doesn't really do anything special and Sony's the only company supporting it.
As TFA article states, saying it's in CVS isn't a useful answer to the end user.
Actually, I think the big problem here is more an issue of semantics than anything. To someone like me, "it's in CVS" means that it will probably be in the next release, but if I'm desperate or I can't wait, I can grab the code and give it a go myself. To Joe User, it's got the rude connotations of OSS snobbery. He wants it fixed and he wants it done now, not at the next point in the release cycle. The same problems exist with proprietary/commercial software, but I think the author singles out OSS because the closer relationships there between users and devs makes it more personal when you're told to either wait or fix it yourself. It's not a form letter from a PR department, it's a real person and his or her response feels like a he's insulting you, or at best blowing you off. You're right that there's no simple solution, because users will always want it NOW! NOW! NOW! and developers have to work within the real-world constraints of their projects, but perhaps more diplomatic language could bridge the gap a bit.
I'm just posting to echo another post about screenshots for Blitzkreig Onslaught. I don't have a 770 but it would be nice to see what the game looks like. You've got some neat apps on that page though, they've piqued my interest in the 770. :)