I've mentioned this game before on slashdot I think. It was my first FPS experience and was immense fun to play with my brothers and sister. We even managed to play it with four people on one screen! But usually we would play it with two or three. One would use keyboard or joystick, the other two used mice. (We made something out of a cardboard box to separate the view of each player so you couldn't see what the others were doing).
It had great sound and music, good level design, great atmosphere(really scary in single player mode, you would walk around between these eggs and they would hatch after a while which made a disgusting sound, and suddenly you're face to face with a scary monster, we still mimick the sound these things made sometimes...) and great gameplay. You could pick up items from dead opponents, there were these blocks that you could move around to block certain pathways or to cross a stream, you could use mines, sentry guns, grenades (so you weren't save just around the corner), elevators, teleporters...
ah, as you can hear, just a perfect game! Unfortunately I never finished the single player mode since we didn't have the copy protection code...
other noteworthy games I played on amiga:
Supercars I & II Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge F18/A Hornet Turrican Armageddon Hunter Stunt Car Racer Wings of Fury North and South
I may not be as bright as some of you guys around here, but this doesn't make any sense.
gotta love Flasheart's way of saying this:
Flasheart: Now, I may be packing the kind of tackle that you'd normally expect to find swinging about between the hind legs of a grand national winner, but I'm not totally stupid.
actually, Holland was/is a region in the west of the Netherlands made up mostly by the provinces North- and South-Holland. Nowadays in the Netherlands and the rest of the world it has become more or less a synonym for the whole country, but if you call a Dutch from the south a 'Hollander' they will be insulted:)
ramdrives *and* ram? why bother? In the future we'll have a single memory storage which will be solid state and
fast enough to function as RAM and big enough to function as a HD. I'm so used to thinking about RAM and harddisks as separate things that it's even difficult to imagine for me.
although maybe there will always a tradeoff between memory size and speed, i don't know...
HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux. A Windows port is being worked on.
out of interest I tried HandBrake just now, it compiles fine under Linux but I believe it's only a command
line version at the moment....
hmmm, it seems *you* don't understand NAT: a pc behind a NAT router without firewall can't be reached from the outside unless ports are specifically forwarded to that pc. Packets belonging to an existing connection (which originated from the pc, obviously) *can* go through the firewall to the pc because the NAT router tracks the connections.
So the fact is that NAT without any firewall will already make a pc unreachable from the 'outside' and thus *will* help John Doe's pc be more secure against silly exploits in ssh/netbios/ftp/whatever daemons/services.
Of course it doesn't mean the NAT router itself has no open ports which are exploitable but most routers will only be reachable from within the local network by default nowadays anyway.
So the final list should be:
1. NAT+packet filter: NAT prevents some things from working, NAT *and* filter protects user.
2. packet filter: many things work, user is still protected.
3. NAT filter: pc unreachable, thus proteced. NAT prevents some things from working
project firestart on C64....
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that game scared the shit out of me and my brothers and sister. My younger brother would start to cry if we sang the theme that was played when you met the monsters, oh the memories... anyone else play this?
another scary and more recent one is System Shock II (haven't played the first one), at some point I even quit playing that game because it was to stressful....
well, the fans will wear out much faster if you always let them run at 3000 instead of 1000 rpms, so maybe that's the reason?
Although on my thinkpad the fan is almost always on doing between 3000 and 3600 RPM depending on the temperature, and it seems to be holding out fine for several years now so I'm surprised Apple didn't also do this.
Actually, I wouldn't buy a laptop that was too hot to put on my lap, no matter how much i'd like a macbook pro.
actually, there's three levels of cache in the opteron: L1 and L2 are CPU bound, L3 is shared.
They claim that this improves performance with virtualization
From the article: Barcelona uses a three-stage cache architecture. The L1 cache is 64KB, the L2 cache is 512KB and the L3 cache is 2MB. The L1 and L2 caches are dedicated to a particular core, while the L3 cache is shared among all cores. Note that the L3 cache has been engineered to be variable in size, so that different products may offer different L3 cache sizes. The L1 and L2 caches are exclusive, as with current Opterons and Athlon 64s. This means that the L1 and L2 cache don't hold copies of the same data.
an even bigger difference is that videogames are accessible to mostly everybody (if you have some money), young and old, fat and thin, etc.... while F1 is just for a happy few.
Of course only a few will be good enough to be able to compete on a national championship but at least everybody can
experience it and therefore relate more to it. If I watch F1 I can't really tell how difficult it is to do, I never
tried anything remotely similar, but if I see someone ruling a deathmatch I'll know how good he is...
this is good news, I was getting sick of the current method: sucking the brain out of aborted fetuses...
Hmmm, but will this still give me superpowers?
Try some games from the Rainbow Six series like Ravenshield where you'll be dead in one or two shots.
Especially in Lone Wolf mode where it's you alone against 30 terrorists, maybe in a big noisy environment like an oil refinery...
believe me, you'll be scared:)
just don't forget to have good audio setup or headphones to make it more immersive
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I've mentioned this game before on slashdot I think. It was my first FPS experience and was immense fun to play with my brothers and sister. We even managed to play it with four people on one screen! But usually we would play it with two or three. One would use keyboard or joystick, the other two used mice. (We made something out of a cardboard box to separate the view of each player so you couldn't see what the others were doing).
It had great sound and music, good level design, great atmosphere(really scary in single player mode, you would walk around between these eggs and they would hatch after a while which made a disgusting sound, and suddenly you're face to face with a scary monster, we still mimick the sound these things made sometimes...) and great gameplay. You could pick up items from dead opponents, there were these blocks that you could move around to block
certain pathways or to cross a stream, you could use mines, sentry guns, grenades (so you weren't save just around the corner), elevators, teleporters...
ah, as you can hear, just a perfect game! Unfortunately I never finished the single player mode since we didn't have the copy protection code...
other noteworthy games I played on amiga:
Supercars I & II
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
F18/A Hornet
Turrican
Armageddon
Hunter
Stunt Car Racer
Wings of Fury
North and South
no, it's because I moderated before I had my morning coffee :)
anyone else noticed they were not using any textures (except for the sky maybe)?
I guess the SPU's limited memory may have something to do with this, so maybe procedural textures would be the way to solve this.
does it come with a magnifying glass?
I may not be as bright as some of you guys around here, but this doesn't make any sense.
gotta love Flasheart's way of saying this:
Flasheart: Now, I may be packing the kind of tackle that you'd normally expect to find swinging about between the hind legs of a grand national winner, but I'm not totally stupid.
actually, Holland was/is a region in the west of the Netherlands made up mostly by the provinces North- and South-Holland. Nowadays in the Netherlands and the rest of the world it has become more or less a synonym for the whole country, but if you call a Dutch from the south a 'Hollander' they will be insulted :)
of course wonderful wikipedia has much more info (if anyone cares, and if not then still!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland
ramdrives *and* ram? why bother? In the future we'll have a single memory storage which will be solid state and fast enough to function as RAM and big enough to function as a HD. I'm so used to thinking about RAM and harddisks as separate things that it's even difficult to imagine for me.
although maybe there will always a tradeoff between memory size and speed, i don't know...
no bug, the formatting was a feature....
you must be from Russia...
out of interest I tried HandBrake just now, it compiles fine under Linux but I believe it's only a command line version at the moment....
also it segfaulted after 2 seconds...
hmmm, it seems *you* don't understand NAT:
a pc behind a NAT router without firewall can't be reached from the outside unless ports are specifically forwarded to that pc. Packets belonging to an existing connection (which originated from the pc, obviously) *can* go through the firewall to the pc because the NAT router tracks the connections.
So the fact is that NAT without any firewall will already make a pc unreachable from the 'outside' and thus *will* help John Doe's pc be more secure against silly exploits in ssh/netbios/ftp/whatever daemons/services.
Of course it doesn't mean the NAT router itself has no open ports which are exploitable but most routers will only be reachable from within the local network by default nowadays anyway.
So the final list should be:
1. NAT+packet filter: NAT prevents some things from working, NAT *and* filter protects user.
2. packet filter: many things work, user is still protected.
3. NAT filter: pc unreachable, thus proteced. NAT prevents some things from working
that game scared the shit out of me and my brothers and sister. My younger brother would start to cry if we sang the theme that was played when you met the monsters, oh the memories... anyone else play this?
See here for a review: http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/projfire.shtml
another scary and more recent one is System Shock II (haven't played the first one), at some point I even quit playing that game because it was to stressful....
especially in the f***ing internet
wt*? Slashdot censorship!! I knew we couldn't trust those ******* bastards, I'll ******* kill them, those mo
EXPLETIVE OVERFLOW, ABORTING MESSAGE
as a short introduction to the LUA language I present here the code for a hello world app:
print "Hello world"
hope that helps...
well, the fans will wear out much faster if you always let them run at 3000 instead of 1000 rpms, so maybe that's the reason?
Although on my thinkpad the fan is almost always on doing between 3000 and 3600 RPM depending on the temperature, and it seems to be holding out fine for several years now so I'm surprised Apple didn't also do this.
Actually, I wouldn't buy a laptop that was too hot to put on my lap, no matter how much i'd like a macbook pro.
you misspelled /,
D'oh!
1200 seems a bit on the high side, did they just count all cvs commits or something?
;)
and yes, I did not RTFA
actually, there's three levels of cache in the opteron: L1 and L2 are CPU bound, L3 is shared.
They claim that this improves performance with virtualization
From the article:
Barcelona uses a three-stage cache architecture. The L1 cache is 64KB, the L2 cache is 512KB and the L3 cache is 2MB. The L1 and L2 caches are dedicated to a particular core, while the L3 cache is shared among all cores. Note that the L3 cache has been engineered to be variable in size, so that different products may offer different L3 cache sizes. The L1 and L2 caches are exclusive, as with current Opterons and Athlon 64s. This means that the L1 and L2 cache don't hold copies of the same data.
Nonetheless, I still found your article interesting
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does it run linux?
*ducks*
an even bigger difference is that videogames are accessible to mostly everybody (if you have some money), young and old, fat and thin, etc.... while F1 is just for a happy few.
Of course only a few will be good enough to be able to compete on a national championship but at least everybody can experience it and therefore relate more to it.
If I watch F1 I can't really tell how difficult it is to do, I never tried anything remotely similar, but if I see someone ruling a deathmatch I'll know how good he is...
this is good news, I was getting sick of the current method: sucking the brain out of aborted fetuses...
Hmmm, but will this still give me superpowers?
Hey, I'm from the Netherlands -- yes, you may touch me...
Try some games from the Rainbow Six series like Ravenshield where you'll be dead in one or two shots. Especially in Lone Wolf mode where it's you alone against 30 terrorists, maybe in a big noisy environment like an oil refinery...
:)
believe me, you'll be scared
just don't forget to have good audio setup or headphones to make it more immersive