Not even the problem, IMO. I can't find a game as good as one of my favorite Atari 2600 games on my cellphone, although it has the screen resolution, color depth and processing power to play such games. But if I had a clone of Pitfall! on my cellphone, I wouldn't even play it much, because the controls suck and the screen is too small.
I don't know the problem very well, but I often hear american friends talking about they're not going to the doctor because it would cost them money.
Maybe that's one of the causes, I don't know how it's like in the UK, but here in France whenever you go to the doctor you pay 20 euros but you get refunded. Same for drugs, well at least the refundable ones, which are the generic ones that one really needs to improve one's health.
Do they not realize that life was not actually in shades of brown at that time
What do you know, where you alive back then? If things were in colour back then, nobody would have went to the movies to see black & white movies, it's only common sense...
Give me rain, give me poor visibility. Give me dirt!
Hallelujah! May the game-creating gods hear you! Seriously, I LOVE bad weathers in games, it adds to the end of the world type feeling you can have in an action game. We need more.
I think that the problem is not with kids not wanting to program, but with computers not having a compiler.
When I was 13-14 (around 1999), I used to like to program in BASIC, I had a Macintosh Performa 6200, but no, I wasn't programming on it, although I used to spend much time on it, no, I was using my little sister's V-Tech Genius 2000.
Why? Well, the Macintosh Performa 6200 didn't come bundled with a compiler, not a damn compiler, as the V-Tech had a big BASIC button that would take me to a simple programming environnement where I just had to type 10 ? "HELLO" 20 GOTO 10 RUN to get started with programming.
Most kids don't program because they don't have a compiler on their computer, and even if they do, they don't know where it is/how to use it, and if they don't, they don't know what to get/where to get it.
Kids won't play dodgeball if they don't have a ball in the first place, and they won't buy a ball to play it not knowing what kind of ball to get and if it's even worth it. Same here.
they are more likely to see how easily you can edit articles as another PR platform and seek to control it
It reminds me of something that happened on Wikipedia's deviantArt page, "someone" edited the article into changing the name of one of the two co-founders of the site into the name of the now CEO, known as Angelo Sotira, as it's common knowledge that he did not found this site.
A simple whois of the editor's IP address revealed it had been edited by a certain "Angelo Sotiracapoulos". And even if that story is minor, think about all the truth distortion that can be done by people with more powers and motivation than this community website CEO.
I think there's been another case of massive vandalism on Wikipedia by IP's all originating from the Congress, but I can't remember what it was about.
Great thought. Having some scary shit poppin up right when you're freakin out the most could be great, but that makes me think, if what you fear happens when you fear (kind of like in that movie Sphere), could you end up controlling your fear knowing that the two are linked? That'd be interesting.
Maybe then I could learn to control my fear of Octabrains...;-)
Why are the people now paying to essentially beta test the games rather than purchasing completed games?
Do like me, don't pay, download from P2P. I refuse to pay for an un-finished game, therefore I only pay for games when no patch has been released in years. I might buy Warcraft I now.
That's why it's easy to pick out 'best' monitors, for instance
No, but not for biological reasons. It's been often reported that people like to crank up the saturation on their TV and like to have flat screens that "over-enhance" the sharpness, not to say crank up the high frequency components in the image.
My point is, we might see the same thing, but -in a way- not see it the same way, and that because of this, some people will like some fucked up badly setup low-end flat screen TV over one that according to you will have a better image with more accurate colors.
Oh and by the way, I don't blind test speakers, I calibrate them. It's awesome to get a "nearly perfect" (i must be exagerrating a little bit) sound out of a speaker system that has a real fucked up frequency response.
1,073,741,824 bytes, equal to 10243, or 230 bytes. This is the definition used for computer memory sizes, and most often used in computer engineering, computer science, and most aspects of computer operating systems.
Well alright, it only half proves my point, mostly that it says right above that that "1,000,000,000 bytes is the decimal definition used in telecommunications (such as network speeds) and some computer storage manufacturers", but see, this is *only* used by computer storage manufacturers because they *can* cheat (just like ATM speeds advertised instead of IP speeds for ISPs).
Now, when in this article we turn petabytes into millions of gigabytes, we are not being those nasty hard disk manufacturing cheaters, we'll rather use GiBs and PiBs for GBs and PBs because that's what we always use, right? (just look at how your OS counts your hard disks bytes)
I use Windows XP. My computer is totally unusable under 800x600
Btw, how do you play NES games on your GBA?
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I agree, damn I'd like to have the sources of Super Maze Wars to port it/renew it (like give it a better resolution and a better networking) because all the attempted clones of it suck much ass.
At least if the company won't keep their product alive let us do so.
I run at a high resolution so I can fit more on the screen, not make it more detailed.
Yeah, but if you think further in the future, imagine a 4096*3072 17" screen (ok, it's not gonna happen anytime soon, but still, that will happen) well if you keep rendering the things the same way as now you'll have a tough time doing anything.
I find the snobs in the Linux world much worse than any others. Maybe it's because Linux is the underdog.
I don't think it's because Linux is the underdog. I think it has to do with being in "the elite". You ask how to start GNOME to people who could program a C++ compiler with a simple hexadecimal editor (i may be exagerrating a bit), and then you wonder why they feel superior to you and act arrogantly.
However, so far, if people in linux irc's were often being real dickholes to me, people in ##freebsd on freenode have always been nice to anyone, in spite of real n00b questions, and even after the third time you'd ask in which file to add "exec gnome-session" you wouldn't get in trouble. my experience. and FreeBSD is really the underdog compared to Linux, make a poll in the normal population and ask how many people have heard of Linux and how many people have heard of a BSD
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Not even the problem, IMO. I can't find a game as good as one of my favorite Atari 2600 games on my cellphone, although it has the screen resolution, color depth and processing power to play such games. But if I had a clone of Pitfall! on my cellphone, I wouldn't even play it much, because the controls suck and the screen is too small.
That sole phrase puts you way out of the target audience.
Maybe that's one of the causes, I don't know how it's like in the UK, but here in France whenever you go to the doctor you pay 20 euros but you get refunded. Same for drugs, well at least the refundable ones, which are the generic ones that one really needs to improve one's health.
It's a remake, not a sequel
What do you know, where you alive back then? If things were in colour back then, nobody would have went to the movies to see black & white movies, it's only common sense...
Hallelujah! May the game-creating gods hear you! Seriously, I LOVE bad weathers in games, it adds to the end of the world type feeling you can have in an action game. We need more.
When I was 13-14 (around 1999), I used to like to program in BASIC, I had a Macintosh Performa 6200, but no, I wasn't programming on it, although I used to spend much time on it, no, I was using my little sister's V-Tech Genius 2000.
Why? Well, the Macintosh Performa 6200 didn't come bundled with a compiler, not a damn compiler, as the V-Tech had a big BASIC button that would take me to a simple programming environnement where I just had to type 10 ? "HELLO" 20 GOTO 10 RUN to get started with programming.
Most kids don't program because they don't have a compiler on their computer, and even if they do, they don't know where it is/how to use it, and if they don't, they don't know what to get/where to get it.
Kids won't play dodgeball if they don't have a ball in the first place, and they won't buy a ball to play it not knowing what kind of ball to get and if it's even worth it. Same here.
It reminds me of something that happened on Wikipedia's deviantArt page, "someone" edited the article into changing the name of one of the two co-founders of the site into the name of the now CEO, known as Angelo Sotira, as it's common knowledge that he did not found this site.
A simple whois of the editor's IP address revealed it had been edited by a certain "Angelo Sotiracapoulos". And even if that story is minor, think about all the truth distortion that can be done by people with more powers and motivation than this community website CEO.
I think there's been another case of massive vandalism on Wikipedia by IP's all originating from the Congress, but I can't remember what it was about.
Yeah, "features" that cannot be disabled... ;-)
Maybe then I could learn to control my fear of Octabrains... ;-)
Do like me, don't pay, download from P2P. I refuse to pay for an un-finished game, therefore I only pay for games when no patch has been released in years. I might buy Warcraft I now.
No, but not for biological reasons. It's been often reported that people like to crank up the saturation on their TV and like to have flat screens that "over-enhance" the sharpness, not to say crank up the high frequency components in the image.
My point is, we might see the same thing, but -in a way- not see it the same way, and that because of this, some people will like some fucked up badly setup low-end flat screen TV over one that according to you will have a better image with more accurate colors.
Oh and by the way, I don't blind test speakers, I calibrate them. It's awesome to get a "nearly perfect" (i must be exagerrating a little bit) sound out of a speaker system that has a real fucked up frequency response.
Gigabyte
1,073,741,824 bytes, equal to 10243, or 230 bytes. This is the definition used for computer memory sizes, and most often used in computer engineering, computer science, and most aspects of computer operating systems.
Well alright, it only half proves my point, mostly that it says right above that that "1,000,000,000 bytes is the decimal definition used in telecommunications (such as network speeds) and some computer storage manufacturers", but see, this is *only* used by computer storage manufacturers because they *can* cheat (just like ATM speeds advertised instead of IP speeds for ISPs).
Now, when in this article we turn petabytes into millions of gigabytes, we are not being those nasty hard disk manufacturing cheaters, we'll rather use GiBs and PiBs for GBs and PBs because that's what we always use, right? (just look at how your OS counts your hard disks bytes)
Yeah, but I think that "implicitly" in the storage domain, a kilo=1024 (as in the networking domain a kilo=1000)
Btw, how do you play NES games on your GBA?
At least if the company won't keep their product alive let us do so.
Yeah, but if you think further in the future, imagine a 4096*3072 17" screen (ok, it's not gonna happen anytime soon, but still, that will happen) well if you keep rendering the things the same way as now you'll have a tough time doing anything.
Thanks a lot for teaching me something, although it makes a grammar nazi of you ;-)
Is it me or has Cringely gone totally obsessed with BootCamp?
Oh yeah? well, I don't like the downsides of windmills
I think it's only common sence to be against windmills, no matter whatever a bunch of right-thinking geeks can say
ooooh, so in reality you just want to know how to perform the equivalent of scandisk on linux? isn't it fsck?
scandisk? lol, what kind of version of Windows are you running?
I don't think it's because Linux is the underdog. I think it has to do with being in "the elite". You ask how to start GNOME to people who could program a C++ compiler with a simple hexadecimal editor (i may be exagerrating a bit), and then you wonder why they feel superior to you and act arrogantly.
However, so far, if people in linux irc's were often being real dickholes to me, people in ##freebsd on freenode have always been nice to anyone, in spite of real n00b questions, and even after the third time you'd ask in which file to add "exec gnome-session" you wouldn't get in trouble. my experience. and FreeBSD is really the underdog compared to Linux, make a poll in the normal population and ask how many people have heard of Linux and how many people have heard of a BSD
I don't see Urban Dead neither, although is population is about 50,000. Maybe it's cause it's web-based?
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