During the Shadow war, the Vorlons and Shadows had begun routinely
annhiliating/blowing up whole planets. On their own, whole races
enslave, torture, give plagues to other races/planets.
For such a cheery message of peace and cooperation, this series has
the most destruction I can think of!
Speak for yourself, I have always loathed black text on a white
background. You call yourself a geek and then claim allegiance to
features of dead tree displays?
Feel free to say "we" all breathe air, or that all of us are alive
when we are existant and non-dead. Don't assume I enjoy having my
montor blasting vast quantities of unwanted luminescence at my skull
though.
And then you start subtracting for processor bandwidth (divide by
four I guess), lack of certain math abilities (divide by 10 I guess),
otherwise reduced computrons per cycle (divide by 8 or so), etc.
So 4700 MHz gets pared down to an effective 14.7 MHz in today's
market.
Agreed. That and they never showed game footage until recently IIRC.
And the stores I went to never went out of their way to show what the
DC could do. Coupled with the PS/2 (no, I just hate Sony) hype, my
line was to hold off until the next wave comes. Then it would have
actually been a good buy, now it seems like a cheap holdover to the
next gen. *SHRUG*
The scream would've been the way to go, now they'll have to change
again after their hardware division vaporizes...
I agree with everything except the part where X-Box cleans up
Who the hell is going to go for yet another overpriced black brick
with lots of unproven hype? Nevermind that the people making it are
responsible for the wonderfully stable and user friendly mess of
Microsoft software.
What might move in and clean up then? How about the Nintendo
GameCube?
Colorful, lunchboxish, uses neat 3" disks, plenty of good developers,
lots of *GOOD* launch games, cheapish, approximately as capable as the
X-Box.
How does the next Nintendo console have vaporware written all over
it?
They've already blown megabucks getting the chipset designed, pushing
developer kits out the door, and they need a system to throw all their
game characters at. And with their alternative hard-to-crack DVDish
GODs (Gamecube Optical Disks) it'd seem kinda wasteful to dump their
fourth-generation console in favor of a wintel box.
Heck, Nintendo even released the Virtual Boy once upon a time, now
*THAT* had vapor written all over it...!
BlastCorps is a great game, and Perfect Dark crushes Golden Eye.
If you're gunna bash Nintendo at least try to sound like you know what
you're typing about.
Though as an Amiga user I can't help but feel slightly screwed by
Realsoft for selling me old (as in having poor display ability)
software without bothering to mention how long its been since they
updated it...:-\
The checkered sphere is known as the Boing ball, named such from the
first Amiga demo, Boing!
The Boing ball had nothing to do with the raytraced animation demo The
Juggler. Which involved a humanoid figure juggling glass balls.
By the way, I think the Boing! logo used by slashdot and pretty much
everywhere else needs updating. Say by making the checks into facets
and giving the ball some reflective qualities. I have an image of what
I'm thinking of, email me if you're interested in seeing it...
If you can only display 85Hz and you're getting 200 FPS then the game
should try mixing the excess frames. That way when you start getting
10,000 FPS you also get a decent motion blur.:-)
The original Boing ball from the Boing! demo was realtime rendered.
It was a simple 2-d image being stamped around the screen to make it
bounce (bouncy sound included) around a blue area with a grid that
came towards the screen on the bottom. The rotation was merely a
palette color shift, which did the job well...
Another Amiga logo was the "Amiga checkmark" which was a stylized
check that phased color from the top, to the bottom, and half-way back
up to the end. I looks pretty nice as a 3-D rendered object I know.:-)
I hear complaints about cost, noone seems to care that the longevity
of some of these systems can make Amigas effectively cheaper!
Also, noone seems to recognize how absolutely wonderful these
keyboards are! As is having SCSI as the main harddrive interface
(shame the harddrives don't cost less though).
Oh, and does anyone else find the PC IRQ problem to be ridiculous? As
an Amigan I enjoy having all cards on one IRQ and a pretty nice
AutoConfig(TM) setup. Speaking of cool trademarks, Intuition is a cool
name for a GUI system!
And so if I have a nearby property then I have a right to build a wall
to prevent their optical pollution from ruining the neighborhood.:-)
Very reasonable idea! Shame students are forced to walk through
universities. Could always try for sonar glasses and morse to english
headsets while in the neighborhood though. Until advertisers start
making huge logo sculptures and broadcast commercials in morse code.
Then things start to get nasty...
Slashdot Mirror
For such a cheery message of peace and cooperation, this series has the most destruction I can think of!
Feel free to say "we" all breathe air, or that all of us are alive when we are existant and non-dead. Don't assume I enjoy having my montor blasting vast quantities of unwanted luminescence at my skull though.
Because crash was the idiot in front of Nintendo with the megaphone. Acting like he was a cross between god and Tom Green. Remember?
You mean the way they watered down Conker's Bad Fur Day?
RASH, sounds like a cool shell. :-)
So 4700 MHz gets pared down to an effective 14.7 MHz in today's market.
Welcome to heck, says the man with the spoon!
I think a Transmeta chip could rival that. ;-D
Tell me when you get Quake running on those!
The scream would've been the way to go, now they'll have to change again after their hardware division vaporizes...
Kudos to the BlastCorps mention!
Who the hell is going to go for yet another overpriced black brick with lots of unproven hype? Nevermind that the people making it are responsible for the wonderfully stable and user friendly mess of Microsoft software.
What might move in and clean up then? How about the Nintendo GameCube?
Colorful, lunchboxish, uses neat 3" disks, plenty of good developers, lots of *GOOD* launch games, cheapish, approximately as capable as the X-Box.
Well, think about it.
They've already blown megabucks getting the chipset designed, pushing developer kits out the door, and they need a system to throw all their game characters at. And with their alternative hard-to-crack DVDish GODs (Gamecube Optical Disks) it'd seem kinda wasteful to dump their fourth-generation console in favor of a wintel box.
Heck, Nintendo even released the Virtual Boy once upon a time, now *THAT* had vapor written all over it...!
BlastCorps is a great game, and Perfect Dark crushes Golden Eye.
If you're gunna bash Nintendo at least try to sound like you know what you're typing about.
Though as an Amiga user I can't help but feel slightly screwed by Realsoft for selling me old (as in having poor display ability) software without bothering to mention how long its been since they updated it... :-\
The Boing ball had nothing to do with the raytraced animation demo The Juggler. Which involved a humanoid figure juggling glass balls.
By the way, I think the Boing! logo used by slashdot and pretty much everywhere else needs updating. Say by making the checks into facets and giving the ball some reflective qualities. I have an image of what I'm thinking of, email me if you're interested in seeing it...
No, its that stick figures are *VERY* difficult to hit. :-)
If you can only display 85Hz and you're getting 200 FPS then the game should try mixing the excess frames. That way when you start getting 10,000 FPS you also get a decent motion blur. :-)
There IS a bit of FUD in there... Perhaps you should look for a less biased source to link to?
Roadways are absurd creations...
That disks and drives aren't in their own seperate class from files and directories just tells me how utterly lazy unix programmers are. ;-)
Assign NatPor: CD0:Images/Sex/Illegal/StarWars
Then just use NatPor: to get where you know you wanna go.
Assign NPAndGrits: NatPor:Grits
And you get the idea. :-)
AROS
It was a simple 2-d image being stamped around the screen to make it bounce (bouncy sound included) around a blue area with a grid that came towards the screen on the bottom. The rotation was merely a palette color shift, which did the job well...
Another Amiga logo was the "Amiga checkmark" which was a stylized check that phased color from the top, to the bottom, and half-way back up to the end. I looks pretty nice as a 3-D rendered object I know. :-)
I hear complaints about cost, noone seems to care that the longevity of some of these systems can make Amigas effectively cheaper!
Also, noone seems to recognize how absolutely wonderful these keyboards are! As is having SCSI as the main harddrive interface (shame the harddrives don't cost less though).
Oh, and does anyone else find the PC IRQ problem to be ridiculous? As an Amigan I enjoy having all cards on one IRQ and a pretty nice AutoConfig(TM) setup. Speaking of cool trademarks, Intuition is a cool name for a GUI system!
Very reasonable idea! Shame students are forced to walk through universities. Could always try for sonar glasses and morse to english headsets while in the neighborhood though. Until advertisers start making huge logo sculptures and broadcast commercials in morse code. Then things start to get nasty...