Yeah, but one could argue that they were breaking the law just as much before these 're-releases' as they are now, it's just now they can't justify breaking the law to themselves as well anymore.
But then, they could always go buy a GBA. I personally much prefer playing a game on a console over a computer, there is just something about it...:-)
No, actully, I was because I was pissed off that people kept saying "1st horiz. handheld" when they knew that the post was refering to the Game Boy, so I resubmitted it to all the people going "What about the Game Gear?!"
Ha, like I'm a karma whore. I've had this account for well over a year and I only started getting the +1 bonus a month or so ago. If i'm a karma whore, i'm doing a pretty poor job...
It's a Nintendo related story. They're the ones I post to the most. I'm sorry if posting alot to one story makes me a 'karma whore'.
Four Player link up Mario Kart, and with the GBA you only need one cartrage between all four. Mmmm, portible battle mode...
Yeah, I think of the GBA as something in the middle of the SNES and the N64, it's 2D is almost on par with the N64 (one of the original demos Nintendo released for the GBA was what was pretty much a stright port of Yoshi's Story on the N64 [bad game, nice graphics]). However, it's 3D is nowhere near up to the N64, but Nintendo have said that this thing is not for mass 3D games.
I can't wait to replay alot of classic SNES games with updated graphics and levels, it'll be like a flashback to my childhood:)
The Game Boy Color isn't simply the same machine as the orginal GB with a colour screen, but actully has a faster processor. That is why there are some games out now that require a GBColor, because they are built needing the newer chip.
Anyway, last I heard the GBA includes the GBC chip with it so it's 100% backwards compatible with all the old games (unlike Sony's poor effort with the PS2 playing PS1 games). But then, I might be wrong, I haven't read up on the GBA much since it was shown off last year with the GameCube...
"The emulator/abandonware folks aren't going to like this that much."
Actully, this takes away one of the most popular ways that people try to justify the piracy of old games- that the owner isn't making money from it anymore.
Nintendo's 'classic' games such as the Super Mario series are hardly abandonware. Super Mario Bros Delux being an enhanced version of the original SMB (one of my favorite games of all time), and Super Mario Advance, an updated version of SMB2 from the All-Stars SNES game, a launch title for the GBA.
It doesn't matter if the rom scene doesn't "like this much", because they are still stealing.
(Disclaimer: I am not anti emulation. I emulate all the Nintendo hardware I own to play the software I've bought, be it NES, SNES, GB, N64... I just am not pro ROM piracy. Yes, it is illegal to copy games, no matter how old, an no, you can't keep them for 24-hours as many sites like to say [rant mode off])
Yeah, it's basic design is very similar (Control, Screen, Buttons) but it is ALOT smaller. In August last year when Nintendo first displayed the GBA the presentor (I cannot remember his name, but he is a fair way up the Nintendo chain of command) pulled the GBA out of his jacket pocket. It is very tiny, but the screen itself is bigger then the current Game Boys.
Also, it's battery consumption is FAR lower then the Game Gear. Ten years of technological progress helps that, along with no backlight...
With Microsoft and the incident with their so-called 'trade secrets' Slashdot fought to the end to keep those comments up. I just am wondering why is this time different? I don't know much about US law, but why is it so different this time?
Scientology seems to be in favor with the government, not like most cults...
They all sound like good ideas. Has anyone with a Slash-based web site changed anything majorly in the moderation system compared to how Slashdot does it?
The only Slash-site i've read enough to be part of the world of moderation is MacSlash, and it seems to be very similer (if not identical) to Slashdot's moderation system.
It would be interesting to hear the experences of other Slash-sites...
I've posted a thought I had. Is discussing thoughts the incorrect thing to do now on Slashdot now?
Obviously I didn't do a very good job of flaming, considering the post got a single reply. If it were flamebait, it sitting at +3 would have got it alot of angry replies.
I'm really beginning to think that Slashdot's moderation system is dying of late. If it's not bad moderation, it's bad meta-moderation. I've given up on meta-modding things us unfair unless it is an obvious abuse (modded up 'goatse' and 'base' comes to mind), and as for moderating, all I do is mod things up that deserve it.
Annyway, I'm sorry for putting forth any thoughts, I'll try to fit the standard 'Slashdot mold' or be a good 'karma whore' next time.
This is an incredibly cold thought, but this 'censorchip' is first heard about the day there is another child in a US school with a gun shooting his classmates?
I really hope this was a coincidence, and they didn't 'wait' for something like this to happen. This had to be a coincidence, it's not to cash-in on the 'bad' music and video games about to be blamed for corrupting youth... is it?
If Jean-Louis Gassee was so indispensible to the future of computing, Apple wouldn't have canned his ass to begin with.
Most Mac Evangelists would consider Steve Jobs to be indispensible to Apple's future. Apple NEVER canned his ass to begin with, did they?
Apple has never been a company to be able to pick which people will be good for computers (and Apple themselves) in the future. Gassée still around in the computer industry, and BeIA is just starting to take off. Pity the OS had to be put so far back on the backburner. (And I have to defend Jean-Louis, I use a quote of his in my sig to show that my posts are an opinion;)
I'd own a Mac now if they still ran BeOS (I use 3 OS's: Windows, BeOS, and Linux. I'd happily replace Windows with OS X). However, Apple killed BeOS off on their platform. People will argue that Apple can't port OS X to Intel because they are a hardware company. If Apple are primarily a hardware company, why did they fear, and thus kill off, an operating system on their platform? If Apple make their money off hardware, wouldn't another OS attract people to their platform? I guess Apple want it both ways - total control of the hardware and the software, even though if they'd loosened up on the software side and just allowed BeOS to merly EXIST, their Macintosh sales would have been at least one unit higher - I'd be using a Mac right now.
But Apple don't want me to buy a Mac, because they don't want me running BeOS.
Not all of us can afford multiple PS2s, for example, let alone find them...
Slightly offtopic, but I just want to say there had never been a problem finding PS2s in Australia. Literally since day one in November last year every shop i've checked has had them. I guess the $799 price tag helps them not move.
I guess I just see it as odd that the Australian market had heaps of stock, while the USA, which still seems to need more is going without. Perhaps they built a few too many PAL units...
I find it funny though, but then I've always never been a PSX fan. Viva la GameCube!
Seriously, it's a serious post. Had I wanted to troll, I would have mentioned something about bases...
To the moderator: I'm sorry that I expressed an opinion that was in disagreement with you, but you seem to not grasp the fact that you moderate content, not viewpoints.
It seems with Slashdot nowdays that you can either post an opinion or post to karma whore. Quite honestly karma doesn't worry me all, what worries me is the fact I get branded as a troll for expressing my opinion.
There is no practical reason that the entire country can't have cheap broadband...
Hey, this might come across as odd, but the whole planet is not one country. People get connected to the net all around the world. People play games all around the world. Broadband is not accessable all around the planet.
I guess I can prepare for the oncoming arrogant 'we make up the biggest portion of the net' bullshit argument, and then the following 'we' should not have to support 'you'. However, not all games are developed in the USA, nor are they only sold, marketed and used there. It's not the only market.
If companies like Nintendo/Sega/Sony took this kind of view of the international market when they were developing software and only made their games work well in Japan, people like you would be the first to bitch that you are not being supported.
Learn that gaming, and the internet, is an international community, and not just here to service one nation.
The one announced as being released free at Slashdot on the 26th of April 2000?
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Get QNX For Free
Posted by jamie on Wednesday April 26, @08:59AM
from the no-PIII-required dept.
TomRitchford writes: "QNX is about to start distributing their real-time OS for free downloads for non-commercial use at get.qnx.com. Right now it's 'Real Soon Now,' but you can sign up and they'll send a free CD to the first 5000 to request it." The operating system's concepts will look familiar to anyone who knows unix, but its design makes it better for older (Intel-compatible) CPUs, and situations where stability and predictability are more important than unix's cornucopia of applications and features.
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Then it's actull avalablity annouced on September the 25th 2000?
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QNX Realtime Platform Now Available
Posted by Hemos on Monday September 25, @05:30PM
from the yet-another-os dept.
A reader writes "The QNX development platform is now available. It's available in three versions: the Windows-based self-extracting installer, the ISO image and the QNX4 install archive" You can also get it from QNX's site itself.
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This posting today is a little redundant... I've seen on my IRC server of choice a #qnx channel thrive then die in the time between the launch story post and this one.
The QNX RtP free annoucment was pretty big news. It's a bit dodgy that this managed to slip though the net as news again.
Should I spent money on Xbox or should I buy Geforce3 and Doom3 (kinda rhymes..dont you think so.)?
An Evil Empire's new piece of hardware being released to jam themselves into a new market to further twist there.net into the home using the force of the game API from their desktop OS monopoly to achive it...
or
A friggin' fast piece of hardware from a company that has been fairly good to the 'alternate' worlds in Computer Land, and a piece of game software that will be friggin' excellent, just like everything out of it's makers doors, that will at least have binaries released for 'alternate GNU OS using people', if not a box set.
Personally, I'd buy a GeForce 3, Doom 3, and a GameCube, but for the love of god don't let Microsoft get a foot in the door!
I've read a little about Tenon's rootless Xserver for MacOS X, Xtools. It looks as though it's a lot more mature, and a beta is avalable for MacOS X public beta.
It is commerical though, but that is the way things are sometimes... However the product looks as if it's worth the money.
..the 2 or 3-company monopoly...
monopoly n., Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or service.
You can't have a 3 company monopoly. Neither Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft will have a commanding control over the industry.
Personally, I think the GameCube will be more successful then the Nintendo 64 was, the PS2 will not reach the same heighs as the orginial but still be successful, and the Xbox will either to extremly well, or extremly poorly.
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Not working with 25-50 games is not 100% backwards compatibility, is it?
If so, I don't think very many console games are that old yet...
But then, they could always go buy a GBA. I personally much prefer playing a game on a console over a computer, there is just something about it... :-)
Ha, like I'm a karma whore. I've had this account for well over a year and I only started getting the +1 bonus a month or so ago. If i'm a karma whore, i'm doing a pretty poor job...
It's a Nintendo related story. They're the ones I post to the most. I'm sorry if posting alot to one story makes me a 'karma whore'.
Yeah, I think of the GBA as something in the middle of the SNES and the N64, it's 2D is almost on par with the N64 (one of the original demos Nintendo released for the GBA was what was pretty much a stright port of Yoshi's Story on the N64 [bad game, nice graphics]). However, it's 3D is nowhere near up to the N64, but Nintendo have said that this thing is not for mass 3D games.
I can't wait to replay alot of classic SNES games with updated graphics and levels, it'll be like a flashback to my childhood :)
Anyway, last I heard the GBA includes the GBC chip with it so it's 100% backwards compatible with all the old games (unlike Sony's poor effort with the PS2 playing PS1 games). But then, I might be wrong, I haven't read up on the GBA much since it was shown off last year with the GameCube...
I guess 'ed's just aren't cool enough...
And anyway, Nintendo spelt 'Colour' wrong too ;)
Actully, this takes away one of the most popular ways that people try to justify the piracy of old games- that the owner isn't making money from it anymore.
Nintendo's 'classic' games such as the Super Mario series are hardly abandonware. Super Mario Bros Delux being an enhanced version of the original SMB (one of my favorite games of all time), and Super Mario Advance, an updated version of SMB2 from the All-Stars SNES game, a launch title for the GBA.
It doesn't matter if the rom scene doesn't "like this much", because they are still stealing.
(Disclaimer: I am not anti emulation. I emulate all the Nintendo hardware I own to play the software I've bought, be it NES, SNES, GB, N64... I just am not pro ROM piracy. Yes, it is illegal to copy games, no matter how old, an no, you can't keep them for 24-hours as many sites like to say [rant mode off])
Also, it's battery consumption is FAR lower then the Game Gear. Ten years of technological progress helps that, along with no backlight...
"It is the first to have a horizontal alignment", implying the first Game Boy not the first handheld console.
Are you people just trying to find 'mistakes' where there are none?
"It is the first to have a horizontal alignment", implying the first Game Boy not the first handheld console.
Are you people just trying to find 'mistakes' where there are none?
Scientology seems to be in favor with the government, not like most cults...
The only Slash-site i've read enough to be part of the world of moderation is MacSlash, and it seems to be very similer (if not identical) to Slashdot's moderation system.
It would be interesting to hear the experences of other Slash-sites...
Obviously I didn't do a very good job of flaming, considering the post got a single reply. If it were flamebait, it sitting at +3 would have got it alot of angry replies.
I'm really beginning to think that Slashdot's moderation system is dying of late. If it's not bad moderation, it's bad meta-moderation. I've given up on meta-modding things us unfair unless it is an obvious abuse (modded up 'goatse' and 'base' comes to mind), and as for moderating, all I do is mod things up that deserve it.
Annyway, I'm sorry for putting forth any thoughts, I'll try to fit the standard 'Slashdot mold' or be a good 'karma whore' next time.
I really hope this was a coincidence, and they didn't 'wait' for something like this to happen. This had to be a coincidence, it's not to cash-in on the 'bad' music and video games about to be blamed for corrupting youth... is it?
...before you see Pokemon on the Xbox.
Most Mac Evangelists would consider Steve Jobs to be indispensible to Apple's future. Apple NEVER canned his ass to begin with, did they?
Apple has never been a company to be able to pick which people will be good for computers (and Apple themselves) in the future. Gassée still around in the computer industry, and BeIA is just starting to take off. Pity the OS had to be put so far back on the backburner. (And I have to defend Jean-Louis, I use a quote of his in my sig to show that my posts are an opinion ;)
I'd own a Mac now if they still ran BeOS (I use 3 OS's: Windows, BeOS, and Linux. I'd happily replace Windows with OS X). However, Apple killed BeOS off on their platform. People will argue that Apple can't port OS X to Intel because they are a hardware company. If Apple are primarily a hardware company, why did they fear, and thus kill off, an operating system on their platform? If Apple make their money off hardware, wouldn't another OS attract people to their platform? I guess Apple want it both ways - total control of the hardware and the software, even though if they'd loosened up on the software side and just allowed BeOS to merly EXIST, their Macintosh sales would have been at least one unit higher - I'd be using a Mac right now.
But Apple don't want me to buy a Mac, because they don't want me running BeOS.
Slightly offtopic, but I just want to say there had never been a problem finding PS2s in Australia. Literally since day one in November last year every shop i've checked has had them. I guess the $799 price tag helps them not move.
I guess I just see it as odd that the Australian market had heaps of stock, while the USA, which still seems to need more is going without. Perhaps they built a few too many PAL units...
I find it funny though, but then I've always never been a PSX fan. Viva la GameCube!
To the moderator: I'm sorry that I expressed an opinion that was in disagreement with you, but you seem to not grasp the fact that you moderate content, not viewpoints.
It seems with Slashdot nowdays that you can either post an opinion or post to karma whore. Quite honestly karma doesn't worry me all, what worries me is the fact I get branded as a troll for expressing my opinion.
All well, rant mode off now... :)
Hey, this might come across as odd, but the whole planet is not one country. People get connected to the net all around the world. People play games all around the world. Broadband is not accessable all around the planet.
I guess I can prepare for the oncoming arrogant 'we make up the biggest portion of the net' bullshit argument, and then the following 'we' should not have to support 'you'. However, not all games are developed in the USA, nor are they only sold, marketed and used there. It's not the only market.
If companies like Nintendo/Sega/Sony took this kind of view of the international market when they were developing software and only made their games work well in Japan, people like you would be the first to bitch that you are not being supported.
Learn that gaming, and the internet, is an international community, and not just here to service one nation.
The one announced as being released free at Slashdot on the 26th of April 2000?
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Get QNX For Free
Posted by jamie on Wednesday April 26, @08:59AM
from the no-PIII-required dept.
TomRitchford writes: "QNX is about to start distributing their real-time OS for free downloads for non-commercial use at get.qnx.com. Right now it's 'Real Soon Now,' but you can sign up and they'll send a free CD to the first 5000 to request it." The operating system's concepts will look familiar to anyone who knows unix, but its design makes it better for older (Intel-compatible) CPUs, and situations where stability and predictability are more important than unix's cornucopia of applications and features.
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Then it's actull avalablity annouced on September the 25th 2000?
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QNX Realtime Platform Now Available
Posted by Hemos on Monday September 25, @05:30PM
from the yet-another-os dept.
A reader writes "The QNX development platform is now available. It's available in three versions: the Windows-based self-extracting installer, the ISO image and the QNX4 install archive" You can also get it from QNX's site itself.
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This posting today is a little redundant... I've seen on my IRC server of choice a #qnx channel thrive then die in the time between the launch story post and this one.
The QNX RtP free annoucment was pretty big news. It's a bit dodgy that this managed to slip though the net as news again.
An Evil Empire's new piece of hardware being released to jam themselves into a new market to further twist there .net into the home using the force of the game API from their desktop OS monopoly to achive it...
or
A friggin' fast piece of hardware from a company that has been fairly good to the 'alternate' worlds in Computer Land, and a piece of game software that will be friggin' excellent, just like everything out of it's makers doors, that will at least have binaries released for 'alternate GNU OS using people', if not a box set.
Personally, I'd buy a GeForce 3, Doom 3, and a GameCube, but for the love of god don't let Microsoft get a foot in the door!
It is commerical though, but that is the way things are sometimes... However the product looks as if it's worth the money.
lol
There you go, I get your joke, happy? :)
Now lets talk about metres, grams and colours.. lets really confuse them ;)
You can't have a 3 company monopoly. Neither Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft will have a commanding control over the industry.
Personally, I think the GameCube will be more successful then the Nintendo 64 was, the PS2 will not reach the same heighs as the orginial but still be successful, and the Xbox will either to extremly well, or extremly poorly.
But that's just my view :)