Re: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-23 Thread Kevin Graeme
> < sigh> >   > 0_0 aye [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

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2004-01-23 Thread Harkins, Patrick
I think kwang is overlooking the wired = cool factor but I can see plenty of kids pressuring their parents to buy the Phantoms. They manage to pressure them into getting cell phones on huge numbers... Patrick -Original Message- From: Andrew Scott Why don't you just say that you won't

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2004-01-23 Thread Harkins, Patrick
Well Phil, I think Kwang does have a good point about broadband not being universal. And i think you have a good point about that not meaning that the Phantom model won't be adopted widely. Perhaps this whole argument just highlights the gap between the haves and the have-nots? Patrick -Origi

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> Man, and you give me so much fodder from your responses on CF-Talk. You mean when I actually HELP people? Yah, I can see how that would be fodder - I mean, actually assisting people with their problems must be unusual [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [Us

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2004-01-22 Thread Andrew Scott
: Friday, 23 January 2004 1:32 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link Oh and hey: USB2.0 has a max bandwidth of 480Mb/s.  That's a max 100Mb/s ethernet port on the phantom. But you knew that, right? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubs

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> Do you have one? A dictionary? Why yes, I do I'm giving up as you CLEARLY see yourself as right on everything, and won't see other people's point of view [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

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2004-01-22 Thread Andrew Scott
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 January 2004 1:22 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Phantom Game info link You: The PS2 has sold far more than the Xbox. Me: It has differed in each country, in Australia the market share is as follows. Xbox 44%, PS2 51% and Gamecube 5%. Source of this information i

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2004-01-22 Thread Erika L Walker-Arnold
No he's not actually. Just VERY passionate about his games and the gaming industry. A LOT of our friends are also in the industry either creating games, testing games, selling games, managing game stores, or running game websites. When we still lived in Croydon, he was the stores second best custo

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2004-01-22 Thread Kwang Suh
Oh and hey: USB2.0 has a max bandwidth of 480Mb/s.  That's a max 100Mb/s ethernet port on the phantom. But you knew that, right? -Original Message- From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 22, 2004 5:58 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game

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2004-01-22 Thread Kwang Suh
I'm just being a sh!t disturber :) Say, is Phil always like this? -Original Message- From: Erika L Walker-Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 22, 2004 6:00 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Phantom Game info link < sigh> 0_0   _ [Todays Threads] [T

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2004-01-22 Thread Kwang Suh
You: The PS2 has sold far more than the Xbox. Me: It has differed in each country, in Australia the market share is as follows. Xbox 44%, PS2 51% and Gamecube 5%. Source of this information is reliable and in print. Not bad for a console that has only been out in this country for just under 2 years

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2004-01-22 Thread Kwang Suh
Thanks for the personal insult. Man, and you give me so much fodder from your responses on CF-Talk. -Original Message- From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 22, 2004 5:58 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > The biggest HD you

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2004-01-22 Thread Kwang Suh
Ok, then, if the Xbox is popular, I suppose that the PS2 is super hyper massively, incredibly, popular. -Original Message- From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 22, 2004 5:44 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > Th

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2004-01-22 Thread Kwang Suh
Do you have one? -Original Message- From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 22, 2004 5:49 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > What points have I been proved wrong on? > > Let's see: > > Fact: The P

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2004-01-22 Thread Erika L Walker-Arnold
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2004-01-22 Thread Andrew Scott
9699 7976      _   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 January 2004 11:05 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > > > > Yes, but PCs are completely upgradable. > > > > Ok, fine, some PCs ar

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> The biggest HD you're supposed to be able to get is 320GB.   > Dude, it'll take like 12 hours to transfer that over USB! Something I forgot to add before hitting Send Ever though that they might use that other little socket on the back of the machine? You know, the NETWORK PORT? Wow, imagine t

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> The biggest HD you're supposed to be able to get is 320GB.   > Dude, it'll take like 12 hours to transfer that over USB! So, you're going to transfer your WHOLE HARD DISK to someone else? Don't tell me, somebody asks you for a Word document and you send them a backup of your entire machine on D

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> What points have I been proved wrong on? > > Let's see: > > Fact: The Phantom as yet is not available to the general public. > Fact: The Phantom is going to use PC technology to play PC > games.  PC game minimum system requirements change all the > time.  Thus, as time progresses, the Phantom

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> There nothing else to discuss.  The PS2 has sold far, far > more than the XBox.  What else is there? Well, you said it wasn't popular By that statement (and I've used this before) Ford outsells Dodge Therefore Dodge isn't popular, right? That's your argument! [Todays Threads] [This Messa

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2004-01-22 Thread Andrew Scott
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 January 2004 11:13 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Phantom Game info link > The graphics card in that is only a GForce 3, compared to the > graphics cards > that are in the PC's. Yet it is still bringing in the developers > to develop > for.

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
Don't you that that's a tad inconvenient, not to mention unreliable? - Original Message - From: Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 5:06 pm Subject: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > *sigh* > > So *what*!!??? > What's yo

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
> The graphics card in that is only a GForce 3, compared to the > graphics cards > that are in the PC's. Yet it is still bringing in the developers > to develop > for. Of course it does.  That's because it's a console.  There's a user base out there that a developer can develop for.  That's the

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
> > > > Yes, but PCs are completely upgradable. > > > > Ok, fine, some PCs are completely upgradable. > > I've left both of your quotes there - your sweeping statements are the > ones which blow holes in your statements! Huh? > > Like saying the Xbox isn't popular when it's not AS popular as t

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2004-01-22 Thread Angel Stewart
*sigh* So *what*!!??? What's your point!? That if you buy a new computer it's going to take you a while to transfer the files from the old one to the new one!? THat if you buy a fully loaded Phantom it's going to take a while to transfer your old settings to the new machine!?? What's your po

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2004-01-22 Thread Andrew Scott
ksuh, Everything will become obsolete in time, the Xbox was obsolete the day it hit the shelves. The graphics card in that is only a GForce 3, compared to the graphics cards that are in the PC's. Yet it is still bringing in the developers to develop for. Consoles have a life span of around

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
The biggest HD you're supposed to be able to get is 320GB.  Dude, it'll take like 12 hours to transfer that over USB! - Original Message - From: Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:39 pm Subject: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > Y

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> > > Yes, but PCs are completely upgradable. > > Ok, fine, some PCs are completely upgradable. I've left both of your quotes there - your sweeping statements are the ones which blow holes in your statements! Like saying the Xbox isn't popular when it's not AS popular as the PS2 - you dumped tha

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2004-01-22 Thread Angel Stewart
You're arguments are becoming ever more fatuous. It is hardly likely that you would ever have 320GB of game files on a machine that ships with between an 80GB and 120GB hard disk. On the chance that you buy a new phantom after about two years, then the time to transfer data would be quite acceptab

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
Oh good.  I can't wait to transfer 320GB of game files via USB2.0. - Original Message - From: Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:16 pm Subject: RE: Phantom Game info link > Actually, they state that you can buy new upgraded Phantoms if you

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2004-01-22 Thread Angel Stewart
Actually, they state that you can buy new upgraded Phantoms if you like. And then transfer all your purchased content to those new units. You need a top of the line processor to play the latest games. -Gel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, fi

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
- Original Message - From: Philip Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:39 pm Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > > Yes, but PCs are completely upgradable. > > Really? Even the $400 ones which are being pushed now with a built-

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> Yes, but PCs are completely upgradable. Really? Even the $400 ones which are being pushed now with a built-in graphics card and small foot-print that can't have a replacement graphics card or motherboard? How about making a SWEEPING statement > It's pretty easy to buy a very good PC that play

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
> The machine WILL run the current games and won't be completely out- > datedfor at least a couple of years... Surprisingly most PCs only > last for > (wait for it) a couple of years before they're outdated! Yes, but PCs are completely upgradable. > > So, what you are trying to tell people who

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> So what's your solution? 1) Think of it as a console which runs the THOUSANDS of available PC games that run on Windows XP 2) Move on from games over 7 years old!!! The machine WILL run the current games and won't be completely out-dated for at least a couple of years... Surprisingly most PCs

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
> Games won't run as the hardware will be out-dated soon by new games Yes > > Really old games won't run as it's new technolgy Not new, but incompatible. > > > So, what you're moaning about is that the technology is too new, but > will become old, right? So what's your solution? [Todays Th

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> > You claim that the Phantom will be obsolete as software > > moves on, yet you refer to games which are 5-10 years old > > Two different issues, eh? Not really Here's what you're complaining about: Games won't run as the hardware will be out-dated soon by new games Really old games won't r

RE: Broadband in Trinidad (Phantom Game info link)

2004-01-22 Thread Harkins, Patrick
2 Way satellite has a lot of problems anyways. I would stay with 128K ISDN. Or 256K if you can get it for business use. Was just curious... thanks! Patrick -Original Message- From: Angel Stewart Broadband is here available through our terrible national, monopolistic, ISP. It is slow. 12

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
> You claim that the Phantom will be obsolete as software moves on, yet > you refer to games which are 5-10 years old Two different issues, eh? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
> > Most PCs can't run all PC games due to software/hardware > > incompatibilities, so it's highly unlikely the Phantom will either. > > But since it's got a nVidia controller, surely it'll run a fair number Lots of games do not run, or do not run properly under Windows XP. Here's a game that h

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> Not all games run on Windows XP.  Lots of DOS games just > don't work anymore.  I have Street Fighter Alpha, and I have > never been able to get it to run in Windows XP.  Older games > that depended on hardware timing will have to remodified > accordingly. Ooooh, DOS games You claim that the

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
Then I'd hardly call that "all PC games". - Original Message - From: Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:01 pm Subject: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > Who cares about the older games?? > 0_0 > > They're basically t

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> Most PCs can't run all PC games due to software/hardware > incompatibilities, so it's highly unlikely the Phantom will either. But since it's got a nVidia controller, surely it'll run a fair number Obviously your crystal ball is telling you the future and that the Phantom won't be around long

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2004-01-22 Thread Angel Stewart
Who cares about the older games?? 0_0 They're basically talking about games that run on Windows XP of course. -Gel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Not all games run on Windows XP.  Lots of DOS games just don't work anymore.  I have Street Fighte

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:42 pm Subject: RE: Phantom Game info link > The Phantom is supposed to run all PC Games. > > It's based on Windows XP. > > THere was a time when everyone though the Phantom was just a bunch of > hot air, i

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2004-01-22 Thread Angel Stewart
The Phantom is supposed to run all PC Games. It's based on Windows XP. THere was a time when everyone though the Phantom was just a bunch of hot air, including me. I thought it was a hoax. But it seems that myself and many others were quite wrong and that it is a legitimate product. Asid

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
Whoops, first response should be: Most PCs can't run all PC games due to software/hardware incompatibilities, so it's highly unlikely the Phantom will either. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:10 pm Subject: Re: RE: Phantom Game

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
Here's an interesting article about Infinium: http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTEy - Original Message - From: Philip Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:51 am Subject: RE: Phantom Game info link > > How do you think the Phantom will fa

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2004-01-22 Thread Bushy
Speaking of games. Check this out! http://www.easybuy2000.com/store/nintendo%20accessories/x-rom512.shtml --Original Message Text--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:10:52 -0700 > IF it runs all PC games, the it's a cheapish solution, especially > sinceit runs to a TV - a lot

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2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
> IF it runs all PC games, the it's a cheapish solution, especially > sinceit runs to a TV - a lot of people don't like running games on > their PC > compared to consoles as they have to use the "tiny" monitor, in > comparison to their TV - it's a "shared experience" thing > > Now, if it does ru

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> How do you think the Phantom will fare, assuming they come > out with a viable product? It all depends on what it runs IF it runs all PC games, the it's a cheapish solution, especially since it runs to a TV - a lot of people don't like running games on their PC compared to consoles as they hav

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2004-01-22 Thread Kwang Suh
How do you think the Phantom will fare, assuming they come out with a viable product? -Original Message- From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 22, 2004 6:40 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Phantom Game info link > What the heck are you talking about?  I&#x

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2004-01-22 Thread Kwang Suh
ginal Message- From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 22, 2004 6:40 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Phantom Game info link > What the heck are you talking about?  I'm not saying the > games won't work, I'm saying that the games won't look as >

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2004-01-22 Thread Kwang Suh
t: RE: Phantom Game info link That's not what the Phantom is about. The phantom article emphatically states you would own the content and be able to transfer the content you bought at will to another Phantom machine whenever you want. This includes all the games, patches etc. that you have bou

RE: Broadband in Trinidad (Phantom Game info link)

2004-01-22 Thread Angel Stewart
Broadband is here available through our terrible national, monopolistic, ISP. It is slow. 128K maximum for residential use, and it is not widely available at all. I have broadband here at our Trinidad office, but it is delivered through an expensive satellite system, which is 1 Way. We got screw

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2004-01-22 Thread Harkins, Patrick
Angel, what's the expectation for broadband coming for Trinidad? Is it likely to happen soon? -Patrick [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

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2004-01-22 Thread Angel Stewart
That's not what the Phantom is about. The phantom article emphatically states you would own the content and be able to transfer the content you bought at will to another Phantom machine whenever you want. This includes all the games, patches etc. that you have bought. THe only 'new' thing is

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2004-01-22 Thread Philip Arnold
> What the heck are you talking about?  I'm not saying the > games won't work, I'm saying that the games won't look as > good, and won't run as fast.  And since developers may have > no reason to make sure their games work as well as they could > on the Phantom (remember, the PC platform is a m

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2004-01-21 Thread Kwang Suh
Most people do not purchase XBoxes to run Linux on them.  I don't think they'd buy Phantoms to run Linux on them either. >The back of this thing and the style of it, means it opens up more than just >a games console, you could watch TV throught it, even play music through it >or with the right sof

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2004-01-21 Thread Kwang Suh
>  Do you just like arguing the fact that you wouldn't because the article is   the bible. Oh, I see.  You don't believe the article either.  If you had bother to read my earlier posts,  I said I didn't agree with the article either, not that I disagreed with online content in general. Ah we

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2004-01-21 Thread Kwang Suh
Which version of DirectX?  How is my Geforce1 going to support pixel shaders, even if it's compliant? -Original Message- From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 21, 2004 10:28 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Phantom Game info link Not if it conforms to something

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2004-01-21 Thread Andrew Scott
Regards Andrew Scott Technical Consultant NuSphere Pty Ltd Level 2/33 Bank Street South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205 Phone: 03 9686 0485  -  Fax: 03 9699 7976      _   From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2004 3:41 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Phantom Game in

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2004-01-21 Thread Andrew Scott
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2004 3:32 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Phantom Game info link What the heck are you talking about?  I'm not saying the games won't work, I'm saying that the games won't look as good, and won't run as fast.  And since developers m

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2004-01-21 Thread Andrew Scott
Technical Consultant NuSphere Pty Ltd Level 2/33 Bank Street South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205 Phone: 03 9686 0485  -  Fax: 03 9699 7976      _   From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2004 3:30 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link

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2004-01-21 Thread Kwang Suh
uying something like that. -Original Message- From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 21, 2004 7:23 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link Philip, This guy talks only as if that is what he would do, and not what the general public would actually

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2004-01-21 Thread Kwang Suh
atform is a moving target), Phantom owners could be left with a quickly obsoleting console. -Original Message- From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 21, 2004 6:51 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > As nVidia adds more features to

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2004-01-21 Thread Kwang Suh
ter. If everybody downloads games off the Internet, hey, no skin off my back. It's just my OPINION that that'll never take off. -Original Message- From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 21, 2004 7:23 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info

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2004-01-21 Thread Andrew Scott
Philip, This guy talks only as if that is what he would do, and not what the general public would actually do. He proved that in a previous thread, the phantom looks like a very good all round entertainment appliance that would be suitable for a range of things and not just games. But I guess

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2004-01-21 Thread Philip Arnold
> As nVidia adds more features to their newer cards and games > take advantage of those features, the Phantom won't look and > perform as well. So, what you're saying is that as soon as the new nVidia card is out, all developers stop working for it? Since the spec is fairly current, it's the sa

Re: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread ksuh
> If Microsoft did take it over, then the project would be scrapped, as > they have their own consoles Yes. > BTW, the Dreamcast was based on Windows CE, yet Microsoft didn't do > anything about that, did they? What does the OS have to do with it? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscripti

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2004-01-21 Thread Philip Arnold
> Well that would certainly make the potential of it being > viable higher.  OTOH, it sounds like they're making it a > console then.  I wonder if they would be a potential MS > takeover target. If Microsoft did take it over, then the project would be scrapped, as they have their own consoles

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2004-01-21 Thread ksuh
> So, with you thinking that developers won't care about Phantom owners, > lets look at the number of PC video cards which don't have many > purchases compared to the ATi and NVidea ones... > > Yet, they still manage to write their code to work for those Game developers code using an API (either

RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread ksuh
004 1:59 pm Subject: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > According to that article some developers are porting their games over > to Phantom. That sounds like it is developed specifically for Phantom. > These could be PS2 based games so it may need to be rewritten to > sup

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2004-01-21 Thread Philip Arnold
> Consoles are a different story, since the hardware is fixed, > and developers create games tailored to that hardware. > > PC games are geared to a somewhat vague hardware spec that > increases over time. > > I'm not sure if PC developers would care about Phantom owners > when creating games,

RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread Ben Densmore
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 3:41 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link Consoles are a different story, since the hardware is fixed, and developers create games tailored to that hardware. PC games are geared to a somewhat vague hardware spec that

Re: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread ksuh
s the Phantom user base was quite large. Since the Phantom is supposed to run PC games, this is probably going to become an issue over time. - Original Message - From: Philip Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:35 pm Subject: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > &

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2004-01-21 Thread ksuh
AIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:33 pm Subject: Re: RE: Phantom Game info link > > The Athlon XP 3200+ is the last XP proc being made. > > > > Newer graphics cards will be PCI Express.  AGP is being phased out. > > > > DDR ram is being replaced

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2004-01-21 Thread Philip Arnold
> The Athlon XP 3200+ is the last XP proc being made. > > Newer graphics cards will be PCI Express.  AGP is being phased out. > > DDR ram is being replaced with DDR2 ram as well. Damn, I might as well scrap all of my existing hardware Gosh, imagine hardware getting out of date You yourself arg

Re: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread Kevin Graeme
> The Athlon XP 3200+ is the last XP proc being made. > > Newer graphics cards will be PCI Express.  AGP is being phased out. > > DDR ram is being replaced with DDR2 ram as well. While DDR2 is indeed the proposed path, it appears that mobo manufacturers are putting off its adoption due to high cos

Re: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread ksuh
ct: RE: Phantom Game info link > Well, I guess the good thing about the Phantom is you could probably > upgrade the CPU and memory, graphics may be a different story if it's > using onboard video, which I would say it most likely is. > > > > -Original Message-

RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread Ben Densmore
esday, January 21, 2004 2:54 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Phantom Game info link Bleh...  Until I see them at EB for sale, I'm not holding my breath. Besides, by next year, it'll be totally obsolete (it already sorta is; Athlon XPs are end of life, and the new Geforce is coming out prett

RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread ksuh
Ok, I'll call it "one-off ware" :) - Original Message - From: Philip Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:50 pm Subject: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > > Over the years, there's been lots of products shown at CES > &

RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread ksuh
using new technologies, that Phantom is going to look mighty bad after awhile. - Original Message - From: Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:34 pm Subject: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > Hmm... > > You have a point there. There was an arti

RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread Jerry Johnson
See, that's the problem with you British-type folks. You can't even spell vaporware correctly. =) Jerry Johnson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/21/04 02:50PM >>> > Over the years, there's been lots of products shown at CES > and other trade shows, in physical form, with you to play > with, that have

RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread Ben Densmore
So viruses might still be an issue then. I wonder how they will handle that. -Original Message- From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:52 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link A version of windows XP embedded. -Gel

RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread Angel Stewart
A version of windows XP embedded. -Gel -Original Message- From: Ben Densmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the OS behind this thing? Is it a proprietary OS or is it running Windows or Linux? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.

RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread Philip Arnold
> Over the years, there's been lots of products shown at CES > and other trade shows, in physical form, with you to play > with, that have never made it to general customer > distribution.  It's par for the course. But by definition; Vapourware: Vapourware is software that is not yet written.

RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread Ben Densmore
What's the OS behind this thing? Is it a proprietary OS or is it running Windows or Linux? -Original Message- From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:34 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link Hmm... You have a

RE: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread Angel Stewart
Hmm... You have a point there. There was an article online a few days ago that pointed to items we were still waiting on from CES 2002. But the point is really that the company is pushing forward with this model, and they seem to have it figured out. It definitely shows interest by hardware

Re: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread ksuh
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:22 pm Subject: RE: RE: Phantom Game info link > > I'm saying that we'll first see if the Phantom is actually > > available, and then we'll see if people actually bother to > > purchase the games this way. > > > > It&

RE: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread Philip Arnold
> I'm saying that we'll first see if the Phantom is actually > available, and then we'll see if people actually bother to > purchase the games this way. > > It's still vapourware to me :) Since it's been shown at CES, what would it take to convince you that it's far beyond vapourware and into p

Re: RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread ksuh
January 21, 2004 11:58 am Subject: RE: Phantom Game info link > Wow. > > This is really interesting. I wonder what those that were calling the > idea of subscription gaming services and delivery of games over > broadband 'foolish' are saying now? > > " Infinium ch

RE: Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread Angel Stewart
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Phantom Game info link

2004-01-21 Thread Harkins, Patrick
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