From: "Jim Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Actually, it makes perfect sense to reinvent these things since one of
> the whole points of consoles is to keep costs down so that you can make
> money on the hardware.
I'm not sure... you have to remember that reinventing stuff costs a lot of
R&D dollar
Karl Kuras wrote:
>
> vs. Capcom 2). Also, lets face it, console games were starting to get
> really held down by the lack of things such as harddrives and network cards,
> and there is no reason (or financial sense) in reinventing the wheel when
> these things already exist.
Actually, it makes
From: "Jim Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Agreed, but even then I have to stress again that the X-Box is the first
> "console" that doesn't fit the traditional mold of console (custom
> hardware, bus, and OS; built from the ground up to be a gaming console).
True it doesn't, but I like to think o
Karl Kuras wrote:
>
> Well, hate to break it to you, but you chose the worse source in the world
> for this one. Gaming Age articles are mostly written by amateurs who get
> their rumors off newsgroups. I spoke to the manager of an EB who happens to
> be a computer science mager (aka Programmer
From: "Pedro Quaresma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >It wasnt' the CD Drive failing. The demo cd's that they sent out were
bad
> >burns. I have a friend who manages an EB and he said that a whole batch
> of
> >the CD's were bad, causing the problem to be huge. Not a software glitch
> >(as far as codin
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> >At no point did I promote the X-Box as a good console. Come up with
> >*ANY* other report of a console crashing (NOT x-box).
>
> No, you never promoted xbox, but you said "consoles whip all computer
> platforms anyway since they never crash" (hey, it's right there 11
Jim Leonard wrote:
>Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> >
> > You never had to configure anything in Windows? Reduce a bit your sound
> > card acceleration? Tweak around with your gfx card settings?
>
> >What the heck is "reducing sound card accleration?"
>
> Hmmm. I remember a slide bar somewhere about t
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> >
> > You never had to configure anything in Windows? Reduce a bit your sound
> > card acceleration? Tweak around with your gfx card settings?
>
> >What the heck is "reducing sound card accleration?"
>
> Hmmm. I remember a slide bar somewhere about the sound card... ma
> Does any of the following ring a bell: Neverwinter Nights, Soldier of
> Fortune, Deux Ex, Jagged Alliance 2, Descent 3, Heavy Metal FAKK 2,
Kohan,
> Rune, Railroad Tycoon 2, Sin, Shogo, Tribes 2, etcetc?
>How many of these are less then a year and a half plus old?
Well, these are portings of
> Does any of the following ring a bell: Neverwinter Nights, Soldier of
> Fortune, Deux Ex, Jagged Alliance 2, Descent 3, Heavy Metal FAKK 2, Kohan,
> Rune, Railroad Tycoon 2, Sin, Shogo, Tribes 2, etcetc?
How many of these are less then a year and a half plus old?
> Consoles never crash? What's
>
> You never had to configure anything in Windows? Reduce a bit your sound
> card acceleration? Tweak around with your gfx card settings?
>What the heck is "reducing sound card accleration?"
Hmmm. I remember a slide bar somewhere about the sound card... maybe it was
some completely different t
Karl Kuras wrote:
>
> From: "Jim Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Consoles have had 3D on the horizon long, long before 3D accelerated
> > cards arrived for the PC
>
> I'm not arguing about 3D accelerators, I'm talking about 3D games (Wing
> Commander, Ultima Underworld, Wolfenstein, Doom et al)
game...not the
fault of the OS or the hardware.
Hugh
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Pedro Quar
.
Hugh
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From: "Hugh Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> App
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> >2) I RARELY crash. I'm using Windows Me.
>
> Worst OS ever :)
>
> >Going through normal use
> >(Outlook, Word, Excel, FrontPage, various shareware utilities, and a bunch
> >of games) I might have a crash once every couple of weeks. This is
> >acceptable to me.
>
>
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> Who knows where we would be if Windows never existed? We could be using for
> example AmigaOS, which handled multitasking better than most other OSes. Or
At the time, it was the only mainstream multitasking OS so I'm not sure
what you're comparing it with. Hopefully no
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> You never had to configure anything in Windows? Reduce a bit your sound
> card acceleration? Tweak around with your gfx card settings?
What the heck is "reducing sound card accleration?"
I only tweak GFX if I'm trying to overclock and get better performance
:)
> >But
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> But this wasn't not a DOS vs Windows issue. If Windows had never existed we
> would be much better with other stable OSes out there. And we'd still have
> games.
Be careful in your advocacy -- Linux has only recently earned the
"stable" moniker. SVGAlib used to bring y
Karl Kuras wrote:
>
> never had to reset any of my system configurations (with the exception of 16
> bit or 32 bit color... hate when a game won't accept 32bit color... anyone
> know what the problem is with that from a coding stand point?) for a windows
> program... it just runs.
Laziness or ar
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> Memmaker was not optimal. I could get better results by configuring
> config.sys & autoexec.bat myself, usually involving, IIRC,
> shadowing/unshadowing memory and other interesting tricks.
> I remember I used to get more than 600k base memory even with sound card
> and
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> >I'm not entirely sure I'd call Gates a gangster or snake-oil salesman --
> >that's Balmer's job and always has been. :-)
>
> Even before he became CEO? What did he do before?
Biz guy. It's always been his job to wheel and deal.
> >My only real lament with the rise
From: "Hugh Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Apple would be #1, DOS would be where Apple is today (Maybe with GEM or
> Geoworks as the shell), and Atari/Commodore (sadly) would be where they
are
> today.
I don't know if Commodore would be where it is now had it not been for
Windows... granted they wer
>2) I RARELY crash. I'm using Windows Me.
Worst OS ever :)
>Going through normal use
>(Outlook, Word, Excel, FrontPage, various shareware utilities, and a bunch
>of games) I might have a crash once every couple of weeks. This is
>acceptable to me.
This may sound strange for regular Windows
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Who knows where we would be if Windows never existed? We could be using for
example AmigaOS, which handled multitasking better than most other OSes. Or
MacOS which is even "easi
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e would all be on Apples right now. That would
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Hugh
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ware.
If Windows never existed we would all be on Apples right now. That would
work for me as well.
Hugh
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>If your game crashes...you have a complaint with the game, not the
operating
>system (usually).
Not really. So many games work on machine A,B & C, but not in D, but others
only seem to work on C & D but not on A & B...
>Poorly written/tested games will crash (or at least not
>work properly) un
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Memmaker was not optimal. I could get better results by configuring
config.sys & autoexec.bat myself, usually involving, IIRC,
shadowing/unshadowing memory and other interesting tricks.
From: "Pedro Quaresma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Memmaker was not optimal. I could get better results by configuring
> config.sys & autoexec.bat myself, usually involving, IIRC,
> shadowing/unshadowing memory and other interesting tricks.
> I remember I used to get more than 600k base memory even with
QEMM was better at optimizing memory usage than DOS 6.22. There were several games
that needed
QEMM to run on my machine, because DOS' MemMaker wouldn't cut it.
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
> EA, MacDonalds, and now Windows... you're scaring me, Hugh! ;)
>
> >I'm not thrilled with everything about Win
EA, MacDonalds, and now Windows... you're scaring me, Hugh! ;)
>I'm not thrilled with everything about Windows; however, as a gamer...I
>don't see how you can't think Windows 95 and later made life MUCH better.
No, it hasn't. As a gamer, I'd rather have one of the old OSes that
wouldn't crash.
Jim Leonard wrote:
>Chris Newman wrote:
>
> What's the story? Is MS abusing its relationship with NBC? Where'd you
hear the
> rumors?
> Yes, I'm very interested in that. Gates is part snake oil salesman, part
gangster,
> and all
> opportunist.
>Rumor has it that Microsoft offered to 1. ignore e
Chris Newman wrote:
>What's the story? Is MS abusing its relationship with NBC? Where'd you
hear the
>rumors?
>Yes, I'm very interested in that.
Me too. Seriously, I am. I love MS-bashing stories
>Gates is part snake oil salesman, part gangster, and all opportunist.
ROFL! :D I couldn't have pu
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