Posted by valcion

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lets move this topic away from games that dont exist

sonic CD is a pretty dope game. i'm sad I never had a sega cd in my youth

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I got the recent PC remake version myself (despite having the original in disk image form) and I must say it's a pretty solid remake. It includes both the Japanese and American soundtrack which is a nice bonus (I personally use the Japanese one).

TBH though, most Sega CD titles was kind of forgiveable being part of the mid 90's interactive movie fad. If more games was less about cutscenes and more like Sonic CD who knows. The mild reception of SegaCD was the whole reason Nintendo dropped the SNES CD addon afaik.

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The whole assistants thing started in Microsoft Bob. It seems like there was people at Microsoft who stubbornly believed it would make the computer more friendly, but more users got frustrated, and some thought it turned the computer into a toy. Makes you wonder about the internal politics of Microsoft when they hold onto something not working for so long (Allegedly the husband of Bill Gates was involved in Microsoft Bob after all).

Metro and Ribbon, two technologies that seems to annoy me more than impress.

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I just eat plain corn flakes if I have cereals.

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Posted by KP9000

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Posted by GreyMaria

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Golden Crisp is a nice cereal.

But it always makes your piss smell like Golden Crisp.

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This.

It is a nasty cycle, because I am not one to get disgusted that my food-scented piss gets me hungry. This means when I piss a Golden Puffs smell, I will go and get myself a bowl of Golden Puffs.

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Bet your real name is Bear Grylls.

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That chip looks a lot like one of the Chips Challange chips so I can understand the mixup. Anyway, it was originally made for Atari Lynx but was later ported to various systems, the most played port being the Windows one that was indeed ported by Microsoft. It's also a bit crappy port too technically, though most grow up with it so most stick with it for nostlagia. Google around for it's history it's quite intresting... including seeing that typos in the "research" documents wind up in the final game. Or bugs like that the "every tenth level message" not being there for the first 50 or so levels, due to them missing in the same paper.

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Posted by Nicole

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Posted by GreyMaria

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I just caught my sixth or so TARDIS.

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They're actually all the same TARDIS, thanks to the timey-wimey ball.

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I think the police box look was meant to be a disguise or something, that the TARDIS was able to change it's look depending on need and something. And then that functionality of it broke in the very first episode (probably cause it was cheaper production wise to keep it as a police box). AFAIK anyway (Seen some Dr Who but I'm not a hardcore fan ).

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Simcity 4 with Rush hour is the best version seriously. :p Simcity 3000 is way too easy, and Simcity 2000 lacks the depth that Simcity 4 have (I love the traffic simulation). But you need the expansion pack or the deluxe edition for the best experience (if you buy the game today you get the deluxe edition anyway). People seem to have trouble getting into Simcity 4 since it's the hardest one (but as long you're careful and waits with public services until they're needed rather than building them haphazardly, you do fine).

Genres tend to spill into each other, so Civilization does have quite a few elements typical to simulation games. But it's still mostly about turnbased strategy, although it originally was designed with realtime in mind, somewhat like Simcity. Just turned out making the game turnbased was more fun.

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Posted by Gywall

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It's amazing how Microsoft try to make it easier and easier to install Windows.. yet people still fuck up and fail somehow.

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Installing Operating systems are relatively easy nowadays, although I still linux distros have the better installers (When Win XP was still the main OS I recall reviews for Ubuntu Linux pointing out it was easier to install than Windows).

As long you know your hardware, you're only a few clicks away from getting the right drivers in the worst case.

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Posted by Acmlm

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At least I can still live with it after enough tweaking and hacking, and I've gotten mostly used to it already, so it won't be all that bad once I'm forced to drop XP (next computer, maybe)

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As soon you run out of memory address space you're pretty much forced to. Windows 7 isn't really that bad when you get used to it. The inbuilt search functionality on the start menu is really nice if you gotten into habit of using it. I actually run out of memory addresses on my second last computer, had 3.25 GB of RAM rather than the full 4 GB due to the hardware addresses taking the rest.

Anyway...

1994: 486 Compaq brand (Presario?): Came with Win 3.1, was updated to Win95 at some point. We installed a 2 GB harddrive which felt OMGHUGE back then.
1998: HP Pentium II: I remember this felt like a night and day in perfomance compared to the 486 lol
2002: HP Pentium IV: This became my main computer during the college years, it was basically running at duct tape in it's last moments.
2006: HP With some AMD processor (2600+ maybe): It's GPU and PSU was dying and I was getting sick of Hewlett Packard computers. A bad HD cable made matters worse too, would randomly freeze due to that.
2010: Built my current computer with Intel core i7 2.67 ghz and ATI Radeon 5800 (one of the last cards with the ATI brand before it was dropped in favor of just plain AMD).'

My next computer probably will have a SSD boot disk for speed. When that will be I'm not sure, current CPU's around are too similar in performance of what I have already so I want to wait a little longer. I already had to replace the PSU (*sigh* I seem to have a bad luck with those) and the GPU fan on this computer. Maybe 2014?

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I actually start to think that emulation might be superior for 3D based consoles. Jagged polygons really start to get to me. A quite few N64 games looks surprisingly gorgeous with modern filters and high resolution. To the point that some games like Perfect dark is comparable to most GoldSRC/Quake 3 era PC games. Some early 3D games suffers more from aesthetics than technical quality though such as overly saturated textures (Compare Super Mario 64 with it's DS remake texture-wise).

Kinda funny to thnk that games was too saturated looking. Nowadays it's all "real is brown".

But for low-res pixel-based consoles like NES and SNES, I would prefer the original console and I actually set up my emulators to fake the look of a TV.

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It's tempting to use vendor specific CSS features when W3C is taking their time with putting things into their standard. I played around with them before, but never used them seriously.

Active Desktop wasn't very useful, it was more there to convince governments that IE was part of Windows now. It seems to have been fully removed post Win XP.

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Regex is something I use time to time, but never fully understood. I need to take my time to learn it properly.

Posted by Kawa

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Posted by Kiyoshi

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Looking at how little resources the non-3D version of SOL.EXE takes, Microsoft could easily do this for Windows.

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The worst thing is, Windows Setup actually runs on Windows, all the way back to 3.x, so you totally could do that -- copy sol.exe and cards.dll in the first, non-Windows phase so you can start it in the second.

Somebody oughta ask Raymond Chen about this.

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Win 3.1 was used in the Win95 and Win98 installers. You can spot that on the buttons within the installer. No idea about Windows ME, and I know that Windows 2000 and Windows XP used a textmode based installer. Windows 7 uses "itself" for installing.

I like that some Linux discs doubles as both boot and install disc.

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Reading that didn't make my brain melt, just made me realize how much math I still need to learn.

Mostly game specific wikis honestly, most of them being a better resource than official guides. No, it's not for walkthroguhs but more for references and strategies for competitive games or strangely... simulation games (simulation games tend to have tricks that is not obvious to a player).

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IIRC it was -moz-border-radius. For a time if you wanted rounded corners you had to use the browser specfic tags for it.

Nowadays just border-radius should work though (just put it in my layout for fun ), so it's moot now.

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Unfortunately no.

Rounded corners were something I stumbled upon as I thought it was part of the CSS standard back then (rounded corners are a Web 2.0 cliché), but it wasn't. Most sites were using image hacks rather than using browser specific tags though (might be what I did for the website back then). Otherwise there hadn't been any other browser-specfic tags that I needed to use.

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I only try to use savestates and rewinds in situations where I want to see the results of doing something differently or I’m playing with glitches that can crash the game. If I'm playing seriously, I don't use it at all.

Although I found out that way that the Mario Party 1 dice is predetermined through savestates. Timing does not matter at all.

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First time I installed Linux it was... fedora core 3 or something I think, and I found it really kludgy even if it was handholding you with GUI installers. You had to use three different CD's for the installer too. I remember thinking that Ubuntu Linux was so clean and bloatfree compared to my former Linux experience. I did try out Slackware and some BSD for fun of it, but neither were that newbiefriendly compared to Ubuntu Linux (I know my way more comfortable in Linux nowadays though so it's not as big concern for me).

Then again back then the red hat distros loved to be multi-CD based as to have everything on the discs. Nowadays they just put on stuff that the average user needs, and anything else you have to download yourself.

I use Windows 7 at home for gaming, everywhere else I'm using Linux with a bias towards the debian-family of distros.

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Posted by Gywall

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I wish I had a tablet. :/

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I have a tablet, now I just need to learn to draw. I hadn't used mine in a bit, it's awkward to use on my desk unfortunately.

Posted by Kawa

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Everyday I'm fluttering -- based on actual events.

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...oh you bronies. (You can't order them on the internet?)

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