Kripto
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Art which contains large staring eyes is often associated with paranoid schizophrenia.
Maybe someone at Atari was off their meds when the Jag was being planned?
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No I mean a musictracker, it's a program that lets you arrange sounds in vertical patterns, that way making a song. Screamtracker and Modplugtracker are examples of these programs and there is a version for the Game Boy as well. It was the easiest way for making songs on older OS's, when things like Reason didn't exist yet.That's a step-sequencer. Reason isn't referred to as a "tracker" is it? I see that the term has taken hold in the home brew community for some reason though. Damn the unofficial and their deviant terminology!
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You mean a "sequencer"/synthesizer, correct? A "tracking" program would focus on recording audio from an external source, which I don't believe is what you mean.
I think you'll also find that most people with the skillset needed to create such a program will have no shortage of ideas or pending projects taking up their time. Best of luck though.
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From a deeply cynical perspective, this is actually quite good for "real" musicians...
If some kid's musical aspirations are channeled into Guitar Hero versus eventually buying a real instrument, forming a band and putting out records, that means less financial competition for those made by Jack Black and Page...
My actual opinion is that people try to hold onto the past time and time again in our rapidly changing times, and I have almost never seen that strategy generate a positive outcome.
If they truly want to encourage musicianship and aren't simply paying faux-noble lip service, they should attempt to do so through the popular media of today. Make an actual guitar learning game if that's how you feel. They certainly have the bucks and stature.
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It's amazing what people will throw out thinking it's broken. A few weeks ago I found a 17-inch "sunflower/iLamp" iMac in the trash of my sister's building. Mint condition. The "issue" was that someone had inserted an incompatible system disk into the drive, which it was trying to startup from. Took the disk out and everything works perfectly!
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You guys have no idea what you're talking about...
The IBM PS/2 is the future of computing, as can be seen in this lovely video clip- -
Actually, I'm pretty sure IBM still makes normal PCs. You just don't see them as much these days.It would be especially weird to use the term "IBM Compatible" today as that IBM stopped making personal computers in 2005!I was surprised as well, but according to their site what IBM sells new are servers and serious rackmount and freestanding machines. They sold their laptop division to an Asian company (Lenova) and are still selling refurbished PCs that are IBM-branded. No new IBM personal computers however. Strange but true.
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It would be especially weird to use the term "IBM Compatible" today as that IBM stopped making personal computers in 2005!
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Check out this video of a supposedly 360-generated "virtual friend" named Milo. Anybody know what the additional block on top of the 360 is?
http://www.offworld.com/2009/06/e309-first...f-lionhead.html
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That's pretty surreal. I remember being in arcades like that outside of the main cities of Greece in the early '80s. In fact, I never saw a single licensed machine there.
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Barn Storming is a great looking game, like most from Activision, but suffers from not enough variety in game play. If it had a few more obstacle types and maybe a second stage type, it would be a gazillion times more enjoyable.
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Someone just pointed out to me that the sensor unit has it's own optimized processor, so that makes it somewhat more likely to work in my mind. However, as that it doesn't come standard with the 360, it means they'll be a smaller market for developers to sell to and it may well suffer the fate of other famous system add-ons such as the Jag CD, SNes SuperScope, etc.
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The amount of CPU power needed for the kind of shape recognition they showed is quite serious and I simply doubt the 360 would be able to handle it with accurate, fast results as shown in the video. My guess is that their PR department decided to "steal the thunder" of their competitors with this currently unavailable product.
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The Y cable will work but will dirty up the sound somewhat. If you care enough about the audio quality, a cheap switcher or mixer will provide better sound for several times more money.
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I'm really amazed at how far GameShark GoldenEye hacking has come. I thought it was deep when I was doing it in the 90's...
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Hey, at least it's the more-authentic first edition FlashBack...
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Yeah, the SwordQuest series is the result of a marketing department gone mad with power. Who cares how it actually plays? Does it look good? Playability? What's that?
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It appears that I may have taken an oath in a previous life that dictates I respond with "ssSnake" whenever the question of worst 2600 stinkers comes up...
I really do understand why people hate Froggo Karate though... The fact that you can't tell whether or not you're actually effecting gameplay says a huge amount about that title.
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Too bad they had a throw in a pic of Jak's stick instead of the real thing. Oh well. The article wasn't anything special anyway so perhaps it's appropriate.
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Thanks Curt. It's great to have an accurate historical account of how the design came about. It seems that it was more of a spec battle then actually giving gamers what they wanted. God knows that I had no idea how many directions the INTV pad could read at the time, but did know that the 5200 stick was super-akward for Pac Man and most other tradtional arcade games.
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During that period there were many joysticks which didn't self-center (Mostly on computers), and it was viewed as having a value in its own right. The reasoning being that they could be used for plotting/graphics applications, or games like Missle Command and Qix.
I personally hate non-self-centering sticks and had the misfortune of getting one with my first Apple II system in the early 80's. They especially suck with games like Pac Man as that it can be difficult to know when one has passed the center dead zone of the stick, making it more difficult to exactly time the wholesale direction changes demanded by such games.
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This is NOT a machine one purchases to do pragmatic computer work. You would buy it because you WANT an Atari Falcon, not because you NEED one.
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The ending of the very first Bionic Commando is still one of my favorites... Hey, you get to kill Hitler!
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Bose systems are designed to seriously mess with the stereo image, using propriety widening effects. I never liked the sound of their systems due to the lack of sound localization. A very messy, jumbled soundfield.
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I was helping my sister throw her garbage out in Manhattan and saw a thin plastic corner which I knew was the edge of a sunflower/iLamp iMac. Took it out of the trash and nursed it back to health. Now it runs WipeOut and sone emulators as the heart of my workout entertainment system. Ain't nothin' wrong with free! A truly beautiful screen as well!