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Amiga forever indeed :)
Love dev journals like this :-) Glad to hear you got some performance updates out of the "ol'" engine. Guess I should return to my massive galaxy shortly then, still looking for "my" planet.
Any plans to organize the founders vault more? Maybe with some subfolders for what it is along with a button to 'download everything in this subfolder as a easily extracted .7z file' I guess once there is more content there, it kinda forces itself to be done :) Also: The "founder vault" link from the main page goes to the 'buy access' instead of offering you a chance to login. Took me a while to find out how to access it. &nbs
Bees? Yupp, kooky. Teslabees! now there's an idea.
Yea, without the full context you are really at the mercy of whatever agenda the journalist (or the editor/owner) has. I suppose in this day of digital everything it shouldn't be too hard for print media to attach the complete (hopefully unedited) interview for the readers. Last time I gave an interview I was severely misquoted in the print article, so I suppose that is another thing to remember -- try to get a final approval on the article, although I suppose that would depend on whet
A few bullet points to show why digital distributions of game software will continue to be customer(*1) unfriendly and risky business Why haven't I received a confirmation email? Why can't I download the file? The download cancelled and now I can't download the game, why? Why is it ask
Agree. 64Bit only. Ever since XP 64-bit was released (2003??) I would have liked for them to shift the focus to a 64-bit OS. Most apps and major hardware works in it, and with the added shift away from 32-bit they would manage to pressure the few companies that resisted to release updated drivers as well. They already made a major mistake with Vista and 32-bits... and now it looks as if they will do the same for Windows 7... ...
Why is DRM a good thing you may ask yourself? The answer is simple: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/01/pc-gears-of-war-drm-causes-title-to-shut-down-starting-today.ars More such implementations will surely manage to piss of enough consumers that they go over to a totally DRM'ed solution/lockdown system such as the XBOX 360 Console (Which lets y
Well, still looks good. http://amigaweb.net/images/AmigaOS_Screenshot_001_Large.jpg :-) Might not be the standard layout though. But at least shows whats possible. It is a bit like Apple Mac, it might be a really nice OS but it does not have the broad software and hardware support that Windows has. If AmigaOS was compatible with all the software I had on my PC + give me the performa
Been using it for a little over a day as my "main os" (for a little over a day) and I must say this is a real nice change from Vista. It looks a lot nicer than XP, and has some nifty (and some annoyances, but I guess it just about retraining yourself) features. The biggest problem so far has been IE8 which does not format some web pages correctly, especially Gmail (which I use a lot). Oh yea, moving windows to the edge of the screen may produce results you did not
[quote who="TucoBenedicto" comment="23"]Forgive my stupid question, but I have a doubt... this beta can be installed only as Vista Update or even on a brand new PC?[/quote] Should work as a clean install. I launched the installer from my Vista installation, but I could select a "Clean" installation (instead of Upgrade).
Yea. Its not AmigaOS, but at least its a step in a right direction. Still wondering if we'll see a leaner MiniWin kernel, but I guess its too late for Win7. Maybe NT7.0 will be all done in Assembler and weighting in at 20MiB? :-) Just tried L4D with the buildt-in drivers, and it worked without problems although it seemed to lagg a bit compared to XP64/Vista64. Had to install my X-Fi drivers in "Vista compatibility mode", but at least they worketh. Now that all the '
Seems like I can not edit the comments with IE8 in W7. Did a folder comparison, Vistax64 - 15GB, W7x64 11GB, nearly 10k less files.
Posting this in IE8 under W7 Build 7000. Installed from hard-drive, just needed to use WinRAR to extract the .iso image downloaded from Microsoft. So far, was not surprised to find out Creative did not have any sound card drivers available. Nvidia does at least :)
[quote who="voidcore" comment="1"] Image Composite Editor seems interesting! thanks [/quote] Have fun. Gonna try it out myself after I finish installing W7 :-)
@Starkers: Might be possible to just extract the .iso file and install it from a directory. At least thats how I installed Vista x64. Edit: In the past the installer has copied the files required, then rebooted and run from those, so the CD was not required.
Ah, thanks for the headsup with the key workaround. Some more google-fu and now I got the key as well. Guess its installation time ;)
[quote who="starkers" comment="6"] Apparently the site crashed before 2.5 was hit.Long, long before... the link was active only for about 20 minutes or so before the severs went under, so there should still be a majority of the 2 1/2 mill left.Oh, and the torrent with the crack... MS was made aware of it by someone at the blog site, so it probably is no more by now... and a good thing too. Anyone who gets cracked software is cracked in the head.
A few hours of surfing and you end up with a huge history file, and lots of useful links, and even more useless ones. Some of them end up in your 1000+ bookmarks, whereas others are just lost when you accidentaly close a browser tab you shouldn't have closed -- and consequently forgotten. This is where this blog posting comes into play -- it gets them saved -- and since I took time to write it down, I might actually remember to check it out later on, and perhaps others will fi
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/ -> 7000.0.081212-1400 Says 7000 there at least. Edit: Of course, it could be the wrong link. Luckily this connection is so fast download an updated version should pose no problem (As long as it stays up)
[quote who="Moosetek13" comment="2"] Well, MS is only downloading 2.5 million copies of this beta.And 7000 is not the version that MS is using for this public beta. [/quote] Apparently the site crashed before 2.5 was hit. At least thats the indication I get from the Windows Blog + Technet site. But you can still download it, just need to visit that site to get the activation code (when it works) to ma
Just thought I'd update this with "Told ya so" :-)
So, after being rather 'lax' when it comes to "closely" following Microsoft betas for the past few years... (ever since I started working with their software as a fulltime job really...) I decided it was time to get up to speed with the recent Windows 7. And lo and behold, I discover that January 9th was the day that build 7000 (beta 1) would be made available for Joe Public (or user in this case). I happily click the most prominent link I could find, only to discover that I w
Was not aimed at Stardock, since my experiences with them have been nothing with positive. As well as them having a positive "karma". However it was aimed at games developers like Egosoft, and publishers like Valve who in addition to using the silly Steam encryption and time-consumer decided that Egosoft should throw in their copy restriction as well, on a game I wanted to purchase. At least I saved the money :-)
Dear Games Developer & Publisher using Tages Activation die! Happy new year.
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