Hey Chewi! Your thoughts on Vista!
I've only briefly seen it. People rave on about the shininess but it's not important and it's not new either. Even Linux had it first to a certain extent. Check out this video. It shows Enlightenment DR17 (what Yellow Dog are going to use on the PS3) in the earlier stages.
http://enlightenment.org/Enlightenment/Scr...s/e17_video.avi
I think that video is at least two years old. It's not bad for its age and it can probably do a lot more now. More recently, there has also been a lot of progress on something called Xgl, which is a lot more impressive. Here's a slightly blurry video of it in action.
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http://enlightenment.org/Enlightenment/Scr...s/e17_video.avi
I think that video is at least two years old. It's not bad for its age and it can probably do a lot more now. More recently, there has also been a lot of progress on something called Xgl, which is a lot more impressive. Here's a slightly blurry video of it in action.
Click here to view the YouTube video. Click here again to hide it.
Last edited by Chewi on Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:09 am, edited 1 time in total.
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This should give you some idea of what's required. It probably requires a fair bit of CPU power too but I doubt it requires all that much system RAM. Graphics RAM is more important and if you're not playing a game, there's usually a fair bit of that to spare.
WTF!?
possibly Castlevania
F-Zero I'm sure of it!
andt it feels like theris atleast 3 more in there I should know.
possibly Castlevania
F-Zero I'm sure of it!
andt it feels like theris atleast 3 more in there I should know.
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Are you referring to the music? I actually thought it was so good, I checked the band out. Machinae Supremecy. They do a lot of game-related stuff and use an actual SID chip (the sound chip from the Commodore 64) in their music. I found an awesome cover of the Pinball Dreams intro.
http://www.machinaesupremacy.com
http://www.machinaesupremacy.com
I have a new opinion on Vista. It's taking the PC industry to a very dark place. I've only read bits of this but that was more than enough. Read the FAQ at the bottom if you believe it to be biased or false.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
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That's a good article Chewi, it's always good to remain skeptic. But I'll wait to hear a few more opinions from both sides before making my final opinion. In the meantime I'm still stuck with my Mac OS X and my computer is becoming outdated as we speak. Might be upgrading from the G4 processor to one of those Dual Cores in the new Macs.