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Nintendo Gaming / RE: MP2 details and IGN Capcom hyping

« on: January 29, 2004, 06:17:53 PM »

Appears resident evil 4 might be playable, and Mat has had the honors, by this link at capcom japans website.


http://www.capcom.co.jp/bio4/images/e_contents_text.jpg http://www.capcom.co.jp/bio4/images/e_contents_title.jpg  


Links fixed, I'm so stupid, sorry.

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General Chat / RE: iTunes

« on: October 21, 2003, 08:31:25 PM »

and woah on there, settle down dude. Most Mac users, like me, buy a diffrent mouse, I wish Apple had a multi button mouse, simply, they don't. If I were to advise people on  buying a mouse, I'd almost certainly tell people to get a MS mouse (with logitech close behind). OSX (as with previous Mac OS's supported multi button mice out of the box, plug it in, it works.

No need for Apple, again I believe you underestimate Apple, it was Apple who first worked out the GUI was the was to go (firstly developed by Xerox), then later ripped off by MS (sorry, I couldn't help myself), Apple were the ones that shwoed the music execs that music on the internet can work, it just needed to be done properly. Apple was recently announced as the innovator of the last 30 years (http://www.computing.co.uk/news/1144441), Apple played a massive roll in the early development of Aldus (now knows of course as Adobe) Photoshop, Apple recignised that things like movie editing, etc has a place for home users, Apple work the first company with a successful computer in the world. I'm sure theres more, Apple are an innovator. The reasons for Apples massive failure is almost certainly linked to a previous CEO's decision, to Allow MS to develop a MacOS like product for PC's, in return, MS would develop Word, ect, for Macs. After a few years when this agreement rean out, and MS and Apple basicly didn't want to renue the agreement, MS just continued on developing and selling windows, Apple tried to sue, they failed. That was the mistake, letting MS develop windows, if they were to do that again, the very least they'd do would be to develop windows themselves, and allow MS no control over it, then again, is Jobs had his way, not even that.

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General Chat / RE: iTunes

« on: October 21, 2003, 07:50:00 PM »

Well, being a long time Mac user, and a somewhat obsessive one at that, heck I registered this name SteveWozniak, because he was one of the Co-founders of Apple computers, along with Steve Jobs. Now days i try as hard as I can to stay out of Mac Vs PC arguments, I'm happy using Macs, my personal opinion is that Macs are very much better than Windows. However, thats just my opintion. I use most of Apples bundled apps daily, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iCal, etc. I love them all, just such useful Apps. iTunes remains as one of Apples best apps, though, while it may not support all the codecs that everyone wants, it supports the industry standard ones, the ones that are required, Apple to see the need the support codecs that won't be used alot, and that will only bog down the app. Apples goal for the most part, remains to keep things as simple as possibel, to make their software simple to use for new users, hence the blasted one button mouse, while I admint i prefer I enjoy my multi button mice better, I see many people get so very confused when they are using a computer for the first time, they have no idea that the other buttons are for, most think the buttons are ment to that the same function.

ok, now for some of the complains, first off. iTunes taking up too much room, well it does have a option to turn it into a basic remote, minimiseing space, and memory. Also, to save on more memory, turn off the iPod syncing, etc in iTunes prefrences, that'll make another big diffrence. Not happy with MP3 sound quality, well iTunes Music Store offers you the ability to listed to a 30 second clip of any song in thair range. Songs from the iTunes music store are not MP3, the are ACC. ACC is a form of MPEG4, designed specificly for audio, they have a higher quailty than MP3's at the same bitrate. Upto the standard of a CD, no I doubt it very much.

Anyway, good to see alot of people seem to like iTunes.

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TalkBack / RE: Game Informer Online Launches

« on: September 08, 2003, 09:11:53 PM »

Well, I wish Billy all the luck at game informer

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General Chat / RE: The G5 fiasco

« on: July 03, 2003, 09:39:11 PM »

Well, I have a Mac. A Power Mac Dual 867 Mhz G4.

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General Chat / RE: The G5 fiasco

« on: July 03, 2003, 03:06:32 PM »

Yeah, and I'd really want to spend $3K on a computer for games, I'm not stupid enough to claim a Mac is a platfor for games, it clearly isn't, there will always be main stream games for it, even them I don't use, I have consoles for games. I use my computer for Photoshop, for video editing, for desktop publishing, all Mac orentated areas, like I said the SPEC scores really mean little to general scores. Games like Halo, and Halo 2 are developed almost entirely on Mac, yse Jason Jones are the once Mac-Only dev house are probably considered Mac fanboys, I think Apple should have stuck to there Photoshop style tests, good news is these tests were demoed in front of an audience, which makes a little harder to fake, though clearly not impossible. I am very glad  Apple have IBM on board this time, IBM will do alot more to develop the G5 for speed, rather than Motorola who were more interested in the PPC's imbeded implicationjs, which require lower power consumption, and lower cost.. IBM have thre own server familys useing this CPU to worry about speed (Jobs claims they'll be at 3 Ghz within a year). However, I'm going to have to disagree with you a little on the games front there, it games, any apps, are optimised for the Mac, it will do more than enough to compete with high end PC's in gameing terms, most games that are ported to make aren't that well done, though things are now changeing with developers like Aspyr, headed by a former bungie employee, also handling the Mac port of Halo, and many mac games., they are doing a great jog, still if i wanted a computer for a gaming rig, I'd buy myself a PC.

Either way, you haven't changed my mind, and I suspect for sure I haven't changed yours, this is a vast improvement over the G4 systems, IBM have also said the G5 has a lot more tricks up it sleaves, including the PPC 980 (they have prototypes), which is believed to use the execution core of the IBM Power5 high end server CPU, it'll be interesting to see what else IBM can do.

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General Chat / RE: The G5 fiasco

« on: July 02, 2003, 08:50:45 PM »

Well, Apple could make there scores even higher, it they build there own complier, or had IBM do so. Apple aren't allowed to use Alti-Vec in the tests, because they are consider it unfair, it allows alot more power into the CPU, allowing to to process larger chunks of information, that you can't include a turbo engine power tests, it's absolutely stupid that they aren't allowed to use it, yes, Jobs owns pixar, but they do not use Macs for there rendering farms, if Jobs had his way, like you'd suggest, they would, not to mention there is currently no version of RenderMan for MacOSX.  What compiler to Intel use on other manafactures CPU's?, I'll admit that they should have used the Intel compiler, and built a compiler of there own to show of the G5's power, but they used a 3rd party compiler, not optimised for either CPU, and independent tests, they did not cheat. Don't go trying to say they did, the complier was not optimised for then, apple did not run the tests.

The reason for my, was not to blame anyone, not no make excuses, just to say that those scores were achieved with the OS running in 32-bit mode, it will be in 64-bit mode soo, yet it was still able to achieve great scores, those scores will only get better when everything is optimised.


And looking at SPEC scores is close to useless, anyway, it has no real world meaning.

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General Chat / RE: The G5 fiasco

« on: July 02, 2003, 02:18:55 PM »

I also mind you that the GCC texts are not Apple, PowerPC or IBM orintated tests, unlike Intels on test to compare there CPU's., kinda makes Apples tests a little fairer.

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General Chat / RE: The G5 fiasco

« on: July 01, 2003, 02:57:35 PM »

Oops double post

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General Chat / RE: The G5 fiasco

« on: July 01, 2003, 02:55:00 PM »

Not really cheating, while it should have done diffrently, prehaps, I'm sure Intel do the exact same thing, use there own compliler to show off the areas there CPU's are better than everyone elses, Intels complire to test their own CPU's, isn't that cheating, shouldn't there use a 3rd party testing complier, to more accurately, also, the SPEC scores don't allow for Alti-Vec, a corner stone of the G4, and G5's power, because they consider it 'unfair. None of hte real world apps that apple used have been optimised for 64-bit processing, Pixar animations have said it is the fastest Personal Computer, useing there Renderman benchmarking software (Renderman is Pixars rendering software, not currently on macs, but not they are looking into it, because of the Power of the G5 systems). Even the operating system Apple used hasn't yet been designed fuly for 64-bit processing, the CPU's scale themselves back to 32-bit mode.

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TalkBack / RE: Free Gameplay Movies from E3 2003

« on: June 04, 2003, 10:05:35 PM »

Guys, have you tried using Mpeg 4, if not I'd well advise you to, it has been designed from the ground up as a high quality format designed to me streamed (or downloaded) via the internet, all in a very small file. It's well worth it.

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TalkBack / RE: Iwata Discusses Online Plans

« on: May 21, 2003, 03:43:01 PM »

Well Rick, thats fairly much exactly what i heard, it is not tunneling, as with the xbox and games like Halo as it re4quires no more equipment. All the code will be built directly into the game, so it's, from what I've heard, fairly much a matter of connection for GCN, with modem/BB adapter, and it's right to go. I may be wrong, my it was ment to be that easy, only time will tell weather it is or now.