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Remember all too well. Even though I shipped DOS games up through DOS6.0 my first Windows game was on Windows 2.0 - BattleChess. A root canal with pain enhancers and lemon juice mouthwash was more fun to do.

Won't happen. Divides developer support on resources. Publishers want broadest audience and wont waste money on it. Most examples of this in the past only the platform holder really supported it. More importantly most were via add-ons not a whole new consoles to be purchased. Talking as an 8...

This will sound flippant, but welcome to almost every major games publisher in North America. Been there done that have way too many scars.

And most of the time it went horribly wrong. Look at Sony Music circa 2004. F'ing rootkit with lousy security. They got hammered for it. Didn't even ask people within other groups if it was good. One of those Russian PoS DRM systems.

UM... These idiots do know that "ripping" software is embedded as a part of Windows, right?

One thing I would like to point out. William Binney was a direct agency employee and had whistle blower protection. The NSA deliberty uses a ton of Beltway contractors to do a lot of this work. The reason is since they work for said Corporation and not the government they can NEVER qualify as...

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Wow, they rediscovered the old school Acoustic Coupler modem:rolleyes:

One other item on the demise of this. Miyamoto HATED the extremely slow load times of the 2x CDRom drives at the time. He wanted the instant on of cartridges instead. This lead to the rather large and expensive to make carts of the N64. I will give it to Nintendo that when they went disc format...

Whelp independent developers for the most part do not do the Pump and Dump of employees that bigs do. The practice of "hiring" someone intil the end of the project and then "Ooops we are going to have to let people go" crap is the province of the Big Publishers. Thank you Ivy League MBA programs...

Ok, first thing Hollywood gets a crap load of tax breaks across this country so claiming that this is just a luxury item and shouldn't get tax breaks is crap. As a nation there are a lot of countries including Canada/Canadian, as well as the EU (passed in 2014), and Australia (dont know if it...

One other really important point with digital distribution is inventory. You don't have any. Warehousing and retailer returns due to overstocking kill you. I don't know what the numbers are today but mid 90s it used to be a returned game cost you an additional 6 dollars per copy above and...

Racketeering anyone? Cox needs to go for the RICO act against them at this point.

But it does use an ATI GPU

As I added in my follow up I meant a couple 100 million

Meant couple hundred million.

But a couple hundred chips over 6 years isn't exactly peanuts either. FYI on the Nvidia question a few brought up they pissed off Sony and Microsoft. Both consoles they refused to share savings over time on manufacturing costs. Pretty much knew they had them over a barrel and ran with it...

Zen is the big play. If they get back to the fx-51 days with price and performance going up against Intel things could seriously better for AMD. This is of course is a big IF. I am a fan, I loved my 486-50' not a dx2 but AMDs straight 50 as well as my fx51. Got seriously disappointed when they...

Unfortunately Notes is STILL in use by some major corporations trust me I know. On the Amiga front the failure was sitting on the AGA (256 colors)chipset for years. When it finally came out (1200 & 600) they had finished AAA chipset (16 million colors). AGA was well behind PC at that point...

Oh gods... Windows 3.11 with multimedia extensions. 1500 ms access time cd roms minimum, up to 2000 ms delay when calling for sound playback, no immediate mode. Made making games a nightmare. Had a hardware vendor try to make Descent for 3.11 instead of Win 95 for the Nvidia Nv1. Fortunately a...

The FCC is not changing what they can broadcast so how is this is a First Amendment issue? Second their desired outcome actually is more likely to impugn someone else's First Amendment rights. As to the 5th, sorry you are just like a Telco, that whole VoiP phone service with a real phone company...

The last time I had to dig through the books 45k qualified.

Problem is at least in California most positions are considered "Professional" employment and fixed salary. Now the other problem that is ignored by these idiots in management is that mandatory overtime is limited to a 6 month period per year. Most people don't know that. The other is that it...

A lot of this is why I moved to a small dev where I actually have skin in the game. I'm 48, I am well past dealing with 80 hour heroics to compensate for some dumbshit in executive management who either is dumb as a box of rocks or is more concerned about sucking up to the board.

That doesn't cover the real time frame. I've been in the industry 25 years and my first game I shipped in 1990 we ended up with 5 months of crunch because if we didn't the license would be lost. Other crunches are cause by different factors. Everyone likes throwing out arm chair quarterback...

Its about bloody time. They have been working towards a man-pack laser system since the early 80s. Surprise Surprise the power system was the problem. Significantly(ridiculously) heavier than a max load out for deployment.

Well this is somewhat better than some of the crap that went on at LAX security in the mid 90s. I had to remove the keyboard from the laptop and explain the larger parts within. Damn near missed my flight because of the moron.

Hell it is better than California much less LA. Their excuse is it is an on going investigation so they can continue to hold the data indefinitely

They are probably doing it for the same reason as Activision with Call of Duty Online only for China. Piracy is too bad so lock it in to F2P to monetize it in that territory. They know that Europe and North America are going to buy the other versions at full retail so why cannibalize sales with...

The problem is when someone pushes for why am I under investigation they side step, ignore requests, etc. If you are going to abuse the law that way at least try to play by some of the other rules/laws you are required to.

This has been a problem for years in Los Angeles and the position the PD is taking is that all scans are part of an open investigation. When pressed on it, it is an open investigation (unsaid but felt from the attitude "Go F*** yourself we don't care about privacy or citizen rights. We've found...

The Xbox was designed as a Trojan to eventually have future iterations become the "set-top box" and conquers the living room. See how well that went with the Xbox One.

That is in the next 20 years.

Well they might kill us indirectly. Recent thoughts are that 50% of current jobs could be replaced by robots. Not going to shoot us but help us all starve to death as they take a lot of the work. :(

Most are in California. The problem is that a lot of upper middle management and upper management that is be brought in know f**k all about development or developers and suffer from what I call MBA sickness. Actual workers are numbers and widgets not people. One breaks just get another one. We...

You are dead on that a lot of us get into the industry be we love what we do. At the end of the day I do it to put smiles on peoples faces. As to the abusive nature of the industry a lot of that is at the Big level between publishers and the giant stand alone development houses. On the...

FYI for everyone ESRB is funded by the industry. It is just not the fees for rating games but also a significant chunk of E3 money goes towards the ESA and ESRB.

Thanks! Descent 1&2 as well as Star Trek 25th Ann, Judgment Rites and Starfleet Academy Also some of the trippier things on PSN flOw Flower, Everyday Shooter to name a few. Been making games 25 years now.

Irritating, tried twice to get the rights back. None of us from the original team are involved in this.

He shouldn't be to blasé about Google growth. Now with poles and conduits being opened up with title II things should get very interesting.