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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17389 |  swaaye (6) Sep 17, 2007 - 12:59 pm » Edited on Sep 17, 2007 - 01:02 pm
| I kinda like the parallel port cuz I have a 15 year old Laserjet 4P. That beast prints as well today as it did when it was new, and I rarely use a printer so I'm sure not buying a new one. It's not like printing documents needs an upgrade anyway. 600 dpi lasers are more than adequate to say the least. It's a blast to the past to use that printer, one that was hooked up to a 486 with Win3.1 once and uses SIMM memory, on my Core 2 Quad.
There are USB to parallel adapters but they aren't cheap, and the one I have that I used to use with a NF4 board, is very quirky. So a real parallel port is welcome.
At work we use serial ports for the time clock and the outdoor marquee sign connection. So they do have uses. Again you can get USB to serial adapters, but they need drivers, are an added cost, and can be quirky too. I actually got a PCI serial card for the system at work because its C2D mobo only had a single serial port. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15675 | swaaye (6) May 30, 2007 - 10:23 pm » Edited on May 30, 2007 - 11:18 pm
| This is my official list. Heh. Lots of thought put into this.
Cream of the Crop:
1- TIE Fighter + Defender of the Empire + Enemies of the Empire (this is the best space game ever made as far as I'm concerned and I've played basically every single one)
2- KOTOR
3- Dark Forces
4- X-Wing Alliance
5- Jedi Knight 2
-Rebellion (massively underrated, IMO)
-Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight + MotS
-X-Wing + B-Wing + Imperial Pursuit
-Republic Commando
-Jedi Academy
-KOTOR II (needs to be finished...waiting on Team Gizka!)
-Rebel Assault & its sequel
-Bounty Hunter
-Shadows of the Empire (on N64 where the crappy resolution and chop makes it more mysterious lol)
-SNES sidescrollers
Slightly entertaining, for short sittings only:
-X-Wing vs TIE Fighter (ahead of its time and failed because of it)
-Pod Racer
-Empire at War (RTS segment is pathetic and the strategic element is far worse than Rebellion)
-Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
-Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
-StarFighter games
-Rogue Squadron
-Ep1 Battle for Naboo
-Galactic Battlegrounds
-The Lego games
-Clone Wars
-Star Wars Trilogy Arcade
-Screen Entertainment (one damn fine screensaver for Win 3.1)
LMAO-style bad games, but required for the SW junkie:
-Masters of Teras Kasi (LOL!)
-Ep1 The Phantom Menace
-Obi-Wan
-Yoda Stories
-Force Commander
-Galaxies (a tragic failure)
Sorry, never played the Battlefront games. I was too bummed over Pandemic not making me a Battlezone III to bother with those limp wristed wannabees. :P Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10972 | swaaye (6) Jul 05, 2006 - 05:41 pm » Edited on Jul 05, 2006 - 05:42 pm
| When you see extra crap thrown into a product, stuff that doesn't directly enhance its intended purpose, there's an official term for it. "Value Added". Business types literally jerk off to this term. It makes their day, moreso the higher up in the corp they are!
It's like Rice Crispies with the stupid POS toy in the box, or the crap cutouts on the back. Or, all the damned stupid Special Features on every goddamn DVD in existence today.
So, do I feel like spending an extra $200 for hardware that is actually not truly ahead of 360, just for the honor of owning a useless Blueray (aka Betaray!) drive? Nope. Or some relatively lame, gadgety, gizmo-ish gyro mechanism? Nope. Experimental, hardly optimal, first-gen Cell CPU? Meh. Crippled GeForce 7900? Eh.
I might buy a 360 in the future, for the racers coming for it. Nothing else on it that's interesting yet.
And, I might buy a N Wii cuz that company at least is based on games and is trying to come up with new ways to play. They've also discovered that better graphics to the nth degree != fun. It's called "diminishing returns." They're going to so crazily undercut M and S that it's going to be hilarious. For the $400 difference btwn Wii And PS3, I don't think you'll be getting $400 more fun. Whatever that is. Heh.
Die Overlord Sony. I won't be workin' extra hours to own your "value packed" machine. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10767 | swaaye (6) Jun 21, 2006 - 07:38 pm
| The engine doesn't suck. What sucks is this annoying new "scary and dark" game design. Doom3 engine can definitely do outdoor enviros with plenty of brightness.
The engine does what it does better than any other, including that not-so-hot FEAR game. Flag this | Edit this post |
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