dave henrie
Cheers!
Remco
http://www.alienware.com/intro_pages/ageia_physx.aspx
http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Area-51_7500/area-51_75...
http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Aurora_7500/aurora_7500...
http://www.alienware.com/ALX_pages/choose_alx.aspx
What I've been told is that the Novodex engine (used for the chip)
isn't particularly suited to high accuracy simulation stuff and may not
be good for serious car sims. It's fantastic for other stuff though
and the fluid dynamics stuff is very impressive indeed.
> dave henrie
My thought would be possibly the enviroment could be assisted. Instead
of having ROCK SOLID tirewalls or haybales, we could have deformable
objects. Anything that could take some of the load off the cpu.
However, my biggest worry about this technology now is the state of this
hardware's development. Is this a matue product that will make leaps and
bounds improvements in gameplay? Or is this the equivalent of the S3
Virge, a 3d card so weak it really wasn't even a 3d accelerator.
and now to Rex's thoughts:
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It's nice technology but nobody is going to buy one. Yea they could
bundle it on other hardware but why bother? After this first wave no
software company is going to risk investing in this. And how would it
affect multiplayer? It's not a big deal if someone has different
graphics than another player, but what if they had different physics?
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In a way we have already had that situation for years. I had a 386sx,
My buddy had a 486. He had better 'physics' because his system could
respond better to his input than mine. (in games like doom, I could sneak
up behind him, start shooting, and he could turn and then begin shooting
and quickly fire more shots that I could even with a head start.
I'm sure when the first 3dfx card was displayed with what? the $200
price tag, NOBODY thought ANYONE would spend that much money for just a few
more colored objects on a screen.
Thanks guys for the input
dh
Cheers
Tony
Eww....you used a crumby PC back then? Those were the days when the
Commodore 64 and then the Amiga reigned supreme...! (and were much
cheaper) :-D
Don't get me started on Amigas. I waited and waited for WING COMMANDER
and Ultima 5 to get ported over to the Amiga and when they did, they used
half the colors and ran twice as slow as native Amiga products. I went to
a local Amiga dealer and the Commodore Newsletter he had displayed
trumpeted how Commodore was going broke. I walked out of there with still
having a thousands bucks to spend and never felt so dirty as when I bought
a pc the next day.
dave henrie
No worries, you should be thankful you didn't join the pc crowd when
they were the laughing stock of the *** community ;)
All the best, Uwe
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> Looks like you were late to the party. Those were the days when games
> were already being written for the PC, not as native Amiga games
> (heck, Civ was a bugfest on the Amiga).
>> trumpeted how Commodore was going broke. I walked out of there with
>> still having a thousands bucks to spend and never felt so dirty as
>> when I bought a pc the next day.
> No worries, you should be thankful you didn't join the pc crowd when
> they were the laughing stock of the *** community ;)
> All the best, Uwe
Don
> I've still got my Texas Instruments TI 99. Maybe one of you dinosaurs
> want's to buy it off me to relive those glorious days ;)
> Don
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>> I've still got my Texas Instruments TI 99. Maybe one of you dinosaurs
>> want's to buy it off me to relive those glorious days ;)
>> Don
> I think I can trump that... I believe I still have my very first "PC"
> in storage, A Coleco ADAM!
dave henrie
Funny thing abour your history, relative to mine, I recall having my Amiga
3000 and also having the nerve desperate desire, to sneak into my "PC"
classmate's dorm room, (with fear of persecution from my Amiga buddies, ya
know) jones'n to run NR(1) on his (at the time) half decent pc... that was
the year & week (flinching) I joined the dark side... that year I also
realized I would need a degree in Computers, thanks to these POS things from
Intel & MS, I knew there would be a huge industry of computer support from
about week one on windblows... LOL!
For the record, I even tried to make one of those 386 on a card for the
Amiga work well enough to run Nascar, lol, before I gave up on that sheet...
Dave Henrie enlightened us with:
>>> I've still got my Texas Instruments TI 99. Maybe one of you
>>> dinosaurs want's to buy it off me to relive those glorious days ;)
>>> Don
>> I think I can trump that... I believe I still have my very first
>> "PC" in storage, A Coleco ADAM!
> I had the Coleco game unit...not the Adam, I did learn how to make
> Smurfette drop her skirt and show off her bloomers.
> I also had the Atari 2600 adapter for the Coleco that allowed all the
> Atari cartidges to play via the Coleco. And prior to that, it was a
> Magnovox Oddyssey II with the world's first cartridge loaded RPG.
> The 2nd generation Oddyssey cart-based games that came out just prior
> to it's demise were light years ahead of the Atari. Then I
> graduated to a cassette loaded Vic 20, before getting a C-64 with not
> one but TWO modded disk drives so I could use either one as the main
> drive and backup with the other. (there was some mod needed to
> bypass some copy protection.) I am glad I finally outgrew my
> outright theft of software. Then again, some of the games I played
> most on the C-64 were hand typed machine language monsters from
> magazines. I must have had ALOT of time on my hands....
> dave henrie
"Dave Henrie" wrote..
Lol Dave, your comment brought up a memory from my first LAN game among
friends. We were playing Quake and my PII-233MHz was struggling to keep up.
I could see myself being gibbed on the monitor next to me as I was still
trying to duck this guy's rockets...
Thanks for the chuckle!!
Jan.
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