i FINALLY bought it
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http://www.maz-shop.com/index.php?show=product&id=20
w00t!
I think this is the purchase that will complete me. I am a new man.
w00t!
I think this is the purchase that will complete me. I am a new man.
wow, congrats!
btw, will there ever be a revised edition (i have heard of typos and factual errors)?
btw, will there ever be a revised edition (i have heard of typos and factual errors)?
FREAX Volume 2 is under construction at the moment. It will contain the history of the PC scene, along with the Atari, the Macintosh, the Sinclair Spectrum, the Oric, the Thomson and many more. I'll have to buy that one to.
I was really tempted to get the Mindcandy dvd's, but I'm running low. Maybe next check heh.
I was really tempted to get the Mindcandy dvd's, but I'm running low. Maybe next check heh.
There is just something wrong in spending money to watch demos. No matter how much consent they have from the authors and how much time they spent in capturing etc.
A book on the other hand, that is a whole different matter...
A book on the other hand, that is a whole different matter...
Yeah, Freax had a bunch of typos, engrish parts and even unicode characters :P But it's still a great book.
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There is just something wrong in spending money to watch demos.
I agree, and this is partly why I like software rendered demo's so much. Accelerated demos are a just a way to force people to buy expensive video cards! Plus with quad core, you'd think wtf do I need a gpu for, why not borrow one of my 4 cpu's for rendering?
hehe, you're right, somehow.
currently (and probably in the next 2-5 years), you are much better off with a dedicated GPU
but if larabee et. al. get it correctly, this is probably the future ;)
(it might at least hold for low-mid graphics stuff!)
however, nvidia/ati lead the way in this regard. it's just that they wanted to make their GPU a CPU (cuda etc..) and intel thought: hey, why not add "a few extensions" so our CPU can be used as a GPU :D
currently (and probably in the next 2-5 years), you are much better off with a dedicated GPU
but if larabee et. al. get it correctly, this is probably the future ;)
(it might at least hold for low-mid graphics stuff!)
however, nvidia/ati lead the way in this regard. it's just that they wanted to make their GPU a CPU (cuda etc..) and intel thought: hey, why not add "a few extensions" so our CPU can be used as a GPU :D
I finally bought it:
I went in the Paris' suburbs to get it as the seller dind't want to bother sending it by post.
The guy was German.
The C64 came with an heavily bended 1541 with german "1 million Commodore 64 in Deutschland verkauft" sticker on it, a box of disks, 2 joysticks, some cables, eproms for the OS switch, new eproms for the eprom printer module, load of paper files comming from geek 80's german magazines...
50€
I went in the Paris' suburbs to get it as the seller dind't want to bother sending it by post.
The guy was German.
The C64 came with an heavily bended 1541 with german "1 million Commodore 64 in Deutschland verkauft" sticker on it, a box of disks, 2 joysticks, some cables, eproms for the OS switch, new eproms for the eprom printer module, load of paper files comming from geek 80's german magazines...
50€
funky :D
I finally got a c64 (my first one) a couple weeks ago from ebay. Its sad that I haven't even verified that it switches on yet.
On allegro (polish ebay) there are tons of working amigas, ataris, zx's etc... I bought there 3 x c64 with taperecorders, floppy disk drives and hundreds of disks. And a CD32.
And buying demoscene-oriented stuff is
And buying demoscene-oriented stuff is
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There is just something wrong in spending money to watch demos. No matter how much consent they have from the authors and how much time they spent in capturing etc.
You are not spending money to watch demos, you are paying for the convenience of not having to maintain a hardware farm in order to watch older demos.
Also, if the guys who made the demos gave their consent, who gives a fuck about what you think is "wrong"?
special demo-making slippers, 19.99
@lug00ber: Some people are capping stuff and let people watch it for free. Much more demoscene if you ask me, but nevermind, everyone is of course allowed to spend their cash as they see fit.
@doh: Very sexy machine :)
@doh: Very sexy machine :)