All it would take would be Metroid, but I'm definitely of the opinion that cheaper is better. Let Xbox2/PS3 battle for technological supremacy; offer me a $100-150 console with a Metroid game and I'll deal with memory cards/lack of internet support/ProLogic sound. I'd love to see a...
Not just pointers. In Debug mode, *all* memory is striped initially. In release mode, the memory is zeroed. Microsoft uses a macro to handle deallocation: #define SAFE_DELETE(p) if (p != NULL) { delete p; p = NULL; } #define SAFE_DELETE_ARRAY(p) if (p != NULL) { delete...
Homer: When is anyone going to give me an award? Marge: They already did, you have a Grammy! Homer: I meant an award that's worth winning. Mr. Simpson's opinions do not reflect those of this show's creators, who don't consider the Grammy an award at all.
Maya has better support for NURBS modeling, Max has better support for polygon (and subd) modeling. Regardless of which you pick, laying out UVs will be a complete pain in the ass. Max 5's renderer is noticeably better than Maya's, but both pale in comparison to Mental Ray. Maya tends to...
Or, if you want a desktop, you might want to consider one of the Shuttle XPCs (like the SN41G2) -- they're small, quiet, and very transportable (all nice things for a dorm room). An XPC runs $300-360 retail. Add in a hard drive ($80), 256M RAM ($50), a DVD-ROM ($60), and a CPU ($70-80 for a...
I have no doubt that Bungie realizes what users expect out of the Xbox Live and multiplayer experience in Halo 2. In fact, they should be in a better position than any other Xbox developer, since Halo fans went out of their way to force the game to be playable on-line.
I've got M50s + SVS, and I don't think I'm missing anything. I've got far more volume than I need (shared walls mean reference level is just a pipe dream, anyway), and the sound quality is fantastic.
When I was researching my Axiom purchase, I was lucky that a set of M50s were on the Factory Outlet site. The only problem is an extremely small scratch on the underside of one of the speakers (it needs to be on its side to see it) -- YMMV, but the Axiom Outlet is a pretty good way to make the...
I just checked the schedule on FX's website -- it looks like every new episode presentation (and the encore presentation 1 hour later) has "limited breaks," through the entire first half of the season. The Sunday repeat isn't listed as having limited breaks, though.
Morgan, You've clearly never developed with DirectX and you certainly haven't done any development on the Xbox, so your opinions on how PC-like it is don't have a whole lot of merit. The development environment is similar to DirectX8, but make no mistake that the Xbox DirectX SDK is in every...
Dave, FYI, Sony lost well over $100 per console when the PS2 was initially released due to the manufacturing costs of the EE and GS. In the past year (in addition to general yield improvements), the EE and GS were placed on the same die and transitioned to 0.13u. I believe that the PS2 is...
PSX - Final Fantasy VII Saturn - Panzer Dragoon Saga PS2 - Twisted Metal: Black Xbox - Halo Gamecube - Metroid Prime Gameboy Advance - Metroid Fusion and Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
I'll also add that before the Xbox launched, I strongly considered performing some hacks on my (future) Xbox, so that I could use it as a Windows network client capable of playing back MP3 and AVI files from my media server, because there still isn't a good, cheap, home theater-friendly media...
The actual offer was to install (and boot) Linux on the Xbox -- not hack the Xbox's operating system, or hack onto someone else's Xbox, or anything else. This is a use of the classical (geek) meaning of "to hack" -- not the current computer espionage meaning. The contest is no different from...