Re: Macs and blu-ray
By: Nightfox to Morden on Sun Feb 27 2011 04:07 pm

I don't use a Mac either, myself, and the lack of choices is one reason why.

The price is a turn off as well, if you ask me. It feels like you have to pay extra, just because it's a Mac. It has become this designer gadget, which bothers me a lot. Before iPod, no one wanted Macs and now, all of a sudden, they've become this profit hungry, cocky company, selling the "cool" stuff. And people buy it.

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Re: Macs and blu-ray
By: Nightfox to Morden on Sun Feb 27 2011 04:12 pm

That's interesting - I know someone who recently bought a Sony Ericsson Xper X8 and seems to like the phone. It looked like a pretty good phone - I wond how similar/different that one is to the Xperia Play.

I'm guessing that Xperia Play is really similar to other phones in the series. The main difference is that instead of having a slide-out keypad, it has the PlayStation style controller. It also has a multi-touch screen. The fact that it's an Android phone makes it automatically so much better than the iPhone.

Newer Xperia phones have enough processing power to emulate PlayStation, so if it's games you're looking for, you'll get enough just through emulation. From what I've seen, Android has a ton of emulators and cool programs, so that takes care of games.

I'm curious how the text input works, though. They've probably adapted one of the PSP solutions, plus there's always the on-screen keyboard.

As for WiFi, I guess most phones have it by now. Especially the Windows Mobile and Android ones, so that's good. Xperia Play has it, too.

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Re: RE:Macs and blu-ray
By: Robert Wolfe to NIGHTFOX on Fri Mar 04 2011 09:21:00

Speaking of Amigas, I've heard AmigaOS is still alive and being developed,
although I haven't seen any Amiga computers being sold in a long time..

This is true, granted you pretty much have to run it with an emulator these
days on today's computers.

It seems odd that they'd still be developing an OS that needs an emulator to N>run. I assumed the necessary hardware is also being produced by someone..

Unless they are making an x86 or x64 version of it now, too :)

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Re: RE:Macs and blu-ray
By: Warp 4 to Nightfox on Fri Mar 29 2013 09:35 pm

Re: RE:Macs and blu-ray
By: Robert Wolfe to NIGHTFOX on Fri Mar 04 2011 09:21:00

Speaking of Amigas, I've heard AmigaOS is still alive and being devel ->although I haven't seen any Amiga computers being sold in a long time

This is true, granted you pretty much have to run it with an emulator t days on today's computers.

It seems odd that they'd still be developing an OS that needs an emulator N>run. I assumed the necessary hardware is also being produced by someone..

Unless they are making an x86 or x64 version of it now, too :)

Yes, the necessary hardware is still being produced. It's PowerPC based. A good example is the X1000:

http://www.a-eon.com/x1000.html

FroggyMe

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Yes, the necessary hardware is still being produced. It's PowerPC b
good example is the X1000:

http://www.a-eon.com/x1000.html

I relaly wanted one of these, but even though i made great salary the
year it was released (Ahem, about 2 years later than it was promised to
be...) I still couldn't justify the >$2,000 USD cost for sub-par
hardware.

Personally I'm banking on Natami:

http://www.natami.net/

Unlike the X1000, it will actually be bit-for-cpu-instruction-byte
compatible with the amiga. The whole PPC Accellerator card evolution of
OS4 doesn't seem to be getting very far. It certainly doesn't have
enough market traction. I would expect in 5 years or so that X1000 is
still the last and only amiga os4-compatible machine, still expensive, procured from ebay, just like the genesis and other PPC-like systems
before it, and still 5-10 years behind in technology -- that is, you
won't have Ruby, Python, Flash, Java, etc., support out of the box like
you do with even a PPC-based macintosh, or the direction places like
MorphOS are going.
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