You should’ve seen the articles in gaming magazines about him and his games. B&W and Fable mostly. Always these grandiose claims of whatever new tech was being built in then they’d release and be, well, none of that. Innovative sometimes, sure, but nowhere near what was promised. He was treated like a god and always got massive articles to build up hype. I wish I still had my old Maximum PC collection.
I played the hell out of Populous and Populous II back in the day… Including a fair bit of multiplayer too - running a link cable between Amigas in our flat.
I wonder if I’d enjoy an upscaled port today as much as I did then.
Wish they finished the game because it was pretty fun.
Were we playing the same game?? When I played it in 2013 it was a tedious, RSI-inducing cow-clicker with lootboxes and “premium” gems, and according to Steam I played for less than an hour before abandoning it.
After his first game venture failed, Peter Molyneux started a baked bean export business. Commodore International mistakenly offered him ten free Amiga systems . . . .
This gives me similar vibes to the film “Go”. Came out around the same time and had that girl from Dawson’s Creek in it. Well worth a watch. They don’t make film like them any more.
For those not clear, AppleTalk was created at a time where there was no universal standard in networking. The “standard network” you think of today, a bunch of computers plugged into a router, existed but wasn’t the de-facto setup. There was still experimentation going on.
Apple ported some of the AppleTalk features, such as Network Discovery, into Bonjour which was introduced in 2002. Once that became mature, there was no reason to keep AppleTalk around.
Huh? AppleTalk was, according to the headline, discontinued in 2009 if that’s the useless feature you mean. It wasn’t useless before that, but eventually TCP/IP overtook it and it was no longer practical to run two networking stacks side by side. It is very similar to Microsoft’s extensive use of IPX/SPX up through Windows XP (IIRC XP was the last to include it).
Apple certainly has its flaws, including a bug I reported many years ago in Photos that makes it useless to me, but them discontinuing an aging network protocol nearly 25 years ago seems like a weird thing for you to be upset about, so maybe I misunderstood your post.
End of Series topicWhy did everyone have to die by the hands of the psychotic kid? I feel like there was a allegory for not taking the college tests to seriously in there, but that whole mental breakdown happed so fast, it felt forced
PrisonersWas I the only one shouting at the screen “JUST SHOOT THEM”, the whole hostage scenario could have been ended so quickly… 7 people with guns against 1 guy with a gun pointed at the ground…
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