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Comment Glide Wrappers (Score 0) 156

I may be completely wrong here but I don't think there actually were more than a handful of DOS games using Glide: Blood, Carmageddon, Descent 2, Mechwarriors 2, Screamer 2, Shadow Warrior and Tomb Raider come to mind, plus maybe a few more obscure ones. I'm not trying to belittle the developers' efforts but I think what most gamers interested in re-playing the majority of their old favourites are really looking for are Glide Wrappers. These emulate Voodoo cards in Windows using Direct X or OpenGL. Some of these haven't been developed in years or will ever see their final version, but I remember playing Unreal on WinXP from end to end in all its 3dfx glory fairly recently using Zeckensack's wrapper with just a few visual glitches.

Comment Re:The CIA might need to break the law?!?!? (Score 0) 123

this would [..] force the CIA to [..] break the law in their use of the pirated software

So they're free to execute suspected potential terrorists in ambush without proper trial or sentencing, but are expected to follow the letter of the law when it comes to "intellectual property"? Is the irony of it all completely lost on the submitter? Kinda reminds me of that quote from Apocalypse Now: 'We teach young men to drop fire on people but won't allow them to write FUCK on their airplanes - because THAT would be obscene.'

Comment Three wheels on Fox News' wagon (Score 0) 671

So the Taliban have been hiding in Iraq after all, not just in Afghanistan? Don't think so. That soldier's mother should rather channel her understandable anger and grief by denouncing the politicians responsible for needlessly invading Iraq and sending her son there to his pointless death than to take exception to a game that let's people unbeknownst to her play as members of a party that in her case isn't even to blame for her son's death.

Comment Re:Maybe there could be gov. regulation of ATM des (Score 1) 143

You don't need Windows however to have Microsoft crash your cash dispenser - about ten years ago, I saw an ATM in Florence display A)nnulla, R)iprova, T)ralascia, E)limina? - which is of course the Italian equivalent of MS DOS's notorious yet futile Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? option menu upon hardware failure...

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