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Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases 397

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @07:43AM from the and-don't-kill-off-patrick-stewart-at-the-beginning dept.

SSDNINJA writes "This editorial discusses the habit of Bethesda Softworks to release broken and buggy games with plans to just fix the problems later. Following a trend of similar issues coming up in their games, the author begs gamers to stop supporting buggy games and to spread the idea that games should be finished and quality controlled before release – not weeks after."

How Death Rally Got Ported 89

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @10:30PM from the not-the-opposite-of-starboarded dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last year, I got the opportunity to port Remedy Entertainment's Death Rally to modern platforms off its original MS-DOS sources. I wrote an article about the porting process for Game Developer magazine, and now I've posted the text of the article for general consumption. 'The source software platform was DOS, Watcom C, and some Dos4GW-style DOS extender. The extender basically meant you could use more than 640k of memory, and would not need any weird code for data larger than 64k. The game displayed in VESA 640x480 and MCGA 320x200 graphics modes, all with 8-bit palettes; there was no true color anywhere. There were also some per-frame palette change tricks that emulators have trouble with. The source code was mostly pure C with a couple dozen inline assembly functions. There were a few missing subsystems, specifically audio and networking, which would have to be replaced completely anyway, as well as one file for which the source code was lost and only a compiled object was available.'"

Comment TV License not needed (Score 1) 131

by Lupo on Sunday June 27, 1999 @11:39PM (#1831746) Attached to: Interception in the UK

Actually, in a fairly reecent court case it was decided that, if you couldn't watch BBC (because of poor reception, a television without a plug on it or your television was not tuned to BBC channels) then you don't need a TV License

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