Alyxx Thorne

I don't use it because my profile picture would bring sexy back, and the world isn't ready for the return of sexy.

The world can't handle your sexyness, dear.

I hate penguins, cocky little bastards. They can't even fly, so I don't get why they think they're the shit. Thank god for Orca Whales and Polar Bears for ridding the Earth of the pricks.

Haha, I agree! Not only that but the movie industry had a whole penguin period for a while. Was a bit annoying.

There's a part of me that would want to see an anime movie based on Catherine, but the game is pretty much a movie already. Then again, there's a Persona 4 TV show, so I don't see why not.

That would be awesome.

Funding is always an issue.

I think we are getting a bit sidetracked though as this discussion was about whether people support ATI or nVidia graphics cards.

Looks pretty awesome. Too bad it's so short.

I had a dream in which I got rich by inventing an automated process for peeling hard boiled eggs, then starting a company based on that. It was a good dream.

Oh, Twi. Even in your dreams you're basically playing an RTS.

Or Sim City.

lol

I think Gman is supposed to be a mystery, hence why we know nearly nothing about him.

Moved to the Misc AF Stuff forum. Don't see this as necessarily gaming related.

Sorry but this is not something I'm into. I love having dreams but not lucid dreams. Just feels like I'd risk fucking up my brain and my perception of reality.

I don't really see how creating incompatible arcitecture would improve anything anyway, but then again I am not much of a programmer.

Yeah, the less cables the better in my opinion.

Speaking of, the failed PCJr computer from the early 80's used external RAM expansions. That's just so weird to me.

No but with the risk of hallucination and paralysis... don't feel I want to.

Sounds a bit fucked up if you ask me.

ha well lets just say that thanks to my parents believing that video games would make me a raging psychopath (although I was crazy nonetheless and I have pills for that) , every game I ever played (until I turned 15) was at least 10 or more years old and played on school computers I spent lots of time in my typing class playing doom.

I still play Doom today, and the good old DOS version too.

It's going to be impossible to beat Intel anyway since they have the advantage of basically having been there since the beginning and actually were popular way before ATI started up. The Intel + Microsoft combination was a staple for PC's back in the 90's and I think Intel is going to survive any competition simply because they have better funding.

To brighten up a few things: When IBM decided to build their own desktop computer, the "IBM PC", they decided to use the Intel 8088 processor (basically a cheaper version of the the Intel 8086) and later switched to the Intel 80286 (an extended version of the 8086).

Also, in 1980 they decided to sign up with Microsoft to develop an operating system "MS-DOS" which they rebranded "PC-DOS"

 

For various reasons, the IBM PC was a success, despite the crappy architecture and OS in comparison of other machines at that time. One reason may be the good reputation of IBM; however IBM encuraged other companies to sell licensed clones of the IBM PC and other companies, like AMD, also started to manufacture their own 80x68 processor clones with their own extensions, which where then copied by others and so on (e.g. AMD made the original 64 bit extension to the x86 architecture).

 

What you are now most likely sitting in front of (except if you are using a "smart" phone or other embedded mobile device) is a heavily modified/evolved version of the IBM PC with an x86 based processor with a horrible mess of a patched up architecture with hundreds of extensions, backward compatible to 1979.

 

If your computer has a glowing apple on its back, your just as well sitting in front of a (horribly overpriced) IBM PC descendant. Something like an "Apple Mac" doesn't exist anymore; Apple abandoned their own Macintosh architecture.

 

 

The dominance of the Wintel platform (Windows + Intel) on the desktop and the Windows monopoly have secured that it remains that way and the x86 processor gets patched and extended all over.

 

My personal hope is that, with the shift towards mobile platforms with newer architectures and the upcoming WinDOS 8 disaster, we might someday get rid of that stonaged abomination they call "x86 architecture".

 

That being said, I still support AMD all the way until they disappear. Their cards do the trick for me even if nVidia offers more advanced onboard stuff like PhysX.

 

There's a reason the orignal Ageia PhysX PPUs flopped. People don't buy extra hardware that no software utilizes and software developers don't develop software that utilizes hardware nobody has. Nvidia graphics cards don't have a PPU on them. Nvidia acquired Ageia, but only uses the PhysX API (Application Programing Interface) and implements it with GPGPU (i.e. program running on the GPU), so it could theoretically run with GPUs from other vendors (e.g. AMD) as well, but Nvidia forces PhysX to their platform by making it refuse to work on other GPUs (and it is probably optimized for their GPUs only as well),

so developers using PhysX would either lock their software on Nvidia GPUs (or good ol' way slower CPU physics on others), or have to take the extra effort of using two physics engines with an abstraction layer in between.

 

But there are other physics engines that use GPGPU, like Bullet, which is even free (as in free speech not free beer; i.e. no restrictions, aka "Open Source"), so why use PhysX?

Yeah, I am aware that mostly all PC's nowadays still use technically the same standard dating back to the late 70's. It's actually a bit cool in my opinion.

Regarding nVidia, my ATI card has no problem emulating PhysX anyway so it's not that of a big deal to me.

I'll get a facebook when they make a dislike button.

They did. It's called not clicking the like button.

I've been here too long to not make an introduction.

I'm Humin. If you want to know something then ask.

Well, nice to meet you, Humin.

A movie about kids made out of garbage pails.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

I had a dream in which I got rich by inventing an automated process for peeling hard boiled eggs, then starting a company based on that. It was a good dream.

That sounds awesome. I've always dreaded peeling eggs.

Story of my childhood.

Eh, for me it depends on what I need. For instance, it is impossible to get floppy controllers for modern motherboards so you're more or less forced to get an external USB floppy drive if you want a retro compatible computer these days.

But for most components like hard drive and such I prefer internal. I dunno, just feels like the less shit I have outside my computer the better.

It's going to be impossible to beat Intel anyway since they have the advantage of basically having been there since the beginning and actually were popular way before ATI started up. The Intel + Microsoft combination was a staple for PC's back in the 90's and I think Intel is going to survive any competition simply because they have better funding.

That being said, I still support AMD all the way until they disappear. Their cards do the trick for me even if nVidia offers more advanced onboard stuff like PhysX.