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| Posted on 21-Jun-2003 02:25 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 58 comments
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It has been two and half a month since I bought my Pegasos.
I used it almost every day and wrote a review that you can find
here.
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| My Pegasos / MorphOS review : Comment 42 of 58 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Some Farker on 22-Jun-2003 03:51 GMT | In reply to Comment 38 (Atheist2):
"Although I'm not fully acquainted with how hardware works, I do know that:
Direct x 8.1 needs 65 megs of harddisk space.
Then the video card needs some unknown ridiculous sized driver. As does the sound card, I imagine."
You would be quite amazed at exactly what they do *not* need. In the time I've been doing IT, I've pulled quite a few tricks, not the least of which was creating "minimal driver sets" and "minimal DX sets" that consisted of a few hundred kb worth of .vxd's, .dll's and so forth that I used simple DOS scripts to put in to place. All extracted by hand, of course, and with no small amount of investigating.
What this amounts to is that there's a *lot* of chaff. Some call it features, and since I have the HD space and a system robust enough to do what I want to with, I don't bother tearing my hair out because something is 85mb in size.
"My MSI G Force 4 4600 only has 128 megs of ram."
??? ...and...what?
"I don't get how these things work together at all!"
What are you driving at here? That you don't understand fundamentally how drivers and hardware work together? Or motherboards and daughtercards or what? Clarify, son. Clarify.
"Then theres, can't I find even ONE piece of software that works "out of the box"? "
Now you're just whining, and not telling the truth to boot. I could say the same thing about the Mac, the Amiga, BeOS, VMS, whatever. That wouldn't make it true. The computer - even your vaunted Amiga - can't read your mind and ascertain what you wish. Put some goddamned effort into it! Sheesh!
Let me ask you something. Say you manage to "convert" someone from using an x86 system running Windows XP which just plugs into a router and *bang* is on the 'net, to using a second-hand Amiga loaded with 3.1. Would *you* suggest that they're right if they said "This stupid computer doesn't work out of the box!" because they couldn't get it on the 'net immediately?
Or would you tell them where to get TCP/IP stacks, web-browsers, newsreaders, FTP clients and the like so it could do what they wanted to?
I'll give you a little free info: to compute is to tweak. Period. There are no computers immune from the need for attention. Each computer and it's OS requires some input and handling from the user.
"Just yesterday I installed Morrowind on xp. I dread installing new software on this thing, I never know what's going to happen. I bought it May 2nd.
Guess what? It doesn't work! When I face a person, and they are talking, I don't hear anything (just background sound/music). When I turn 90 degrees, left or right, I hear them perfectly! There's your PC "standards" in action. I have and Audigy sound card and a P4 @ 2.26 GHz. Name brand stuff, yet, Totally useless."
Bull. "Name brand stuff, yet, totally useless"? You *do* know that Morrowind has issues, right? Have you asked in alt.games.elder-scrolls? Fired off an email or hit the Bethedsa Software homepage for support?
Frankly if you think that one (known buggy) game not working is a ringing damnation of hardware that's quite literally beyond your apparent ability to come to grips with, then you need help. I'll tell you what. You box up that PC you're so obviously dissatisfied with and send it along to me and I'll make sure it doesn't bother you any more, 'k?
(Oh, as an aside, I've got Morrowind working fine on a PIII/750 with a gig of RAM and a dinky little GeForce2. Sounds to me like you've got a PEBCAK there, my friend.)
"Laugh at custom hardware, and by all means complain about it being expensive, but remember; it's reliable!"
Yeah, I'll remember that the next time I'm cleaning out my closet and come across the box full of dead CIA chips I keep around for nostalgia's sake. Or when I think of the two or three A520s that came apart, etc. etc.
Here's something else custom hardware is: stagnant. I refuse to sit around and wait for a computer company to tell me when it's time to go buy a new computer because it's built around a new architecture. Thanks but no.
"AmigaOne! and Pegasos: RELIABLE!!!!!"
Of course - that's why DMA has to be turned off. That's why they're so ultra-picky about the RAM you can use. That's why the various patches to the MAI chipset have been developed. Because they're so "reliable" *rolls eyes*. |
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