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Ah, crap, I misspelled 'check' in the Subject. Doh!
Well, I do know how to spell 'check' - guess I just fat-fingered it.
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I found this to be impressive, especially relative to our early days of 8-bit computing, 256 (or less) colors, giant pixels, etc.
I suppose this is a DirectX 12 demo, but also a plug for Square Enix. Fair enough.
Anyway, if you watch it (it's just under 4 minutes), be sure to switch to HD, and perhaps full-screen, too.
The beginning is sub-titled, but that only lasts for about 40 seconds, then the audio is in English.
Towards the end it gets a bit techie (shaders, polygons, etc.), but you'll still probably appreciate the graphics, even if you don't know what the guy's talking about (as I didn't).
What was insane, was the "in-game play" looks like a cut-scene! Oh, yah!
Click here for the demo.
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'Bated' is good, but don't 'hold' it.
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Well then, Jason, you're the first on my list for a $60,000 PC, or a 2 cars gift. (pending me winning the Lottery)
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Sounds good! U B Da Man, Jason!
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Yah, I hear ya, kamyk2000. My PC is like a Leap Frog compared to this insane, monster PC. If I win a giant lottery, I'll buy everyone reading this thread one of these PC's (or a couple of new cars).
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It may be more tedious to incorporate this feature than it's worth, but if we could upload our Collection data so others could see it easily, without the need for us to upload numerous screenshots, etc. (for those of you that have hundreds, or even thousands of games, this method is quite time-consuming). In a previous post in another thread, I mentioned my other favorite program (along with LaunchBox), DVD Profiler. Click here to see my DVD collection for an idea of what I'm talkin' about. If LaunchBox had this feature, it'd be easy for us to upload our entire collection for others to view. As you can see, lots of data about each entry is there for easy viewing. Naturally, LaunchBox wouldn't need Cast, Crew, and other info that's not that applicable to games, as it is in movies. It'd be cool if LaunchBox had a feature such as this, IMHO. P.S. Of course, we don't wanna bog-down the LaunchBox Server, but maybe it wouldn't be that bad.
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After following kamyk2000's topic of 'your first PC and Console', I noticed a few of you were introducing your kids to some of the games you were weaned on. If you'd like more variety than you own, check-out the Software Library of MS-DOS Games at the Internet Archive. Through the use of the EM-DOSBox in-Browser emulator, over 2600 titles can all be played right in your Browser. You'll see the list has a few sorting options, but defaults to 'number of views', with "The Oregon Trail" coming in at #1 with nearly a million. P.S. You may wanna poke around on that site, as it offers many other things, such as over 6,000,000 fully accessible, public domain eBooks.
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I wonder how large the games are for that Oculus Rift VR thing? It seems as if, to me, Mr. Layperson, they would need to be really large. But, maybe they just do it with 'graphics trickery'. Anyone know how large the games are for that thing?
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100+GB? Yikes! Where will it all end? I suppose it never will - why would it?
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Yeah, many 'experts' are predicting the demise of the CD/DVD format in well under a decade. It's all gonna be downloading and streaming in the future (well, I suppose it's mostly that already). I won't be able to give-away my sizable DVD collection before long. Who's gonna wanna get off the couch to place a disc in a machine?
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Since we were on the topic of historic consoles, I recalled another message I sent out last Summer after doing a little research (and a little math): Remember the Atari 2600? There were nearly 470 games for that system. Being the games were quite simple (and small) back then, the total size of all those games together, was only about 1.9Mb. There’s a new game out now called Wolfenstein: The New Order, and it’s a whopping 43.65Gb. That one game is nearly 23,000 times larger than all the Atari games combined! Additionally, you’d need 10 DVD’s (single-layer), or over 60 CD’s for Wolfenstein. I wonder how insane it'll be in another few decades. I love it, though! I just hope "Star Trek" comes before "Skynet".
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Yeah, it was kinda cool to see the advancements as the years progressed. Crap, I think I remember playing an original Pong console (Atari in mid-70's, I believe). How cool - a ricocheting square that bounced off your vertical bar, that you could only move up and down.The color range was somewhat limited, though. Only two - black and white.
I think they were about $99 back then.
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kamyk2000's previous post about "your first console" reminded me of an e-mail I sent out to my distribution list a couple of Summer's ago: Game Consoles (PlayStation, Xbox, etc.) today aren’t that expensive, relatively speaking, considering what they cost over 35 years ago, and how very much more computing power they have now. Example: In 1977, a new Atari 2600 cost $200, which would be the equivalent of $768 today (well, 2013). I think I’d rather pay $399 for a PS4.
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I played friends Atari 2600's (remember Space Invaders?), but the first console I owned was an Intellivision. I still have my Intellivision II with 70+ games. I even have some other stuff for it (can't find one of the other boxes right now - the Music Synthesizer).
I was a card-carrying member of Imagic's Numb Thumb Club, too.
Here's a couple of shots of their first news letter from 1982 (front cover and one of the pages inside):
I then made the somewhat common transition to the NES and then SNES, both of which I still have (with games for both).
I'm such a hoarder when it comes to 'old school' technology.
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Well, mine's not too impressive (my Video Card (an Asus HD7770-2GD5) is the weak link, I believe), but check this one out:
Boxx's Apexx 5 - total insanity! Weeee! Gordon Mah Ung, the Executive Editor at PCWorld specced one out as follows:
So what does the Apexx 5 cost? That all depends on what you stuff inside the chassis. The 18-core CPUs themselves aren't even carried on Intel's public price list, but I found them for $6,600 a piece.
For kicks, I had Boxx spec out an Apexx 5 with a pair of Xeon E5 2699v3 chips, 512GB of DDR4/2133, three Quadro K6000 cards, a fourth Quadro K2200, two 480GB Intel 730 Extreme Performance SSDs in RAID 0, another four 800GB SSDs, Blu-Ray drive and a sound card (cause we have the slots, right?) and it came in at $58,349. Obviously, the price can be pushed up even higher.
If you're interested, click here for PCWorld's full article, and here for Boxx's website. I'll continue to "Dream On".
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I did get the 'Additional Apps' thing working (I was suffering from lameness, which I frequently do). It's actually a very good solution for what I wanted to accomplish. Perhaps even better than launching some 'child window', 'cause then I'd want to have artwork for each episode (as in my Sam & Max example above), which I'd have to procure, as TheGamesDB only has artwork for Season 1, but not the individual episodes. Same thing with Tales of Monkey Island, e.g. TheGamesDB has the 'main' artwork, but not for the individual chapters of the saga. Plus, when right-clicking on the parent games, the chapters and episodes do have their own differing, individual icons.
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Cool. I suppose you were a bit of a programmer. Seems you found your 'calling' early.
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Otay, thanks!
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Thanks for the recommendations, Jason.
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Yeah, but it was pretty cool back in the day. I believe in the early Space Shuttle days (and for many years following) NASA used 8086's for the boosters in some way. I'm sure you remember these (I actually don't remember the huge black one)! I still have some old 5.25" floppies and a drive. 'Course, finding a modern Motherboard that it'll plug into isn't gonna happen. Perhaps I should make a mobile or collage out of 'em, or something. Guess I'm strayin' off the topic too much, but it all brings back numerous non-fond memories of monkeying around with autoexec.bat and config.sys to get so many games to run correctly.
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Great, Jason, thanks. Guess I need to scour the Forums more thoroughly before I Post stuff, as things I suggest have already been suggested. Not surprising, though, since it's not as if I'm 'Mr. Thought of it First'.
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Since everyone reading this is a 'Gamer' of some sort or another, could you recommend some First Person Shooters that would be suitable for newcomers to this genre? Maybe even some good intermediate and advanced ones, too, for the more seasoned killers?
About the most mayhem I can handle effectively is the 'Boss' in Plants vs Zombies.
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One of my games is 'F1 2013'. LaunchBox sorts it as the last of my games that start with "F" (F1, e.g., came after FEZ). Technically, I believe when sorting, numbers come before letters. No big deal, but since I'm 'anal', I had to mention it. I'm not trying to be an 'anal butt-hole', though, really!
This forum wouldn't let me attach this document, but check here (National Information Standards Organization), then look at Page 10, Item #3.
P.S. I love LaunchBox. BTW, if you have a DVD collection, check this out: DVD Profiler. My other favorite program (but it's not free).
Well, I do know how to spell 'check' - guess I just fat-fingered it. 
What was insane, was the "in-game play" looks like a cut-scene! Oh, yah! 
The color range was somewhat limited, though. Only two - black and white.
I was a card-carrying member of Imagic's Numb Thumb Club, too. 
I then made the somewhat common transition to the NES and then SNES, both of which I still have (with games for both).
I'm such a hoarder when it comes to 'old school' technology. 
Boxx's Apexx 5 - total insanity! Weeee! Gordon Mah Ung, the Executive Editor at PCWorld specced one out as follows:
So what does the Apexx 5 cost? That all depends on what you stuff inside the chassis. The 18-core CPUs themselves aren't even carried on Intel's public price list, but I found them for $6,600 a piece.
For kicks, I had Boxx spec out an Apexx 5 with a pair of Xeon E5 2699v3 chips, 512GB of DDR4/2133, three Quadro K6000 cards, a fourth Quadro K2200, two 480GB Intel 730 Extreme Performance SSDs in RAID 0, another four 800GB SSDs, Blu-Ray drive and a sound card (cause we have the slots, right?) and it came in at $58,349. Obviously, the price can be pushed up even higher.
If you're interested, click 
Just out of curiosity what was you first ever computer and game console?
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