Fronzel Neekburm Posted January 6, 2015 Report Posted January 6, 2015 "THEY DID WHAT?!?!?!?!?!" A bunch of Sierra classics are among the list of released games as well. Even some rather obscure titles that yours truly never even heard of. Click here! Activision, you've had your chance to milk that cow for all it was worth and you blew it! edit: Tried my hand at "Mixed-Up Fairy Tales", because that's how tough muthafuckas roll! I don't know why, but for some reason the interface doesn't do anything. Oh well, maybe I'll try some of the other stone-age-Sierras later, maybe those will work properly. edit 2: LSL 5 asks me for my password. Never having entered one, I'm thrown out of the game after a few unsuccessful attempts. :P I guess I'll stick with my GOG collection after all... :wub: Hopefully, this will serve as a wake up call to the dumb cnts at Activision to rerelease their old stuff. (Yeah, fat chance! But a man can still dream, right?!) suejak 1 Quote
suejak Posted January 6, 2015 Report Posted January 6, 2015 Wow, awesome. They have most of the good stuff, too. Only problem is there's no sound, and the in-browser emulation is kinda sluggish. Also, Shadow of Yserbius crashed ASAP, lol. Quote
Troels Pleimert Posted January 8, 2015 Report Posted January 8, 2015 DosBox used to shit bricks if you tried loading anything tougher than AlleyCat in the olden days. This'll come around, I'm sure. :) drdrslashvohaul 1 Quote
drdrslashvohaul Posted January 20, 2015 Report Posted January 20, 2015 Slightly related to the topic, but mostly a naked attempt at self promotion: I was interviewed (briefly) by The New Yorker about the internet archive. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb The whole thing is fascinating, I think. But then I have to think that. Because I want to be paid to look at it. suejak 1 Quote
pcj Posted January 20, 2015 Report Posted January 20, 2015 Seems to me they should invest in better data deduplication. Was it the same content in each advertisement result or slightly tweaked each time so every result was different? Quote
drdrslashvohaul Posted January 20, 2015 Report Posted January 20, 2015 It was a series of pages. They were different news stories, but the advert was over all of them. As someone looking specifically at the RNIB, they were duplicates. If you were looking at news websites in the mid-00s, they weren't. I think deduplication needs to be done by users based on their use case. But that needs access to raw data, coding knowledge, and a firm definition on what counts as a "duplicate". None of that is trivial. Quote
Troels Pleimert Posted January 21, 2015 Report Posted January 21, 2015 I was interviewed (briefly) by The New Yorker about the internet archive. "Briefly" is kind of an understatement. ;) But, hey, your name in The New Yorker! That's pretty damn cool. You snob. drdrslashvohaul 1 Quote
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