Well, is it actually possible to play it frame-by-frame, let alone savestate and record input?
Question.
Chamale wrote:
In fact, given that they're .exe files,
Statement.
Chamale wrote:
if we could savestate THEM why not do TASes of other games?
Statementish question.
Chamale wrote:
Dibs on Impossible Creatures Campaign when we get .exe TAS.
Questionable statement.
Long answer: The Game Maker games are in 2d (Which makes them a lot less complicated than most PC games) and since they are all made in the same program, it's maybe possible to reverse engineer some parts that all of the Game Maker games share so that you can make those games interface directly to the emulator/TASing program. The commercial PC games are not the same, really. The only things the commercial games share are with each other are the parts that interface with the operating system. In order to properly emulate one of those games, you'd have to simulate a computer, that runs an operating system, that runs a game which uses up a lot of processing power (The Game Maker games on the other hand are kinda lightweight.) Get it? In order to TAS your game that you have for your PC the PC has to simulate itself, like this:
PC runs OS that runs TAS program that runs virtual PC that runs OS that runs game.
Short answer: I mean, we're not near proper n64 TASing although it was released ten years ago, and you call dibs on a game that may not be even playable during the next 10 years?
Note that I may very well be wrong about some of these things. I'm no 1337 (0^^pu73r ^^a573r, nor am I a computer engineering student or anything like that. I was guessing some things in the text, too. Hey, no one's perfect, right?
BTW, is "interface" possible to use as a verb?
Also, the small text size gives me the capability to say dirty words that other forum-goers won't see unless they quote me! Tits!
Maybe I've said this already, maybe it's widely known, maybe I just drooped into this thread without reading previous posts, but it needs to be said again:
That thing is goddamn awesome.
Stupid picture aside,
GNU is the brand of software that all the user mode stuff runs. Your shell? Part of the gnu software package. All the command-line tools? GNU. The compiler? GNU. The C library? GNU.
Now, if you went off and made your own C library (or used something different like uclibc), Intel's C compiler, wrote your own shell and collection of apps, then go ahead and call it whatever you want. I don't care and I call it Linux freely, and anybody who insists on GNU/Linux can see figure one.
An OS is nothing without programs for it to run.
I'm just wondering what word you use to refer to the part of the OS that isn't the kernel. I don't use Linux, I don't program (EDIT: just to clarify, that means I can't comprehend what you're saying about user mode and uclibc), I just wanna know the word.
Also, my picture is bad-ass.
GNU/Linux is an operating system.
Linux is a kernel.
Then WHAT THE HECK IS GNU?
I checked the Wikipedia article on GNU, and it referred to it as an operating system, using the GNU Hurd kernel. Okay. But what's the piece of GNU that isn't the kernel called? The same piece of GNU that snaps onto the Linux kernel? Or more exactly:
Operating system minus kernel equals what?
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What thread would I need to post in to post 70's Estonian drum based music videos?
This thread will be fine.
Blublu wrote:
I'm tempted to create a thread called "Steamed fish thread" where people can discuss steamed fish. However, I think it would end up being kinda lame. What's there to talk about with steamed fish anyway? It's fish. And it's steamed. Really, there's not much else to it. Then again, I'm not a steamed fish expert.
Please, stay on the topic of 70's Estonian drum based music. I have no interest in talking about anything else than 70's Estonian drum based music.
If you have a wish to discuss 70's Estonian drum based music, please do so in this thread.
For complaints, refer to the "70's Estonian drum based music thread complaints" thread to get instructions on how to best notify me.
Also, if you're a bit unsure of what to think of 70's Estonian drum based music a good place to start would be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_seventies_Estonian_drum_based_music_bands
So, what do you think about 70's Estonian drum based music?
I like the band Parandama juures Tallinn the most. They've nailed that special rhythm; it makes the music alive. I mean, they are the kings of 70's Estonian drum based music. Really.
What do you think?
Jag känner en bot.
Hon heter Anna,
Anna heter hon
Och hon kan banna,
banna dig så hårt.
Hon röjer upp i våran kanaaaahaaaaaal
Jag vill berätta för dig att jag känner en bot.
Translation:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
If I would make a TAS as entertaining as possible I'd add these functions:
Subtitles.
Slowdown programmed into the movie. Just before you do a cool stunt the movie slows down, matrix-style, and you can see Megaman/Mario/Sonic perfectly dodge that enemy, a detail that otherwise wouldn't have been noticed. Then it speeds up again while you sit down, gasping for air. Or something like that.
Replays (needs a blinking R in the corner).
And all of these functions should of course be possible to toggle.
Now you have no reason to be sad! I edited my post!
The Most Zurreco-y Person In The Forum Award goes to Zurreco.
The Person Most Likely To Pronounce His Or Hers Name Jixie-Kwoo Award goes to JXQ.
The Person Least Likely To Create Erotic Sentences Using DOS Commands Award goes to Jixie-kwoo.
The Trick That Becomes Even More Surprising After Seeing The Explanation But It Was Still Really Interesting The First Time As Well Award goes to Bisqwit for the latest Megaman 1 movie (The glitch I'm talking about is of course the Cutman Is So Insistant On That He Has A Scissor Flying In The Air That He's Trying To Suck Back That Megaman's Velocity Gets All Messed Up glitch).
The Making Tools That Can Seem Unneeded But Are In Reality Awesomately Elite Award goes to Bisqwit for his constant rewriting of BisqBot.
The Most Perhaps Unneeded But Still Damned Cool Measure To Make A Tool Assisted Speedrun Faster Award goes to Bisqwit for his complete disassembly of the Megaman ROM.
Edit-zored!
http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/pok2.gif
Here. It's 2285 bytes.
I reduced also its dimensions a bit, since I prefer that :)
(Without resizing, I could still make it 2926 bytes, but I won't give that to you :P)
If you decide to use it, please put it on a server of your own control; do not link to the URL I pasted.
I wanted to have this extraordinarily cool avatar:
But it's too big. What should I do? Can I compress the image in some way?
Or should I just get used to having a COLD GRAY VOID under my username? :(
http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/pok2.gif Here. It's 2285 bytes. I reduced also its dimensions a bit, since I prefer that :) (Without resizing, I could still make it 2926 bytes, but I won't give that to you :P) If you decide to use it, please put it on a server of your own control; do not link to the URL I pasted.
But it's too big. What should I do? Can I compress the image in some way?
Or should I just get used to having a COLD GRAY VOID under my username? :(
