[meynaf]

Originally Posted by Thorham

Ok, in this case you'd have to know all parameters, making it practically impossible.

Same for the brain simulation.

Originally Posted by Thorham

But these are simply problems witch are not well understood, and therefore hard to implement. It doesn't mean it can't be done algorithmically.

It doesn't mean it can be done either.
Btw. it's "which", not "witch"

Originally Posted by Thorham

The brain is thus an analog information processor, while a computer is a discrete one.

Yes. Probably.

Originally Posted by Thorham

Well, elephants have larger brains than humans, and are not capable of real thought, while chimps, witch have a smaller brain than us are capable of real logical thought. In nature, brain size is not everything.

Did you actually ask elephants if they were able to think or not ? Same for chimps ?

Originally Posted by Thorham

I have no idea what so ever. I've actually written a simple speed test program, but I didn't want to cheat. I'll have a look at it anyway, but if you want to tell me, please do so

I will tell you.

If you speed-test, #2 will be quicker on your 030. But #1 is quicker on 040 - not to mention it's less instructions.
There are other examples.

This says that no solution is the absolute best, it's just more adapted to some situations.

Originally Posted by Thorham

It's a pitty, but I'm not playing BloodNet at the moment. I really have to get away from those peecee games (now it's Kohan: Battles of Ahriman)

Beware of Hopkins-Brie syndrom anyway

Originally Posted by Thorham

Monitor speakers Doh meynaf! Go buy a simple multi media speaker set right now, or I'm coming over to France to [CENSORED] Anyway, my miggy is hooked up to my stereo system. You can here every sound quality flaw on these, of course. But seriously, do yourself a big favor, and buy some simple speakers with amp. Just don't buy the simplest ones. They will make a huge difference

A good old CBM monitor is much better than those - cheap or not - stupid PC multi media speakers !

You certainly hear sound quality flaws, but is that a good thing ? Personnally I do not want to hear them

In the past I tried a good stereo system, with seven-band equalizer I fine tuned for that use. So I know what quality means

Originally Posted by Thorham

The music I listen to, usually contains heavy synthesizer elements (Trance), and that kind of music needs all the quality you can throw at it. At 24khz/16bit stereo played back in 14bit on Amiga, you can hear that two bits have been chopped off, and you can hear it's 24khz and not 44khz. Not that it sounds bad, but reduce the quality any more and it starts to get annoying, unfortunately.

From 24 to 22 you won't hear much difference, especially because the original freq is an integer multiple of it (might even be better if down-sampling didn't use a very good algorithm).

Originally Posted by Thorham

Indeed. I recently downloaded 650mb of jpeg pictures witch I converted using IrfanView. That resulted in 2+gig of 24bit bmps (now you know where they came from). So I simply popped the hd into the peecee. Yup, those peecees are good for something other than games after all

But why performing this conversion ? Just for display speed ?

Originally Posted by Thorham

Really? I could've sworn I read on the board that ks3.1 needs a patch to boot from cd...

If you have ks 3.0 in rom, yes. Or it might depend on the type of cd drive that's plugged in, I dunno. I never needed to boot from cd anyway.

Originally Posted by Thorham

Yeah, CF is cool. I actually don't prep'm all the time, either. Would be a good idea to just use CF instead of floppies, actually.

I use CF instead of floppies. Silent, faster, more data on them, more reliable, not to mention my floppy drive is out of order...

Originally Posted by Thorham

Actually, I think I did in some other thread!

A thread I didn't read, I suppose.

Originally Posted by Thorham

No, I haven't. Only time I've killed him, was the first time I played the game seriously. The whole challenge thing is simply based on the fact that the rest of the game isn't very hard. Try it yourself, and see what I mean.

So you saw him turned into a worm at least once. This called for a sequel but there was none

Originally Posted by Thorham

You could just hack the guy to death

That's what I did a few times

Originally Posted by Thorham

Didn't know the second one. The first, I do know, actually. But throwing the bones is not allowed in the challenge, as it's Ninja skill.

Is stealing objects from other champions allowed in the challenge ?

Originally Posted by Thorham

I understand. I'm quite rusty, though, because I haven't been playing Amiga games lately. I'm still busy with peecee games. Terrible, I know, but I've got a whole stack of cool peecee games I haven't really played in a serious manner, but witch I did pay cash for. Not a lot of cash, but still. I'll try to give it priority.

You paid cash for pc games ???

Originally Posted by Thorham

See above.

I see.

Originally Posted by Thorham

I won't, mate! I hate spoilers.

Even when you're blocked ?

Originally Posted by Thorham

I'm strapped for cash at the moment. As usual. Living on a low income at the moment...

That's a shame.

Originally Posted by Thorham

It's the games!

So you like the games, not the pc

Originally Posted by Thorham

Yes, 12bit is quite ugly. It's just an addition to save some chipmem. 18Bit looks much better. Also, I've finally optimized the c2p to give me 12 frames for 8bit to 6bit c2p (1280x512). If I were you, I'd consider adding the 3x1 pixel method as an option. It's a lot faster than 1x1 ham rendering in even the lowest quality, let alone good quality.

Quick and ugly renderer is not in the urgent todo list.
Best for me would be pre-loading of next pics while displaying one.