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Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

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Re: Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

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Post by 404mm »

cududa wrote: post #130
404mm wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There could be an official remake one day after all: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/the-simpsons-hit-and-run-g...

Errr, the quote this is going off of was someone asking an original team member if they'd support a remake and they said "I'd love to see it". I'd love to see lots of things but that doesn't mean any of those things will ever be real

The producer seems to be also inclined to do a remake: https://www.nme.com/news/simpsons-hit-run-producer-hints-gam...

Re: Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

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Post by DropInIn »

iso1631 wrote: post #104
thepostman0 wrote: post #35

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Some v92 "winmodems" were more glorified sound cards so needed CPU. If the PC was busy, sonetithe line could drop. A 33.6 would be hardware, so there could be a time when slower becomes faster due to CPU load. All external 56k modems were hardware, some people wouldn't risk an internal card for fear of ending up with a driver based device. Ah good ol' days of BBS and wvdial for internet.

The first 56k modems were download at 56k, upload at 33.6. In theory that was the same upload speed as a 33.6k modem, but I guess line quality could have caused some issue with the higher download baudrate meaning that the upload suffered (say getting 45 down 28 up) It wasn't until 2000 that upload got upto 48k (still not the full 56k on the download). I moved to cable/dsl in late 1999 so didn't go beyond 56/33.6

God, that was only 23 years ago....

But God damn, I was already a teen and that was 23 years ago.... Getting old kinda sucks....

Re: Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

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Post by PNewling »

cjrp wrote: post #122
benoliver999 wrote: post #41

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Company of Heroes was a favourite among my university friends. We spent hundreds and hundreds of hours on it when we should have been working :) "Ready ze panzerfaust"

CoH is the game that taught me about nebelwerfers. Fun _and_ educational!

It werfers the nebels. Not sure why the German language' put-together-able-ness always tickles me. I've always loved when language works like that:

Spanish: paraguas - which is umbrella in english looks like it comes from 'para aguas' or 'for waters' English: billfold - a wallet where dollar bills are folded

Re: Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

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Post by nerdawson »

napo wrote: post #61
asddubs wrote: post #59

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I don't understand that, why spend so much time making something only to never release it?

The product that he is releasing are the videos of him remaking the game.

The YouTuber is a video game developer who sells a premium tool and courses for other video game developers.

The videos are an excellent form of content marketing.

Re: Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

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Post by [deleted] »

rainonmoon wrote: post #139
geraldwhen wrote: post #75

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There was a period in the 90s and 00s when gay meant lame. I’m sure many used it hatefully, but schoolboys were just using play yard lingo. When gay began to mean GAY, people stopped using it to mean “lame”. This poster is probably 30-50 years old and likely meant no harm. There’s an internet meme “fake and gay” which has nothing to do with homophobia but instead refers to the 90s usage.

People stopped using it because of enormous mounting social pressure and increasing awareness of its homophobic roots, not as some innate linguistic slide. The "fake and gay" meme comes from 4chan where it has persisted since "gay" was still a pervasive pejorative term, not as a winking post-modern reference to it. Your optimism about the banality of this history is whimsical and it'd be nice to live in that world, b…

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Re: Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

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Post by gregschlom »

PNewling wrote: post #143
cjrp wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CoH is the game that taught me about nebelwerfers. Fun _and_ educational!

It werfers the nebels. Not sure why the German language' put-together-able-ness always tickles me. I've always loved when language works like that: Spanish: paraguas - which is umbrella in english looks like it comes from 'para aguas' or 'for waters' English: billfold - a wallet where dollar bills are folded

Small nitpick: the "para" prefix comes from Latin and means to defend, to protect against. Thus "Paraguas" is to protect against water. In French, you similarly have parapluie (to protect against rain), paratonnerre (lighting rod), etc..

Re: Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

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Post by The_Colonel »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #105
The_Colonel wrote: post #103

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I understand that you're being facetious, but the reality is much darker than this historical trivia might suggest - the web platform is today largely controlled by one mega corp.

> the web platform is today largely controlled by one mega corp. With a product using code from KDE it must be said.

Does it matter apart from warm fuzzy feelings? KDE doesn't have any influence on web platform anymore.

Re: Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

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Post by williamvds »

pkaler wrote: post #17

This is a blast from a previous lifetime! I worked at Relic Entertainment during that time. Both Relic and Radical's offices were in Yaletown in Vancouver at that time, IIRC. Radical ended up moving to Main & Terminal. I worked on Company of Heroes and Dawn of War during this era. The code looks very familiar. It's the same style of C++. The code looks very similar to Homeworld. https://github.com/HomeworldSDL/Homewo…

Oh hey, I also worked on Company of Heroes, but a good decade later while porting it to iOS. It was definitely among the nicer codebases I worked on at that job. But we did some unholy things to port it and get it working with touchscreens, I'm glad none of the original team have to see that. Decently chuffed with what we managed to bolt on to the existing UI system though.

Re: Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

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Post by tinus_hn »

Capricorn2481 wrote: post #120
tinus_hn wrote: post #107

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I really dislike framing people from different eras as homophobes. Back when this was written this was seen as just a joke, no harm intended, no homophobia involved whatsoever.

We actually live in an era where homophobia is becoming even more socially acceptable then the 2000s, so this is a weird hill for you to die on.

I’m not dying on your hill of non-sequiturs, don’t worry.

It turns out the remark this is all about is something in the setup of this repository, not by the original authors of the code. My comment was assuming it was. If so, the remark would be not a very shocking one and not rooted in homophobia, and complaining about it would be like complaining the Bible is misogynistic.

Instead, the remark was made in our era and probably rooted in some infantile meme lord attitude and although in my opinion not expressing real homophobia still not appropriate.

Re: Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

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Post by johannes1234321 »

ccrush wrote: post #125
The_Colonel wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand that you're being facetious, but the reality is much darker than this historical trivia might suggest - the web platform is today largely controlled by one mega corp.

KHTML->Konqueror->WebKit->WebCore->Blink

Also WebKit -> Safari
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