Spiralfrog windows 2000

XP had boot prefetching, but parallel service loading happened in Windows 7. Up to a point. XP is a whole lot faster than at booting. XP here boots in mere four! People are so full of myths and crap and cannot take 20 minutes to stand for their words I have a strong desire not to ever open my mouth. This has been the case for over 20 years now and started with probably NT 3. Right, that was my experience too. People have different experiences.

One person having one experience does not invalidate a different person having a different one. Would you want to live in a world where we all had the same experiences? NT 3,1, 3. The kernels were the same, and the same service packs applied to both. Windows XP was an odd one out, where the client release happened in as , then an extra 18 months went into the server release, which arrived in as , and the two never again converged.

It would swap out the current program on task switch, even when memory was available. It is the last version also before the major driver ABI changes in Vista. Thus, modern hardware will have limited support for those systems. So, practically nothing in the last 10 years in terms of video or audio. Not to mention terrible security. I remember getting my Windows hacked during a clean install. They did not even wait for me to reach the final desktop before injecting the rootkits over network.

Yes, I know my fault. There are some legitimate uses for old versions, like legacy system support, or just nostalgic curiosity. Windows allowed me to develop games software without having to reboot every half hour while also being a user friendly experience which let me play retail games too. I was never a fan of Windows XP and only moved to it when forced obsolescence kicked in.

Produce an OpenGL driver for Windows and pretty much every current game would run on Windows Not one can scale from a sprite to a fully rendered and animated model with leeway for 8K content.

If you take a really close look at how parallax and distance and perception work you can see they are chewing up processing power to render street scenes. Even database programmers and business application programmers miss optimisations.

Not one. As long as the hardware is capable of driving the pixels you can often just up the resolution and it will work. One way to address these limitations would be to procedurally generate resources including textures at arbitrary scales.

Also, apart from low resolutions my computers from that era had trouble playing videos…this would undoubtedly cause problems for some. As a developer though older computers can be downright painful. I still support software written in visual studio from the 90s.

VS was quick and snappy and as the company upgraded VS every few years things got slower and slower. It really is insane, haha. Speaking as a game developer who actually designed and coded for this to somebody who has never been a game developer it would be better if you just took what I wrote as read. Also, with all of the choices out there, how do you expect people to find you without tons of press releases?

I mean, besides writing insulting possibly spam comments in blogs that cover things like Spiral Frog? I also think our personal and professional records on independent distribution speak for themselves. Jim is accurate in his comment that press releases can lead to hype.

But we can tell you that we collectively have a lot of knowledge and experience. Nothing bad about it. They get their music directly from the record labels so its all legal. I have been trying to access my Spiral Frog account for months now…. All I know is that when I type in the web address it redirects me to a site called My Mojo dot com which is a site for free ringtones…. Oh, wait, gotta install a Download manager.

Fair enough, eMusic — the best download store on the entire internet — also requires a Download Manager. Of course it was. That song is like a plague of cockroaches with the half-life of Uranium Found them, on Page And according to the site, they have songs available for download.

Oh, the new Thurston Moore album. And they have it! If only I cared enough to research. Time to download. Just the first track. Here we go. Which is just plain weird. Moment of truth: time to play the downloaded song. Oh, frack me. Well, maybe I can get at it through the Windows File System.

It sounds OK, for a. I have to give them the benefit of the doubt that I went to their site on a bad day, and those server error issues will be fixed in due course. So does that mean that I recommend Spiral Frog to hardcore music fans? No: ideally, we want something that combines discovery with purchase, and combines purchase with freedom.

If Spiral Frog then allowed you to download unrestricted. However, I can actually see going there very very occasionally just to check something out. If I remember to, that is. First, there are no audio or video ads appended to our music files. The only advertising you will see is that on the SpiralFrog site itself much like all the other sites out there , so there was no malfunction. Also, once downloaded, music files from SpiralFrog do not self-destruct. They become unplayable if users have not re-registered in 60 days, but they are still there.

Once the user re-registers, the files are good to go. Fair enough. As far as the second goes — the self-destruct thing was meant to be a joke around the fact that the files you download are held hostage to your re-registering to keep them active. I believe you are slightly bias. Also I think it depends on your patience and musical tastes.