Startopia - in many ways. The player has no direct control over the characters that wander about, although the game is largely about influencing their actions in one way or another. The hardware requirements are low by current standards (350MHz processor, 64 Mb RAM, 8 Mb 3D graphics card), the game is now in the "budget" range, and there is a demo version available. External Links Info from Eidos Official site Really good strategy guide.
USS Wasp (CV-18) - to obtain some knowledge of Spruance's ships, but American scout planes were unable to find Ozawa's force. Early the following morning, 19 June, aircraft from Mitscher's carriers headed for Guam to neutralize that island for the coming battle and in a series of dogfights, destroyed many Japanese land-based planes. During the morning, carriers from Ozawa's fleet launched four massive raids against their American counterparts, but all were thwarted almost completely. Nearly all of the Japanese warplanes were shot down while failing to sink a single American ship. They did manage to score a single bomb hit on South Dakota (BB-57), but that solitary success did not even put the battleship out of action. That day, Mitscher's planes did not find the Japanese ships, but American submarines succeeded in sending two enemy.
Desk - seating several co-workers close by became common. Even executive or management desks became mass-produced, built of cheap plywood or fiberboard covered with wood veneer, as the number of persons managing the white collar workers became even greater. Impact of computers on desk forms The biggest paper boom occurred in the last decades of the 20th century with the introduction of mainframe computer printers and personal computer printers. The modular nature of the Personal computer and its printer and other peripherals gave a boost to the existing but recently invented Ergonomic desk, which was adapted to the peculiar needs of computer users. The beginning of this paper boom gave birth to the concept of the "paperless office", in which all information would appear on computer monitors. There would be no need for.
Missile guidance - missile systems use a variety of methods to guide the missile to its intended target. These can generally be classified into a number of categories, with the broadest categories being active vs. passive vs. preset. Passive systems use signals generated by the target itself as a signal on which to "home in". A number of such systems have been developed, but by far the most common are sound in the case of torpedos and infra-red in the case of air-to-air missiles. Active systems use some "input" sigal instead. One common sort of signal is a controller who watches the missile and sends corrections to its flight path. Another common system is to use radar signals or radio control. The semi-active radar homing is a crossover, homing passively on a reflected active.
List of Amiga games - for related lists. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Numbers 1869 (Computer game) -- 'NAM -- 1000 Miglia -- 1st Personal Pinball -- 3001 - O'Connors Fight -- 3D Soccer -- 4 Soccer Simulations -- 4D Sports Boxing -- 4D Sports Driving -- 4x4 Off Road Racing -- 5th Gear -- 7 Gates of Jambala -- 9 Lives A A Prehistoric Tale -- A.G.E -- A.P.B. - All Points Bulletin -- Aargh -- Abandoned Places 1 -- Abandoned Places 2 -- Academy: Tau Ceti II -- Act of War -- Action Cat -- Action Fighter -- Action Service -- Action Stations -- Addams Family, The -- Adidas Championship Football -- Advanced.
1953 - the southwestern Netherlands and 307 in the United Kingdom. February 5 - The movie Peter Pan premieres (Roxy Theatre, New York City). February 11 - President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. February 11 - The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel. February 18 - The first 3D film, Bwana Devil opens. February 19 - Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. February 28 - James Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA. March 5 - After 29 years of ruling the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin dies. March 6 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. March 18 - An earthquake hits.
Tekken - worldwide settings and fight hand-to-hand with each other. It is primarily a competitive two-player series, but a human player can fight an artificial intelligence-controlled character for practise or amusement. It shares some gameplay mechanics and characters with Namco's other 3D fighter series, Soul Calibur. Characters Nina Williams, An Irish Assassination Martial Artist that borrows concepts from Aikido and Bone Martial Arts. She has a history of being contracted to kill Mishimas and failing due to untimely quarrels with her sister; she was captured by Kazuya Mishima after failing to assassinate him in Tekken 2 and used as a guinea pig in the "cold sleep" project (cryonisation). She has lost her memory as a result and during Tekken 3 was controlled by Ogre and manipulated to try and kill Jin Kazama. In.
The Sims - bomber game that Wright was creating.) The inner structure of the game is actually an agent based artificial life program. The presentation of the game's artificial intelligence is very advanced, and the sims will respond to outside conditions by themselves, although often the player/controller's intervention is necessary to keep them on the right track. The Sims technically has unlimited replay value, in that there is no way to win the game, and you can play on indefinitely. It has been described as more like a toy than a game. There are some limitations to The Sims, most notably that children never grow up to become adults, though babies do eventually become children. Also adult Sims never age, and there is no concept of a weekend. For example, the adult sims go.
Tomb Raider - was initially released for the Sony PlayStation and for PC, and was responsible for much of the market dominance by the Sony console during this period. The game presents a world in 3D, a series of tombs, and other locations, through which the player must guide Lara, killing dangerous animals and other creatures, while collecting objects and solving puzzles along the way. The game is a third-person shooter, since Lara is always visible. The player's "camera" follows her, usually over her shoulder or from behind. Each version of the game has introduced new weapons and moves; by the fourth version Lara can backflip whilst sliding down a rope, turn around in mid-air and grab onto a ledge behind her. All this while shooting her pistols! This is an earlier example of.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Master Emerald, an all powerfull jewel upon which the Chaos Emeralds base their powers, he tries to steal them to repair his Death Egg. Of course, Sonic and Tails have to put a stop to this, collecting Chaos Emeralds as they go before Dr. Robotnik does. Unfortunately, Dr. Robotnik has tricked the guardian of the Chaos Emeralds, an echidna named Knuckles, into thinking that Sonic and Tails are the thieves, so he tries his best to stop them. Overview of play As the player, you control either Sonic or Tails. Your aim is to guide them through six zones, collecting all the Chaos and Super Emeralds on the way via special '3D' stages. The following zones are in the game: Angel Island Zone Hydrocity Zone Marble Garden Zone Carnival Night Zone.
Radiology - radiology can be classified into two subfields. Diagnostic radiology is concerned with the use of various imaging modalities to aid in the diagnosis of disease. Interventional radiology uses these imaging modalities to guide minimally invasive surgical procedures. Radiation therapy uses radiation to treat diseases such as cancer and is commonly lumped together in the same class as Radiology. Most medical practitioners, however, make a clear distinction between the Radiologists and the Radiotherapists. Commonly used imaging modalities include plain radiography, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, and nuclear imaging techniques. Each of these modalities has strengths and limitations which dictate its use in diagnosis. Radiographs are often used to for quick evaluation of bony structures. Fluoroscopy is a special application of X-ray imaging, where an X-ray video camera allows the.
RenderMan - rendering technology invented by Pixar Animation Studios; an implementation of Pixar's photorealistic 3D description standard, the RenderMan Interface Specification. RenderMan is often used in creating digital visual effects for the Hollywood blockbuster movies of today such as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. The name RenderMan can cause confusion because it is often used to refer to two different things: The RenderMan Interface Specification (RISpec): Pixar's technical specification for a standard communications protocol (or interface) between modeling programs and rendering programs capable of producing photorealistic-quality images. This is a similar concept to PostScript but for describing 3D scenes rather than 2D page layouts. Thus, modelling programs which understand the RenderMan Interface protocol can send data to rendering software which implements the RenderMan Interface, without caring what rendering algorithms are utilized.
Panzer General - name suggests, the player plays a German general in World War II. The basic design of the game is based on the traditional hex map, with a wide variety of units available and displayed as profiles. While the names and info for the units is reasonably accurate, the scenarios are only approximations of historical situations. Allied General, the same basic game but with the player on the Allied side, came out in 1995. In 1997, Panzer General II (titled Panzer General IIID in Germany) upgraded the interface to use an overlay of photorealistic terrain, and to display units facing in different directions, resulting in a much improved appearance. In the April 2000 issue of PC Gamer, it was voted the 44th best computer game of all time. True 3D came in.
Nickelodeon TV channel - joint venture with Sesame Workshop). They also operate language- or culture-specific Nickelodeon channels for various markets in different parts of the world, and have licensed translated versions of some of their cartoons and other content to TV and cable stations (such as Kinderkanal of Germany, (originally) YTV (Youth TV) of Canada and parts of the North with the exception of some parts of Nunavut , and Alpha Kids from Greece) in areas not directly served by Nickelodeon. The first television show of its own, Nickelodeon began in 1991. Rugrats was the first Nicktoon ever created. Its website nick.com was launched in 1995. Nick began to introduce info on shows, etc. Nickpoints was later introduced. The website nick.com features All Nick which feature description of TV shows, lineup, Nick movies, and magazines..
Lemmings (computer game) - with poor gameplay, had its greatest success in Lemmings. The game was unique and based around concepts previously untried. The player had to guide a group of up to 100 lemmings home by telling individual lemmings to climb, explode, build, block, dig, bash, and mine. (The "lemmings" of the game — small, green-haired beings that mindlessly walk en masse into any danger in their path — are not the same as real-life lemmings, although they were named for the popular myth that real lemmings behave in a similar fashion.) The popularity of the game on the Amiga led to its rapid porting to other platforms including, Acorn, Amstrad CPC, Atari Lynx, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Gameboy, Macintosh, NES, OS/2, SAM Coupé, Sega Genesis, SNES, Windows, Sony Playstation and even the.
List of leading legal cases in copyright law - for the legal reasoning or the conclusions they reach. Please note: Wikipedia does not give legal advice. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Advent Sys. Ltd. v. Unisys Corp (1991) held that the sale of software is the sale of a good within the meaning of Uniform Commercial Code. Applied Info. Mgmt., Inc, v. Icart (1997) held that the sale of software is the sale of a good. Autodesk v Dyason (No.2) (1993) 176 CLR 300 (the idea-expression divide is the "dominant principle in copyright law" per Mason CJ: "when the expression of any idea is inseparable from its function, it forms part of the idea and is not entitled.
Hovertank 3D - Hovertank 3D Hovertank 3D is a computer game from id Software published by Softdisk that sometimes is claimed to be the first first-person shooter or even the first 3D game for DOS. The game used the same combination of scaled sprites and drawn walls that would later show up in Catacomb 3D and Wolfenstein 3D, but the walls in Hovertank 3D was in solid colour, without any textures. The unprecedented significance of the graphics engine in Hovertank was a breakthrough in that it was the first program to only render what the player could see in his field of vision rather than everything around him. Instead of wasting processor power on unesessary rendering, the computer could instead draw much higher resolution and detailed graphics, immersing the player.
Genesis3D - an open source project to create a real-time 3D engine. External Links http://www.genesis3d.com/ http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Games/3D/Genesis3D.
Fixed 3d - Fixed 3d In techniques for computer games, fixed 3D refers to a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the game world with game characters rendered in real time against a pre-rendered environment. Used heavily in the survival horror game genre, it was first seen in Delphine's Alone In The Dark series in the late 1980s; it was later revived and bought up to date by Capcom in the Resident Evil series. Other notable examples include Final Fantasy VII (Squaresoft) Mario Party series (Nintendo) Blade Runner (Westwood Studios) - apparently the backgrounds are rendered in real time, using millions of polygons, although this is difficult to tell Ecstatica and Ecstatica 2 (Andrew Spencer/Psygnosis) - unusual in that the backgrounds and characters are rendered with ellipsoids, leading to a very natural.
FRANC 2D&3D - FRANC 2D&3D FRANC2D is a finite element based simulator for curvilinear crack propagation in planar (plane stress, plane strain, and axisymmetric) structures Here is the web address :http://www.mne.ksu.edu/~franc2d/.
