I've been trying to track down a 3D game from the late '80s/early '90s. It was on the Atari ST and featured simple polygonal (space)ships1 floating over flattish polygonal ground. It was definitely not sprite-based. IIRC it was mouse controlled and the ships moved only in the plane (rise and f...
Most adventure games, to keep the parser simple, might just have some simple rules, which accepts verb + noun or a cardinal direction, and simple things like that. In Backus-Naur Form, a simple parser might look like:
s => D
s => v
s => v object
object => noun
object => ADJ NOUN
ADJ => {red, bi...0
Q: What's the reason for the the Lagonda Series II dashbord to use a mixture of metric and imperial?
The title says it all. I'm puzzled if there is a technical (Hardware/Software) reason behind the weired mixture of metric (Celsius for temperature) and non metric (like psi for pressure) in the Aston Martin Lagonda Series II (and later) dashboard.
This is especially noteworthy as distance and sp...
I am looking into buying myself an original iMac, and I want to mess with the older system a little bit. Also, is it even remotely possible to change the RAM in the system to being over 256 MB. I am willing to do it even if it means changing out other parts to allow it to be possible.
(Also, I ...
