Cascade Crew

BigDaddyVu · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:06 pm Post subject: Xbox 360

Are you ready for the next gaming system?

Xophertony · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:05 pm Post subject:

....... yeah i guess. Confused

what a verry open ended question Smile

mrpopo573 · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject:

Im still in love with my original xbox. Halo and halo 2.

I still get all Laughing

from killing 8 year olds on xbox live.

As for 360, probably amazing, but I want to put 400 bucks into my car.

miamivice · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject:

yeah i put up the retail display at some stores last month, got to play it a while back and i will say this:

yes its friggin amazing, but the jump up from xbox to xbox 360 is not as big as it was from, say super nintendo to n64, or n64 to xbox/ps2.

and the other thing, xbox 360 is tailored for HDTVs, if you dont got one, i dont know how much better its gonna look to tell you the truth, i mean, graphics are a bit better, played the king kong game, and that t-rex was awsome, faces are a lot more detailed, but you are going to lose some of that w/o an HD set.

also, have fun trying to get one. alot of the big retail stores are not even getting any on launch date, despite the fact they have displays, and the ones that are are not getting many, less then 100ish from what i understand. the one store that is getting the most is a total of 250.
unfortunatly i cant say what stores these are.

i think this unit is gonna be the hottest thing this christmas, and will probably end up on ebay for over a grand.

and yes, id rather spend the 400 dollars on my car at this point and time Razz

Twilightoptics · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject:

Xophertony · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject:

for sure. i don't need to game more then i need insurance Shocked

kidcamaro · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject:

lots of people i game with now are gonan get it. im gonna wait for awhile. as with most new consoles there will be probs with the first few batchs made. ill probably get a ps3 when they come out only if they are backwards compatible with ps2 games. btw what kinda games are you guys into? i play some ps2 games online and a few xbox games. would be cool to play some games with you guys. the ps2 game i play the most right now is socom3.

BigDaddyVu · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject:

My gamertag on xbox live is BigDaddyVu

kidcamaro · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject:

what games do you play on live? i have halo2, forza, ghost recon2 (not summit strike), espn nfl 2k5. thats all i remember for now.

Xophertony · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:53 am Post subject:

i play doom, sonic mega collection, thats about it.... oh yeah GTA SA 1st edition. bitches. thats right CJ mother f***er. representn' the GROVE. keep it real. Very Happy

Twilightoptics · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:15 am Post subject:

Man guys, I am still stuck on Sega Genesis! Laughing

mrpopo573 · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:59 am Post subject:

Good god.

I remember being 8 and wanting that system.

Anyone on xbox live can add my screen name

XKiMarine

chevymad · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:30 pm Post subject:

LMAO! When I was 8 I had a Roth Fairchild system and was wishin I had the bitchin new Atari 2600 my friend had!

mrpopo573 · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject:

I salute your age

Lol, kidding. How weird each generation is.

Good thing we all love thirdgens.

chevymad · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject:

Was just talkin to my wife today while we walked through Fred Meyers. Years ago( 1976 i think) I was in freddies with my dad christmas shopping. Here was this huge display where they actually had a man standing there demonstrating this totally new idea. Video Games!! It was this fairchild system which I think was the first or very close video game console. Had pong, red baron, tictactoe, and a few other games. Real sweet controllers with it too. Think dad paid $450 back then for it. Every once in awhile dad would spring for a big ticket toy. I wouldnt get another till 83 when he got me an atari computer. So even though I had a game console before anyone else, I never did get a 2600.

chevymad · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject:

Check it out http://www.classicgaming.com/gamingmuseum/channelf.html

Whoppin 64 bytes yes that's BYTES of memory. But the controllers worked like a regular joystick, but they were pistol grip. Plus you could twist the top for controls in 2 other motions and push the top down to fire. No buttons or other controls needed.

Xophertony · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:44 am Post subject:

just incase anyone wants to know how much a byte actualy is, a byte (or "octet") is 8 bits. a bit is one binary digit (1 or 0) so this is a byte:
10101010

64 bytes:
10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010

thats all the info it could hold. Shocked

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:22 am Post subject:

The previous is mostly true for the modern computers that you are working with but 8 bits to a byte is hardly a universal rule.

Bytes, byte-words and half-byte words have had various flavors through the evolution of the computer.

For example I have done quite a bit of work earlier in my career with Honeywell mainframes. Honeywell (actually GE but that is another part of history) utilized an 8 bit byte but included a check bit for a total of 9 bits per byte. There were others that utilized 6 bit or 7 bit bytes as well.

As far as video games, I was thinking about how cool Space Invaders and Asteroids were when the first machines showed up at stores (prior to the video arcades) as I was playing Forza the other night in all of it's surround sound glory Wink

. We've come a long way baby. My only dissapointment for gaming is that I thought we would have been a lot further along with the virtual reality genre. Although if readily available I could see the productivity of the entire country coming to a standstill. Let's see, go to work or make love to a super model... hmmmm?

-Schultzy

chevymad · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 12:02 pm Post subject:

I saw yesterday that Atari has released a new version of the 2600. Includes 40 games and has the actual square controllers. Ergonomics be damned!! I don't know how many of those controllers i've worn out(hand my hands with it). Anybody else remember how to "repair" those controllers? Used to take them apart, slice the lamination off of the top fo the buttons then recurve the metal button. Stick it back down and put some tape over it. You were good to go awhile longer. The new box is like $30 or so.

Played with the xbox 360 friday night too a bit. SWEET! I've gotta get me one. The only complaint I have about modern games, why do they have to make things so complicated?? Come up with a game thats simple to play and doesnt need a whole keyboard full of buttons you have to remember please. I'm gettin old Wink

I can't remember to shift Z spacebar to make my guy scratch his ass. Actually probably could remember that, too bad it wouldnt be useful. LOL

kidcamaro · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:10 pm Post subject:

you play forza online shultzy?