BlueTrin

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May 21	comment	How can I improve my ratings? @Tacroy: It is true, this is why training is the most important thing to get good reviews. Do you want to edit the reply ?
May 20	comment	How do the Ents spawn and what's the best way to deal with them? Isn't it Optimus Pine and not Prime ?
May 17	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? @Ekonion: The first game to record high scores was recording 10 characters
May 15	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? I suspect they would not use 1 byte per char though.
May 15	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? @MichaelMadsen: thank you that makes alot of sense.
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? let us continue this discussion in chat
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? Well it seems that the first high scores were on 10 characters so it still does not explain why it was reverted to 3. And you misunderstood me, I did not say that they will have always enough room. I was saying that assuming that it was due to technical limits is not obvious since the capacity of RAM at this time could handle this. Maybe I am wrong because maybe the Video RAM was dedicated but to me this is far from obvious and in regards to your first comment, it does not tell me if the RAM for scores and graphics was the same or not.
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? I do not know, I assumed if you have enough ram to fit a resolution of a a few hundred by a few hundred, you would have probably enough spare to store a highscore that you could encode on 3x10x5bits for 32 symbols. If this is total nonsense for you so be it.
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? @Graeme Hunter: Please look at this page, it has the history of high-scores en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score_(game) with a few references. I emailed Taito support to ask them if there was a reason they limited to three chars the high-scores, but from what you say, it was not limited to three chars.
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? It does not say how much can be spared for high-scores, I agree but I wanted only to say that a few bytes of data is really nothing compared to the number of pixels in the game. And that is not what you said in your first comment.
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? @SevenSidedDie: so you are saying that these cabinets were too limited in RAM to store high scores ? Don't the sprites have to go through some RAM at some point in order to make the final picture to display ?
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? I do not think the limitation was memory, but I am happy to know the real reason. See Graeme Hunter's reply seems to me a more reasonable answer. Seems that my wording attracted alot of ire.
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? @SevenSidedDie: I was merely mentioning that it is 1 single byte and you are not technically correct as some arcades did not store the scores permanently after reset which invalidates your point.
May 7	comment	How can you train for blind hooks with Pudge Pudge is, for me, one of the most fun heroes to play with. I love to play with him and experiment, but I am still not good at blind hooking (except when they move in a straight line).
May 7	comment	Set 2 buttons to same action Try to edit the config file manually ?
May 7	comment	Will my stabilized soldier die at the end of mission? In higher difficulties you may want to dismiss soldiers with too low will as they may be a liability.
May 3	comment	Hero that can SOLO Roshan at an early level aside from Ursa The enemy team is likely to spot you if you have to kite ...
May 3	comment	Error when trying to reconnect to a Dota 2 game Dota looks like one of these projects that will be in permanent beta. I would keep raising bug tickets and bumping it from time to time ...
May 3	comment	I need more corpses Are you competing for the sickiest title ? :D
May 2	comment	Is it possible to strafe/sidestep? I will check tonight if I can find some way to install Heretic ... but look for a strafe modifier key in the settings if I am incorrect I will amend my answer.