Comments by "OpenGL4ever" (@OpenGL4ever) on "Scott Manley" channel.

  1.  @fuzzywzhe  It is good enough if it goes to 11.
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  2.  @Yutani_Crayven  Well, not exactly. The reason why they dropped Buran and the rocket Energia was their lack of money. If money hadn't been the reason, they would at least have flown the Energia rocket.
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  3. @TheSeppentoni The Saturn V never went kaboom.
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  4. Exactly and in 1998 they found out that it was Turing-complete. An important feature required for the definition of a real computer.
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  5. All we know so far about wormholes is that the other side of a wormhole is a living room with a dining table and bed.
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  6.  @CWINDOWSsystem32  And FlightGear is free and open source, thus the reason to buy FS 2020 is only eye candy.
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  7. I played this game on my 12 MHz 286 + VGA in 1990. It was really a great game. But when i tried to play it on my later 486DX 33 MHz with soundblaster support it ran far to fast without a speed brake tool. This sprite technique was also used in Wing Commander 2. Wing Commander 3 was the first WC game, that used polygons. But they also used textures for WC3. This sprite technique had its drawback, you needed to predict where the ship will be flying next. This wasn't easy with this sprite technique, with real polygon games, like X-Wing this was much easier to do. But on the other side, that sprite technique that was used in WC 1 had only a limited number movement steps, so with enough experience, you could predict where the ship is flying next. BTW LucasArts used such a sprite technique too. They used it in their Games "Battle of Britain - Their Fines hour" and "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe". On these games only the surface of the earth and the buildings on ground were done with real polygons, the airplanes where done with this sprite technique. And when we talk about X-Wing. The sequel of X-Wing. Tie fighter was the first Star Wars game for PC that used Gouraud Shading. In X-Wing the polygons were only flat shaded.
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  8. I want to believe too. If we assume that it is working. Even if you need to propel it for 40 years to be better than an ion drive this could be still useful for unmanned interstellar missions.
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  9. Well, i would say. Using a nuclear reactor as energy source for some sort of electric drive is much safer than using metallic hydrogen on a spaceship. A nuclear reactor can produce much more energy and can be controlled in a way that it doesn't explode with an energy of 50 times the energy of TNT.
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  10. +Speedbird Because there is an astronaut called Buzz Aldin and he was the second one who put his foot on the moon.
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  11. Speedbird Then you should know, that this game company very likely bought the permission from Buzz Aldrin to use his name on their product. That's what i would assume. The same happened with the game "Buzz Aldrin Race into space."
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  12. Speedbird Because names help with sales. At least that's what they think.
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  13. Now i know why this robot race in X is called Xenons.
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  14. This wormhole scares me. Imagine you're the first one who flys through it without knowing where you get out, on the other side it could be a lightyears away from a planet, a void of empty space and without knowing if you can fly the way back you came from.
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  15. If you see a short but strong lightning then duck and cover.
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  16.  @MrNight-dg1ug  Never underestimate the power of deception my slave.
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  17. It wasn't wasted. They gave it a shot, tested it and came to an acceptable conclusion.
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  18. @Scott Manley What about Zuse Z3? It was a computer that was built before Colossus.
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  19. No one played a game like this at 30 fps at these days. 15-20 fps was normal. And you were really happy and propably an owner of a high end pc if your pc could run the game at 20 fps. 21 fps were superior. The games graphic quality were still pushed to their limits, and reaching around 18-20 fps was the target that was aimed for. If developers made a game that reached 30 fps, it meant they didn't push the graphic quality far enough. This changed when the first 3d accerlator cards, like the Voodoo 1 came out. The games were still designed for a 20 fps target, because they still had a software renderer. But when they adapted the games for the 3d accerlater videocards, they didn't change the 3d models. In consequence the Voodoo broke this barrier and reached 30 fps and more, because it was faster than the games were designed for. The Voodoo 2 made this much clearer, this one reached outstanding 60-90 fps at its time. After that, the targeted framerate dropped again to about 30-40 fps, because then, designing the games for 3d video acclerator cards was normal but no one wanted back to only 20 fps.
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  20. Sissy Read again what i said before: "If developers made a game that reached 30 fps, it meant they didn't push the graphic quality far enough." You can of course put just one triangle on a slow machine and say, it runs at over 60 fps. But that wasn't my point. And yes, the Voodoo Graphics changed that. Because as i said before, they pushed graphics quality of games for software rendering to run at 20 fps. But with arrival of the Voodoo, the games, that were designed for the software renderer but also supportet the Voodoo ran faster. This is a historical fact. Only when the market of 3d accelrator video card owners was big enough, they started to aim for the limits of the 3d hardware and dropped the support for software rendering. But no one wanted go back to this 20 fps area. So they tried to reach at least 30 fps. Which is still the case today. Take a look at the consoles. 30 fps is the common target.
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  21. @8:38 It's a shame, NASA is still using imperial units. The length of all SLS rockets is stated on this sheet in feet not in meter.
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  22. en wikipedia org/wiki/Imperial_units
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  23. @Scott Manley Have you ever played the game "Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space" from 1993? If yes, how does this one compare to it?
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  24.  @kackdackel9170  Because 11 is one more than 10. If you need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? We set the drive up to 11.
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  25.  @38spl96  That video proves, that Earth is flat. There is no curved horizon.
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  26.  @MrNight-dg1ug  Ha, ha, i triggered and owned you.
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  27.  @MAGGOT_VOMIT  I triggered you too. Ha, ha.
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  28.  @MAGGOT_VOMIT  You answered to my honey pot, thus i won.
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  29.  @scottmanley  There is a constellation of stars called Hercules. What do you think, is it a good idea to give my future son this name?
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  30. EA's Star Wars Battlefront sucks big time compared to this Masterpiece. I played SW Tie Fighter in the year 1994 and completed the whole campaign.
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