What do you think of Apple now?
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orged from a long-standing partnership between two companies committed to innovation, the G5 drives the largest performance gain in the history of the PowerPC. The 64-bit G5 speeds up to 2GHz and can address 8GB main memory.
Shatters the 4GB ceiling
32-bit PCs can only use 4GB of memory. Any more than that requires the use of virtual memory on the hard drive, which is 40 times slower than using RAM. The new Power Mac G5 can offer up to 8GB of RAM thanks to the 64-bit G5. So you can store entire 3D worlds, huge scientific data sets and oversized 2D images all in main memory, which lets you manipulate them faster. To repeat: 40 times faster. Theoretically, the 64-bit data paths let the Power PC G5 access up to 4 terabytes of physical memory. Impractical now, maybe, but the Power PC G5 architecture allows for plenty of growth well into the future.
Shatters the 4GB ceiling
32-bit PCs can only use 4GB of memory. Any more than that requires the use of virtual memory on the hard drive, which is 40 times slower than using RAM. The new Power Mac G5 can offer up to 8GB of RAM thanks to the 64-bit G5. So you can store entire 3D worlds, huge scientific data sets and oversized 2D images all in main memory, which lets you manipulate them faster. To repeat: 40 times faster. Theoretically, the 64-bit data paths let the Power PC G5 access up to 4 terabytes of physical memory. Impractical now, maybe, but the Power PC G5 architecture allows for plenty of growth well into the future.
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First game I ever played was a mainframe text based game where you tried to land a moon lander on the moon. You had only so much fuel and you needed to have a soft landing. REALLY tough.
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Originally Posted by jedwards,Jun 8 2005, 10:55 AM
First game I ever played was a mainframe text based game where you tried to land a moon lander on the moon. You had only so much fuel and you needed to have a soft landing. REALLY tough.
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It is graphic..vector based...quite amusing...has adjustments for thrust and whatnot 
http://www.palmgamingworld.com/actio...etlander.shtml
http://www.palmgamingworld.com/actio...etlander.shtml