Seems Gp2x Now Officially Available In The Uk


PokeParadox posted on May 18 2006 at 08:00 AM said:
The batteries that came with my first edition GP2X where some random brand I'd never heard of...

Bexel!

:lol:

I'm in an unusually goot mood today, can you tell?

:D
 
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PokeParadox posted on May 20 2006 at 11:09 AM said:
Nah, don't be silly... It's a game inspired by Geometry Wars. It doesn't play much like it.
Ya, its completely different. This, the direction of your ship, you shoot, Geo wars the direction your moving and your bullets can be different.
 
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PokeParadox posted on May 20 2006 at 04:09 PM said:
Nah, don't be silly... It's a game inspired by Geometry Wars. It doesn't play much like it.
Are you aware microsoft sued a company over a OS call 'Lindows' and one the case because it looked similar? This is MS. You cant make a game based off another persons without coming to some sort of royalty agreement. Imagine I make a best seller book based off harry potter and make money on it. Just my characters descriptions are slightly different and act a different way. Get my drift?
 
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sam fisher posted on May 20 2006 at 01:18 PM said:
PokeParadox posted on May 20 2006 at 04:09 PM said:
Nah, don't be silly... It's a game inspired by Geometry Wars. It doesn't play much like it.
Are you aware microsoft sued a company over a OS call 'Lindows' and one the case because it looked similar? This is MS. You cant make a game based off another persons without coming to some sort of royalty agreement. Imagine I make a best seller book based off harry potter and make money on it. Just my characters descriptions are slightly different and act a different way. Get my drift?
It's perfectly fine to be inspired by some aspect of another work. Despite what you are apparently trying to say, you can write a novel about a young magician, even a young magician attending a special school for magicians. You probably can't call him Harry Potter and certainly cannot steal the words from Rowling's books; those are the exact things that are copyrightable. In the case of Vektar, I can be inspired by the visual look of Geometry Wars and other games, just as Geometry Wars was inspired by the visual look of Asteroids and other games, without fear of being sued.

Often times people who attempt to justify the piracy of copyrighted material try to imply that everybody who who draws from another work as a source of inspiration is just as guilty, but it isn't the same thing at all, and the implication is not appreciated.
 
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I'll concider it "officially" in the UK when it's in the shops like GAME. GPH didn't release it here themselves, so it's hardly official.
 
sam fisher posted on May 20 2006 at 08:18 AM said:
PokeParadox posted on May 20 2006 at 04:09 PM said:
Nah, don't be silly... It's a game inspired by Geometry Wars. It doesn't play much like it.
Are you aware microsoft sued a company over a OS call 'Lindows' and one the case because it looked similar? This is MS. You cant make a game based off another persons without coming to some sort of royalty agreement. Imagine I make a best seller book based off harry potter and make money on it. Just my characters descriptions are slightly different and act a different way. Get my drift?
Isn't Geometry Wars owned by the developers who made PGR? They only distribute via the MS Live channel.
 
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sam fisher posted on May 20 2006 at 01:18 PM said:
Are you aware microsoft sued a company over a OS call 'Lindows' and one the case because it looked similar?
Also, to make sure nobody thinks this is accurate, The lawsuit was over the name.

The result of the lawsuit: they changed the name and Microsoft paid them 20 million dollars.
 
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yaustar posted on May 20 2006 at 08:41 PM said:
sam fisher posted on May 20 2006 at 08:18 AM said:
PokeParadox posted on May 20 2006 at 04:09 PM said:
Nah, don't be silly... It's a game inspired by Geometry Wars. It doesn't play much like it.
Are you aware microsoft sued a company over a OS call 'Lindows' and one the case because it looked similar? This is MS. You cant make a game based off another persons without coming to some sort of royalty agreement. Imagine I make a best seller book based off harry potter and make money on it. Just my characters descriptions are slightly different and act a different way. Get my drift?
Isn't Geometry Wars owned by the developers who made PGR? They only distribute via the MS Live channel.
Who are owned by Microsoft Games along with Bungie.

@Dzz:

Really? I read that the lawsuits repeatedly filed by Microsoft sent them bankrupt and that it was also to do with te strat menu looking identical or some such.
 
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The wiki and google using define: told me all. So its Linspire now. Well I did read that when I was only just learning how to use google lol. Id never had the internet till 2001 .well not properly anyway and not on my pc till like '03 or something.
 
Was it not the case that Micro$oft sued because of the name "Lindows" (as if in "Windows") rather than it looking similar? I think Sega would sue if someone released Linux The Hedgehog! ;-)
 
sam fisher posted on May 20 2006 at 08:51 PM said:
Really? I read that the lawsuits repeatedly filed by Microsoft sent them bankrupt and that it was also to do with te strat menu looking identical or some such.

Sure you aren't thinking of the Sony/Bleem case? That one was definitely Bleem winning every case, but eventually going bankrupt...

In any event, iirc, Lindows won several of the cases aginst it - it just failed somewhere in Europe, and so (and here's where I get less certain of my facts) agreed to change the name on the basis that otherwise they;d have to block specifically people from the country in question from viewing the site or something.

Probably hence the rather large cheque from M$ :)
 
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That's exactly right, Tobriand. I'm a lifetime member of Lin...spire. I spent $100 while the spending was good - got my T-shirt and a lifetime of free upgrades AND subscription to the CnR (click & run). However, I use Linspire for my Latin wife, not myself. It's cheap, it works well, I don't have to rebuild it...

However, it has not come far enough along to be a modern desktop OS. Unless you buy a PC with Linspire on it, you'll probably have issues - I have on three different PCs. Playing DVDs is an issue - you can't view many websites whose webmasters don't care about less than 10% of their readerbase - Microsoft Reader doesn't work, getting other formats to work is a pain... it's great for basic web, e-mail, digital cameras...

I'm off topic. But Linspire is very much alive, for now ;)
 
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