Topic: The Big New Secret (tm) (Read 21160 times)

JustinChase · « **Reply #50 on:** March 26, 2004, 05:51:50 pm »

mine never gets reset...

41 to 1

Platu · « **Reply #51 on:** March 26, 2004, 05:53:57 pm »

If this is trully the big new secret, then I think we need to cut Matt a break. It's not exactly what I was hoping for or expecting, but to be honest, given the feature rich, stable state MC is in right now, I can't complain. Looking at the big picture though, it appears that Matt has built a pretty solid foundation for future interative games/visualizations that would certainly set MC further apart from the competition. Good job Matt.

p.s. 3D pong is a quite addicting I have to admit

Platu

sdgrizdan · « **Reply #52 on:** March 26, 2004, 05:58:48 pm »

There's something big coming up for sure...I put up a backdoor way to see a preview a couple of days ago, but the post got deleted mysteriously

::waiting in high anticipation::

JustinChase · « **Reply #53 on:** March 26, 2004, 05:59:56 pm »

I'm not sure this would totally explain Jim's recent trip to visit studios in NYC.

Unless...

This will be the format for the next competition to be MTV's next VJ.

Better practice...

ZRocker · « **Reply #54 on:** March 26, 2004, 06:10:20 pm »

Quote from: Matt on March 26, 2004, 05:39:43 pm

Paddles that moved in three dimensions failed usability testing.

Hmmmmm...and this interface passed? (hard to believe)

MarSies · « **Reply #55 on:** March 26, 2004, 07:06:08 pm »

Thought this program was called Media Center.
If I would like to play a game I will just get me one.

Using a third of your time to accomplish this pong thing I consider a big waist and not a major upgrade.

MarSies .....

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #56 on:** March 26, 2004, 07:10:27 pm »

Pong is too fast to keep up with. I do way better by not doing anything and let the machine play itself.
I thought maybe "s" would slow it down but it doesn't seem to. What is it supposed to do? And what does the "W" do?
CVIII

pipsqueak · « **Reply #57 on:** March 26, 2004, 07:13:22 pm »

Charlemagne

w = up
s= down

although if you have to ask i wouldnt bother...

just wait for MC11 and hope they include asteroids or pac-man

edbro · « **Reply #58 on:** March 26, 2004, 07:20:43 pm »

Seriously, is this a joke? Will you release the real ver 0.100 without the bloat of a silly game? Will there really be advances to the media capabilites of Media Center?

I keep waiting for the punch line. I've been logging in quite a bit to see if the real version will get posted and you will tell us this has been a joke.

KingSparta · « **Reply #59 on:** March 26, 2004, 07:20:46 pm »

Quote

asteroids

1 Vote Here

Michael Horton · « **Reply #60 on:** March 26, 2004, 07:28:26 pm »

Dear Matt and JimH

That you seem perplexed over the negative response to the pong thing concerns me. Personally, I think that MC10 is far and away the best program of it's kind on the market. Nonetheless, after the pong anouncement I must conclude that either, 1) you ARE in fact pulling our collective leg, or 2) you have lost touch. Either way, I'm prepared to either 1) laugh with you, or 2) laugh at you, as soon as I figure out which is appropriate. Either way, no disrespect is intended, and it's meant as the laughter that one shares while the bottle of good wine is passed among friends.

Michael

sherbs · « **Reply #61 on:** March 26, 2004, 07:28:40 pm »

Artist bios being saved to one location rather than the tag.

Buttons for all menu commands.

Opened albums defaulting to detail view... etc, etc.

Just a few of the often asked for improvements.

And the last four months has been spent making a ping pong game?

I don't get it. What's everyone so excited about?

Wile E. One · « **Reply #62 on:** March 26, 2004, 07:48:05 pm »

From a thread.... a long long time ago....

Quote from: JimH on May 28, 2002, 04:06:23 pm

Hey, we want people to be happy. Honest. We just can't make it happen. Maybe version 10.

Listening to: 'Tito Puente - Oye Mi Guaguancó' from 'Mambo Birdland' by 'Tito Puente' on Media Jukebox

If pong doesn't make people happy.... I don't know what will!!!

Rands · « **Reply #63 on:** March 26, 2004, 08:13:58 pm »

I'm hoping though that soon MC will have a built-in virus checker and firewall, e-mail and instant messaging client (using, of course, a proprietary and incompatible protocol), and editing environment for programming in LOGO or PILOT.

KingSparta · « **Reply #64 on:** March 26, 2004, 08:14:15 pm »

My Sister Had A Pong Game

Black And White Burned into The TV Screen Back Before 1975

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #65 on:** March 26, 2004, 08:28:28 pm »

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If pong doesn't make people happy.... I don't know what will!!!

Asteroids. Pac Man. What about Atari's Joust? I was good at that. Nice slow-moving game. I could keep up.

I couldnt figure out "up" or "down" in this Pong mostly because it did everything in less than 1 second ... multiple ups and downs and dozens of volleys. The score was up to Media Center 45, Various 15 in less than five seconds.

CVIII

glynor · « **Reply #66 on:** March 26, 2004, 08:40:34 pm »

I'm horrible at the pong too ...

Honestly, that will probably be the last time I play it. Not really my thing I guess. If I want to play a 3D game, I will load up an actual 3D game. If I want to play a silly little pointless game, I will load up one of the silly pointless k-games on my linux box.

I must say though, I did manage to get more than 1 score. Geesh!

The more I think about it the more I think it must be a lark ...

Quisp · « **Reply #67 on:** March 26, 2004, 09:27:20 pm »

come on folks, do you really think it would take 4 months for a small company to create such a crappy game? It would take millions of dollars of seed money and a staff of at least a hundred or more for it to take that long.

pipsqueak · « **Reply #68 on:** March 26, 2004, 09:32:04 pm »

quisp - well said!

J River - the natives are getting restless. the real question is do we continue checking tonight, or wait until tomorrow?

benrad · « **Reply #69 on:** March 26, 2004, 09:51:02 pm »

I just tried this out:

If you open the DSP Studio and then type up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start, you can play 3D Contra!!!!

Seriously, when's MC10 going Gold guys?

Wile E. One · « **Reply #70 on:** March 26, 2004, 09:54:41 pm »

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J River - the natives are getting restless. the real question is do we continue checking tonight, or wait until tomorrow?

Almost 10pm JRiver time.... much later most other places..... cept a couple North American time zones.... A few hours ago...there were 60 or 70 people on this forum.... presumably most of them waiting for the release... now... there is... 38... and most are guests.

It would seem odd to have a major release when there are so few people to witness it....

I suspect you can go to sleep without worry of missing "THE BIG MOMENT".

But then.... I've been wrong before.

glynor · « **Reply #71 on:** March 26, 2004, 10:17:11 pm »

"Around 1/3 of what we've done for the last 4 ~~months~~ hours was unreleased -- until tonight."

Hehe

edbro · « **Reply #72 on:** March 26, 2004, 10:43:52 pm »

I thought MC10 was supposed to go final today? Why still beta?

m26 · « **Reply #73 on:** March 26, 2004, 11:07:13 pm »

If MC will be tied into a music store, why not just say so? Other music stores announced their forthcoming nature ahead of time.

But no matter what the "big secret" is, why is it such a source of ongoing banter? Why presume to tease over it? If something significant is coming down the road, say so, then say "we can't say what it is, sorry".

Why taunt your own users? What is the point? Have you no idea how irritating that can be?

But in any event, will the curtain go up on this development before the United States' tricentennial?

Sauzee · « **Reply #74 on:** March 26, 2004, 11:45:07 pm »

I'm glad MC hasn't gone down the road of a pay on-line music service. What would be so exciting about that ?

However, I have to say that I'm astonished that MC would devote 30% of their resources [and presumably 30% of our licence payments] to this Pong game.

If there was an option of downloading MC with or without the game, I'd opt for the game free version.

There were many fantastic ideas posted in this forum at the time v10 came out. Very few of them have been implemented in 10. However we get a game - how many users had that on their MC wish list ?

JimH · « **Reply #75 on:** March 26, 2004, 11:46:24 pm »

Quote from: m26 on March 26, 2004, 11:07:13 pm

Why taunt your own users? What is the point?

They don't think they belong to us. We've tried to convince them, but it's been unsuccesful.

pipsqueak · « **Reply #76 on:** March 26, 2004, 11:58:12 pm »

Jim

Nice last few comments - propoganda and disinformation at its best.

Glad to see J River staff are still awake - encouraging sign...

pip

glynor · « **Reply #77 on:** March 27, 2004, 12:21:03 am »

Quote from: JimH on March 26, 2004, 11:46:24 pm

They don't think they belong to us. We've tried to convince them, but it's been unsuccesful.

All your bases are belong to us.

scott_r · « **Reply #78 on:** March 27, 2004, 12:31:52 am »

Love it.

Now all we need to be able to do is play against other MC users in realtime, and set up a ladder type tournament or something.

Yeah, that'd be cool.

Only a couple of problems...
1) What's going on with the bottom of the screen? MC is bouncing the ball off an invisble barrier at the bottom of the screen and is winning far too much...
2) DirectX 9.0? I was pretty stoked when I read that... I thought that maybe you'd added some cool High Dynamic Range Lighting effects, or at least some pixel shading to the 3d vis's to make them at least a little interesting to look at.. but no.
3) WHERE'S THE SDK

Scott.

ps

Quote

All your bases are belong to us.

It's actually "All your base are belong to us."

m26 · « **Reply #79 on:** March 27, 2004, 12:47:32 am »

Quote from: JimH on March 26, 2004, 11:46:24 pm

Quote from: m26 on March 26, 2004, 11:07:13 pm
Why taunt your own users? What is the point?
They don't think they belong to us. We've tried to convince them, but it's been unsuccesful.

I knew the best you could do would be to offer nothing but sarcasm.

But if my wording actually threw you for a loop, I'll help: The term "your" doesn't imply ownership, but rather a mere association. We are your users just like it's "your" planet and "your" country. Hope that helps.

I look forward to the tricentennial, when something meaningful might actually happen. For now, I have to believe that you exhibit a distasteful combination of silence and sarcasm because you have nothing meaningful going on.

glynor · « **Reply #80 on:** March 27, 2004, 12:50:46 am »

Quote from: scott_r on March 27, 2004, 12:31:52 am

ps
Quote
All your bases are belong to us.
It's actually "All your base are belong to us."

Good call. What can I say, it is 1:49am here right now (and I got up this morning at 6:00am).

Ugggg ... It is time for bed.

scott_r · « **Reply #81 on:** March 27, 2004, 01:29:10 am »

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I knew the best you could do would be to offer nothing but sarcasm.
But if my wording actually threw you for a loop, I'll help: The term "your" doesn't imply ownership, but rather a mere association. We are your users just like it's "your" planet and "your" country. Hope that helps.
I look forward to the tricentennial, when something meaningful might actually happen. For now, I have to believe that you exhibit a distasteful combination of silence and sarcasm because you have nothing meaningful going on.

Maybe I'm wrong, but your post seemed unnecessarily hostile.
Interact isn't like other forums.
We (try) not to get upset at people's responses - we usually take them jokingly, especially when it's JimH... I don't think he ever says anything seriously

Insults aren't necessary. Anybody can see that 3D Pong isn't the "Big Thing" that JRiver has been taunting us with - it's just a diversion, to try and throw us off track - I hope...
Have a little fun with it.

Cheers,

Scott.

ps... Note the thread title: "The Big New Secret". The Big "Old" Secret is still hanging in there... waiting to be unleashed.

Cmagic · « **Reply #82 on:** March 27, 2004, 01:48:27 am »

Hello,

Well I did not expect anything in particuler with build 100 so, 3D pong is fun

Rolling Stones (Exile) : 27 vs Media Center :9 ! so far

Just one thing thought: the keys w (up) and s (down) are fine on a US/UK (QWERTY) keyboard but on my french (AZERTY) keyboard the s key (down) is on top of the w key so it makes playing a bit more challenging !

what about e(up) and d(down) for uniformity across the keyboards layouts ?

BTW and OT, we are all awaiting for tonight's great rugby game : France vs England. that will be hot !!
(Edited : ooops ! It's not vs UK but vs England of course, my apologies to the people of Scotland and Wales.

)

Hey the stones have scored 4 more while writing this !

Thanks and have a good day,

C.

Doof · « **Reply #83 on:** March 27, 2004, 01:56:36 am »

Quote from: m26 on March 27, 2004, 12:47:32 am

Quote from: JimH on March 26, 2004, 11:46:24 pm
Quote from: m26 on March 26, 2004, 11:07:13 pm
Why taunt your own users? What is the point?
They don't think they belong to us. We've tried to convince them, but it's been unsuccesful.

I knew the best you could do would be to offer nothing but sarcasm.

But if my wording actually threw you for a loop, I'll help: The term "your" doesn't imply ownership, but rather a mere association. We are your users just like it's "your" planet and "your" country. Hope that helps.

I look forward to the tricentennial, when something meaningful might actually happen. For now, I have to believe that you exhibit a distasteful combination of silence and sarcasm because you have nothing meaningful going on.

Maybe if you lightened up a little you'd understand the humor in the situation. I think it's obvious to most rational people that this is just a bit of fun. Kind of like music. It's supposed to be about fun. But thanks for sucking all the enjoyment out of the moment. And adding a new source of enjoyment for those of us who DO get it.

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #84 on:** March 27, 2004, 02:04:07 am »

LMFAO ... Well done JR ... Haven't laughed so much since first discovering 3d visualizations!!!

Valis · « **Reply #85 on:** March 27, 2004, 02:21:14 am »

Quote from: scott_r on March 27, 2004, 01:29:10 am

[Maybe I'm wrong, but your post seemed unnecessarily hostile. . . . Anybody can see that 3D Pong isn't the "Big Thing" that JRiver has been taunting us with - it's just a diversion, to try and throw us off track - I hope...

Presumably that's true, but let me throw in two cents from a lurker.

I love Media Center. A bunch of my clients use it because of my enthusiasm. I use it more than any other program, and I have invested a huge amount of time into its tools to organize and tag and display music.

My long term concern about the program is no different than any other program that requires a serious commitment of time and energy: will the program and its developer survive for the long term? I've gone thru the pain more than once of having a program disappear and leave a lot of effort orphaned. I don't want that to happen with J River.

I've been excited about the hints that J River had formed an alliance that would help assure the company's financial success and the program's future. I've been checking in regularly for the last few months - and frequently today - for more information about that.

This has been a profoundly weird day on Interact - and more than a little off-putting. Presumably Pong is a joke. It would have been mildly amusing if it had been followed a few minutes later by a post describing what's really going on.

But I'm not laughing any more. Haven't been laughing for quite some time. It's a silly joke and it's gone on too long. I hope there's more info to come, sooner rather than later. I'm perfectly prepared to love MC forever and ever. But I'm going to bed irritable.

Bruce

lee269 · « **Reply #86 on:** March 27, 2004, 06:23:55 am »

Listening to: 'Whatever Happened to Pong?' from 'Teenager Of The Year' by 'Frank Black' on Media Center 10

edbro · « **Reply #87 on:** March 27, 2004, 08:21:38 am »

Whether it is a joke or not, I think it created a lot of bad feelings and probably some bad publicity. I know that the upcoming "big release" has been talked about in other boards. I know for a fact that there are many users/potential users on the Rio Karma boards. They are waiting for Karma support. Now the news is being reported that the next big thing out of JRiver was a pong game.

JimH · « **Reply #88 on:** March 27, 2004, 08:43:10 am »

Quote from: edbro on March 27, 2004, 08:21:38 am

Whether it is a joke or not...

Ed,
It was a joke.

Life is short. A good laugh goes a long way.

If anyone felt cheated, I'm sorry.

Jim

edbro · « **Reply #89 on:** March 27, 2004, 09:17:27 am »

Glad to hear it. It sure sounded like a joke but then as time went on, people started to wonder. Reading through the forums, I see that I certainly was not the only one wondering.

Especially since the final release had been promised by 3/26.

I certainly have to say it was a very unique business technique. I am confident that this will all work out for the best in the end.

pbreet · « **Reply #90 on:** March 27, 2004, 09:48:10 am »

Well, I enjoyed reading about it all, and I never even had to give an opinion, or get my foot in my mouth.

DocLotus · « **Reply #91 on:** March 27, 2004, 10:14:40 am »

The joke was on us

dragyn · « **Reply #92 on:** March 27, 2004, 10:38:54 am »

Pong is a nice addition to your 3D vis's but I'm kinda ticked that none of my skinning bugs were fixed. The time taken to do this could have been put to use on the other visual aspects of MC.

KingSparta · « **Reply #93 on:** March 27, 2004, 10:50:38 am »

2060 reads of this thread that must be a record.

Doof · « **Reply #94 on:** March 27, 2004, 10:53:51 am »

I don't think that 3D Pong took as much time and effort to code as some people seem to think. Not to downplay Matt's efforts or anything, but we're not talking about Quake here or anything.

Matt · « **Reply #95 on:** March 27, 2004, 11:01:43 am »

Quote from: Doof on March 27, 2004, 10:53:51 am

I don't think that 3D Pong took as much time and effort to code as some people seem to think. Not to downplay Matt's efforts or anything, but we're not talking about Quake here or anything.

Hehe. It was a few hour distraction. We all need those sometimes.

Thanks to everyone who is laughing with us, and sorry to anyone who isn't.

Havana · « **Reply #96 on:** March 27, 2004, 11:28:51 am »

I thought the release of v10 was going to take place on Fri. Do we know when it really will come out? I was all excited

.

Nice, nice joke though. Man, I didn't know how to take Pong.

JimH · « **Reply #97 on:** March 27, 2004, 11:34:34 am »

Quote from: havanna on March 27, 2004, 11:28:51 am

I thought the release of v10 was going to take place on Fri. Do we know when it really will come out?

In a few more days.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=20177

KingSparta · « **Reply #98 on:** March 27, 2004, 11:40:50 am »

i was trying to remember a song that fits

'I Started A Joke' Charted At 06 In 1969

Listening to: 'I Started A Joke' from 'Best Of The Bee Gees' by 'Bee Gees' on Media Center 10

JustinChase · « **Reply #99 on:** March 27, 2004, 11:46:07 am »

Quote from: Charlemagne 8 on March 26, 2004, 08:28:28 pm

What about Atari's Joust? I was good at that. Nice slow-moving game. I could keep up.

CVIII

Here you go...

http://www.shockwave.com/bin/content/shockwave.jsp?id=joust

Have fun!

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