Friday, February 28
Daily News Stuff 28 February 2025
Seventeen Percent Solution Edition
Seventeen Percent Solution Edition
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- The low-cost (for Apple) iPhone 16E is here and it's... Okay. (The Verge)
Yes. It's okay.
It's also $599, which is cheap for an iPhone, but not cheap.
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- Just a few hours until AMD announces the prices on its new video cards.
We already know all the technical details, and Nvidia has screwed up its RTX 5000 launch in every way imaginable, so the door is open for AMD to walk through, or to slam in its own face.
Update: AMD's livestream is still blathering on but the prices have been announced elsewhere: $549 for the 9070 and $599 for the 9070 XT. (The Verge)
That would be a bit iffy if the 5070 Ti was actually selling at the $749 MSRP. But with it selling at $899 and up - when it is available at all, which right now it isn't - it's 50% more money than the AMD alternative and not nearly 50% faster.
The 9070 XT will likely be around $1200 in Australia, so nearly 70% more money for a little over 60% more performance than my 7800 XT. Good value, though not so good that I regret buying my card.
At $549 the 9070 non-XT is not quite as good value; it should probably be around $529. Not awful though.
So far AMD has not fumbled this one. Good to see.
- Nvidia meanwhile doubled its annual revenue over last year, mainly by selling insanely expensive GPUs to AI companies. (Tom's Hardware)
Certainly not by selling RTX 5000 cards to gamers.
- Several of the old Command and Conquer games are now open source. (Gaming on Linux)
This seems to include Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, Renegade, and Generals, with the Zero Hour expansion.
And it's Electronic Arts that did this, somehow.
- Apple's "Find My" network lets you track any Bluetooth device anywhere. (9to5Mac)
Welcome to the goldfish bowl.
- Thousands of GitHub repositories that were public but are now private can still be accessed via Copilot. (Tech Crunch)
Uh, yeah. That's how making something public works. You can't shove the mushroom cloud back into the Demon Core.
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"So far AMD has not fumbled this one"
Over on HardForum the nVidia fanbois are swearing up and down how this is doom for that card, because it's not half the price of the MSRP nVidia 5070 TI...which isn't available at that, or any, price. (And nobody expects the few MSRP models to come back in stock.)
Over on HardForum the nVidia fanbois are swearing up and down how this is doom for that card, because it's not half the price of the MSRP nVidia 5070 TI...which isn't available at that, or any, price. (And nobody expects the few MSRP models to come back in stock.)
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, March 01 2025 12:09 AM (NEIix)
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I saw the story about C&C games, and went out to one of the repos.
You need an ancient version of Watcom C++ (IIRC) and the DirectX 5 SDK...plus half a dozen other tools that are going to be equally hard to find, to be able to compile it yourself (and I think it doesn't have the assets, and the repo's readme says you're not allowed to play it if you are able to build it unless you bought it already.)
So this isn't about making it playable as such, so much as preserving the source, and they say as much. But they do point out that you're welcome to try and update the game to use different tools and modern SDKs and the like, but that the repo is not accepting pull request, so if you want to do anything with it, you should fork it. That last seems reasonable, anyway.
You need an ancient version of Watcom C++ (IIRC) and the DirectX 5 SDK...plus half a dozen other tools that are going to be equally hard to find, to be able to compile it yourself (and I think it doesn't have the assets, and the repo's readme says you're not allowed to play it if you are able to build it unless you bought it already.)
So this isn't about making it playable as such, so much as preserving the source, and they say as much. But they do point out that you're welcome to try and update the game to use different tools and modern SDKs and the like, but that the repo is not accepting pull request, so if you want to do anything with it, you should fork it. That last seems reasonable, anyway.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, March 01 2025 12:12 AM (NEIix)
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