02-17-2016 07:21 AM
"haagch" wrote:"onefang" wrote:
Please say it's impossible cybereality. I'm great at doing the impossible, once I know it's impossible. Oculus may think it's too hard, but I'm always up for a challenge. With Oculus lack of support for Linux, Mac, and laptops, I'll likely just have to write my own drivers. It will be completely open source, Oculus can switch to using it if they really care. 😜
You know, it likely is impossible. This part is the important one:The current system has deep integration into the Nvidia/AMD drivers and Windows
Since oculus has chosen to "partner" with microsoft they have gone into a strong dependence into the proprietary ecosystem of windows and the amd and nvidia drivers.
Sure, you can always continue Doc Ok's work on reverse engineering and writing a new oculus rift driver from scratch http://doc-ok.org/?p=1095, but replicating and improving upon what oculus is releasing? Not without cooperation from microsoft, amd and nvidia. And then there's no guarantee that the CV1 can be reverse engineered the same way.
03-08-2016 02:37 AM
"rogueqd" wrote:
tldr (well skimmed through)
I know this is about gaming Onefang, sorry, but I thought it was still relevant.
03-08-2016 03:14 AM
"onefang" wrote:
Meh, Tim turned this thread into one where he proves how much of an idiot he is. I'm no longer interested in this thread. I'm tending to just ignore Tim in general now.
03-08-2016 04:58 AM
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03-08-2016 08:39 AM
"r00x" wrote:
If this calibre of squabbling is the worst we're going to get I think we're doing pretty well :lol:
"Mradr" wrote:
I don't see eye to eye with Tim a lot, but I hate to break it to you, creepytennis and onefang, he is right across different points.
03-10-2016 12:58 AM
"Tim74UK" wrote:
I didn't need to read anything else.... :roll:
You clearly need to go away and do some learning...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
"Unix was designed to be portable, multi-tasking and multi-user in a time-sharing configuration. Unix systems are characterized by various concepts: the use of plain text for storing data; a hierarchical file system; treating devices and certain types of inter-process communication (IPC) as files; and the use of a large number of software tools, small programs that can be strung together through a command-line interpreter using pipes, as opposed to using a single monolithic program that includes all of the same functionality. These concepts are collectively known as the "Unix philosophy"."
03-10-2016 01:06 AM
"creepytennis" wrote:
That quote clearly doesn't back up your assertion. The only mention of the command line is that programs can be strung together using pipes.
03-10-2016 01:32 AM
"Tim74UK" wrote:
Everyone and their dog knows that Unix is a command line based OS.
03-10-2016 01:44 AM
"creepytennis" wrote:"Tim74UK" wrote:
Everyone and their dog knows that Unix is a command line based OS.
You could get away with: 'Unix is associated with the command line in many people's minds", definitely. But your ideas about how Unix works, or how Windows works, or how any OS kernel works, or how Unix relates to pre-NT Windows and DOS, or how an OS communicates with hardware, are complete fantasy.