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Re: What are you drinking right now?

Posted on 2013-09-14, 15:20

in Milliways
I recently tried something new and it has become one of my favorite drinks. Arehucas Ron Miel from the Canary Islands, Rum with Honey http://www.drinkoftheweek.com/arehucas-ron-miel-rum-review/ I add a little bit of lime juice to it but it is pretty good straight up too.

Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2013-08-02, 13:13

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I finished The Last of Us on the PS3, and was looking for another game that was somewhat similar. I picked up the PC version of Dishonored and really enjoyed it. I like games where there are more than one way to accomplish a task instead of being stuck on a linear track with only one way to get to …

Re: Legend - Hand of God

Posted on 2013-06-20, 00:39

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Thanks BigBodZod! That worked perfectly. The Legend Hand of God directory had PhysX_8.04.25_SystemSoftware.exe in it so I was able to uninstall the current version and use that and it would work, but you supplied the missing piece of the puzzle. Every time I would install a newer version of PhysX …

Legend - Hand of God

Posted on 2013-06-19, 19:07

in Windows
I went to play Legend: Hand of God recently and am getting an error on startup: Cannot init PhysX - please install AGEIA PhysX System Software I am guessing it came with an earlier version of PhysX instead of the Nvidia version. One site said to rename or delete PhysXCore.dll in the program …

Re: Why wasn't the Amiga popular in North America?

Posted on 2013-05-06, 21:18

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I bought an Amiga 500 when they came out in 1987 then moved up to an Amiga 2000 about a year later. I also had an Atari ST. I think the main thing it had against it's success was that business was already entrenched with IBM, and in the 80s there really wasn't near the amount of people with home …

Re: What Dos Menu programmes exist?

Posted on 2013-05-04, 16:13

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I had used a shareware program by Garry Spencer that just had a games.exe and games.dat in the root of c: for a friend that wasn't very good using the command line in DOS. He just had to type games and got a list where he could choose what game to run. games.dat was just a text file and could be …

Re: WASD or arrow keys?

Posted on 2013-04-03, 10:05

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Xian97 wrote: The home position in typing was ESDF Home row is ASDF, unless you learned on some non-US layout? You are right, the home row is ASDF. I was translating it to a WASD style control using the same shape if you had your hand in the home position, which would be ESDF.

Re: WASD or arrow keys?

Posted on 2013-04-02, 23:17

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I was a touch typist on a manual typewriter before ever getting a PC at the beginning of the 80s, so WASD always seemed a strange choice to me. The home position in typing was ESDF, but it was too much hassle to change for every game, and some don't allow you to remap keys. Using WASD means that it …

Re: amiga

Posted on 2013-02-24, 19:07

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I had both an Amiga (500 and 2000) and Atari ST 1040. Both had their merits. The Amiga was easily superior in it's multimedia capabilities. Right out of the box it supported 32 color game graphics compared to the Atari's 16 color palette and pictures could go as high as 4096 in HAM mode. The Amiga …

System Shock 2 on Good Old Games

Posted on 2013-02-14, 00:28

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02/13/many-questions-system-shock-2-comes-to-gog/ It looks like at long last System Shock 2 is coming to Good Old Games. I still have the original but will probably pick it up just so I don't have to handle the CD. It is supposed to have been updated to play on …

Re: Grim Dawn

Posted on 2012-05-17, 20:58

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I backed it and Wasteland 2. I thought Titan Quest was one of the better ARPGs in my opinion, so I figured I would enjoy further efforts from the ex Iron Lore developers.

Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn

Posted on 2012-03-22, 23:42

The free fan made Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn is now available for download. It's a little over 3 gigs. http://wcsaga.com/news-archive-2012/the-darkest-dawn-is-cleared-for-launch.html From the website: At long last, the day has finally arrived! It has been ten years to the day that the …

Re: hub or switch?

Posted on 2012-02-12, 17:57

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The main difference in a hub and a switch is how they handle packets. When a packet comes in to any port on a hub it is transmitted to all other ports, requiring every device connected to see if the packet was destined for them. Even if it wasn't they have to use a CPU cycle to check. A switch …

Re: What old game would you like to see remade?

Posted on 2011-10-22, 14:02

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Magic Carpet with updated graphics Crusader No Remorse/No Regret with a graphics overhaul and maybe with revamped controls Bioforge - I liked this one but it had pretty difficult keyboard commands. I would like to see it remade with more modern style controls Wing Commander/Tie Fighter - basically …

Re: best hard drives

Posted on 2011-09-04, 14:32

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I have had good luck with Western Digital, and pretty good luck with Seagate. I still have a 540 meg WD still running that I originally bought for my 486 in 1995. It's running in an old Pentium 1 100 that I occasionally use for retro gaming. That drive was carried to Thailand in my carry on in 1995, …

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