Does anyone remember Zany Golf on the IIgs? I thought it had an incredible soundtrack, heck, I can still remember a couple of them. I think I'll fire up the emulator and take a listen.
Good timing on this thread. I just went through the free 10 day trial of WoW, and I'll admit I pulled a few (3 or 4) all-nighters, and I had fun! WoW was my 2nd MMORPG, Earth and Beyond was the first from a few years ago (great game, until EA bought Westwood and drove it into the ground,) and I had a blast too, played for almost 2 years. I'm not going to get the game, as much fun as I had, because ultimately it's the same thing, grinding and leveling. I had two characters (Human Pally and Elf Hunter) that got to level 19/20, so admittedly I barely scratch the surface, ans there's so much of the game I haven't seen. Maybe it's because of my age (almost 37) but gaming doesn't have the same priority as it used to. Perhaps 10 years ago I would've been hooked, but now it seems like I have more fun tinkering with the CentOS server, or trying out various OSes (Solaris 10 x86, PC-BSD, and FreeBSD were installed on an old P3-500 box just within the last month).
Not knocking anyone who plays and loves the game, it's just not for me. For one thing, crafting is fun, but come on, I just wanna kills stuff. I don't want to be a miner/leather skinner/herb gatherer in real life, what makes you think I want to spend money to be a virtual one.:)
I have a ton of PS2 games I haven't finished yet, like FFX, FFIX, MGS3, LotR:RotK, GT3/GT4, God of War, etc.
AppleWorks (and to a less degree, AppleWorks GS) got me through high school and college (80-mid 90's) as an English Lit/Polysci major. With the Beagle Bros' TimeOut series of add-ons, there was nothing AW couldn't handle! Ah, the good old days! Running it on an Apple IIgs with 8MG, SCSI HD, and ZipGSX accelerator, the 8-bit text based AW flew like a bat out of hell! And being the geek that I was (and still am,) I used to track all my games with the Database:) I still have the IIe and IIgs in my closet, plus a crapload of 5.25 and 3.5 floppies. Maybe I'll take them out this weekend and see if they still work. Pretty sure the machines still work.
Wii's should be pretty easy to find, try Target. I tried to find one before Christmas for my girlfriend's 16 year old daughter, none of the retail stores have one (GameStop, Target, Circuit City, BestBuy, etc.) and I refuse to pay eBay or Craig's List extortion prices. So I ended up making up an "I.O.U. a Wii" certificate for her instead. She got the new Zelda for her GC so she had a new game to play. Next day we stopped by Target (in Oregon) and they had plenty in stock. We were there at 2:30pm and they still had 4 on the shelf. Paid $249.99 for a Wii, no camping, no extortion, and she was happy as can be on the 26th.:)
I still love my PS2 though, even if I don't play games often. God of War is great for stress relief, Kratos kicks butt!
Anyway, Wii's should be a lot easier to find in retail stores now.
Last time I checked, Tie Fighter works nicely under DOSBox, USB controllers and all. I use D-Fend front-end with DOSBox whenever I feel like reliving my college days. My childhood memories are better relived with Apple IIe/IIgs emulators:)
November 15, 2006 - LucasArts announced a killer bundle of games called Star Wars: The Best of PC:
LucasArts today announced that, for the first time ever, five of the greatest Star Wars® games for the personal computer, plus a free 14-day trial of Star Wars Galaxies, will be packaged together in Star Wars: The Best of PC. This exciting new compilation will be released this month, and will be available only for the holiday 2006 season for a suggested price of $39.99.
Star Wars: The Best of PC features titles from some of the most popular videogame franchises ever released. Combined, the games have sold millions of copies worldwide and, for the first time, are available in one box. Included in Star Wars: The Best of PC are: Star Wars®: Empire at War(TM), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic®, Star Wars Battlefront(TM), Star Wars Jedi Knight® II: Jedi Outcast(TM), and Star Wars Republic Commando(TM). In addition, a 14-day trial of the popular online experience, Star Wars Galaxies®, is included in the package.
"Hundreds of hours of Star Wars gameplay, spanning many different genres, can be found in Star Wars: The Best of PC, making it the perfect holiday gift for any Star Wars fan, or any PC gamer," said Nancy MacIntyre, vice president of global sales and marketing for LucasArts. "Every kind of gameplay is available in The Best of PC, from fast-paced action, to tactical, real-time strategy, to engaging role-playing. It's all here, it's all PC, and it's all Star Wars."
I know I'm going to pick it up! Sweet deal and the last SW game I bought for Dark Forces, so it'll be a great way to spend a few hours during the holidays!
Great timing too, I just uninstalled Office 2000 from my main desktop yesterday and installed OO 2.0.4. I thought about checking out the Office 2003 standard edition (free 30 or 60 day eval from MSFT) but decided against it; what would be the point? OO is more than enough for my personal use, and appears to open all my existing doc and xls files correctly (granted not very complicated files).
If this happens, a lot of interesting things will happen. Intel's chipsets for do not support SLI, only Crossfire, maybe Intel and NVIDIA would start talking about cross licensing if CrossFire becomes an AMD+ATI property?
I for one would love a Core 2 Duo SLI solution, fully supported by both Intel and NVIDIA.
But like you, I'd rather see these four companies remain separate.
I'm in the same boat you are, holding off upgrading until Core 2 Duo is out. My current desktop is an "ancient" NForce2 + Athlon XP 2500+, so I missed the whole Athlon 64 on Nforce3/4 upgrade cycle. I was planning on upgrading to nForce4+ Athlon X2 3800 earlier this year but the reviews of the Core Duo caused me to delay my plans until Core 2 Duo.
I'll probably go with Core 2 Duo on the nForce 570-based platforms.
This will be my first Intel based system since the Pentium III/440BX chipset.
Yup, it's a really great game. I needed a Space-themed RPG fix after EA took Earth & Beyond offline, and X2 was it. I've always enjoyed the genre (played the original Elite on my Apple IIe) and X2 in the tradition of enjoyable games like Privateer 1/2, and the WC franchise to a certain extent. I'm looking forward to X3 and I hope I get to beta X2 on Linux, should be fun. Hope this helps.
Don't forget Interplay was the company responsible for Wasteland back in the 80s (published by Electronic Arts when Trip Hawkin still ran the company,) along with the Bard's Tale franchise. Without Wasteland, there would not have been Fallout. I will miss Interplay. I used to live in Irvine and actually went to the HQ a few times, very nice people.
Thank you, Interplay, for all the great games and fond memories.
I'm going to buy one and strap a doggie cookie to the roof, and have my pup chase it. This will save me tons of time spent in walking her every day. Hope the car is strong enough to stand up to repeated dog bites.
The initial Serial ATA will run at 150MB/s (which is faster than the current ATA/133 @ 133MB/s).
However, with the exception of Seagate, all the other Serial ATA drives (from Maxtor, WD, Samsung, etc.) are "donglized" drive, meaning there's a (Marvell) "Parallel ATA-to-Serial ATA" converter chip sitting between the drive and SATA controller. So essentially these are still ATA/133 or ATA/100 drives, and their top Burst Read speed is still bound by either 133 or 100 MB/s. Seagate will be the only "native" Serial ATA drive capable to hitting 150 MB/s. The best I've seen is around 112 MB/s Burst Read.
Also, the initial Serial ATA controllers will only have 2 channels (meaning two drives), but later versions should have 4 or more channels.
[Microsoft-speak] Mr. Bill Gates will be returning to his roots and becoming more involved with the product teams.
[Reality] Mr. Bill Gates will now be dumpster-diving in all the software companies in the Valley, looking at discarded printouts, hoping for stuff he can steal, just like the Good-Old-Days.
And just like the Good-Old-Days, personal hygiene related activities will be curtailed, and eventually phased out.
Yup, MSFT got off easy. 150 million is nothing to them. I'm really surprised Caldera caved so easily. Oh well, Caldera did what they thought was best. I'm surprised Caldera didn't ask for stuff like APIs, etc. Then again, if they did, then MSFT might not have wanted to settle at all.
I signed up with Wit Capital (www.witcapital.com) in the beginning of the year with the intent of buying net IPOs. I have had some success with certain stocks, and also gotten some dogs. When I saw WitCap offering Cobalt last week, I jumped and signed up. Guess what, I didn't get it. There just weren't enough shares to go around. Cobalt issued 5 M shares, and I doubt WitCap got more than 500K (the bigger firms, especially the lead underwriter, in this case, Goldman Sachs, get the lion shares). So with all the people who are interested, it came down to a random number generator.
It's easy to say, "I could've," but in reality, you couldn't. Not only that, WitCap requires you to hold the newly issued IPO for 60 days (or else you are a "flipper" and no more IPO's for you!) and who knows where the stock will be in 60 days.
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Does anyone remember Zany Golf on the IIgs? I thought it had an incredible soundtrack, heck, I can still remember a couple of them. I think I'll fire up the emulator and take a listen.
Sporadic
Good timing on this thread. I just went through the free 10 day trial of WoW, and I'll admit I pulled a few (3 or 4) all-nighters, and I had fun! WoW was my 2nd MMORPG, Earth and Beyond was the first from a few years ago (great game, until EA bought Westwood and drove it into the ground,) and I had a blast too, played for almost 2 years. I'm not going to get the game, as much fun as I had, because ultimately it's the same thing, grinding and leveling. I had two characters (Human Pally and Elf Hunter) that got to level 19/20, so admittedly I barely scratch the surface, ans there's so much of the game I haven't seen. Maybe it's because of my age (almost 37) but gaming doesn't have the same priority as it used to. Perhaps 10 years ago I would've been hooked, but now it seems like I have more fun tinkering with the CentOS server, or trying out various OSes (Solaris 10 x86, PC-BSD, and FreeBSD were installed on an old P3-500 box just within the last month).
:)
Not knocking anyone who plays and loves the game, it's just not for me. For one thing, crafting is fun, but come on, I just wanna kills stuff. I don't want to be a miner/leather skinner/herb gatherer in real life, what makes you think I want to spend money to be a virtual one.
I have a ton of PS2 games I haven't finished yet, like FFX, FFIX, MGS3, LotR:RotK, GT3/GT4, God of War, etc.
Regards,
Jimmy
AppleWorks (and to a less degree, AppleWorks GS) got me through high school and college (80-mid 90's) as an English Lit/Polysci major. With the Beagle Bros' TimeOut series of add-ons, there was nothing AW couldn't handle! Ah, the good old days! Running it on an Apple IIgs with 8MG, SCSI HD, and ZipGSX accelerator, the 8-bit text based AW flew like a bat out of hell! And being the geek that I was (and still am,) I used to track all my games with the Database :) I still have the IIe and IIgs in my closet, plus a crapload of 5.25 and 3.5 floppies. Maybe I'll take them out this weekend and see if they still work. Pretty sure the machines still work.
Sporadic
Wii's should be pretty easy to find, try Target. I tried to find one before Christmas for my girlfriend's 16 year old daughter, none of the retail stores have one (GameStop, Target, Circuit City, BestBuy, etc.) and I refuse to pay eBay or Craig's List extortion prices. So I ended up making up an "I.O.U. a Wii" certificate for her instead. She got the new Zelda for her GC so she had a new game to play. Next day we stopped by Target (in Oregon) and they had plenty in stock. We were there at 2:30pm and they still had 4 on the shelf. Paid $249.99 for a Wii, no camping, no extortion, and she was happy as can be on the 26th. :)
I still love my PS2 though, even if I don't play games often. God of War is great for stress relief, Kratos kicks butt!
Anyway, Wii's should be a lot easier to find in retail stores now.
Sporadic
Last time I checked, Tie Fighter works nicely under DOSBox, USB controllers and all. I use D-Fend front-end with DOSBox whenever I feel like reliving my college days. My childhood memories are better relived with Apple IIe/IIgs emulators :)
Regards,
Sporadic
I'll probably get modded for OT, but I thought this was a news worthy SW related story:
Star Wars: The Best of PC Deal
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/746/746254p1.html
November 15, 2006 - LucasArts announced a killer bundle of games called Star Wars: The Best of PC:
LucasArts today announced that, for the first time ever, five of the greatest Star Wars® games for the personal computer, plus a free 14-day trial of Star Wars Galaxies, will be packaged together in Star Wars: The Best of PC. This exciting new compilation will be released this month, and will be available only for the holiday 2006 season for a suggested price of $39.99.
Star Wars: The Best of PC features titles from some of the most popular videogame franchises ever released. Combined, the games have sold millions of copies worldwide and, for the first time, are available in one box. Included in Star Wars: The Best of PC are: Star Wars®: Empire at War(TM), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic®, Star Wars Battlefront(TM), Star Wars Jedi Knight® II: Jedi Outcast(TM), and Star Wars Republic Commando(TM). In addition, a 14-day trial of the popular online experience, Star Wars Galaxies®, is included in the package.
"Hundreds of hours of Star Wars gameplay, spanning many different genres, can be found in Star Wars: The Best of PC, making it the perfect holiday gift for any Star Wars fan, or any PC gamer," said Nancy MacIntyre, vice president of global sales and marketing for LucasArts. "Every kind of gameplay is available in The Best of PC, from fast-paced action, to tactical, real-time strategy, to engaging role-playing. It's all here, it's all PC, and it's all Star Wars."
I know I'm going to pick it up! Sweet deal and the last SW game I bought for Dark Forces, so it'll be a great way to spend a few hours during the holidays!
Regards,
Sporadic
Great timing too, I just uninstalled Office 2000 from my main desktop yesterday and installed OO 2.0.4. I thought about checking out the Office 2003 standard edition (free 30 or 60 day eval from MSFT) but decided against it; what would be the point? OO is more than enough for my personal use, and appears to open all my existing doc and xls files correctly (granted not very complicated files).
Sporadic
If this happens, a lot of interesting things will happen. Intel's chipsets for do not support SLI, only Crossfire, maybe Intel and NVIDIA would start talking about cross licensing if CrossFire becomes an AMD+ATI property?
I for one would love a Core 2 Duo SLI solution, fully supported by both Intel and NVIDIA.
But like you, I'd rather see these four companies remain separate.
Sporadic
I'm in the same boat you are, holding off upgrading until Core 2 Duo is out. My current desktop is an "ancient" NForce2 + Athlon XP 2500+, so I missed the whole Athlon 64 on Nforce3/4 upgrade cycle. I was planning on upgrading to nForce4+ Athlon X2 3800 earlier this year but the reviews of the Core Duo caused me to delay my plans until Core 2 Duo.
I'll probably go with Core 2 Duo on the nForce 570-based platforms.
This will be my first Intel based system since the Pentium III/440BX chipset.
Sporadic
Like what, Ishtar?
Personally, I'm going to wait until Jenna puts out her version of the contest, Wank4Jenna. I think I can make it into at least the top 5.
and in Futurama, it's Sonya :)
Me want snu-snu!
Sporadic
Yup, it's a really great game. I needed a Space-themed RPG fix after EA took Earth & Beyond offline, and X2 was it. I've always enjoyed the genre (played the original Elite on my Apple IIe) and X2 in the tradition of enjoyable games like Privateer 1/2, and the WC franchise to a certain extent. I'm looking forward to X3 and I hope I get to beta X2 on Linux, should be fun. Hope this helps.
Don't forget Interplay was the company responsible for Wasteland back in the 80s (published by Electronic Arts when Trip Hawkin still ran the company,) along with the Bard's Tale franchise. Without Wasteland, there would not have been Fallout. I will miss Interplay. I used to live in Irvine and actually went to the HQ a few times, very nice people.
Thank you, Interplay, for all the great games and fond memories.
I'm going to buy one and strap a doggie cookie to the roof, and have my pup chase it. This will save me tons of time spent in walking her every day. Hope the car is strong enough to stand up to repeated dog bites.
sporadic
But at least Romero isn't a priest.
sporadic
The initial Serial ATA will run at 150MB/s (which is faster than the current ATA/133 @ 133MB/s).
However, with the exception of Seagate, all the other Serial ATA drives (from Maxtor, WD, Samsung, etc.) are "donglized" drive, meaning there's a (Marvell) "Parallel ATA-to-Serial ATA" converter chip sitting between the drive and SATA controller. So essentially these are still ATA/133 or ATA/100 drives, and their top Burst Read speed is still bound by either 133 or 100 MB/s. Seagate will be the only "native" Serial ATA drive capable to hitting 150 MB/s. The best I've seen is around 112 MB/s Burst Read.
Also, the initial Serial ATA controllers will only have 2 channels (meaning two drives), but later versions should have 4 or more channels.
None of the above. The correct answer is:
F) Cocaine : Crack
Sporadic
[Reality] Mr. Bill Gates will now be dumpster-diving in all the software companies in the Valley, looking at discarded printouts, hoping for stuff he can steal, just like the Good-Old-Days.
And just like the Good-Old-Days, personal hygiene related activities will be curtailed, and eventually phased out.
sporadic
sporadic
Loads and loads of Irish lassies! As far as the eye can see!
A little bit of Siobhan in my life, a little bit of Molly by my side, a little bit of Colleen all night long...
It's easy to say, "I could've," but in reality, you couldn't. Not only that, WitCap requires you to hold the newly issued IPO for 60 days (or else you are a "flipper" and no more IPO's for you!) and who knows where the stock will be in 60 days.
Sporadic