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Who, me for my intellectual statement or the guy who robbed me?

He wasn't caught and I think he left town. I couldn't believe that I was brave enough to witness to him as I handed over my wallet. Later on, I saw him on the street in the day time and I told him that God loved him. He just gave me a weird look and kept on walking.

I hope he repents. Even a robber who doesn't want to shoot anyone will get in a bad situation one of these days. I might know some aikido, but I wouldn't try to disarm a gunman unless he was shooting already and followed me around whatever I dodged behind.

Why is it that people can carry concealed handguns in this state but I can't carry a rapier? :pt1cable:

Fencing was fun back in college and I did a bit of foam sword and rattan sword LARPing in the park in chainmail back in the Eighties. I always thought that archaic weapons were more honorable than anything with gunpowder.
 

Most of the games that I play are either flight simulators or combat flight simulators (I like the WW2 based era ones the best).One that I really like is called Battle of Britain II:Wings of Victory by a2asimulations (They also make great add ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator X especially their new Boeing 377 Stratocruser add on with accu-sim)These are not (nor could they ever be) console ports but they are niche PC designed games for just the PC market.
I do also enjoy Orbiter the freeware spacecraft flight simulator and love re-creating those Apollo-Saturn missions of the past or a spacecraft flight to Mars (especially because it's so frighteningly detailed it almost looks like something out of JPL or NASA).I kind of prefer the complex games or simulations.
 
I'll have to check out Orbiter. The last real world space game I played was on the C128 involving exploration of the solar system based on what we knew then. You'd save the game by landing on Halley's comet.

There are plenty of good guy SF, fantasy RPG and similar games, but in terms of real world games, good guy games are mostly military simulations or shooters. There aren't any good guy games that allow people to ride around a modern city doing quests for NPC's while listening to a variety of radio stations. I think that open endedness is what attracts most people to "GTA, not the criminal simulation elements.
 
Here is the link to Orbiter.It also has very high resolution mapping if you choose so and there are a lot of 3rd party add ons to it.I have using Orbiter since early 2001 and there has has been many revisions and improvements since then.
Flight above the Martian surface is amazing (right out of JPL I swear like you're really there).

http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiter_%28sim%29

Here is the link to the Apollo add ons they even have a fully emulated Apollo Guidance Computer in it.Very Complex and very cool.
I like the Apollo 8 mission and the recreation of the craft and the sight of Earth (Earthrise) .
The Moon is wonderfully very detailed.


http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
 
"But MMO's do not need a really fast processor or high end graphics.. MMO's really depend on broadband speed to make it happen...

WOW and Age of Conan even work on intels 3100 graphics.. "

WOW is very hardware friendly with low graphics systems.

AOC and Warhammer online?

Good luck on a large raid with a mid to low range system.

They eat ram and video power. Yes, they probably shouldnt but, they do.

MMO are the booming PC game market and the cash cow for game studios.
 
Neverwinter nights 2 for me thanks.

My son is part of the beta team for a couple of the MMO gamez ... sick puppy ... works in IT ... lives in his room.

Look who is calling the pot black ... OMG / runs outside to look at sky and breath air.
 
^

Hey what about the Australian classic

Dingohunter..

or Honey I need the Dunny

Boomberang - how on earth does that thing actually come back as its a bent stick part 2..

Kylie Minogue - virtual pet.

Croccodile Dundee - Can my wife get a new handbag..

Barbeque Mama

 


Neverwinter nights! Wooo! Lv1 Rouge!
 



Nah its in our imagination that this thread keeps on going...


What gets me tho ... mention a Phenom and it goes on for ages..

Mention an Intel and it goes on for a week tops... Anyhow ... how about a record thread..


Whats the weather like over there Jimmy :)
 
How long does it go on if we mention a Cyrix?

I'll give it a try: Would a Cyrix 486DLC 40 bottleneck a 4870x2 if you used a hammer and tongs to get the GPU to fit in an ISA slot?
 
I could take over for thunder but my my heart just isn't in it ... and I just can't butcher our language so carelessly.

We need to start a "Bring Back TC thread" ...

Who is with me ??

Put Phenom in the title and the mods will leave it in the cpu section ... hopefully.

Something like :

TC come back (ur phenom II is waiting) ... ??
 


The weather hee in AZ sucks. Warm in the day (60-70f) and cold at night (20-30f). So I dont need a jacket during the day but need one at night. Messes with your system really.

Damn AZ winters.



This is a good question. Maybe he doesn't have anything to go against Core i7 or maybe he just is on hiatus.

I mean P II is close to C2Q so I would expect him to be here spouting something about AMD being the next coming of the messiah or Buddah or something like that.

Kinda sucks not having him to make long funny threads about nothing. He was like a forum version of Seinfeld.
 


Ah, a fellow NWN'er. I've about finished the MOTB expansion although I had to cheat somewhat, since I had trouble devouring some essences, like the coven ones. Pretty good graphics but the characters talk too much.

Downloaded the freebie "sex & the single adventuress" module and was happily playing it until my wife caught me and whacked me upside the noggin. Reminded me of that guy in the news, who was caught by his wife having a virtual affair on 2nd life, and she divorced him :). Luckily for me, my wife has a sense of humor.
 


I don't see anybody at AMDZone who resembles Thunderpant's "style" of writing, if you can characterize his drive-by diatribes as having a style, but there are plenty z0ners who obviously feel it is their mission in life to go around "witnessing" for AMD. As I am absolutely sure AMD doesn't have any spare coin to pay these folks, it must be a religion for them in order to do it for free :).

Trouble is, they are often so whacked-out biased that they do AMD more harm than good. Maybe that explains why AMD never sends any engineering samples to AMDZone :).
 


Can't be any worse than Texas. Years ago when I worked contract downtown, I got on the bus at 7 a.m in a short sleeve dress shirt. Left work and it was below freezing. Felt like I was going to get frostbitten at the bus stop.

Lately, it's been 64 to 72 or so degrees for the high but lows down to 30 at night. Back home in the Allegheny mountains of Western Pa. I remember winters where it got to 80 below zero with the wind chill and everything shut down.

I'll take Texas winters anytime (and Pennsylvania summers, but I can't move back and forth :lol: ). Texas summers are a humid 95 to 104 quite often. At least you get dry heat in Arizona (at least near Phoenix).




The way Intel fans talk, AMD's Rosemary and Phenom's her baby. So, fanboyism works both ways.

Why does no one answer my question about Cyrix drat it. :lol: Maybe I'm in the wrong thread? Probably because few here remember there ever was a 486DLC on a 386 mobo when ISA was the only slot around.
 
Cyrix, wow!Now that's old. Just pull an Jaton 9685- Tident Video Accelerator (4mb) out yesterday. Seriously!!! Had to use it during Nvidia Step-Up Program. Took 17 days. Meh... what an ordeal, holidays, snow (couldn't leave my house for 5 days), then it rained and flooded (closed I-5 for 2 days) ahh... life in the Pacific Northwest.
17 days without a real Video Card!!! Sure glad that's overwith.
 


Hehe.. I love how there used to be like 100 companies that made GPU's back when having a 4MB card meant you were state-of-the-art. I still remember playing that first game with SVGA graphics under DOS and thinking how it looked so amazingly good (compared to VGA). Damn we've come a long way since then...
 
Just_an, you don't suppose Yipsl would be interested in purchasing 2 Diamond Flower VG-1000's? He could run em in SLI. here's the specs.

VG-1000
Category-Video
Video Types Supported-VGA
Video Processor-Unidentified
Highest Resolution Supported-800 x 600
Data Bus Type-16-bit ISA
Memory Type-DRAM
Maximum Onboard Memory-256KB

I can't seem to remember how to configure the SW1 switches for dual monitors though. ROFL
 
The way Intel fans talk, AMD's Rosemary and Phenom's her baby. So, fanboyism works both ways.
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Aagh so AMD4Wife does really stand then.. Ahem

I remember upgrading pcs from 512k to 640 with dimms.. ram chips with pins on it..

128k was well expensive comprising of 8x8kb memory chips ( i cant remember what they were called now but were little ics ) and the pins sometimes had to be re-alined as they bent when they we put in

I remember when i got a 512k Trident card and thought i was the dogs when i was 21 ish...

Then i got a 1mb one and thought i won the world tinkering with BBS on a 9600 modem... Oooh that was the day... Playing Leisure Suite Larry ( the first real pc game i can remember ).

Then the 8 bit mono soundblaster came out and Wing Commander blew me away...

From then on i have had and still got every soundblaster around... The AWE32 was my favourite as it made the most jumps in sound wise... I even put extra ram on it..

I was never a fan of onboard audio...

 


Interestingly enough, there actually does seem to be a tangible market for retro hardware like that. I know my local computer shop always has bins full of old graphics cards, sound cards, etc (all probably 10+ years old). One time I asked the manager why they even bothered keeping stuff that old around and he told me that they actually sell a couple of those older parts every week to somebody trying to keep an old machine running. I suppose I can understand that as sometimes it is handy to have a computer with either DOS or an older version of windows to run that legacy software that never seems to work right on modern systems even when using an emulator.
 
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