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I don't think many people realized how awesome the S3 Virge video card really was for it's time, unless they played the 3D accelerated version of Descent on it ~ wasn't that before VQuake or 3DFx?

There's a patch released recently to let 'em work on XP. I just read that it's LEGAL (the company gave permission) for anyone to give a copy of Freespace 2 to their friends. I'll have to find the document and read it myself before I could know if that includes downloading it off P2P....

I've got a SpaceOrb 360...

I got my 6800 (only a couple weeks after they were released to store shelves) as an open box for $239 at Micro Center. It's an eVGA and everything's unlocked without any problems. You guys know if the success rate has increased over time as the production line matures? I just can't see...

Bah, the first things you should teach your kids is, if somebody offers you free money take it (unless the somebody is mafia or yakuza...). Isn't he in Russia or such? I thought Russians are poor and would love to have some money. Well, at least we can feel good that we WOULD have given him...

I won't pay $50 for a game I might play 2 or 3 times for 10 - 15 minutes then forget about because I'm too busy, or some other game is more interesting, but I've had my extra pipes unlocked without a single problem for months now and that's easy worth $5 even if I only THINK it's faster.

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Ok, which mods are "must have"? Are there some that are like service packs improving graphics and such? I'll take a look around there some more, hope to get time to install FS2 later this week...

Good review, as usual. But the "You have to remember that when you OC a motherboard you are literally changing the positioning of all the 1s and 0s that make up the data..." struck me as odd also. Almost odd enough that I was going to change my sig to that. edit: Oh, and when did you start...

What would you use a joystick for: Falcon 4 and various other flight & space sims. I have a CH F-16 Flightstick in like new condition I bought on clearance a couple years back, I'm getting ready to dust it off and play some of those old space sims. People are still writing improvements for...

Thanks for the tip about the ship pack! I'll definately try that, I didn't know about it. Now I got to see if I can find my FS2 CDs... Anybody know about running X-Wing or TF under XP? I don't think I can find those CDs either, all I found so far was the one I like least: XWvsTF :( Guess...

Doh, I think I bought Freespace 2, but I can't find it now :(

Do they work fine under Windows XP? I'm almost afraid to play X-Wing again, I imagine the graphics will look so crappy by todays standards, it would be like trying to play Doom again? I really loved the game, it would be like seeing an old GF years later who'd gotten fat and ugly... Though...

Ok, maybe X-Wing Alliance is the one I want?

I really loved the X-Wing and Tie Fighter - I bought both of those and also X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. Don't remember if I liked the vs. one much, must not have been as much fun since I don't remember it well? Anyway, I wonder if there's a game that has the great gameplay just like one of those...

I grew up in Lafayette. Perhaps the saddest day of my life was when I went back to Frozen Custard near the park and found out new owners had changed the recipie. :( It used to be the best ice cream on earth, now it's hardly as good as McDonald's soft serve :( :( :( I lived a few houses down...

What happened, too much beer? Sorry, but nothing can touch the Sega 6 button controller, not even some uber fancy $1,500 custom arcade cabinet joystick.

No, it's not "just a regular sponge", it's quite different from a '"regular" sponge.

No, not a little high, very high.

I used to crack games on Apple IIs. Hand tracing Assembly/machine code, etc... I never learned 80x86 machine code. The things they do to copy protect these days are a little more complicated but along the same lines. The laws to day are just completely assinine, I think the Senators all...

Here's the reason: games used to be made by gamers, now they're made by corporations. The gamers were driven to make good games, games that THEY liked, the corporations are driven to make money.

I used to "collect" software, I had hundreds of games and apps etc, finally decided I had to buy a computer. Once I bought my first computer I gradually started buying software sometimes, though I really was too poor at the time, I did anyway. Doom 3 was easy to download a couple days before...

So, what you're implying is, that many people make posts bitching about steam? Not very surprising at all... I have gotten private messages from other users telling me about Steam problems, and they told me that they didn't want to post a message in the forum because of all the juvenile...

I didn't see where he said that's what happened?

It's pretty cool. But sometimes it irritates me enough that I don't want to play it for a few days. I HATE "invisible walls" - so many times I stacked up a bunch of barrels, boxes, etc high enough to go where I want to go, but find out I just can't go there, really ruins the fun aspect when...

Am I the only one that had the Verite V1000 card to play V-Quake with? THAT was the shit - sweet anti-aliased graphics. Anti-aliasing reallly kicked ass back at those low resolutions. The leap in image quality that brought was perhaps the single largest there has been yet, in gaming history.

How much did you PAY for your hotmail account? What's unique about hotmail that you can't get from a dozen other email services? If I could just play any other game instead of HL2 and be just as happy, then why would I buy it? I can RESET my hotmail password, no problem, done it before...

How about, what if you weren't allowed to buy the book even because they're afraid regular books could be copied, so you're only allowed to get it on a specially encrypted disc and if you loose your special code, then you won't be able to read it anymore.

If they're going to force crap like Steam on everyone who wants to buy the game, then the least they could do is have good support, 'cause you know with something like Steam lots of users are going to have problems like WA's. Just because "mine works fine" does not mean others don't have...

There IS a difference. The fact that copying software is not actually stealing (legally, or technically) is significant and should not not be dismissed. They only loose money if a person stealing it would have bought it otherwise, that is a fact. But let's talk about me as an example. I...

Why, do you want to make a copy of my car?

What does it have to do with pirates? "Copy protection" does only two things: 1) gives the pirates something fun to do for a few hours, and 2) is a hassle for people who actually buy the software. There will be pirates. Period. We live in a free country, you can't have freedom and at the...

The average user should always try before buy. I Iost count of how many games I bought over the years that do little more than collect dust...

YOU should be (edit: used to say banned) slapped with an old slimey fish for directly insulting me in that manner, your post has no merit whatsoever, unlike mine. You've demonstrated an apparent inability to reply intelligently, so you resort to insult instead. You've helped illustrate that...

A little off, but related... I have a LAN at home and HL2. I'd be happy to test it for you, but do I have to own two copies to do that? Because of the silly CD check I lost the sleeve with the CD Key on it, I'll try to call Valve on Monday to find out what to do, since I want to install it...

You'll have to install a "heart plug" so that Valve can terminate you if they decide they dislike you for some reason. Oh, and you'll need your computer to have a built in self-destruct switch (thank you Sen. Orrin Hatch!) in case they suspect you of doing something with/to the software you...

You could do ever good thing that Steam does without FORCING users to use it. And I'm sure your claim of 99% is BS. I saw another thread about HL2/Steam problems on the forums here was over 28 PAGES long. Does it say on the box that you have to insert the CD in the drive every time you...

We own NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, PSX, PS2, DC... But it's a pain keeping all those systems setup so I just use emulators on PC for all except PS2 - it's WONDERFUL being able to just select a game and run it without having to get out and put in the CD/cartridge etc, just have fun playing instead...