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some more words: half-life, deus ex, call of duty, battlefield 1942...
those games are about more than picking up a gun and shooting everything that moves, i think it's mostly non-FPS fans that thing all FPS games are about just shooting everything, it's true that for much of the 90s they were just about shooting things and not much else, and there are FPS being made today that are about shooting first and making up answers later, but, it's what people like and want, and who can take that away from people? nobody.

- A Little Sentence about First Person Shooters, written by BOYD1981

i am from essex, which is not far from sussex

Athlon64 3400+
1GB DDR400
200GB SATA HDD
80GB IDE HDD
DVD+/-RW
Sapphire Radeon 9800XT (256mb)
SB Audigy 2ZS
blue lights!
all in a nice Cooler Master Wave Master aluminium case.
a nice 19" monitor and all running win2kpro

i plan to upgrade to a Radeon X800 when i have a spare £400 and maybe bung another gig of ram inside it

This week, your task is, through the art of music, to portray the misadventures of... a teddybear, from his (or her) escape from a child's room, to venturing outside, getting into a bit of trouble and being saved just in the nick of time by the child...

good luck and may the tuning fork be with you.

-boyd

This has nothing to do with the thread, but you might want to know that mouse in plural is "mice", for that little signature thingie of yours.

this has nothing to do with the thread either, but you might want to know that there are to Ms in "symmetrical", for that little post thingie of yours.

on topic: when i first saw the picture i thought those were actually snow drops and not stars...

Sad Lullaby

i may actually work on this some more and maybe release a midi version...

Sad Lullaby (Midi Version)

edit - fixed the problem with the links not working, i left out a t in internet  :

only bad things about the sims 2 is that they're using SafeDisc 3, which unfortunately is becoming popular, it "blacklists" certain cd emulation software so that if the game detects it running, it won't load until you've disabled it, which if you ask me is just asking for people to crack your software, i don't know why the makers of these virtual cd programmes (it's mostly CloneCD users that have problems with it) don't take legal action against the makers of SafeDisc 3 (Macromedia i think)...
another sucky thing is that there are no signs of a Special Edition DVD version of the game on any of the british stores, the links on thesims2.com just link to american stores, and amazon.com won't ship the dvd edition to the uk, which sucks...

wooh, i don't know if you already know this, but you can download the TLJ soundtrack from http://www.longestjourney.com/download/music/
i just searched for it in google hoping to find it on cd to buy but got a pleasent surprise when i realised i could download it for free!

i ran a tracer on the IP and discovered that it belongs to xs4all.nl which i think is porn site or cracks site, i've emailed them to see what they have to say about it...
incase anyone's interested, here's the info the trace returned

inetnum: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, 213.84.192.0 - 213.84.255.255
netname: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, XS4ALL
descr: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, XS4ALL Internet BV
descr: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, ADSL Static IP numbers
country: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, NL
admin-c: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, XS42-RIPE
tech-c: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  XS42-RIPE
status: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  ASSIGNED PA
remarks: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, Please send email to "abuse@xs4all.nl" for complaints
remarks: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, regarding portscans, DoS attacks and spam.
notify: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  netmaster@xs4all.nl
mnt-by: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  XS4ALL-MNT
changed: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, kai@xs4all.nl 20031230
source: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  RIPE

route: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, 213.84.0.0/16
descr: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, XS4ALL networking
origin: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  AS3265
notify: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  as-guardian@xs4all.nl
mnt-by: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  XS4ALL-MNT
changed: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, erik@xs4all.net 20000329
source: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  RIPE

role: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  XS4ALL Internet NOC
address: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, XS4ALL Internet BV
address: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, Postbus 1848
address: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, 1000BV Amsterdam
address: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, The Netherlands
phone: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, +31 20 3987654
fax-no: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  +31 20 3987604
e-mail: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  netmaster@xs4all.nl
admin-c: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, CB127
tech-c: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  CB127
tech-c: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  OD45
tech-c: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  EB76-RIPE
tech-c: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  RZ2757-RIPE
tech-c: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  KAI11-RIPE
nic-hdl: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, XS42-RIPE
notify: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  netmaster@xs4all.nl
mnt-by: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  XS4ALL-MNT
changed: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, cor@xs4all.nl 19980928
changed: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, oliver@xs4all.nl 19990312
changed: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, remcovz@xs4all.net 20020130
changed: Ã,  Ã,  Ã, kai@xs4all.nl 20031218
source: Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  RIPE

okay, so i just run the latest version of AGS for the first time on this PC, and after running "Test Game" and exiting i was presented with this:


now, this is the first time i've seen had this on this PC since i did a clean install just over a week ago.
after closing AGS i loaded up Paintshop, and it also tried to send the same kind of data...
was AGS supposed to do that or has it somehow been infected with a virus (i've tried running a few other apps, and it didn't happen with those)...

you run any anti-virus software lately?
could be a trojan if it happened when you were online...

i just noticed something, shouldn't those dates be 4-9-2004 to 11-9-2004...

i just found this on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=72174&item=3744708627&rd=1

well, RONbat was my idea, but Iqu was working on it, so he's the best person to ask

i found some AGS games on the coverdisc of Retro Gamer, but no actual mention of AGS itself...

nope, you didn't send me anything, we just discussed lots of stuff over MSN, i have log files, but they're on my other computer which is packed away right now...

You can't just tell someone to get software that costs money.. and don't assume they want to pirate, either

systemworks doesn't cost that much, and i am totally 100% against piracy, my pirating nearly every piece of software i own is merely in retaliation of piracy, the only way to deal with these nasty pirate people is to keep using pirated products and perhaps then they'll learn!!!

say no piracy kids, it'll make you impotent

if you're harddrive is formatted as NTFS you don't need to defrag that often, also the default defrag tool is a pile of crap, get Norton Systemworks and run SpeedDisk, it's better and faster than defrag, plus it has all sorts of other nifty utils

i believe shbazjinkens was talking about leaving laptops on 24/7, i agree that leaving a desktop on 24/7 make sense, but i wouldn't leave a laptop on for that long, same as you're not really supposed to leave consoles on that long, the smaller space creates more heat and it's not so easy to add additional fans to a laptop, the simple solution is to just not use a laptop as your main pc and always keep a spare pc plus discs to keep backups on, a computer is a lot harder to lose and snap than a cd (and a laptop)...
if i were going to get a laptop as a main machine i'd get an Alienware, they use top-notch components (i almost did get an alienware laptop instead of a desktop, but then i saw sense)...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=convert+SWF+to+AVI

google is a much better place to ask than here, because anyone that answers you will probably have googled it