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Short Biography
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Real Name: |
Ian C. |
| Other Nicknames: |
Nightwalker |
| Home State |
Wisconsin USA
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| Spoken Languages |
English
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| Gender: |
Male |
| Occupation: |
Tech College Student
(Technolegy) |
| Religion: |
Luthern |
| Alignment: |
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| Birthdate: |
November 01, 1984 |
| Hobbies: |
Working on my webpage. Playing
Elderscrolls III, Diablo 2, Neverwinter Nights |
| Favorite Movies: |
Akara (Adult Anime) Jin Ru (Adult Anime)
Lord of the Rings (Fantasy) |
| Favorite Author: |
NA |
| Favorite Games: |
Chrono Trigger, FF10, FFX-2, Chrono Cross,
Mario Kart (any), Xenosaga, Chrono Cross, Dungeon Siege, Elder
Scrolls III, Grandia 2, Skies of Arcadia, Super Mario Bros. |
| Favorite RPG Characters: |
Sir Auron (Final Fantasy X)
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| Favorite Music: |
Black Sabbath, Metallica, Blank
and Jones, ATB, |
March
Blog (updated form Modblog)
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Hello.
I got some great news and some not so great news. The not so great news
is I can’t get my Playstation 2 emulator to work. The emulator I’m
using is PCSX2 version 0.6. The EMU says it can’t run commercial PS2
games. It freezes up when I run the game. I am positive that it needs a
BIOS. Somewhere you can upload a BIOS from PS2 using some Bios image
tool at http://PS2dev.net. Something I’m sure I don’t know how to do.
The good news is I got the Playstation emulator to work. I know bleem
was was out for quite some time now. And no this is not Bleem! It’s
better then Bleem. The one I am trying and to my surprise actually runs
is PCSXE 1.6. I had to find the Bios (SCPH1001.dll) it was asking,
lucky someone using iMESH had it. I also had to find a GUI. The
emulator won’t work without it. I found one off ESPXE’s official
webpage. So tonight I’ve been playing Final Fantasy VII on my PC (how
exciting). It was a little awkward using the mouse as a joystick. My
Noka AirFlow Pro controller is perfect for Playstation games. The
still-low resolution graphics became a bit of a disappointment. But hey
it’s Playstation on your PC with no fancy TV tuner card. I tried
putting the emulator with all the required plugins on my server which
made me a little mad. I was going to tell all my friends to download
it. Now I’m waiting to get PS2 games running on my computer, which
would be very nice.
I would love to give you everything including the emulator itself
except all I can give you is the PSone BIOS as written above for now.
http://www.pressenter.com/~scampbel/psonebios.zip. 410KB Games I’ve
tested are Final Fantasy VII, Gran Tranismo 2 and Legend of Dragoon.
They all work very well.
Some other personal news is someone at school deleted my Counter-Strike
download. O_o. This was a major disappointment. Mom made a payment to
Pay-Pal nearly a week ago to get America’s Army Operations 2.0A sent to
us. It hasn’t arrived yet so I’m going to tell Mom tomorrow to check if
any money was taken from her account. It’s called Internet Fraud.
I find it difficult to study homework. I admit that the books have good
graphics in them, but that’s not what makes it overly easy. I must see
reality of it all, if school was easy, 10s of millions of people would
have same jobs I want. All it really takes is some determination and
the will to read 20 pages every other day. Thus school being difficult
enough for me to barely pass some classes. Computers are my livelihood.
They control me. I must make them work! I knocked off zoning out in
class even though I am tired most days from staying up all night. I
don’t know the solution…perhaps it is making good grades. If I made
good grades, I’d be real happy. I know what CISCO part 1 is like. It is
3 times as difficult as my current classes. I got a 71% final grade in
Cisco at Chippewa Valley in River Falls. At WITC, I need a 72% of
better to get a passing grade in CISCO. This is true in all my classes.
See I’ll act mature like and say, “What’s in the past is in the past.”
Which is the overwhelming truth in this case. I think I’ll play Diablo
2 for the rest of the night so I can go to bed, wake up at 1:30pm, and
play catch up on missing assignments.
I wonder how Randy’s been doing this week. He’s my long time friend.
Lately he’s been working double shifts at Somerset High School (Ozzfest
is held there every year) When he comes over here, there really isn’t
much for us to do except play a few rounds of soccer.
Two months until the Pierce County Fair. I haven’t gone there for 3
years since I had nobody to bring. This time though, I can drive myself
over there. No sense trying to flatter young girls, I mean it could end
up ugly. I mean what happens one of those gals gets me into trouble?
Than what? Why meet someone you don’t know when I'll never see them
again. Plus, they’ll figure out I have no money so they’ll loose
interest in me very quickly. I like blonds with long legs and their
bellys showing. It's very attractive to us men ya know. Sometimes we
just look and don't know it. There's a word for it, "babe watching" I
believe. To get back to why I'm poor. It’s all about the money. The man
with the money gets all the beautiful high school babes! Damn right!
Seen it myself!
It’s over at Glenwood City. Usually there are a lot of tractors there
and a lot of amusement rides and Candy. Same rides come back every
year. If you’ve been there in the pass 5 years, there isn’t really any
reason to go back…same old rides, arcade, and booths, and games. I’ve
been there since I was a kid. Now, I’ve pretty much grown out of all
the rides. Though that “pop the balloon, win a price booth” is still
there. To have a great time, Bob, Randy and I should drive over too
State Fair grounds pass White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Now that we’re out
of high school and Boy Scouts it should be much easier to plan a day
for it. Haven’t been there for 4 years. That place has some awesome
rides during the annual state fair. I am fond of the bungie cord that
drops people 100 feet. There is free stuff including custom T-Shirts
booths. 93X is going to be there, that’s enough reason to go. The state
fair grounds has it’s own auto racing track. It’s not Nascar, but it’s
exactly like Nascar in a way. Been there once myself, thought it was
pretty exciting. Hundreds more people come to the state fair every
year.
I took this quiz i found off another blog. As you can see I have no problems.
What's Your Problem? Find out @ She's Crafty
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Hmm.
I thank all you bloggers for coming to my blog, it helps to make it so
my blog will not disappear. First day of school today. Um, Joyce is
getting into floppy drives. Ha, it’s really simple. How to install a
floppy drive, huh, not very difficult. Earlier before break, our class
took a test on everything MS-DOS.
Conventual memory, upper memory. We had to know the different memory
modules (DIMMs, RIMMS, SIMMS). They had this question on our test, I
got wrong, it really was a stupid question. Can you upgrade SRAM on a
motherboard? I said true. She marked it wrong even though it was true,
you can replace SRAM like you would DIMMs. I didn’t understand the
system requirements for performance on WIN98. She says you need at
least 128 MB RAM to run it well. I said 64-MB. While I never had 64MB
on Windows 98, my friend did. Though there was a huge boost of
performance adding extra 64MB, it didn’t run dirt slow with 64-MBs. In
fact on the Windows 98 box, I say to her, it only requires 16 MB
minimum and 64-MB for best performance. Take it that 128 makes
everything faster and PC owners began to buy these computers late in
1999, like my parents did. It was a hard question for me because I
upgraded to 256 MB to that computer just before I gave it away to my
Dad. The answer was 128 MB for Windows 98 and 256 MB for Windows
2000/XP. I don’t know any computer that has less then 256 MB of RAM
anymore. I don’t get why RAM is a big deal anymore. There are some
people out there who still think 256-MB is a lot of memory. Would I
blow those people a way when I said that my computer has 8 times the
memory as the one I got in 1999. Next year, 1 GB of RAM won’t be a big
deal anymore. I am saying this because I believe everyone should know
that RAM doubles every 18 months now. It will be the industry standard.
Another stupid question is does memory come in pairs of 2 or pairs of
1. Is this a trick question? My computers have 3 or more RAM sticks
except for the Dell. She says that most computer come with 1 stick not
2. That sucks. Its crazy I tell you. Of course the correct answer is 1.
Why should it even matter? In a year I’m going to upgrade my computer
with another 1GB of RAM so it’ll be 2 Gigabytes (2000 Megabytes) for
160 dollars.
As for more interesting life experiences, I went to school. I got home,
took a shower, went to bed. Easter went well. I thought it wasn't very
good. Not like Christmas at our house last year. I brought PS2 &
Xbox to my aunt’s house. The hottest game was easily Soul Caliber 2. My
cousin, Josh, loved to play that game. Brian (oldest cousin and brother
of David) took his Xbox out and we both exchanged played games. He's
games sucked. I mean he thinks Xbox is the coolest thing on Earth. He
has 35 Xbox games. In my opinon, Xbox is the worst console you can own
right now. No good games or orginal games are scarce. Nothing seemed to
play right, not even Halo. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was also a big game
over there. Brian didn't like Morrowind. He played THPS 4 and I played
THPS 3. It was fun. Brian didn’t have an Xbox LAN cable so we played
separately. I talked to the relatives. I don’t think we had much to
talk about. I asked Uncle Jim about his house. It turned out to be a
less than exciting conversation.
I want to add a game on my most anticipated game list. The game is
called The Fall – Last Days of Gaia due out this year. I admit I made a
couple mistakes. For example I bought a game (Spellforce) that does not
allow me to play with anyone, thus it makes it a horrible multiplayer
game. Secondly I had high hopes for Anarchy Online. Not only a
disappointment, I was about to get my money back. Until I though eh,
when I can afford it, maybe I'll just play it. But if thats the case
I'd just subscribe to Final Fantasy XI. Anarchy Online Shadowlands was
a great buy though. It included Anarchy Online with two booster packs.
It said though online fees required, the huge draw back. It was a
serious let down for me. To get back to The Fall. The game looks
promising. It’s a role playing game not an action game. Role playing
allows your character to communicate with other players. Plus it has a
most interesting plot. 25 years after the world got wasted by Carbon
Monoxide machine (called terraformers) suppose to create life on Mars,
instead got in the hands of religious activists dooming the Earth to a
global wasteland. Few human habitats still exist in the year 2062. If
you’re interested in the story go to
http://www.the-fall.com/e/index.php?menu=story. I think it rocks! I’m
interested about the hints of past relics of the early 21st century. I
think I saw an F-150 in the screenshots. The game is developed by
Silver Style, based in Berlin, Germany.
Other people may disagree, this game could flop! The truth is I never
heard of this developer, I just know it has good looking graphics. I am
still looking at Half-life 2 and will buy it the day it comes out
because it is the sequel to Half-life. Half-life needs no introduction.
Counter-Strike is finally dieing out, but never fear, all first person
shooter fans have the sequel to look forward too. There are more first
person shooters then any other genre out. Isn't that a bit scary fact?
The best genre has the most games avaliable.
I'll be back to tell more tall talls of my on going saga in "Adventures
in Farmland." Tune in later too look at Chapter 30 something. These
chapters aren't really staying on the same topic, but they all star me
cause I'm the man! Gotta read a chapter in one of my classes.
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uropeans
and Americans sound a like. I have proof. It’s really early in the
morning on Saturday. I played Diablo 2 again, but this time on European
servers. The
adv they use are the exact same as what Americans use. This part didn’t
interest me. I had someone ask me if Metallica was big over here.
Jesus, isn’t that what
most Americans listen too these days? And I hear trance is for kids.
Hmm. Good thing it is not all what I’m listen too. Daft Punk is big in
UK for youngsters. A lot
of interesting things you get out of people. I must have been weird. I
was speaking very bad German. I need a better translator. See I was
Alt-Tab trying to speak
good German to the German people. Words were mixed up, nothing sounded
like it should. I said “grosse Wörter verwirren mich.” or “Ich kann
nicht nichts mehr
buchstabieren” I like to go to the German servers because I get to use
my knowledge of German words. Anyway to learn German is to write it and
know the
words. I annoyed people with “Dose jedermann hier sprechen Deutsches?”
I can say more things in German. If you want to affend someone say,
“Bierflaschen des
Getränks 20 und Ihr Deutscher” I cheat talking anyways. I must-a
sounded awful to them. They are probably thinking, “What is this guy
smoking?”
Here are somethings I found out about European Diablo 2 players
• Best Buys exist over seas
• They like heavy-metal over seas
• Trance is for kids
• Most people on Diablo 2’s Europe server can speak both German and English
• Everyone likes Coca-cola
• A lot are Final Fantasy fans
• A lot are RPG and first person shooter fans
• A lot of people play or wish they owned Unreal Tournament 2004
• European Diablo 2 players dislike country music a lot. Though few know who Garth Brooks is. Hmm, Interesting.
• Soccer videogames are stupid.
• American’s play weird “football.” They say it’s like Rugby without the puck and wand.
• Everyone I talked too knows where Wisconsin is.
• Linkin Park is Gay. Some like to call it Gay Park over seas
That about sums it up.
Comic of the day! I got this off another blog and thought it was pretty funny.
You can tell Hilter was a very
emotional and hungry dictator. This is suppose to be comical.
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Today
is one of those days with nothing to do. Yet there is plenty to do in
Diablo 2. Yes, the graphics are horribly dated, yet the game is ever so
strong in popularity. Gameplay is still top-notch in my opinion. No
game can surpass it’s level of customization. Actually, this game is
actually massive, I’ve haven’t completed hell for a few days, and every
thing works. Though some gamers think Diablo 2 is very un balanced. The
Amazon is by far the most powerful character and easiest to control.
Such as I’m starting to do things in Level 54 that some players can’t
do until level 65. If I can wear 880 defense armor with 70% magic find
at level 54 than in my opinion I’m well off. It could be a lot worst.
In most games, developers are still finding the Quake 3 engine rules
and kicks ass. Plus you can use the standard Quake 3 editor that comes
with Quake 3 to develop your games. I wonder if that’s because some
game developers were creating Quake 3 mods before they were veterans in
game design. It can be highly upgraded with better textures and ID
software is making a ton of money leasing it out to smaller developers.
Yet we get pretty war Games like BattleField 1942, Metal of Honor
Allied Assault, Call of Duty, Star Trek: Elite Force II, Return to
Castle Wolfenstine, American Mcgee’s Alice, Deus Ex 2 – Invisible War,
and the latest game from Konami, Apocalyptica. I’ll get into detail
about this game later in the entry.
Okay, I had a chance to try out Return to Castle Wolfenstine, Metal of
Honor Allied Assault and Call of Duty. All three run on the award
winning Quake 3 engine, so there isn’t that much difference in
graphics. Something I thing everyone reading this should know is the
big war game of 2002, Metal of Honor Allied Assault, was developed by
former RtCW programmers from ID software who left to create a new game
studio called 2015. 2015 first project was Metal of Honor Allied
Assault. After MoH: AA was published by EA Games, some of the lead
programmers / level designers left 2015 to create the game studio,
Infantry Ward, which developed Call of Duty, which got 2003 First
Person Shooter of the Year by PC Gamer, Gamespot, IGN.com,
Videogames.com.
I’d just played Call of Duty for the first time ever, and I know what
to expect. I played MoH AA. Both are fun…that’s all I have to say. You
can drive tanks and armored trucks in the game. That feature wasn’t in
MoH AA. War games have become so realistic pass few years, you can see
believable facial expressions, that in itself is amazing. The
explosions are eye catching too. I just love to blow Nazis up. If you
ever watched Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, or Full Metal
Jacket, you know that not all soldiers just die. In this game you
actually hear horrifying noises of dieing soldiers just like in the
movies. Soliders that are all cut up. Legs, arms, Torsos missing.
Anything gruesome in war is in these games. It will definally capture
your anger. So real, infact, that you'll think you were on the
battlefield yourself fighting in substantial situations. Biggest
achievements are the hand signals in MoH and Call of Duty because it
makes war that much more real then in last few years! As well designed
as these games are…I find myself coming back to play Diablo 2. I know
exactly why. In war games you can’t play to perfection in hundreds of
items and 40 skills to master with every character. You can’t do that
in first person shooters! The objective is the same, kill or be killed.
And most noticeable, it’s very playable over a modem unlike 3D War
games.
The future of PC Gaming
The future is appond us. We will see more game developers leasing game
engines than ever before. I don’t care who is leasing the game engine
as long as the graphics are state-of-the-art and eye popping. id
software, Valve Software, and Epic Games are the biggest candidates. id
software is coming out with the Doom 3 Engine, next generation engine
that surpasses Epic Game’s UT 2.5 engine. Valve Software is coming out
with the new ‘source’ engine. All three lease their source code to
other developers, every ones happy as a result. The gamer is happy
because he gets the best graphics for his money. The developer is happy
because they don’t have to start from scratch which might have
bankrupted them. And the game engine’s creator is happy because it
makes money on older technology to fund newer game engines. I know the
first developer using the Doom 3 engine is making Vampire: The
Masquerade 2. Interesting fact is America’s Army uses UT 0.8 engine and
that game is a free download. I know one true similarity in all these
games. They all have the best frame rates and can carry ungodly amount
of polygons.
Games I have my eyes on….
The first game I have my eyes on is The Matrix Online. It will take
place after Matrix Revolutions will be a world when the Matrix still
exists. The people in the Matrix now know they are in a computerized
world though it will not seem that way since in the Matrix everything
is 20xx when in fact the year is closer to 2450. The computers are
human. The guardians of the Matrix are the Smiths. Everyone in the game
has a choice of either taking the “green pill” or “red pill”.
Another game I have my eye on is Lord of the Rings Online. This places
Middle Earth in a game world. The graphics are suppose to be
state-of-the-art. I know that it’ll be a MMORPG. That’s it.
Another game I’m interested in is Apocalptica. This game looks
fantastic, very much like Unreal Tournament 2003 but it uses Quake 3
technology. What’s God being called Neo-Satan for? Those Brits who
developed this game forget that American’s aren’t into this new-age
hippy stuff. I’m sure not. I’m not exactly from hick-ville, not I’m not
into cowboys either. I’m closer to a cowboy nurd, except I hate being
called nurdy. Yeah, us Americas are different from other parts of the
world (not the fringe against immigrants and their customs) but
American’s are into Country and NFL! The people I meet greet people by
saying Howdy (I say Howdy to people all the time, and I’m not from
Texas) It’s a American custom. Oh yeah, we call friends ‘partners’.
Such as, “My partner and I are going to high tall out of here and go to
the movies!” We call people who are scared ‘yellow’ or ‘cowards’ in
Wisconsin.
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Microsoft’s
next operating system wont be available for two more years. Thankfully,
there has been screenshots updated frequently from Google’s Image
Search Engine. I call it Microsoft Windows XP 2, but it looks like it’s
going to be called Longhorn. Windows XP’s version is 5.1.2600. On the
screenshot you'll notice there is a build number that barely surpassed
4000. We already know that Longhorn will look and run a like WinXP.
This new build minimizes holes in Windows to make it harder for hackers
to get into your OS. Good, less crashes, hopefully! We might want to
update soon after, because Microsoft is going to stop support for WinXP
in 2008. WinXP will then be 7 years old.
Microsoft next generation Windows (Longhorn) | Release date: TBA 2006
I use Windows as do many other people and I made a list on what I like see changed.
• I want to see Windows not crash or lag as much as it does when an application crashes
• Internet Explorer should have a popup blocker of it’s own
• Internet Explorer should have tabs like Mozilla does
• Microsoft should put in a powerful firewall and antivirus for critical updates.
• Make it easier to connect to networks.
• Tell me when the network card isn’t working by giving me popup, “your network card is not working”
• Add spellchecker to Wordpad
• Add support drivers for Nvidia and ATI videocards
• Send free service pack cds to subscribers. And also pay for shipping.
• Automatically add MS Tweak UI 2.0 to next Windows so users can make better use to virtual memory.
• Market OS with free Microsoft Game Studios videogame in same package for free. Like Halo, Age of Empires, Dungeon Siege
• Add support for Direct X 10.0!!!!
• Make Windows Media Player a lot like Winamp 5.0. Though it can be
skinnable, it doesn’t have an equalizer on it, or a very good playlist
window.
• Add ACE, RAR, GZIP capability with Windows Zip Archiver
• Make the desktop skinnable so you can change the header, the taskbar,
the tool bar, the title bar so background will have gif like graphics.
• Make Windows backwards compatible with Linux OS.
• Go entirely 32 MB instead of being backwards compatible with 16-bit
applications. And we already know Longhorn with also be 64-bit ready.
• Add DIVX, VOB, MPEG 2 and 4 codec to Windows Media Player when installed.
• Add bigger window to video-chat size with MSN messenger
• Add Realplayer and Quicktime to OS without having to download it.
• Add voice recognition to Wordpad without having to pay for expensive alternative.
(Xeon 1.0 can be downloaded at emulator-zone.com and the required XISO
1.5 application can be downloaded at Yursoft.cjb.net. Yes man, you must
extract the whole game to your harddrive.)
• Microsoft should develop a working Xbox emulator for Windows Longhorn with joystick support.
• Add cut down version of Frontpage with OS
• Add Voice-over-IP feature so I don’t have to pay long distance charges when calling somebody!
• Bring back the Windows 98 scheduler
• Bring back drive defragmenter
• Have more options to clear hard drive from unneeded data. Such as
registry cleaner, hard drive cleaner, option to delete programs your
not using in that option under My Computer instead of having to go to
Control Panel.
Oh yeah I had Bob over, I never had a friend over for weeks. Very
lonely at home these past weeks. We played Unreal Tournament 2004. I
kicked arse in that game. Good way to go frag and have good time. I set
the bot difficulty to average so he could “get use” to game. After
that, we played Sonic Pinball on Gamecube, it was entertaining though I
sucked at it, and Winning Eleven 6 for Playstation 2. Bob won,
Yugoslavia 1, USA 0. Then we went old school and took turns playing the
oldie but classic Megaman 2 for NES. We beat Metal Man, and Flash Man,
then we got tired of that. Because bob was kicking my butt when it was
his turn so we came up with the idea off sticking Super Mario Bros. 3
in the system. Bob and I got to the part on the ship with the missiles.
It was entertaining. Then we played Diablo. Bob had to set the IPX
network setting because I don’t know. When we were ready to die, I used
Bobafett’s Trainer and we both hacked our characters. It’s didn’t look
like we were going to reach the end anyhow. Later that night, I just
played 2 hours of Diablo 2. I made it too hell difficulty and rushed to
Act 4 and my Bowazon is still at level 47. She’s under powered at the
moment though I have a feeling that I can kick some minon butt in next
few playing days. I think she’ll be better then average at level 65 or
so. I have some 430 defense armor I wearing. And I have to wait 2
levels before I can wear some magic boots with 77+ defense.
And I got mad when the America’s Army Operations download got corrupted
when downloading it to my external harddrive at school. So I’m getting
a CD sent to me. This will be the first time I get a tactical game to
play. Once you play one of these games, they’re all the same. Plus
they’re harder then most games. Games are suppose to be fun, but not
really difficult for the casual gamer, I think. I don’t know, it
depends on the game. Some gamers play at the hardest setting until they
can eventually beat the game. Some say that this sharpens playing
skills, but I can not stand being killed all the time. I play games at
normal setting.
That’s about as much I can think of before my brain gets tired! I have
to have some brain power left so I can hit the books (homework), and
then have just enough to function in Diablo 2. Back in a few days to
type some more!!!
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Hello
again. David, my cousin from the Navy, couldn’t make it over this week.
He is got home on his spring break from Pensacola, Florida. He use to
come over all the time until 2001. We played Dreamcast, N64. It was the
good ol times. We had played games like Perfect Dark, Mario Kart, Crazy
Taxi, and Rush 2049. Last time I saw him was in November 2003 right
before he left. I think we both saw Fellowship of the Ring in 2001.
David has MSN so we talk through that a lot. But the past week, he
hasn’t been online. It just accord to me that we would be home.
Anyways, I was playing Unreal Tournament 2004 online, and web ads keep
popping up. It got so bad that I had to reload the OS. I mean didn't I
do this 3 weeks ago? What makes me f*cking mad is the popups slow down
my connection and happen when I'm using the connection. The game's
connection speed wasn't too bad. It ran at a solid 30 frames per
second. I waited 3 months, I finally get it, and a few popups are
distroying my fun!
Here are some spoilers for gamers. As you can see AMD Athlon 64 FX 53
out performs Pentium 4 EE. I'm going to wait until Athlon 64 FX 55
comes out and than I'm going to get my parents to purchase it for me.
AMD stop making the Athlon 64 FX 51 so it'll drop in price quiet
sinificently. I"m going to wait until I get 40 frames per second better
on my games before I get my new processor for my custom PC. I don't
know whether I'm going to get a new pc with all new hardware. Or just
buy memory, motherboard/processor and stick the old processor in my
Compaq. Getting a new PC from Tigerdirect will definally cut the cost
for hardware installation by a professional. But your also paying for
things you already have like a videocard, harddrive, DVDRWs, cases,
modems and such.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64-fx53_1.html
Anyways, I did nothing this week during Spring Break. It’s been “reel”
fun. On Tuesday, I got Alice, a dark platformer, made by Rogue
Entertainment. Played that game on Tuesday night until 5 in the
morning. The graphics were good, maybe a little less polygonized than
I’m use too, but that’s okay. Than yesterday, I bought Unreal
Tournament 2004. I couldn’t have gone in Monday because Best Buy was
sold out. I was also looking at cd players for my Jeep. I want one with
MP3 support, but I can’t afford one, I had 140 dollars total. And a
nice MP3 Player ran about $170 which is very cheap. I was looking at
Sony or Panasonic or Kenwood though, top of the line stereos. The guy
tried telling me what a MP3 was…I said to him, God sakes, if I didn’t
know what a MP3 was, I would be kinda computer illiterate, which I
ain’t.” I told him those exact words. I was trying to prevent him from
asking, “Are you downloading MP3s illegally?” I would have said,
“Doesn’t everyone these days….” I also got a game called Spellforce:
Order of the Dawn. It’s a new RPG released this year. The quote “A
splendid mix of Warcraft and Dungeon Siege” caught my eye. And the
specs to run the game were pretty high, and I like high specs. I read
off IGN.com that the game is a little buggy later. I usually don’t come
to Best Buy this unprepared. I know I heard of Asheron's Call
somewhere. IGN.com gave Asheron’s Call 2 a 9.2 out of 10. It’s the
other RPG developed by Microsoft. Well there’s Freelancer, but I tend
to hate space RPGs, even though Knights of the Old Republic was my 2nd
favorite game until I bought UT2004. My PC performance doesn’t seem to
affect Unreal Tournament 2004 at all. It’s been sluggish such as ag
between opening Directories. I already checked for viruses. Only one
exception, someone using Subseven tryied to hack into my PC this
morning (around 1am), but Norton Firewall blocked him or her. I have
played with Subseven myself once, but I could only get it work on my
PC. It’s an older trojan horse, which is illegal spyware allowing the
hacker to view directories, upload files to your computer like viruses,
and give the victim popup messages, like the infamous “We know you’re
name is ___.” Subseven or “Sub7”, to my knowledge was last released in
2000, but isn't a very powerful trojan horse in 2004 because every
firewall in the world can block it practically. Some other things
Subseven can do is open webpages in Internet Explorer, open CDROM
drives, illegally “watch” instant messenger conversations, and talk to
the victim through it, and watch other people activities in a LAN
situation who don’t have firewall protection.
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Hello
and welcome to my next edition of my Blog! Today I am on spring break,
which is nice because Dad’s going to bring home UT2004, and I will have
nothing to do, which is not necessary a bad thing. I hope Bob gets off
school this week. He goes to the UofW so that will be awesome if he
did. The topic today is why the heck are some videocards so expensive
and others are not so expensive? $150 to $350 is reasonable in my
opinion. Tigerdirect sells a XFX Geforce 5200 FX 256 MB videocard for
100 dollars. That’s extremely reasonable, and I haven’t had mine die on
me yet. This videocard will let you play Unreal Tournament 2003 /
Unreal Tournament 2004 at 1600x1200 with 4x anti analyzing. You’re
going to get eye catching graphics anyways with no pixilation. Well, if
your videocard can support that resolution anyways, you know that the
pixels are so small that they won’t show any distortion. Now you take a
Geforce 5600 XT 128 MB videocard, and that’ll cost you as much as a
Geforce 5200 FX at 256 MB. I thought that any 256 MB card will produce
better graphics over any 128 MB videocard. I mean at least when you
look at Geforce 4 technologies. Nvidia has this technology called Nview
multi-display. This is Nvidia’s answer to Microsoft’s Direct X 9.0, so
Nvidia’s technology improve and do more than Direct X 9.0 or am I
completely wrong? I can’t be completely off because I know I can run
UT2003 at 1600x1200 with my Radeon 9800. It interests me why this type
of videocard manufactured by PNY Technologies costs 2000 bucks. This
class is called the Quadro FX series. PNY makes the Quadro 500 128 MB
GPU and it costs 300 bucks. That is more then any Geforce FX videocard.
Quadro FX 1000, 2000 and 3000 are also available. This is the EXTREMELY
highend of videocards. And they probably cost 400 dollars more at
places like Best Buy and Circuit City. When the Geforce FX 6000 series
come out, I beating they will out class the Quadro 500 and 1000 in
terms of graphics. Same thing with Radeons. ATI isn’t far behind Nvidia
in technolgy. On reason why all three console manufactures (Nintendo,
Sony and Microsoft) are turning to ATI to make integrated graphic cards
for their next generation consoles. They’ll look better on screen and
cost a lot less. I think that 512 MB of DRR video ram is over kill
right now. Maybe in 5 years I won’t think so, but Nvidia will soon
after that come out with 1024 MB of DRR video RAM. And my BRAIN will
just MELT in AWE! 512 MB will let you play DOOM 3 and Half-life 2, very
graphically demanding games, at 1600/1200 res with 4x anti-analyzing.
That will definitely out class anything Sony or Microsoft are coming
out with next year. For the price of a Playstation 3 ($350 US) you can
own a high performance videocard that will make anything look better on
PC. That’s amazing. What’s also amazing is that consoles still make
money off their games and not their graphics. And you know what? I
switched from my Dreamcast out performing my computer to my computer
out performing my Xbox so I don’t know. Of course, Bill Gates owns all
the PCs in the world and, a console.
Guess what….I was watching The Screen Savers, and there is finally a
way to have PC software run on Xbox only if your Xbox is modded
properly. Xbox is has a cut down version of Windows 2000 on it so it’s
possible to MOD it and put in a 40 gigabyte hard drive to run PC games.
But you know what…Microsoft is the least experienced. Although Halo,
Dungeon Siege, Project Gotham and Flight Simulator 2004 are very good,
Microsoft hasn’t got what Sony has and that is 3rd party support. Also
hackers have found a way to even put games on hard drives so that the
games have no loading times. Of course, every mod chip lets you play
“backups” of your games. Mod chips for Xbox range from 30 dollars to
100 dollars. I want to get my Xbox soldiered, but I don’t know who to
ask, how much it’ll cost, or which website sells them. I am thinking
that I should wait for PS3 to come out so that mod chips will come out
for it, and I’ll be able to legally back up my PS2 games and PS3 games
and play them. I have 33 PS2 games, just ask Bob. And how about the new
40 GIGABYTE PS2 hard drive released by Sony this month? I just had to
minion it today. You literally can’t fill that space up with game
saves. After FFXI is loaded (6GB) you can save approximately 113333.3
300 KB game saves. Compress them with your Gameshark at 50%, than you
talking about 226666.6 150 KB game saves. That’s insane. You just can’t
save that many games. I was dumb founded when I found out I can backup
your memory card data on it. Final Fantasy XI is preloaded on it, and
that takes up six Gigabytes of the 40. You can also back up WAV files
on it, but no games support music unlike all Xbox games. I’m going to
ask bob if he can give up his network adapter for a free memory card so
I can buy the hard drive and use it on mine. I have 1 memory card
that’s 85% full, and that’s with all my game saves. I want a PS2 hard
drive so I don’t have to override a game save in my life. Wouldn’t that
be just awesome! I even have the 100 bucks for the harddrive on hand. I
hate it how Sony bundled FFXI with it. I would never use it. Sony says
the game’s free, but I think Sony is lying. This is why I think so,
they preload FFXI on it so they can charge you 14 bucks a month to play
it. I remember a time period when Sega allowed you to play Phantasy
Star Online, plus Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena for free on the
Dreamcast from 2000 + using your own ISP. I booted PSO v1 on my
Dreamcast in August 2003 and I got a server down message. I hear the
servers are still up with UT and Quake 3 so you can still find servers
on the Dreamcast. Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year will allow
Dreamcast gamers play on the same servers as PCs. One reason could be
that Dreamcast runs Windows operating system too. In fact there is a
logo on my Dreamcast at home that says Microsoft Windows CE. When PSO
was re-released on Gamecube and Xbox, Sega now charges for Gamecube and
the Xbox version is apart of Xbox Live. At least the Gamecube version
allows you to play over a modem. I bought the Gamecube modem 2 years
ago because I thought the PSO online subscription was free like it was
for Dreamcast. Unfortunately not any more. If Xbox allowed free
Internet access, I think that would make a big difference in Xbox
sales. Perhaps when Xbox 2 comes out, Microsoft may just make Internet
access on Xbox free. It would make a lot of sense to do so.
I ended up spending 40 bucks on Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for
Gamecube at Wal-Mart this morning. MGS: TS has been developed by
Silicon Knights (developer of Eternal Darkness and Legacy of Kain) and
Konami. I found out it has the MGS 1 and MGS 2 packaged together into
one game. It looks like it’s graphically superior to Resident Evil and
Metroid Prime. Solid Snake has all the moves he uses in MGS2 at the
beginning of MGS 1. IGN.com rated this game a 9.7 out of 10 or 97%
perfect. I haven’t played MGS 1 or 2 yet. UT2004 got a 9.6 out of 10
rating at IGN.com. It was a 5 page review too. I am not usually into
tactical games, but I recently got into first person shooters for the
3rd time. A new enhancement in The Twin Snakes is you can play this
game in first person 100% of the time if you want too. A review will be
up within a week at this link: http://www.geocities..._metalgearsolid.html
And lastly, my 8X DVD RW came in today. I'm going to install it once I
can figer out how to get the current drive out of my Dell. I'm goign to
have a ball Backing Up DVDs. I have everything, a ESD wrist band and
screw drivers, and I learned to keep my pc plugged into the wall as I
install the drive. I hate to bang around iit though. That could prove
disasterious!
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I
hate to make this any longer, but I found out something very funny if I
could pull it off. See at home, I have this very large traveling
suitcase. I saw this 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 at school. Maybe I could take it
home in the case w/o being seen? But that would be unethical…so I might
as well forget it.
I saw at tigerdirect, I can get a Athlon 64 with motherboard for 350
dollars. The motherboard already runs on the same DDR RAM I already
own. Where am I going to get 300 dollars though? From my parents?
Possibility. Am I going to wait until Christmas to get an Athlon 64 PC
@ 4.2 GHz. I may have to buy another case that’ll fit everything. If it
works I’ll be so happy!
I am going to be serious now. Yesterday night was quite interesting.
About 4 hours ago I went to town to download Counter-Strike and
America’s Army. My ISP is so slow that it makes me ill. In 2004, people
take advantage of their high speed Internet and I have every right to
do what their doing. I drove slow on my way to Dad’s office. He has is
office key on this key chain he keeps in the Grand Cherokee. I just
barrowed it. So I got to his office. I took my Compaq with me since
he’s business computers have company files that I don’t want to get
deleted by a hacker. I hook up the Compaq and I try to connect. I can’t
connect though his T1 line. So I hook up his company computer. I get
connected to AAcommunity.com and I find the 658 MB installer off a
minor link. He’s T1 line only goes 12 KB. I thought it would be 10
times that much. The file would take 12 hours to download. So I go
home. There ends the idea of secretly going to my dad’s work to
download files. On my way home about 10 minutes to midnight, I was
followed by this car with his brights on. O_o So I look in the mirror
and see that he’s riding my butt. I swerve to the left, regain control
though I was driving in the middle of the road most of the time and
slowly. There is deer out. Truth was he was driving so close, I kept
looking at him in the mirror. He must think I was a drunk driving home.
Some reason he lived on my street too. Freaky thing about it is I
haven’t seen anyone on my street for nearly 4 years! Not kidding. After
I hyper ventilated one day and since had experienced 6 hyper
ventilations from 1999 – 2002 in a public environment. I’m much better
now, I can control my hyper ventilations when I’m mad, though I find my
self a bit excited most of the time. Does that mean I’m doing okay?
Course it does. Truth is I don’t care if I never see anyone again on my
street or in my class. To me, he’s and all the other 20 year olds are
old acquaintances. And I’ve been pushed/forced to make new friends
along the way. Yeh I know it sucks. I know sucks is sometimes an
understatement. He knows I’m right about not disturbing anyone out in
the country I use to know. He probably knows I am rarely seen by
anyone.
Today, I am prepared for tomorrow’s LAN party. I got Diablo 2 LOD,
Spellforce, Dungeon Siege, Unreal Tournament 2004, Quake 3, and I might
try Vampire Masquerades just because I’m on an installing frenzy
tonight!
Here are some secrets I found out. Are you listening?
• Spellforce Order of Dawn can be booted on several computers with one
cd. After you start the game, you can eject the cd. If you’re having
problems with game not running, it’s because you have anti-analyzing
on, and that’s bad. I first try the game in Software acceleration
first. Believe it or not, 2 players LAN games wont work cause their
needs to be more then 2 players to play. The 1.11 patch makes the game
much more user friendly fixes lag and crash bugs too. Some guy on a
messenger board says it has the Securom 4.88.00.0015.
o He wrote, “Start Alcohol and start the "Image Making Wizard", from
the Data type dropdown select "Securom NEW (4.x/5.x) and read an image
of the disc. Select a slow speed for the DPM measurement.
Once it has finished start the "Image Writing Wizard" and select your
disc image and click Next, Select "Securom New (4.x/5.x)" from the
dropdown again and click Start.
o To turn on the RMPS emulation start Alcohol120 and click Emulation on
the left, in the dialog that opens put a check in the box beside RMPS
emulation and click OK.”
o More information, http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread/t-85772.html
• UT2004, UT2003 work the same way as Spellforce. Take the original
uncopied CD and boot it when you start UT200x and then you can eject
after game is running. You can do this to as many computers as you
want. UT2004 uses securom 5.0 an burning option in Alcohol 120%. Try
burning UT2004 at 1x to ensure best results.
• Knights of the Old Republic can be installed on several computers and booted off one cd.
• Dungeon Siege can be copied with Alcohol 120% though you may want to
copy your friends game since LAN games detect your game’s ID so you
can’t play it twice.
• Diablo 2 can not be copied cause it has way to many errors. Though
you can install Diablo 2 on several computers then make sure you have
several copies of LOD handy. I have both 1.09d and 1.10. 1.10 is so fun
and challenging that I will never go back to 1.09d. Maybe you can find
a list off the Internet on how to copy LOD disc with Alcohol 120%.
• Unreal Tournament can run on your hard drive in multiplayer without CD. It can also be copied with Alcohol 120%
• Most games can be copied though remember to keep the original factory date or you're screwed. The game
detects this when it’s in your drive. Alcohol 120%, Nero 5x or CloneCD
will not do this automatically. You must go into Options and set this
yourself.
• Clonny XXL will tell you what copy protection your game has.
• Afterdawn.com is a great reference site for these kind of things.
This concludes my small FAQ on some games running in LAN and the ability to make backups of them.
On another note, yesterday I went to school and started a download on
America’s Army: Operations 2.0A. No one was there except for a pesky
janitor, and lucky I found a room open. AA downloaded at 25 KB/sec
which is good enough for me. I am hoping that someone doesn’t ask about
the minimized download screen on Monday. I want to own Ghost Recon for
PC, though I am still having fun with the games I have. To ensure no
one deletes it before I can upload it, I’m going back on Sunday. I had
to leave because the janitor was rushing me. O_o All I have to do is
take my MP3 player and upload it to that. I was also planning to
download Counter-Strike 1.5, so what if you can buy it in stores for 20
dollars. I am unsure about it because I don’t play Half-life much. But
then why does this mod attract so many gamers. It's cool, I know that
part. I find it more fun buying games though. You get what you pay for
the most part in my opinion. I might download it Sunday so I can get it
Monday. I hear this rumor that Counter-Strike 2 v1.0 is a game option
in Half-life 2. The mod team is working closely with Valve Software on
this. Hmmm, goodie!
I’m Going to play Dungeon Siege now and Diablo 2 now. DS requires a lot
of bandwidth so it makes it impossible to play over modem. I updated my
webpage so it looks pretty slick now, more so than before. For all your
viewers I’ll add whats above to this link
http://www.geocities.com/nightwalkers101/gamecopy.html for easy
reference. Remember it’s just as simple to go to Afterdawn.com and find
a post that will tell you what decoder to use.
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Just
as I was in the middle of writing this message I saved my mom’s life
today by calling 911!!! I won’t get into the details since that will be
rude.
Jolly good people! And good morning, I have now brought you in my final
chapter of Spring Break 2004. Bob went to Arizona last week &
probably on vacation. He’s back now. I didn’t speak to him.
David came over 2 days ago. He’s my cousin that I never see. I
downloaded 45 GB from his hard drive via his USB connection. He had 53
feature length movies, 20 Family Guys, 14 Space Ghost Coast to Coasts
(not all full episodes), MASH, CSI, and Simpsons. And an astonishing
2.5 GIGS of country music videos. He’s big on country. Each video
averaged 40 MB. David works on helicopters mechanical aspects not
electrical. David was good at playing Mario Kart Double Dash to my
surprise! I burned 16 movies to CD already. We were trying to figure
out how to network my computers. Both network cards looked good so it
didn’t make sense to me how they were not commutating. My hub was
hooked up too. O-well. It would have been fun. He doesn’t want to go
anywhere or play any of the console game I want him to play.
And trance was playing at Walmart in the electronic’s section. I was
freaking out because the song playing was ATB – Don’t Stop or was it
Paul Van Dyk – Another Way? I listen to that song a lot and Walmart
never showcased any trance track from what I know of. They’re trying to
play trance Best Buy too. Best Buy was playing ahahahah remix from
Zombie Nation. Stranger then Britney Spears, I tell yeah! American’s
historically strayed away from it.
I have tried out Spellforce. IGN.com was absolutely right about it.
Whenever you change your videocard settings to 2x anti analyzing, it
will freeze. Well it looks like I’ll be playing Neverwinter Nights
until Dungeon Siege 2 comesHowever, I got software acceleration and it
played but had a terrible frame rate. Originally, I got spellforce
because it had some half naked women on it, looked better than
Neverwinter Nights, and the multiplayer is free. Now I’ll set back and
name all the games that make you pay: Everquest, Final Fantasy XI,
Horizons, and Anarchy Online. I hate to pay more for my games!!!!! I
will someday because everyone’s doing it now-a-days.
I got Anarchy Online: Shadowlands for 20 bucks. Anarchy Online is the
2001 RPG of the Year by PC Gamer. At the time it was the best looking
role playing game available for PC. It’s a space RPG set 200,000 years
in the future. I read on the box that it included full versions of
Anarchy Online, Notum Wars booster pack. Though I wasn’t thinking
because on the bottom left corner it says, “Internet Connection
Required. Additional online fees per month.” That sucks!
While I was in the Woodbury, MN, I got Redhat Professional Workstation,
it came out after Redhat Linux 9.0. I think the $110 Operating System
will help in school because our class uses Redhat 8, and I would get
Redhat’s latest enhancements. I find it interesting that Redhat 8 comes
with the student handbook as a free bonus. I will drop this class
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I had a mid-term today in one
class today. I didn’t have to take it because it’s a snow day! I felt I had to
look on the Internet quick for VI commands and EMACS commands, put them on a
floppy so I can view them at school. It’s as good as note taking because the
teachers will think I was looking at the man pages. Linux is interesting, it is
the only OS that can fit on a CD and run off it.
Bob and I want to get
together. He’s been taking the day off too. So this morning I’ve been watching
Bridge to Far DVD on one PC while I reinstall Windows back on one of my PCs.
It’s a timely process. Somehow I managed to delete hardware acceleration files,
Direct X 8.1 if you get specific. My OS was kinda messed up for a while there. I
blame it all on Microsoft. The installation cd should have fixed my problem, and
it did absolutely nothing! Like I said before, I know how to install Windows XP
in my sleep so I didn’t get that mad.
I was thinking of bringing two
computers over to Bobs so we can play Unreal Tournament (the first one)
together. If I bring my 3rd PC, maybe it’ll be a 3 person LAN game. It’s funny
though, I have a CAT V NIC on all my computers, and my HUB is only a CAT 4. It’s
nothing really, I just loose 90 MB of bandwidth. Dad should have given me a
router instead. He said it was his unused hub from work. CAT IV Hubs should be
adequate for playing Unreal Tournament or Neverwinter Nights over a server for
now. I’m also bringing over Quake 3 Arena because I know Bob has a copy. I have
waited 6 months to have a LAN party. I am waiting to kick Bob’s butt at Unreal
Tournament later today.
I found a used copy of Final Fantasy Crystal
Chronicles at the game store. I got it for a modest 35 dollars instead of a full
50. So I was playing it for 3 hours yesterday. Everything looks better than
Final Fantasy X, which is amazing to me. Now, I technically have all the Final
Fantasy games except for Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy Adventure and
Final Fantasy Legend 1 and 2 (Secret of Mana for Game Boy.) I want to bring over
Gamecube so we can play that game in multiplayer, that is if he doesn’t want a
LAN party. I am also planning to bring over Midnight Club 2 and Winning Eleven
6. Bob told me Midnight Club was one of his favorite games.
This just
in, I didn't have a LAN party today. It's a disappointment, but we got 5 inches
of snow fall.
On the second part of my blog I realized that there are
going to be a dozen RPGs coming out in 2004. Of course Gas Powered Games is
releasing Dungeon Siege II [ http://dungeonsiegeii.com/ ] Dungeon Siege will be
upgraded to graphics that par up with World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XI if
not better. Dungeon Siege, is not your average game because it is a hack and
slash title like Diablo in a 3D engine. It looked pretty good in 2001. Dungeon
Siege 2 will have the same features, hopefully an improved multiplayer
experience. Dungeon Siege was horrible to be played online, ran very slow.
I’m skipping Everquest 2 and World of Warcraft because I can never
afford the online subscription. So this leads me to Ultima X Online. It’s been 4
years since Orgin Systems released an Ultima game. Ultima IX was released in
1999. Ultima IX was like Raven (Myst 2) with the exact same graphics, gameplay
and a lot more bugs. Ultima IX was reviewed at IGN.com, and it was not your
Neverwinter Nights. Sadly, it was below average. Although it made Ultima 3D.
I’ve never played IX. Ultima X is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing
Game, with graphics as good as Lineage II and Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind. It
may even be good, and without bugs! Go to this website to read about it and
judge for yourself. [ www.uxo.ea.com/intro.html ] I’m kind of excited for it.
Here are some screenshots from the game. Looks original? I hope it plays as good
as it looks :)
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Hi everyone, it is I, the
great writer of Modblog. Bahahahahah! If I get Direct-way connection, I will
burn the episodes / movies such as Family Guy, maybe some anime to DVDR. That is
if my parents can afford it. We live out in the country so DSL and cable isn't
avaliable, and will never be avaliable to us.
Don't you hate getting
bandwidth used up by ads? Maybe it's because a Trojan Horse got inside your PC?
To be exact the JS Seeker Trojan Horse. I got attacked yesterday. To prevent
this you need to delete updater12.js in your windows directory, it's infected!
You too can do this easily by going into DOS and typing in "del /f /p
updater12.js" at the underscore. If you're don't have the virus, dos should say
that updater12.js was not found. If it gives you bs saying the file was found,
but couldn't be accessed, type attrib +r +a +s + h updater12.js than del /f
updater12.js.
I have a favorite software / worst software survey at this
link [ http://www.geocities...orstprogramlist.html ] Remember to hold
down SHIFT to open a new window. It explains my most used programs, and the
worst programs I downloaded! I mean performance effecting software.
I
also updated my Squaresoft Webpage [http://www.geocities...01/square_index.html] Added a Final
Fantasy X-2 review, added character bios to Final Fantasy 10, posted a exclusive
desktop wallpaper made by me, and wrote a History of Squaresoft page under the
Information tab.
I love my new pc, it is very fast. Multi-tasking is not
a issue no more. I love it! Dad didn't put in a DVD RW in my Dell so I'm going
to get one any ways. Than that way I'll have two DVDRWs for double the cd
burning. It's good because than I use the DVD/CDRW with my other Compaq. This
makes me want software called DVD Copy X. It's illegal to have now, it was just
banned from all .com stores. The movies that you extract to your harddrive take
up a whopping 8 Gigabytes! It's better to download compressed video off the
Internet. It annoys me to reinstall the operating system when the harddisk gets
90% full. I am a expert at reinstalling Windows, really I am. I know everything
there is to know about installing Windows. I generally load stuff as I need it,
not all at once.
Till next time Sahara, adios readers!
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This is my Doom 3 update.
There are a lot of sources off Google so this will be brief. Doom 3 is going to
use bump mapping and sound data, shadows loaded with the pixels itself. Doom 3
will use 20 texture passes per second. This new technique is invented by ID
Software. The game will be hugely polygon based. As many as 10,000 polygons on
objects with their own bump map lighting. The games characters, bots will be
bump mapped as well. I'm guessing that the textures will be 128-bit instead of
64-bit because I saw the screen shots, and they look beyond that of Half-life 2.
The extra 64-bits will add more color, shadow, depth, a sharpness. Doom 3 will
have lighting created in the game engine, and there will be no lighting effects
or shadows loading with the map. For the first time ever, moving objects can
also have shadows. ID software sounds like they'll be requiring a Pentium 4 2.0
Gigahertz PC with 256 MB of RAM, and a 128 MB graphics card to play Doom 3 at
800x600 at a good framerate. Doom 3 was presented at QuakeCON 2K3 powered by
128MB and 256MB Geforce and Radeons. Doom 3 will need triple much power as
Neverwinter Nights because of the polygons. I don't want to blow your guy's
brain so go to http://www.doomworld.com/doom3/ for a complete faq.
I
know some of you loved Goldeneye, I know I have. I found out a stand alone game
that will have the complete Goldeneye single player, and multiplayer running in
high res on your PC. It looks like Wolfenstine. Found at http://goldeneye.new...m.com/download.shtml.
Otherwise, many of you may know, but there is also a Goldeneye port for
Half-life avaliable at http://www.3ddownloa...elefragged/goldeneye I have the 1.11
patch, but this game will work with any patch dated after June 2000. Goldeneye 2
was just announced by EA Games this week, and it will be multi-platform. No news
whether or not it will be developed for PC.
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I met this guy from about a
year ago on Diablo 2. We talk to each other, he's xwanyecoltx, and he is the top
reviewer at newgrounds.com, a community full of flash movies. I usually don't go
there often. I did yesterday, and really looked at it. I took my main interest
Final Fantasy, and looked at some flash movies. Most of them are based on Final
Fantasy 3. I like the Final Fantasy Trilogy. The cat scene was somewhat funny.
The graphics are good, it's above and beyond me. Most of these designers have
websites that are done in flash. I was trying to learn how to work in Macromedia
Flash MX. I can move images around, but I can't do the effects. LOL! I'm no
expert for sure! The zooming, the special effects with slash, the timing. I'm
another notice at RPG developing. When I heard from him that I can use
javascript for some of my effects, I felt better. I have the premiere software
to work with, and I can't do a d*mn thing with it. XwanynecoltX got me
interested in making flash.
I decided to put Cloud's Adventure on hold.
If fact I don't even care for it. I can't find the correct number of characters
that'll I'll need in the game. Sure, I have experience in making maps in Dungeon
Siege, Neverwinter Nights, Unreal Tournament, and UT2003. I never worked with
Milkshape or UT character editor to make models. I have attempted to transfer a
UT2003 model to Neverwinter Nights using a add-on for NWN Design Studio. I have
one map online <http://www.pressente...~scampbel/nwnmod.exe> I find that
I'll have more fun creating NWN mods than anything else. UT2003 maps make no
since to me, you develop the map, and you set start points, a couple weapon
locations and debug. It's a first person shooter, you you frag people in a
violent gory way for hours. I've been guilty in this way because I use to be a
fps fanatic myself. I liked gory fps for a while. I agree MMORPGS, especially
Neverwinter Nights, are more popular (and my favorite), and a bit more sane.
Since then I have become a bit more sane. I did ask my parents about playing
Final Fantasy XI online this week, and the answer is still no. I really want to
play that game even if it costed 12 dollars a month. That's 144 dollars a year.
I wish there was a offline mod for FFXI. I dunno maybe I'll play UT2003 online
again with the lad lagacy. Lagacy is much better in NWN, but you never know,
maybe the newer patches in UT2003 affect the frame rate?
Speaking of
which, I was looking information on both Doom III and Half-life 2, and no new
information is avaliable. There is very little known facts on the 'source
engine' and what Half-life 2 map editor will use or if the rumor porting older
Half-life models into Half-life 2 is true. The game will look great in 1600/1200
at 4 layers of anti-ayalasing with all effects on. Maybe it'll support 2000/1600
high res. It's rather pointless because graphics quality won't be that improved.
Right now PCs haven't able to work well at that high of resolution. Most people
now should at least be able to run at 1200/768 on their current machines. More
than half of pc gamers (from a toll on Gamefaqs.com) have bought a new computer
since 2001. That's nice. I know in 5 years we'll look back on today's games, and
say how low resolution they look. I knew we said that about Unreal Tournament.
It was in 1999 that UT was a huge game and state of the art graphics. I remember
in 2000, I downloaded 200 maps in total off FileShack.com before they made you
pay for their servers accessablity. I use to play the maps in deathmatch. Some
worked some didn't, some made my computer crash. On the bigger maps, it wasn't
uncommon for me to reset my resolution to 800/600 just to play the map at 30
frames a second. Not today, my computer is 10x more powerful than 5 years ago.
[ I messed up in this section. I have a Radeon 9800 in my Dell Deminsion
XPS. A XFX Geforce 5600 in my custom-built pc ,and a XFX Geforce 5200 in my
compaq which replaced my older Radeon 7000 ]
The Unreal Tournament 2004
demo is out now and the game is coming to stores on March 18th. It seems not
long ago Unreal 2 was released. And I was kind-of hyped about getting that game
because of the class A gameplay. It's okay, but not as fun as Unreal Tournament.
If you like a story based first person shooter, this would be the game for you.
Unreal 2 has deathmatch but I never once played it. My guess it's exactly like
UT2003, but UT2003 is such a revolutionary first person shooter like the first.
I got half way through it 1 month ago than stopped for whatever reason. Unreal 2
has been out nearly a year already. I know Bob was thinking of owning it. Why
have him buy it when I can just give him a copy? The UT2004 demo is out, and of
course with my connection, I haven't downloaded it. Rumor is that it'll play UT
2003 levels because both games use the same physics engine. UT 2004 features
vehicles simular to WARTHOG in Halo. It's optimized using the ATI Radeon 9800
GPU. I own both a 256 MB Geforce 4 5600 Ti and ATI Radeon 9800. I recently
installed the Geforce 4 5200 128 MB GPU in my Compaq (given to me 3 years ago in
2001). For months I thought it wouldn't work because I thought my Compaq was
using a 4X AGP slot instead of the 8x AGP slot required to use the card. It
never accured until now that my Geforce 4 works because it's backward compatible
with 4x slots. I confused me because i stuck it in yesterday, and it worked.
Before I had a XFX Radeon 7000 64MB GPU because that worked.
UT 2004
sounds like it will have space aged weapon optimized spacecraft so that in
assault you can dog fight with everyone else. Another idea taking straight out
of Star Wars: Rogue Squadron.
One game that would be nice to have on my
computer (from 1998) is the XGRacing 2 released on the PC in 1998 by Acclaim. It
is a fast paced game featuring futuristic cycles racing on a track. I known the
game for N64. And while it didn't get great reviews, I thought it was cool. The
graphics were better then Xtreme G (1997 Acclaim) although the game play in XG2
was a bit worse. It was a Christmas present that year. The first game looked
good considering it was a early N64 racing title. It was like Tron, but was much
improved. The forth game released multi-platform called XGRA (Extreme-G Racing
Association) is like Xtreme G 3. (I own XG3 for Gamecube) I read the reviews off
IGN.com and they said the game had some errors, but what's interesting is the
game itself at a 6 page developer interview at IGN.com. It got a 7.5 at IGN.com,
and 7.8 at Gamespot.com. I read both reviews, and it seemed like Acclaim was
trying to make this title a worthy sequel with harder AI, more vehicles, and
tracks. I read the review and IGN.com said it was too customizable for it's own
good and made the controls too unbalance making it a more difficult game any
ways and less fun. If the gameplay was more balanced, the game may of been
considered one of the better racers for any console. I want it for PC, and
instead Acclaim made this title console exclusive. If I see this game for
Gamecube/Xbox I'll buy it at an used price, therefore I save money. I already
own other futuristic racers like FZero GX.
I haven't had time to play
Knights of the Old Republic lately. KOTOR is a great game with state-of-the-art
graphics Right now I am in Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark because
it's online. I'm going to play it after I finish writing this entry.
This is Ian signing off once again. Tune in 5 days from now to read my
next review in my saga. Mean while, visit my webpage.
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I've been found. A high
profile virus hit one of my computers today. I kinda thought I was invisible
because i had antivirus software. Anti Virus software can't do a d*mn if you
can't get too it. I wouldof lost a lot of valuable website templates and
graphics if I didn't have Linux on board. I could transfer my webpage files to a
thumb stick! The computer was really slow. I had the command prompt working and
the virus didn't let me open any executables including Norton Antivirus. This
got me mad, I even swore out load. Don't feel bad Bob! Bob had the same problem
- maybe's it's the same virus? I could oof gotten it when downloading Gaim,
although I don't see how Gaim could have a Trojan Horse. I dunno.
I got out
today, went to Target, and bought a CD restorer. It gets rid of scratches on
cds. It was 50 dollars. I had a couple Dreamcast games that didn't work so I
used it to restore them, than there was this cd that I use on my computer a lot
filled with pictures that I wanted restored. I always take real good care of all
my discs.
Before my PC crashed, I was playing Diablo 2 for the majority
of the afternoon. Diablo 2 is still rocking. Being out going, I was chatting
with other players talking about coming consoles, Final Fantasy, PC specs. I did
a couple bloody runs in act 5. I progressed from act3 to act 5. My amazon is
level 50. I have this unique bow that does a lot of damage in nightmare. Hell's
suppose to be more like Hell with the new patch. I remember dominating hell with
amazons when I was really into the game. The hard part was trying to convense
someone to give up high hp armor. I suppose that's true with everyone. ACT 4 was
always the hardest level for Zons because the enemies near Diablo's sancenary
can out number you easily. Duriel was also a very difficult, and timely point of
the game.
Chatting with the right person in Diablo 2 is like finding a
needle in a haystack. Most people just want to level up and don't really care
who they party up with as long as it helps their game. Only rarely does a person
really listen to your conversations. It feels like your talking to a brick wall
sometimes when you're ignored. It helps when you know a lot about the game, and
u know how to avoid getting killed often, even being the hero of the game saving
other player's butt can make them have interest in you. That's the best part
because than you can start asking for things you need, and half the time it
works. Unless when it's really hard to find, then it's finders keepers. I
learned that when I started playing the game 3 years ago.
Here are my
favorite songs. Trance is my favorite genre at the moment:
1.) Trance -
ATB and Paul Van Dyke rave mix - DJ Special K.mp3
2.) ATB-
Sunscreen.mp3
3.) Cybernetik - Hardkore Reflektions.mp3
4.) Techno - ATB -
Kaycee - Escape 2000 (New Club Mix).mp3
5.) paul van dyk - another
way.mp3
6.) Mauro Picotto - Komodo (Megavoices Mix).mp3
7.) ministry of
sound - rising star touch me.mp3
8.) Paul van Dyk - For An Angel.mp3
9.)
DJ Sasha & John Digweed - Enjoy The Silence.mp3
10.) sasha and john
digweed - age of love (trance dub & fantasy mix).mp3
11.) paul van dyk -
forbidden fruit
12.) Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation ( ohohoh
remix).mp3
13.) Psychobabble - Sirens of
Trance.mp3
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