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Re: The end of the road?

Posted on 2014-12-30, 22:10

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My recollection is that Internet-connected XP installs usually die a violent death from malware, or a slow, painful death from registry rot. The nice thing about Linux is that neither of these things is ever an issue. I'll concede that it may be possible to keep XP healthy through hyper-vigilance. …

Re: The end of the road?

Posted on 2014-12-29, 23:34

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Linux works fine for web browsing. It can be a pain to set up though Pain to set up? What pain? Oh come on, anyone who's ever used Linux knows what a pain it can be. Case in point: I tried to connect a Bluetooth speaker to my Xubuntu machine the other day. It took me about an hour of digging …

Re: The end of the road?

Posted on 2014-12-29, 03:38

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Seconded on the image restore thing. Clonezilla works for this as well. Saves a ton of time on Windows 98 installs, which I find are extremely tedious to do from scratch.

Re: The end of the road?

Posted on 2014-12-29, 02:05

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There's no problem with re-activation as long as you aren't doing it daily, and aren't trying to activate the same key on a ton of different machines. AFAIK even if you did do it daily, they won't stop you, they just require you to phone-in to their automated thing vs doing it fully online. As far …

Re: The end of the road?

Posted on 2014-12-28, 19:09

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When you buy a PC like that do you even GET a copy of the OS anymore? Or do you have to send it in when the disk crashes? New machines usually only come with hidden restore partitions. However, Microsoft has made ISOs available that allow you to burn your own Windows 7 installation media (see here …

Re: The end of the road?

Posted on 2014-12-27, 19:28

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The Athlon XP 2400+ is going to be a little pokey on the modern Web no matter what you do. If you want to squeeze a few more years out of the machine, though, the first thing I would do is max out the RAM. 1 GB seems to be the bare minimum for Web browsing these days, but 2 GB will be much better if …

Re: Where to find discontinued gaming cases?

Posted on 2014-12-24, 04:03

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I'm going to replace the included 120mm exhaust fan with one of these guys: Antec 120mm Blue LED 3-Speed Case Cooling Fan Combined with the blue LEDs on the front of the case, that will be about the right level of flash for my taste. This case will be housing the A8N32-SLI Deluxe and AMD FX-57 that …

Re: Where to find discontinued gaming cases?

Posted on 2014-12-24, 02:37

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Well, guys, it's a Christmas miracle... Just received my new in box Antec P160W! :-D I got it for the minimum bid on an eBay auction. Paid about half what the case would have originally cost, so all in all, it was quite an incredible stroke of luck. Here it is with the original box and all the …

Re: Poll: most annoying game controls

Posted on 2014-12-23, 17:33

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Btw, I find Descent 3 controls worse than Descent. There is an option, ON by default, which automatically turns your ship to the closest 90° angle. I struggled a lot with the controls before I found it. You must have a different version of Descent 3... :confused: My preferred control setup is ESDF …

Re: Expendable (by Rage) bump mapping issue

Posted on 2014-12-21, 03:17

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If anyone is still interested, I finally got around to testing the Parhelia in the PIII rig. System: Pentium III 1400S, Matrox Parhelia, Windows XP SP3 (all benchmarks run at 1024x768x32, high settings, trilinear filtering) retail install, no bump mapping, no stencil shadows: 90.7 fps retail install …

Re: Poll: most annoying game controls

Posted on 2014-12-20, 00:18

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Perhaps some of you who claim to like System Shock 's controls could share your technique? I enjoy the game and would like to learn to play it better. It is entirely possible that I have been doing it wrong. I know the game has strafe keys, but I could never figure out a natural way to use them. As …

Re: Poll: most annoying game controls

Posted on 2014-12-19, 07:17

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Gemini000 wrote: From what I've read so far in this thread, I think Maximus meant to title it "Most Annoying Game Controls" There, fixed it 😀 Though I would still argue that Incoming comes close to being literally uncontrollable.

Re: Poll: most annoying game controls

Posted on 2014-12-19, 06:28

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I have a hard time with controls in The Need for Speed. The wheel turns way to slow when doing hard turns (Alpine and Coast track). I thought the keyboard was the problem, but it is the same with joystick and wheel. Have you tried playing with a modern-ish gamepad? My favorite way to play The Need …

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