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I am probably going to go through a lot of my old games in short order. Having just installed Vista 64bit, it is time to test all the oldies for compatibility. First game (not an oldie) was NWN2 with MotB and it ran smoothly the 30 minutes that I tried it. One down, 49 to go

So that is what David Braben is doing these days The split between him an Ian Bell was a sad thing.

That should take care of those pesky flying moose...

18 I am really, really, really looking forward to try this one now!

I thought Amiga gaming lost out to PC gaming because Commodore went bankrupt? For years, Commodore drained their Amiga subsidiary of money to keep their PC division afloat, starving the Amiga for any significant technology advances until PC's actually started catching up, at least on the hardware front. As to whether Windows ever will be a good an operating system as the AmigaOS... I am less convinced. The only thing it lacked was proper memory protection (unsupported at the time by the Motorola cpus).

Unless you are playing orks... How often do you roll a total of 7 on six dice in a critical situation?!?

I don't play SW miniature games, but I like collecting and painting miniatures. Any links or pictures?

Not unless you count water cannons...

Partially. I was never too excited about Vista, but I figured it might be a better choice for a brand new machine. I need a new (64bit) OS anyway, since my old 32bit XP pro would be wasted on it (like, using 3 out of 8 gb of ram) Edit: Moot point, bought the full retail version today

Thanks I hope to join the "Post your specs" thread some day soon. The price difference is approx. 250$ vs 450$ (australian, about 0.95 USD per Aussie dollar). Same product, same features. One is tied to your motherboard and can not be used on other computers (once activated), should you decide to relocate your system.

An animated gif that I found many years ago on the web. It's shrunk compared to original size in order to meet size restrictions. I picked it because it sort of matched my member no. (without the way too obvious choice of some little demon/devil/fiend image).

Well, a country that has both System Bolaget and official snooping on your emails and mobile calls to see if you are up to no good, why shouldn't that aspect of their lives be regulated too?

People sometimes use strange words at work, like "Balance Sheet" and "P&L". I never quite figured out what they are, but the people who run those companies seems to be very excited about them

The Tuxedo. I wonder what all the negative fuzz on imdb was about, I found it funny.

I really should be ashamed of myself, decided to buy the cheapest of the cheap, el cheapo gfx card (the less than 50$ kind, but with passive cooling) and borrowed a core 2 duo plus 2gb of ram from a buddy. just so I could get the thing up and running (and so I could see if what I had bought so far actually worked). An old, rickety LG DVD drive that can only read DVD-R is pretending to be the optical drive. Ordered the QX9650, the Corsair TW3X4G1333C9DHX (two of them), and the Sony BWU200S blu-ray writer. The cooling solution I had in mind is out of stock. Call for details Nevermind, that is a problem for another day. I am not going to bother much with cooling until I get the gfx card(s) that I want. The Sapphire 4870 looks very nice at the moment, if not available quite yet. Now, do I get a Vista Ultimate 64bit OEM or Full Retail?...

Normal game time : Germany [0] - Spain [0] Extended time: Germany [1] - Spain [1] Penalties: Germany [3] - Spain [4] For a total of: Germany [4] - Spain [5]

Thanks I think I am going to play this demo quite a bit more over the next couple of nights... I've never heard about these games before

It does look slightly larger than the allowed 125 pixels... about twice the size

I tried the downloadable demo (about 135mb) of X2... very nice Didn't figure out how to re-enter a ship though. I still need to work a bit with the tutorials.

I think I am going to need two of those cards

You mean, there was actually a point in time when I had a better gfx card than YOU?!? (FX5900Ultra) Mind you, I am still using that card at the moment... My very first thread http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?sh...pic=419&hl= Never was a prolific thread creator.

Hey, my highschool celebrated it's 800th anniversary while I went there. It involved a lot of beer

And he was never president of Germany... which was sort of my point

I'll disagree here. BG got low level adventuring down great I thought. Introduced your character, their back story, you were able to discover some of Candlekeep, explore wilderness area's, meet NPC's, adventure to another area either (Beregost, Friendly Arm Inn) random encounters... it took you awhile to advance to 2nd level, I did not mind waiting. I distinctly remember throwing a single magic missile at a bear, and then running in circles with the bugger chasing me while Imoen pelted the stupid bear with arrows. Low level brilliance! That's what you get for attacking bears you fool! Maybe he sold the skin before catching the bear?

I am sure that Germanys president, Vladimir Putin is quivering in his boots at the thought of McCain in The Oval Office