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Considering what IGN, Gamespot & others says about the game, you might just consider youself lucky that the game crashes and thereby only let you waste your money and not more of your precious time. A couple of gameratings: http://www.gamestats.com/objects/481/481341//articles.html I learned my lesson a long time ago with a game called Deathtrap Dungeon :">

I *think* this is the one: http://pc.ign.com/objects/481/481341.html And people wonder why no-cd cracks are so popular

Didn't some of that old software come on floppy disks? It could have refused to install if the disk had had it's read/write tap covered (i.e. read-only). Just guessing though, never had a MS Works.

(w00t) ahem :"> just a bit impatient :-" Looks like it's going to be finished "soon"

What can I say. Never cared much for danish politics. Only ever voted once (a personal vote for Kirsten Jacobsen). Apart from that, the only thing I took part in were the EU referendums, which I took great pleasure in voting 'No' to everything

Just a theory... After the somewhat slow paced Peragus, it needed something with a little action. Stage left, the mini games. Pazaak is out of the question at this stage, as well as swoop racing. That leaves the turret game. Since a shoot out, OK Corral style in space is unlikely to leave any survivors, considering the nature of Peragus and it's satellites (Sp?), they went for some nice safe indoor duck shooting It doesn't make sense from anything but a pacing perspective really (or I've missed something completely). I didn't really like turret games, but it was nice with something else after endless metallic corridors fighting unchallenging mining droids. Edited to add: It could be rationalised, that Sion brought cloaked assassins onboard and once the original crew was killed off, he picked up grunts as reinforcements somewhere along the way. They might also be spearheading an assault on Peragus and saving his precious assassins for more suitable tasks. All guesswork though

:cool: xbox or PC Version? If the latter, you might want to try out the mod that removes the turret mini game from non essential parts of the game

You'll find wisdom and experience are correlated Alanschu regained a memory of past Windows installations: +100 Exp points.

Forget the townhall Oerwinde. You need a two chamber senate. One chamber for the peasantry to give them the perception of influence and one for the nobility, just to keep them out of your hair. Your bandit leader can always play them out against each other. Also, you would need water mills, lumber mills etc. to increase your income for your village, not to mention a harbour for improved trade with other bandits. oh, and also, you might want to consider an arena where dissidents and malcontents can participate in unarmed combat against ravenous monsters. It improves morale tremendously (w00t) All for the benefit of the people of Oerwindia of course

When I started on Windows programming, I think I got my basic Windows familiarity from a series of books from Sams, called Visual Basic in 21 Days or so. Unfortunately, I don't have it anymore, so I can't give exact references to it, but I do remember it as being quite "gentle" on people starting out with Windows applications. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a C++ book in the same series.

True. Although, a hobby is sort of supposed to be something you are passionate about, otherwise you wouldn't do it of your own volition. But then, in hindsight, the same could possibly be said about work and relationships. It's all about priorities and the time/energy available for your various pusuits I guess.

Somebody must have missed the message...

My list would look something like this ESB Cinematic version Star Wars Cinematic version ROTJ Cinematic version ESB Digitally mutilated version ANH Digitally mutilated version ROTJ Digitally mutilated version None None None None None None None None ROTS AOTC TPM

Reminds me a bit of my time at the university. One of the projects we had to do was develop our own programming language and environment. The one our team did was a "concurrent" language that would spread itself out on the network on a number of computers, all contributing their calculation power to the task at hand. Nothing like 30+ risc processors at your disposal. That exercise also showed us, as we had demonstrate the usability of such conucrrent processing, that there are tasks well suited for it and a lot that aren't. Our wave model simulation was quite impressive , but that one was mostly a lot of computations on arrays. I'm not sure Freecell would benefit to the same degree. It does require some work to design your tasks, determine dependencies, ensuring consistent transactions, you name it. It's fun, but it can be hard to do if you are used to sequential thinking. Oh, and debugging *was* a pain in the butt btw. I'll give them that.

http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=44231 That would be about the time Vista is apropriately stable anyway :-" Edit: Speaking of speed and Vista. Also from The Inquirer: Notice the last line

What happened to your installation cd ? The file is most likely copyrighted and will get people into no end of trouble if they were to offer it to you. Just reinstall the game (backup your saved games first if you have any you want to keep).

Ok, ok... A nice big castle would look good there

Congratulations I guess it's pretty pointless interrogating it and asking it where it has been? Or how many lives it has left? I love cats

Perhaps it is a farm cooperative? A castle might just be a tad too big and imposing for such an idyllic landscape. Maybe a house, bigger and more extravagant for the local mayor/lord/magistrate/whatever?

You might get into a lot of trouble if you condition it with darwinistic tendencies before hitting the "On" switch... It might decide that it is a superior being and need to ensure it's own survival against other threats

You don't expect people to remember everything you said with a postcount of 11,673+... do you?

:(" Lets see... 1) Definitely 2) Definitely 3) :"> 4) :ph34r: I suck at math, yet I've been able to make a living as a developer anyway. Regarding 3 & 4, I've found that being creative and having a vivid imagination can often make up for lack of discipline and math skills. Something I look for when recruiting new developers. Even better if you have a burning passion for something besides the development skills, like AI, Math, Physics, Image processing, games design etc. Something to apply your developer skills to. @Blank: Tough question. You say, you can commit to this about as much as it being a hobby. That sort of rules out a few things. Considering the place you are posting, it is a safe bet that you have an interest in games ? One possible starting point, just to get acquainted (Sp?) with basic programming paradigms (like starting to thing in decisions, branches, repetitions, algorithms in general), is to pick a game with a decent scripting language. Could be c-robots, could be Neverwinter Nights, whatever you prefer and sit down and write simple scripts. The "secret" behind programming is the way you think, analyse and model your world within the structures of the language you are working with. If you have a natural flair for languages, even better. A computer language is not that different from a spoken language when you have describe a something with the available vocabulary