In 1986 New World Computing published the first game in the Might and Magic series: Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum. The original Apple II version of the game was written almost single-handedly by Jon Van Caneghem over three years. After hooking up with Activision for distribution the game was…
Tag: PC
Gaming From the Past: Pool of Radiance
Back in 1988 SSI released the first in a series of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons computer games. Pool of Radiance was the first of these games and it is the one I’m going to talk about today. It all started in 1985 when TSR saw the success of the Ultima series of computer games and…
The Vista move: Day 1, Easy Transfer
I know many of you are wondering how our first day with Vista went, well, it was not so good. The computers themselves are good and Vista on it’s own looks nice but we needed something done right away; we needed our files. Because we have a 100Mb home network I did not buy the…
The Vista move: Day 2, Where are my Mozilla settings?
Here it is, day two. Last night I let the Transfer Agent run all night long on my laptop yet some of my settings did not transfer over. I am talking about Firefox, the browser I prefer to use. After a little bit of work I manually transfered over my Firefox data and now I’m…
Hasta la VISTA, baby!
This weekend I finally broke down and replaced two of the aging computers in my home. One was my wife’s Athlon 950MHz desktop and the other was my old Celeron 1.33GHz laptop. I replaced hers with a desktop from Acer and mine with a notebook from Compaq. It is amazing how different these two machines…
Microsoft releases Surface, Internet says, “been there, done that.”
No, I did not stay up late just to see Microsoft’s newest offering Surface. I saw it this morning and all I can say is, “didn’t someone else already do this? When you boil it all down Surface is nothing more than a touch screen set into a table top that allows for multiple touches…
Further thoughts on the “Surface”
Now that the news about Microsoft’s new product “Surface” are beginning to surface all over the net I have a few questions that I would like answered. 1. When will the ‘killer app’ be released for this? What killer app? Why there is just one killer app that I am thinking of and that is…
Dell unveils their Ubuntu line up!
>ROUND ROCK, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) today made it official, unveiling three consumer systems — the XPSâ„¢ 410n and Dimensionâ„¢ E520n desktops and the Inspironâ„¢ E1505n notebook — with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distribution factory installed. These new Ubuntu equiped PCs go on sale after 4PM CDT on May 24, 2007. You can check them out…
My first PC
Ms. Q recently reminded me of the very first PC I built from parts. This was back around 1990. The PC was not spectacular by the standards of that day but it was still a ‘good enough’ PC. I even brought that machine with me to Germany while I was in the Army. Prior to…
World’s Smallest USB Thumb Drive?
Today, while cruising my favorite blog, I found out about an amazing piece of technology. A 1GB USB thumb drive that is smaller than your thumb! This thumb drive is made by OCZ Technology and is amazing due to it’s size alone! Because the plug folds into the main housing of the unit it is…