My first experience with Fallout was with the original PC game way back in 1997 when Interplay released the original game. I still have my spiral bound Vault-Tec manual somewhere in my game room. I have to admit that I was never able to save the Vault. I tried hard to fix the water purifier…
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Mac & PC Gamers Can Finally Play Together
Hi Folks,At long last, the good people at GameRanger have answered the cries of millions and have made it so Mac gamers and PC gamers can finally play games together over the internet. Of course, since Apple’s Bootcamp was launched not too long ago, Intel Mac users have been able to do this more or…
PC Game Review: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
The Witcher was one of those games I paid attention to during its development. Dope graphics, mature storyline, innovative combat system? Color me SOLD! I waited for that game to come out with mucho anticipation. I thought for sure that this game was going to be the roleplaying game of all roleplaying games. Unfortunately, what…
Call of Duty 5 Trailer
Are you ready for this?Call of Duty 4 brought the game into the modern age. Call of Duty 5 takes you back to World War 2 when the entire world was at war.Check out the video clip and check back for more information as I get it.
Gaming From The Past: Might and Magic
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…
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 decided…
Why I hate OEM disks
This weekend I got a call from one of my clients. Her computer was broken and would not boot up. I took a drive over (yes, I do make house calls) and looked the machine over.After turning the machine on it would try to boot into Windows XP, flash a blue screen and reboot. Using…
AMD Appoints Dirk Meyer to Board of Directors
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the appointment of AMD President and Chief Operating Officer Dirk Meyer to the board of directors. Meyer, who was promoted to his current role as President and COO in January 2006, continues to share leadership and management duties of AMD with Chairman of the Board and CEO Hector…
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 to…
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 using…
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 this PC…