So what you're saying is that we're getting an all new OS, and the only difference is that it looks better? 

Gonna shell the money to have squandered media rights? 

Vigil - I haven't got a clue what's under the bonnet but that has never stopped me admiring body styling :-)

Phait - any existing media works fine, and don't worry, Microsoft doesn't control the world. As for the future... que sera sera!

By the way, as I said earlier, Vista is free until June 2007. So I will continue to play with it before I decide anything other than I like the way it looks. Be serious, if the man down the car lot says that I can use that brand new Merc, BMW, Jaguar (whatever) for 12 months before I decide to buy it, I gonna take up the offer and leave my four year old Honda in the garage. There are no strings attached. 

No, Vista will still play your pirate MP3 files as well as your DIVX/XVID. Don't believe everything you read on Slashdot. By the way, "squandered media rights" is something that can be used to describe a system without DRM, because on such a system you can only play DRM-free content. A system/OS supporting DRM actually allows you to play more content as it can play both free and DRM'ed content. 

DONT SELL OUT TO THE MAN

THE RETIRED MAN I MEAN 

Greetings from Japan, suckers! Iwakuni's been nice, flying to Okinawa tomorrow 8=) 

I sent you a demo 10 days ago (with some delay I know... :P ...), and you didn't reply.
Do you have issues with you mailbox ? 

I expect some mappage by the time I return :) 

please check your email 

it's loading really fast. 

check your email too 

Did so today, but I'm quite busy just now. What you were asking will be done by the weekend though. Got a few other ideas to throw your way too. 

 

That's like, tomorrow at god knows when for me. maybe by lunchtime! :) 

I needed to convert a few hundred .obj files to 3ds, and I stumbled on this on my Google inquiry --

http://mirex.mypage.sk/index.php?selected=1

scroll down to Biturn -- I had the conversion done in several seconds. Saved a load of time. Sweet Jesus, it's a mitzvah. 

...no! Hints incoming. 

Just got done playing the sp demo -- what fun! It runs better on my comp than Q4! Can't wait to get my greedy little paws on the full version. I'll want to try out MultiPrey tonight, and see how much fun that is. 

And it was excellent.
The bar scene was awesome, and the gravity fuckery? Completely disorienting! 

For some reason I click on my GS_Prey_Demo.exe and nothing happens. So I have to try Fileplanet. I hate you GameS4wk. 

Prey looks like it's going to be great fun. Gravity, portals etc. really do add quite a lot to the experience and performance is good. On the down side the lead character is a whiney little bitch with a penchant for constantly stating the obvious, and really needs to shut the fuck up. Enemy AI seems OK but nothing spectacular. Environments were nice with the whole organic spaceship thing rather well done.

The multiplayer is not as good as the SP, it seems really gimmicky and random.

Overall it was a great experience though, I'll definitely be buying it. Anyone know anything about this download service they're selling it through? Is it as fair, equitable and portable as Steam or a load of old hardware locked shite? If it's cheaper I'd rather get a download version than boxed.

Zwiffle: A couple of ideas spring to mind. First, there may be some shit in your windows temp folder that's fouling it up (like some sort of leftover install log that matches the profile of Prey's and says "yup, I've finished installing this") so delete all that crap and try again. Second, it might be some sort of protected installer fuckery, so if you have any any virtual drives etc. disable them then try installing again. 

I see you figured it out... or maybe just downloaded again. 

first from Gamespy. That's the one that didn't work. Then I deleted that one and downloaded from Fileplanet - which I like - and that one worked splendidly. Also downloaded a million times faster than Gamespy's. Thx though. 

 

Gamespot != Gamespy 

They either do their own thing, or pass it on to FileFront -- they rock.