2 cd drives is always cool for multi cd. play something and have the music. oh, wait. on a slow comp put the music cd in your hi-fi system. sorry... didnt mean to hurt your feelings....

in my celeron 500 in italy 2 cd and cdr drives conflicted (even when changing slave/master bla bla). it just used to crash once in 3 times. the cdr is a LG, so i't better than the original drive at READING cds so i just used the other in another pc (no, i dont have 6 pc. just my dad has an old one. 

new discussion topics posts have to be given the go ahead by the admin. how organized. it's a useful tool anyway...

i await in despair...no wait, that should read patiently 

Fatty, what is it you're trying to get, since I could do videos of your maps and upload them for you if you want.

If it's just CD burning I'm less help :) 

what are you talking about? 

Im looking to buy a graphics card for my PC, at the moment I have a GF4mx 64mb card, which is pretty crappy.

I'm looking to spend roughly �140, what would you recommend, GeForce ti 4200 128mb or a Radeon alternative?

Which is best for games? 

radeon has some problems with older games but it is faster. So if you're mostly into newer stuff, go the radeon. 

maybe clicking on the thread name show all new posts rather than all of them. I think the old qmap did this? 

The company's actually still in startup mode. Currently, they're thinking of doing simple web-based games, in order to establish themselves, before moving along to more ambitious stuff.

"What's this? An investment banker, an ad-man and an ex-US Ranger? Can't you read? No posing fer jokes this side on even dates!"

Looks like I now have to mull it over, recover from their hospitality, and let them know if I'm still game. The bastards got their hooks into me, so...

(No, seriously, it does, doesn't it? "There was this banker, an ad-man and an ex-Ranger..." 

Ask me in a week or 3, just installed Radeon 9000 pro ~$140 in the old can but ended up with problems in both hig res. Quake and OpenGl gaming. I guess its fixable but its a an aditional pain in my already sore as right now.. 

I've already decided now, I'm gunna get the Geforce4 ti 4200 128mb with goldensample. It's by Gainward and it's only �139.99 

Is anyone else having problems connecting to any GameSpy site? (fileplanet, planetquake, planethalflife, etc...) 

Been having trouble with Q3W for several hours. Just tried PQ out of curiosity and got the same thing.

Several unrelated sites seem to be out too e.g. BBC News, so it may be some sort of massive DNS cock up. 

http://65.61.157.176/ Console #4!??

Believe it or not, someone is going for it....Check this one out as it is rather interesting....compared to the rest of the console systems.. 

The most hilarious thing being claimed about the Phantom is that they're saying it's going to launch with 32,000 titles available. Now, even assuming that figure's all PC games, which I doubt, I suspect that roughly half of those are old DOS games that won't remotely run on a modern PC without extensive fucking about with boot floppies and shit like that. If the figure isn't all PC games, what are they on? Even if they can make it work, it will be interesting to see how many publishers will actually make a deal to go on the service. Unless this company can very quickly establish a credible image, I'm guessing not many will be interested.

I was initially extremely skeptical about the whole thing - the website is half finished, the only 'photo' of the hardware is blatantly a render, and it's called 'The Phantom' for God's sake! I'm still not entirely convinced and half expect it will turn out to be some sort of absurd sting advertising campaign for one of the other consoles, or just someone out to make a point... So far we've seen nothing that a few guys with a couple of hundred dollars couldn't achieve.

PS The internet seems to be better now. 

sounds like a supped up Phillips CD-i, and that did so well in the American market. Imagine, a console that you can "pay per play" and "subscribe to games" instantly.

Please. It will be lucky if an actual hard box of this thing is madee, let alone released. It's just like the countless other consoles that have buzzed, then fizzled. Don't count on this happening, ever. 

Should cost ~same figure but in euros. Otherwise gf4200 is good value. Rad 9500-128 or 9500 pro also provides good speed/features for your money 

Should cost ~same figure but in euros. Otherwise gf4200 is good value. Rad 9500-128 or 9500 pro also provides good speed/features for your money 

Do you consider such layout to be better than the usual structured page, where your work is subdivided into sections (ie quake maps, doom maps, textures, models etc..)
Also you dont provide d/l links for half of your complete projects, and not much informations about your older (but good) maps, like first rubicon.

'Less is more' seems to be the rule here. But with general CV I`v been tought that its good to put all past jobs, education and skills on it...
Any opinions ? 

At the very bottom of the page, I list four released levels without download links, becuase they are old and don't show off my current abilities. All other work is either unreleased, or there is a link to where you can find it (direct download for single levels, website for Oblivion and Cube.) If some company wants to see my unreleased stuff, i can provide it, but i'm not going to put a download link to work in progress on a public website.

As for the layout, It's chronological, and since i've jumped back and fourth across 5 different games, and have done mapping, modelling, skinning, textures, etc. throughout my career, categorizing seems like a bad idea. I don't think there's so much stuff that it is impossible to browse, anyway.

As for the CV itself, it is already two pages long, which is about the limit i think. I intentionally didn't mention unrelated work becuase i wanted to go into detail about the related work. 

...and it's called 'The Phantom' for God's sake!
LOL
Although it did look too good to be true, that line decided it for me!
Is broadband really embedded enough to make a broadband console likely; it certainly isn't in the UK yet.
Also, the quotes pay per play and games on demand nearly made me choke, I think I can see what's proposed there and it isn't pretty..
The words nose and pay through the... come to mind! 

nt 

http://www.tdcom.net/lacos/misc/cratespam.php3 

so any1 to test my map ? 

I dont know if you really care but I've got some bots that can *shock horror* grab the RL in lun3dm2 and also dont have a sexual attraction to the teles too. 

Sure, mail it over!