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1  GENERAL DISCUSSION / Anything & Everything / WinAmp dead as we know it on: November 17, 2004, 11:54:35 AM
Quote from: Tom
Speaking of WinAmp, anybody using Firefox v1.0 yet?  I downloaded it a couple of days ago and have been very happy with it.  I see in a USA Today report that it's already making a dent in IE (along with Opera, Netscape, and others.)   I just hope it continues to steal away IE users as quickly as it's doing now.

Yes, I've been using Firefox as my main browser for some time now, even before version 1.0 came out.

The sad thing is that some sites are exclusively designed for Internet Explorer, and refuse to work with anything else. So I can't get rid of IE altogether, even though I would really like to.
2  GENERAL DISCUSSION / Anything & Everything / Peasant's Quest on: September 29, 2004, 06:58:43 PM
Really neat! But I don't fully understand the purpose of that web-site.

Who are those guys behind "homestarrunner.com"? Are they famous in some way? Do people actually buy the stuff they have for sale at their site?
3  GENERAL DISCUSSION / Anything & Everything / Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on: September 28, 2004, 05:51:31 AM
The radio show is actually far superior to the tv show. You should really get the first two series on CD (regular audio CD). But stay away from the MP3 CD, also sold by BBC. The audio quality is awful on that one.

Still, the tv-show has its moments, even though it had a really low production budget. I find the computer animation segments from the "book" particularly interesting and entertaining. Everyone wanted to know what kind of computer they were made on. The answer is that they weren't made on a computer at all. They were all hand drawn... Smiley
4  GENERAL DISCUSSION / Anything & Everything / Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on: September 27, 2004, 07:36:56 PM
Any Hitchhiker's fans here?

BBC has made a new sequel to the original radio show. The first episode of the new series is now on line for streaming at the BBC web site. There are even 5.1 channel versions if you have a computer with suitable multi-channel sound resources.

Also, they have resurrected and updated the old Infocom text game. You can now play it on-line on the web.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/
5  GENERAL DISCUSSION / Anything & Everything / ScummVM on: September 27, 2004, 07:28:17 PM
I recently got a call from a girl who was trying to make Day of the Tentacle run on Windows XP.

I hadn't played it for some ten years, but I figured it wasn't going to be too difficult to make it run under XP. Well, it did run, but not very well. With VDMsound it worked slightly better, but not perfectly.

That's when I discovered ScummVM - a complete run-time environment for LucasArts games. With ScummVM everything worked like a charm, and I could run DOTT like any native Windows application without concern for sound card problems. So now I even feel like "going back to the mansion" myself.

Perhaps this is old news to all of you, but I have to say it - ScummVM is pure genius!

http://www.scummvm.org/
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