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| − | + | I'm a fan of Xcom series, with Terror From The Deep being my favourite. | |
| − | + | ==A Bit About Me== | |
| − | + | I live in NSW, Australia. Born in 1974, started using computers at 23 years of age. I'm was a late starter, but I have taught myself about hardware (mainly) and a bit about software. | |
| − | + | ==Computers== | |
| − | + | I don't know anything about software programming, and really, I'm not going to bother. Hardware is my forte. | |
| − | + | 1997: I learnt about computers by trial and error. DOS 6.22 was unforgiving, but it only took up 12MB after a format of my 1GB harddrive, running on a Cyrix 6x86 P150+. WHoA!!! The speed! | |
| − | + | 2000: I had an AMD 500 K7 with a TNT2 Ultra 32MB video card. This was the computer where games "came to life", and me having no life! 3D era was upon us using Win98SE. | |
| − | - | + | 2003: My current rig, a P4-C 2400 with a Radeon 9800....still running Win98SE! WHOA!!! |
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| + | Besides my regular work (which i won't bore you with), I volunteer at a charity that refurbishes old computers. I have access to Pentium 1 100s, to Pentium 4 2000s. I have a few computers, P1-233, P2-400, P3-866, and P4-C 2400. My four systems are "upgraded" with the hardware from the day. Eg: the P2 has 16MB AGPx1 video, whereas, the P3 has 32MB AGPx4 video. My computers can play any game in my collection. Syndicate and Privateer on the P1, Battlezone 2 on the P3 etc: Needless to say Xcom 1, 2, and 3 run perfect on the P2. | ||
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| + | ==The Way I Am== | ||
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| + | I'm not fully into Xcom as some! (...for teaching me new things, many thanks to: MikeTheRed, NKF, Bomb Bloke, Zombie, Danial, Hobbes, JellyfishGreen). I play old games now and then between major game releases. And, editors have given the old games a new lease of life, none moreso than Xcom. (many thanks to Scott T. Jones, Khor Chin Heong). I just wish Xcom was revived. | ||
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| + | I am a bit of a late adopter, unless of course, I choose to use what PR spindoctors and Marketing Monkeys are shoving done my throat as the "next big thing". I don't see the need of getting a new mobile phone every 3 weeks, and I don't see the need for religion (but that's a different topic altogether). | ||
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Revision as of 16:34, 14 November 2005
HELLO
I'm a fan of Xcom series, with Terror From The Deep being my favourite.
A Bit About Me
I live in NSW, Australia. Born in 1974, started using computers at 23 years of age. I'm was a late starter, but I have taught myself about hardware (mainly) and a bit about software.
Computers
I don't know anything about software programming, and really, I'm not going to bother. Hardware is my forte.
1997: I learnt about computers by trial and error. DOS 6.22 was unforgiving, but it only took up 12MB after a format of my 1GB harddrive, running on a Cyrix 6x86 P150+. WHoA!!! The speed!
2000: I had an AMD 500 K7 with a TNT2 Ultra 32MB video card. This was the computer where games "came to life", and me having no life! 3D era was upon us using Win98SE.
2003: My current rig, a P4-C 2400 with a Radeon 9800....still running Win98SE! WHOA!!!
Besides my regular work (which i won't bore you with), I volunteer at a charity that refurbishes old computers. I have access to Pentium 1 100s, to Pentium 4 2000s. I have a few computers, P1-233, P2-400, P3-866, and P4-C 2400. My four systems are "upgraded" with the hardware from the day. Eg: the P2 has 16MB AGPx1 video, whereas, the P3 has 32MB AGPx4 video. My computers can play any game in my collection. Syndicate and Privateer on the P1, Battlezone 2 on the P3 etc: Needless to say Xcom 1, 2, and 3 run perfect on the P2.
The Way I Am
I'm not fully into Xcom as some! (...for teaching me new things, many thanks to: MikeTheRed, NKF, Bomb Bloke, Zombie, Danial, Hobbes, JellyfishGreen). I play old games now and then between major game releases. And, editors have given the old games a new lease of life, none moreso than Xcom. (many thanks to Scott T. Jones, Khor Chin Heong). I just wish Xcom was revived.
I am a bit of a late adopter, unless of course, I choose to use what PR spindoctors and Marketing Monkeys are shoving done my throat as the "next big thing". I don't see the need of getting a new mobile phone every 3 weeks, and I don't see the need for religion (but that's a different topic altogether).
Leave a Message Here
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