Does SEIV run on XP????

[dogscoff]

(hopefully you guys do realize there are games other than SEIV)

Well sure we do. I mean there was SEIII, and before that there was SEII.

And I have something called tetris on my mobile phone, but I can't work out how to colonise all these funny shaped planets that keep appearing.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Oh, no, the funny shapes aren't planets, their building blocks for a colony. See, the people your building for like holes everywhere, so you always gotta leave holes or a row gets deleted. When you get to the top, you win.

[Magnum357]

Hey, I never really said I didn't like Windows XP, I'm just saying that I prefer Win98 and Win2000 better. The only thing I was complaining about is this new "Longhorn" OS M$ is trying too spit out. I always here the argument that you need too go along with M$ with its product updates because the older OS's will become obsolete and everyone else is using new OS's, so basically you are forced too follow the leader.

But the bad thing about this new OS "Longhorn" (more like Mad-cow) is that the entire OS is going too run through DirectX which mean that all the little fancy windows and applications will run through DirectX. Which means that new Computer systems are going too have too rely on hefty video cards that take up a lot of power compared too PC's today. I've heard a "Longhorn" system could consume over twice the power this way and for buisnesses that is bad news. Why do you think buisnesses love Durons and Celerons, because they run at low power and do not require a hefty graphics card too run an OS or games with. All I can say is if M$ is forcing this new OS onto people too sell their product and force more powerful PCs, they better make the PCs more energy effeicent because buisnesses just can't afford too take it in the @ss in power consumption.

I'm sorry, but XP is going too be the Last M$ OS I'm going too used. I'm very curious about this new OS "Linspire" and if it can run most of my older Win98 games on it, I will be happy.

http://linspire.com

[Fyron]

More and more business go Linux every day anyways... nothing beats cost efficiency like free.

[ May 20, 2004, 17:40: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Magnum357]

True, that is why Red Hat and other Linux OS's are being used greatly by buisnesses now. But I'm just saying that this Linspire OS could be great for small developers like Aaron Hall with his Space Empires game, or the other Shrapnel Game developers that build games for content and not fancy graphics.

I wonder if SEIV could work on Linspire?

[ May 21, 2004, 02:26: Message edited by: Magnum357 ]

[Phoenix-D]

Magnum..Durons aren't used for lower power consumption. They're used because they are -cheap-. And certain next gen video cards not withstanding, most more powerful video cards don't much more power than weaker ones.

[Magnum357]

Strange, I swear I did an entire paper in college on the topic of "differences between processors" and I kept running into example where Celerons where made too be more energy effecient then Pentiuams, while the Durons are AMD's equivlent too the Celeron. I would have too look up the data, but both Celerons and Durons with their motherBoards, both only consumed on average of 60% of the power that a Pentium or AMD processor. Maybe my data was faulty, but I swear I did a good job on the research.

As for the Vid cards consuming more power, I'm not a real expert when it comes too hefty 3D cards, but I thought that some of these new, powerful cards these days can really suck a lot of volt juice when installed. I've heard a few cards on the market taking up too 50% of the entire computers power consumption. If this is true, I'm just saying Longhorn could make PC's real "Power hogs" for buisness.

[Kamog]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
Oh, no, the funny shapes aren't planets, their building blocks for a colony. See, the people your building for like holes everywhere, so you always gotta leave holes or a row gets deleted. When you get to the top, you win.

Oh, I've been doing it wrong all this time. The more I practiced, the longer it took for me to win; somehow I got worse and worse.

Edit:
Another fun game: Minesweeper. Click on the unexplored sectors in the quadrant to explore the galaxy and find planets to colonize. The star date is displayed in red in the upper right. The numbers you see in the map squares are how many ships you have in the sector. If you're lucky, by moving your ships you'll colonize a breathable home world (a black spikey planet with a red background), and you can get additional colonies, too. (black spikey planets with gray backgrounds). See how fast you can conquer the whole quadrant! Once you've colonized all the black planets, you win.

[ May 21, 2004, 06:06: Message edited by: Kamog ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ooh, I've been doing that one wrong all along too!

[Mephisto]

That is somewhat shortsighted if you have to warrant for the software as a business company. Linux is great for the average consumer but it has its problems when you want to use it in a company-to-company environment.

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
More and more business go Linux every day anyways... nothing beats cost efficiency like free.