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I spend a fair bit of time upgrading/repairing laptops and desktops, so I'm not talking out of my arse here. You would be suprised how much resorces Vista/7 itself takes up, making it slow and buggy to run apps, let alone games. I'm sick of seeing dinky £250 laptops with 7 on it, because...

I'd reccomend 'Life And Death' and 'Life And Death II - The Brain'. If you didn't guess from the name, they are both medical sims. The graphics are real dated, but I have not come across a game like it since. You play as a doctor. You have to diagnose the complaint (using tests), reccomend...

I did awful. I blame a combination of a) my awful spelling b) lack of pc gaming. I did get 'boy and his blob' though!

I was thinking more along the lines of energy reserves/security as well as the CO2 menace. Using oil ain't a long term solution anymore, and nor is coal or gas, even from just looking at the economics. People are too scared of nukes. Diverting edible foodstuffs to made into fuel doesn't sit well...

Electric Cars - and where does the juice come from, pray? In a nation like Iceland, where their grid is mostly hydro-electric or geothermal, yes. A nation like France, where nuclear plants provide a hefty chunk, possibily. A nation like the UK, with her grid powered by coal, gas and oil...

Hanging onto the Hunting Rifle until the very end....damm, that was hard! Strange, I did almost the same with F3. Only went onto Laser Rifle at L20.

Well, its easier to provide than hydrogen or uranium slugs, I grant you. However, there are significant problems. You will need to adapt the old petrol pump tech to pump ethenol. Then you will need to put in a new pump and underground storage tank (will mean you will need to close the...

'If you predict 100 things in the future, 5 will become true' -Mike Hodges, director of 'The Terminal Man' Apt predictions of today from the past (from the top of my head) -Interactive wallscreen TV's (Ray Bradbury, Fareinheit 451, 1953) -Wikipedia (H.G.Wells, The Shape Of Things To...

I think it's the old 'chicken and egg' story. Without a full support network for N-powered civilian ships, nobody would want to buy one - even if the costs to run an N-ship was a fraction of a conventional one. Estabished tech is allways cheaper to use than to convert to a new one. If I...

Put in a random selection of 12 George Orwell essays. Never once said they were 'his' style. Usually said he wrote like Allen Poe. Odd. Used a few of my longer posts, and it seemed to be completly random. Never used any authors that actually inspired my style of writing.

Food isn't my worry. Other supplies are. Let's assume they have some workshops, hydroponics, storerooms, chemistry lab etc and 101 has a staff large enough and skilled enough to produce stuff for use. But what about all the odds and sods that any mechanic/engineer/chemist would need supplies...

I was trawling my memory of some old '90s gaming ready for necromancy, and thought - Syndicate! I loved that game, and now we have the technology to actully make it work. I did a quick 'goog and it is being done, but for EA. So I'm not holding my breath. How about Alpha Centauri? Now that's...

Thats a tad harsh. I don't think that they deserve execution, I'm reserving that for the makers of The Godfather (Game), Dell Computer designers and all people who decide to buy moulded right-handed mice for public computers. They would have lost some staff over the years, even if Interplay...

I'm no troll. I stand about what I said about the Sims. Please note that I stated that it was memorable for introducing new ideas to the world of gaming - in this case, open-ended neighbourhood sim. I don't like the way that EA made around 14 addon discs (each costing the same as the orig), and...

We're to blame for this. While all the eye-candy addicts are voting for mediocre games (mostly. Deus Ex made it! Yay!) we old farts are sitting in a figerative darkened room bitiching. I think most of us are also old and mature enough not to actully care what sites like PC 'Gamer' think. They've...

No, I'm not. Lookie here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian_Entertainment we all know that Wiki is god...:wink: I was citing the best example we have, which is Star Wars - Knights Of the Old Republic (LucasArts) and KOTOR 2 (LucasArts/Obsidian). Same engine, same stuff, same style...

Sorry, your going to have those loading screens for quite a while longer. Game makers do it to seperate the areas out because it reduces the amount of scenery, NPC's and crap to load each time. If it was all-as-one, the PC specs would proberly call for a 10 GB RAM, and the console versions...

Really nice indeed :) Makes me want to get off my ass and learn a PL that is more useful than BASIC.

So, if precident is anything to go buy, NV will be a bit less buggy, a few new items and a couple of welcome innovations. Then again, I have only slightly more faith in LucasArts making an original, bug-free game than if I did it myself. (I have played 20 of their games on various platforms for...

Apolagise for a) indulging in boarderline thread necomancy b) possibily repeating what has been said before. I recommend - 'The Day Of The Triffids' by John Wyndham. Forget what you saw on TV, the film was more 'inspired' by this book, not based on it. The first half is now-standard...