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@ LeHah Thanks for the multiplayer comments. How are you finding game performance when playing online with large numbers of units onscreen? Smooth and responsive or choppy/laggy or perhaps somewhere inbetween? The rationale behind making transports the only unit able to deploy jump buoys...

@ Sarty: The 1600x1200 image you posted a page back or so, as it includes the custom WC UI, did you just enlarge the image up to 1600x1200 from 1280x960 before uploading or have you somehow managed to get the UI working in other resolutions? @ IronDuke: I like the name suggestion (Wing...

Congrats on the testing gig, LeHah. :) I'll have to wait two weeks to try it out (going home for Christmas), but have no doubt it will be a blast! :D So, sans AI, all the factions and ships/facilities are included, as well as the audio and music? Cheers, Bryn

Yeah, about the multiplayer -- I tried to get a multiplayer match going across the two networked PC's at home in early September and while the two game installations were able to "see" each other and connect, both instances would quit as soon as the map was loaded. The mod ran smoothly on both...

Sounds good, Aaron! :D But as Chris mentioned, don't feel compelled to put out a Beta before it's ready or as a motivator for the nominations -- I'm sure the significant progress you've made over only a couple of months of development is cause enough. Anyway, I can't wait to play the...

The images you describe seem reminiscent of the PC Gamer WC3 Preview from 1993 or 1994 that had a shot of the Emperor on the cover. I think the cover may have popped up in the forums before, but a cursory search doesn't throw up anything. Should be worth googling for back issues/scans. :)...

Dell appear to have integrated the Vista coupon upgrade into their purchasing menu, i.e. when customizing a notebook you can select the appropriate Vista upgrade based on the notebook's exisiting Windows XP configuration or upgrade to one of the different Vista packages. Dell are supposed to...

Hey Iceman-09, I uploaded a pack of about 30 user interface screen grabs from WC4 a few months back for the WC4 Homeworld 2 mod that you're welcome to experiment with and/or use. As mentioned, they're 640x480 only. You can download the 2.69MB Zip archive here. Cheers, Bryn

Excellent work, Marc! :)

As mentioned, if you're looking for a 17" Desktop Replacement (DTR) notebook you can get a lot of hardware for under $2,000. Boutique sellers like Alienware (recently purchased by Dell) offer great gaming notebooks that are also appropriately styled, but at a premium. Whereas Dell's XPS...

Hey Aaron, things are going well -- lot's of reading, but all good. :) Logging in to check on the mod's progress is always a welcome pursuit and the recent test images with WC3 textures were another nice surprise. The level of detail and potential that HW2 allows in the right hands...

Good work with the Razor, Aaron! :) Bryn

Homeworld 2 comes with a limited number of standard, selectable resolutions (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960 and 1600x1200) all with a 4:3 aspect ratio. While a lot of PC manufacturers had been selling PC's with LCD monitors for a little while or were beginning to when HW2 was released in...

Thanks for the update. I agree that the HUD looks quite cluttered in 640x480, although it does seem to convey a lot of information. If it's adjustable and scales well with higher resolutions then it shouldn't be a problem. Otherwise, it's looking good! :) Bryn

Great work as usual, Aaron! :D The new UI looks very slick and you've integrated the WC4 interface and gameflow imagery very well. I hadn't played HW2 before the mod and found the HW2 interface fairly streamlined (the adjustable/hideable panes are useful) and minimal. Did you increase the...

Thanks for sharing this, eddieb. :) The suggestion that sound cards weren't prevalent in most PC's at the time really takes me back! The various hardware changes and improvements over the past decade have been both drastic (3D graphics) and more subtle (audio) and yet in my view, Wing...

Thanks for sharing this with the community, Loaf. :D I'm not able to download it at the moment, but are you providing the original VOB's from the Prophecy DVD or have they been "transcoded" (re-encoded using a reduced bitrate) using a programme like DVDShrink to reduce the filesize? Out...

How do you go about opening the individual IFF files as RAW sound data in GAP, Wedge? I can't recall even being able to save/convert any of the non-playable audio files in GAP. I tried TREman, but was only able to extract a single audio file (The Simpsons easter egg) in the TRE file I...

Sounds like you've been making some good progress given the drawn-out process, Aaron. I imagine selecting a Durango and having Sosa respond must be pretty cool. :D Well, it's mostly logistical concerns. I haven't brought my PC with me to my halls in university for various reasons and...

Yeah, the method you described sounds good AD, especially as DOSBox places more of a resource strain on most PC's. It shouldn't be a problem for a very recent system, but on my single core Athlon XP, I couldn't play WC4 smoothly in DOSBox, although I was able to extract images and audio where...