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I didn't mean to impunge on quality of your game, milo. :) After all, I haven't even played it yet (busy, busy, busy, though the concept looks interesting), so how can I try to judge it? I happen to be working on a bit of a solo project myself, and it's a big time sink (although also very...

A lot of packages should be able to take multiple textures and merge them into one giant skin; this is basically how most games used to do it (for example, the SWACS is basically 1-2 textures), and assuming it doesn't have funny angles and will fit in the requisite texture size, this means you...

Well, I for one wasn't limiting myself to cats & bugs when I outlined some possibilities for doing a bug-less post-WCP sequel. However, just for reasons of continuity, you have to deal with the fact that Confed just fought a mini-war (yes, a one carrier war, even if it is a megacarrier, is a...

I just ran across news about a game called Starshatter (http://www.starshatter.com). While it'll no doubt fail to measure up to the legacy of Wing Commander, or even come close, actually, at least the genre isn't completely dead. And it's an IGF 2004 finalist, so maybe it'll be good. There's...

While disabling the cache probably won't help as much on newer systems (since the focus has been trying to get the memory system to go faster and faster as CPUs become insanely fast), it's still quite effective for a major drop in performance. Most chips made in the last decade or so have...

For some reason, some people have a tendency to think the biggest ship is the best ship. However, I solemnly promise before all present that if the biggest, baddest capital ship in the universe is an ugly <insert expletive here>, I'm not going to like it; size does not matter with me. The...

Not only are fighter pilots on a salary, but (AFAIK) everyone with a government job, military (from the lowliest private on up) or civilian, is on a salary. Apparently, the government doesn't have much demand for hourly work. Considering all the civil service baggage that comes with hiring...

It's probably not the same as the map that came with WCP Gold. ;) But yes, it's the same map, AFAIK. P.S. Speaking of buying games in lots, apparently you can get some games much more cheaply on eBay if you buy them in conjunction with a lot of other crap. I got my WC4 DVD that way. The...

There are multiple film versions of Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, as well as movies with similar knock-off themes dressed up in different ways (a number of romantic comedies would probably fit the bill...), all of them less deep than the books they're based on (that should go without...

Hey, doesn't anybody want to see another sequel to Myst? *snicker*

You know, a Wing Commander 6 (chronologically speaking; or 7 or whatever you want to call it) wouldn't necessarily have to follow a "Nephilim trilogy". While I'm sure us fans are dying to know what happens, here's a scenario that's perfectly realistic: 1) The Nephilim, after Secret Ops...

Yes, it's from "Monster's, Inc." The little girl is known as "Boo". In the movie, she becomes sorta an albatross for this big friendly monster guy (played by John Goodman), since children are considered lethal in their alternate world. (Hey, what about this one, too? Heh.) There is a sort of...

I first bought a real joystick (rather than putting up with the cheapo model we still had from an old 286) for X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, because it required a joystick. No keyboard control, no mouse control; basically, if you didn't have a joystick, you couldn't play the game. This was obviously...

Isn't it obvious? It's the price of freedom!

*insert tongue in cheek* Hey, did you guys hear my idea for a superweapon capital ship? Basically, it would have a really, really long gun, using superconductors or something, to fire a massive blast of energy that would destroy anything at the target point! Oh, while we're at it, it should...

Rubber band airplanes are the shiznit. Someone should make a rubber band Hellcat or something.

Yeah, the Precision Pro is cheap and good (though not DOS-compatible). The Sidewinder line's calibration-free optical sensor really does work. Mine cost like $50. I'm not sure Microsoft really makes them anymore, though; I heard they were getting out of the (game) hardware business. I hear...

Controlling a vehicle by thought isn't as speedy as you might think (ha, ha). Recall in Fire Fox how Clint has to think all of his mental commands in Russian? That takes soooo long. By contrast, you could probably execute a barrel roll with a minimal movement of the wrist. The way the...

1) The alien ships are manuevering, so just firing at the reticle isn't going to always cut it. 2) If you're using full guns, the reticle isn't accurate for all the weapons, since not all the bolts travel at the same speed. (I can't remember if it's the fastest, slowest, or average of the...

For those who didn't realize it, today is George Washington's birthday. I remember when we used to observe both Washington's birthday and Lincoln's birthday, but apparently all that time off made somebody mad and they rolled it into President's day. Which begs the obvious question: if...