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Gen-x87H

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  1. Nobody takes them seriiously. I visit that site all the time. They are complete smartass's. Gen
  2. By the way Apple is not alone in this moving away from older operating systems, today Microsoft announced that they wouldn't be developing any new or revising any hardware or software drivers for Win 98 v2, NT 4.0 or NT server 4.0. My company is still floating in the doldrums of Win 95 on many existing machines (thousands of them) and most of our ProE boxes are running NT4.0. So MS in their own inimitable way are performing the same trick of killing a old OS by neglecting it to death." I can install NT 4.0 on an x86 hardware out of the box. NT 4.0 is nearly 8 yrs old now. Even after MS stops doing hotfixes and product updates that will be true probably 10 yrs from now. Plus MS rarely writes any of the device drivers. The hardware manufacturers do. Apple if they do this will prevent even the installation of the OS. Big difference. And if Apple does this. Big surprise they have a long history of just abusing their customers. Amazing part if they keep coming back. Gen
  3. Are you secretly planning another attempt to succesfully re-establish the Third Reich????" I am. But my friend has somehow enlisted the help of my other friend(United States) in a good ole free for all Axis & Allies game. Im going to have to kill them both now Gen
  4. No the ruckus was between Patton and Monty. But I am not sure if they ever got the Mk.2 version of it out before VE day. I know it definately was out after. Gen
  5. I have had this happen to me with Inf guns and some recoiless rifles. it just sits there saying reloading forever or until they are spotted and destroyed. Wierd. Gen [ July 26, 2002, 06:26 PM: Message edited by: Gen-x87H ]
  6. I believe if Hitler didnt make the blunder of declaring war on the United States it would have been harder for the U.S. to get into the war in Europe. There was a strong German lobby in washington at the time which really hindered help directly to Britain. And the thought of coming to the aid of the Communists when Germany wanted nothing to do with the U.S. would have left us with the option of kicking Japans arse. It would have been interesting IMO. Gen
  7. Incidentally "The History of Fascism" spells out the differences between the German implementation of fascism and the Italian. A good read" Very true. The Germans used an off shoot called Nazism Gen
  8. Jumbos hmmm. Arent Jumbos an Infantry tank? Maybe I am wrong. All I remember is a game where I went up against 12 of them with 2 Panther Gs. Killed all of them. But one of the Jumbos whos track was shattered, and lost its gun would not die. I was hitting the thing from 130 meters with two Pathers and all I got was ricochets. Had to close assault it with infantry to finally kill the thing. Gen
  9. You could simulate the Soviet attack wave by allowing different settings of control. Lets say you set it to realistic. You send an order to your units and it takes a ridiculously long time for them to get it. So you are forced to send human wave after human wave because giving them different orders literally takes minutes. Of course with that option you need to reduce the cost of the infantry or it would be pointless to play at that lvl. So you would get a lot of troops that are hard to control. You give them general objectives and let them go to town. Of course you end up with some higher ratio of men compared to the Axis player, take huge causalties, but if you can play it right win out everyday, at least in an attack in 44-45 Could be an interesting option IMO. Gen
  10. Obvioulsy many on here fail to realize what a major engine rerwrite involves. Especially when you have a single programmer. It is not something you can just do overnight, or even in a few months. It takes a company with many programmers like id software a couple of years to design a 3d engine like Quake3 or the upcoming Doom3. So shame on you people for blasting BTS for not rewriting their game at the drop of a whim. And dont go around threatening to not buy the game becuase of Apples stupidity. And I say Apples stupidity because it was Apple who dropped the ball on this one. They failed to let anybody know about the RAVE issue until it was really to late. Small companies like BTS do not have the time, resources, or the energy to change entire applications becuase Apple has shotty PR. Deal with it or stop playing the game until the next engine comes out with support for OpenGL. Gen
  11. I think a post WWII game would be kind of cool Actually I would enjoy battlefront allowing for a german on german QB or an Allied on Allied QB. Gen
  12. GF3 and GF2 are not one in the same. GF3 core has a pixel and vertex shader. GF2 has a DX8 compliant T&L engine. The pixel shaders of the GF3 are customizable where as the T&L engine of the GF2 is very limited in what it can do. For the money the GF3 TI200 for about what 75 bucks now is a great upgrade card for cheap. I have a GF3 Ti200 and it runs every game I own crystal smooth. The GF4MX variants differ. I believe the highest version of the GF4MX has descent memory bandwidth and can beat a GF3 Ti200 in most of todays games that dont take advantage of the Pixel and Vertex shaders of the GF3. Any of the new games like Doom 3 will kill the GF4 MX cards. The GF4 MX card is more GF2 than anything. The T&L engine is really no different than the GF2s. It has better memory management because it uses the Crossbar technology of the GF4 but I would not buy one. For the money the GF4 Ti4200 is a nice buy. Stay away from ATi. Driver issues, and the 8500 barely beats the GF3 Ti200 in most games. Gen
  13. Athlon XP 1700+ 256 MB PC-2100 DDR 40GB ATA-100 HDD. GF3 Ti200. Runs great. Old machine also runs it great. AMD Athlon Thunderbird 800Mhz 1GB PC133 100GB HDDs GF2 MX. 19" KDS monitor. Gen
  14. I had 2 count them 2 volksgrenadier sqauds routed from an American platoon 930 meters away shooting at them in a tree line. And they took 0 casualties. I have seen some pretty unbelievable things in this game. But watching as the better half of a toon is routed from measly rifle fire from 2/3rds of a mile was quite pathetic. BTW they were regular quality also. Gen
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