DaveyJJ

Power Computing? Mine was a spiffy 400Mhz (AGP) G4 tower with a massive ATI Rage 128 Pro with 16MB of VRAM and a nice 17" CRT monitor.

Have you read some of the threads being posted these last few days around here?

Ha! You're old! My oldest was only three and the youngest only being gestated when I last CM-ed. And now they're only 13 and ... oh, crap how'd I get this old?

I say we start another thread to discuss mounting a class action against the participants in this thre ... oh, never mind.

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” GB Shaw.

Same age as well. This ^ is gospel, right here, gospel.

Canucks relegated to being "bits and bobs." You know, we're too darn polite to say anything, eh?

Wife? Check. Kids? Check. Three cats? Check. Weiner dog? Nope. Satisfied and fulfilled? Check! Ah-ha! You sir, need three cats! Or more! The more you have, the more Bastet will reward you in the afterlife. There's your answer, sir. P.S. Best friends have a daschund and she is a superb animal, very well behaved and healthy. I in no way hate weiner dogs.

48, playing hex and chit wargames since 1972. Tactical WW2 West front and Med (Italy) are my "thing" though I'll give any good game system a spin. Lost my original BF forums login name and password years ago, another seniors moment? Three. "Crazy cat person" is only official if your cats outnumber humans in a house 2:1 or more. Me, the wife, and two kids still well on the sane side, despite what Mr. Emrys says.

Grey would be fine. Grey says "distinguished". It's the massive, uh, "scalp ventilation spot" that took the place of much of my curly locks and makes me look like some medieval monk with a drunkenly bad tonsure. Sigh.

Agreed. I'm 20+ years a typographer and can pick up almost any single printed piece and find errors. And I married an copy editor, to boot. My first edition Harry Potters bought wherever I was living/working at the time (US, Canada, UK)? Errors. First edition The Hobbit my dad owns? Two spelling errors I've seen. There are a handful of slips in every printed hardcover I own ... OK, perhaps not the last OED, but I haven't read the whole thing yet word for word. A few errors were bound to slip through, so what? Nothing that breaks the game or so dramatically misinforms that the game is unplayable. We're all killin' time until the game ships, then to hell with the manual, game on!

I have been waiting so long to hear those words from you. We will never again mention RAVE.

I know it's a bit trolly and I shouldn't but ... What "mystery" are you talking about?? From the CMBN front page, posted April 20 ... "Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy is scheduled for release within the next 14-21 days." That makes it between May 4 and 11. No mystery. But do enjoy the "other game."

I've been going bloody bonkers and waxing nostalgic for eight or more years now for this series to return to my platform of choice. Hell, I had hair the last time I played a WW2 combat sim from BF!

I'm just looking forward to the Royal wedding being done and not having to see their mugs on the television every two minutes on every major "news" channel. Flash ... people who you don't know and never met getting hitched isn't news. It's celebrity gossip/worship at it's worst. Overall, if I had to decide if the wedding of a couple of hyper-privileged rich brats, or the political troubles in places like Yemen or the internecine warfare in Nigeria or the environmental cleanup that's needed in Japan after the tsunami or the release date of CMBN is more important, I know where I'd fall. What is the monarchy for in this century again, anyway? And yes, I'm from Canada and we have their pics plastered all over our coinage and still have a Governor General (for whatever reason). Monarchy, smonarchy. P.S. What time's American Idol on again?

I have a 27" i3 iMac at home with the 512 video card and a 15" i7 MBP courtesy of work with a 1GB AMD Radeon HD 6750M card in it, both max rammed. Sweet laptop times.

I'm actually going to use a slot in my box to store the original CD of CMBO in until it gets fleshed out with yummy modules. Who's with me? I asked the IT guys at work if our T3 pipe can handle a metal box and they said no.

Amen brother. I've had a long drought with no decent tactical WW2 games since OSX came out. I make myself happy flying 737s in X-Plane (both my uncles were pilots and I'm a former ATC privately rated) ... you know, CYYZ-KSFO or CYYZ-CYVR runs, but it's not the same as a great tactical WW2 game now is it? Based on what I'v seen of BF's latest baby, I'm going to be a happy happy content WW2 gamer again, finally. This time with kids old enough to also share my enthusiasm. And the flying pink pony-unicorn mod, too.

<duffmanvoice>"Only the actors who portray him!"</duffmanvoice>

Page 31-32 ... page 31 ends "WW" and page 32 starts "2".

Suggests? Third party? really? "Next week I'm told there will be a playable beta demo." Now, who might tell him that? The guys he got the demo from maybe? Not necessarily gonna happen as schedules can change, but that's not a third party "guess" ... he says he was told that by, uh, the guys making the game? Certainly you have to admit it's a possibility anyway. Note the smilie ...

Page 113 Battle Size section descriptions at bottom ... "Tine ... " should be "Tiny"

It would take less than a day or two coding and then a few days doing up a decent GUI for someone to create a MP chat lobby using Smartfox Server and Flash, or Unity, or Runtime Revolution, since all those IDEs have pre-built MP chat frameworks pre-existing. Unity especially handles all the NAT punch throughs and firewall issues etc built in and Smartfox Server has a basic MP chat client example ready to go in about 15 minutes work. Show a name, a chat area, a few "rooms", allow users to see and copy/paste their IP address, maybe throw in a username/password function (via a MySQL server and some basic PHP) etc. Sure, it's not inside the game and it wouldn't be super fancy but it'd function fine for what you need. Maybe someone in the community will?

I just got to that bit myself this morning. Awesome. And overall the manual is outstanding in terms of explanations, details, writing style etc. Bravo BF. Oops! The 20+ year typographer in me just noticed way back on page 31-32 ... page 31 ends "WW" and page 32 starts "2" ... shudder.

Nope, see my earlier post, page 21.