Vanethian

Hello friends! I would like to know if anyone of you uses a personal firewall. I've got the freeware version of Zone Alarm but a friend told me to buy Norton Internet Security 2002 which seems to be an impressive suite for security. I would like to know your ideas about this issue.

Damn... it's very sad. I hope Rob has made a joke to her sister... if it is not the case, i think i'll have jellynightmares for a month!!!! LMAO!!! (I live in Sicily!)

Well, i loved it... and now with this new campaign (practically a totally new game) it will become even better http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?show=314 I can't wait more... i want it now!

quote:Originally posted by Masefield: STBC's demo rocks. I think it tipped me over the edge -- I'm going to pre-order the game tonight.Yeah!!! It's very impressive! I wonder when will be available the italian version. I would like to pre-order it too.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Frigging cool!! Get it!! Man, I'm so glad they didn't botch this. The graphics aren't anything special, but they get the job done. And once you've played it. Just think, in about 18 months, you'd have an entire ship - an entire ship - to command. That's awesome ... an entire ship? with the toilets too? People will play Bridge Commander thinking all the time: "Damn, if i could only stand up and take the turbolift to go to my quarters!... hey... but... hey.. there's a game in development like that! uhmmm... from 3000ad... i don't wanna play ST BC anymore... let's go to www.3000ad.com to read the latest development news!!!"

Yeah! I think it's a good review too... also, i noticed an "humble tone" that he's got when he tries to explain something of the game he doesn't understand and i like that tone in reviews, cause i hate reviewers that think to be gods. "after more than 60 hours of playing I couldnÔÇÖt possibly dedicate the time it would take to play it sufficiently to review it" "To the credit of BCM, I havenÔÇÖt stopped playing yet. To its detriment, IÔÇÖm not sure IÔÇÖd call what IÔÇÖve been doing ÔÇ£playing.ÔÇØ Well, practically it seems he's saying that is word is not the final word... something like "IMHO i think this of the game" tone. That's all... at the end with the phrase "I hereby declare that BCM is the game that I would most want to be trapped on a deserted island with" he practically gave to BCM a much bigger score than 75%. Probably he did like the game, more than he would ever admit [ 02-08-2002, 20:14: Message edited by: Vanethian ]

OMG!!!!! LMAOOOOOOOOOOO Never seen summer olympics without water I don't wanna imagine how could be the winter ones without snow!!!!

The first computer i had has been an Apple IIe. Exceptional machine I remember i played there Ultima II and the myth: Castle Wolfenstein, the original one And Lemonade... Swashbuckler... Aztec Tomb and also the first Interactive Fiction adventures. I still love Interactive Fiction. It's one of the best things of the past that will always be valuable, whatever technology we'll have in the future...

Happy Birthday!!! ^__^

Cool movies... the first one is very cool I'm sending an email about it to my woman who is also a Star Wars fan... hey sugar, now i explain you how to have a jedi as son

Yeah! The best RPG of the century! Ouch... now... well... they should say in the 500 pages Manual that after a while you'll have an incredible "fingerache"???

Cool photos! Yesterday i was talking with a friend (he is a game developer) about composing some music for the Game Boy Advance. Well, i told him that my hitech equipment would be useless because i should cut the works to 8khz (i still haven't studied the GBA tech specs but i'm sure its sound chip is an 8khz one). Well... so we began talking also about old pcs and the first time i listened to a Soundblaster 1.0. Cool 8khz good sounds! I remember i was amazed by the possibilities behind this incredible card! hehehe Ooooooooold memories good times... maybe i could find it and take a photo...

Well... Bill is a human, not god But there's a problem: he doesn't know it!!!! LOL!!!

quote:Originally posted by Epsilon 5: Bleh, I don't like how EVERYTHING looks... Looks too much like asian stuff, too triangulated... Their liberty fighter looks too weird... and object-looking battleships? Looks lame.And you forget the most important thing... . . . . . . . ...they won't have my soundtrack

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: I deleted that thread about the CV&G review. Its actually the PC Zone review. I guess the PC Zone logo to the right of the screen wasn't a clue? Well, it seems CV&G and PCZone are sister magazines...

quote:Originally posted by Epsilon 5: Antaren.. actually I tried playing Trade Wars not-so-recently... and I was completely lost without graphics So i think at least a graphical base is neended... Oh well... it's a pity... this means you don't like Interactive Fiction. I love it Ever played an Infocom game? Still today, they are more interesting than some modern game with great graphics and a stupid storyline. Storyline, gameplay and interaction are the most important factors in a game. Just think about an rpg you play with your friends around a table. Where are the "special effects" there? Only your imagination. But it's so cool playing rpgs with friends! I think the most incredible step made by Derek Smart is the advanced AI and the feeling that you can do everything in his game. When a typical game designer creates a game he knows that there will be some limits. He'll try to make you think you can do whatever you want, but at the end you and your Alter Ego in the game is bound to those limits. Well... Derek Smart is not a typical game designer... and so BCM has NO LIMITS It's a pity many people do not understand how big is this step in game programming story.

quote:Originally posted by Cmdr_ Laracuente: Like the ones they use for XboX and Gamecube games? Those cases have been used also for PC Games, such as Max Payne. Well, it arrived in Italy in this kind of case... where is the problem?

quote:Originally posted by Stephanos: Gryphon: good enough! Now that we are three we are a team! eh eh eh Vanethian: sorry for the delay! Now you have mail! C U in Space! Hey friends, if you've got ICQ, you find me easily So we can chat C U in Space!!!

I am a reviewer, and i can say that usually it's the whole magazine honest or it's the whole magazine dishonest. This is because at the end the magazine becomes a community and a dishonest reviewer in an honest group of reviewers is easily banned by the Head Editor if he doesn't work well. If the Head Editor is honest and true in his editorials, then his staff will follow him in this way. If there's a problem in PC Zone, it is a whole magazine problem. Probably they are not so honest as we all hoped and dishonesty is horrible. Really horrible.

quote:Originally posted by Stephanos: Thanks! Well, actually I had my translation checked by SC before putting it online... (eh eh) I knew that who wrote it was a BCM fan and a player, but until now I did not meet any Italian posting in this forum, so I could not understand who the author could be. Now I found you! Do you know any other italian player? Well, as a Multiplayer.it reviewer, i received many emails of people interested in Battlecruiser series, but they prefer to wait for the box sets to come in italian stores. I think that italian people do not like to buy through credit card systems Do you have ICQ? also... i sent you a private message so check your forum profile page

quote:Originally posted by Dredd: Most of the outspoken people on "guns not helping", are those who would almost never need a gun because they don't live in an area they probably need it, travel in areas they would probably need one, or have bodyguards to protect them to begin with. Of course... when everyone can use a gun, everyone should have one But in a community where guns are not permitted, thiefs will not come to your house with an AK47 probably only with knifes. But you can't understand my statement if you don't live 2 or 3 years in Italy to see with your eyes how we live without guns. So probably no one will agree with me in this thread well... nevermind

quote:Originally posted by $iLk: Alright everyone, I know we've had discussions about gun ownership before, but this essay I read the other day has stuck in my head and made me think about the subject. Gun ownership is a hallmark of a truly free society. I don't think so. In Italy we don't use guns. Only policemen and people who need them for job (as jewelers or private eyes) can use them and usually obtaining the permission is not easy even if need it for job. Well... i think that bank robbers in theory would be scared by the idea that if they try to rob a bank not only they must face the policemen but also the armed citizens. But in practice, this is not real. More guns are in the world, more violence exists. I'm not talking about big criminality (economical, financial and political criminality). I'm talking about micro criminality. Communities without guns are less violent communities. And in these communities the micro criminality is at lower levels than in communities where everyone can have a gun. By the way... in Italy we don't have a good legal system to face a situation where everyone is armed. When a shopper kills a robber, he goes in jail. No self defence... well... self defence exists, but it's difficult to prove it. At the end when you are robbed in a dark street, rarely a thief has a pistol. He gots a knife or only his hands. Sometimes thiefs are kicked in the ass by courageous victims In Italy there are no deads in the streets, no deads in the schools... no deads in the offices cause a mad man with a uzi decides to kill everyone... so... very few deads for microcriminality. And this is because guns are not available to the citizens. Gun ownership a hallmark of a truly free society? Maybe... but i think no actual society is ready to be armed. Maybe in 3000AD people will be so wise to be all armed and to not use at all their guns. But at that time, civilization will be very high, and we'll not need anymore guns

quote:Originally posted by Dredd: I hear it gives a performace increase. Good idea? Bad idea? What should I look out for? Reformatting HDs? I don't think so... maybe defragging them... And if you want to upgrade to XP... well, yes, do not upgrade your win98. Do a full XP install from scratch, maybe in a new HD.

quote:Originally posted by Stephanos: WOW!!!! Another Italian!! Cool, now we are two... Ciao! Ciao Stefano!!!! Hey, awesome translation of my review you did!!! I tried to translate it as well, but i've done incredible grammar errors LOL

Well... just few simple questions. It is not official so just consider it a "quiz game" 1) What speakers do you have? 2) What sound card? 3) Do you usually like sounds with low frequencies (subwoofer)? That's all...