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There are also the wind guards and the like to prevent ppppopping "P" and hissing "S" sounds when people use words beginning with either of these letters. You can also talk not directly into the microphone to help prevent these problems.

Tonight I pulled a hard drive out of a Tivo that was headed for the trash. The drive works fine; no bad sectors or anything. I have it in a computer now. Ever sense I was little, I've always managed to find uses for parts of equipment people were discarding. It blows my mind to think about how many perfectly operable components are thrown away every day.

I would be happy to help, but I'm from northern California and I don't really have an accent... I'm just a guy in his late 20s. For recording gear, I've got a USB headset, an MP3 player, and one of those PC microphones straight out of the '90s. It may not be high tech, but I know my way around audacity; volume normalization, hiss removal, avoiding clipping, etc.

Here come loading screen ads in the game. If I wanted to see ads, I would watch television or uninstall my ad blocker. Thanks just the same, Square.

Am I the only one who cannot access that? I'm signed in. but when I click it it says the system isn't sure what board this topic belongs on or something. Then I'm signed out. EDIT: Nevermind. It is because my primary browser is set to permanent private mode and doesn't retain cookies.

Indeed it did.

Computer game addiction? You mean like playing Quake 2 multi-player all night? How about playing a game all through out the day? I've seriously had it where I join a game and (hours later) every other player has left and been replaced, but I'm still there... lol

Well, after playing the great St. Alban missions Bikerdude has released, it was only a matter of time before he won a contest.

Sounds cool! Hopefully we see a haunted mansion in the outskirts of town or something like that.

I would be happy to do it. I've got two machines. The one I built a wile ago and this junker I assembled from spare parts when I was bored. P4 3.06 GHz, 1.75 GB RAM, GeForce 7600GS Your updated version of RTC is very playable on such an old machine.

Sure it could be done. If you can play , I'm sure you could get a basic text editor going as a "surface". Through out the original Doom 3 game, the interactive terminals only used mouse input though. They never had you type anything. That would be pretty cool.

Well, Halloween is coming up very soon. It would be cool to see a haunted mansion or something else as great as Flakebridge or Glenham.

@Paul1290: the thing is, most houses in the real world aren't designed to entertain a burglar who breaks in. Houses in the real world are mostly linear, even the big ones. Thus I think it would be hard to make a fun and engaging TDM/Thief map based on a real house... maybe if you made a small neighborhood instead? When I was young, I had a friend who lived out in the country. Her family had a large two story house with a pool and lots of windows and attics. I've thought about trying to make a mission based on that place, because it had at least five entrances on the first floor and plenty of windows on the top floor for rope arrows. I've even thought about where I would place guards. Ultimately I think the interior just wouldn't be complex enough to offer fun gameplay.

Alright, I got Rockbox working on the Cowon D2 now and I'm happy with it. Not only can I play Doom, but some other games like a Tetris clone when I'm stuck bored somewhere. It can also play mod/it/xm files natively.

I'm looking for a cheap, hand-held device that can play games based on the Doom engine and the many thousands of levels fans have made for these games. The GBA version was playable, but pretty terrible due to changed around music, no custom levels, and the GBA screen its self. Something like (Rockbox Doom on a Sansa Fuse) looks just beautiful. The screen has great color reproduction and the device is very small. The only problem with an mp3 player is that the controls are not meant for gaming. Most manufactures try and make a horrible copy of the clickwheel, which is also unsuitable for games like Doom. I have a Cowon D2, and tonight I tried to flash Rockbox onto the thing so I could get Doom running like in Again, great picture quality, but lousy controls. The installer didn't work though sadly. Got any suggestions? Basically, if I could have a Rockbox device with a D-pad and a decent screen for cheap, I would be in heaven.

Your idea is good, but it sounds very complex. I think a simple and optimal approach would be to just have sound masking. I.e. if there is a guard standing in front of a noisy machine, I should be able to just run up and crack him with the blackjack without having to creep. Also, I should be able to make a lot of noise during thunder. Though I'm not a Ubisoft fan, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory got this VERY right. The sounds of wind and thunder would mask the player's sounds to the AI. Makes me want to install and play that game again...

Creepy... I just tried on my LCD and I went and grabbed a small AM radio. Sure enough, I can hear it with the radio about 2 FT away. Of particular note is the last half of the video where he is panning his camera around. It makes the tones through the radio shift dramatically. Somebody could record this and then match the tones up, constructing a crude representation of what was on the original screen. The thicker bars tend to produce lower frequencies.

Some of you may have noticed at one point or another that a monitor can generate interference with an AM radio. People can actually manipulate the thing to though... but it goes even further than this. Supposedly, you can remotely VIEW the contents of a display just by receiving these signals and interpreting them some how. Apparently this scientist Van Eck presented research and demonstrated this back in the 1980s. Here is some more information on it. I've made the mistake of connecting an RCA video cable to a speaker input in the past, and the result was a hum... so could one actually remotely "recover" the signal from one of these displays?

I really am surprised at how well these newer missions perform on old hardware. Whilst missions like NHAT 2 and 3 bring an old P4 with 1.7 gigs of RAM and a gf7600gs to its knees, missions like A Score to Settle and Return to the City V2 run almost flawlessly. If any of you low-enders are reading this who were barely able to play some of the earlier missions, give these new ones a try. I guess the mappers are really getting good at taking advantage of the technology.

Know what drives me batty? I needed to print an invoice on someone else's computer because I have no printer. I didn't want to sign into my account on their Windows machine because of fear of malware/keyloggers stealing my credentials. So, I produced a .ps file on my Linux machine to be printed on theirs. Of course their Windows does not know HOW TO OPEN THESE FILES. Hey MS, this is 2011. We should be beyond the point where a given OS doesn't know what to do with a file type. Please, stop re-organizing your GUI and use those programmer resources to add as many file types as possible to your product. Stop with the political crap and support ogg too while you're at it. Even your own games use ogg and it has been around for a decade. Thanks.

Don't forget that all purchased equipment is non-transferable. When the player buys an arrow, if he doesn't use it in the mission it simply disappears. We wouldn't want him/her giving free equipment to other players!

I also find stories like this extremely entertaining. Basically, this guy offered to sell his Steam account which had tuns of games and it was permanently disabled as a result. Notice how if they think you have done something that goes against the TOS (or even if you're just talking about doing so), they can take away access to your games. They don't need a lawyer to come after you or anything, they just type one line into a database and the job is done. Of course you could always hire a lawyer yourself in this situation to get access to your games back... which is so totally financially worth it! It cracks me up.

Still not buying any of these games that require a connection just to play by myself. As I've said, I have old purchased games where the exe is encrypted and they require a CD to play. Now that CDs are obsolete, did they patch it out? Nope. In a decade when they feel like turning off their online services, will they patch *that* out of the modern games? (probably) nope

Yeah it pains me that NVidia is the only one competent when it comes to graphics on Linux. That really limits my choices in video cards. The last time I used the fglrx drivers, they were a joke and the company drops support for cards in under three years. They say "we're transitioning these cards to the open source drivers". This translates to, "don't bother upgrading your operating system. If you do, your game performance will be terrible due to lack of proprietary drivers. Perhaps you would like to buy a shiny new card now?" Meanwhile my Geforce 6200 that I got for free still works on the latest distros.

I personally have no interest in running Mac OS on any PC. It isn't worth the technical fight.