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Dec 16, 2001, 2:13pm

Heh I can still remember looking through the CompUSA ads and seeing all
those computers with AMD logos and going "ewwwww....I don't want an AMD"

Unfortunately, that was still sort-of going on when I was picking my CPU for
this comp. Oh, how I've changed.
Ah well...at least I only have a better Pentium 3 (P3 800EB...its not that
bad).
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Jan 3, 2002, 6:39pm

I did sign, but only for AW to rethink the scheme. As it is right now they
chose to price their chat program along sides with actual games like
Jumpgate or Everquest, and when it comes to what program gets my $10, I
would pick Jumpgate or EQ over AW. If they raised the citizenship yearly
cost a little and tried to make more of a presence maybe that would
help...heck I wouldn't mind paying $40 for AW until they get their finances
back on track, maybe they could loose some of those artists they talk about
(well I guess if you want to amuse the people who visit your sight with
pretty graphics instead of the scenes from AW like in the old design, fine
with me), and I know the programmers weren't necessary, but they could have
gradually added them (first add one or two, and then get the money going,
add another, AW evolution gets faster, more people come, hire another
programmer).

According to my dad, who has been at the helm of corporations before (big
and small), if AW can keep just 30% of their customers they might be able to
survive, but maybe if they just didn't hike the prices so high they could
keep more. Besides, according to the GKs in AWGate (who some I keep nameless
didn't exactly seem to fully grasp my questions about my 2003 renewal) did
say that if you were to renew now AW would charge you the regular rate. I
just don't think that $10 a month and 2 weeks to test it out is really worth
it...I mean even with Jumpgate you pay the $20 for a CD but they at least
give you a month to get your account going, but most people who play are
college-age and above (there are some below-18 people like me though), so if
AW does ever hike up the citizenship rate for existing citizens I would
worry that some of the younger ones would cancel (Thats including me if it
gets rediculous). Though here is my idea of what could be done to AW to make
it somewhat worth a montly charge.
-Fixed encroachment issues of move and rotate so they are allowed in all
worlds
-Redesign of rendering engine to make more realistic, i.e. meshes instead of
clumped objects for avatars and no cracks in builds
-More objects
-More objects
-More objects
-Higher/more efficient cell space (fit more into a cell)
-Possibly interactive objects (things you can pick up, use on other people,
throw, etc.)

But first and foremost...fix the damned bugs >_< (That would be encroachment
issues, dunno if 3.3 fixes them, 3.1 lighting again, fixed MP3, fixed
graphics bugs in DirectX and OpenGL mode, etc.)

So I sort-of remain neutral, but we do all have to realize that AW IS a
company that is somewhat failing and even though we're all wanting to go
back to the $20 plan and cussing and swearing (if you all really knew
business you would know cussing and such is the WORST way to communicate to
a company), yeah we'd all like to save a little money, but we do have to be
flexible. And AW knows they will loose customers (hopefully) and maybe if it
gets too bad they may reform with lower costs or a very simplistic tourist
mode. I also just don't want to see all that talent lost....I've seen some
good tourist builders who couldn't really get citizenships, and this just
shuts them out unless they pay $120 a year to use AW.


--
-Captain MAD Mike

Jekyl and Hyde...or Android?
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Jan 14, 2002, 7:25pm

Jumpgate! Heh heh, its no real medival MMORPG and its not as well known, but
you do get to fly ships around space and blow stuff up :)
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Jan 14, 2002, 7:09pm

Heh heh. Nice work :)
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Jan 14, 2002, 7:12pm

I see it, dunno bout those gray splotches but I do know there is a hole in
it for me.


I'm using an ATI Radeon (the old one) running 4.13.01.7197 drivers
(Hmm....yep I think those are the leaked ones I got off of
madonion.com...though I put .7075s back on, stupid dxdiag...) And I run AW
on OpenGL mode
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Jan 20, 2002, 3:43pm

Hmm....but if this guy's 15, and hes putting links to porno sites on his
site, wouldn't that be technically illegal since the legal age to view that
stuff is 18 in most countries?


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Jan 19, 2002, 12:40am

Usin AW in OpenGL mode
I see these weird circles in my view window when I have it (as I normally
do) opened quite largely, and I see these little dark spots in a pattern,
somewhat like this:
O O O
O O
O O O

Dunno what it is...maybe my monitor is dying...or my video card.

Using the 7075 drivers on my Radeon 32MB DDR (Radeon 7000, not a VE or 7500
or 8500)


--
Captain MAD Mike
-Governor, PC Addict, Odd Man

Jan 20, 2002, 3:32pm

Yeah, I notice it after I've been using my comp for a while (like last night
I was on AW for a couple hours and noticed them). I guess its my 7197
drivers (my bad, using the leaked betas still lol), These latest drivers
have some issues with OpenGL (in CS: player weapons models balloon out at
the ends, and this prob)

At first I thought I burned the HUD from Jumpgate into my monitor (but then
I saw the pattern they were in, nothing like it lol)


--
Captain MAD Mike
-Governor, PC Addict, Odd Man
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Jan 21, 2002, 2:09pm

Never!
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Mar 25, 2002, 1:35am

I saw this guy in AWTeen make a clock using the rotate command, and it was
pretty accurate. I decided to try myself. I can get the second hand right
(since its 1RPM so I just enter "create rotate 1 0 0") but my minute hand
moves too fast and the hour hand is practically two hours ahead of VRT.
FOr the minute hand I did 1 divided by 60 (since that would theoretically
take it 60 minutes to revolve once), got 0.0166666666666667,but thats too
fast, and for the hour hand I divided that by 12 and got another long
decimal. Still the last two hands are inaccurate.

Does anyone know what the RPM numbers are to make a pole rotate once every
60 minutes and once every 12 hours? Or does anyone know the math I need to
do to find the numbers?


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-Captain MAD Mike

Jekyl and Hyde...or Android?

Mar 25, 2002, 6:32pm

Oh I was using sync too
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Mar 25, 2002, 6:33pm

Yeah thats what I got...its just I cut them off at the 6th or 7th decimal
place (to conserve cell space)
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Mar 30, 2003, 7:38pm

Sweet!
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Jun 5, 2003, 6:00pm

Thats been in the AW/megapath for a long, long, long time. It wasn't hacked
or vandalized or anything, its just there. Kinda like stonehenge.

-CMM

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Jun 5, 2003, 5:47pm

Yep, thats MS for ya.
Just use WinAmp, its much better. Much, much better.

-CMM

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Jun 5, 2003, 8:27pm

'Tis because as far as I know, AWMapper is down for good. They couldn't get
space to fit all the JPEG images on the servers, so they got squelched.

-CMM

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Jun 5, 2003, 5:39pm

Actually, thats the FX5800 you're talking about, comit.
But still, go with an ATI Radeon 9500 Pro if you can find one, or a 9700
non-pro. They're both much better (the 9500 pro completely *stomped* the
5600 in GAMING benchmarks. Yeah, the same benchmarks that nVidia says are
the only valid ones)

Besides, ATI's drivers don't blatantly cheat ;)

-CMM

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Jun 6, 2003, 7:18pm

Exactly. I had an 800Mhz system with an original Radeon 32MB DDR card, I
could usually get about 12-20fps in AW. Upgraded to my 9700 pro, think I got
about 2 or 3 more fps. Graphics card doesn't matter much with AW.

-CMM

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Jun 7, 2003, 9:28pm

True, but then when I upgraded to my current 2Ghz system I didn't get a huge
increase in performance, it was somewhat similar to the previous switch from
my 300Mhz P2 system with a 2MB graphics card to the 800Mhz system and the
32MB card.

AW is more dependant on CPU and RAM...

-CMM

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Jun 10, 2003, 11:29pm

My suggestion is read up on stuff before posting about video cards- a
subject you obviously don't know much about. (I've seen the screenshots in
the reviews, the ATI cards can stomp nVidia cards because of how nVidia is
cutting corners with their Anti-Aliasing code to increase performance, it is
a noticable difference).

-CMM

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Jun 6, 2003, 7:16pm

*pats Linux Mandrake 9.1 box*

-CMM

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Jun 22, 2003, 3:42pm

So what, are you trying to burn a CD or rip from a CD? If you're trying to
burn, try some new software (on 98 I had problems with Easy CD Creator 4, if
I installed it by putting the disc in the CD-ROM it wouldn't work, but if I
installed it from my CD-RW it would). If you're trying to rip, I'd say do
the three-finger salute (control alt delete) and then close down everything
except systray and explorer and the ripper software (or just open the ripper
after you do it), and then try.

And if you want to get your CD-ROM playing music with a digital connection,
you gotta open up the comp and make sure that you got a digital audio cable
(thin grey one with two wires instead of four) going from the CD-ROM to your
sound card. Some sound cards don't have a digital connector, though, but if
you have a SoundBlaster Live! or newer Creative card I'm sure you do.

Simple T is a great ripper (and its free too), but it's website is an
obscure little geocities page that I can't find, but I know someone who
knows the site so I'll just ask him. As to why you purchased RealOne, that
beats me (Real software flat-out sucks if you ask me)...and purchasing
MusicMatch wouldn't do ya any good. And for WMP9, glad you understand now
that no Microsoft products are uninstallable without reinstalling your OS :P

Thats all I can think up for now. Hope some of it helped.

-CMM

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Jul 2, 2003, 2:40am

And as a great celebration of the birthday we could have like....more
features in alphaworld ^_^ Oh wait, that's not very likely.

Oh well, happy b-day AW.

-CMM

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Jul 4, 2003, 4:49pm

Or tell the RIAA that he has a 40GB collection of MP3s and then they can
(ab)use their (il)legal right to hack his computer and fine sue him for
mucho dinero.

-CMM

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Sep 17, 2003, 6:15pm

Guess it might help to know what you have going on in the background and
what OS you're using as well. And since RW_D3D8.DLL is obviously AW's DLL
for using DirectX8, try setting your graphics to OpenGL until you get this
resolved. That way you get rid of that stupid light limit too (although at
least on some ATI cards you get more z-buffering and tiny graphics
glitches).

-CMM

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Sep 29, 2003, 5:23pm

Actually I'm an ATI fan myself. And I also have an Athlon XP. And I can also
say that your comment on the OpenGL pipes thing is wrong. A screensaver
alone can't fry a CPU, since the worst it can do to the CPU is bring it to
100% usage, and even then it takes either a really, really crappy heatsink
or a really, really hot room to bring an AXP above its critical point of
85C.
The highest I ever got my AXP to go (this is overclocked, mind you) was 60C
on air cooling. With water I'm overclocked higher and only hit 51C on
average. 48C before I put my new power supply in.

-CMM

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Sep 29, 2003, 5:32pm

A: Can you read? Comit said AMD does 200x2, 400Mhz FSB. In fact, with some
OCing (and the 2500+ Barton and 1700+ JIUHBs are very capable of this) you
can bring the FSB up higher, provided that your memory can also run that
fast.

B: Your two AMD systems are noisy? Boo-hoo, they just have noisy fans. It's
not the processors fault, as there are many quiet fans and cheap heatsinks
that can do a great job keeping an Athlon XP cool and very quiet. The
builder of the PCs just decided to throw a peice of crap on them. Don't
blame AMD for something that they don't have a hand in.

C: Your highway example of why AMD is bad isn't very good. Explain that one
further please? Are you talking about the length of the pipline or
something? (In that case, the P4's longer pipeline takes longer to clear
than AMD's shorter ones, which means that you get more wasted clock cycles).

My suggestion is that you go do some more reading. Or post up your sources
as to where you found this "information."

-CMM

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Sep 29, 2003, 10:30pm

Errhm....try.....$25-$30 total?
They really aren't that bad :P Hell, even a Prometeia won't set you back
that much, and that'll keep things at -30C and just emit a low-frequency
hum.

-CMM

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Sep 29, 2003, 5:43pm

Exactly. That and Linux is a bit harder to use than Windows....at least for
a Windows user (like myself). And the other thing, MS RELEASES PATCHES FOR
THE BUGS! They may not always work, but if you GET the windows updates, you
can patch up all those security holes so your computer *isn't* such a
threat. Personally I think that everyone switching over to a non-MS OS is
just a tad extreme because of the viruses that are out there. Besides, if
SCO succeeds in claiming rights to the Linux/Unix source code then Microsoft
will get liscensing to use it, and we'll see Unix-based Windows.

-CMM


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Dec 21, 2000, 12:02am

LOL is it in GW basic or Q basic?
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