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Got you covered today Philly. Great work there Areala.

D-Fend is pretty good, I think it is no longer supported but the last version is good enough for eveything I play so far.

Get DOSBox and D-Fend, problem solved. D-Fend can save profiles of the games for you so you can have a configuration that works for each game.

It's all in how creative the story you tell them they now are to think is real, is. You could really mess his mind up.

Are you just wanting the audio from a movie or something?

Oh if you only knew.... lol

We appreciate any and all help that our great members can give but we unfortunately cannot accept scans that you didn't do yourself. It is a delicate situation we are in here already with many publishers and to take scans from other sites would just add another bit of trouble for us (and go against our requests that others please don't take our scans and pass them off as yours). Welcome to Retromags though and enjoy your time here.

With your specs, you should be playing HD video with no problem at all, I mean, it sounds like a problem with your installation of Windows causing your hiccups (my system is a 2.8 P4, 3/4 of a gig of RAM and no where near the hard drive space and HD plays fine on it).

s1500, are you signed up on the Retromags wiki? I believe you have to sign up over there separate from the main site.

I knew when they first announced the situation with Vista that it was going to be the new Windows ME (hyped to no end, ultimately dropped from the product line in the future and hopefully to the glee of MS it is forgotten by the consumer to only be remembered as a Wiki page). There was just so much "different" in how Vista did things, they are stuck so to speak. They have to have legacy support in there or deal with the backlash from consumers about their $0.50 at a yard sale piece of Windows 3.1 calendar software not working on their new $100+ (if they come up from an upgrade) Windows OS because it says Windows on that floppy (I pulled some time at Wal-Mart last Christmas season and there were many customers coming in and paying $40+ for those USB floppy drives for similar purposes and when the clerk tried to let them know that the newest version of said software was cheaper than the drive they would get mad and storm off). Apple broke legacy support years ago and haven't looked back (try running some OS 3 software on OSX-good luck with it). MS was on the right track with the emulation layer of Vista though. They were able to rebuild from scratch basically but use this emulation layer to offer support for old software (and why not, they own Virtual PC, why isn't that a normal piece of software in the library of DLL's that get installed by now?). People complain about how their computers not being so great nowadays and it is the fault of the consumer in general really. I mean, computers are held back by default by the standardization of an OS like Windows vs the myriad of setups available for the hardware. On top of that, they are held back even more because consumers don't want to deal with much work to get their computer working, it is getting to the point that it is too much to ask the buyer to put the install disc in and type some numbers-when was the last time you bought a computer that didn't have the OS already installed? Innovation in computer OS's is killed by the standardization required to make a sale. Back on topic somewhat, sounds like you are having trouble with either swap space or RAM on your current computer (you said it chugs when making a 2 1/2 hour video right?). How much free space do you have on your cache drive, usually the same as Windows unless you specifically changed it in your editing software's settings. For a standard definition DVD you will need about 15 gigs free for cache (I have no idea why when the DVD is at best, no bigger than 9 gigs or so for a dual layer). The only other problem I can think of as to why your computer is chugging would be the CPU but if I remember correctly, from our previous talks, you have a pretty decent computer there so it is probably storage on your hard drive that is the culprit.

As far as your computer being newer, I have installed the "beta" that Microsoft officially released, well one of them (they are time coded to disable eventually, I think June of next year, I may be wrong on the date though) on a 1.2 gig computer I have here with 512 megs of RAM and it runs just as fast as XP does on that hardware. Haven't unleashed it on my newly bought (read, it was being thrown away) 2.8 gig P4 system but will eventually. I just don't know if there will be sufficient reason to upgrade really. I am the type that upgraded from Windows 98 shortly before coming here 2 years ago. There was just not enough software that I couldn't use to require me to do the upgrade (Publisher 98 finally quit working so I bought, yes, paid for, a new copy of it) and I had to upgrade my Windows too so I just got an upgrade from a local vendor for $40 (legitimate, not a copy). I have played with W7 and it looks nice and plays well but I just don't see upgrading right away. Good luck if you decide to. If done right, you may be able to pick up your new computer (if editing video in HD, I would go with an i7, costs more now but the amount of time you will save waiting for encoding will make up for that-remember, you can get more money, you can't get more time in life) and get W7 installed too.

Hmmm, let's see. It loaded up quick for me. Gnash, is it taking a long time to load?

OK, I have a problem and am not sure how to fix it. I have a game to review, the developer sent over a Steam code for it (Trine by Frozenbyte for those interested- http://trine-thegame.com/site) but I don't have a clue where to enter the code at. I have never used Steam before so please understand that it is all new to me. Thanks

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Your all set there t2k. Welcome to the forums and have some fun.

E-Day, calm down. I wasn't taking your comment badly or anything. I was just saying that because of the reference to Gamefaqs (where my posts usually receive no replies-but stuff I post to for some reason receives a boost of almost 100 visits within an hour of posting there). I don't take everything you say without a smiley, or in some cases with, in a bad way. For the most part, I try to ignore the stuff that is ennuendo, as most of your stuff is, until it is brought up again and again, or reworded to be offensive so just calm down. I try to be extremely lenient with stuff, until pushed, so your cool, just go have some fun and stop thinking everyone is out to get you man (is it a lack of naked prince pics that is the problem?).

I have no shame for posting like I do. As long as there are people checking them out and enjoying them, I regret nothing. End of the year....pft...you know Dreamcast celebrates it's birthday next month. I will pass Philly when the time comes. You should see the number of posts on Gamefaqs before I left that pretty much for good....

Nah, Hidinger is cool. I don't mind being the lightening rod of fun around here.

Didn't Clinton sign something that protects the users of the Internet back around 1996? I know he signed something stating the Internet should be policed under the laws governing print media (which could have been bad had he signed the other bill stating that it would be governed like television). I know it ended up protecting people's rights to post "how-to's" on attacking, torturing, maiming, and other lude things like bomb making (Hi FBI computer trolling for that 'B' word) and other stuff that will get you on "The List" for searching for it too much. Probably though, these videos will result in some kind of lawsuits on the people posting them, it is the American way.

Tempest2000, welcome to Retromags. I am the guy that did the review of ClassicVGM #1 (then an interview with Mike debuting the cover of #2) and have plans, got a spot set aside for reviewing #2 and future issues no matter how busy I get (you guys definitely have a standing position on my calender). I checked your screen name and couldn't find anything about it on the Admin side or here on front end. Maybe I can get Philly to check into it (he knows more about the inner details than I do). I can't wait to read the article you did for the Dreamcast as I am sure a lot of other people will be wanting to see it too.

That is what I am worried about. I already experience a similar problem in the fact that my hardware is kind of older and not new by any means and it shows when doing something on one that is taxing it, makes me want to play on the better of the bunch more. As far as point and click games though, there is a new one called Machinarium coming out in October. I have a preview of it going up at UNG, I will post a link when it is live. Here is the preview I posted on UnNamedGaming.

It was a request by Philly to keep your demotion low key as far as a professional level goes, kind of out of respect for you but I see you have none of either so it doesn' matter.

We were asked to keep that out of discussion and to keep it as low key as possible. Glad you feel the same about keeping that out of the general discussion.