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Windows 7…

Posted in operating systems, software with tags , , , , , on January 31, 2009 by syntaxRISING
Windows 7 Beta

Windows 7 Beta

Two words. BLOODY BRILLANT. It took me a while before I tried it on a machine, and now when I finally did, I am in awe of the awesomeness of Windows 7. It is the most amazing operating system I’ve ever used. Continue reading

Rome at War… Wildfire’s AoE MOD!

Posted in games, mods, multiplayer, software, strategy with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 31, 2008 by syntaxRISING
 
Bye bye Aztecs, hello Romans!
Bye bye Aztecs, hello Romans!

The Age of Kings was great. The Conquerors made it perfect. AoE 3 was a massive step in the wrong direction, which I attribute to fact that we live in a graphics centric world. Games are more about graphics then ever before, and that necessarily is not a good thing.

I’ve been playing lots of games of late. NFS: Undercover, Red Alert 3( DAMN their crappy copy protection), Kotor 1 and 2. And I just finished installing AoE 2 : The Conquerors, on my new machine. I’m going to install and configure hamachi as well, and I’ll be updating the article that started this blog if I find something useful, that I forgot to mention the first time around. Continue reading