8) I have 4 CD-ROM drives…sorta. I’ve been experimenting with this highly int app called DAEMON Tools 3.02 and what it does is emulates (pretends to be) a CD-ROM drive. You can have up to 4 of these “virtual drives” that can only run CD images. Of course, you make images with another nifty app, such as CloneCD. Then, you’re just boom. 😮 I’ve played music from an image, opened cd-check games with an image (AOK), played movies fron an image, and more. It’s quite swifty and I’m sure it would come in handy often; especially when I’m reinstalling app/game downloads from backup cds. I can merely write the whole disc to the HDD in 5mins and use the image whenever I need to install something. It’s also 10 times faster from the HDD.

Not to mention, this app has illegal purposes, such as opening downloaded image files from apps like Morpheus. I wouldn’t have any experience with these illegal uses, though, because I don’t have the bandwidth to be downloading 600MB images. Also, I pay for all my software! 😀 eeeeeeehehehehehe!!! Check it:

Linkage: http://www.daemon-tools.net

Earlier today, I went through and fixed the individual download description pages… they were quite outdated, and the backgrounds were even linked to the old S&L @ geocities! 😮 Also, I added my latest work, Loogie‘s Cyber RS Revision. Look for it by clicking “Downloads” on the nav to the left, of course.

Also, I would like to bring to your attention 2 things in gaming: there’s a new 7-map Rats CS pack out @ Planet Half-Life; also, Threewave is pretty cool. Snake bitched about me getting it all week… well, I haven’t played it much but I saw it @ his house. I like the menu system, and Coral CTF’s a great-looking map. And while I’m on the topic of tech news, Intel announced that it will no longer be using RDRAM (RAMBUS) in their motherboards. DDR all the way now 8) .

Finally… in the past couple of months or so, Snake and I have been getting songs w/ Audiogalaxy instead of Aimster, and here’s the main groups we (or either of us) get(s) now:

BT | Future Sound of London | Enigma | Adam F.
Tourach | NIN | Metallica

A funny thing happened to me the other day… my nearly new Visiontek GeForce2 GTS died! I’ve been having problems w/ this for a while now, but it is now officially dead. Here’s the story: about 3 weeks ago, while I was playin CS, I started getting artifacts everywhere. Closing and reopening Half-Life didn’t fix this, nor underclocking. Here’s what then happened, it’s quite funny:

So after that, things were fine, but yesterday, I started to get the same problem, in Windows. I restarted, then I was in standard display mode. Removed GF2, applied new paste, put back in, still standard display mode… then I hear the “BEEP, BEEP BEEP BEEP” when I turn on my rig… in other words, it’s dead. I thought there was a problem w/ my AGP slot, but anyway… now I’m using Snake‘s old Viper II (read his article on Viper II and VT6X4 tweaking here, or our article about our first video card upgrades here). I got the 9007 drivers, and I love it. I had some problems at first, but aside from the cursor, I think it’s just as good as my GF2, and it should do for a little while. [Chief’s Note: LOL, have fun with that POS! 😛 ]

Secondly and lastly, I trashed my IE HotBar, and got the Google Toolbar. It’s very useful for quick searching, rating pages, highlighting, and searching the site u’re on. Here’s an SS of it:

I just reviewed my second demo review in the past year or so… StarTopia. Yeh, u may remember Snake reviewing that at one time… well, we lost that review, so I redid it. Read it here.

Also, I added 3 quotes to the topframe. Find em by double-clicking the text over and over… and over 😛 .

I reviewed two very sweet demos today, Zombie Smasher X and Comanche 4. 8) Also, I’ve redone the way we rate demos. The ratings basically follow an earlier outline that I created in an unfinshed Column about demos, as seen here. The inclusion of more screenshots can also be seen.

It’s hard to find good demos sometimes, even good retail games can have shitty demos…which is why we gave the world the DemoBoard.