[geeks] [rescue] Video card request

[Phil Stracchino]

Chad McAuley wrote:
> On 11/28/05, Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>The original Quake was so wonderfully atmospheric,
>>everything was pervaded with an air of imminent ethereal menace ... and
>>they've never managed to recapture it since.  (And it was immensely
>>gratifying to kite a Shambler around and use it as an anti-Vore weapon.)
> 
> The site for it seems to be down, but someone made a mod that did just that,
> at least with the machine gun and shotgun.

Yeah, I've heard there's some tactical-light mods out there.  I figured
it probably wouldn't be too long.


>  Sometimes I don't mind the dark
> atmosphere of Doom 3, because if I turn all the lights off and put my
> headphones on I get really immersed and on edge, always wondering what's
> going to jump out at me from the darkness next.

Oh, sure, I think the gloom has its place.  just ...... not ALL THE TIME.

>  But after a while it does
> get very tedious.  And I agree with you 100% that the original Quake had an
> awesome atmosphere that they've yet to come close to recapturing.  Every
> time a new QuakeC mod/partial conversion came out I wanted to play with, I'd
> load up one of the four episodes and play my way through it to check out the
> new goodies the mod added.  I knew every level forwards and backwards and
> yet I never got tired of it.

I never got around to checking out the finished version of the Aliens
TC.  I have both of the expansions to Quake, but for some reason I can't
get either of them to work on Windows 2000.  I had a series of levels
I'd designed for Doom!, but never got around to doing any levels for
Quake because when Quake was New And Hot, the machine I had wasn't fast
enough to run it decently.

> Also, back to the original subject of this thread, I just recently upgraded
> to a 6600GT from my Radeon 8500LE, so now the Radeon is just sitting
> around.  If you're interested contact me off-list and we'll hammer out the
> details.

Bill already offered us a GeForce 5200, thanks.  I have a 6600 in my
gamebox which I'd like to upgrade to a pair of 6800s or 7800s (it's an
SLI-capable PCI-Express machine) when we can afford it, but the money
just isn't there right now.




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