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Geek Culture / Yeah! Nice day today =)

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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 18:00 Edited at: 11th Aug 2003 22:14
Today I got my own copy of A-Sock-Ellipse NOW! (the cd with my game). It's really cool =) And I also got my new Western Digital 120GB Delux Edition harddrive =) Well, I'm about to go and get it now...

Cash Curtis III
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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 18:28
yea nice day! today im getting my new cd rom driver(cause i dont have one, it broke)
Van B
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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 18:54
Cool - must be such a good buzz getting a pro quality boxed CD with your own game on it, well done DG and good luck with ASEN.


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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 19:45
Mega:
Oh, not fun beeing without a CD-ROM.

Van:
Thanks =) Well, it's not boxed. It's just in a slim juvel case. But I got 6 of them =) Not bad that the cover art is based on my game (and so are their new t-shirts and other stuff). It looks really good =)

The cover image can be found on this site if anyone wanna have a look:
http://www.astralent.com/ASockEllipseNow/index.php

Mattman
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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 21:54
good day here too, i just started VB

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Cash Curtis III
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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 22:01
crud looks like i am not getting my driver today, I take back my nice day remark.
Mattman
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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 22:07
thats a bummer

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Shock
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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 22:11
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Western Digital 120MB Delux Edition harddrive
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Ouch, does DBP fit on it? lol

Sticking feathers up your butt doesn't make you a chicken.
Digital Awakening
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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 22:15
Yeah, yeah =) It should be GB...

Digital Awakening
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Posted: 11th Aug 2003 22:20
Mega:
I don't mind but so you don't get missunderstood someday: A drive is a piece of hardware but a driver is the software needed for a piece of hardware to work with your OS. Just a tipp =)

Cash Curtis III
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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 00:14
yea i know i always get em mixed up, thanks. My drive got busted while i was palying diablo 2 on battle net.And i had to go for about 4 months with out one!! It was torture i couldnt even install my new win xp.
Digital Awakening
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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 00:20
Um a cdrom is really cheap today, couldn't you get one earlier?

Cash Curtis III
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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 00:23
hmmm well back then all i could afoord was a 4x wich was disgusting. But now Im getting a 44x for 30$. Oh the one that broke was a 50x. Not that bad.
Digital Awakening
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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 19:34
Having a too fast cdrom can damage your CDs. There are many that have experienced CDs exploding inside the drive, some have even experienced CDs flying out of the drive at a very high speed.

Cash Curtis III
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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 21:15
cool! Its like the Disc launcher from Tribes! But no that has never happened to me. I had the old needle kind, and when i put in a pretty scratched up cd the needle broke and i heard a strange buzing noise inside my drive. ANy way i am getting the laser kind.
Digital Awakening
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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 21:42
Only problem with drives that sends the CDs flying can't be used anymore cause the whole front is ripped away =) I heard there where some new drive with an armored front...

Cash Curtis III
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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 22:03
armored front! lol!
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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 22:20
30usd for a 44x CDROM drive, isnt that about ÂŁ20?

ouch, expensive lol.

At my nearest store i baught an Artec 54x for ÂŁ11.20, and a friend has one of the same make and has had it for years, no problems.

And for shattered and flying CDs, ive seen that alot lol. The worst was when I had a full mp3-disc in a drive at work, and half way through i started to hear strange scratching noises, so i stopped WMP and pressed eject. Then i heard a weired "struggling motor" type sound, then a glass shattering sound, then it ejected 100s of little pieces of my disc lol. I wouldn't mind, but it was the only copy of the disc i had, ohwell

Sticking feathers up your butt doesn't make you a chicken.
Cash Curtis III
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Posted: 12th Aug 2003 22:37
yea i once lend a friend my copy of the sims and the next day he brings it back shattered in a plastic bag. dont worry we gave it a proper funeral.
Digital Awakening
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Posted: 13th Aug 2003 02:22
Yay! I got my new HDD propperly installed now. It's really great =) Finally I can get my files in order. My old HDD was a mess. And I got the new one in NTFS instead of FAT32. I made a 10GB partition for when I buy myself a new Radeon card so I can make it my new C: with a fresh system (you should do that when you change from nVidia to ATI). And the rest I split up into 2 partitions. I wish my old HDD wasn't split up into so many partitions. Gonna split that one up into 2 later (2x40).

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Posted: 13th Aug 2003 02:31
Yep. One of my 48x CDRWers bust. Replaced it last week with a 52x CDRW. Never seen any of them have problems with CDs.

Cheers

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
Cash Curtis III
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Posted: 13th Aug 2003 20:25
hmm wat do u think i should do with my 20 GB HHD when I get my new Radeon 9200 spahhire next month?
Shock
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Posted: 13th Aug 2003 22:26
thats a queation and half lol, i throw them in my cupboard ofcourse. I must have at least 10 hard drives in there (not big mind, the biggest is probably about 5 gigs).

You could sell it on ebay for some peanuts?
Keep it as a spare?

Or you could wrap it up and give it to someone as a birthday present?

Sticking feathers up your butt doesn't make you a chicken.
Cash Curtis III
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Posted: 14th Aug 2003 00:24
hmmm birthday present! I could wrap it up and give it to my little brother saying its a action figure.
Digital Awakening
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Posted: 14th Aug 2003 02:06
Mega:
I think you should keep it as a backup HDD and buy a new one as your primary =)

Cash Curtis III
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Posted: 14th Aug 2003 19:55
yea, but there is so much things i still need on my old one, is there a way to transfer any of it?

Comin' soon: www.megatoncreations.tk
Now all I need is an actual game!
Also: Reviewing the games no one else bothered to.
Digital Awakening
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Posted: 14th Aug 2003 21:34
Yes, you can have up to 4 IDE drives in your computer (that includes HDDs CD-ROMs etc). You just make sure they are configured for master/slave by adjusting the jumper(s). Seems like you don't know much about this so I suggest you ask someone who knows to come over to you and look at your hardware and help you out.

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Posted: 14th Aug 2003 21:37
Nice day today, i caontacted Nintendo and associates 'bout 10 times!!!

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Benjamin
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Posted: 15th Aug 2003 00:57
- which was a waste of time methinks...

You didn’t kick them, you just pushed them with your foot at a very high velocity!
Cash Curtis III
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Posted: 16th Aug 2003 14:58
oh k thanks I did just start learning about hardware and stuff but still suck at most of it

actual conversation wittnesed by me between nintendo and mattman:

matt: can I have make games for you?
N: No.
matt: please?
N: No.
matt: please, can I have a GC DEV kit then?
N: *talk among them selves*.....No.
matt: please?
N: get lost, freak *front doors open, matt comes sailing out*
matt: heh heh, still got it! This deal's in the bag!

Comin' soon: www.megatoncreations.tk
Now all I need is an actual game!
Also: Reviewing the games no one else bothered to.

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