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Miguel Melo
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@Agent Dink: Is that a copy of "This Present Darkness" on your shelf? Cool book...

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Jeku
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Shadow of the Best! It was the very first game I bought with my own money, for my Atari 1040 ST I think I was 9 or 10 at the time.

Dual LCD monitors are an absolute necessity nowadays. Pretty much anyone in production has them at work, and for good reason. Being able to use Photoshop in one window and Flash in the other compares to none other. Most of the time though I have these forums on the right side and my dev environment on the left, because the left screen is not the same brand as the right screen and its colours are a little bit off to my dismay.

Tonight when my wife gets back I will take a picture of my boring home environment.


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Alquerian
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Having dual monitors is an absolute must for me. It proves so incredibly handy that I cannot stand to use a computer with only 1 monitor any more. It is incredibly handy for multi-tasking, editing photos on one screen while seeing the results (near) real-time in your 3d environment on another. It is also useful for IM'ing while in a fullscreen environment, that way you can see who is msging you while you have a full-screen app running. I really cannot stress enough how useful multiple monitors is.

BTW, how in the heck do you guys keep your work areas so darn clean? I will post some pics of my workstations later today

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
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Agent Dink
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Posted: 28th Sep 2006 20:28 Edited at: 28th Sep 2006 20:32
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@Richard Davey or anyone else I suppose...

How does DBP do in with widescreen? I know when I'd run it in a window mode it would be fine, but how about FSEX mode? I suppose widescreen would be pretty sweet... I'd like the extra horizontal workspace alot.

Quote: "@Agent Dink: Is that a copy of "This Present Darkness" on your shelf? Cool book..."


Actually, no, I have "Piercing The Darkness" I think it's sorta like the sequel, I haven't read it for awhile, but I really liked it. I should read it again.

Quote: "BTW, how in the heck do you guys keep your work areas so darn clean? I will post some pics of my workstations later today
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I don't usually, I had cleaned my room for a few hours before taking those pictures... My desk usually has 3 inches of paper, CDs, books, phones, money, computer hardware, and other misc. junk...

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Van B
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Posted: 28th Sep 2006 21:00
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DBPro supports widescreen, although coding for it might need a little thought - especially where GUI's are concearned. You could always use windowed mode to get it right though. Perhaps you would need to adjust the screen aspect ration though.

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Miguel Melo
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Posted: 28th Sep 2006 22:51
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Quote: "My desk usually has 3 inches of paper, CDs, books, phones, money, computer hardware, and other misc. junk..."


I could get used to the idea of 3 inches of money

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Fallout
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Posted: 28th Sep 2006 23:17
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I am now dual monitored my breadbins! I am ebaying to the left and TGCing to the right. I like it already. I would go with the dual same type monitor setup, but this monitor is £400! Makes more sense to get a bigger normal TFT. I'll save the penies and get a bigger normal TFT at some point and make that my main monitor. Spanktastic.


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Philip
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Posted: 28th Sep 2006 23:49
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@Rich

Hey, I didn't know you had a kid. Congrats sir!

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UnderLord
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Quote: "And no dissing the Atari decal"


Dude i have one on my CRT monitor!!!

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Alquerian
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As promised, here is my workstations.

Here is my setup at the college I work at:

(I know it is a mess, I will clean it up soon)

Here is my trusty laptop that I take with me everytime I get stuck at the airport:


Here are my servers, 2 dual opteron servers, a dual AMD something or other and a couple other systems. 1 is running BSD another is running 2k server and the last one is running Fedora Core 3 (yeah I know, I will update it)


And this is my beloved home-office workstation. I spend most of my time here when I am not at the college or with my family.


I just put the shelves up so I can get all of my books and crap off the desks and floors. This is actually quite clean for me

I have some pics of the Austin Game Conference, along with videos of some pretty neat demonstrations. I will post them up in a new thread when I get the time.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
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geecee3
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 21:02 Edited at: 29th Sep 2006 21:03
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ok here is mine, lappy for mp3's / irc and messenger, dual core thlon 64 with crossfire x850's for dev.



gaming rigg with CRT, son to be replaced with 32" samsung LCD HDTV, again dual core, crossfired.




got issues, an athlon 64 single core being ripped apart ready to go into a new case, the horrible blue thing is a p4 2.9Ghz.




the walk in cupboard is like rich's, full of bits of micros and some ancient technology i can't bring myself to chuck out.

current status : pretty clean, by monday it'll look like a nuke has landed again. lol.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 21:09
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Quote: "son to be replaced with 32" samsung LCD HDTV"


Yeah I thought about that, but the wife wouldn't let me trade in my first born

Nice set-up.

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geecee3
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don't tell the missus, but you can use ebaby. lol, i blame my horrble lappy keyboard for my dire spoolington and punkchooayshun.

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bond1
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2006 11:03 Edited at: 2nd Oct 2006 11:13
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Oooooh, I love "post your workspace" threads, I gotta get in on this!

My wife got tired of me making a mess of our nice upstairs office, so I've been banished to the basement. Actually it's not a bad deal, I get a nice quiet area to work, I just gotta make it a little more cozy...

Here it is so far. My usual setup, 3ds max on the left monitor, Photoshop on the right.


And if I get burnt out working, in the next room is my MAME cab for some old-school fun:


And if I'm in the mood for something a little more recent, I've got my home theater PC hooked up to a 61" DLP monitor. The only console hooked up is a Gamecube, I'm all about emulators for older stuff now. By the way, RE4 is just unbelievable, I think it still puts most next-gen games to shame so far. The amount of detail in the environments is amazing, every room is a masterpiece.



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Posted: 2nd Oct 2006 17:54
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Holy bat-droppings Bond1 - that is a geekers paradise

I'd kill for a mame cab, but I just don't have the room. Time to move house first...

BTW there is something wonderfully ironic about you having a 'cheat at Photoshop' book on your desk

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Miguel Melo
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That massive mixer to the right of your machine... is it to control texture blendmodes?

GameCube is still my current pick for non-portable console... until Wii is released that is. And, yes, RE4 is an absolutely awesome game. The quality and texture of that game is really killer. I'm still playing through that and Metroid Prime.

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@Rich:

Thanks! Yes I just have to remember to come upstairs and visit the real world from time to time. The MAME cab was was a really fun project, I highly recommend. I built mine from scratch, got the plans off the web. Only took a couple hundred bucks for raw materials, an old computer, and about 2 months time.

Hehe, you noticed the Photoshop book... Actually the name is a bit of a misnomer, it's actually an excellent book for the fundamentals as well. I always keep it close by for reference.

@Migual:

I've always been somewhat of a Nintendo fanboy since the NES days, something about Sony always rubbed me the wrong way. When I finally get into next-gen land it will be a Wii and 360 for me.

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Richard, have you watched the futurama commentary i recommended, the episode in the third series, the one where they go to the ancient egypt planet?


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Ohhh I want that Mame cabinet


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Something on the more geeky side that I'd have liked to have in my room... Today as I was in the van with my dad heading off to a long boring day of work, I look out my window to see an old Space Invaders arcade machine in the trash... I really would have liked to stop... It probably didn't work anymore, but it would have made a sweet decoration!

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Miguel Melo
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2006 11:13 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2006 11:18
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Who in their right mind would chuck a Space Invaders machine in the bin? If nothing else, you can surely sell it on eBay!

I don't know... some people...

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Nah, if it's broked, then it's really not worth much money, except to someone making their own MAME cabinet, then it's golden. You can pick up working arcade machines quite cheaply, like £30 sometimes - reconditioning a retro Space Invaders machine into a MAME cabinet would be pretty cool.

Kudo's to bond, has to be said - the MAME cabinet looks great, and RE4 is the best game since... well I don't recall a game that got me hooked so quickly. Unfortunately on my second time through RE4 some gimp deleted my save game, I was close to getting the unlimited ammo rocket launcher too .

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Quote: "Unfortunately on my second time through RE4 some gimp deleted my save game, I was close to getting the unlimited ammo rocket launcher too ."


Mmmm, unlimited rocket launcher...


But I wouldn't mind having unlimited broken butterfly either...

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Would you be kind enough to post the link to that website where you got the plans for MAME cabinet? Looks like a fun project!

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Posted: 3rd Oct 2006 22:56 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2006 22:58
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Zerk, I don't remember exactly where I found it, I made it about 2 years ago. If you want the plans I used send me an email, I still have them on my computer.

Also check out http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm, there is tons of useful info there and plans too.

One thing if want the plans I used: I would suggest widening the cab a couple inches. The plans are for a 25" monitor or TV, which is almost impossible to find nowadays. I would make it accomodate a 27 inch monitor, which are easy to find.

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Wow, compared to everyone else, my "work space" is super messy all the time. Then again, I'm a pack rat . Too bad I'm still living in the not flat screen world too.... ah well, maybe I'll show some sweet pics of my area later.

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Quote: "Wow, compared to everyone else, my "work space" is super messy all the time. Then again, I'm a pack rat . Too bad I'm still living in the not flat screen world too.... ah well, maybe I'll show some sweet pics of my area later."


Friday i'll get pictures of my work area and post them along with screenies of my new rig which i will probably make a diffrent post about, but i havent entered the LCD age yet eaither but soon i hope.

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