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akula65

Looking at the plans and reports for this LAN party and others, it seems that these folks generally rent existing LAN gaming facilities for a certain period of time in places like St. Petersburg or Moscow rather than congregating at someone's home or bringing their own equipment to a large facility....

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Russian Descent Outpost has statistics, pictures, and even a couple of short movies from the 25 September LAN party in Moscow: http://rdo.unirep.ru/party9/ Statistics are in allstats.zip. shots1.zip and shots2.zip are in-game screenshots. AVI Movies are mvi1.zip and mvi2.zip. Everything else is pict...

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I have never heard of an announcement from Acclaim Entertainment to that effect, and I don't know who (if anyone) has purchased their intellectual property in the bankruptcy proceedings. That is the point that Kyouryuu was trying to make in the Forsaken Revival thread (i.e. that the game hasn't been...

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Retro Software has at least one used copy of Forsaken for $5.00:

http://store.retrosoftware.net/12713.html

A few weeks ago they actually had some new copies for the same price, so it might pay to watch this site if you want a retail copy.

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I have a few resources bookmarked: Multiplayer Setup and Server Info http://www.tiredrob.com/SleepShack/1024/Setup.htm http://www.space.hkr.se/~forsaken/info/index.html Troubleshooting http://www.tiredrob.com/SleepShack/1024/Problems.htm http://www.space.hkr.se/~forsaken/help/index.html Forums http:...

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They aren't my outsides, but I thought Obi-Wan_Kenobi's were kind of neat:

http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin ... 1097454304

akula65

Version 1.01 Patch site (and other patches as well):

http://www.space.hkr.se/~forsaken/patches/

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LEVEL OR MOD - NAME ------------------------------ 1001 Ways to Die - 1001.zip 21 Plus ! 1.0 G - 21plus1c.zip 3 Ships - ships.zip ABANDONED - abandoned.zip Ancient of Days - aod.zip Anemo - anemo11.zip Centrifuge 2 - centrifuge_2.zip Crammed - crammed.zip The Crossing - crossing.zip Crushed v1.0 - c...

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Quite a bit of attention has been given to the design tutorials formerly hosted on GameEdit, but I haven't heard too much noise about the levels that may have fallen off the face of the Internet when GameEdit went under. In January 2004 I went through the GameEdit site and made a list of levels host...

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I ran into the dead end at the Westell site as well when I got that modem last month from BellSouth. Fortunately, Broadband Reports.com has a direct link to the manual at the Westell site: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/10856 This page on the same site may also be helpful: http://www.dslreports.com/f...

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Since I only qualify for one of the items, I feel much better about myself. Given the fact that two of the items mention D&D, this thread would not be complete without references to the two pieces of multimedia that epitomize its nerdiness. Both can be found at the following site: http://www.fan...

akula65

Since Voxalationaxalon lists this level as his favorite in his PD profile, he might be able to help you.

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http://www.planetdescent.com/site/files ... /radio.asp

akula65

Unix - Bol'shoe tebe spasibo za tvoe predlozhenie! Good luck with your course and the advanced degree. I don't know if your instructors have encouraged you to take advantage of the opportunity or not, but you can listen to (and actually download) Voice of Russia broadcasts on a daily basis. I used t...

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Roid - My suggestion would be to find a university nearby that offers an introductory course in linguistics to undergraduates, contact someone in the department who teaches the course, ask them what text(s) they use, and buy or borrow a copy to read. While the theory in such texts is usually not cut...

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DCrazy - Wait until he gets the bill for my consultation fee. Unix - Although I was in a general linguistics program as a graduate student, my focus was in Slavic Linguistics. This allowed me to take Slavic linguistics courses without all of those lit courses required for the honest-to-goodness Slav...

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Why in the world would you think that someone on this particular bulletin board would know the answer to your query? Do you really think that someone is going to go to the trouble of going to http://ns.gov.gu/language.html, download and install the Chamorro Language Translator Software, figure out h...

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Phaser, Anima Prava has a news section on his(?) Italian language site. You might ask if he would be willing to post notices about Revivals as well. There is a mail link on the bottom left of the home page: http://www.descent.it/ By the way, the site has a fairly comprensive chronology of Descent-re...

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Well, according to his Russian language posts on the site, he spent the latter half of July and the beginning of August on vacation in Sevastopol. Since then, the Russians apparently had a LAN party on 25 September.

akula65

MidiV took some pictures following a LAN party at the T-Rex Club on 15 May 2004:

http://rdo.unirep.ru/party8/photos.shtml

akula65

Phaser, You might want to notify the Russian Descent Outpost of these events (if you aren't doing so already). They were posting Revival notices on their site until 15 April 2004, but they haven't posted any since. Even in the Russian language section, there is no mention of the Revivals since that ...

akula65

Here is a site that doesn't seem to have been updated in a while:

http://descent2.com/hoppe/dogfighttactics.htm

akula65

Chips & Bits has the Interplay version of Descent 3 for Windows for $4.95:

http://www.chipsbits.com/cgi-bin/order. ... C3.IR.html

akula65

CompUSA has 20% off of their cables for Internet purchases this week. They also have a good deal if you need a few Fast Ethernet cards. You can get 5 D-Link DFE-530TX+ PCI Adapters (bulk package) for 99 cents after rebates and instant savings (Internet purchase only): http://www.compusa.com/products...

akula65

We just got DSL service here, and I had similar difficulties. First, I would suggest that you might want to check out this site if you haven't already: http://www.broadbandreports.com/ It has a wealth of information on ISPs, modems, and other networking equipment. There is some info on your Linksys ...

akula65

Although I use Mandrake Linux 9.0, I don't have a Logitech stick to test. However, it sounds like the level of joystick support you have may depend on what distribution/kernel version you have:

http://www.wingmanteam.com/linux.htm

Does the HAT work in other Linux games or is this a D3 only issue?

akula65

Cool!

Top Gun, this issue seems to be one that is common enough to merit some attention in your document.

akula65

I am not aware of a step-by-step document, but perhaps someone else is. The upshot of the thread referenced above seems to be two-fold. First, papag apparently "fixed" the problem by applying a no-cd patch referred to by Mobius and then used the -nomusic startup option. Mobius doesn't give...

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Also, I came across this thread that seems to reference the particular error you mentioned:

phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1144&highlight=invalid+cd+rom

It's a little chaotic, but there is some enlightenment in there somewhere.

akula65

I built a Win98 SE system for DOS and Windows gaming, and I used to have similar problems if I had more than 256 MB of physical memory installed. Using MSCONFIG to limit the amount of visible memory didn't help if more than 256 MB of physical memory was installed. My system: Soyo SY-7VCAE Motherboar...

akula65

Welcome Back!

As someone pointed out in one of the other forums, the following site may be of help:

http://home.comcast.net/~andrewduk/D3_B ... Manual.htm

Also, do you know which version of D3 you are using (U.S. Retail, Creative Labs, Sold Out Software, etc.)?

akula65

To illustrate Stryker's point, you can look at Sierra's Grand Prix Legends. Just compare the 1998 demo with the new 2004 user-modded demo which you can get here: http://www.3dgamers.com/games/grandprixlegends/downloads/ This game's community is thriving in part because of these kinds of technical up...

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2. SUPPORT - Once you have the attention of potential players (or perhaps returning players), you have to get them up and running. Do new players have a single place they can go to get the answers to the questions they have? How easy is it for new players to contend with the advent of D1X and D2X or...

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Trackball's exhortation to play is only a part of what is required to keep the Descent Community alive and well. If you look around at forums devoted to other games (some of which are also "classics"), you can see the exact same discussions taking place as individuals recognize that their ...

akula65

You can get all three DOS/WIN versions of D1/D2/D3 in a single package here:

http://www.cdaccess.com/html/quick/desc3pkpr.htm

They also have a few copies of D3 Mercenary.

This site has DOS/WIN Descent II for $5.00:

http://www.5dollarsoftware.com/

akula65

You can get new copies of the MacPlay version of Descent ($3.95) and the DOS/Windows version of Descent II ($3.95) here:

http://www.softwarecheaper.com

New copies of the DOS version of Descent ($9.95) can be had here:

http://www.e-dealsusa.com/3195.htm

akula65

I just came across an interesting item: http://www.e-dealsusa.com/1359.htm This is good news since it would mean that if Interplay goes under (completely), there will be at least one other outlet for D3 for Windows. I checked the Sold Out Software site, but they don't list this item (yet). Be aware ...

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I am not sure what to make of it, but I just noticed that Amazon.com has three Linux games which used to be "out of stock" now listed as "In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.". Each of the titles is $9.99 and the list includes the following: Descent ...

akula65

http://www.descent3fischlein.de/home.html

has D1 and D2 levels as well.

akula65

Moon's Descendarium also provides info on D1/D2 as well as D3:

http://moon.descent-3.com/

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