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They seem to work in XP. The best way to install it is to unzip everything into the same directory. Extracting the files to individual disk folders only gets the first disk installed and lots of error messages.
I did get an interesting and persistent error message when I first started it up, but it disappeared once I started testing the savers. That may also have been due to interaction with ZoneAlarm.
Cool. Thanks Jon!
Ha. cool. Thanks
I have the opus and bill "on the road again" edition for both Mac and PC in their original boxes. Several in fact.
I made disk images of the things available a couple of years ago. wonder where they are?
Possibly someone might be interested in this:
Welcome to the official online archive of Computer Gaming World magazine, where you can read and download digitized versions* of the first 100 issues of the magazine, beginning with the first issue in November 1981, and then see covers of all the rest of the magazine's run through the final issue in November 2006.
Founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe, Computer Gaming World began life as a small, self-published, independent magazine for the then small community of computer game hobbyists (it was, in fact, the first magazine dedicated to the hobby), but grew over the years into one of the most important and powerful media voices in all of digital entertainment, thanks to its strong editorial voice and reputation for tough but fair reviews.
How cool!
Well, I finally have broadband. (Cable modem). I'm running OSX 10.4.5 on a mac, with 384 MB RAM, and I'm trying to watch videos on youtube. For some reason the video isn't going properly. I'll get the sound, but the video seems to be going at less than half speed. This happens in Camino and Safari. I ran a speed test on my cable connection, and Im suposedly getting 577.5 KB/sec. Does anyone know why Youtube hates me?
How fast is the CPU? My guess is it's the lack of RAM, slow CPU or both.
eta: My new MacBook occasionally has problems with video - it'll just freeze up sometimes. I have a system monitor thing that shows it's swapping virtual memory when that happens, which is a clear sign I need more RAM. Currently I have the 512 Meg it came with; soon I'll upgrade to 2 Gig.
The CPU is 500 MHz. I hope it's lack of RAM, because I suspect that's cheaper to replace than the CPU.
ETA: I'll try watching the videos with nothing else going on on my computer and see if that helps. Thanks for the suggestion.
If you don't mind installing a small program, I recommend you install iPulse: [link] It can show you CPU usage and memory swapping while the video is playing (of course it'll take up a small amount of CPU and memory itself). Anyway, this should tell you if your CPU is fast enough. And like I mentioned in my edit above, memory swapping while playing a video means you need more RAM.
iPulse also shows network activity, battery and WiFi strength, and other cool stuff, all in a very compact display.
That sounds nifty, tommyrot. At the moment I'm surfing and *ahem* doing perfectly legal but possibly memory-intensive things involving Torchwood, so I'm thinking it'll be easy to see if I'm just trying to do too much at once in about 12 minutes. But it might be fun to install iPulse just to see what it tells me.