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This is going to be a villain for an upcoming M&M Warriors & Warlocks adventure. It’s a black-and-white image that I’ve been putzing around with coloring – it’s turning out okay in my humble opinion.
If you haven’t noticed Natural Twenty Games is getting a make-over. I’m making a concerted effort to finally get things done. In the next few weeks there will be samples of the projects I’m working on posted to the product page of the site. The following is a test of that technology.
Well – about 3 weeks ago my faithful Dell 8300 finally bit it. Well, bit it enough that I convinced the accounting department of Natural Twenty Games (i.e. my wife) that it was time for a new PC. I’m an IT consultant who was previously A+ Certified years ago but I’ve never put a PC together from scratch. Feeling adventurous and also seeing a monetary advantage I ended up surfing New Egg I put together the following:
- SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5
- 1 PLEXTOR 22X DVD Burner Black SATA Model PX-850SA – OEM
- 1 G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK
- 1 XFX GS250XZDFC GeForce GTS 250 1GB Core Edition 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
- 1 ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard
- 1 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8400
- 1 OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ700MXSP 700W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC
- 1 GIGABYTE Triton 180 Black 0.7mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Total price after rebates – $715.00
Now I already have 2- 20″ Flat Screens so no monitors and last year our VP of PC Manufacturing gave us all copies of Vista Ultimate – which in our recent office move I stored away somewhere where I thought I couldn’t lose it. Of course…I lost it. So I downloaded Windows 7 RC 1 Ultimate x64 and man – I gotta say this is a very good, solid OS. All of my older apps – Corel Paint X, Paintshop Pro XI, all work fine and dandy. GIMP is pumping right along and thank God that I used Carbonite for backing up my stuff. It’s restoring as I type!
Back to work on releasing my games.
Well,
After paying outrageous ($200.00/month) to TWC for the All-in-One package I switched over to AT&T Uverse. So far, for the $50.00 a month savings I’m satisified. I’ve had two issues:
1. The HD receiver needs to be rebooted for the menu to come up. I’m still troubleshooting but every time I turn off the receiver for the evening and come down the next day the menu options won’t appear. It’s as if they are off screen and I can’t get the window in frame.
2. The phone service – which is not VoiP but land line does not have some of the bells and whistles I’ve been accustomed too. Such as, on TWC when a call comes in on call waiting the caller ID is displayed so I can tell if want to take it. On the AT&T service that is not how it works – I just get a beep that someone’s on the other line – LAME. Also – it appears that my order was screwed up because I don’t have voicemail.
