Ever since Doom 3, all the 1337 grafix hype just doesn't excite me anymore. Ok cool so technology has evolved well beyond the era of ASCII and Blade Runner style voxels, but big effing deal
Of course, given a choice, I'd choose to have Die By The Sword re-made in the Doom 3 engine. The old 50-polys per model graphics is very puke-inducing at times. However, it still remains a puzzle why game developers can never get their priorities right. Look at Fallout 3, months before it's release, Bethesda was busy hyping it's gore factor and how you can kill enemies in different ways. HELLO BETHESDA, MAY I REMIND YOU THAT YOUR GAME'S MEANT TO BE AN RPG?!
It's quite disappointing that the ingenuity of old is fading as gaming progresses. Everything's just a rehash of something else these days. Granted, some are well-made rehashes, but the point is, people are often dissecting their game features bit by bit that it's sickening. Games seldom mesh together into one fine product these days. They're like paper mache, having random pieces of artwork stuck together and being called a masterpiece after that

Wooooo... too late there.
regarding OP:
I have manual for this somewhere around, it starts with "you take your most beloved baseball bat......"

Oh and because I never noticed it the first time (had my eldest daughter crying over something in Animal Crossing -- she has yet to understand that if you keep spending the money in the game, you'll never be able to save up for the most expensive item but hey, she is only 5 and it's her first game.)
I like it, I was showing some respect towards your methods. When I'm skimming threads over I can always tell if you've been posting; ergo its probably worth reading.
Cool. I'm ject getting slightly annoyed by those who don't like it and would rather drag a topic off-topic by constantly stating as such. Sorry if I offended you, that was not my intention.
Not that I didn't like it, I'm just being curious here: Why do you use bold text quotation instead of built-in one?
A few reasons. 1 - The normal quoting is a pain in the ass when it comes to multi quoting, it embeds a ladder of quotes which I hate and is ultimately, really annoying due to repeating stuff that I've already read.
2 - The size of the normal quoting is a few points smaller than normal. My eyesight no longer likes such tiny text, which is further exasperated by the italics.
3 - There's no italic option and I don't like underlining, so that only left bolding.
OK, the asterisks leave me guessing. Do you mean shit or fuck? Or do I get to choose?
You get to choose! But choose wisely, guess the incorrect one and a red snapper is going to jump off a wheel of fish after you...
Now, I'll actually read the topic proper when I have some more time -- the amiga conversation seems like it'll be worth reading. Loved my amigas. So much so that I still have an emulator of them on my PC.
But right now, I'm busy coding sommat up that hopefully some of you will find useful =P

While not quite productivity software, the Atari 2600 had a (rather useless) cartridge for programming in BASIC. Does that make it a computer, rather than a console?
Nothing really prevents Spreadsheet Hero from existing, save the fact that nobody would buy it.

No. No, no, no. No.
:-)
The Amiga 500 is a computer. Period. It has a graphical user interface like Windows (only at the time it was much better than anything Microsoft had ever done). It has a keyboard, mouse and the option to attach all kinds of upgrades and extras. It does everything a computer does, and it was used just like a typical Windows-machine is used today.
How you use the computer isn't relevant - if you use your Windows-PC exclusively for games, it's still a computer, not a console.

Computer, got it. Retro Gamer Magazine still call a console though :-C

In fact to further assert that the amiga was a computer, look at babylon 5. All the rendering for the initial seasons were done on amigas. Before they moved over to the lightwave toasters or whatever they called their dedicated machines. but the first few seasons, pure amiga using lightwave.
In fact, the only amiga that could be called a console was the CD32.

I think you can still download the models from Aminet, well whatever the equivalent is these days. I think I got them on an Amiga Format CD... right that's the last OT post I'm making.

Then I'm glad that I don't read it, because anyone seriously calling an Amiga (or a C64 for that matter) a "console" does not deserve to wield the title "retro gamer".
I used to write my chemistry reports on my Amiga. Printed them on my Star LC-10 Color Printer (matrix, 9 needles, endless paper) :-D

This is the first time ever I heard anyone call Amiga or Commodore a console. Blasphemy! Burn the heretic! ;) Both were one of the most popular home computers of their time at least in Europe.

sword, no words, let prepare gasoline and bring this infidel to his last minute.
I am proud that i owned A600 and i have still didactic somewhere there

Burn the Heretic! Kill the Mutant! Purge the Unclean!
Sorry, been playing a lot of Dawn Of War lately...

You should really check them out, don't take what I say as rote.
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Edit: Oh, in fact this month's issue has a whole Commodore section in it. I've just flicked through it and I was wrong, they only refer to it as a computer with the exception of the CD32.

Personally I hope they continue to do both, as variety is a good thing.
I bought Spellforce Platinum (2005) and will be buying Far Cry (2004) when it's released here, but I'll also get around to games like Fallout 1 & 2 eventually. I'm enjoying the selection and I hope that GoG.com continues to focus on games that didn't see prime time attention when they were originally released, as well as expanding the back catalog.

Awkward acronym. I'll use it in a sentence to show what I mean:
"Joe was pretty drunk at the Christmas party, because that was a lot of NOG he drank."
BJ