Tex Murphy Overseer Install Guide
I remember walking into my new Software Etc store in the late 90′s and wondering where it would all end. Who and how were they going to top this one? The box on the rack that contained Tex Murphy Overseer had a little, flashing, red light to highlight the box art. Right at the top of the building in picture was a miniature LED driven by a watch battery. Definitely eye-catching. And the MMX badge prominently displayed–it was Intel, in fact, that played a large role in financing this fifth entry into the Tex Murphy Universe. And if you read the interviews with Access muckity-mucks, the imposed development time-line necessary to get the game done at the same time the Pentium MMX processors shipped is somewhat to blame for Overseer’s rough...
Tex Murphy Overseer (Coming Soon)
Keep tuned…I’ll post soon with a complete setup guide. This game is running great, without much in the way of real issues on Windows XP. That is, except for the MIDI music… And yes, I know there’s other info out there (such as on the boards of the Unofficial Tex Murphy website), but I thought it might be nice to have it all in one spot. In other big news, PHP is no where near the mystery it was to me a few days ago. I should have my own custom WordPress theme done sometime...
Tex Murphy Rides Again (Pandora Directive and DOSBox w/o CDs)
“I’d like to help you, but I can’t.” The glory days of adventure games are gone. I really hate to say that, but let’s be realistic. As much as anyone, I have fond memories of all night runs at the latest title. I actually played through Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on an Amiga 500, for heaven’s sake. (For the uninitiated, an A500 didn’t come with a hard drive, and there were 14 diskettes that I had to swap between two floppy drives.) I was working 2nd shift when The 7th Guest came out, and I distinctly remember agonizing over the $250.00 CD-ROM upgrade. I ended up with a glacially slow 2X Mitsumi. I wanted one of the new Plextors that ran at 3X but they required SCSI, and this Mitsumi had it’s own ISA...
The Long Tail Took Jack Bauer’s Lunch Money
Yep. Pretty much the best bumper sticker evar: “I took Jack Bauer’s Lunch Money.” I think I may have an original there–better start printing them up fast! My wife and I are pretty big fans of 24. We are currently in the middle of Season 5 from Netflix, with Season 6 stacking up on our DVR. Unfortunately, we already knew about President Logan’s treason due to a stupid promo that we caught on accident during another show. Odd how some TV shows are actually surpassing movies in sustained interest level. I personally believe that the TV networks see the end of their business model fast approaching and are scrambling to create content that is actually compelling…but it won’t last. Not with DVRs. There is no way to...
WordPress is a Dream
Wow. Fourth Law is now up and running on a real blogging engine: WordPress. It is absolutely fantastic! I’ve never had a better experience with a piece of software–honestly. Since the very first moment that I logged into cPanel to create a new database, and started up the WordPress installer I have been utterly impressed. To be completely honest, I had a harder time deciding on a theme (or creating my own) than installing and becoming completely at home with the interface. Every possible option I have been able to think up has already been handled by the excellent WordPress community with the huge library of existing plug-ins. It is just incredible. Everyone should be using this software–so let me suggest some...
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