[Blackpool] New PC build - it works!

[Arthur Garlick]

I didn't know about OpenRA, just looked at their site and it's a case of
 
WELCOME BACK, COMMANDER vs RIGHT ON COMMANDER!  

Unity 5 has just come out and that would be my choice, but will look at OpenRA and that Gideros stuff too.
 
 
 
I noticed that the original 1984 Elite is there for PC and Mac as a free download so I'll start with that to relive the old memories. 
 
I didn't have an external drive on my BBC B so I only had the cut down version.  I totally played Elite to death in between A Levels and waiting to go to Uni so the game is a big part of my gaming life. 
 
So far no problems or glitches, I did a few hours development work on it and it behaved really nicely.  The screens started off feeling way too big and I thought I'd made a mistake, but you soon adjust to it and here on my works dual 1920x1080 setup it feels cramped up now.  We'll have A4 sized phones before long.
 

A 
 
> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 18:34:15 +0000
> From: jmsp.1983 at gmail.com
> CC: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Blackpool] New PC build - it works!
> 
> Sounds perfectly specced for OpenRA!
> 
> :p
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> James
> 
> On 10 March 2015 at 14:46, Michael <heed at bigmassiveheed.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Elite Dangerous for the win....perhaps should get a LUG wing set up...
> >
> > On 10 March 2015 at 13:17, Arthur Garlick <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > So I got the new main PC I mentioned on Saturday.  I hadn't built a PC
> > for
> > > over 10 years, wow the kit is so much nicer to work with nowadays.
> > >
> > > In my recent spirit of trying new things that in the past I'd discounted
> > > ('discounted' is putting it mildly), I water cooled it, I fretted over
> > how
> > > that would go but it was very easy.  I went with a Corsair H105, it's a
> > > sealed setup and very much a good beginners (or raving sceptics even)
> > entry
> > > point into water cooling.
> > >
> > > There was a bit of a learning curve with all the new fangled lingo, I
> > > think the hardware guys have been busy making new words up for marketing
> > > purposes.
> > >
> > > 6 cores i7 Haswell E, 16Gb DDR4 memory, 1Tb SSD, AMD Firepro 7100, Dual
> > > 28" 4K monitors.  Not a bad spec for writing code in Turbo Pascal - it's
> > > pretty quick.  Having two 4K 28" monitors 2' from your face feels like
> > > you're getting a suntan as part of the deal too.
> > >
> > > I haven't played games on it yet, the monitors are lower end gaming ones
> > > and although the AMD graphics card is more workstation than full on
> > gaming
> > > I should be able to run Elite Dangerous comfortably in 4K and 60Hz.
> > >
> > >
> > > A
> > >
> > >
> > >
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