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MagicDisc is a freeware virtual CD program.
My friends and I played Road Rash II on the Genesis quite a bit back in the day. Love that jump in Hawaii.
I buy Samsung DVD burners for the computers I build; the price is right and they’ve worked fine. We also have a Samsung TV (from when the local stores were phasing out rear-projection TVs) and a microwave, neither of which was bought because of the brand name.
FWIW, if you’re in the US Newegg has this drive for $90 shipped at the moment.
[quote1245266999=Rich99]And when the battery is dead… The netbook is… ?[/quote1245266999]
Sold on eBay and replaced with a new model with twice the performance, better screen, larger HD/SSD, and much more memory for about the same price? :)A few things to try:
Start up IE, then when it gets stuck press Alt-Space. If a menu appears, use the cursor keys to go down to Move, then hit Enter. Press a cursor key and hopefully some or all of the dialog box will appear on-screen. You can then use the mouse to move it around.
Open the Run box (Windows-R) and run:
iexplore -extoffThis disables add-ons, which might end up skipping whatever is getting in your way.
If you had an older (pre-IE8) version of Google Toolbar installed, uninstall it from Add/Remove Programs.
Hope this helps.
IIRC, it only makes a restore DVD to a DVD burner. You can’t make a working (as in “push F4 at startup”) recovery partition without it or a completely cloned drive. Make sure you search the forum for more information about the Samsung recovery software, as I haven’t actually used it myself.
That CPU fan costs more than the last CPU I bought. :)
It’s too bad the current tools don’t work with these netbooks. Maybe they’re not as useful on the Atom-based computers (mine certainly seems to run cool enough and long enough), but it could be nice to play with the settings a bit.
Quake Live is a repackaged and slightly updated Quake III Arena. Q3A is 10 years old, so it should run pretty well on these netbooks.
Unreal Tournament also runs very well on the NC10. 2003/2004, not so much.
You can also make a restore DVD from the Samsung recovery software (assuming you have an external burner) and use that to put a working recovery partition back on the drive.
FWIW, if I was going to tear my NC10 apart and replace the hard drive, I probably wouldn’t bother putting the recovery partition back on there.
[quote1245079575=KiNeL]A broad and unfair statement. I bought mine as a ‘floor model’ (demo in UK) at a significant discount for the sake of a few mucky fingerprints. I had zero problems with the single exception that I didn’t like the default 50/50 partitioning but quickly cured that with Partition Magic.[/quote1245079575]
As it’s purely my opinion based on my own experiences, I’m not sure how it’s unfair. It is broad; it’s my general opinion, after all.I’m glad it worked for you.
The UK site is strange. The last time I wandered through (getting some links for someone on here) it had the various netbooks but practically nothing about them. (No specs, no downloads, etc.)
Not something I’ve seen on the US site. Weird.
The store where I used to sell computers sold the floor models as-is, no returns, you get whatever we happen to have which may or may not include the box. I personally tried my best to keep the stuff that came in the box, but you never know what your coworkers might have forgotten to put away or just decided was interesting enough to steal. :(
Bard’s Tale runs very well in DOSBox. :)
Knowing the limitations of the hardware, I haven’t tried to run too many “flashy” games on it. (Plenty of “Flash-y” games, but not “flashy” ones.) We had a Diablo II and Unreal Tournament night a month or two ago and those run fine, as you’d expect. Things like Guild Wars and Beyond Good and Evil don’t. Morrowind’s supposed to run OK, but I haven’t gotten around to trying it yet.
Mostly what I intended to play on my NC10 are old RPGs and adventure games: everything from my childhood favorite Bard’s Tale trilogy to the Baldur’s Gate set and Fallout, along with my Sierra and LucasArts adventure collections. Maybe the occasional game of Master of Magic.
Sadly, I haven’t had much time to game on it. :(
We have Comcast cable and internet and land line phone, and everything works great. Very few problems with the TV service, and our ‘net access has always been speedy. We haven’t been interested in switching to cable-based phone service: if the cable goes out, how do you call them to complain? :)
There’s no FiOS in our area. Heck, we may still not have DSL to our area, thanks to the old phone line setup.
