Irrelevant is my relevant …

Upgrading a copy of Windows 7 RC to a retail copy is much simpler than you could have ever expected. I am sure there are a million and one guides on the internet on how to do this by now. But I thought I would blog my experiences. The process is a painless one but one that will require you to walk away and make a few cups of tea.

Steps:

1. Don’t try and ‘upgrade’ straight off the DVD it will not work! you will see this:
2. Instead, copy the DVD to a folder on the local hard drive and then edit the file \sources\cversion.ini
3. Change the cversion.ini ‘MinClient’ option to a version before or equal to the version on the notice on your desktop stamp.Example if the desktop says

   

   then change the file to

   

   And save the file.

4. Launce Setup.exe in the folder the DVD was coped to and select the ‘Upgrade’ option when prompted.
5. Follow the on screen instructions and wait.
6. Tada!

Hope it works, worked perfectly for me!

I am not sure I could ask for a better windows blog writing application. Appears to work seamlessly, sometimes Microsoft just do things right!

hurrah!

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Brilliant!

How to make Skittle Vodka.

Looks good, particularly the colour.

Skittles Vodka Tutorial | Mix That Drink.

SiN Computer Game

SiN was one of my favourite games when I was younger and clearly showed improvements on the Quake 2 engine from which it was based. Unfortunately at the time of release Half Life was also released as a result SiN was thrown into shadow.

In my oppinion SiN was a better game, I wasted many hours playing the game online and sniping from the crane.

SiN seems to have almost died on the internet, finding the source code for the game proved a difficult thing. Therefore I have hosted it here for any other fans who fancy a look through the source code. It makes a fairly interesting read.

Download SiN Source Code (~500k)

The download file was originally sin110source.exe but has been repacked. No one wants a self decompressing file, it is now a .zip not a .exe.

Additional Resources:

Interesting article on the development of SiN

Original SiN game site on Archive.org

Hi, Well I have finally got round to finishing enough of this application to give you a version. Unfortunately all the features I wanted to release are not there but its close enough. Future versions will incorporate these.

This application is basically a sound board with the ability to add user created content.

As before, requires .Net 3.5 CF.

The sample sound themes included in the application are a little weak and could do with some extra ones being created. Post your creations in the thread please

There are two types of themes available, a button theme and an image theme.

The button theme uses positionable windows image buttons to play the sounds.

The image theme uses an image to play the sounds. So for example you would have 2 images one for the background on the application for the user to see and one for the application to use. The overlay image will contain a single block of colour where you want to place a button, this colour is then indexed in the themes XML file. So when you press down on the background the colours are matched and the matching sound played.

The best way to get to grips with the themes is to look at two of the themes I have provided. The XML files are fully commented and quite simple to understand.

Example of ButtonTheme, \content\Roy Walker\RoyWalker.xml
Example of Imagetheme, \content\Mr T\MRT.xml

I am sure there will be bugs, but I wanted to get a release out as soon as possible to get some user created content. Please post any creations on this thread and I will include them in the .cab file with the next version.

Any feedback or suggestions please post on this thread also.

Future features:
Volume Control
More audio support, e.g. mp3 etc
Options to save last theme and other stuff
visual feedback on an Imagetheme button press, perhaps a greying of an area (Simple but havent had the time)

Any way have fun!!
Download

I have just received a shiny new HTC Diamond Touch, after a day or so of having it I thought it was time to create an application. This is what the few minutes during my lunch break at work came up with.

A Roy Walker sound board! Only 4 samples unfortunately, you wouldn’t believe how hard these audio samples are to find.

Enjoy, the start of many to come I hope.

Download the Cab Now – It requires the .Net Compact Framework 3.5 to be installed on the device.

Screenshot

Running order for BloodStock Open Air 2008:

BloodStock 2008 Running Order

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Impressive lightning video

Flash video of lightning striking in very slow motion,

Nostalgia…

A friend of mine got me playing UFO: Enemy Unknown again the other day, I can’t say the idea thrilled me but I thought I would give it a go none the less. I have to say I had completely forgotten how great old games were to play. Yes yes yes the graphics were not so hot, but the gameplay was totally amazing. Something that has been long forgotten about recently.

This got me thinking, I own all the Space Quests and Police Quest games (they are in a box in the loft) and I remember wasting my childhood playing them. I thought how amazing would it be to play these games again?

Considering I legally own these games, I set about googling a place to download them. So very easy, a simple google search for:

• “sq1.zip“
• “sq2.zip“
• “pq1.zip“
• “policequest2.zip“
• I think you get the idea.

A few minutes later I had my complete collection. Knowing these games would no longer work on the bloated operating systems of modern day I set about downloading DosBox.

DosBox is a dos emulation utility, it is open source and as such free. Plays all the games perfectly, here are a few screenshots.

I have to admit I am hooked playing space quest, dreamweb and UFO: Enemy Unknown.