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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Do You Play Video Games? Post 302279720 by nixnoob on Friday 23rd of January 2009 04:23:05 PM

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Originally Posted by BOFH

Well since Windows XP won't recognize it anyway, it's really overkill. It was cheap though. $49 (after rebates) from Tigerdirect for two 2 Gig sticks. I just couldn't pass it up.

I was going to say...if your running a 32 bit OS...you have 5 gigs of RAM just eating up power...can't wait for the day when the gaming companies finally get into the 64 bit world and I can go ahead with putting a new gaming system together...

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I do remember back when I used memory managers to eke out the last few kb of RAM for my DOS stuff. And I remember my first computer, with 2kb of ram. Smilie

Those were fun days...himem.sys was a godsend...mapping to the upper memory blocks to free up enough base memory just so Wolfenstein would run...I managed to get 610k free...had to force some base processes into the upper memory region to do it... Smilie

dos scripting.

I quit "hardcore" gaming a few years back...trying to keep a job while getting only 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night (1 or 2 on weekends) isn't something middle aged geeks can handle for long...good thing for coffee and dew.

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darkplaces-server

DARKPLACES(6)							   Games Manual 						     DARKPLACES(6)

NAME

       darkplaces-server - an engine for iD software's Quake and related games

SYNOPSIS

       darkplaces-server [ -options ] [ +set cvar value ] [ +console commands ]

DESCRIPTION

       DarkPlaces  is  an  engine for Quake and related games, with greatly enhanced effects and lighting and many features for mods.  darkplaces-
       server is the dedicated-server version of DarkPlaces, with fewer dependencies.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the Quake convention, with long options starting with a single dash (`-').	Options include:

       -basedir
	      Specify the location of the game data files.

       -game  Start the game using the files from a mission pack or a mod.

       -hipnotic
	      Start the game with the Hipnotic mission pack.

       -rogue Start the game with the Rogue mission pack.

       -nexuiz
	      Expect the basedir to contain the standalone game Nexuiz, instead of Quake.

       Various other mods and standalone games are supported, see /usr/share/doc/darkplaces-server/README.Debian.

AUTHOR

       DarkPlaces was based on Quake by id Software, and is maintained by LordHavoc and numerous contributors.

       This manual page was written by David Banks <amoebae@gmail.com> and Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> for the Debian  project,  and  may	be
       used by others.

								    2011-06-06							     DARKPLACES(6)