Myst? Certainly one of the defining moments of its' short-lived genre, but I think I would have picked The Seventh Guest instead for that slot.

Well, I know that if you build one of several PE configs using WinBuilder, it'll give you the option of installing ClamAV on there. I have a bootable USB stick running PE 2.0 with a full explorer interface and a whole set of tools for rebuilding, repairing, and cleaning Windows installs.

SS2 is a Windows game, so obviously no. Eleventh Hour? Well, not entirely sure about that one, but I know that The Seventh Guest was added to SCUMMVM recently. I wouldn't be surprised to see the sequel on the list in a year or two.

Check my past history if you like; I'm no astroturfer. Still, I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise on this particular topic -- really, it's better you judge for yourself in the first place. That's why RC1 is downloadable.

I am, however, going to say that my experiences so far have been pretty smooth and stable. I've only got an Athlon X2 5000 and 2GB of RAM, but it runs a whole lot better than Vista did on this hardware and actually seems to approach XP speeds in terms of feel.

I HAVE had some problems, though. It doesn't seem to like my bluetooth USB device for some reason. I imagine putting BlueSoleil back on would make a difference but I was kinda hoping the built-in drivers would suffice.

I really need more time to be 100% certain, but things are definitely looking up compared to the clusterfuck Vista ended-up being compatibility-wise for me.

I put W7 on here for testing purposes when RC1 came out, and I'm looking at an unmuted line-in port right now. My sound card is a now-ancient Audigy MP3+ and I'm using the default drivers that came with W7. Chances are, assuming the old Live cards have driver support on W7, you should be able to get the same results.

A lot of it comes down to the "native resolution" problem that plagues LCD. If you're running at native res (or a favored resolution that doesn't get scaling), you get minimal latency. If you go outside that resolution, you start to get perceptible lag due to the video scaling.

This is especially true with 480I/P signals on newer displays. The scaler on most TVs makes a real laggy mess of the whole process.

That much said, LCD doesn't necessarily mean "automatic nasty latency" like the previous poster suggested. My experiences have been entirely good as long as I set my config set right.

Since this is off-topic, I'm going to self-mod myself to have no karma bonus or such.

The current best Windows-based Dreamcast emulator is Makaron. It runs quite a few games at what I'd estimate at being 90% correct, but the issue of actually getting a working BIOS and working disc images to your PC is the real headache. GD-ROMs can't be natively read by unmodified PC hardware, so you end up needing a Dreamcast itself to pull disc images off the discs and to obtain the BIOS images you need.

Well, unless you go the pirate route.. but even if you do that, Google shows that getting a good Makaron BIOS set is hell.

Still, many games play great. I look forward to actually being able to play the original Dreamcast PSO online via emulation.

Well, I certainly recognized Facing Worlds, but I saw a lot more Q3 than UT in the videos in the map overall.

Yeah, they did. I remember a long-standing feud between the local New Times crew and Maricopa county's "finest" that broke out into at least two raids on the New Times and lawsuits in response.

The county has been caught doing some nasty stuff more than a few times in the last fifteen years, for anyone unfamiliar with Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He has cost the county millions on a year to year basis on lawsuits against the prison system over prison conditions. I don't think the county has won even a single case on that particular topic in the last ten years.

Personally, I'd be pretty damn afraid to even point all this out if I lived in Maricopa county, in light of this article.

During my time using a legit copy of Vista, I had activation issues three times, resulting in Windows refusing to accept my product key until I called Microsoft to talk to a technician.

What did I do to get this sort of behavior? Absolutely nothing. The problems started from the very first initial install activation, with it saying it was activated and not-activated at the same time. It only got more and more bizarre from there.

While I'm sure they've worked out a lot of the quirks, it's still a royal pain in the ass to deal with and I don't like the idea of my OS calling home frequently either. Especially with no way to tell what info it sends.

I'm seriously thinking I'm going to keep my gaming rig on XP and put a desktop machine permanently on Linux next time I upgrade. The news about Win7 hasn't been encouraging.

That's MY experience on the matter, and I think it's pretty well in line with what a lot of other people have experienced.

I can summarize easily enough, having had one of these cards in my possession for a short period of time.

Running any sufficiently modern (for that time) game at 640x480 was faster in software rendering than it was with the hardware rendering and often looked better too.

Exact opposite here. I've had no less than EIGHT of one Gigabyte board model die across four people-- we'd all bought the boards at the same time, online purchase from different places. I wouldn't touch a Gigabyte board if you PAID me to use one now.

  MSI, on the other hand, was always rock solid. It took UPS literally shredding the case, board, and components to take that machine down. I've had four MSI boards, and none failed under normal operating circumstances. UPS destroyed the one, the others were just outgrown.

Admittedly, it's homebrew and requires a modified firmware, but that hasn't been a real problem in roughly two years. The custom firmware guys are on the ball, and have CFW up to date with the official firmware within a very short time.

Bookr also supports cutting CPU speed down to minimum, which prolongs the battery life quite a bit compared to the bloated HTML renderer on the PSP.