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Sheesh ! If your willing to pay a few dollars then you can use ViewingDale as an online RPG VT, full mapper and diagram editor. I do all my software diagrams on it and have a whole collection of boxes busses, arrows, lines and circles etc. If you want, as a bit of goodwill, I could make these...

In terms of graphics again its a bit hard to be specific about the exact performance that a chip can give on an unknown machine but generally picking an ATI or nVidia type is better than the Intel or SiS type ones. Generally ATI and NVidia make high performance ones inc 3D stuff and the others...

A small point to consider is that if you can do graphics on a proper graphics chip then it offloads it from the CPU and can save some power. In any case having a reasonable graphics chip will enable more apps to be run that need a little poke in that department. The ATI X300 or X600 or the...

I second that. Perl is your hairy animal. http://xkcd.com/c208.html :)

Hi Dark Jester, I write ViewingDale which is a bit overkill for your needs. But if you have some internet access then there is a free page I host which you can use if you like. Its really simple though - might be a bit too simple for your needs but hey here it is :-...

These are so cool. I just like the way that either a) you can almost write a small story around each pic or b) it has some weird / clever point of view or interesting lighting that makes something which would be otherwise a touch mundane into an exciting piece.

You shouldn't have to uninstall the old driver but many people claim to have issues without uninstalling or running some clean up utility. The driver installation should update all the necessary files. Personally I have never uninstalled an old driver. I go to the hardware devices page and...

Yes I agree that frameworks can be a problem. They solve one issue and create another. They are supposed to present a standard binary interface to a machine no matter what platform you are running on. The problem that has been created is that different versions of the same type of framework are...

Yes but that is a distinct application binary and installation per system type. If you mean PC, Mac and Linux then that is at least 3. If you want x64 and x64 then double that again. In terms of the perfect RPG application specification then sure what your asking for is perfectly acceptable...

I have been following this thread in the background as a developer of an online app and I was going to say the same at the end. Isn't it fascinating. A lot of the feedback that I get is split between the two extremes of more features and make it simple and easier to use. The question posed by...

I think that if I could pick up the book in 50 years time, read it, and it would not sound jarring and out of place then I think that the text including the profanity would not present an issue. Sometimes I think that even though specific words like f & s are not 21st century, the use...

Hey Jester, you can try my free dice app... http://www.viewing.ltd.uk/cgi-bin/viewingdale.pl?category=dice Theres a few more but I forget their names. Dice bag or something like that.

You should try all of the demos on the various websites and see which one fits your needs.

It might make for a good topic for people with 64 bit stuff to list what exact 64 bit OS they use and what peripherals they have that work well or don't work with a 64 bit driver or have no driver at all. As well as knowing, you could get a web link or email that person to get a driver.

Well, Thanee is about to buy a GTS which has 6 multiprocessors on it and each of those has 16 streaming processors making up a 96 'core' card in total. I admit it takes some specialist programming to make use of them. My current stuff will make use of a few CPU cores and I am working on...

Yes the Athlon64 range is all 64 bit whether single core or X2 dual core. You need a 64bit CPU, a 64 bit OS and a 64 bit compiled app before it runs in native 64 bit. Yes its just more texture memory. That can possibly have an impact on performance since there is a hit from sending textures to...

A few points to clear up. A larger PSU will use about the same amount of power as a smaller PSU because they deliver the amount of power required by the stuff connected to it. Like Bront says a larger one is likely to be more robust but all else being equal it would produce the same amount of...

I have 4Gb and its well sweet but I stress that ram a lot more than most. Right now 2 should be enough but its always just a matter of time. I want more already but my mobo tops at 4 ! Note well tho that you NEED a 64 bit OS to go with that 64 bit CPU in order to use more than 3GB and even then...

My TV blew up recently and I was loathed to pony up a fat wedge to get a new and latest TV because I don't watch all that much any more. I have a few large and old monitors lying around and you can certainly get them for a song if you want a tube type. I happened to have this large widescreen...

Some old machines used to have limits on how much RAM you can add. If the motherboard has a 384 limit then adding more wont be detected. I had an old machine with this same issue. I had 4 DIMMs in it with 128, 128, and then I added a 256 and it didnt show all of it. As said before it could be...