I have finished my C++ CGI script. The script is for Apache and any other Internet server software that can run C++ CGI scripts. I am very happy with the performance of this program compared to a Perl script, and it is much more streamlined than a lot of other C++ CGI scripts I have seen that are a bitch to compile on Linux, since a lot of people use Windows unfortunately and their code is written for an unstable and pathetic platform developed for the lowest common denominator. E.g, those without GCC. I am using fopen() to write values to a log file, I will post the script when it is done. How many Doomers are running Doom3 yet? I wonder. The requirements are very high for this game and a PC with only 256MB of RAM and a GeForce 4 will be left out in the cold for sure. But I would get a Radeon 9800 and enjoy faster frame rates than 10fps.\n
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A GeForce 4 cannot run Doom3 I bet, unless you wanted to run with practically no detail at 10 frames per second. I would buy a Radeon card and more RAM since it is so cheap now. According to Australian PC User magazine, a GeForce 6600 card with 256MB of memory is only AU$275.00 so an upgrade cannot cost that much. Apparently, this card ran Doom3 @ just under 50 Frames Per Second @ 1024*768 so that is not too bad for a relatively cheap card. The Nvidia GeForce 6800 ran Doom3 @ 76.8 Frames Per Second @ 1024*768 so that is really good if you want more speed for fast-paced action. At 1280*1024 it ran Doom3 @ 59.7 Frames Per Second, which would appeal to those who want more appealing graphics. This is an AGP card though, so if you have upgraded to PCI-Express, you have better performing cards available. The GeForce 6800 is AU$519.00 by the way. which is more than the previous card, but that is what you pay for such a good frame rate. I would rather play Doom3 in Linux myself, I could run the absolute minimum window manager, ie TWM or Blackbox and have more memory available to play the game than those sad folks using Windows XP ‘ Home Edition’. That is the worst OS ever designed, even worse than Windows Millenium Edition.
A good system for Doom3. 17″-19″ Monitor. 512MB-1GB RAM.\n
nVidia GeForce 6800.\n
Good Optical Mouse.\n
Headphones or Good Speakers. (I prefer Headphones.)\n
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A 21\” monitor would be good as well, but 17 to 19 inches is a pretty good range to work with. 512MB of RAM should give an adequate performance with memory-hungry games, and a good optical mouse can be had very cheaply these days, and is more fun to use than an outdated ball mouse that fills up with gunk and shit on a regular basis.\n
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I think a good mod for Doom3 would be a game that is like Half-Life where you fight enemy troops that throw grenades and use a high level of AI to outsmart the player, that would be the most fun of all, since I enjoyed that aspect of Half-Life the most, even more than fighting the Aliens. Being able to man a fixed heavy machine gun and mow down the troops would also be very cool. Say that troops were sent into the Mars base to cleanse the area and you were right in the middle of the action. But the troops are eviscerated by a horde of Barons, and you are left to clean up yourself. There is the ATI Radeon X800 XT (AGP8X). This card can run Doom3 at 91.5 Frames Per Second at 1024*768 resolution, and 72.9 Frames Per Second at 1280*1024 resolution. This would be an ideal card at the moment if you had the AU$900.00 it costs to buy this card in Australia.\n
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These cards were tested with Doom3 Timedemo 1. PC User magazine used an AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU with ABIT\’s AV8 Motherboard and 1GB of Geil DDR400 RAM. OS was Windows XP pro with Microsoft Direct X 9.0c extensions. A PC of these specifications should be a very powerful Doom3 machine. Anything less is asking for trouble. I personally would go for the ATI Radeon card and hang the expense, it would last much longer between upgrades than a cheaper card and you would be able to run the largest and most detailed levels in Doom3.
Especially if you have many monsters coming at you, a slow graphics card would let you down at a critical moment. And that is the last thing you want. I love to play Doom2 & Final Doom in Ultraviolence mode and I like the challenge of the Punisher. And I would like to see a Doom3 version of the punisher come out on the idgames archive. A version of Plutonia MAP32 for Doom3 would also be cool.\n
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I have finished my CGI random link script and I have put up the source code on my perl_code page. This script randomly picks a weblink out of a list and prints it to the browser. This script is coded better than some I have seen and outputs the date and time as well.\n
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Just type g++ script.cpp -o myscript to compile this code. It is that simple.\n
Well, I really like Doom3 and everyone should play this game. Although if it had huge outdoor areas like Unreal had then it would be even better. You could have a sniper rifle and nail the Imps from 205 Meters away. They are just patrolling their local area and they suddenly lose their head.\n
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If you had mounted machine guns then a battle would be more decisive. I would choose the Soviet KPV Heavy Machine Gun. This gun fires 14.5mm Armour Piercing shells that can penetrate 25mm of armour at 500m range. The shell was originally designed as an Anti Tank shell during world war II. I believe this was the gun used in the movie ‘Day of the Jackal’ starring Bruce Willis. No wonder the gun did so much damage. Firing at 600rpm, it would do significant damage to the enemy, especially if you deployed the ZPU-4 mounting that has a trailer with 4 individual guns firing together, this would tear apart even the strongest Demons. The guns use a metallic link belt and were designed as Anti-Aircraft machine guns, but would work perfectly as ground-based guns.\n
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I cannot believe this! I was reading an Australian PC World mag from 1996 and an advertisement for Dell computers was on the front cover, and they were selling a Pentium 100, with 8MB EDO RAM and a 1GB EIDE Hard Drive with PCI interface, plus 2MB PCI graphics card for AU$2749.00!!!!!!
Man oh man, how times have changed. 8MB of memory to run Windows ’95? You have got to be kidding. Maybe with 32MB but I had trouble running Windows \’98 with 64MB of RAM, but that was just Microsoft behaviour or course. Bill Gates said famously that no one would ever need more than 640KB of RAM, but that was before Windows 3.11 came out and users and software became more demanding of PC resources than ever before. A 16MB SIMM chip was AU$169.95 back then, a hell of a wad of cash for something so small. Nowadays, you can get a 256MB DDR 400 chip for AU$159.00 from computeronline.com.au. This is a much better deal, and a 512MB DDR 400 chip is only AU$299.00. But 10 years from now nobody will want that. You will probably be able to buy 10GB chips by then. Windows Longhorn will need that much to run Quake 4 for sure. But I would not run that, although I want to have a look at the interface and see how it runs, but I would not buy a copy. The aforementioned PC had a 1GB hard drive. Nowadays you can get a Maxtor 200GB hard drive with 8MB cache memory for AU$189.00. This is 200X larger and probably the same price. Although I remember when you could buy 1MB SIMM chips, but nobody wants these now. I remember once seeing a giant ISA card to put in a 286 PC that was for 1MB of memory altogether. The shame of it. I have just gone through the garage and I found some old data cassettes from a Tandy TRS80 personal computer. Oh, the humanity, I could not believe we had this crap. It must be 20 years old by now, reading data from a cassette must be very slow indeed. And there were two 5/12″ floppy discs with more data as well. I have no machine to read them now. Each disc must only fit 360KB, a DVD-ROM is the same size and fits 4.7GB! I have two of these and they would fit millions of these discs for sure. I would rather use these than a floppy disc for sure. The next PC I get will not have one at all.
It is not necessary at all these days, you can burn a CD as an emergency boot disc and this is much more durable than a floppy and can fit much more. Floppy drives are lame, and those who use them are lame. Get a thumb drive and enjoy 256MB of space. Microsoft Windowstm is lagging behind Linux in regards to creating boot discs. Some Linux distros come with a bootable ISO that you simply burn to CD and you have a ready-made boot disc. With Windows, they want you to create a bootable floppy and use that. instead. Although you can create a bootable image from the floppy and burn that to a cd, it is lots of stuffing around.