Ecstatic

I was watching the old Dune movie on Stars a few days ago and it reminded me about a game I haven't thought of in quite some time, Dune. One of my earliest memory’s of gaming is Dune. I used to spend hours on it and decided to try and pick it up again.

I found a few auctions on Ebay, but most were in the UK or looked suspicious. I finally decided to check an abandonware website to see if they had it. I know what some will say, "Abandonware is not exactly legal", and I concede the point, but here are mine.
1 The game is over ten years old.
2 It is not reasonably available to purchase.
3 I really wanted to play it.

Now that the legality was out of the way I had to get the old Dos game to run on XP.

"Not a Problem" I thought as I triumphantly ran the install.exe file I downloaded. A window opened, installing happened, and I squealed with joy.

But wait, a snag...
The beloved musical notes I remembered as a child were no where to be heard. "Not a Problem, I will play without music" was my battle cry as I continued on my quest.

I went to talk to Leto Atreides and again no sound, this would be a problem.

I scoured the internet high and low looking for the holy grail like program that would allow me to play a game far inferior to those I could easily play no more than five feet away.

I traversed the endless jungles known as Go Ogle only to be attacked by the tribe of Popup over and over again.

Finally as my supply of Mountain Dew had grown dangerously low, and I had abandoned my companions Alife and Hom Ework I found the thing I was looking for The VDMSound Project. I could finally return to my gaming in peace.

That was my story, and now I still have a rough draft and a ten minute speech to do.

Wow, a Month and a Half of Nothing.

I know it has been a long time since I posted and for that I am somewhat sorry. Between school and other projects I am not overly busy, I just don't feel like doing much extra-curricular writing. I do promise to at least post once every two weeks, more for my self then for my readers... ok reader. I will start by trying to update you on the last month and a half.

I finished LOTR around the end of August, roughly two weeks after I predicted it would take me the rest of the year. I thought that since it was the third time I was going through the series it would be more work then enjoyment, but I think I liked it more this time then ever.

Since I finished early I started looking for a new book to read and I couldn't find anything that peaked my interest. Finally while browsing the books at Good Will a few days go I came across a book called To the Last Man. It is a WWI novel by the man that wrote Gods and Generals. Since I didn't have anything else to read at the time, and it was two dollars for a near mint condition hardcover I picked it up. I have only gotten in about fifty pages, but so far it is pretty good. I will post a review/opinion when I finish.

Something else also happened of note during my absence, my pastor asked me to organize his library. He has about 5,000 books so it is now simple task. I have been searching for a program to use that will do all the things he wants and I think I found it. Next I will have to go through the labor intensive task of putting it into the database by hand.

Now onto a gaming note. It is a small one, but a good one. Assassin's Creed has been confirmed for Xbox 360. I was watching this game out of the corner of my eye trying not to get too interested when it was PS3 only, but now that it is headed to 360 I am extremely excited about it. The Game-play looks great along with the graphics. Not much too say about it right now except that you should check out the X06 Video and wait patiently for March.