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Hehe Vert, that looks familiar

Heh DCrazy - no, Newports aren't available here. I smoked Salem in the US. Those are Aussie ciggies: Winfield.

hey bill
the psu that runs the lights did u half to rewire it cause i know some AT psus wont fire up with out a MB connectoin even though they have there owne power switch

I did some housecleaning first.

Piece-a-cake Warlock. On the ATX connector just jumper the green wire to one of the blacks.

Deadmeat wrote:I did some housecleaning first.

Wimp...

I like that controller setup Deadmeat.

Mr. Perfect wrote:How much would I have to bribe you to try the other cable real quick?

Have you tried projecting on a painted wall, or is a screen pretty much required?

How well does it keep up with fast paced action? Any blurring or smearing of bright colors like low-response LCDs do?

That price is a bit more then I would really want to spend, but then again there's all that beautiful screen realestate... I must investigate projectors further.

Ok I finally got around to trying this out. It turns out all I had to do was change the projector to analog mode (the DVI cable has both analog and digital pins), then reboot. The computer then treats it like a regular analog monitor. The projector is a little slow in changing resolutions, so you might miss a bios screen if it changes resolutions and then goes away quickly. The analog image quality is definitely less sharp than the digital.

About a painted wall, a screen will be superior to your basic painted wall. Not that the painted wall is unusable, its just not nearly as good. However, there is a company out there that makes special paint just for projectors, so you could either paint a wall with the paint, or get a giant sheet of drywall or something to make your own screen.

It might suffer from the usual LCD problems, but I haven't really noticed anything much. I don't have any trouble with playing D3 on it. You can use any refresh rate you like as long as its 60hz. It works well for TV, and a good dvd (LOTR) will have an image you could just about walk into. I don't have an HDTV setup, but I guess that would really be something.

Oh, that's cool. So I could use the analog cable for BIOS settings and the digital cable for everything else.

Now I need to see if the college has any projectors in their surplus sale.

hey defender, where di you get that poster....that shiz is tight

It's an old Metallica poster.

Defender wrote:It's an old Metallica poster.

thanx

Old pic. The viewsonic 17 is over on the right hand desk now, along with a 15" Sony for the apple. The apple dsplay took a crap. the box you see there has been moved to the right to make room for a new gaming rig I built over the summer. There's also a 19" Mitsu on my desk to replace the viewsonic.

Those sure are some pretty drapes you made for yourself there vinny

Hey Pun, which G4 is that?
I will post a pic ASA I get my new gaming box up and running, parked in his new home.

Fus

Old, but unchanged. The left-side couch has been replaced with a digital piano


Clickie for larger.

Ok, Here are my pics to Share:
Main setup (Sorry didn't get monitor completely into the pic. Itsa Flat Panel LCD
New Gaming Box Fusion's Gaming Box (Computer's Name) is sitting on my File cabinet, Turned on.

Fus

Is that Enterprise model a telephone?

Top Gun wrote:Is that Enterprise model a telephone?

Yes TG, it is a phone, and the Ringer is the Red Alert sound.

Fus

MMS? Not me!

Hehe Tri, that looks familiar too

Nitro and Punisher,
What Mac G4 is that in your respective pics?
Fus

what's up with the multiple monitors on 1 computer stand.? Vin. you need to clean yours off!!!

Fusion: 466 MHz 1st gen G4, 1024 MB RAM 320 GB total

Nitrofox125 wrote:Fusion: 466 MHz 1st gen G4, 1024 MB RAM 320 GB total

Mine was the 400 G4, now a 1.4 gig G4. Ram is 1.12 gig,

and the HD's are a 10 gig and a 120 gig. Vid card is is the ATI Radeon 8500 64 ddr Ram.

Fus

Hate to bump an old thread like this but I just got my little digital cam working again and, well, here it is:

Hey Nos; that looks like a CH stick. Does it have the twist? Or do you use the pedals for twist?

Sligar wrote:Hey Nos; that looks like a CH stick. Does it have the twist? Or do you use the pedals for twist?

No. The CH Fighter stick does not have twist.

Here is how I have it setup. Upper right hat is a 8 position POV hat that I use for sliding. I use the red button on the upper left to flare. There is a side index finger button that I use for afterburner. The trigger is obviously used for primaries. There is a pinky trigger that I use for secondaries. The hat just under the red thumb button, I have setup in a duel purpose. I use side to side to role. Forward on this hat chooses fusion or omega. Reverse chooses megas or black sharks. The lower right hat I have setup to choose the rest of the primaries. Forward is for concs/frags, right is for homers/guideds, down is for morters/napalm, and left is for smarts/cyclones. The hat on the left of the stick I have choosing the other primaries. Up for Blues/Yellows, Right for MD/Vauss, Down for Napalm/Micro, Left for Plasma/EMD. I have the peddles set so that depressing the right one is thrust forward. The left is thrust in reverse.

Works for me