WMCE 2005, Getting the most out of it

Stoner

I was wondering about getting the most out of windows media centre edition PC.

Bar
DVD player
TV recorder
Music
Internet DIvx etc

I can game on mine as its a decent processor and graphics card,
apart from this but how does everyone else get the most from theirs. I was thinking of some geeky games like trivial persuit, it would look good on the big screen when people call around even scrabble, those of us who have built/bought a media pc must have other things they do with them, whats the deal with the sing along stuff, it that any good?

Anyone any ideas to add?

secret_squirrel

Being as it can be on more often than not and also mine is set for idle shutdown 2 things that spring to mind are as an overnight p2p client, or as a remote access client when you are out of the house.

I also intend getting some console-alike games when my new tv arrives.

Stoner

thats not a bad idea, for remote access, I've recently networked the house, and i was thinking of running an old P3 for the remote access as my media PC is a bit of a killer on the power usage, I was also thinking of an old game of space invaders alright.

SouperComputer

MAME, quality entertainment. Not to mention the other emus available.

Stoner

A host of SNES games would be worth the trouble alright
I ordered scrabble and trivial persuit last night on ebay.

ebooks are an idea

Can you get nice skins for the music player?

secret_squirrel

SouperComputer wrote:

MAME, quality entertainment. Not to mention the other emus available.

There's a mame plugin for MCE so you can play it from the gui, and using the remote if memory serves (which it might not)