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  • 28-12-2002 8:29pm
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    hamster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭


    Now this is probably not the right place for a thread like this one although it does touch "games".

    One thing I'll like about the PC compared to lets say... the Xbox etc. is the fact you can mess around with almost anything these days create mp3s, design a level/map, download a book, create a CD, use an emulator... blah blah.

    To make a essay short as it were, I'm in a "is there something new to try out" kinda mood. Any cool programs/utilities to try out? ie this is what I came across:

    1. Celestia - a 3D space viewer - awesome with a good 3D card.
    http://ennui.shatters.net/celestia/
    2. Seti .... a co-operative space hunt
    http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
    3. Various Emulators... too big a list at this stage. eg winuae, ccs64
    4. Project Gutenberg .. lots of famous and important texts made freely available
    http://www.gutenberg.net/
    5. DivX ... goes without saying.

    Anything else new/interesting or worth trying out? :p


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    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    virtual turntables
    there are prolly better mp3 mixing apps out there, but i feel some kind of loyalty to this one from back in the days of my crappy old 133 mhz pentium.
    hasn't been updated in over a year & a half, and it skips a lot in xp...

    if anyone knows of any other decent apps for mixing mp3's let me know.


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    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    oh yeah, after hours is prolly the place for this thread


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    Thorbar
    Registered Users Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭Thorbar


    I remember seeing a site once where you created a 3d design which you then looked after like those tomagochi(spelling?) and it evolved based on the quality of your care. I think you were suppose to print it out and make it as well. Can't for the life of me remember the link anyone know what I'm talking about?


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    hamster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭hamster


    Oh geoclock is another one. Geoclock is a program where you can keep track of day & night times around the globe. You can see the sine-wave day/night terminator boundary. Accelerate time to see the change in the seasons etc.. even spotted the Ecilipse there last August '99.... but unfortunately the utility is now pretty ancient... still keeping an eye for something similiar. There are some net based apps that now something similar but are not as good. There is win geoclock but terribly slow.

    I'm surprised Micro$oft didn't implement this idea in their Atlas program (they have 100's of filters for the globe).


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