PCFormat Forum Archive

For those of you that have found zork too difficult, we've added Hints to the game, just type hint to start the hint system then use the hyperlinks to navigate it.

This style of game does take some getting used to, there are stacks of walkthroughs for it on the net, It may be worthwhile having a look at one of them to get you into the flow of things.
http://www.eristic.net/games/infocom/zork1.html

Hey guys, we're busy with a port of an old text-based adventure game called Zork, you can check it out on MXit by adding a contact with the number 27838322247.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork

I'm with Thrall on this one, Sony is overpriced and not as good as they are made out to be. I know plenty people that Have had problems with sony. When I buy optical drives I buy Plextor if I'm feeling rich or lite-on (unless I can't find lite-on in which case I am happy with LG) I am also not a fan...

Has anyone written any dual layer DVDs on either of thease writers? Thats what I wanna know, I'm sure they are both perfectly capable of reliable single layer writes

Cyberdyne are cheaper then computers only and most dealers ,despite what some mite say.They have Kinston + Samsung RAM and Hitachi + Western Digital Hdd's. I agree 100% ComputersOnly are good because they stock a nice range but their RAM is WAY overpriced, if you're going to buy RAM get it from cyb...

You can put faster RAM on any board but to use it to it's full potential you would need to overclock the board's FSB. "ga81848p-l" doesn't mean much to me (A google search came up empty which may mean that the board is form some obscure manufacturer or the model you gave us is in some way ...

The best way to improve your 3D gaming performance will be to upgrade the card

I have a Siemens S55 and an MSI bluetooth dongle, like havoc sayes the speed when surfing using CSD (Dial up) is rediculously slow but I do sometimes (when I'm feeling rich cause it aint cheap) surf using GPRS from my cell phone and I get usable speeds.

The chaintech is a nice board, but its an NForce 3 - 150 board, so the AGP/PCI locks aren't there where as the MSI K8N Neo is a nForce 3 - 250 board so it has AGP/PCI locks and an onboard hardware firewall. If I were you I would get the nForce 3 - 250 version of the chaintech board ( http://www.chai...

Ok 007, I apologise for coming down on you so hard. Like I always say, everone is entitled to their own opinion, however stupid it may be. Just a hint, if you point out mistakes like that, just do it in a friendly matter and end of with something like "I know you guys are trying your best. Tha...

Ok Cameron007, you didn't say you could do better but every time you critisize or critique someone else you have to ask yourself the question "Would I be able to do better if I were in their shoes?" If the answer is no, then you really shouldn't complain. If the answer is yes, then you sh...

I agree with Ruad 100%. If you do have issues with the mag, take it up with the staff - send a mail or a pm to Cameron or Tamsin, a public post like this is written in a very negative light and somewhat slanderous since most readers wouldn't even pick up the minor errors you pointed out, you make i...

Incase you missed the one at the top... I apologise for not initaily taking up my concerns with PCF directly, I have removed the original post and I will in future contact PCF directly.

Hmmm... 007 you sound like you didn't want to buy the mag in the first place. It's easy to point out mistakes when you are negative to begin with. It sounds more like you are complaining about the measly bit of money you had to spend, buying a descent magazine. I'll bet if you got it for free you w...

Due to popular demand I have removed the original post, I'll send it directly to PCF.

It also depends on the brand, if its a KME / Codegen / AOpen etc. for example I'd buy a bigger one, if its Thermaltake / Antec / Vantec / Hiper / Enermax etc. you'll be fine.

You can get a SONY dual format / dual layer (+R) writer for R1700 ish I think that would be a much better buy, just think over 8Gigs on 1 disk. I'm waiting for Lite-On or plextor to get a dual layer drive in the country before I buy.

That is a very neat cooler btw. I can get you one for about R240 +-. There are also more advanced versions with external switches for controlling fan speed etc, but they are a bit more expensive. I've got the Pro version of the HSF you mention. It's about R420 incl. There is also an Ultra version a...

My AMD Athlon 1200 runs at 58 idling... Its been running fine for years , no life shortening... But now my question :: Everyone says the optimal running temp for a amd is X degree C , then say : Buy a Thermaltake fan... yada yada Why cant AMD give proper fans / cooling with their systems?? Too chea...

Yes, it will actually slow your system slightly if you run your ram out of sync with your FSB. I was running DDR333 in my Athlon with a FSB of 266 and when I underclocked the RAM to 266 and upped the timings I got better RAM benchmarks and better staibility Really.... Hmmm so what sort of differenc...

You don't need a special board but DDR 500 is generally used by overclockers so that they can overclock their FSB and still have a 1:1 ratio between the FSB and the memory bus which is best. However there are other advantages to DDR500, in general if you buy DDR400 memory it will run at 400Mhz but m...

When you talk about "heatspreaders" are you refering to CPU shims or am I missing something?

MSI, cost around R840.00 I wasn't aware that the MSI K8 N Neo was available yet and if it is I highly doubt that one can find one for R840 (but I could be wrong). Where do you get that price from? I have an MSI board and I have no problems with it, I doubt that the KV8 MAXIII is worth double the as...

solo wrote:Personally I will get the Lite-on Dual Layer Burner when it come out in a month or so.

I was planning on getting a LiteON or Plextor DL drive when they come out, but I didn't think that they would be out in a month, I was expecting it to be more like 2-3 or even 4 months.