<t>Sorry if this question has been asked a zillion times, but the FAQs link isn't accessible and the search function doesn't accept words smaller than 3 letters (like CD).<br/>
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I have a crappy dial-up connection which I share with members of my family, and so it's rather impractical for me to ...

<t>2% down and 17 hours to go! Yee-haa!<br/>
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I thought it might be a good idea for Matrix Games, after a week or two when things calm down, to offer (on their web site) an upgrade from the lite version to the full version. That way, people who downloaded the lite version because they had ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>SORRY FOR KILOMETRICAL MESSAGE !<br/>
Thanks a lot very much for having a chance to say what we hope from this new release of SP..first of all I come from Italy so I am sorry for my approximative English...<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>

Your English was very good and the ...

<r>Seeing as though this is going to be a really big download, I would advise you guys to check, double-check, and multi-check that the zip or exe install file is not corrupted. It's happened to me twice now, where I've downloaded a 50 or 60 MB demo, and the file turned out to be corrupted! Oh, sure ...

Actually, we used Smacker for the video, not AVI. Pretty good compression too...

Ah, excellent news.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>...what is the title of the book you mention cragwolf, and what sort of "charts and graphs" of statistics does it have?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>

I don't have the book with me at my current residence, and I don't recall the name of the title, but I'll be able to find it out ...

<r>Oh, I agree that these things can be necessary evils. In your case, I would really only criticise you for using AVI instead of MPG and WAV instead of MP3. I understand that AVI and WAV files are supported natively by the windows multimedia and DirectSound API's, which makes your job easier, so ...

<t>Not just for campaigns and battles but also for individual scenarios, I would like to see statistics. And tons of it. Obviously, things like tank kills & casualties inflicted (for each unit, including units that were destroyed). But also less obvious things. Something like what Unreal Tournament ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>The size of minimum installs of games is outrageous and a lot of it I understand is not from any real need but from lazy programming and loosely written code.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>

I just wanted to address this statement. Loosely written code in the real world is not ...

<r>That's your 3rd post about Combat Mission, Ol' Blood and Guts. This forum is called "Steel Panthers World At War". It's OK to recommend other wargames, but a simple sentence and link will do. Not large pictures, detailed descriptions, and new messages. So let's all stick to the topic.<br/>
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