I GOT MY CD GAME COPY!!!!!

[christof139]

I GOT A COPY OF THE GAME TODAY, WITH THE GREAT MANUAL AND STORAGE CASE DELIVERED BY UPS!!!! THANK YOU ALL AT MATRIX!!! VERY NICE PRODUCT!!! [:)][:D][8D][:D]

THE MANUAL IS VERY NICE AND READABLE. THE CASE IS ALSO GOOD. MY EYESIGHT IS BAD, HENCE TO THE OPTICIAN NEXT WEEK FOR NEW SPECTACLES. Then I won't have to capitalize. [8|][X(]

Sincerely, Chris in Detroit, Michigan

[Titanwarrior89]

Congrads![:)]

[parusski]

I agree with everything you said Chris: the manual is very nice. I have been reading it like a best selling novel.

[christof139]

I agree with everything you said Chris: the manual is very nice. I have been reading it like a best selling novel.

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"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."- W.T. Sherman

Unfortunately, I just briefly have looked at it and have not loaded the game due to various reasons, some good and some bad.

I am building a new computer and updating hardrives with Win XP, F-disking and formatting. My old computer has FAT32 formattted disks, and my new computer will have NTFS formatted disks. Am trying to get a WD Raptor as the master dirve for the new computer, and have a 160GB WD SATA II *MB cache for the Slave Drive already. Old Computer will have 2 IDE, 1 WD at 80GB and another WD, IBM/Hitachi, WD or whatever at 40GB or so, what ever I pickup on Ebay cheapest. Still waiting for the 2.5GHz Northwoos 400FSB 512kb for the old computer, and the BTX fan for the new computer with its P4 571 3.8GHz 800FSB 1MB cache Hyper Threading CPU that I already have. Need DDR2 of 400, 533 or 667MHz for the new computer, 4 GB's worth, maybe only 3. Waiting to get 1GB PC 2100 266MHz Ram Dimm back under RMA from a manufacturer for the old computer which now has 2.256GB of 266MHz RAM and will have 3GN when and if I get a RMA replacement DIMM. Blah, blah, blah.

Also, early this morning at about 2:30AM, I was hit from the rear on the expressway by a nut doing between at least 70mph to maybe 90mph plus. [:(] It was a hit and run, and my truck almost flipped over but I did some quick wheeling of the steering wheel as I slid across the lanes in front of fast moving oncoming traffic, and recovered and didn't flip over sideways. Unbelieveable the only damage was to my left rear of my truck and tailgate, the left rear quarter panel needs replacement, maybe the tailgate does maybe not, and I lost my left rear tire and the rim is ruined, the rear bumper is shot, and botu tail light assemblies need to be replaced, as the right one flew out due to the impact. Lucky the people behind me stopped and called the State Police and an ambulance, but I seemed to be only rattled because the person that hit me almost hit the people behind me but swerved around them and clobbered me. If I had been going 5mph faster I probably would have just missed getting hit as I was changing lanes, only one lane, to my right to get into the exit lane to get off the freeway. Only 2.5 to 3 miles or so to go and I would have been home. It was very windy and frigid, so I sat in the State Police car and talked and joked around with the 2 Officers. I related some tales from my drinking and driving days, and yes, got some good laughs. I haven't drank sine 1995. We determined the hit and run fellow that nailed me was probably drunk, and luckily I was going fast enough so when he hit me he pushed be and bounced off, but kept going like a bat out of hell. The people behind me said the rear of my truck was lifted in the air due to this guys angled front end of his SUV pushing up under my rather high rear end of my truck. I was lucky my truck didn't flip over because i may not be here now, or be here in a injured manner anyway. I had about 1/2 of a cup of coffee in the cup holder, and about 1/2 of it spilled out, so at least I still had some cold coffee to sip on after the accident. What a trip. I didn't know what hit me. [&:] I was unlucky in getting hit, but am lucky to be alive and uninjured and having as little damage done to my truck as was done. [&o][&o][&o][&o]

I will have to use a rental vehiKle for a week or two until my truck is repaired. Insurance will cover it, with a $250 or $500 deductible though.

I think a proper Ben Franklin Phhhrrrrrttt!!!!!!!!!!!!! is in order here for this vehiKular event. [X(][8|][>:][>:][>:]

Take care and stay warm, Chris [>:][>:][>:][>:]

[General Quarters]

Gosh, Christof, that was an experience you could have done without! Gil got wiped out, thankfully while the car was parked. We'd better go to army surplus and buy an old Sherman.

[christof139]

Gosh, Christof, that was an experience you could have done without! Gil got wiped out, thankfully while the car was parked. We'd better go to army surplus and buy an old Sherman.

Yes, but is a 30 ton Sherman enough to handle a semi-truck doing 60-75mph?? I know a M1113 track (APC) isn't.

A place named Silverstein's Army navy Surplus used to sell Shermans, Stuarts, DUKWs, Jeeps, an occasioanl Bren Gun Carrier here in Detroit when I was a kid and into the 1970's. Duck hunters would buy and use the great and handy DUKWs. Some nut had a Bren Carrier and he was driving around in a suburdb on a hot day back in the mid to late 1960s and tearing up the soft asphalt of the roads until he was arrested. [X(][8|][:'(][:D]

I read where Gil also got clobbered. I haven't been quite so clobbered in a long time.

Repairs could cost maybe $4,000 as the rear quarter panel these days is mig-welded to an inner panel, rather than bolted/screwed as in the good old days when replacemt/repair body was easier and much les expensive. The insurance company could declare my truck totalled to save them $, maybe, maybe not, and then I will be really screwed. It's a 2001 Dodge Ram PU with about 30,000 miles on it, runs great, and all I really need is a new rim and tire to drive it now, and rear tail lights. Reason to rebel against if the insurance company tries to pull a fast one.

I am slightly perusing the Manual now a wee bit, and still haven't loaded the game. got my 2.5GHz Northwood core P4 in the mail today, runs grea and is overclocked to 2.8GHz now. Also, I got my 1GB PC2100 replacement RAM DIMM from ACP-Add-on Computer today. They were real good about honoring the lifetime warranty on their product, so now I have 3GB of RAM in my old compooter-pooter. It runs great.

Maybe I'll go ice-fishing tommorrow. Nope, something wierd would happen such as hooking onto a 100-pound Sturgeon or Muskie and being drug into the water through the ice-hole.

Best wishes and watch out for those fishes, Chris

[FlyingElvis]

I just got my game CD and manual today. What a slick package, kudos to Matrix. I will be buying all future Matrix games in this format. [&o]

Now time to read the hefty manual. [:)]

[Marc von Martial]

Glad you all like the new format. Future releases will be of the same quality.

Right now we are also working on adjusting some earlier releases to the new physical product format. We will announce when the switch has been completed for each older product.