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HUMOR: wider system compatibility
Phil Metalhead
Game Foundry Leaɗer
Join date: 11 Mar 2003
Posts: 291
05-01-2003 21:49
i was looking over the system specs for SecondLife, and realized you guys are asking for an awfully high-powered machine. i think you should tone down the game some so that the minimum requirements and recommended requirements are as follows:

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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Pentium II 233MHz
32MB RAM
100MB Free hard disk space
4MB PCI or AGP graphics card
8-bit sound card or Disney Sound Source™
Windows 95 with DirectX 3.0
14.4kbps modem

RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS
Pentium II 400MHz
64MB RAM
250MB Free hard disk space
16MB 3D AGP graphics card
16-bit sound card
Windows 98 with DirectX 5.0
33.6kbps modem


then, maybe i'd be able to play it on this laptop ;)
Mark Busch
DarkLife Developer
Join date: 8 Apr 2003
Posts: 442
05-02-2003 06:56
Yeah good idea. You should just forget about all that streaming 3D and such, just strip it down to a chat-box... that will do.
Zanlew Wu
Registered User
Join date: 5 Feb 2003
Posts: 112
05-02-2003 08:08
Yeah, and while you're there, make it so the chat box does not recognize the letter E. That should allow the 14.4 modem people to just whiz along the SecondLife Streaming Superhighway--at least before Al Gore invents it.
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Darwin Appleby
I Was Beaten With Satan
Join date: 14 Mar 2003
Posts: 2,779
05-04-2003 10:14
hey I played SL on this system:

WIN98
8MB ATI RAGE
INTIGRATED SOUND CARD
6GB HD
450MHZ

Yeah so it didnt run WELL.
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Raven Electric
Registered User
Join date: 1 Apr 2003
Posts: 32
05-05-2003 07:09
I Have no idea what you all are complaining about. This game works great on my Timex Sinclair!

Ok, so I had to hotrod it with the 64K memory module and needed a 120 minute tape to download everything, but it works great!
Zanlew Wu
Registered User
Join date: 5 Feb 2003
Posts: 112
05-05-2003 07:47
Hotrodder! Well I got it working on my CompuPro 8/16 with M/Drive running under MP/M with a Televideo 910 Terminal. Needed to swap 20 of those 8" floppy disks and now I have a light case of disk-swap elbow, which is why my avatar favors his left side, but it's very functional. As long as nothing moves. And with Inverse Video, object lighting works REALLY well for me!
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Charlie Omega
Registered User
Join date: 2 Dec 2002
Posts: 755
05-06-2003 15:36
awe c'mon no C64 fans out there? hehehe no mentions of a C64 all hacked out running SL? lol
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Oracle Omega
MMORPG Pioneer
Join date: 31 Dec 1969
Posts: 61
05-06-2003 15:47
From: someone
Originally posted by Charlie Omega
awe c'mon no C64 fans out there? hehehe no mentions of a C64 all hacked out running SL? lol


Club Caribe (the first avatar chat) actually ran on a C64. I should know, I was the lead client engineer and first "Oracle" aka Admin.

It has been a very long road...

Oracle Omega