I have a group of about ten songs that vie for the title of 'favourite' depending on my mood and how long since I last heard them.

At the moment Probably 'Walk with me in hell' by Lamb of God, or 'This Calling' by All That Remains.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgTZAYgHuGg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj1ar0Ma_kA

Don't be too brilliant at the racing parts if there's voting, as people might see you as too tough competition, and vote YOU out.

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I could guess that too. a MK1 1.6 hatch is painfully slow as well

I have a 1.8 estate, and it feels really nippy for something so huge.

133bhp (14 years ago at least...) ftw

Yep, that's the plan. Plus get a proper backup system in place.

Any recommendations for backing up regularly?

It's not a constant click-click-click as it spins, it spins up normally then there's five or six loud whacks which sounds like the read head hitting the stops, then it sounds fine.

If it was a head crash, wouldn't it be a constant clicking as it spins?

Shellrazer.

A pretty awesome sidescrolling shooter with you playing a giant battle-tortoise with guns mounted.

It really worked?

My drive spins up (so it's not the motor) and then I get 5 or 6 loud clicks before it goes quiet and I get a 'Boot failure' error. Does that sound like the symptoms you had?

I've found an identical model on ebay, manufactured two months after my broken drive: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230967970446

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What do you reckon the chances of a circuit board swap fixing it are?

Yeah, I think it's pretty knackered, it won't even show in the BIOS.

I've just had a dreaded hard disk crash. The drive now just makes a clicky noise and won't boot.

Although I have the really important stuff backed up, there's still loads of things like save games and my music which I'd rather not lose.

Is there any free software which can recover data from a corrupted disk?

".... and soon my cyborg army will CRUSH THEM ALL"

haha

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3) outlaw public access to explosives

There's so many household items you can make bombs out of, this is like banning all cars because people sometimes get run over.

If it's a real thing, why advertise it with a three year old game that's MILES better on the PC anyway, retails for about 5 quid, and which the native PC version would run significantly better than trying to emulate the 360 version?

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I understand the problem with the emulators, but isn't it possible to make a program that would "rewrite" the game in a "language" understandable to a PC, so we could install it and play it like any other PC game?

The problem is that the compiled assembler code in the retail product is specific to a certain CPU architecture (which the 360 and PC don't share), so you have to translate instructions on the fly as they're sent to the CPU. It's certainly possible to emulate any system, but this translation software has a large perfomance cost, assuming you even have the inside knowlege of the emulated CPU architecture to write it.

If you had the source code you could theoretically recompile it for a different architecture, but you'd still have LOTS of platform specific libraries which would need to be replaced for it to even compile, let alone run and be playable.

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Do they still drive around on rails and smash into you as if you're not there?

That said, it's still not that different to public multiplayer....

Quote from sinbad :

How you handicap them, or yourself is crucial.
No matter what you do in gt5 you never get anything resembling a proper race. A fast car being driven erratically and slowly is not entertaining opposition for a fast driver in a slow car.

Do they still drive around on rails and smash into you as if you're not there? The last Gran Turismo game I played was gt3.

Oh god yes, that was an amazing game. How moddable will AC be? Could someone put a modern version of those tracks in there?


One thing I never worked out (as I had an, ahem, 'aquired' version, so no instructions) was what the black circles that appeared in the damage meter along the top indicated. Anyone know?

So how many people read the thread tile as 'Pornography site builder'?

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Hugh Laurie lookalike.

Quote from e2mustang :

better known as dr house

I doubt they'd actually do it.

All this posturing is them trying to force an official 'we're sorry, you won and we were wrong' from South Korea for the Korean War. As it stands, it's still just at a (very long) ceasefire.