I usually make a disc image using Nero, copy it to the netbook using 4GB USB flash drive, then emulate it using Daemon TOOLS. There's nothing illegal about making copies of your own games as long as you don't distribute it. And you don't need no-cd cracks, because emulator works as if the real cd was in a drive.

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I played through entire game using KB/M and it worked flawlessly.

In both cases having the latest graphics card, a gigawatt power supply and a quad-core cpu in a tacky case will likely only give you a marginal improvement when it comes to graphics.

The era of hardcore pc gaming is over.

dc337

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't give a rat's tail about gaming if I had a small nuclear powerplant inside my computer :)

I will edit out the last section of your post; admitting to piracy is against the rules here on GS.

OoSuperMarioO

I followed your advice, even though I wasn't admitting to piracy, since I bought the original game legally. But thanks for the warning :)

WOW the porest countrys in the world are the highest. pepeole with no money stealing who ever thout. hmm do I by

$60 game or food. steal $60 game and buy food......... I wonder WHY they Pirates everything

Addict187

Well, who can blame them? Their life is hard as it is, so the free entertainment, that pirated movies and games provide, at least help them get on with it.

So geographically speaking, levels of piracy are apparently inversely proportional to level of income? Well surprise, surprise. If publishers sort out their pricing for different regions, they'll see their sales recover a bit.jimmyjammer69

Actually, that's exactly what they did in Russia: localized, fully translated game in a jewel case, with serial number that allows you to join any legal server along with people who bought the "expensive" version, and it costs about 400-500 rubles (13-15 USD). That, along with expencive internet bandwith and strict laws controlling selling contrafact software "off the hood of your car", actually did help solving piracy problem a bit.

I do buy localized versions, but the translation is usually of poor quality (kinda like the english version of The Witcher), so, I end up getting games from "alternative sources" and using a legal cd-key witch I bought.

The main thing I hate about modern piracy, is that it's gotten really, really easy. Thus most people pirating are really, really dumb. The usual message on a torrent site forum is something like: "Okay, I downloaded the file, in has some strange expansion .iso; what do I do whith it?" I mean, it's like trying to steal a car without even knowing how to drive it... No wonder that they're trying to connect to official server with a cracked game. Some of them (recent Left 4 Dead case), are dumb enough to contact game's customer support complaining that the game won't let them to play online.

Anyway, I'm not trying to say, that an "educated" pirate is any better than others, but there was somewhat complexity in the "old days" piracy, and it has been scaring off greedy dumb children, majority of whitch really prefered to just buy a game, rather than bother with cracks. Now, it's really just a "click->ok->start a game" thing.

Well, personaly I wouldn't pick a 24 incher on a TN panel, but if it works for you, then congratulations :)

Not bad for a post-Soviet country, huh? :) And it's dirt cheap - 25 EUR for Internet, phone line and cable TV.

Presence of JoWood and absence of People Can Fly makes very suspicious towards the quality of the final product...