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Katzkatz wrote:Can the DS do MAME?

No, but you can emulate some early 80s games with MarcaDS. Generally speaking, the DS lacks the CPU power to emulate anything beyond the 8-bit era.

They had an Eee PC in Morrisons on offer for £199 with 1gb ram (advertised like it was bargain of the year). It looked really nice but I'm not sure how much of a great deal it is as they only mentioned the 1gb ram spec and nothing else. Apparently it's the 900 (900 MHz Celeron M, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD...

I'll not hear a bad word against Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake, but modern FPS games are indeed crap.

However America's Army and Nexuiz are still worth every penny that I spent on them.

EA rarely make poor games these days ; and don't forget Syndicate is part of EA's heritage being one of their own games Looking forward to this one , although there is the distinct possibility we will only see a port from 360 or PS3 on PC - or maybe not at all That's not strictly true. Although Syn...

I bet 90% of home users never leave home with their laptop though. I agree. That's largely because most home laptops are too bulky and fragile to be used comfortably on the move. I certainly wouldn't take mine anywhere where there's not going to be a desk and a power supply at the other end. The Ee...

The EEEPC was an early one with the speakers at the side of the screen which was one of the major gripes we had. TBH though, if I was buying something like that, I would still go with a small form factor laptop rather than a webtop or whatever they are known as because of all the extras that go wit...

At work we have a coupole of EEEPCs and I don't like them. We have another ASUS one which is similar but the screen rotates and folds down to make it a tablet PC. That too is not very good. The battery life on both of them is quite poor. They are too big to be truly portable and too small to be ujs...

Okay cool, i didn't realise it was that much smaller actually. But still...for me then i think i will be going the Eee PC route - but give it another year or so and they will be a bit more compact and that bit more powerful :D Looking forward to hearing thoughts from people who have them and are us...

Scrabble isn't just a game, it's a brilliant game.

I'd say that the element of competition distinguishes it from word puzzles; if you play it well, you'll be making moves to block your opponents rather than just to maximize your own score.

At that price i have to wonder... What benefit would there be in buying a Pandora for the same amount? Seeing as how an Eee PC could run every emulator that is out there right? Would this be the better route to go for hand-held emulation? The Pandora is less than half the size and will fit in your ...

I wouldn't sweat on it; they might be in vogue at the moment but I bet the games chart in Japan usually has few Western games in it for the most part too.

Haha. None out of ten for my prediction so far. I can't believe that I got it so wrong; this means that there are going to be some very big games that don't even make the top 50 at all though. I suppose Turrican II deserves a high spot for getting so much more out of the ST than your average run-and...

If all else fails we could just make up our own top ten and when the real one eventually gets posted we can see if there's any sort of semblance between the two. Anyway, I'm pretty certain that at least some of the following will be in there: Dungeon Master, Oids, Sensible Soccer, Kick Off 2, Sim Ci...

Babylon 5; the ongoing plot made it much more involving, although you really needed to be in there from the first episode to fully appreciate it.

The big question now is...

Do you still like those games?