Newbie's first venture into online gaming did not go too well--if online gaming services want to win over non-hard-core gamers, they will have to make the experience easier than what I am willing to endure. 1. Found an online gaming site--my magazine PCGAMER does not often talk about such things, so I surfed to find one (looked for MUD and RPG on altavista, found a personal site which linked to Twilight Lands at ten.net). 2. Found that TL was free during the beta period, excellent, downloaded the ten meg installation file off work's T1 and backed it up on diskettes to take home. 3. Installation went fine, registered on ten.net, started Twilight Lands, no response, the first screen comes up--but my cursor wont activate "generate character". Hmmm 4. Flip back to the ten.net TL page, where it says I will need a P75 and Direct X 3.0.
5. Sigh.
Now, I would guess that most people have a video card that supports direct x, and I suppose that by now most people have pentiums. Unfortunately, when I upgraded--just a year and a half ago, from a low end 486 ISA, to a high end 486 PCI, I did not get these things.
...the search continues. |
