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To: Chip Anderson who wrote (9157)	11/21/1998 6:31:00 PM
From: Stuart C Hall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Chip, OK, OK, I'm going to Fry's right now to buy Half Life. Damn it Chip, did you work out some commission with Sierra? That's some sales job you're doing. I'll see you on SlicerWorld tonight. ;-) Stuart "$50 burning a hole in my pocket" Hall PS. I leave for Chicago on Monday. Have a great holiday everyone.

To: Chip Anderson who wrote (9157)	11/21/1998 6:45:00 PM
From: Bob Howarth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Did you check out the Creative Technology exhibit? I just found a story on DOW Jones news (can't give link) with the following heading. "Creative Technology is striving to recapture market share in PC audio technology with its advanced Sound Blaster Live system after competition has sapped demand for audio cards." I wonder if Creative could put together a company with TDFX and maybe some game or entertainment software developers to create a company big enough to become a true entertainment company. I thought the Bender link provided this week was a real eye opener about TDFX and what it is up to. Did you post your thoughts on that TNT card you obtained, about the specialized 32 bit stuff? Thanks.

To: Chip Anderson who wrote (9157)	11/21/1998 8:18:00 PM
From: Joseph Hoane	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

trading and a couple of reminisces. re << I found myself blasting people while running around on a moving, open air, underground train>> The red-rover mod for Q2 has a level which acts like that, a sort of moving beltway. I thought it was really cool. re: somebody posted that they thought the atmosphere in Half Life was excellent and then commented about Doom. I thought the most utterly frightening game experience that I ever had was the old aliens-tc mod for the original Doom. You're crawling around in the dark with very few resources and these nasty black aliens moving around and then you hear one of the really bad guys. I had taken the advice in the read-me and had turned out all the lights. Wow. The second most frightening thing I experienced was in Doom II. About the fifth level where you meet the first spider droid. You are in this room with pillars and you cannot see very far. Then you move forward and you start hearing this noise. I was spinning, weaving and shaking in panic trying to find out what the noise was. Waiting for a wicked3d banshee for my K6-233 system. I actually wanted it for the 16MB in 2d. OK, trading. I was watching very closely all day Friday, trying to find a place to average down. In short, I didn't find one. Somebody dumped 50K shares early on. Then there formed a wall at 13 1/2 of offers from a dealer/broker. This lasted all day and eventally lowered to 13 3/8. At some point somebody bought about 50k shares and didn't move the wall. I saw the share count go from 400k to 600k where small trades kept stepping up and buying from the wall, but it never bugded. So I conclude that somebody sold 100 to 200k shares on Friday. One explanation is that somebody did some major profit taking. Another, more sanguine scenario for the longs is that somebody was keeping the price down for option expiration. My question is this: How likely is it that this was an options expiration ploy? Does this seem like a reasonable explanation? Likely? I guess well know for sure if this seller is gone Monday. I didn't ever buy because I was waiting for that supply to dry up. It never did. I may regret not buying. We'll see. Joe Hoane