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To: timbur who wrote (9251)	11/25/1998 5:36:00 AM
From: Chip Anderson	Respond to of 16960

OT - Re: Force Feedback Wheels - in this guy's opinion: Yes! The MS Force-feedback that I have has a button in the center that lets you turn on/off the force-feedback effect. After some more on/off testing, I can tell you that, yes, the experience _is_ better with the effect ON - IMHO of course. It depends in large part on the game itself and how well it uses the effects. It also depends on the kind of experience you are looking to have. Most of my force-feedback driving is now down on MS CART Indy Car Racing. The graphics aren't great, but the wheel support is excellent - pedal, buttons, paddles are all supported. Mid-Ohio Race course is my favorite. I have already emailed them about naming the gravel trap by "the KeyHole" to be "The Chip Pit(tm)" (catchy eh?). BTW, I _hate_ force-feedback joysticks. Now, all we need is an _affordable_ butt-feedback driving chair and we'll be good to go! Chip "A-ha! <<click>> Damn!" Anderson

To: timbur who wrote (9251)	11/25/1998 11:57:00 AM
From: timbur	Respond to of 16960

OT - Big Half Life bug: Read if it's installed! This is taken from gamesdomain.com "Posters in the action newsgroup are going nuts with their praise of Half-Life. One fairly big bug has cropped up, though. Seems that the Sierra uninstall utility has the capability of removing more than the title in question from your drive if you keep all of your games in the same folder (C:\Games, for example). For the three people who aren't aware of this, Sierra games have long had the tendency of forcing installations under the company name (C:\Sierra\LordsII, for example). Thankfully, Half-Life finally removes this irritation. Unfortunately, it seems to have been a last-minute thing. You see, the installer still assumes that the game is in a subdirectory, so it goes into the main folder and nukes everything below that. So if you've got all of your games in subdirectories under one gaming folder, clicking the uninstall option will delete everything. Leave it to Sierra to screw up something as basic as an uninstaller ..." Timbur