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Microcap & Penny Stocks : PCTR: Perceptronics, Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GARY P GROBBEL who wrote (49)	2/5/1999 6:10:00 PM
From: Gerald Merna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62

Dang Gary, Having 3 threads on PCTR is a real hassle. Here's a copy of my post to Dave about the game on one of the other threads: The good folks at Perceptronics scrambled today to address problems people were having launching the demo. They made changes and it is now working perfectly on my system. I think it may be necessary also to delete every last remnant of older versions of Cosmo Player from your system before installing 2.1. I uninstalled it and still found old files left over by doing a "find" from the start menu for "cosmo" which I then deleted. After installing 2.1 and firing up the demo, it took about 5 minutes to load with a 56K modem connected at 51K. One thing they added today was a status bar so you can see what's still loading. As far as the game itself, it looks real good - as good graphically as any other 3D game on the market. That in itself doesn't seem like a big deal until you realize that you received the entire package over the internet and there isn't 400 MB of files on your hard drive to support it. The game runs fast and is slightly challenging for 1 person. I was able to win regularly after a few practise runs. I was definitely impressed. The real clincher comes when you are able to row with a teammate sitting at another computer elsewhere on the internet with no lag. Anyone who has played Quake, Monster Truck Madness, or any other game on services like MPlayer or Ten knows how frustrating the lack of real-time synchronization between players is. That is the issue this new tech should address. I think we have a winner here. Jerry