Filed under: Windows, Microsoft, How-Tos
by Jordan Running Jun 12th 2006
For those of you who downloaded Windows Vista Beta 2 last week but don't want to nuke or upgrade your existing Windows XP install, Lifehacker's Gina Trapani has written a great tutorial on getting the two to play nice and dual-boot on the same machine. It's not exactly rocket science, but if you've never set up a dual-boot system, this is the tutorial for you.
I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.
In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.
To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.
Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
GOD said 4:08PM on 6-12-2006
The article is a little over kill. Dual booting vista is as simple as installing it on another partition. Vista has its own boot loader which will prompt you every time you start.
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Bruno said 4:49AM on 6-17-2006
Hi guy, My Name is Bruno and i need help to install the Windows vista.
I've got 2 Hd, one of then with win xp pro and other is free. i checked out and it'a 20gb drive space working as a Primary partition. My problem is: I'm not sure if i put the windows vista on the 20 gb free Hd i will fuck my win xp? i wanna have a duall bott and not only use the windows vista, i'm looking forward to any answer!
Thanks
Bruno
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Damian said 6:55AM on 6-21-2006
Hey i installed Windows Vista X64 on 1 partition, how would i go about creating a second partition as i want to install windows XP
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