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Windows Vista screencasts
by Jordan Running Jun 13th 2006 at 4:50PM
For those of you who don't want to (or can't) install the Windows Vista beta but want to see it in action, blogger Long Zheng has recorded a series of seven screencasts highlighting some of Vista's flashier new features, in particular the new Aero Glass UI, its new Media Center and search functionality, the much-touted Sidebar with its "gadgets," and the tablet PC experience. Oh, and you also get a peek at Solitaire. One thing's for certain: It's awful pretty.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
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Peter said 5:22PM on 6-13-2006
It certainly is pretty. I installed the beta on a few machines. When I first heard about all the eye-candy I thought, "Who needs that? It just gets in the way of doing real work." But I must say, when it all comes together like that AND you run it on a machine that is powerful enough so the effects don't slow you down, it is very nice and it does add to the experience.
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a said 5:32PM on 6-13-2006
where is Solitaire? I can't find it. I wonder how good the machine has to be to run this.
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Claudiu Spulber said 7:44AM on 6-14-2006
"I wonder how good the machine has to be to run this."
- 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
- 1 GB of system memory.
- A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero2.
- 128 MB of graphics memory.
- 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
See the details on http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx
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Sidd said 11:41AM on 6-14-2006
the link isn't working for me :-(
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