And ABF enters the 21st century

[A Black Falcon]

Well it's his moniter that's holding him back. If only he'd upgrade that we'd never have to hear him complain again.Get Oblivion ABF, and then get all these awesome tweak mods, which your awesome video card CAN handle, to make it look about a bunch of times better than it already does.

After my experience with Morrowind, and telling myself I'd never play it again fairly early in (after getting utterly bored and frusterated with its tedium and very high barrier to entry/difficulty curve), I doubt I'll be doing that anytime soon...

I'm sure that by this summer I most certainly will be buying Neverwinter Nights 2, though. Obsidian... ex-Black Isle... :) :)

Well it's his moniter that's holding him back. If only he'd upgrade that we'd never have to hear him complain again.

I'm not completely convinced that I want an LCD monitor, though... I know they're nice and small, but they're not quite as good... but by 'monitor holding me back', do you mean the screensize? 17" isn't THAT small... the resolution? 1600x1200 max? The fact that it's not widescreen (I doubt I'd want a widescreen monitor anyway, really...)?

A...floppy drive?

So if I ever want to directly use any of those boxes of old floppy games we have, I can.

Also so I can see if it works with DOS boot disks and stuff.

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As just an example, if you have some totally wasted system and the BIOS does not support loading from a CD-ROM, you are pretty much forced to use a floppy drive. I myself keep both a USB floppy drive and an old fasioned one around just for such situations.

They really are a must if you regularly find yourself fixing outdated machines.[QUOTE]

This is true too.

(oh, did I mention that the computer case (including the DVD drive, floppy drive, and media card reader drive thing), mouse, and keyboard are all green? :))

My main concern right now: how to transfer files between the computers. After spending a while trying to figure out how to get a network working with ethernet cable, and then with dvd, and having no success with either (well maybe dvd would work, eventually, but it'd be horribly slow and inefficient...), so all I can think of is plugging the old HDDs directly into this computer... bah, that would be annoying too... but transferring things 1GB at a time with the flashdrive would take forever, so that's pretty much out. Blah.

... and I don't even want to THINK about how long it'll take to install all of my games again...