prophetik music

...someone's been hitting the drank amirite

so, i'm in the process of building an offline-only windows-based pc solely for music creation. i'm trying to decide if it's worth going the w7 64-bit route, or if xp 64-bit would be fine. i know that xp's 64-bit distro was really buggy, but it's also incredibly lightweight - under 200mb at any given time. it also runs anything created for music, ever - i've got several VSTs that have never functioned properly on w7 (the steinberg virtual guitars, for example, don't install on w7). my main worry is that w7 is definitely what is being developed for, and i don't want to have to reinstall all this stuff down the line just because everything in a year or two starts requiring w7. but i don't know if i want to lost a gigabyte or more to the OS itself. with a 64-bit box i guess it won't matter as much, but it'd be nice to not worry about it. what do you think? i've got a 64-bit copy of w7 sitting around, and it shouldn't be tough to get the copy of xp if i decide to go that route. basically i'm asking if anyone's got experience with xp 64-bit, and if they think that my fears about bugs and crashes are unwarranted.

also, i'm urgently in need of an XP x64 disc with a working key. i'd gladly trade a vista x86 or x64 key, or i think i have some other operating systems in various forms. to be honest, a real key would be enough - but a disc would make things much easier. by urgently, i mean i need it within the next week. preferably sooner.

neko, that's a ton of stuff. would you mind typing it up in some approximation of the listing at the beginning of the thread? it's a lot easier when i just copypasta the stuff in there. also, nice gif

my secret santa got in touch with me today to say that they're bringing my gift to magfest. so, it's coming! just a few weeks away.

lol! bustatunez still complains on irc about how cold it was in that water. it was cold because it was linked to the outside!

fyi to everyone involved, i'm up for a collab with someone if they want. i already offered my hand to remix any random stuff that doesn't get touched by people, but i'd be happy to help people who want to try remixing get a track to a finished state.

nice work, txai. this makes me 3rd, right?

that organ thing looks like the keyboard that they use in the "Hey Ya" video. doot doot doot doot!

run the installer as an administrator? or in compatibility mode for xp?

this actually sounds pretty sweet. i'll have to give it a shot =)

yeah, that'd be terrible.

almost. it's going to be buddy gaming - 2-3 player missions, most of the time. guild wars tried this with the nightfall and later campaigns that allow you to get extra guys that you control - like, each person controls a main character and three lesser henchmen, allowing two people to fill out an 8-man party. i like this progression, since it means you can play with a single buddy and still get most of the game. better than trying to get a huge PUG and then get stuck with losers.

thanks for the bump on iRis, Bardic =) guys, if you want a reverse TD game, check out the other game i've done - Tower Assault! Curse of Zombie Island. you shoot brains out of a cannon. you shoot brains out of a cannon.

well, kotor 1 was great, and kotor 2 (considering that it was released, what, ten months after the first?) was pretty darn awesome too. they've been working on TOR for years already, so i'm sure it's going to be incredible. bioware's got some pretty good experience making awesome games, all told.

same. asdasfah

the game is larger than every other bioware game, ever, combined. every single NPC is uniquely voiced by a different person. it's an mmo about star wars. galaxies sucked and still got a zillion players. supposedly at least 60 hours of primary content at release. they've taken everything awesome about the kotor games, and turned it into something that's viable online. anyone else want to add something?

on ebay, 120s sell for as little as 35-40$. 20gb drives sell for around 25$. same same. look on craigslist, honestly.

i'll have to check this out later tonight!

i am so incredibly pumped for this game. got three computer orders specifically for this game already =)

75$ a person, and superjoe gets half a bed. unless we can find one more person who wants to be in the overflow hotel and will drink elsewhere.

a note, doug - unless you've got a reason to install more than one game at a time, don't bother getting larger than a 20gb HDD, or at largest a 60gb HDD. i never had a use for my 120gb (or my 250gb) drives, even with tons of stuff left on there, until i got into using homebrew stuff. also, wired controllers work with a PC =) and represent a pretty darn good gamepad for Windows, all told.

haven't been home since thursday morning, so hopefully my gift came - and it didn't get soaked or something =) i'll check today when i get home.

yes, i did. if you read the notes on the website, you'll see that it's based on the first movement of New York Counterpoint =)

i might sleep with superjoe. soon.