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Assassin’s Creed

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Ish
on November 5, 2007
in Software
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This game is probably one of the coolest games I have ever seen. Watch the trailers and other videos on the net, and you’ll see what I mean.

You play an assassin during the time of the Crusades. The best part is Ubisoft recreated three huge cities as they were in that time, fully populated and fully interactive. You choose how and where you assassinate your targets, and how you perform other tasks, either by force or finesse. Not only is the huge kingdom free to roam and explore, but you can jump and climb on anything, from street stands to window ledges.

I’m going to be buying an older gaming computer. It is used, and I don’t know if it will be able to handle this game, but I can’t wait to see the system requirements so I can know what to shoot for :)

Linux Audio Player - Audacious

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Ish
on October 14, 2007
in Linux and Software
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I have a PC which dual boots Xubuntu and Windows XP. The Windows drive has music on it, while the other I use to run a local server and learn PHP. Xubuntu doesn’t come with a media player that can open .mp3 and .wma files, so I went in search of one.

I started with VLC, because I rely on that for playing most of my videos in Windows, but in Xubuntu, I was getting really poor quality audio quality. I have cheap speakers and the computer has old hardware, so I wasn’t looking for perfection. However, it was making scratching noises, and sounding distorted, so I moved on to a player that was geared more toward audio, and not video.

After reading some reviews and comparisons, I settled with Audacious (not to be confused with Audacity, which is a free Audio Editor). I wanted something lightweight (which is why I’m using Xubuntu after all), and this is exactly what I got. I wasn’t required to get any GNOME or KDE libraries, because it worked fine on XFCE. It reminds me of WinAmp, which I liked, but without the media management feature. My music is already sorted out by artist and album, so I don’t mind only having one playlist (although I can save and load them as I please).

So far, no complaints, except that the equalizer doesn’t come with built-in presets, like WinAmp did. It does let you load and save your own, including WinAmp ones, but I wasn’t able to find  a list of the WinAmp presets for download online. I haven’t tried messing with the skins, but I believe I can use XMMS and WinAmp “Classic”  skins.

I know this isn’t much of a review, but I just wanted a program that loaded fast and played my music, which this does, so I’m happy.