For those of you who don’t already know, I’m a huge Sierra “quest game” fan - my favorites being the “Quest for Glory” series. The problem is, these game were made ages ago, and feature very low quality/detail graphics, so aren’t as fun as they could be:

Quest for Glory 1 - Original

Anyway, a long story short, the first “Quest for Glory” was remade featuring much better graphics and mouse support, but nothing was ever done for “Quest for Glory 2″.

Quest for Glory 1 - Remake

A group called AGDInteractive Studios (who re-made some of the “Kings Quest” games) have been busy re-making Quest for Glory 2, and it’s due for release very soon. The exciting part… I know when the release date is, and I’m going to be providing one of the mirrors for the download :D Which probably doesn’t mean much to anyway, but it’s pretty cool to be involved, even if only in a very small way.

So keep checking for more news on the release ;)

I spent the morning sorting out all the stuff on my computer - I wrote close 20 DVDs, and now have 43 GB more disk space free, but what a mission.

I’m in the process of ripping all of the DVDs I own to “.avi” so I can just watch them off my hard drive, but it turns out I own 30 DVDs… I thought it was closer to 10 - who knew I was that rich. Anyway, I’m having second thoughts about ripping them because of the disk space, and time, it would take. On the other hand, it saves having to look for the DVD I want to watch (and frees up my DVD drive, if I need to use DVDs/CDs while watching).

I haven’t ripped the last few music CDs I’ve bought to MP3 either, so I spent some time doing that - I own something like 40 CDs… which is quite frightening. Once they’re ripped I normalize them - so it’s a fairly lengthy process in all. What’s ironic is that I’m going to be backing up all my MP3s to DVD (despite having the original CDs), so that I wont need to rip them all again should anything happen to my hard drive - so I guess I’m really just backing up the time it took to rip them.

I still have another 10 DVDs or so to write, possible more - not to mention the DVDs I need to write for other people. I’m considering hiring a DVD-writing-slave to do all this, and all my backing up, for me.

Stupid computers, life would be so much simpler without them. So much to listen to, so much to watch, so much to read, so much to backup.

Okay, that’s the end of my rant. At least I’m (mostly) harddrive-crash-safe, and have more disk space. The weather outside is awesome, I should’ve spent the day at the beach.

I didn’t think much of these videos by their titles, but they’re insane.

The first shows they’re able to easily cut objects out of a video - as if they were filmed on a blue/green screen - without having to cut out the object in every frame. It’s called the “Interactive Video Cutout“.

The second shows how videos can be enhanced by using photos. Basically photos are higher quality, and thus more detailed, than video footage. By combining the two, they’re able to “upgrade” the video quality. This is the really insane one, personally it seems too amazing to be true, but anyway: “Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene” (more info here).

Now if only that software was available for download… I would spend hours playing with it.

I FINALLY got around to changing the theme on my blog… I guess I was kinda inspired by last month’s webstats - so I may as well give my visitors something slightly more pretty to look at.

It’s a modified version of a free theme, and I got Michelle to make the new header - thanks Michelle! :D

My brother and I went to watch The Mummy 3. We both really enjoyed the first two, but knew better than to expect too much from the third one. Nothing could have prepared us for such trash. I was considering walking out, about 15 minutes into it, so after my brother suggested doing so it didn’t take much to convince me. It’s not wonder Rachel Weisz didn’t want anything to do with it - I actually admire her more for that.

“She speaks yeti!?!?” - lame.

1) There’s a new “Wolfenstein” game coming out, hi-res trailer here.

2) There’s a “co-op” mod for Doom3, which is lots of fun. Download here or visit the site.

3) Apparently Red Alert 3’s minimum system requirements (summarized) are : Windows XP, 2.0GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 6GB disk space, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or ATI Radeon X1800 video card (and sound and DVD drive).

4) Team Fortress 2 still rocks - oh wait, that’s not new ;)

Every now and then I check on my site’s stats, to see if I have any readers or if I’m wasting my time posting stuff here. So I saw this:

Basically, I’ve had 3232 unique visitors (people) come to my website in the last 29 days. That’s over 110 people per day :D which is WAY more than I could’ve expected. Nice :)

I found two cool Spy videos yesterday, but don’t have the right plugins installed to post them on my blog properly, so you’re just going to have to click the links below to watch them:

YouTube - Team Fortress 2 - Don’t meet the Spy! (Original English)

That Pineapple is a spy! - TF2 video

I played some TF2 as spy after watching those videos… but I sucked really bad :| I blame it on low fps, and high ping.

A TF2 Sentry made out of Lego… what more do I say, other than “WOW!” :D

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