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Duke Nukem 3DDuke Nukem 3D is a popular 3D-shooter computer game developed by 3D Realms and released on January 29, 1996 by Apogee Software. I searched the internet for a good Duke Nukem 3D game review and was surprised that there really are not many such sites. Sure they mention some details and how great Duke Nukem 3D is, that it is better than Doom, that it has a lot of action and of course, hookers. Who can forget those anyway? But back to the point. I felt that as any game of substance, Duke Nukem 3D deserves a lengthy and detailed review. After all, this game holds an important place in the history of the video game entertainment industry.The classic first level starts with the hero landing on the roof of a building in Los Angeles with a hand gun. After blowing up the containers with an explosive substance, Duke jumps into the broken duct passage and finds himself on the floor level of the street where he is instantly attacked by cop pigs. This association is not incidenta...Full story... | 74 comments | Gallardo SpyderGallardo Spyder is a variation of the sports car Gallardo built by Lamborghini. The name Gallardo comes from a breed of a famous Spanish fighting bull. In Spanish, the word gallardo itself translates to gallant, and means striking in Italian. This model of Lamborghini was designed by Luc Donckerwolke and built as a competitor to the Ferrari 360. It is now competing with the Ferrari F430. One of the distinctions between Gallardo and the previous Lamborghini models such as Countach and Diablo, is that the Gallardo does not have scissor doors that open upwards. The Gallardo comes with either the conventional H-Box siz-speed manual transmission or the advanced siz-speed electr-hydraulically controlled 'semi-automatic single-clutch sequential manual', also known as E-gear, which allows the driver to shift faster than on a manual transmission. Some of the other models of the Gallardo are SE, Nera and LP560-4, Verde Ithaca and Superleggera.Gallardo Spyder was first unleash...Full story... | 74 comments |
Indiana Jones and the Fate of AtlantisIndiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a beautiful and interesting graphical adventure game that was very popular among the adventure game fans during the MS-DOS era. The reason for its success is ultimately the thought-out story full of adventures, interesting characters and surprises that could be easily mistaken for an actual movie script. Fate of Atlantis was published in 1992 by Lucas Arts. It is not the first game in the series but unlike the predecessors this game does not share a plot that is based on any of the actual Indiana Jones films. However, the story is surprisingly very engaging, the puzzles are excellent and the graphics are very pleasing.Like many other games created and published by LucasArts, the user interface, which is traditionally based on the SCUMM engine, is very intuitive and gives us the basic set of functions such as give, open, close, pick up, talk to, look at, use, push and pull. Those familiar with other Lucas Art classics will al...Full story... | 74 comments | Quest for Glory 3: Wages of WarMagician, Fighter or Thief?A conversationEgypt-like pyramid entranceQuest for Glory 3: Wages of War is the third game in the wonderful point-and-click adventure game series published by Sierra On-line, Inc. The Quest for Glory series are known for their beautifully hand-drawn graphics and interesting storyline and this is the first time Sierra used the VGA graphics in the game series (the previous games had less than 256 colors graphics) to visualize the beautiful egypt-themed landscapes of Tarna. Many of the Quest for Glory games in the series were fun to play. This game is no exception. It takes place in the land known as Tarna, similar in its environments to Afrika. The land is shared by humans as well as strange humanoid creatures with lion heads some of which can switch form between animal and human as they wish. The game is very interesting and your character's mission is to prevent the civil war in Tarna between the two ancient factions that are in conflict a...Full story... | 74 comments |
Prince Of PersiaPrince of Persia for the PC was a classic game that everyone would get excited about once it came out. The reason for this was of course the brilliant, realistic 2D character animation which was considered a great achievement during that time. In this game you play as a persian prince on a quest to save the princess from an evil sultan. The gameplay is absolutely brilliant, combining the fluid animation with precisely timed action controls. The player could have mis-calculated the place from which to jump off by just a few pixels which would then result in the character's death, by falling off great heights, or even worse, onto strategically placed spikes. The gameplay consists of running, jumping, climbing and fighting the evil sultan Jaffar's guards. The game is linear, meaning if you lose all of your lives you have to start over and the sequence of actions you would have to do would be exactly the same. Many players would memorize these specific tactics and would...Full story... | 74 comments | Boot DOS - How do you boot into DOS?Boot DOS with the following exe files. You may need to copy them either on your floppy (or multiple floppy disks) or burn to your CD. So what is an MS-DOS boot disk? It allows you to boot to DOS from a fresh system restart. Use the links below to download the version you are looking for. Are you trying to figure out how to boot into DOS? Here is a small collection of DOS boot disk executables. Download these DOS Bootdisks for any version between 5.0 and 6.22 inclusive. These files have been checked for viruses and are clean. Please don't forget to comment or ask questions below.Dos5.0.exe Dos 5.0 BootdiskDos6.0.exe Dos 6.0 BootdiskDos6.21.exe Dos 6.21 BootdiskDos6.22a.exe Dos 6.22 Bootdisk (version a)Dos6.22b.exe Dos 6.22 Bootdisk (version b)...Full story... | 74 comments |
Wacky WheelsWacky Wheels is a very simple but excellent racing game published by the great Apogee Software, Ltd. The game has some style and some attitude (The devil showing you his ass in multi-player mode at the press of your friend's key, is just funny). The game can be played with two players on the same keyboard and let me tell you, this game is a lot of fun. There are eight playable characters you can choose from to drive your lawn mower (yes, you heard it right, after all the game is called wacky wheels). The designers of the game obviously know what it takes to create a fun game and added all the right elements. While racing, players are challenged to collect hedgehogs, bombs and other objects that can be used to distract other racers. The eight playable personalities, by the way, are moose, panda, raccoon, tiger, camel, pelican, lion and shark. In each race you choose which animals to race against. The Wacky Wheels full version, which is currently available for sale on...Full story... | 74 comments | 007: Licence To Kill007: Licence to Kill is a video game based on the James Bond film of the same name. The game was developed by a company called Quixel and published by Domark in 1989. The game was fairly popular among gamers and to celebrate its fame and financial potential it was ported to other platforms, specifically: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari, Commodore 64 (C64), MSX and ZX Spectrum. Because of the diversity of the platform and graphics capacities of these computers, the game differs slightly from platform to platform. The PC version remains the easiest one to beat, but the graphics could be a little better. The C64 version, however, was the one that got the most attention from the owners of that platform because not only was it more challenging, the enemy AI was smarter, and there were plenty more ways to die than in the original PC version, which can feel a little too easy for an experienced gamer.The game's storyline is based on the film in which James Bond (played by Timothy...Full story... | 74 comments |
Not Entering A Trade Reduces The Chance Of Loss By 100%Risk management allows us to have control over a few things in the market. Nobody knows where the currency exchange rate is going to go next for any particular pair. This is because a forex chart gives us a fraction of what is going on in the world's currency markets.Many amateur traders fool themselves that when they look at their favorite currency pair chart they get the entire picture. With a little commonsense thinking we can understand that we are only seeing a small fraction of what's going on with the price. Why does this occur? To answer this question we will need to think about what exactly happens when we enter a trading position.Imagine a coin that has two faces: on one side there is a USD and on the other, EUR. When we enter a long position on the EUR/USD currency pair we are said to be buying EUR. This also automatically assumes that we are shorting (selling) the USD. Had this not been true, the market wouldn't be called the exchange market − you can't buy both sides...Full story... | 74 comments | Example Forex Trade: EUR/USD Sunday, March 4th 2009Trade SetupPair: EUR/USDWhen: 04/06/09 19:05:00 Pacific (-8h)Number Of Lots: 2Pip Value: $10 per pipDirection: LONGReason for Direction: The first trading day of the week opened with a long sentiment. Strong prior uptrend on 1 hour chart.Potential: Don't expect much from volatility since it's a Sunday. Take a small profit from a micro uptrend if possible.Entry Timeframe: 5 MinutesEntry Point: 1.3561Stop Loss: 1.3545Target 1: 1.3577Target 2: 1.35951. THE DECISION. It was a Sunday evening on the west coast and I knew that the beginning of a new trading week is notorious for trading on low volume. Especially before the UK and NYC sessions. Prior market activity indicated a strong uptrend on the hourly chart. In addition, the day opened with a sharp up-move on the 5 minute chart. By noticing this initial bullish sentiment I thought that if there were a tendency, it were to go long. I usually avoid entering the market in the direction opposite of the trend.2. ENTRY POINT. I entered this tra...Full story... | 74 comments |
How to Avoid Undercapitalized Forex AccountsIt would be easy to say that you are a poor trader because you are undercapitalized. Amazingly, not many people often mention what that really means, or give a rational solution to fix the problem of being undercapitalized. Sometimes these shallow attempts at giving advice just don’t work. For example, being undercapitalized doesn’t always mean that you need to pour more money into your trading account.Being undercapitalized means that there is something wrong with the relationship between the following the three things: leverage, the amount of money in our trading account and the idea that we should not risk more money than we can afford to lose. Let’s break this down.What is Leverage?In the perfect world where all traders make enormous profits in the forex market the sun is shining and the skies are blue. In reality, many people choose trading conditions they don’t feel comfortable with. They just don’t know it because they don’t understand it. Understanding leverage can ...Full story... | 74 comments | Importance of Taking Notes when trading ForexTaking notes about the decisions made to enter a trade and the results of any particular trade is an important element of being a profitable trader. Starting a trade diary is one of the best free investments a trader can make in order to improve his or her performance. Looking back at the decisions you've made for entering trading positions can improve your understanding of yourself as well as the forex market. The greatest thing about keeping records is that by looking in retrospect at your trading activities, you can give yourself a better perspective of what you may be doing wrong and learn not to make the same mistakes again. Our trading habits often repeat themselves, but the market conditions change all the time.A popular stock-market book writer and stock trader Dr. Alexander Elder believes that taking notes is the one single most important element of what makes a trader successful. If traders with years of experience tell us that something is important, what would be the reason...Full story... | 74 comments |
Real life lessons learned from trading ForexAccording to his book “Sell & Sell Short”, the notorious writer, educator and stock market trader Alexander Elder writes: “When I put on my first trade ever, the worst possible thing happened. I made money. That lucky break created the delusion that trading was easy. I began jumping into other trades – with a predictable outcome.”Dr. Alexander Elder’s focus is on trading stocks. He is not very fond of trading the forex market because he believes that forex is based on an unfair business model. This is why he only dedicates a small section of his book to trading forex and warns us of its fallacies. For example, some of the dealers, referred to as insiders, don’t even enter your trade into the market and play directly against you.In my personal experience I have also learned that large financial institutions (such as international banks) have the ability to manipulate the market. These institutional traders have been in trading business for so long that they understand wher...Full story... | 74 comments | Forex: On Easy ProfitsNo matter what you've heard about forex, trading this market is not easy. While it is also not impossible, it is difficult and requires knowledge. One of the keys to consistent profits trading the forex market demands the ability to execute your strategy and the ability to deal with losses, all of which culminates in thorough knowledge of risk management, also discussed in fair detail on this website....Full story... | 74 comments |
Trading Forex for a LivingIt would be difficult for me to start this blog on a negative note, by saying that trading is not for everyone. But the unfortunate reality is that it is true. Not everyone will succeed at trading the forex market. It is not difficult to understand that many people fail at trading forex, or that they find it difficult to do. Most people who do fail trading leave the market quick, often saying that trading is simply another word for gambling, or luck.The material on this website assumes absolutely no previous knowledge of the market. This is a friendly community website. It is not bound by marketing or advertising - my other websites generate enough income to cover this website hosting costs. My sole goal is to have visitors of this website produce good trading results. All reading material on this website is free to everyone.Over a period of time, I've observed many forex traders. I have noticed one trait that all successful trades have, without a single exception. They are serious. Th...Full story... | 74 comments | Why forex is not gambling and how your trading platform stacks the odds against youWhy forex is not like gambling? Many people say forex is gambling. And I say forex is like gambling. Except if forex were a person, it wouldn't have a cigar in its mouth. Certainly forex could be gambling if we used it as a gambler's game like roulette or any of the other coin-operated toys that 99.9% of the time would take your hard-earned money away from you. Such games are designed to make a marginal profit for the owners of the casino. Forex, on the other hand has no design, it has influences, but it is not directly controlled by a single entity. There is not a single person or institution that controls or makes up the rules for the forex market. This is why forex is not gambling. And don't you ever listen to people who say that. For it is only the people who had lost money in forex, or their friends, will often say this.When we trade forex, we trade the currency markets of the entire countries. In a perfect world, these countries could have complete control over their economy, and...Full story... | 74 comments |