So today let's look at how far had drives have come. Let's start with some traditional spinny hard drives with sequential reads: 2006: This is a ThinkPad T60. 100 MB/s. This is my Dell Dimension from 2005.&nbs
I know I've done benchmarks on my various machines in the past but I had no idea how far the rabbit hole goes... Let's start with back in 2003: Benchmarking Dell XPS and Lenovo Thinkpads (littletinyfrogs.com) Device Description Score F
Just in time for Christmas we released version 2.71 which is almost strictly about AI tweaks based on player
How's that for a dramatic headline? Groupy is a new program from Stardock that does something so simple that, in hindsight, seems like it should have always been part of the OS. It allows users to drag windows together and create a single tabbed window. Like so: <img title="Groupy1" style="display: inl
The reboot of
Winter is coming. And so is Galactic Civilizations III v2.7.
Players have been contributing questions to the Lore Google doc . There is a lot even we don't know yet about this universe. It's a strange, complicated and ancient place and many of those who do know are not very cooperative with us for various reasons including excuses like "You're just meat" (whatever that means) and "Seriously, you're just meat". So let's go over what we d
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[video]https://youtu.be/Ylp0J-Lh2aE[/video] From the people who brought you Fences, Start8, ObjectDock, DeskScapes, and countless other amazing programs comes a new one that will transform the way you use your PC: Groupy. At any given moment, people have a lot of windows open. Maybe it's a few Explorer windows, a couple of Excel spreadsheets, maybe a a Word document or a PowerPoint presentation. Maybe they're working with Adobe P
It has been over 20 years since the last Star Control game was released. Today, we open up Beta 1 of Star Control: Origins in the form of Star Control: Origins - Fleet Battles. While the main game of Star Control is about exploring the galaxy, meeting various aliens, investigating strange new worlds all within a living universe, we also include a combat mini-game that we call Fleet Battles. In Fleet battles, you assemble a fleet from a group of ships and then engage in bat
Greetings! Beta 1 is fast approaching and we want to give you a tentative schedule of what to expect. <br
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[..] You may not have noticed this before but in the Ship Designer of Galactic Civilizations III you can take t
Summer continues. Unless you're in Australia or New Zealand. But they're not people. Not really.&n
Video games normally take liberties with the size of the universe. We know the universe is big but we frequently trivialize the immense size of the galaxy. Even scientists seem to trivialize this with questions like "Why haven't we detected aliens?". The answer might be because our radio signals haven't even reached a trivial distance of the milky way galaxy. <img style="ma
Note: This post was originally written by my friend Steven Den Beste who passed away last year. This will be a series of articles designed to preserve his writing for future readers to enjoy the way I did. The Human Eye: A design review Occasionally I see creationists point to the human eye as a miracle of design, as if this somehow is evidence of divine origin for the human form. Unfortunately, from an engineering perspective, the human eye i
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Galactic Civilizations has the distinction of being the longest run
Stardock Magazine April 2017 by Brad Wardell (@draginol) ## Editorial from Brad ## Spring is here . Which means, of course, that another anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 has come. In fact, this year marks the 25th anniversary of OS/2 2.0 or as my wife calls it, the 25th anniversary of our first date (which, she reminded me as I w
One of the things that I tend to fixate on is the shape of my t
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## ASHES OF THE SINGULARITY IS EVERYWHERE ## We just came back from the Game
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Stardock Magazine March 2017 Contents: Editorial with Brad Star Control: Last chance to join What is a 4X game? ## Contacts ## To chat with me directly, follow me on Twitter. To discuss this issue of Stardock Magazine, visit the feedback forum . Also, for those of you who use forums, ple
4X strategy. You may have heard of the term. It stands for: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate. They are a specific genre of strategy game. Today we are going to talk abou