{"id":7,"date":"2004-11-23T19:02:52","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2004-11-23T19:02:52","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T09:02:52","slug":"new-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/new-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"New Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After much contemplation I have finally chosen my new computer.  I went with the Geforce 6800 GT mainly becasue of Pixel Shader 3.0 support and as I prefer the stability of NVidia&#8217;s drivers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve bought Half-Life 2 and Rome:Total War recently.  I&#8217;ll put up a review of HL2 when I finish it, I&#8217;m about half the way through and loving it.  It&#8217;s definately in my top 5 games of all time.  The way the graphics, physics, sound come together to create one of the best atmosphere&#8217;s in a game to date is superb.  Rome: Total War is another game which has lived up to it&#8217;s hype.  The graphics engine is simply amazing, especially it&#8217;s level of detail which let it run smoothly on my old Geforce 3 and my new one.<\/p>\n<p>Work is going well, I&#8217;ll be working on MyVirtualHome (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myvirtualhome.com.au\">www.myvirtualhome.com.au<\/a>) until mid 2005.  I&#8217;m learning a lot every day and enjoying every bit of it.  It&#8217;s been one year since I started in the games industry and I&#8217;m loving every minute.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about all, I&#8217;m moving house over the next few weeks, after which I&#8217;m going to get into a routine and start coding my space game, it&#8217;s all coming together in my head and I&#8217;ve written a simple design doc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much contemplation I have finally chosen my new computer. I went with the Geforce 6800 GT mainly becasue of Pixel Shader 3.0 support and as I prefer the stability of NVidia&#8217;s drivers. I&#8217;ve bought Half-Life 2 and Rome:Total War recently. I&#8217;ll put up a review of HL2 when I finish it, I&#8217;m about half <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/new-computer\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgEc5-7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}