Elite Bastards retro review: Law of the West
It's time for this week's retro review, and today Layden has taken a look at Commodore 64 game Law of the West.
At the start of each scene, a person will walk on to the screen and offer an opening statement. The player then replies with one of four choices available. The reply given then influences how the scene will play out. There are normally fours turns of dialogue spoken and then the scene will end and the player moves to the next encounter (unless the encounter went badly). If necessary, the player can draw his gun and aim it with the on-screen sight. This can be done at any time, but is normally best reserved for moments when violence is called for. If you get shot, then the doctor can fix you up, but only if he is not drunk or angry with you (if you get trigger happy then you will have a bad reputation).
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Seagate GoFlex Desk 3TB review
I was going to preface this review by asking what you'd all do with 3 Terabytes of disk space but let's face it, we all know exactly what you'd do with it, don't you, you filth wizards...
The 3TB Barracuda XT is a 7200RPM drive. The drive has a 32MB DRAM cache, which is half of what Seagate ships on its 2TB drive making it clear that the 3TB drive used in the GoFlex Desk isn’t 100% performance optimized. Seagate reaches its 3TB capacity by using five 600GB platters.
Internally the drive uses 4K sectors however it translates to 512-byte sectors before it reaches the SATA port. This means to a SATA interface the 3TB drive looks like a drive with 512-byte sectors. The GoFlex Desk docks then map the 512-byte sectors back to the 4K format. There’s obviously overhead associated with these translations but it’s not huge in most cases. The final 4K translation done by the GoFlex Desk dock means that you can partition the drive using MBR which ensures Windows XP compatibility.
For those of you looking to buy a 3TB GoFlex Desk, crack the case open and use the drive inside your system there are some challenges that you should be aware of.
Check out the full review of the world's first 3TB hard drive at Anandtech.Internally the drive uses 4K sectors however it translates to 512-byte sectors before it reaches the SATA port. This means to a SATA interface the 3TB drive looks like a drive with 512-byte sectors. The GoFlex Desk docks then map the 512-byte sectors back to the 4K format. There’s obviously overhead associated with these translations but it’s not huge in most cases. The final 4K translation done by the GoFlex Desk dock means that you can partition the drive using MBR which ensures Windows XP compatibility.
For those of you looking to buy a 3TB GoFlex Desk, crack the case open and use the drive inside your system there are some challenges that you should be aware of.
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Weekend news round up (22/08/2010)
To round off the weekend, here's a round up of news and reviews!
CPUs, video cards and motherboards
- SPARKLE GeForce GTX 460 768MB review at Pure Overclock
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 FleX 1GB review at Tweak Town
- Craig Connell reveals the inside scoop on AMD at Kit Guru
- XFX HD5770 1GB Single Slot in CrossfireX reivew at Kit Guru
- Intel Core i5-760 and ECS P55H-AK review at Hardware Heaven
Cases, cooling and power supplies
- Seasonic X-400 Fanless Power Supply review at Hardware Secrets
- Choiix Power Fort Rechargeable Power Backup Battery Pack review at MegaTech Reviews
- NZXT Sentry LXE review at Kit Guru
- Corsair AX850 Power Supply review at Hardware Heaven
- Silenx Effizio EFZ-80HA2 Compact CPU Cooler review at Dragon Steel Mods
- Lian Li PC-8FIB Aluminum Midi Tower Case review at Kit Guru
- Array R2 Mini ITX NAS Case review at Mad Shrimps
- Thermaltake Massive23 LX Notebook Cooler review at iGadget Life
- Corsair AX850 Power Supply review at Kit Guru
Memory and storage
- Vantec NexStar CB-SATAU3 SATA to USB 3.0 Adapter review at Tweak Town
- Patriot Inferno 100GB SSD review at Pure Overclock
- Kingston SSDNow V (Gen 2) 30 GB Solid State Drive review at Tech ARP
- OCZ 60GB Agility 2 SATA II SSD review at CCE Reviews
- Thecus N7700Pro Network Attached Storage review at Overclockers Online
Systems, communications and input devices
- Rosewill RK-800G Gaming Keyboard review at OC Mod Shop
- Acer Aspire One D260 netbook review at HEXUS
- ASRock Core 100HT NetTop review at Phoronix
- Logitech launches wireless headset at HEXUS
- Psyko 5.1 PC Gaming Headset review at Bona Fide Reviews
Audio and video devices
- Arctic Sound S111 2.0 Speakers review at Tweak Town
- Asus CineVibe Headset review at Tweak Town
- LG HS201 Compact LED Projector review at Inside HW
- Iiyama ProLite E2472HDD review at Kit Guru
- Phiaton PS 210i Earphones review at Test Freaks
Software and gaming
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 review at Tech Gage
- Open-Source 2D, 3D For ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series GPUs at Phoronix
- Madden NFL 2011 PlayStation 3 review at Tweak Town
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