Monthly Archive for August, 2006

running Neverwinter Nights on linux

This morning i went to our mail-administration center and got my new game.

After driving home in rain :( i hurried up with the installation, to test and enjoy the game.

And what do you suspect? It’s up and running like hemmi (insider). Aside from the installation problems with Kingmaker the whole game is greaaaaat, and it is much fun to play, although the grafic engine is a bit old. :)

I’ll post some screenshots later maybe…

a daytrip to Kassel

Yesterday i visited my aunt in Fellmar near Kassel/Hessen. I went with my father and my sister, who will stay there for ten days, because my parents are driving to Austria.

Huh, the last visit was some years ago i think… And what the heck! I forgot my digital camera… d’oh!

Whatever, we started early in the morning i think it was half past eight, and i was back home at eight in the evening. Timing, hm?

Nothing more to report, except that we got a new television from my aunt. :D

Ah, yes, and i received a note from the mailman, about my ordered game “Neverwinter Nights”. :)

linux-gaming and other small things…

Okay, it’s not long ago that i have installed my Unreal Tournament 2004 on my linux. It works well, so i thought i could try something else:

My mind went to an oldschool game called Descent (I/II/III) and there was no doubt that a working linuxversion exists. Okay after i had discovered descent2.de, i tried d2x-xl. All worked fine, the compiling of the client, copying the files from a windows installation into the given directories, renaming them and some other tweaks.

BUT when i start the game, it shows the Descent2 intro, and then i get a blank screen and my machine is at 100% processor load. The only thing that does not freeze my machine after that is a “kill -9 d2x-xl”. So WHAT THE HECK is killing my Descent2 game at this point? – I get no errors, no information, nothing! Just 100% processor load! :(

Okay, that was a bit frustrating. Now i will try my luck with Neverwinter Nights. I knew this game long before, and i ever wanted to try it but I don’t know why I haven’t done it. Whatever, now i have ordered my copy of NWN to test it and play it if it works, bioware provides a linux-client so i think there will be no problems installing and playing the game! After i have gone through this game i will think about buying the sequel: Neverwinter Nights 2

In the end i hope i will have the motivation to play this game, because my game experience in UT2004 is fading away and I am playing only frequently. Well forget Descent, maybe it will run some day. But a game like NWN needs a lot of time…

I don’t know what it is, but my motivation, for completing my own todo-list and other things, which are useful for myself, is lower than it has ever been. :(

But why? Maybe just the lack of absolutely stress free time, the lack of good sunny weather, or what the heck…

Just keep your fingers crossed for me, that time will make it all better.

bambi instead of jesus

What the hell means that headline, you think?

That’s the new cult on festivals, in the beginning it was “SLAYER!!!”, then the call “HELGA!!!” grew out somewhere, but now its “BAMBI!!!” which collects masses of headbangers.

On this summerbeeze the cult began at the watercanister no.14 and it grew to a mass rally. After a the mass at the canister the crowd went to the festivalentrance to the stages. After passing the entrance they yelled “BAMBI TO THE MAIN STAGE” and went into the crowd at the stages.

Okay that was a short explanation what happend, now some pictures:

The BambiThe Bambilogo

website updates

I’ve managed to add another theme to my wordpress page called K2 some weeks ago.

Well i had to write my own css file and to do some other changes which cannot be seen by users.

But the most beautiful changes can be seen by users, the new banner pictures:

  • my cat “Merlin”
  • a  photo of a cloud formation
  • two photos of a sunrising at summerbreeze
  • and a section of the map of middle earth

The pictures are shown by a random algorithm, so its possible that you see only a few, or everytime you click on another page another picture of this five is shown.
Enjoy! :)