what hardware do you play bzflag on?

[ssbfalcon]

how do you deal with tank control on the laptop? i've seen people play bz on the touchpad, but I can't do that. i need to use a real mouse or a trackball. i could play on an eraser head, except that mine would develop a memory and zoom off into the middle of nowhere.

A nifty mini usb mouse works wonders...

[Tropican8]

Here's my BZflag setup:
Computer: HP Pavilion ze5375us Notebook
Processor: Pentium 4 Northwood @ 2.53 Ghz
FSB: 533Mhz
Ram: 512 DDR SDRAM PC2100
Hard Drive: Western Digital 40GB 4200RPM
GPU: ATI Radeon 345m
OS: Windows XP SP1 (ATI won't make linux drivers for the above)

I'd write out more specs if my computer was better

[penguinix]

Yeah thats's the bad thing about ATI, they don't do a good job of supporting Linux. I have a x700 mobile and I can't run any Linux distro I've tried.

[A Meteorite]

I have a x700 mobile and I can't run any Linux distro I've tried.

Can't Linux release their own drivers? Or does ATI only know how? [trying not to get off-topic]

[Tropican8]

Can't Linux release their own drivers? Or does ATI only know how?

Once I get a second computer I'm going to try this:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/

I just don't have the HD space for a full linux distro at the moment. (I play with live cds though).

[Spazzy McGee]

I use:

An Apple G4 Dual 1Ghz (ye it's quite old now i now, but it still outstrips lots of my mate's PCs)
An Apple Studio Display 14"
And 2 Apple Pro Keyboards.

I also have my sound wired through my Pioneer Stereo (50watt sattelites, and 75 watt subwoofer)

It has served me well for the last 3 years!

[dartman]

^Yeah, the G4 I have is the old one. The kind that came before yours. And it's Quicksilver.

[Matt?]

toshiba satellite a35-s159
2.3-GHz Pentium 4 CPU, 512MB RAM, Windows XP Home, 15-inch screen, 60GB hard drive, 8X DVD-ROM and 24X CD-RW combination drive, built-in V.90 modem and 10/100 network interface, 802.11g wireless, touchpad pointing device, 8.9 pounds (including AC adapter and phone cord). One-year warranty on parts and labor, free 24-hour daily toll-free support.
$1349

i do use the touchpad to play alot of times. i have become pretty good at it too. but the thing is warn out.

also how can i get a live cd to work on a windows xp machine. not to get ot please pm me

[JeffM]

Tropican8
DRI blows, and blows hard. The real ATI drives will allways be best. The hardware MFG knows it's hardware best.

[Tropican8]

I know, but ATI won't make drivers for cards under a Radeon 8500. Its my only option on this machine. Meteorite asked if there were drivers, he never asked if they were good enough to use.

[AlliedArmour]

Intel Celeron D 2.4GHz(overclocked to 2.8GHz)
256MB DDR333
60GB Maxtor ATA100(due to mobo limits)
Sapphire Radeon 9250 128MB
Windows 98SE

It runs BZ perfectly at full quality and 1280x1024. LouMan's TimeTrial has been the only map on which I've seen a performance drop and it's only sometimes and not much of one.

[The Vaxorcist]

500mhz Celeron 64mb RAM i810 video (crappy, but better than competition - it supports OpenGL) HD not sure - hd just failed Running Windows 98SE (gentoo coming soon)

[SportChick]

I'm running Windows XP on an Alienware Area 51 laptop with 2 3.4 GHz intel processor (Pentium 4), 1 Gb RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 with 128MB RAM.

[(Un)Guided Missile]

Wow thats amazing unguided missile, thats one hell of a set up. One question though, which apple store do you sneak into to use it?

I found this one called "Home"

how do you deal with tank control on the laptop? i've seen people play bz on the touchpad, but I can't do that. i need to use a real mouse or a trackball. i could play on an eraser head, except that mine would develop a memory and zoom off into the middle of nowhere.

The Keyboard. Honestly, that's what I did on a laptop, and old habits die hard, so, still using it on my PowerMac.

[SilentSwan]

Mac here... all of us art-nerd types like macs it seems.

It's an older one... G4 800MHz (yuck!) I may get a new one, but I've mixed feelings about Apple after their bone-headed decision to drop the PPC chip in favour of (w)intel...

We'll see.

[huw]

Well I've just got my new pc

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 2.4ghz
Nvidia Geforce 6200
2GB Ram

[stumpgrinder]

My BZFlag hardware:

AMD Athlon64 3500+ ~2,2GHz
ASUS A8N-SLI (the cooler sux)
Gigabyte Geforce 6800 GT (256MB)
1024 MB DDR-RAM

or my laptop:
AMD Athlon Mobile 2600+ ~1.4GHz
192 MB RAM
onboard graphic chip with 64 MB

[Doppelgamer]

I got my new laptop sometime in June:
15" PowerBook G4
CPU: 1.67Ghz PPC
Ram: 1GB
HD: 80GB
Video: heck, I dunno
Network: 128kbps WiFi in house (I need Cable...)

I used to use an 800Mhz iMac G4... bleah. It could barely handle BZFlag graphics, which are really pretty simple. And that's not a diss. Simple graphics are good... *cough* NES *cough*.

[nemesis]

nice pic stumpgrinder. how do you get bz running on that? unless I missed something it has no arrow keys, mouse or kb... no os, no HDD, no sound...

[SilentSwan]

Awww... that is too cute

However, I think the Dvorak keyboard layout needs equal representation in those toy computers

[nemesis]

Drop them and go with Windows.

Yeah right, I'll just do that

linux anyone?

[AlliedArmour]

I'd have it AND Windows if I could.

[wabbit]

Kinda the same as Tropicans:
Computer: HP Pavilion ze4521ea Notebook
Processor: AMD Athlon XP-M @ 2.8 Ghz
FSB: 533Mhz
Ram: 512 DDR SDRAM PC2100
Hard Drive: Western Digital 40GB 4200RPM
GPU: ATI Radeon 345m
OS: Windows XP SP2

[SilentSwan]

I'd have it AND Windows if I could.

Why can't you?

[nemesis]

you know, the only things I ever used Win for were iTunes and school software. I switched fields and now I dont need it for school anymore. i am 100 % linux. (ok , and proud of it)