My Alienware Aurora

I bought one of these in February 2006 and it went bang for the 2nd time in the Summer of 2014. I could probably get it repaired but I can’t be arsed. It served me well, the rest of this article is/was an action log. …

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mobile VNC

I got interested in VNC. I have some notes elsewhere in the wiki, when I built a vnc server for AWS, so I could use windows to manage the remote Linux box. This note was written when I was experimenting with playing PC games through a small screen/handheld device.

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URU : Ages of Myst

According to Wikipedia, published in 2003 and number four of the series. First installed on our Dell W98 machine and installed on the Dell XP machine in August 2008. This post talks about installation and stability and has a couple of walkthrough pointers.

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NWN Rolgan’s Trial

Rolgan’s Trial is a quest in the Neverwinter Nights Official Campaign. This text is mainly taken from cheat-da-game. The author says, This is a real tricky quest, and I haven’t been able to complete it perfectly, though I have tried very hard, I’m pretty sure there is no way to complete it perfectly. , however,…

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NWN Playing a Paladin

This article has links to the Bioware forums which are now broken. See BiowareCommunity Forums V1.It is the notes a made when running through the game the first time. I chose a Paladin and took some bad advice. I am really not sure about running the first four levels as a fighter to get the…

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NWN Leto

Leto, the Toolset Companion This is hosted at NWN Vault. The link to the hosting page is Leto, v3 (SoU / HotU).

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The Last Inn

This is a NWN community written module. I downloaded this and have tried to play it twice with a pre-made wizard character. In both games after a time, all the NPC’s in the village turn hostile, won’t talk and can’t be damaged. You can’t get the next quest hints. I may try and carry on,…

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Romance Guide for BG1NPC project

I made the HTML version for Domi and posted it on the snipsnap bliki, as Version 1 while it was being reviewed. It seems it’s still here. Jan 2018. It can be viewed using a browser at “BG1 NPC Project” Romance Guide [html], and is also available for download, see below. The BG1 NPC Project…

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Portraits in NWN

This was copied from wiki V.1 on 18th July 2013. Most of the external links are now broken need to be revised.  The early Bioware links are broken forever! It is a short, and not very informative set of notes on adding portraits to NWN.

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Planescape Torment

Another Bioware game based on the Infinity Engine and the AD&D V2 rules. A lot of the BG2 modders community argue this is the best game of all. This game is set in Sigil, the cross roads of the planes, in the forgotton realms. Currently Amazon are offering second hand white label copies for upwards…

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NWN Stability

When playing NWN, I have had some serious stability problems while playing using my XP platforms. This article was written in Nov 2008 and is probably pretty redundant.

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Installing BG2 Mods using NSIS

I wanted to offer a seamless install experience for my Perils of Branwen (Mod), so I asked Jason Compton’s help from PPG to configure the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System. It hangs out here at sourceforge.

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Jaheira

In Baldur’s Gate 2, there are specific quests related to the interaction between you (the protagonist) and certain individual party members. One of the candidates as an object of your affection is Jaheira, who you first met in part one, Baldur’s Gate. This part of the game is very buggy and I collected the advice…

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