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Posted: May 18th 2007 8:53AM drewmg said

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I just signed up for Gametap yesterday, and I was pretty impressed by what I saw. (The first month was 99 cents, so it was a pretty low-risk trial)

The older games don't do much for me. The emulation was kind of shaky (weird skips and pauses in the framerate in sprite based games) but the newer games, tooled to run on modern machines is really neat. I like that I can play old Windows and DOS games without having to worry about reconfiguring my computer. Very handy. A nice selection of at least somewhat modern PC games (Prince of Persia, et al) helps quite a bit.

All in all, not a waste of money by any stretch of the imagination.

BTW - if any of you are GameTap subscribers, and managed to solve the framerate issue in 2D games, let me know how you did it.

Posted: May 18th 2007 11:34AM vid said

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I've been using GameTap since August and have never had any trouble with the framerate of any of the older games. Might be something hardware specific? Just an issue between your video card and GameTap maybe?

Posted: May 18th 2007 12:57PM (Unverified) said

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Chung Lara = Wicked Cool

Posted: May 18th 2007 12:59PM (Unverified) said

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Just watched the first documentary episode on the gametap site. Super cool The model stuff looks like it will be the best.

Posted: May 18th 2007 3:42PM Otimus said

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Good ol' Peter "Will animate his crappy crap for anyone" Chung. Seriously, he will!

Posted: May 18th 2007 4:39PM (Unverified) said

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God, I love Rhona Mitra!

Posted: May 27th 2007 7:12PM (Unverified) said

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#1 Whenever I have frame rate problems, it is almost always some other computer process hogging the CPU or accessing the hard drive. The virus scanning and Internet Explorer programs are usually responsible. I usually shut everything else down when playing Gametap. My computer is about 5 years old.

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