Atomic Systems

Jon, Careful, you're highlighting your lack of understanding of how the commercial world works. They're selling the stock at a loss to get rid of it and clear space for other product to come in - any warehouse has to balance the cost of spage for storing an unsold product versus the value of the pr...

Well My current Machine Runs Thames-Mersey Fine but I could not believe the turn down of setting I had to do to get Dorset Coast to Run the Spec is AMD Athlon 3400 64Bit 2 Gig Ram 256 MB Gforce card 300Gig HDD 650PSU The Reason I went so High End was because I used to upgrade every 2 years Max but ...

Thanks everyone for your advice and wisdom! Lots of food for thought there and I seem to have stimulated quite some debate on matters microsoft! For me, it's striking the balance between a top end machine and something affordable that will work well. The machine I have been considering would have a...

I can assure you, none of my material currently available in the file library of this website has ever been payware and then been downgraded, as it were, to freeware. All of the signal kits were completed before I was asked to signal a certain commercial add-on route. I have always asked that permi...

I would buy a PC with this sort of spec: AMD X2 (4400 or greater) CPU 1GB + Memory X1800 Graphics 3 SATA disks (1 op system, 2 others in stripped RAID) For the sim etc I have a similar setup, no problems (ever) It is extremely fast (you can run every route maxed out @ 1600x1200) and frame rates nev...

As one who has been on these forums from the very beginning, and who has dealt with most of the modellers and route builders who have taken their toys home. I have refrained from any postings over the recent dealings. However, I am reminded that some time ago, feeling that this might happen, I post...

I have the UK branch collection. It's one of the first add-on's I bought and it's one of my all-time favourites, Highly recommended to any MSTS user.

Simon

I've run MSTS on a total of three desktops and one laptop since I bought it, to be honest the minimise/maximise process has been a bit flaky on all of them, so I tend to avoid swappibg away from MSTS if at all possible.


Simon

i have a desktop for emergencies which i have been using for the past week while my older sister borrowed my laptop but this pc is out dated well its got a pentium 3 procceser which is quite acceptable but it has a 28gb hd, 32MBram so it really doesnt like msts it takes 20 mins just to boot up the ...

Hi If you have the time and the skills to build you own PC...then you'll always get the best for less. However it is often easier for lots of people to buy off the shelf. Personally I wouldn't recommend Advent PCs Cheers Jon I agree about the Advent PC's. I didn't build my PC, I boought a cheap 'ba...

I like to try an build my own PCs, the last one cost £700 - £800 to build but was worth quite a bit more than that. My current setup runs MSTS very smoothly. :) A PC to run MSTS1 well costs a lot less than that! My current system cost less £300 to put togther Sempron 2300, 512MB RAM 80GB HD, mon...

One thing I have seen with Win98 is that too much extra RAM can be counter-productive. There is no way Win98 is going to do anything useful with 1GB RAM unless RAM disks etc come into play. Reason being that Win98 pre-dates that kind of RAM being available on an individual machine and isn't programm...

One thing that has been missed so far is the AMD Sempron. If I have understood it correctly it is a rebranding of the 32-bit Athlon XP chip, and competes on price with the Celeron. Just ordered a new base unit via Ebay AMD Sempron 2300+ 512MB RAM 80GB HD GeForce 4 MX4000 Win2K Pro (Old I know, but k...

Let's be careful about widening this too far. Campaigning against passing off freeware routes as commercial, or against outright pirate software is fine. Campaigning against the selling of second-hand commercial software on ebay takes it beyond what is reaonable IMHO, and could well prove counter-pr...

It's easy to dwell on MSTS shortcomings but the bottom line is that I have spent more time with MSTS than any other computer game bar none, and if it was an ill-thought mess, I wouldn't have done so. It isn't perfect, but it is fit for purpose as shown by some of the fantastic routes and models we h...