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Stubbs the Zombie Infinite Life and Ammo Cheats (PC)

March 22nd, 2006

Earlier this year I reviewed the EXCELLENT game “Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse” by Aspyr. In the review I mentioned that there are some areas I found really difficult to beat without using cheat codes, but I never told you what those cheat codes were or how to use them.

Cheating with Stubbs is pretty easy. First, open the Notepad program on your system and create a new document containing only two lines:

cheat_deathless_player 1
cheat_infinite_ammo 1

Save this file with the name “init.txt” (the exact file name is critical). Move the file into the directory on your PC where Stubbs is installed. If you’re in the right directory, you’ll find “stubbs.exe” there. The next time you launch the game the cheats will be installed.

When you play with cheats enabled, it won’t look like they’re working at first. You’ll only know they’re working when you don’t die after losing all your health.

NOTE: When I last played the game, having the “deathless_player” cheat on prevented me from being able to complete the “poison the water supply” task. The game locked up instead of moving on to the next cut-scene. You will need to save the game before starting that part, then move the “init.txt” file away from the “stubbs.exe” program, and start the game again without cheats to get past that area.

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New ATX Spec Thwarts My Upgrade Plan

December 28th, 2005

For Christmas this year, I received a $300 gift certificate to one of my favorite online stores, Newegg. I used the certificate to purchase some upgrades I’ve long wanted to do to my main PC. That PC used to contain an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ CPU, 1GB of DDR400 RAM, an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, a GeForce FX 5700LE video card with 256MB RAM, and various other components, including a very nice Antec power supply (550W).

Using the gift certificates, I picked up a refurbished Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard, an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU, and an MSI GeForce 6600LE NX6600LE 256MB PCI-e video card that was SLI-capable (thinking ahead to running two of them). I had to drop another $100 of my own in to get all that, but it was well worth doing so, I thought.

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My Experiences with Virtual Machine Software

September 13th, 2005

As part of the research I’ve been doing into how easy it could be for
a Mac OS X user to switch to Linux, I decided to load one of the more
popular UNIX distributions and familiarize myself with it.  I
didn’t want to dedicate an entire PC to Linux, so setting up a virtual
machine in which to test Linux seemed the right approach. 

What is virtual machine software?  That’s hard to explain,
but I’ll give it a shot.  Virtual machine software
“pretends” to be a complete computer, only it’s software
rather than hardware.  A good virtual machine program will allow an
entire operating system to run inside it, with that operating system
completely unaware that it isn’t running inside its own PC.  There
are many uses for virtual machine software, including testing and
debugging operating systems, performing security testing
(”honeypots” to attract viruses/worms, for example), and
testing software with multiple operating systems without having to
devote an entire PC to one OS.  In this case, having virtual
machine software will allow me to run Linux on a Windows XP Pro system
without disturbing my Windows installation.  Linux will be there
when I want it or need it.  All I have to do is launch
the virtual machine.

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What is the Importance of a Motherboard?

July 13th, 2005

Periodically, I take a look at the search results that led people to
my web site. In a recent examination, I saw that several people asked
the question “What is the importance of a
motherboard?”
and sought an answer. For a seasoned
technical support person like myself, the answer to that question is
quite obvious, but to someone who isn’t that familiar with what is
inside his or her computer, it’s a mystery. Since a number of you
obviously want to know the answer to that question, here it is, as much
in layman’s terms as I can make it.

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Need for Speed Underground 2 Promo Code

June 6th, 2005

I recently purchased Need for Speed Underground 2 for the PC from EB
Games. It came with a promo code that was supposed to go to those who
pre-purchased it, but they included it with my copy anyway.

According to the sheet that comes with the game “Start the game
in career mode and receive an extra $1,000 in game funds to buy parts
and upgrades for your car. Or, start a game in Quick Race mode and get
access to the Mazda RX-8 and Nissan Skyline before your competitors have
a chance.”

To view the cheat codes or promo codes for
this game, click the link below to view the full article (if the codes
don’t already appear below)…

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Review: Sid Meier’s Pirates (PC)

December 30th, 2004

An old friend comes back in new clothing…

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