I am not that pretty...

Aliens versus Predator episode DC 5

Not that I've played that much, but on one of those strange moments where you are just better than your usual (!), I did manage to complete AvP's episode #4, on the very special Director's Cut [DC] mode.

Now, I am stuck in episode DC 5, playing as the US Marine. I don't have much time to play, so progress is expected to be slow, and slower, as the adventure walks towards its final.

Here are my current game saves. I play using my real name "Artur Marques", and you can resume exactly where I am now, by selecting the profile US Marine "Artur Marques" and loading the save @ slot #2. Its a good save, with plenty of ammo still available and a reasonable health of 37 :)

Try it. And if you are in the mood, try completing the mythic episode DC 4, using the save @ slot #8, from where I accomplished the miracle of reaching the escape pod...

So, unzip the file [1130 KB ZIP FILE] to your AVP\User_Profiles folder.

I bet you would like these two on your floor too, right? Sorry, they are priceless.

Ah, but you can watch their original digital picture, taken with my very recent SONY DIGITAL MAVICA camera, by clicking on the image.

Impressive stuff! [read about the lighting conditions on your right]

These cute loving duckies live in my computer room for almost 3 years. They have the world record of the longest kiss ever, since they are kissing... precisely since July 1996...

The pink duck is a she. The christmas duck is a he, and he is some months older. The he-duck lived alone until the she-duck came around. They met in Lisbon, Portugal, and they were photographed with a SONY DIGITAL MAVICA camera, using auto-focus, steady-option, low flash and regular quality, on my dark room, yesterday.

The picture on the left has a quality much, much lower than the original. I am very impressed with the MAVICA camera, which can also grab real-time MPEG1 with sound! Everything is then recorded to a standard floppy disk.

Now, with a digital camera on my hands, expect the voyeur to be much more active :)

The DIGITAL MAVICA is a superb SONY still camera, that can record still pictures in JPG and BMP formats, also generating a HTML file that links to the contents on the floppy disk it uses as the persistent memory media. Being limited by the 1.44 MB capacity of the floppies, it might seem that the MAVICA does not perform @ top level with current best digital cameras, but the truth is that SONY's proposal outperforms almost all the competition:

- very high quality optical lens with [selectable] shutter speeds up to 1/4000 and an optical zoom up to 14x, with a minimal focus distance of just 1 cm!

- 800.000 pixel CCD.

- a single floppy can handle ~18 normal quality JPEG pictures, ~11 fine quality JPEG pictures, 1 uncompressed max quality BMP [1024x768], ~15 seconds 320x240 MPEG video, and many other modes. I must stress that the normal quality is very, very good!

- you can control the white balance, a flash, the exposure, etc... very PRO stuff!

- using a floppy has disadvantages... and advantages: when you ran out memory, you don't have to go dump the camera's contents to a PC; you just change the disk :)!

- the fact that you can capture and generate MPEG video on real-time, is technically very impressive. It is really extreme hardware!