I'll do it sometimes this spring.

oh yeah dark you rule when it comes to podcasting or, as you call it, castings of the pan, ehr pod.

well when i get around to that submitting the audio files thing, i can probably review a game on podcast. however, my real problem is.
I'm a bit confused with that winLame thing that most recorders ask me to download when saving mp3 files, the site is a bit confusing and i don't quite know what to do on that one.
the question then is what to review. I've seen many games already, i was planning to do lords of the galaxy, but my demo expired and they haven't released a new version. boo!
hey, i know something. how bout treasure mania.

Is there a direct link to that podcast? I'm too lazy to scour the web for it.

davy... ctrl plus f. if you know what kind of podcast you can easily search for it that way.

Well, nice to see this topic has generated some discusion, and I'll look forward to checking out other people's pods.

Many appologies for the absense, but I got back on Wednesday to discover the network doing very nasty things to my Pc, slowing things down to unbelieveable levels. Yesterday I had the fun of contacting the I.t. services, and as usual they've been fairly useless.

However, I believe I've isolated the problem, ----- and as the old saying goes, if there's a problem microsoft is usually at the bottom of it, in this case microsoft automatic update, which somehow had got turned on.

Assuming I've correctly analysed the problem's cause, I should be back now.

I hope to do another pod this weekend (was going to do one yesterday, but had all the I.T. related fun to deal with). Possible topics I'm considdering are a review of Galaxy Ranger or Lords of the Galaxy, a review of the Project.aon site and the Lone wolf gamebooks, a review of self-destruct or maybe Jim's games. Perhaps an online text game or two as well. Brian's already done Sryth, but I don't think anyone's done Kingdom of Loathing.

I'd like to sort out a propper mike which I could connect to my comp though, then I could hopefully directly reccord onto the r09 without the need to use my speakers. which would be much better for audio game reviews, particularly of hevily sterrio games like Treasuremania.

though at least the r09 has some very good sterrio mikes. Speaking of sterrio mikes, I'd also like to discuss coffee, and the way I make it, ----- sinse I grind it by hand and don't use any electronic gismos, an audio wander around colidge might also be fun, sinse we have some quite interesting audio environments I think, ----- including ducks! Perhaps I could also demonstrate the ultrakane as well.

Though a space tour would be awesome as well!

Well, the volume controls I mention for the mike are those found in the "sounds and audio" item of the control panel, if you want to muck about with your system's volume, I suggest looking there.

As to the start menue, simply open windows explorer and if your the only person that uses your comp and haven't done anything serious with the accounts business, go to documents and settings\all users\start menue, and you can customize what goes on there, create short cuts and cut and paste. If you or someone else has done something with the accounts on your system, just go to "documents and settings\ whatever your user name is\start menue" instead.

As regards the Ftp and submition, it's no trouble.

the Ftp site thing shouldn't be a problem at all. go to ftp://dm.myftp.org/ (if it asks you for a password, you can find it on the appropriate page of Bct).

Then, when you've got the Ftp open, just copy the file with ctrl C, go to the ftp page and paste the file with ctrl V. A similar timing dialogue thingy should open (as when your waiting for a download, virus scan or whatever), and when that's finished whatever the file was should be on the page.

Now just close the Ftp page and send an E-mail to Lary Scutchan explaining what the file is,and it should get posted up on Bct within the next week or so.

Hope this helps.

Now, if anyone could give me some mike advice as regards my previous post I'd be very much obliged, especially sinse it would make it possible for me to cast even more complex pods, and give me a wider variety of things to ramble on pointlessly about.

Now how about noticing the fact that "Well darn Whatever! is not exactly a good response when somebody's trying to help you out Andy. "thanks it works" or "thanks it doesn't" or "thanks I'll try it later" would all be fine, perhaps you are spotting a trend here.

I'm sorry about playing the politeness ogre, I just don't exactly appreciate getting that sort of response after I've taken the time to construct a careful explanation, and this isn't the first time I've noticed that such things have happened. If you don't understand something, just say so you don't learn anything unless you ask.

Arjan, I actually ran Real player for quite a while on my old laptop with windows 98 with no trouble at all. Recently, sinse a lot of websites seem to require it for streaming (I deffinately fancied some of the dr. who stuff on the Bbc site), I tried downloading the dreaded thing. unfortunately, the network port blocking strikes again, thus it was of no use to me, however I was able to remove it with no problems at all.

If Real player is causing you issues though Arjan, there's an alternative called "Real alternative" on the downloads page of the Whitestick.co.uk site Though when I tried that, I got the same blocking issues as Real player so it wasn't much good for me, but from the description on the download's page it seems to be an easy way round the real player issues you describe, ----- and I've certainly found some good software on that page in the past.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed my pod. I was going to do another one this evening but ended up falling asleep early, but hopefully I can get one done tomorrow.

Just keep casting those podders. Or stop doing so, because you're stealing my listeners.