Principley yes, though I have heard the media player searching capacities are good.

It does however also have a couple of small games written specifically for it right now, dice poker (Yahtsie), and a long jump sim.

some people, including Liam Urven though are talking about writing more apparently.

hopefully I'll be able to let you know more when i've actually tried it (it's on the list of stuff I need to try out, then review for the site).

I must admit, I wasn't entirely enthusiastic, sinse all the things it does, brousing sites, getting audio, going on forums etc, are things i can do myself anyway with Hal or other programs.

From the sound of it though, they're working on many new features and adding stuff all the time, so it's probably worth keeping an eye on at the least.

At the same time, from what I've seen and heard Lua is moderately understandable to us mere mortals who've never even delved into C++.

This is why it's currently the Hal scripting language tool as well.

The hugeness and quickness of the Klango catalogue is indeed something I've heard many good things about, though again, thanks to Hal's flash compatibility and winamp, brousing for audio or indeed utube video is sort of getting to be routine now, ---- though I admit if it has podcatching software I'd be interested.

It's something I'm going to have to try anyway I think for game review purposes, and I'll see what I think then.

Oh btw, Trenton from the audeasy list did say he was setting up some audio games related discussion on there. Last I heard he was working on getting the original doss eamon text rpg adventures running comfortably, so it'd be worth checking out.

He did invite me to join, but I've just been highly taken up with work on the site, and on my Phd, and on the performance I'm currently in, and playing some text adventures as well!

Yee Gods I wish I had a cloning machine!