I ever loved Fallout games. One and two, despite of the small resolution, isometric 3D and so on had a such gameplay…

I spent almost a year waiting for Fallout 3 to be released. I will not be hard on Amazon who sent me the game one day late (I will NEVER buy a pre-sale game on Amazon again). I finaly got the game, one day after everybody else.

Hopefully it was on a Friday night. I came at home around 19:00.
At 1:00 I was starving. Just kill this damn supermutant, and I go for a lunch (At this time it’s not called a lunch anymore – you eat what you can find in the fridge. Some gekko on a stick and a Nukacola ? )

The time I killed the Mutant, it was around 5:30 AM. I just went to bed. This was my first day (night ?) with Fallout 3.

Yesterday was the 11th of November. The game ended at around 13:00.

It’s a lovely game. Many things are exactly as they were in the previous episode, which I like.
Many things were improved, starting with the 3D look.
Unfortunately, many things were changed or removed, or even not changed.

Pro :

• 3D
• the story / the place
• everything not in cons

Cons :

• you can’t go everywhere in the city. You have to follow paths
• not enough monsters species
• not enough gun types
• you can’t go up level 20
• you can’t go up 10 in each SPECIALS
• spoiler : at the end, it’s the end

Yes, last one is the worst : at the end of the main quest, the game ends. No way to finish the other quests or see the world… BAAAAAAAAD !

But it’s the best game I’ve played with since… previous Fallout, Monkey Island and alone in the dark.

More pics to come soon…

Fuppes is a « free » Upnp and DLNA server. It can work on almost any system, from Linux to Os X

While you will find some usefull help to install it on Leopard (check here), it may not be so easy.

First of all, install Macports.
Then, change your PATH environement variable so you have /opt/local/bin and /opt/local/sbin at the begining.
Then, port install some packages :

• autoconf
• automake
• ffmpeg (see my other post for compilation)
• ImageMagick
• simage
• taglib
• pcre
• pkgconfig
• SQLite3
• libxml2
• ossp-uuid
• lame
• flac
• vorbis

Other may be needed.

Then, download the latest CVS trunk and install it :

$ sudo svn co http://fuppes-svn.ulrich-voelkel.de/trunk fuppes
Password:
$ cd fuppes/
$ autoreconf -vfi
$ CFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include/libavformat -I/opt/local/include/libavcodec -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/libavutil -I/opt/local/include/libswscale" \
CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include/libavformat -I/opt/local/include/libavcodec -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/libavutil -I/opt/local/include/libswscale" \
LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib -R/opt/local/lib" \
./configure --prefix=/opt/fuppes --enable-video-transcoding
$ make
$ sudo make install

Then, start fuppes and go on the web interface :
/opt/fuppes/bin/fuppes
Or start it as a standalone daemon :
/opt/fuppes/bin/fuppesd

Then browse to your IP on port 50865.

Of course, if you have no time but got money, you can just buy the Eyeconnect software from Elgato…

Cheers