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Q. What type of software do you use to make your web site? A. I use different varieties of software to construct my web site. To edit the web pages and their HTML code, I use Microsoft's "FrontPage 2000", which allows me to quickly edit the web pages graphically and also look at the HTML code. To make the graphics on the web site, I used a combination of two programs. I initially use Kinetix's/Discreet's "3D Studio Max R3" to make computer 3D models of each of the graphical elements that you can see around the web page (e.g. the buttons, the web page title logo, the background metallic panel). After generating images in 3D Studio Max, I use JascSoftware's "Paint Shop Pro 5.01" to edit the images for the web site. To upload the web pages and images to the Yahoo/Geocities web site, I use Rhino Software's "FTP Voyager". Q. What kind of computer do you use? A. I use a fairly old computer, a Pentium Pro 180MHz with 32 MB of RAM and two hard drives, which are 3.2 GB and 40GB. I bought the computer back in 1997, which was about 5 years ago, but this computer is still able to handle software such as 3D Studio Max which allows me to do some decent computer generated 3D models. Q. I don't understand how to navigate your web site! Please explain? A. This web site uses a web page format called "Frames". This divides the web page into individual windows. The top window contains the main menu (above) and has links that direct you to the main sections of my web site. The left hand window contains the sub menu (left) that has links that direct you to the sub sections of each main section of the web site. Another alternative for navigating my web site is to use the Site Map page, which has links that direct you to every page of my web site. Q. What is Mechwarrior? A. Mechwarrior is a PC game series based on the FASA Role-Playing Game "Battletech". The game is set in the 30th century, and humanity has been divided into two distinct races - the Inner Sphere (which includes Earth), and the Clans (genetically-modified supersoldiers). Both sides use "mechs" - gigantic robots armed with devastating weapons. The PC game series has been very successful, with the most recently released addition being Mechwarrior 4. Q. What is Doctor Who? A. Doctor Who was a long-running BBC Science Fiction series, which was first televised in 1963. The series chronicled the adventures of a time-traveller called "The Doctor", in his time-machine called "the TARDIS" (the initials stand for Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). After a successful run on British Television it was finally cancelled in 1986(?). Virgin Books published a successful series of books from 1991(?) to 1999(?). Virgin stopped printing these books after the original run ended, which makes a Virgin Doctor Who book a highly sought-after item. Doctor Who books from the Virgin run have been auctioned on E-Bay for as high as $600AUS. After 1999, the publishing rights for Doctor Who were passed to BBC Books. The BBC Book authors added their own plot-twists to the Doctor Who universe - the most controversial being the complete and total destruction of the planet Gallifrey (the Doctor's homeworld). Big Finish has also published a series of audio novel adventures. |