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PC and game
However, poor marketing and failure to repeat the technological advances of the first systems meant that the Amiga quickly lost its market share to competing platforms, such as the fourth generation game consoles, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles.
* In 1995 an adventure game based on the series was released called Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity on the PC, with a PlayStation port being released in Japan.
He provided the voice of main character Jake Logan in the PC title, Tachyon: The Fringe, the voice of main character Jake Burton in the PlayStation game Broken Helix and the voice of Magnanimous in Megas XLR.
Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.
Enthusiasts build their systems in order to produce a computer that will out-perform an opponent's computer, thereby " winning " in a contest ; to simply enjoy the best images and effects a new PC game has to offer ; or even simply to obtain the best possible performance at a variety of tasks.
The game was released on multiple platforms, Xbox 360, PS3 and PC as well as Mac OSX and is aimed as a competition to other FPS games such as the Call of Duty and the Battlefield series.
In the Aztec campaign of the PC game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, the player plays as Cuauhtémoc, despite the name Montezuma for the campaign itself, and Cuauhtémoc narrates the openings and closings to each scenario.
As the game is played, each PC changes over time and generally increases in capability.
If resurrection is not possible or not desired, the player may instead create a new PC to resume playing the game.
The Doctor V64 could be used to read the data from a game cartridge and transfer the data to a PC via the parallel port.
At DAIMI, the CS department at Aarhus University, three CS students, avid players of XPilot and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, decided to find out whether the two could be fused into an X-based multiplayer Civilization-like strategy game.
In the 1980s PC game Moraff's World, the Holy Hand Grenade is a usable item that can be found in the dungeon stages.
Id was responsible for some of the biggest technological breakthroughs of video game technology for the PC ( running DOS and Windows ).
As a result, the Id Software team began the development of Commander Keen, a Mario-style side-scrolling game for the PC, once again " borrowing " company computers to work on it at odd hours at the lake house at which they lived in Shreveport, Louisiana.
According to Eurogamer. net, " Id Software has been synonymous with PC game engines since the concept of a detached game engine was first popularised ".
As for Wolfenstein 3D, due to its use of Nazi symbols such as the Swastika and the anthem of the Nazi Party, Horst-Wessel-Lied, as theme music, the PC version of the game was withdrawn from circulation in Germany in 1994, following a verdict by the Amtsgericht München on January 25, 1994.
The series also inspired the PC game " Left Behind: Eternal Forces " and its sequels, " Left Behind: Tribulation Forces " and " Left Behind 3: Rise of the Antichrist ".
In common usage, a " computer game " or a " PC game " refers to a game that is played on a personal computer.
Maxis ' most successful series to date and the best-selling PC game of all time is The Sims ( 2000 ).
* Napoleon Total War, a turn based / real time strategy game for the PC.
A central character in the PC role-playing game Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura was named Nasrudin, an Elf wizard who was renowned for his great wisdom.

PC and Wing
After it became fairly successful in the arcades and game centers, Zero Wing was ported to the PC Engine CD-ROM by Naxat Soft exclusively in Japan and the Sega Mega Drive by Sega in Japan and Europe in 1991.
* T-Mobile Wing, a Pocket PC telephone
* The History of PC Game MIDI by Eric Wing

PC and Commander
Seven official Commander Keen games were released for the PC under MS-DOS.
The first screensaver was allegedly written for the original IBM PC by John Socha, best known for creating the Norton Commander ; he also coined the term screen saver.
The PC was organized on similar lines to the army, and consisted of a General Staff located at its General Headquarters at Camp Crame, Manila, and 12 Regional Commands ( under a Regional Director ) consisting of 104 Provincial Commands ( under a Provincial Commander ); these controlled the 450 PC Companies which performed all the day-to-day military police work.
The PC used to have four Field Units or Command Zones ( PCZs ), each of which was headed by a Zone Commander:
: 2009: Supreme Commander 2 ( for PC and Xbox 360 )
: 2006: Supreme Commander ( for PC )
It is best known for popularizing the shareware distribution model and as the creator of franchises on the PC such as Duke Nukem, and also the publisher of other franchises such as Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D.
In the August 2005 edition of PC Gamer, it was announced that Gas Powered Games was developing Supreme Commander, Chris's first RTS game since 1997.
The Star Commander is a DOS-based tool, cbm4linux is a Linux tool, and cbm4win is a Windows tool to transfer data from an original floppy drive to the PC, or vice versa, using a simple X-cable.
Strike Commander is a combat flight simulator video game designed by Chris Roberts and released by Origin Systems for the PC DOS in 1993.
In 1927, a Philippine Constabulary ( PC ) Commander assigned in the area, Ist Lt. Catalino Javier, initiated the development of some portions of the municipality.

PC and group
In response, a group of PC manufacturers ( the " Gang of Nine "), led by Compaq, created a new bus, which was named the Extended ( or Enhanced ) Industry Standard Architecture, or " EISA ".
Like all subatomic particles, hadrons are assigned quantum numbers corresponding to the representations of the Poincaré group: J < sup > PC </ sup >( m ), where J is the spin quantum number, P the intrinsic parity ( or P-parity ), and C, the charge conjugation ( or C-parity ), and the particle's mass, m. Note that the mass of a hadron has very little to do with the mass of its valence quarks ; rather, due to mass – energy equivalence, most of the mass comes from the large amount of energy associated with the strong interaction.
Most groups, such as the Association of Software Professionals, the Software Industry Professionals group and PC Shareware clearly state their position that any software marketed as ' try before you buy ' is shareware.
A group at Brown University ported version 9 to the IBM RT / PC, but problems with reading unaligned data on the RT forced an incompatible protocol change, leading to version 10 in late 1985.
In March 2004, the European Commission in the European Union Microsoft antitrust case fined Microsoft € 497 million and ordered the company to provide a version of Windows without Windows Media Player, claiming Microsoft " broke European Union competition law by leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems onto the markets for work group server operating systems and for media players ".
* Fairlight ( group ), a Commodore 64, Amiga and PC demo group, as well as a warez group
Emru Townsend of PC World discussed the game with a group, and found a universal dislike for the pits that E. T.
The group resubmitted with the name Progressive Canadian Party, and a new " PC Party " was recognized by Elections Canada on March 26.
Later, a group of Microsoft programmers ( primarily Paul Allen, Mark Zbikowski and Aaron Reynolds ) began work on PC DOS 2. 0.
PC is a zwitterionic headgroup, as it has a negative charge on the phosphate group and a positive charge on the amine but, because these local charges balance, no net charge.
The group was founded in 1986 by PSI as a Commodore 64 group, before moving to the PC demoscene in 1988 ; other members included, over time, Trug, Wildfire, Pixel, ICE, GORE, Abyss, Purple Motion, and Skaven, as well as several others not listed here.
The second PC indicated a deep division of the Tai – Kadai peoples into two: east group and west group.
In 1992, VIA took a major part in the PC Common Architecture standard group, pushing the move from the ISA bus to the PCI bus.
The party was the brainchild of a group of discontented Western interest groups who were upset with the PC government and the lack of a voice for Western concerns at the national level.
* In the PC game Minecraft, a cataclysm refers to a group of creepers, which are infamous for exploding and causing considerable damage to players and their surroundings.
The Kreisau Circle resistance group is featured in Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 2002 Game Of The Year for PC games, and its sequel, Wolfenstein, 2009 video game from id software.
It was organized by the Amiga demo groups Complex and Rebels, and the PC demo group Future Crew.
Diagram of a motherboard chipsetA chipset, PC chipset, or chip set refers to a group of integrated circuits, or chips, that are designed to work together.
In 1987-88, the Macsyma group tried to build a PC Macsyma with Gold Hill Lisp.
In 1993 he returned to be the manager of architecture in the PC group.

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