In 1994, it was awarded Game of the Year by both PC Gamer and Computer Gaming World.

It was named # 37 overall among the " 150 Best Games of All Time " by Computer Gaming World Magazine ( 15th Anniversary Issue — November 1996 ), was voted # 13 overall in PC Gamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll ( April 2000 issue ), the editors of PC Gamer ranked it # 12 in the Top 50 Games of all time, in their October 2001 issue, citing the game's humor and pop-culture references and it was ranked # 15 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.

Footage was distributed in the cover disc of the August 2004 issue of PC Gamer.

" PC Gamer commented " As far as looks go, Red Faction is more like the cute girl next door than a hot fashion model from the Upper West Side: It's pretty, but it won't make a man drop to his knees and thank God for giving him sight.

* PC Gamer Awards

The US edition of PC Gamer commented on the automap, which automatically marked important locations and allowed the user to add custom notes, and on the journal, which separated completed quests from unfinished quests.

PC Gamer also praised the fine-tuning of the Infinity Engine, such as the use of a radial menu, which allowed the player to stay focused on the game instead of managing multiple screens and " messing with windows and buttons ".

PC Gamer US named Planescape: Torment " Game of the Month " in their March 2000 issue ( the issue in which the game's review appeared ).

In 2008, the UK edition of PC Gamer rated it ninth on its own Top 100 list.

A 2011 update of PC Gamer magazine's top 100 PC games of all-time ranked Planescape: Torment as the 19th greatest PC game.

PC Gamer U. S. gave the game its " Editor's Choice " rating at 90 %, stating that " One of the greatest RTS franchises of all time returns to glory ", while PC Gamer UK gave it a more reserved rating of 82 %, stating that it was " A welcome, but limited, return.

It was named after the amateur radio callsign of Phil Karn, who first wrote the software for a CP / M system and then ported it to DOS on the IBM PC.

Minter then wrote games for the Pocket PC platform, some of which also had PC conversions ( using a customized Pocket PC emulator ).

During this time, John and his friend Lane Roathe co-founded a company named Ideas from the Deep and wrote versions of a game named Zappa Roidz for the Apple II, PC and Apple IIGS.

He co-authored several PC games with Dan Illowsky who previously wrote Snack Attack for the Apple II.

He began writing monthly columns in 1982 for PC Magazine and later PC Week magazine as well, which he wrote until 1987.

John C. Dvorak wrote in PC Magazine that " Metasites that track crackpot sites often say this is the number one nutty site.

Sugiyama's first contact with Enix was by a fan letter he wrote them regarding a PC shogi game in the early 1980s.

George Mannes of The Daily News found the controls to be easy to learn and simple to keep track of in comparison to PC shooters, but said the joystick control could be disorienting: " the only problem is when you look up in the air and make the slightest twitch to the left or the right, you can end up like a tourist staring up at the Empire State Building and whirling like a dervish ," he wrote.

In the late-90s, Vipul co-founded, with Ashish Gulhati, an Internet privacy company ( Sense / Net ) for early Internet users in India and wrote extensively for computer magazines and industry journals, including a regular column, Net Zeppelin, on networking protocols for the Indian edition of the PC World Magazine.

Ken Spreitzer wrote the first widely used PC program called " UnInstaller ", first licensed to MicroHelp and then by February 1998 sold by CyberMedia.

After the Commodore 64 period he wrote some soundtracks for games which appeared on the IBM PC and Sega Mega Drive.

One PC Week columnist wrote, " Cornerstone is the best program I have ever used ... the program is so easy to use, explaining its use is almost redundant.

Slashdot wrote: " While the improvement may seem small, it is an outstanding achievement because only a single desktop PC, costing less than $ 3, 000, was used — instead of a multi-million dollar supercomputer as in the previous records.

Mrs. Bowman and Miss Cass had already begun a private prosecution of PC Endacott for perjury, and after due consideration the Law Officers wrote to their solicitors offering to take over the case, or permitting the case to go ahead under their direction.

Others agreed that the automation rendered gameplay too simple, with no upgrades or serious resource management, a sentiment PC Gamer expressed when they wrote that the missions " become mind-numbingly repetitive ".

PC Gamers Lee Buchanan wrote that it " soars above the pack of flight simulations ", and considered it to be " the most fun has had in a computerized cockpit ".

Mark Kilgard wrote and released many OpenGL technical sample programs during the pushback against Microsoft's competitive FUD against the API, and his GLUT toolkit ( ported to Windows by Nate Robins ) allowed these examples to run cross platform on Windows PC systems as well as SGI workstations.

Stephen Poole of PC Gamer US stated the game's predecessor's limited environments did not create a believable flight experience, but wrote, " However, with its exquisite terrain, impressive flight-physics models, and meticulous attention to the details and procedures of civilian aviation, Flight Unlimited II now offers the closest experience to actual flight that you can get on a PC.

Note: Graham Blighe also wrote the arcade section of these games, with the exception of the IBM PC version of European Champions.

" PC Gamer UKs James Flynn praised the game's graphics, sense of realism, and free-form missions ; about the latter, he wrote, " There's no right or wrong way to complete any of the missions in Terra Nova, and this is one of its strongest assets.

* Jedi Exile, the main character in the PC / Xbox videogame title Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Exile was generally received positively upon release ; the PC version holds a 79 % favorable rating at Game Rankings and a 83 % rating at Metacritic.

* PC Version of Exile

His first job was at Telenet Japan, where he composed the score for the action role-playing game Exile and popular PC Engine side-scroller Valis II.

While LucasArts proceeded to produce Escape from Monkey Island in, they canceled development of sequels to Sam & Max Hit the Road and Full Throttle stating that " After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we've decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC.

There have also been multiple JumpStart games produced for systems other than the PC and Mac ; JumpStart Dino Adventure, a game for the Game Boy Color, JumpStart Wildlife Safari, a game for the PlayStation, JumpStart Pet Rescue, a game for the Wii, JumpStart: Escape from Adventure Island for the Wii, and JumpStart Get Moving Family Fitness, a game for the Wii.

: 2000: Escape From Monkey Island ( for PC )

In May 2007, Vivendi announced that Escape From Butcher Bay was being remade by Starbreeze Studios for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

This signal would be fed into the sound card audio input of the PC, and Banpaia would decode the ESN / MIN pair from this signal and display it on the screen.

A popular application was use in home theater PC systems due to high performance and low heat output resultant from low V < sub > core </ sub > settings.

Backplanes have grown in complexity from the simple Industry Standard Architecture ( ISA ) ( used in the original IBM PC ) or S-100 style where all the connectors were connected to a common bus.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.

Two key marketing executives in Compaq's early years, Jim D ' Arezzo and Sparky Sparks, had come from IBM's PC Group.

Phoenix Technologies would shortly follow their lead, but soon " clone BIOSes " were available from many other companies who reverse engineered IBM's design, then sold their version to the PC clone manufacturers.

Rosen and Canion had disagreed about how to counter the cheaper Asian PC imports, as Canion wanted Compaq to build lower cost PCs in-house, while Rosen believed that Compaq needed to buy standard components from suppliers and reach the market faster.

Capellas was able to restore some of the luster lost in the latter part of the Pfeiffer era and he repaired the relationship with Microsoft which had deteriorated under his predecessor's tenure, but the company still struggled against lower-cost competitors such as Dell who took over the top spot of PC manufacturer from Compaq in 2001.

Hurd separated the PC division from the imaging and printing division and renamed it the Personal Systems Group, placing it under the leadership of EVP Todd R. Bradley.

By the mid-1990s, Compaq's price war had enabled it to overtake IBM and Apple, while other IBM PC Compatible manufacturers such as Packard Bell and AST were driven from the market.

It also received the Award for Technical Excellence from PC Magazine, and the Best Action Adventure Game award by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

The version also features remixed music, some rearranged from the PC version and some original, in streaming XA-Audio made by Mark Knight.

In-game music was removed, many items were renamed to avoid drug and sex references, and several levels were altered to include areas from the Plutonium Pak ( such as a Duke Burger outlet being present in the second level where there wasn't one in the original PC version ).

Data is loaded into the V64jr's battery-backed RAM from a PC via a parallel port connection.

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.

Most PC makers eventually decoupled the slot clock from the system clock, but there was still no standards body to " police " the industry.

In the 2009 European Parliament election the EFA got six MEPs elected: two from the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one from the PC ( Jill Evans ), one from the Party of the Corsican Nation ( PNC ; François Alfonsi ), one from the ERC ( Oriol Junqueras ) and Tatjana Ždanoka, individual member of the EFA from Latvia.