Epinions Recent Reviews for WillMontu

Running over cops has never been so much fun

Sun, 2 Sep 2001 21:16:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I first got into Grand Theft Auto when someone installed it on every computer in my high school programming class. The teacher did not mind, and the whole class got a kick out of playing multiplayer over the school. Surprisingly, that same teacher still...

One of the better Slot A mobos out there

Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:55:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - Back in January, I cam across a deal on TigerDirect.com for a motherboard/CPU combo upgrade kit. It included an AMD Athlon 950 CPU, SY-K7VIA mobo, and a dual cooling fan. This cost about $200 for everything, which was a really good deal at the time.
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Electronic Arts, Inc. Theme Hospital: A cure for everyday boredom

Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:07:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - My brother recently purchased a Sim combo pack. It included various Sim games, such as Sim City, Sim Farm, Sim Safari, Theme Park, and others. Theme Hospital was also one of the games included in the package. I had played Theme Park before, and Theme...

Lost & Found: Before spending $$$ or reformatting, consider L&F

Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:08:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - Format, recover, or send away

There have been multiple cases where I have lost gigabytes of data. The first time, my partition table simply disappeared, leaving only my boot partition. I had many files that I wanted to recover. There was the...

Digital Convergence :CueCat: CueCat - Big Brother's Pet

Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:27:08 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I first heard about the CueCat on a radio show, talking about how it was a new gadget that can be hooked up to a computer and can read barcodes from products and would supposedly take the consumer to a corresponding website. I was not terribly...

Bring some batteries to capture the moment

Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:38:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I first got the Kodak DC-210 Plus over two years ago, and its has been used for well over 1000 shots (and countless AA batteries). Back then, a mega-pixel was considered a lot for digital, and serial interfaces were standard.

Opening the...

Great for working, playing, and ripping.

Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:50:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - For the last few years, I have been running with mainly non-Intel CPUs. I started out with a Cyrix 166, and later upgraded to a K6-2-300. I later swapped that chip out for a K6-2-500. The K6 series of CPUs is comparable to the Intel line of Pentium CPUs,...

AOL Instant Messenger: The bright side of AOL

Sun, 11 Mar 2001 15:06:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - When I first heard about AOL Instant Messenger, I was not very interested in using it, as I already had ICQ, and I had bad experiences with AOL itself. I eventually ended up signing up for the service, and I still use it today, with over a hundred people...

Collect a whole lot of money

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:16:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - At first, I thought that selling Game of Life for the computer was not the best move for Hasbro to make, as it is such a simple game, and probably wouldn’t have much replay value. In reality, the game is a fun game to play several times.

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The Calculus student's dream machine

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 21:46:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - For several years, I had been using the Texas Instruments TI86 for math and entertainment. I thought it was a good calculator, but even that does not match the capabilities of the TI-89.

The machine

I was issued a TI-89 calculator...

I am having a ball with this optical mouse

Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:20:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I was looking to replace my trackball mouse, as I was no longer able to use the PS2 mouse port on my PC. I had recently added a USB keyboard to my PC, and I wanted to get a good USB trackball to go with it. I had a look at different trackballs available,...

It still works

Sun, 31 Dec 2000 20:47:46 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - About four years ago, I purchased the Spot Scantak 2C scanner for nearly $200. The scanner worked great for its time, until the scanner died on me (probably because the cable that connected it to the controller card was knocked). After several weeks of...

A lot of sound in a small package

Sun, 31 Dec 2000 20:08:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I have a speaker system similar to this, but with four speakers and the sub. The speakers are fairly small, and provide good sound quality.

When I added a Sound Blaster PCI512 to my PC over a year ago, I found out that it supported...

Who says you have to follow the rules?

Sat, 30 Dec 2000 20:58:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I had been a long time fan of Roller Coaster Tycoon, and I enjoyed playing Sim City 3000 from time to time. When I first heard about The Sims, I was interested in getting a copy, and I got my copy the next time I went to Electronics Boutique...

More than a decade and Tetris is still the best

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 16:18:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I first had the chance to use a Game Boy system in 1993, when my cousin had a system. It only had three games with it, but it was quite entertaining. A few months later, my younger brother got a Game Boy system as a birthday present. This meant that we...

Animals, roller coasters, and more

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 18:21:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I first visited Busch Gardens Tampa in mid 1997. At that time, I was quite chicken when it came to roller coasters with inversions (track that goes upside down). When I next visited six months later, I had broken that fear, and I still love to ride the...

All Advantage: Take the money and run

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:54:41 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I signed up for AllAdvantage several months ago, as a way of making a few extra bucks. At the time, it was quite appealing, as they would pay 50 cents an hour for 25 hours in a month. This worked out at about twelve dollars a month, just for surfing the...

¿Donde esta el bano? (Where is the bathroom?)

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 23:57:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - My brother, my father, and myself spent a two-night mini-vacation in Barcelona. We flew in from London, through Go airlines. My brother and I originally wanted to go to Barcelona to put our Spanish to use.

Upon exiting the airport, we had to...

All this and then some - Internet Keyboard Pro

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:31:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - The Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro is similar to the Internet Keyboard, however it includes a few extra functions. The Internet Keyboard includes buttons to adjust volume, launch applications, and put the computer into sleep mode. The Internet Keyboard...

Just add TV and DVD player

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 17:59:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - Ever since I had a DVD player, I wanted to get a replacement stereo system, so I could take advantage of what DVD had to offer. The Kenwood VR-357 was quite appealing, as it was on special at Sam’s club. It included six speakers (left, right, center,...

How can you go wrong with a plane named "Hot Lips"?

Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:49:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - This review was originally written in 2000 My father lives in London, so my brothers and I do not get to see him very often. It was nearly two years ago that my oldest brother finally got to go over and see him. After hearing horror stories from...

Very easy to program

Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:18:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I wanted to get a universal remote for my audio/video components, and I did not want to spend hundreds of dollars on a fancy touch screen remote. I wanted to get a remote that could also operate a DVD player, but this meant paying even more money. I...

Windows 2000 aka. Windows 98 Done Right

Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:55:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I started using Windows 2000 a few months ago. I was getting sick of the constant crashes of Windows 98, and wanted to see what it was like. While I am not a “business user”, I like to try out new high tech toys. I had had experience with Windows NT 4,...

Fast burns and no coasters

Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:03:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I originally wanted to get a Yamaha 6X SCSI CD burner from TigerDirect. It never shipped, so I ended up going for the HP 9200 Plus Series. It cost a bit more, but it was faster. The drive can write at 8X, re-write at 4X, and read at a quick 32X. This...

CompactFlash is great, Real Jukebox is not

Wed, 25 Oct 2000 21:57:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author WillMontu - I ordered the 64MB version of the RCA Lyra about a year ago. At the time, I was familiar with MP3 files, and had just discovered Napster. I chose this player over others, because it was the only one I could find that used CompactFlash memory, as opposed...