So Microsoft bring us yet another version of pacman but this time the general unwashed make the mazes. http://worldsbiggestpacman.com The good It's pac-man It's free You get a bonus man every 10,000 points so you can play for a long time. You can visit the red cross site and make a donation for the relief efforts in Japan. The Bad Despite the original running on a Z80A, and the average computer now runs several thousand times faster, on a 1.6Ghz Atom based netbook it is as slow as hell. It's pac-man and it is not 1980 anymore so you do get bored, on the positive side you can park pac-man in a corner once you completed a level so you can go off and do something more fun. The bonus lives do mean if you have an ounce of skill you can go on for a long long time.... Some of the graphics look like they have been drawn by a monkey who has the trots as most have pixels missing or even a white line if a eaten ghost moves right, the black used is a very dark grey as you can see the outline of them... The bloody awful Most of the mazes are utter crap, there is a reason why game designers get paid real money and this shows why, most of the mazes seemed to be designed by people with an mental age of 7. There are one or two good mazes, but the pacman logic does not work on mazes that are lots of dots next to each other. Because of the above, some of the mazes are impossible to complete without losing a life, this is specially true with the spiral mazes... Still the extra lives mean you can lose a man for the greater good. If you want to make a maze then you must have a cockbook account If you want to enter for a prize then you need IE9, you can play the game on Chrome and Firefox but you can't pin the app to the taskbar or desktop so you can't enter.
Microsoft are right twats when it comes to Firefox. You can't access the 360 downloads with Fire Fox. The pop-up window just stays on a constant loop. A right pain in the arse if you want to send a demo to your 360 while it is playing a movie or while you're out or something. Just as well I keep Internet Explorer just for the 360. Yakumo
I have no problems with the XBOX website in Firefox. None at all. Weird But I'm sure you aren't the only one
Needs IE9 eh? ''Look, here's a new browser that supports all your current 'lifestyle' needs. It'll help with all your braindead social networking requirements, enable you to compile e-mails with lots of zany and wacky emoticons that your friends and colleagues will just love, 'suggest' a million and one things to you that have all the allure of leprosy and on top of all that it has had so much pointless fuckery built into it that you'll never get completely to grips with it as long as you've got a hole in you arse and unless you were part of the team who coded it it'll run so slowly because you haven't a clue which shit to disable you'll find yourself thinking you've entered an alternate reality where your super-fast connection has been replaced by a 28k modem but hey, progress has it's costs. Oh, and don't forget to make sure to keep checking on the official site to download even more bloat and remember to ''like'' us on Facebook for yet another useless toolbar and receive a chicken in FarmVille absolutely FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'' I'll stick with Chrome.
Wait one day,I will paint the TV tower of my city in yellow, that will be really the world biggest Pacman.
The pacman thing works for me in the latest Fire Fox. Just the 360 downloads page that doesn't like Fire Fox I found.
No reason why you can't run IE9, Chrome and Firefox on your machine, I find that some websites work better (faster) on some browsers then others and a basic install does not change your machine and the hard drive space they use is tiny compared to the hundreds of gigs you have. Chrome works better with the google based websites (surprise) but I hate the look of it so don't run it that much, IE9 is easier and more flexible in setting up search engines then Firefox is, although in the scheme of things there is not much difference between IE9 and firefox for most browsing tasks, IE9 seems to take up less memory then Firefox for the same websites, Firefox maybe a little faster but in the grand scheme of things it does not make much of a difference, you probably waste more of your life going to stupid websites.
There's a perfectly good reason why IE9 won't work on either of my machines and that's because I still use Windows XP. I avoided Vista like the plague and see no reason to go to Windows 7 as the benefits to me are completely non-existent. Am I behind the times? No, I don't think so, as XP offers me everything I need for how little I use my PC or laptop so why alter?
