Thanks to Trainz.......... and you all, I've won a prize.
On the 8th January 2009 this message was posted on the PC Advisor forum. It is a UK site where I have been active for over ten years:
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A very happy new year, and thanks to everyone who contributed recommendations to our round-up of your favourite holiday websites.
Trip Advisor (click here) took its second PCA Recommended award, after being named our favourite travel blog last summer (click here). sidecar sid was the first of several to recommend this site, and picks up this month's Readers' Sites prize.We'd be grateful if sid could make himself known.
For our next topic we'd like to hear your recommendations of forums (or, for the latin scholars among us, fora).
We know your favourite technology forum is PC Advisor Speakers' Corner, so let's not limit ourselves to that area. We want to hear about general chat forums, political discussions, forums for fans of sports
teams or TV programmes or, well, pretty much anything. Surprise us.
As usual, recommendations can be added to this thread or emailed to letters@pcadvisor.co.uk.
Thanks again,
David Price
PC Advisor
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I posted this:
Since becoming addicted to TRAINZ from, february last year, the Auran Forums have been really helpful in many, many ways. The people there are totally dedicated and knowledgable Trainz gurus and it is a really friendly place where so much can be learned.
For those of you who are not aware of Trainz; it is marketed as a totally 'real' railroad experience. For myself, I tend to think of it as a totally (real)'virtual' train set.
It is the creation of the routes that I find absorbing. Some people in the forums have routes that have been WIP for more than five years. I'm still working on one I started last May. The only limit to the size of any route you can create is the spec of your computer. You do need a lot of CPU and Graphics power to get the best from Trainz. Another great thing about Trainz is that users create content and then other users can download this content for their own use.
Have a look at the screen shot section at the forums. Many of you will, like I was, be amazed at what can be done with this program (you can't quite call it a game).
The forum: click here
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Today I received this email:
My name is David Price and I'm writing from PC Advisor magazine. Your
recommendation of the Trainz Forum for our Readers' Sites
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showthread&threadid=34662
8&forumid=16
was our favourite, and we'd like to send you a prize. Would you mind letting
us know a postal address we can send it to?
I'll leave you in the hands of Rosemary Hattersley, our deputy editor,
who'll handle the details of the prize-giving.
Many thanks, and congratulations,
David Price
PCA
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What about that Trainzers..............Bit of a result, what!
And, of course, it all helps to spread the word.
On the 8th January 2009 this message was posted on the PC Advisor forum. It is a UK site where I have been active for over ten years:
.........................................
A very happy new year, and thanks to everyone who contributed recommendations to our round-up of your favourite holiday websites.
Trip Advisor (click here) took its second PCA Recommended award, after being named our favourite travel blog last summer (click here). sidecar sid was the first of several to recommend this site, and picks up this month's Readers' Sites prize.We'd be grateful if sid could make himself known.
For our next topic we'd like to hear your recommendations of forums (or, for the latin scholars among us, fora).
We know your favourite technology forum is PC Advisor Speakers' Corner, so let's not limit ourselves to that area. We want to hear about general chat forums, political discussions, forums for fans of sports
teams or TV programmes or, well, pretty much anything. Surprise us.
As usual, recommendations can be added to this thread or emailed to letters@pcadvisor.co.uk.
Thanks again,
David Price
PC Advisor
...................................
I posted this:
Since becoming addicted to TRAINZ from, february last year, the Auran Forums have been really helpful in many, many ways. The people there are totally dedicated and knowledgable Trainz gurus and it is a really friendly place where so much can be learned.
For those of you who are not aware of Trainz; it is marketed as a totally 'real' railroad experience. For myself, I tend to think of it as a totally (real)'virtual' train set.
It is the creation of the routes that I find absorbing. Some people in the forums have routes that have been WIP for more than five years. I'm still working on one I started last May. The only limit to the size of any route you can create is the spec of your computer. You do need a lot of CPU and Graphics power to get the best from Trainz. Another great thing about Trainz is that users create content and then other users can download this content for their own use.
Have a look at the screen shot section at the forums. Many of you will, like I was, be amazed at what can be done with this program (you can't quite call it a game).
The forum: click here
.............................
Today I received this email:
My name is David Price and I'm writing from PC Advisor magazine. Your
recommendation of the Trainz Forum for our Readers' Sites
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showthread&threadid=34662
8&forumid=16
was our favourite, and we'd like to send you a prize. Would you mind letting
us know a postal address we can send it to?
I'll leave you in the hands of Rosemary Hattersley, our deputy editor,
who'll handle the details of the prize-giving.
Many thanks, and congratulations,
David Price
PCA
.........................
What about that Trainzers..............Bit of a result, what!
And, of course, it all helps to spread the word.
