RPG Games for Beginners by Taitelul Verde
part I – characters, attributes and experience explained For the ones of you that don’t know RPG stands for Role Playing Game, and is one of the most played type of game nowadays. You are the main hero, and you interact with other characters also called NPC-s ( or Non Playable Characters if... Besides these three there are a few other primary attributes like: -strength – representing the strength of your character, you’ll have to put points here if your character is a fighter. ... Most RPG games allow you to choose your type of character at the beginning.

Optical Character Recognition - What's It All About? by Brett McQueen
Optical character recognition, or ‘OCR’, is a technology that allows digital images of typed or handwritten text to be transferred into an editable text document. For example, if you hooked up a scanner to your computer and used the scanner to scan a handwritten essay into a digital photo, you... Optical character recognition technologies can be found used in different software solutions, but software is considered a low budget way to use optical character recognition technology. ... Also from wikipedia.org, “ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character...

PC Games - Sorcerian by Michael Russell
The year was 1987. Japan was trying to cash in on the PC game market. In an attempt to do this, they exported one of their more popular arcade games into PC format. Because of this, the game itself, Sorcerian, plays more like an arcade game than a PC game. ... These characters not only have certain powers and abilities, such as fighter, cleric and wizard, among others, but each character can have a different race and profession. ... It appears after completing each scenario your character will age one year.

Search Information Like Professionals Do - Use File Masks And Search Syntax by Sam Miller
Do you know what file mask is? If you are a computer specialist, I'm sure you do and you know a lot of ways how you can benefit from this. But if you are not a computer guru, I'll tell you few secrets, that will really help you to make any search much more effective. ... If you don't remember only one character in the file name (it's rare, but it's possible), you can replace this character with ? ... "*" character is for some string of chars, it's not limited in lengths. ... Another important character is ";", use it to combine two masks, for instance, if you need to files that start with...

History of the Computer - Codes for Data Transfer, Part 3 of 3 by Tony Stockill
DATA TRANSMISSION CODES We have mentioned teletype machines, these were the backbone of operator communication with the computer, but were also used for remote input of data. A phone line could be used to link a storeman in the warehouse with the main computer using a modem... Once again the character set was restricted to the basic ASCII codes, and Control codes with printers from different manufacturers able to be used due to the standard codes (Interfaces were a different matter!) Contrast this with the laser or inkjet printer today, Virtually any font and character set, color and...

OCR Software--Optical Character Recognition or Optical Crud Recognition? by James Eglin
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) refers to a software technology and processes that involve the translation of printed text into computer searchable text. Done correctly, OCR enables users to search for and retrieve individual words contained within a file or page. ... Due to several recent technology advances, it is now possible to obtain six-sigma level character accuracy from these types of document collections. ... To achieve the highest conversion accuracy possible, the characters in the image can be processed using multi-engine OCR voting technologies that rank each character to...

History of the Computer - Codes for Data Transfer, Part 1 of 3 by Tony Stockill
We have seen, in the History of the Computer series, how machine code is used to operate a computer so that it can use 1s and 0s to interpret a program's intentions. But what about a code for human communication with the computer? We can variously write and read to and from different media, such... Later a Shift character was incorporated, similar to the Shift key on a typewriter, so that following characters would indicate numbers. ... Another character, Bel was used to ring a bell on the typewriter to alert the operator.

Different Types of MMOGs by Jason Hahn
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have been growing in popularity in recent years. These are the computer games that allow huge numbers of players to interact with each other through the Internet. Recent popular MMOG titles include Everquest 2 and World of Warcraft. ... Each player’s character wears an avatar, or a visual representation of what their character looks like. ... They are huge online computer role-playing games that allow large populations of players to interact with each other in a cooperative or competitive manner, or both at the same time.

MMORPG: What is it ? by Stefan Pratter
MMORPG stands for Massivly Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game and is a computer game that can be played with thousands of other people in a persistant game world. MMORPGS have their roots in the early MUDs, text based multi user dungeons played over telnet connections almost 20 years ago. ... Once the character is "designed" and created the player takes off in a huge gameworld - it has to be huge since it is shared with many other people - most of the time killing monsters and doing quests assigned by NPCs (Non Player Characters).

History of the Computer: Handshaking, Part 2 of 2 by Tony Stockill
The first thing the I/O unit needs to do, is to see what the printer is doing at the moment. The program which requested the print has long gone and has no idea whether the printer is able to print, or even if there is a printer! Nor does it care - its up to the I/O unit to sort it out. ... The print command is given, and the print hammers strike the ribbon against the paper as the correct character passes under the hammer. ... On a drum printer, for example, the characters are arranged on the drum in staggered rows of 160 of each character.