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There’s a new cat in town

April 7, 2011


The newest edition to my model railroad is this DCC equipped EMD GP40. This diesel came with my new Bachmann EZ command DCC system which allows me to independently operate up to 10 locomotives at one time. The way DCC is different than standard Analog power is that the maximum power output is always running to the track whereas analog train sets the turning of the knob indicates the amount of power being fed to the tracks. What makes DCC work is that it sends the power through in a modulated wave which a decoder on DCC equipped equipment can interpret as a computer signal allowing each engine to have its own unique address on the track network to allow it to receive commands from the base station. This means that on a single power fed track without any special blocks you can have two trains running opposing directions, one train stopped while another is running. Multiple trains running together as a multi engine consist and so forth. DCC makes model railroading exceptionally easier than it used to be at least from a wiring perspective.


Round 3 winner: Bruiser McDoozer

April 4, 2011


With the correct guess of Wing Commander II this concludes Name the game (for now)

 

2:48 is where the song starts in this video if you are in a hurry đŸ˜›

Bonus points were The Hha’ifra, Prince Thrakhath’s flagship as the location and for any characters present Prince Thrakhath or Khasra. The bonus points were not claimed this round

Scores:

  • draugath 2
  • Bruiser McDoozer 1
  • FooFighter 1

This means of course that draugath wins the game! congratulations! (no prizes!!) This was fun I will probably do it again in the near future once I prepare some more conversions.

 


Name the game: Round 3

March 31, 2011


Here is the final round (for the moment) and this song sounds fairly different than its original but all the notes are still there I just added a mix of metal/orchestra to dirty it up a bit. To give anyone who hasn’t played yet a chance there will be the 1 point for the right answer and 2 bonus points this round. 1 bonus point for the location in the game the first time this music is heard and at least the name of 1 character in that scene for the second bonus point. So You could still sweep by getting all the points in this round.

Good luck đŸ™‚
Round 3

Hint #1: The second game in a series


Round 2: Swiftly defeated by draugath with bonus point

March 30, 2011


Ok so that was fast….. less than 10 minutes i’m pretty sure.

draugath guessed correctly with Raptor: Call of the shadows and he collected the bonus point for pointing out it was Bravo sector level 2

 

Scores so far:

  • draugath 2
  • FooFighter 1

Round 3 coming up tomorrow đŸ™‚


Name the game: Round 2

March 30, 2011


Here is another DOS classic touched up in Garage band. Post to the blog post to make your entry. First person to guess correctly wins!

Bonus point for guessing the level once again. No one claimed the bonus point last round so you could gain the lead with a correct guess + level.

Round 2