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interesting thing develop it........

01/27/2007 3:15 AM

HI...

everyone......

i am having PC . I usually play a game on that .....

at the same time my roomy wanna play another game ...

and we used to make a big noise for that discussion...

we try to solve that problem......by making a softwere that allow us to use same window for two people with individual key boards and screen also divided into two section....... so anybody can work seperately..........so..how can i make that softwere....and what type of hardware i have to change.........?????

IS IT NOT INTERESTING WORK.........

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Re: interesting thing develop it........

01/27/2007 8:24 AM

I think it would be cheaper to buy another PC....

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Re: interesting thing develop it........

01/27/2007 10:00 AM

... and easier. You and your roomy wouldn't even have to be in the same room.

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Re: interesting thing develop it........

01/29/2007 6:37 AM

HELLO FRIEND.......

instead of developing the things if we sabstituted the things how i will become EINSTINE 2

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01/27/2007 11:22 PM

Theoretically, you could get a video card that supports two monitors, and buy another monitor, then run a separate windowed program on each. The two keyboards and two mice, at the same time thing is a challenge though ..not sure how that could work.

In any case it is a terrible idea because the processor would be splitting its power between the two programs, even if you could run two games at once. Which leads into the other reason it is a terrible idea: Games typically tax the resources of a computer to begin with. Most games do not permit running another program at the same time except in the background.

If you have a powerful enough computer, and want to rewrite Windows, I'm sure it's possible, otherwise forget it. If you can't buy another PC, maybe you could have a fight to the death over who plays, then problem solved, provided the winner can dispose of the body or can at least flee the area before someone notices the odor.

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01/28/2007 1:04 AM

If you both got two hands, two eyes, two ears and one screen, it seems logical the screen needs four windows rather than one or two? Thinking ahead into the marriage years with bambanos on the way perhaps think of bits or plusses and zeros. Luckily Bill Gates didn't play those same games.

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01/28/2007 8:36 AM

NOT feasible to do. You can have a motherboard that supports dual processors, and dual monitors. Unfortunatly, there are only 15 DMA/TSR inputs on a PC. And only one DMA for the mouse. A PC can only have one mouse to run on the system. But, Windows XP, and Windows NT, can support a dual gaming configuration. One person can play one game on one monitor, and the other person can play a game on the other monitor. However, your mother board must be dual-processor, and you must only need to use your USB ports with gaming paddles, and you must have the maximum amount of high speed RAM on your system, and you must have high-speed large capacity on-board RAM Video cards. With out the use of high-end/ high-speed Video cards, it is sensless to even think about such and idea.

Overall and bottom line, it is more cost effective to actually purchas a second PC system. You can actually pick up a perfactly good PC for less then $500.00 with everything required to be effective. Much less expensive then trying to upgrade and configure a high-end server styled desk top unit. Now if you have the cash available, you could build a mainframe server for your house and rune several PC units in a network to have th ultimate gaming system in your house.

Good luck and may the force be with you.

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01/28/2007 12:19 PM

A few years back, there was a product that did exactly what you are trying to do. It was called the "Buddy". I bought it and used it for a short time. With the device, you only needed one computer. A cable connected the computer to the Buddy box and you plugged a monitor and mouse to the box. Audio was not supported on the satelite system. Other than that, it worked like you describe. The person using the Buddy system could access all progrmas on the main computer, and could do pretty much anything that the main computer could do. So two people could surf the web, use all the programs etc. It worked with windows 98, not sure if other OS were supported.

However, this arrangement severely taxed the computer. Both the main computer and the Buddy were very slow, very few programs could be open at once etc. It was marginally acceptable for very simple tasks. Gaming would be out of the question, I would think.

So I would think that you would be reinventing the wheel. A very bad wheel. This was 6+ years ago. With computer prices as cheap as they are, I see no market at this time.

I don't think it is still available, but here is a reference:

http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/r_buddy_b210/

Tad

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#7

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01/28/2007 8:32 PM

learn UNIX

Buy a KVM switch *Keyboard, Video, Mouse

open two sessions, one in each window

Run a unix window of MS Windows in each

have fun

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01/29/2007 6:34 AM

HELLO......

is it necessary to go for LINUX..

cause i am not aware of linux....

and i don't thing so.. first learn whole linux and then go for developing things

........is not REDICULOUS thinking......

suggest me another idea.................

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01/30/2007 11:00 AM

If you don't want to go through the time and trouble to learn how to do it then buy another computer.

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01/31/2007 5:23 AM

it is really tough to go for linux......

because i am not having a single idea about linux....

may you tell me another idea to develop it...

we can definitely go for another use of that ....

is not again INTERESTING.......

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