i think fruity loops is the best, but you have to have skills to get it free

what would you guys suggest for a motherbord. i was thinking one of these:

MSI P6N SLI Platinum LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
-i could just use my current video card and buy a decent-ok one instead of one that is great.

Intel BOXDG965OTMKR LGA 775 Intel G965 Express Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

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to tell you the truth this is the first computer im making so any suggestions would help. i want to make a <700$ computer not counting mouse,kb, monitor, hd (if the motherboard will accept mine), software or disk drives (if mobo will accept mine, i dont know if mb's usually do or dont accept stuff as i already said i am noob).

here are the hd's and dd's

Maxtor 6Y080P0
WDC WD800JB-00JJC0
HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8525B
HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8162B

oh i c, i was thinking it would save as a picture. my only suggestion(s) is a modification to the zoomedit module that allows you to press graph and you can preview you work easier. and im not sure what transpose does, it looks like it mirrors it over the -x=y line but rotation seems like it would be more useful than that. despite my whining i do like version 3 and am using it to make sprites for a game i might make.

time for dinhotheone and his obligatory noob question(s):

i dled RC3 and loaded all its modules. it seems to work great except whenever i edit a map i cant seem to save it anywhere... so where does it go after i've edited it?

he is a total tool but unfortunately he seemed to know what he was talking about. to quote an old president: fool me once, shame on.....shame on me........fool me, can't get fooled again.

anyway, vista sounds like it isn't worth buying and i should just use my xp sp2 correct? oh btw, i too am making a computer.

if you already know basic...you could always try blitzbasic 2D. that'd probably be the easiest as you wont have to gain any new types of understanding, just different syntaxes and stuff. if you want the RE or w/e so you can doe in it, i can help you out there. though i do have to say that though this will be the easiest to make a game on since its essentially a game-language and also because its just extension of calc basic, the language sucks for everything else and C++ would probably benefit you more in the long-run.

those look great by the way,

sonic started on sega, it was sega's attempt to counter mario, it did however get on game gear real fast