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Posted by solowargamingshow at 06:09 PM on March 05, 2007

I'm not sure what to post at this blog yet so for now I will use it to ramble about the more technical stuff.  The night before episode three got posted I literally spent "four hours" trying to improve the quality of my microphone. 

I have a Logitech standard plug and play mouse (not USB) that apparently has an issue with low microphone quality on Windows XP computers.  Supposedly this was fixed when XP went to Service Pack 2 which my Toshiba Satellite laptop shipped with but I still have the problem.  To complicate things worse my computer doesn't actually recognize the microphone as a "microphone".  I mean it works but when I look at my hardware there is no microphone installed.  This in effect prevents me from changing the settings to improve the microphone. 

I searched far and wide for a driver or alleged "patch" that existed at one time for this but every time I found any reference to one it led me right back to Microsoft's knowledge base articles that only suggested upgrading to XP Service Pack 2.  In fact most of the knowledge base stuff now is dealing with VISTA issues.

Anyway it appears the low volume, too close to the mic, high pitched tones will continue until I come up with something else!

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Reply Status of the Show
05:24 PM on May 20, 2007
Well it has been a while since the last show and I wanted to update those who cared on what the status of The Solowargaming Show was. <br> <br>Unofficially I have moved the frequency of the show from every week to once a month. The change occured more as a simple fact of reality than a choice, meaning the show simply wasn't getting posted every week. <br> <br>Other than the frequency of the show I am also still debating the format. From the beginning I didn't want to do another "review" podcast as there are a very lot of shows out there doing that and doing it better than I could alone. Also from a solo perspective there isn't that much to review to justify a weekly show. <br> <br>I still like the alternating show format so that every other show is a review but I am leaning toward doing the review shows maybe every third or fourth show as I generally get more negative feedback from those shows than the others. <br> <br>As far as the other shows are concerned I always envisioned them more as a "Do It Yourself Solo" type of show like you see on the home improvement channel. The purpose is to actually hang a new door or a change a window and walk you right through it. The only problem is finding the time to actually play through a game solo or test a solo mechanism in a real game or, as we are currently in the process of, create and implement a solo campaign. So i think the move to a monthly format will be good. <br> <br>Finally, I don't expect to post any future announcements for the show on TMP as the negative comments that i have gotten predominantly follow my announcements there. I would prefer to alert those who are really interested in the show through this blog, the Solowargamers Group at Yahoo, and the RSS feed that you can subscribe to through Google. That way I feel only those who really want to hear the show will know about it and respond. <br> <br>My main goal for the show is for it to be fun for me and fun for my listeners. I don't make money on the show and I'm not doing it for any notoriety in the hobby. Just promoting fun and hopefully giving back to all you solo wargamers out there that have fed me your great ideas and rules through the years to keep me gaming - mostly solol all these years. <br> <br>So with all that said i am really setting a goal to get the next episode posted by week's end. I will do part II of the solo campaign and give a good review of Berthier which I have been trying to use!
Reply Jeff
09:49 AM on February 04, 2009
Mr. Ware...please keep the show going I love it...Jeff

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