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Enjoying the sunset from my new home in Nicosia. Not the best city to live in, but not bad either. I just wish it had less traffic and more... green as every big city. Sunset in Nicosia, Cyprus over the buildings. Sunset in Nicosia, Cyprus over the buildings.

Not long ago i remember buying my 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 and running my old games. I remember the huge difference that the hardware transformation and lighting could provide. I was fanatic of Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit at this period. I had a good friend from the neighbour home and from time to time we were playing together in the PC trying to make the best time. I still remember his expression when we lunched the NFS again and saw the new graphics. My setup was a Cyrix 6x86 350 running at 250MHz with 32MB of ram initially that i upgraded them to 96MB later. My first graphics card had something like 4MB and with the upgrade to Voodoo3 3000 i went to 16MB. Enormous difference. Take a look on the difference of using Software vs Glide of 3dfx: At that period i was using my PC mostly about playing games and nothing else. So the first thing i did is to install the games included with my 3dfx card. I remember two or three games. The first was the Descent 3  and the other one...

The Acropolis of Rhodes is an acropolis dating from the Classical Greek period (5th–3rd century BC) 3 kilometers from the center of Rhodes in Greece. There are a number of monuments that someone can visit, including the temple of Apollo, the stadium, and the ancient theater. I have a good friend that prepared a very nice video of this area: I also included various photos from the area: There is also an ancient stadium that exists nearby the acropolis temple: