I had this married couple break up and him go and marry someone else and
live on another lot. Then, one evening on his ex wife's lot, he suddenly
turned up and, without even being greeted, walked straight into the house
and began playing chess. The door was locked for family only ...

Okay, so I installed my Sims 1 to my new-to-me laptop..
I have been playing it,  and so I started off where you usually start
off, Bob & Betty...    Well, this time, my Bob & Betty hate each other
quite passionately.  They won't even get in the same bed together. All

Ikea Stuff has apparently been released according to Snooty Sims.
Please post here if you find out wether or not it contains the
spyware/rootkit installation version of SecuROM 7 or not.

I've been playing with one family for a while. It's a couple whose son
has just returned from university with his new wife.
The father returned from work and a message popped up saying "it was a
great week" etc. at the same time his wife got a visit from death!

I sent one of my Sims on vacation and spent a day with her then saved it.
Now when I go back and click on the camp site where she is the game crashes.
I've tried everything from taking out my downloads folder to trying to get
to it by clicking on her house at home but it still ...

I bit the bullet and spent a heap of money upgrading to get a better video
card - a radeon, which according to the order form is the HD3850, but the
box says it's an Asus, powered by the Radeon 3870.  Odd, but never mind.
The difference in Sim City Societies is stunning.

I know this has been discussed (a lot), but it seems I'm missing something.
I deleted Pleasantview, the whole folder, and when I fired up the game,
surprise! Pleasantview wasn't there anymore.  Obviously I did something
wrong.  Do I have to delete all the neighbourhoods before ...

Remember all that saga with the computer, mainly with the Sims but
also just performance wise?
Remember how I got a new video card and a (censored against w-tom) in
an effort to just keep the old puter going until the end of this year?

Today I took my baby up to the shops and had a dual core 3G chip put in. I
also upgraded to 2 gig of ram and got a new HD.
So now I have several days of getting the basic configuration back up to
where I want it (my damned mail washer company seems to have evaporated so

I'm being forced to change news servers, since Verizon is about to drop
all newsgroups in the alt. hierarchy (as well as most of the others) on
June 24th.  I have decided on using usenetmonster because it had the
best deal by far, 5 GB per month for $2.95 with rollover for unused ...

After three upgrade computers since "The Sims" and hardware upgrades for
them.
I've just ordered 2 GB more RAM to cope with Sims2 and possibly SPORE.
(still worried about Securom though).

SPORE will release this September, then I know I will never play SIMS 2
again :(
I'm totally love SPORE desgin creatures are awesome, so simple so relax so
funny anything....

TheSims2.com has started an Apartment Life comic called "Meet the
techies".  Not done very well at all.
Although I do like the spiral stairs and the tv!  I am SO excited
about spiral stairs.

Yes, base game. Hey, I'm still new to this. 8^> I did appreciate the
help that I got before, so I have another question for far more
experienced mouse-gods.
I'd set up a new Sim household consisting of a single guy. He met a

Day 5 in the Megahood
At Sim State University
Tank Grunt and Tybalt Capp arrive at Sim University.  Both decide to
stay in Dorm Octavia.  There are a few small additions to the dorm