About old project, about new project and about Windows Vista

I really have problems with inventing meaningful titles for my posts... anyway I want to tell you about few things.

First one may looks like advertisement and believe me, I also never imagined that I could say it, but... I really like Windows Vista. It came preinstalled on my new laptop. At first I was a bit worried because producer don't provide drivers for Windows XP and I was prejudiced that Vista is a big, slow, buggy cow.. Now it's almost a month since I'm working with Vista and to be honest, I don't feel like going back to XP again. Of course first thing I did was restoring classic start menu and disabling Aero and sidebar (not that Aero and sidebar killed performance, but I read somewhere that battery life is longer without them). As for performance, the fact is that start up time of Netbeans and also compiling times are much faster compared to my previous hardware, thus making me a happier man;). Also things such as a new way to navigate around folders makes me more productive:). I should also mention that first service pack is almost knocking at our doors (release candidate is ready for download now). This service pack should enhance stability and performance as MS says. Future will show :-)

Second and most important thing which may make happy some of my readers (are there any?). After getting another mail from fan of Sigmore Mines game I decided to "again" start working on Sigmore Mines 2. Yeah I see you people rejoice ;-). Keep in mind that I'm not forgetting my Dwarfs King game. I plan to work on them both in parallel. I mean, an hour a day devoted to developing each game is not impossible for me. I'm more concerned that I woudn't stop after this one hour... Anyway... I want to officially announce that Sigmore Mines 2 is being developed. Also I want to officially ask fans of Sigmore Mines for your motivating support (hint hint -> start commenting my posts;-) ).