Computer Gamer's Bible

About the Authors Mark L. Chambers has been an author, computer consultant, BBS sysop, programmer, and hardware technician for more than 15 years. His first love affair with a computer peripheral blossomed in 1984, when he bought his 300bps modem — now he spends entirely too much time on the Internet. Mark's favorite pastimes include collecting memorabilia from the 1960s Batman TV series, covering every flat area in his house with gargoyles, playing his three pinball machines, fixing and upgrading computers, playing the latest computer games, and rendering 3D flights of fancy. During all that, he listens to just about every type of music imaginable. Mark is also author of IDG Books Worldwide's The Hewlett-Packard Official Printer Handbook, Building a PC For Dummies, and the Recordable CD Bible. Rob Smith, a native of Sheffield, England, has been playing games of all kinds for more than 15 years, and shows no sign of ever stopping. He has been writing about PC gaming for consumer print magazines for several years and regularly enjoys playing first-person action games on the Internet. Despite a life now made in San Francisco he still indulges way too much time on his passion for English soccer, and particularly his hometown team, Sheffield United. He also continues to confuse all his coworkers with the constant use of bizarre English phrases at his current day job as executive editor of Imagine Media's PC Accelerator magazine.