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Electronic Cricket Match Game

This electronic cricket is a present for Kids. This simple battery powered circuit can be used to play Cricket Match with your friends. Each LED in the circuit indicates various status of the cricket match like Sixer, Run out, Catch etc. The Circuit uses two ICs ,one in the Astable mode and the second in the display driver mode. IC1 is wired as an Astable Multivibrator with the timing elements R1, R2 and C1. With the shown values of these components very fast output pulses are generated from the Astable.

Output from IC1 passes into the input of IC2 which is the popular Johnson Decade counter CD4017. It has 10 outputs. Of these 8 outputs are used. Output 9 ( pin9) is tied to the reset pin 15 to repeat the cycle. When the input pin 14 of IC2 gets low to high pluses, its output turns high one by one. Resistor R3 keeps the input of IC2 low in stand by state to avoid false indications.

Electronic Cricket Circuit Diagram

When the Push Switch S1 is pressed momentarily, the Astable operates and all the LEDs run very fast sequentially. When S1 is released, any one of the LED stands lit which indicates the status of the match. For example, if LED D7 remains lit, it indicates Sixer and if LED 8 remains lit, it indicates Catch out. Label each LED for its status as shown in the diagram. Pressing of S1 simulates Bowling and Running LEDs indicates running of Batsman.

Video Games and Computer Performance

If you’re an avid computer game player, you’ve probably run across one that slows down your computer. You’ll notice it’s a little more difficult to run other programs when you have a game running, and the game itself might get choppy or even shut down. There are a few different reasons this could happen, but here’s some basic information behind why your computer doesn’t always run as well when playing a video game.
Computer Hardware

Your computer has a limited number of resources it can dedicate to a task. When one task takes up resources, it can’t dedicate as much to others. A task that requires a huge amount of resources, like a graphics-intensive video game, may overburden your computer’s hardware. Although there are many programs that don’t take much computing power to run, a lot of small programs running at the same time can have the same impact as one big resource hog.

What Do These System Requirements Mean, Anyway?

Most computer games come with a list of system requirements. Your computer has a lot of components, but there are a few big ones that impact your computer’s ability to play a video game.
Processor Speed

Think of your computer’s processor like a band conductor. The conductor uses gestures to give instructions so that the entire band can play in unison. A really good conductor can give these instructions with exceptional speed. The processor is responsible for telling the rest of your computer what to do. The faster your processor, the faster it can give out these instructions.
Hard Drive

Your computer’s hard drive is like a digital filing cabinet. It stores all the files and programs your computer needs to run and everything else you download and install. A full

hard drive will also make your computer run slowly, so you’ll want to leave some free space.

Random Access Memory (RAM)

RAM – frequently referred to as “memory” – is kind of like your computer’s short-term memory. RAM stores data for your computer’s processor to access, but will only store it as long as your computer is running. Accessing data from RAM is faster than accessing it from your hard drive, which is why having more RAM may make programs run faster. Your computer does have limits on how much RAM it can support, so don’t go on too big of a RAM-purchasing spree.

The video card is designed specifically to create images out of digital information. New video cards have their own processor and memory, so they can create images rapidly without adding more burden to your computer’s regular processor.

How to Improve Performance:

There are actually a few things you can do yourself that will improve how well your computer runs, especially when playing computer games.

Since every program running on your computer takes up some resources, close the ones you don’t need when you’re playing a game. Browsers, movies and even instant messengers can impact how well your computer performs! Scan for and remove viruses on a regular basis. Viruses, spyware and adware are all programs, and they use your computer’s resources to spread themselves around!

If your hard drive is getting a little full, it may be time to do some digital spring cleaning. Uninstall programs you no longer use, empty the recycle bin and delete movies you don’t plan on watching again. Avoid deleting something if you don’t know what it is, or you may accidentally get rid of something your computer needs.

You might also want to defragment your hard drive. Windows has a built-in defragmentation tool that you can use, and there are third-party programs available to defragment Mac systems.

Good Games to Make a Healthy Brain

In school, you have to learn facts and practice skills in less exciting and even boring ways. In front of your computer, puzzle games can make the youth and the old alike combine entertainment with education. Knowledge can be obtained through fun games that inspire people to get involved actively in the learning process.

Puzzle games allow you to flex the muscles of your brain while having fun. Most people who are fond of playing these games are capable of retaining their old skills and mastering some new craft. Playing puzzles and brain games have favorable health benefits.

Sudoku and Number Games:

Studies have shown that playing with numbers are very helpful in maintaining the health of your mental faculties Sudoku is a very entertaining and challenging game that requires you to place the numbers 1 to 9 in blocks. You need to place all the numbers in a set without missing one.

You need to plan ahead to improve your concentrations and hone your memory. The level of difficulty depends on the number of clues. You have to be careful, though. Once you get the hang of it, you are sure to be hooked on this brain teaser.

Crosswords, Word Jumbles, and other Word Games:

This may look traditional for some, but crosswords never fail to provide a regular exercise for your brain. You have to at least solve one puzzle per day. Some clues are very tricky, while some are outright easy.

Verbal language is not the only skill you need to have in order to fill all the blank spaces. You also need to have general information on all subjects. There are sites that offer daily crosswords.

Word jumble games like text twist, word slinger, and scrabble are popular word games for everyone. Typing games to quicken your typing skills are also very helpful to the health of your brain. There are lots of word games in the net for you to enjoy.

Memory Games, Mahjong, and Finding Hidden Objects Games:

You can sharpen your memory by turning to memory game. These games help you think fast. Your capacity to remember the position of the cards is very important as the clock keeps on ticking.

The same is true with mahjong. You have to open all the tiles quickly before you run out of time. Finding hidden objects games widen your alertness and visuals as the objects are strategically hidden in a mish-mash of items.

School education is useful as it provides you with a diploma of information. However, to preserve the health of your brain, you have to complement it with online puzzle games. It pays to have a regular dose of number, word, and memory games that are also relaxing, challenging, and entertaining.

How to Play Games without Graphic Card, Virtual Graphic Card

Now you can play any game in your Computer (PC). with out any graphic card!!
Just Install this Software in your Computer(PC) and Play Games.

What it does is,it uses a part of your RAM as Graphics card memory. For example,if you got 1GB DDR2 RAM,then it’ll use 128MB of it as a Virtual Graphics card,and the remaining 896MB will be used as a regular RAM.

3D Analyze is a Graphics Card Emulator that can emulate all the feature of a 3d graphics card like pixelshader 1.1, 1.4, 2.0, bump maps and a lota stuff. If a game stops running on your system just because u dont have a graphics card, dont worry 3d analyze will do it for you.

Here is the download link of that software Click Here!

After downloading extract it and open 3DAnalyze.exe file.

You will see a window like this:

Next,click on Select option.

Browse and select the Game's .exe file.

Then select the VendorID and DeviceID from any one of the 4 graphics card models given as you see in the below image.

Then select Run to play the game.

Please note that the .exe file is to be selected from the main folder,and not the shortcut present on the desktop.

Play PS2 Games On PC With PCSX2 free full version

PCSX2 is an open-source PlayStation 2 emulator for the Windows operating systems. In its latest stable release, many PS2 games are playable, and several games have full functionality. The main bottleneck in PS2 emulation is emulating the multi-core PS2 on a PC x86 architecture.

Features of PCSX2

- Recompilers for Emotion Engine (EE), Vector Unit 0 (VU0) and Vector Unit 1 (VU1). They are used to translate some parts of the original PS2 machine code into x86 machine code, speeding up emulation.

- Dual core support allows PCSX2 to use up to 2 CPU cores speeding up the emulator significantly.

- Proper SPU2 emulation helps reproduce PS2 audio or even enhanced audio on the PC.

- Full gamepad support makes it possible to emulate every Dual Shock 2 feature.

- Patch system to create cheats easily. It can also be used to skip code where emulation is still broken. This feature is quite user-friendly and easy to use.

- Additional optimizations to speed up emulation. You will be able to play certain games on lower-end machines thanks to this feature.

- Fully working memcard support.

- Fully working IPU support responsible for FMV - video cutscenes should mostly run correctly.

Here is the Download link Click Here!

Cheat Book 2012 For All PC Games

Cheat book is a must needed tool for gamers. Cheat book 2012 contains cheats for games released from 1998-2012 in alphabetical order.

Cheat Book Data Base 2012 - The encyclopedia of game cheats. A die hard gamer would get pissed if they saw someone using cheats and walk through in games, but you have to agree, sometimes little hint or the "God Mode" becomes necessary to beat a particularly hard part of the game. If you're an avid gamer and want a few extra weapons and tools the survive the game, Cheat Book Data Base is exactly the resource you would want.

You can download it from here.

Best Android Games

Hi Friends i would like to share some of the best Android games in this post . These games are rated as best in the Android market and are free of cost so by clicking the game name from the below list you can get into the download page directly and enjoy the best android experience with these top android games.

Top 10 Android Games

How To Download Very Big Files Within Minutes?

Hi friends, i found an interesting way to reduce the download time and to save data by using Highly Compressed versions of the files that i would like to download.
For example take a game which you like the most & whose installation file is about 6GB, Think How much time will it consume to download 6Gb & Your reaction for it?

Now after reading this post you find an interesting way to stop worrying about the download time.
It's simple Just while searching for something which would be very big, Just add the keyword "Highly Compressed" with your search term, That's it!

For example if you are looking to download the game "Need for speed" search as below:

Need for speed Highly compressed

The above search will yield you with a no. of sites offering the download of the compressed version of that game. You will find that those big games which are about 5 to 6 GB are compressed to about just 10 to 20 MB.

You too can do this by using this software KGB Archiever. But be aware that this software will use lot of memory during the compression process and slow down your computer to the atmost level. (Better avoid this work if you think your pc cannot withstand this).

How to use the Highly Compressed Download:

Basically in case of games the compressed folders can be extracted by normal softwares like winrar, 7-Zip, etc.. But, On uncompressing you will note that the file will be in .iso format. So you may need to mount it to a virtual drive to open the .iso format file, and to play the game.

Don't worry there is a software named DAEMON Tools Lite to simplify this work for you.

How to use Daemon tools lite: