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It is not distributed with Windows 7 media, but is offered as a free download to users of the Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions from Microsoft's web site. Users of Home Premium who want Windows XP functionality on their systems can download Windows Virtual PC free of charge, but must provide their own licensed copy of Windows XP ...
First contact with aliens; Artificial intelligence. Machine rule/Cybernetic revolt/AI takeover; Extraterrestrials in fiction; End of humanity: Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes were later supported in Windows 98 and was built-in there. These operating systems, as well as its successor, Windows Me, came with themes that customized desktop backgrounds, icons, user interface colors, Windows sounds and mouse cursors. [19] Windows XP expanded Windows theming support by adding visual styles and allowing each theme to ...
[2] [3] In parallel with "sword and sorcery", the term "heroic fantasy" is used, although it is a more loosely defined genre. [4] Sword and sorcery tales eschew overarching themes of "good vs evil" in favor of situational conflicts that often pit morally gray characters against one another to enrich themselves, or to defy tyranny.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders is an English language reference work on science fiction and fantasy, published in 2005 by Greenwood Press. It was edited by Gary Westfahl and consists of three volumes of 200 entries each.
S. Schrödinger's cat in popular culture; Outline of science fiction; Science in science fiction; Sense of wonder; Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction
Although each game in the Final Fantasy series offers a variety of music, there are some frequently reused themes. Most of the games open with a piece called "Prelude", which is based on a short piece by Bach that has evolved from a simple, two-voice, arpeggiated theme in the early games to a complex melodic arrangement in recent installments.
Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is a real-time strategy video game developed by Cyberlore Studios, and published by Hasbro Interactive under the MicroProse brand name for Windows in March 2000. The game is not a simulator ; that part of the title is a witticism, a reference to the game's adherence to fantasy and fantasy role-playing game cliches.