Hey, I hope you all had a good summer and I thought I'd share a surprising bit of good news: NWN1 (Diamond, from GOG.com) seems to play just fine on the flood of Windows 8.1 tablets which are being released now. Less than six months ago, I mused that if no one bothered to port NWN 1 to tablets, tablets would eventually advance sufficiently in order that NWN1 could be played without any porting at all. At the time, I guessed (incorrectly) that this would be possible "in a few years".
I didn't realize it would be more like "in a few months". 
I have a Dell Venue 8 Pro ($199) which has an 8-inch screen and 2GB of ram and the game seems to work fine. Mouse function has been replaced by touch, automagically, but a little bluetooth keyboard is still necessary (IMO) to really enjoy the game. While $199 is a lot of money, a newer crop of $99 and cheaper Windows tablets have arrived, with more on the way. Like my Dell, all these tabs use some flavor of the Intel Atom chip, which packs more than enough punch for NWN. The major difference is that the very affordable ones will only have 1gb of ram which, after the OS takes its share, will leave about half a gig for apps, programs and games. So while the CPU can handle better games, NWN1 is one of the few games which is likely to run smoothly under those memory constraints.
Anyway, just wanted to point that out. I was surprised. The game keeps on chugging in the most unexpected ways.
