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FunkyStickman

Yes, and Yes. Check out this thread:
How To Patch, Find Games, and Chat

FunkyStickman

I have two sets I've been working on rebuilding.

Set #8847, Dragster (This one is completed, sitting on top of my monitor)

Set #8860, Auto Chassis (This one I'm missing a couple of parts from still, from 1980 or so)

LEGO is kicking it old school!

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I just found a bug! I'm running the 1.6 filter, and when I try to auto-download a level, D3 crashes with a Segfault (Signal 11). I stopped the filter, re-tried the level, and it downloaded without a problem.

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I most graciously appreciate it! The Howto is fairly detailed, but I'll take suggestions/clarifications to improve it. I simplified it as best as I could, but you have to draw a line somewhere as far as experience goes... if you don't know how to mount drives then the Howto isn't going to help you t...

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Howto writeup is *DONE*. I'll have it up by tomorrow. Xam, can I email you the files? It's just the tar and the README, about 10MB total.

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You need to figure out how many milliamps the plane will draw while flying. It's possible the thing will work with those panels, though you need to try it and see. Just because the batteries are 800ma doesn't mean it draws that much constantly.

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I'm working on an extensive Howto right now, doing a fresh install of it as well to test it. It may take me longer than today to do it, but I feel like it's worth it. I'll keep you posted, and get with Xamindar as soon as it's ready to go.

This is gonna be so freaking awesome!

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Why not just boot it up on wine? One, because people have had problems with it... the Windows version requires DirectSound, which you have to have WineX (Cedega) to run, etc. etc. Two, cause there's a native version that I'll redistribute the binaries to freely, and it runs fantastically, plus supp...

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They're listed in the second thread I linked to above, along with what is needed from the Windows version. I tried it this way and it worked, YMMV. (edit) Come to think of it, I have a spare machine lying around... I'd like to do it from scratch, and offer the whole thing (with HOWTO for noobs) in a...

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Bah. They could never have imagined the surge of demand that Descent3 for Linux would garner! Fie on thee for such heresies!

(just kidding, doesn't matter anyways)

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This is a recurring problem. It's no longer in print, and several \"Linux-only\" game shops sold out a long time ago. I found a copy on eBay unopened last year, but with the increase of Linux, plus the fact that Descent is one of the best computer games ever, the few copies that were out t...

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WTF? All of a sudden, it's crashing.. here's what I get. /usr/local/sbin/d3fixd & [1] 15427 stickman-linux:/home/stickman/Desktop # starting Filter Reloading Checksums: 3084 ### Here's where I try to join a game ### stickman-linux:/home/stickman/Desktop # (tap) Can't get interface IP address at ...

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OH MY FREAKING EYE

Tried Subway Dancer, worked with the GL and not the the BP... will try again in a bit.

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Stupid me, that's what I get for trying to be bleeding edge :) (edit) I just tried launching into Varicose Veins, and I still got the \"Levels don't match\" error. I have the kernel modules loaded, and I erased 1.4 and installed 1.3, didn't give me any errors. I'm running the 1.4b Loki cli...

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Okay, here's what I got when I ran d3fixd as root: Can't load '/tmp/par-stickman/cache-bcf141fd5bdcd1c5aa6c1e6dce3f2656a660ef38/4da5e80b.so' for module Net::RawIP: libpcap.so.0.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/DynaLoader.pm line 225. at /usr/share/per...

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I've been a juggler for about 10 years, and I can do most of what he did... overhanded, outsides, rainbows, behind the backs, snatches, etc. I can't do three with one hand (though I can do two apiece in each hand), and I can't do full behind-the-backs, though it didn't look too hard. I love the elbo...

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My understanding of Descent3 Online packets is very poor. But I don't think it's possible to have a current Loki version acts like an 1.5er Windows version. If they did improve some issue in netcode, this is almost impossible to "emulate". Playing with Loki then would be more unstable tha...

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You know, I seriously got to thinking about this problem recently, and as I understand it, the bug is actually in the Windows 1.4 version, and was also fixed in the Windows 1.5 version. How hard would it be to get Loki's 1.4b to report itself as 1.5 to Windows servers? What kind of repercussions wou...

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I'm flattered somebody actually *asked* for my input :) I have my main machine apart for cleaning at the moment (horrible allergy season), and I'm surfing on my fileserver, but as soon as I get it back together, will thrash this intently tonight. My goodness, this could be awesome! it *IS* awesome! ...

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Well, I play almost entirely the Stadium and Indika for two reasons: Linux 1.4b won't connect to Varicose Veins Guardian OR Subway Dancer. So what am I left with? There's tons of good levels out there, but for some reason I always see everybody playing those four on d3.descent.cx. Also, one-trick po...

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Never seen a full-length PCI card before? You know on cases how they used to have those dumb plastic slots in the inside front of the case? These are why. Server cases still have them, as some huge RAID cards and graphics cards are still full-length. Oh yeah, and as for old hardware... I love kickin...

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http://home.earthlink.net/~hendricks_cl ... 0.1.tar.gz

Will be up as long as the site is there...

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The linux browser that Iten made just uses the Descent3.cx lists, so that won't help. I've actually run Kali in Linux using Wine, and it's barely usable... it works, but the font rendering is screwed up, and most of the buttons aren't readable. I never even tried to get it to launch D3, as there was...

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If you use rm -rf ./*~ it should do the trick. When deleting recursively, you have to use the \"-force\" option for it to work sometimes.

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Back on topic... I have an 8-year-old and a 4-year-old that LOVE to play Descent. Andy(4) calls D1 \"Space Level One\" and the lasers are \"Poom-pooms\". They can actually fly with the Killstick(tm) fairly well, though Andy doesn't quite grab the concept of where he's going, he h...

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I threw them on my cheap-o website. http://home.earthlink.net/~hendricks_cl ... gos.tar.gz

It's got a few weird ones in there also.. I didn't make the graphics, just gimp'ed them to the right size and format. Share and enjoy.

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grumbledook wrote: Sure, I will, but first I have to practice As I said: it's been a few years without fragging bots... Would you send me the Tux logos?

Okay. Where?

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Sweeeeet. Are you planning on adding the Mercenary add-on CD, or did you already do that? I've got some ship logos of Tux if you want...

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Basically, no, you can't find it for cheaper, if you can find it at all. I had to get D3-Linux on eBay, and I paid full retail for it, simply because it's out of print and has been for years and it's rare. Granted, I actually went through the process of \"diff\"-ing the Linux and Windows i...

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Heh, I told you to just ask... I won't say that Linux is perfect, or "easier" than Windows, but like fyrephlie said, Once you get it, you get it. I did have some issues with 10.0 doing weird stuff, but I've been running 9.1 for a few years with very few issues. I may try 9.3 and see if it'...

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Running SuSE Linux on both computers (9.1 and 10.0). I have XP Pro SP2 on a partition somewhere... it's been months since I've used it, though. Living room computer has XP Pro so I can play PumpItUp, don't use it for anything else.

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I actually drove through storm cells just like those while fleeing north to Memphis. You could actually see the rain coming down at an angle from 10 miles away. Probably hit three or four rain bands like that before we outran it.

Nasty stuff. Cool pictures.

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Well, things are looking good for us. My computer systems made it through the storm okay, as did my house, family, and everything else (except my job). We plan on going back into the city for good in about a week, and since I can only access the internet from the library here, I'll have to send the ...

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We made it back okay, had to drive Cannonball-style from Memphis (no gasoline on the interstate here) but we're staying at my mom's in Thibodaux, about 2 hours from the city. We went back into town Monday, and amazingly my house had no damage! However, it still looks very bad, and it'll be a while b...

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MD-2389 wrote:Stickman, where in Memphis are you? You're only about an hour or so away from me.

I'm in Cordova, just off of I-40. Here with wife, 4 kids, mom and dad, host and his wife and kid, plus another friend and a kid... 13 people total.

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We made it. Me, my wife, 4 kids, and my mom and dad made it to a friend's house in Memphis early Monday morning. We sat up for the last two days watching as the city was pretty much destroyed before our eyes. They say now 80% of the city is under at least a foot of water. The river and lake levees h...

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That was going to be my next course of action.... after I come back from the hurricane evacuation. Cheers!

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I'm currently using Ernie Ball 10's on my electric, they sound fine. I'm probably going to step up to 11's before long, since I play a lot of acoustic and my fingers can take it. I have an Ovation acoustic, it was like $300 and sounds fantastic plugged in.

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We are planning on leaving, but the sorry state of the Interstate here leaves people gridlocked for 20 miles going west. The last bad hurricane that came through, we split for, but we had to use a very old seldom-used road, working our way through the swamps until we hooked up with I-49 from Houma t...

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I actually tried this! Rough "readme" follows: Okay, to do this, I used a patched (1.4) Windows install, with the Mercenary add-on. In Linux, mount your windows drive somewhere, like "/mnt/windows" or wherever. As root, type "mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows" where ...

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