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sdfgeoff

Yup, still interested. You use 3ds don't You? That will be fine. If you're interested in becoming a developer then sign up to the defender forums. This will let you have access to versions of the game before they become public. Although some of these may not work at all.... (at the moment the ai is ...

sdfgeoff

No problems, this is still being actively developed. Head over to defender-space.x10.mx and go to the forums. There under releases you can find a link from the source forge page. But I suspect that you have the latest, it should be number 3? The spinny Pyro is the ship selection scene. Hit enter to ...

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I'm getting tired of these. Today it was a 5.8 and a 6 on the Richter scale, along with numerous 3's and 4's. The area I'm in has pretty much no damage, but the other side of the city will spend Christmas digging their houses out of the silt. Ah well, we can't control it. The shaking isn't too bad, ...

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And let me present, the new descent. Christmas style.
All the bots are red, green or white striped.
Energy and Shield pickups are Christmas balls.
The reactor is a Christmas tree......

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Do, designs are more than welcome still.

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Well, For those who know, I'm making Defender, a descent clone. As part of managing this project I have to release videos every now and then on youtube to let people know I'm alive. My first (and so far only) video was OK, but suffered from a low frame-rate due to my computer not having enough power...

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I was looking at text editors the other day and came across vim. Vim is command line based, and uses the writing fingers to navigate (ie H to more left, J up and such) It takes quite some getting used to! Anyone else used vim before? Seems to me to be quite nice, but yes, a very steep learning curve...

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Made a new one:

Link

It's pretty simple, but easy to navigate around.
The yellow arrow is the main menu, and there is a desktop switcher and some other stuff up the top that you can't see too well.

sdfgeoff

for me it's the opposite!

More than 15 minutes running on concrete and things start hurting, but on grass sidewalks, or parks (grass/dirt = softer) then it's fine.
Go figure...

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After my last phone got dunked in the sea (from which it never recovered) I got a LG P500 android. This is it's first post...

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And what do you propose for mine?

sdfgeoff

Of whom do you ask that question of?

sdfgeoff

Sorry duper, I didn't mean to sound like yours was a photoshop job. I haven't played with windows for a few years..... (sound familiar?) I was pointing out the ubuntu-fail as being photoshopped (It seems that it is a real error, but the user who posted it edited it? Maybe I'm just wrong), and then p...

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Done and installed. Differences: - When you have a linux application (like from portablelinuxapps.org) on a memory stick, then you can't double click to run it, you can't change the permission to make it executable. For some reason you have to copy it to the hard drive first, which kind of defeats t...

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You and your puns, I'll need to think of some more to beat you with. (don't hunt for a pun in that sentence either)

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Look at the close button (on the ubuntu-fail). It's a fake. 1) The close button is on the wrong side (in the default theme the close button is on the left) 2) There's that minced but of color near the close button 3) The top bar always has text in it. Still, it makes an epic image. And Duper, that r...

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Yeah, I did DL it, and run it off CD live a few times. I like it, so as soon as I've backed up my files from Ubuntu, I'll wipe the drive and install it.

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Almost as bad as mine that I dumped in gallery a little while back:
"No program available for executable files"

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No, but it's a new variation on an old theme, and will probably still have some of these effects

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Woah, stearman bipe! Haven't seen one for years.

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Rotary engines are nothing new at all, there are many older ones dating to the 1960's (I think). The problem with them is the wear-out time. The wankel rotary engine for example, had much more power than an equivalent size/mass engine, less vibration etc, but the contact between the rotor and the ca...

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Darn, when I got around to downloading mint 11, they release mint 12.....

sdfgeoff

Um, I remember there being two types of link, but I just right-click and "make link"
Oh, and something I read the other day made me think that a zip file when opened on windows can't have more than 7 parent directories. Any conformation for this?

sdfgeoff

I flew around for about a year with the invuln cheat, before I learnt to dodge.
Anyone else do the same? Or did you all dive in and do the whole lot?

sdfgeoff

I much prefer your setup to mine. Puts more the the flight controls ready at your fingers.

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Can't wait till they're ready for multi-player........
(Wish I'd started at that age too)

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I've decided to try a different controller for Descent, seeing as I've been on keys only since I started. I tried joystick, but the only one I could get my hands on was two axis, and not really that great. I tried mouse, and that works OK, but I'm not sure it's quite what I wanted. Recently I bought...

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But you might feel the rotation to get you to face outwards.

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For once windows may be smarter than linux! Actually it's just the zip tool. When I look at it using the "tree" terminal command, it realizes it's a loop and stops at the forth time through. In windows I suspect that the links are really links (ie a physical file) rather than another refer...

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That last robot of your Isaac never got made, until one of my team members came up with the idea of a robot guarding a door with a force field. Of course, for that the force field is much bigger, but here you go:

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Um, and when you're invulnerable and get hit by, say, a mega and go flying backwards???
Ouch! The G-forces would be huge. I'm surprised that the material defender doesn't black out ever....

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A word of caution here too. Delete it before running a file-system check. I imagine it would get stuck the same way the archive manager did.

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I made something cool on the computer, and wanted to show it to you. So I stuck it in a zip folder. It never zipped. It is impossible for it to zip! What it is is 4 folders called "recursion 1" through "recursion 4" Inside each of these folders are 4 links to the other folders. Y...

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Anyone know what game/film Enzo-03's came from, cause it's pretty awesome looking.

Oh, and here's mine (idea from a friend)

I think I showed you the mess a few posts ago in this thread.
All that changed here is that they got crammed into a smaller area!!!!

linky

sdfgeoff

Yes, horrible sense of humor isn't it.
Originally from XKCD (original)
With the caption:

"I wish I'd missed you then, so I wouldn't be missing you now"

Just struck my fancy, so I had to make it......

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Would see only a number hey? And what about turning it off?

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Probably the most realistic......

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WE are dropping your ship to recover some documents from one of our military bases. Please stay within a few kilometers of the base, as the enemy have us surrounded by a massive invasion fleet. When you finished recovering the documents please remove all evidence of the base (ie blow it up) How bout...

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For me my trick is to eat two jellybeans in half, and then stick them together. (they stay stuck). Just when you get something like blue and white it looks like some sort of pill......

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Yeah I would, but Isaac has it right, I am on the other side of this piece of rock, dirt and water....
So I'll live with that PC and one of my other, slightly better ones. (I am planning to get a much better PC in a few months too)

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