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The Lion

If you're referring to D3 - I've done this before, to create a special homing missile that shoots a rapid laser at its target. Join a co-op game sometime. You'll immediately notice how extremely skippy the robots are. You can guess it now... the same thing would happen with \"objectified\"...

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UPnP-capable NAT devices can have portmappings automatically added and removed, no username/password required. Windows has API functions for it, MSN and some windows filesharing programs use it, and DirectPlay will also automatically use it to open ports for DirectPlay games. I've seen some portmapp...

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The link, as with all Blizzard files, its a downloader. Two proprietary-platform-dependant downloaders, don't forget. They are real assholes. I don't quite see the problem with simply serving it up through BitTorrent. Me, I'll be finding it somewhere else. Enjoy! Thanks. I know I'm being paranoid n...

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This SBLive! here works perfectly with asfxload and without AudioHQ.

Also, if your hardware really can't do MIDI, there's always software synthesizers such as Timidity.

The Lion

I'm guessing another subscription-based game; WoW will have got them
seriously addicted to it. When it comes to blizzard games I think I'll stick
to the occasional game of Starcraft or Diablo.

The Lion

SOW file? Hahaaa... that's long ago. The installation archives from Descent 1 and 2... I remember that these archives could be unpacked using ARJ. Anyway, for DXX-Rebirth installation it would be enough to ask for the D1/D2 directories (after looking in some default locations perhaps) and then eithe...

The Lion

It would be a trivial job, but no one has bothered to do it.

The Lion

Ahh it's not a big problem, I should get more used to manual primary weapon selection anyway.

And I agree about the site. Much better now.

The Lion

30 is how much you get of each countermeasure when using the weapons cheat. :)

IIRC the normal maximum is 12 for every countermeasure except the
Gunboy, of which you can carry only 4. Maybe just 9 seeker mines, dunno.

The Lion

Good work zico.

The persistent debris is funny.

But why are the different laser types gone in the weapon selection preferences menu?

The Lion

MS is always going to reign supreme as long as developers code for Windows only. Once some popular software begins being coded for Mac/PC/Linux I see Windows losing a bit of steam, especially if OEMs begin offering it as an option and it makes the PC cheaper. Yeah, but they don't code for OSX and G...

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Yeah, I wonder if this might really be the end of M$'s monopoly on the desktop. People ended up taking all the crap when XP was launched, but I guess that was because they didn't see any other choice. Now, with Dell providing an alternative, and other vendors hopefully following suit, they might swi...

The Lion

Speaking of which... will the smell of our socks be able to strip the paint off the walls in Core Decision?

The Lion

Oh, btw, about that Orbot stuff... In Forsaken, every enemy is a heavily armored Orbot. It blows. How's that? I found them to be no harder to take down than D3 bots, even on Hard difficulty. It's the D3 robots more than any others which rely on their size to be hard to hit, because of the accurate c...

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lol... sorry, I forgot about that

The Lion

Well, that's because D3 doesn't use the gamespy protocol for server queries, and Vortex simply ignores the region codes. I'm not aware of any other problems, and there are several servers with codes other than 0 and 7: ==> ./Von #19 FT40 (AC w FF)/location <== Northwest US/West Canada ==> ./[AUS] Se...

The Lion

Did you try it in multiplayer? It's more like D1, where you
need more skills than just missile chucking to win.

The Lion

In Forsaken you lost your weapons even between single player missions.

It means that you'll have to fight your way to the primaries you want, which
adds to the challenge and makes the game a bit less boring.

I kinda like it.

The Lion

You're welcome.

It was an easy job though, as I expected.

The Lion

Actually those 0's in gamespy.cfg mean \"No location specified\". Here's the list of region codes: 0 Unspecified 1 Southeast US 2 Western US 3 Midwest US 4 Northwest US/West Canada 5 Northeast US/East Canada 6 United Kingdom 7 Continental Europe 8 Central Asia/Middle East 9 Southeast Asia,...

The Lion

The Lion wrote:Ok, but still... it looks like a simple LD_PRELOAD job to me.

Job done btw.

The Lion

Ok, but still... it looks like a simple LD_PRELOAD job to me.

The Lion

Why is it impossible to run a loki server and a loki client on the same comp?

The Lion

It'll probably remain full, as no one bothers to leave the network after having
joined it. Not to worry though, you can always create your own.

The Lion

Really nice and useful feature, huh?

The Lion

It's nice, but these are better: http://www.419eater.com/

The Lion

And the D1/D2 robots are more like paper models, too.

The Lion

Or \"emerge wine\" with Gentoo.

Then \"winecfg\" will pop a dialog to help you configure it, if that's even necessary.

The Lion

Let's just eat some pie.

The Lion

The ability to output a demo to a movie file I've done this a while ago, but there are some caveats and issues. I wrote some code for D1x-rebirth adding an option to output a stream of YV12 encoded images to a file (initially it pumped out tons of screenshots like D3 can do, but it put too much str...

The Lion

I think Wine is also going to develop a DX10 API. Right now they have almost nothing to work with and it's still in a very early stage, but once (most of) the work has been done, and if all this DRM really causes that much overhead, Wine is probably going to run those DX10 games faster than Vista it...

The Lion

So typical of GUI apps...

Perhaps it's better to disable the update checker and manually
check for update/security announcements occasionally.

They have an RSS feed you could use:
http://www.mozilla.org/news.rdf

The Lion

It does look like the hellfire to me.

The Lion

Nahh... I didn't know \"replace\", but I just checked and I have it too... as part of MySQL. So for Cygwin users: it wouldn't work unless for some reason you have a Cygwin version of MySQL. This should always work though: #!/bin/sh for f in *.{msn,mn2}; do sed -i -e '/^type/s/anarchy/norma...

The Lion

I'm surprised it hasn't shown up as an ebay ad yet, like this one:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/05 ... eve_irwin/

The Lion

Yeah, but I was mainly referring to printed documents. You can't just reformat them by resizing some window. And longer texts such as articles will have 4+ lines per paragraph anyway. TeX has other problems too (e.g. obscurity of error messages), but that doesn't mean its typesetting shouldn't be us...

The Lion

From the post referenced by Topher: Every email and document does not need to be a literary work of art, it just needs to be easy to read. If you use Outlook and Word, you already get the benefits of a spell checker and auto-correct. There's something I should add here: spelling checkers and auto-co...

The Lion

There's more... I thought the opposite of death was life, and not
live, which would be the opposite of dead (or is only alive valid?)

English is not my native language, mind you...

Let's fear for our planet alright.

The Lion

8 Mbit/s (1 MB/s) down, 1 Mbit/s (125 kB/s) up crappy cable.

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