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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 15th May 2004 17:44
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Hehee ^_^ the links are cool...
I crashed and burnt last nite, badly; like fell asleep as soon as i got off IRC and been asleep until like now (almost 14hrs)

Note I have mentioned (after i noted my connection problems) that this is extended to E3 Week. And screens will trickle out over the next week from me, but more importantly are what others are contributing.

Also i've found out why I have the connection problems, bloody [0_o] was right; I have some virus called W32.Netsky.P!mm on my machine ... Norton is currently going over the HDD, only just started it.
I'll see about freeing up the netspace, and doing a virus check on each of the screenshots; I know it isn't likely to infect anyone through a jpg but i don't want to get the blame for spreading this. Just about to check my entire uploaded site for this very virus, and anyone who's had anything off me in the past week; like Final Epsilon, please check your drive too.

Big apologies if i've infected anyone. What the virus does incase anyone isn't aware is in directories you use alot it bloats it with 10MB of fake files and also takes up 90% of your bandwidth doing nothing. Trying to determine if it has some sorta Trojan in it or not. We are looking at the better part of today just to scann this system though:

Deskstar 250GB + Maxtor 120GB + Seagate 80GB ... so yeah this isn't going to be a few minute thing. This started about 4 days ago when i put these drives on, so likely hood is one of them has been infected for months but i just didn't know it.

Well anyways once everything comes if fixxed i'm doing a backup and full re-installation, so I probably won't be back on until Sunday.
Only 2/3 days late rather than 6months like Valve, i don't think that's too bad ^_^

...

For everyone who has submitted something, some very cool projects I can see in the works. Looks like the community has alot to look forward too
Keep it up guys!


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Posted: 15th May 2004 17:53 Edited at: 15th May 2004 19:56
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Netsky been affecting PCs over here too

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Posted: 15th May 2004 19:56
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I don't know, try and tell me



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Posted: 15th May 2004 20:15
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I believe netsky is a some sort of mass spam emailer, so you were most likely sending out loads and loads of chinese porno. Atleast, that's what happened when we got it at work

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Posted: 15th May 2004 21:24
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Well i don't have an emailer setup on here, i use webmail as i also use Linux/Solaris alot of the time.
Finished first partition, onto the second of 4... :: groans ::

i think i'll setup a Quarenteen bubble on my unformatted partition.


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Quarantine*

ZING

Aaaanyway, someone of your knowledge should know that you can't spread a virus with JPGs.. REAL ones anyway. If that were the case, there'd be more more viruses than you can imagine being spread across the internet. So yeah, go ahead and upload your screenies it'll be ok

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Posted: 15th May 2004 22:38
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The files being created to bloat are Win32 executables posing as Jpeg, this could happen with the screenshots and i'm not willing to risk other peoples systems until I know there is Zero chance of contamination.

2nd Partition down, another 3 Virus found

Adware.Gator
W32.Cydoor
IRX.Tickler

only 2 more drives to go... and i have to get rid of these files by hand as i can't simply delete. So far it looks like my MBR/FATs are clean though.


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Posted: 15th May 2004 22:54 Edited at: 15th May 2004 22:55
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Quote: "The files being created to bloat are Win32 executables posing as Jpeg, this could happen with the screenshots and i'm not willing to risk other peoples systems until I know there is Zero chance of contamination."

And how do they convince the windows loader to execute them?


Quote: "W32.Cydoor
IRX.Tickler"

Never heard of them

Quote: "Adware.Gator"

That's not exactly a virus.


Quote: "Aaaanyway, someone of your knowledge should know that you can't spread a virus with JPGs.. REAL ones anyway. If that were the case, there'd be more more viruses than you can imagine being spread across the internet. So yeah, go ahead and upload your screenies it'll be ok"

Odd, isn't it? Whenever Raven announces to show/release stuff (what happened to all the TPCs by the way?), something terrible happens to his system. I sense an international, digital conspiracy...

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Posted: 15th May 2004 23:00
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I believe him
it happens to me all the time
whenever I have to show someone something, something bad happens to my computer

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Posted: 15th May 2004 23:04
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Empty, if you wish to start flames or anything go and do it in another topic. I'm going to see if I can't get your post deleted.


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You really need to improve your computers security if you have all this spyware/virii on your comp.
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Posted: 15th May 2004 23:40
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mine has viruses too

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Posted: 15th May 2004 23:48
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i have spyware... can't get rid of it... BAH HA it's GREAT, don't use IE anymore, nope

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Posted: 16th May 2004 00:14 Edited at: 16th May 2004 00:14
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Quote: "Odd, isn't it? Whenever Raven announces to show/release stuff (what happened to all the TPCs by the way?), something terrible happens to his system. I sense an international, digital conspiracy..."


I agree with Raven + o_0, I've never said this before in my whole life but...


Empty - STFU.

I've seen what this is, and it's good. Very good.

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Posted: 16th May 2004 00:15 Edited at: 16th May 2004 00:20
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I only get dialers, and thats only if I deactivate IE's popup system and forget to re-activate it.

A quick scan when I remember soon gets rid of it... Recently got Trend's AV/Firewall system to cut down on scanning time and memory usual. A full 3 drive scan now only takes half an hour, instead of two hours...

Raven, I think you need to get a better AV program - and XP SP2 RC1 if I were you... And if you've got a 64-bit processor, remember to either de-active DEP or assign programs to it...

Fortunately dialers (with broadband) are mostly harmless...


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Posted: 16th May 2004 00:35
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Yeah i think your right TCA. I'm using Norton AV 2004 Standard, doesn't really seem to be stopping as much as it's predecessors.

I've not updated to SP2 yet, can you give me a link?
As it doesn't appear to be in the Windows Update area yet.


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The link for SP2 is http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx. Its still in the RC stage (although it's very stable) - rumour has it it may be released at the end of next month...
Be warned : Its a 200+Mb download! Oh, and it might muck around with NAV - I had to uninstall mine and go back to 2003 (because 2004 wouldn't install again)...

And whats happened to your sig? I miss Garfield...


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We shall see what we shall see, but four years of experience with Raven and his doings tells me empty has a very good point.

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Well, we shall see...


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I think that Raven is cmc 101.

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nah cmc 101 probably had the sense to update his definitions every once in a while
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Posted: 16th May 2004 03:40 Edited at: 16th May 2004 03:41
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Quote: "I think that Raven is cmc 101."


I think that you're C[b][/b]MC!


Oh, and you can tell that link is in DavidT's sig because it's a smaller size then the rest of his message.


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Quote: "Ever heard of alternate data streams"

Yeah, but AFAIK (correct me if I'm wrong) ADS won't work via the internet.

Quote: "Anyway, we'll see later on if raven posts screenies"

Yep, we'll see.


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Nope, I won't.

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CmC is not Pincho or Raven...Rich and the mods would be able to check the IP

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We weren't being serious.


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I know...you know how I know? I am The Chosen One!!!!

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I don't think you ARE the chosen one... but I could be wrong

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Come on now - we all know that software development can be late due to a variety of reason - after all, Half Life 2 is 6 months late...


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True.


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no one has stolen my code though hehee

I only just woke a few hours ago cause i was up all night sorting out SP2 (which crashed at 273MB / 275MB ... i was NOT happy ); but at the very least i've got a clean system up and running.

Now what i've got to do today is create a new area to showcase. Reason being is i simply cleared one HDD and clean installed everything - so this machine has nothing.
Have hand copyied across the source, but recreating the levels is going to be hard... So i'm working on 2 area's just to show off the engines Parallax Mapping, Defered Lighting, Clamp-Definition Colour Range and Depth Shadows.

I'll go into more depth tommorrow once this is all done.


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Is this written in DBPro?

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good old raven,same excuses hes secretly working on a pong game i no it.

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damn you found out!! who told you RichS!?!
now my plans for world domination via pong are finished


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im so sorry but i also found out that its actually made using the 2d drag n drop program GAMEMAKER! sorry

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Quote: "now my plans for world domination via pong are finished"

Tried it ages ago - didn't work...


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but TCA looks like you have decided to have another go...

Quote: "Location: Resuming plan for world domination. "


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Yes, I'm using Space Invaders this time....


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oh...
poor raven will have to thik of somthing else

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@Chris Knott

"Is this written in DBPro?"

I doubt it. If what he says is true, and his engine will contain deferred shading, then no it isn't. Unless of course there is some secret method of creating multiple render targets in DBPro.
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Hey everyone,

I was working on WordTrix 2.0 a little more today and I thought I'd take some screenies. WordTrix 2.0 has obvious improvements over WordTris 1.0, including weighted letters, the official Scrabble dictionary wordlist, and multiplayer capabilities.

This has been a great learning tool for me as I'm using it to educate myself on how to write a Direct3D game using C++.

This screen shows the one-player game:



EDIT: You may also notice the "found words" list on the left has some indents. Anyone figure out what those words represent besides major point bonuses?

This screen shows the two-player game:



Two people can play against each other from the same keyboard or from over the Internet. There are lots of cool features within the multiplayer game that I haven't seen in traditional two-player modes of other similar games (Tetris, Columns, Super Puzzle Fighter, etc.) including the ability to directly affect the other's playing field in new ways. I don't want to give too much away

Please note that this game is about 60% completed so the visuals may change quite a bit.

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Ooo, melikes.


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Atleast SOMEBODY's making something... *cough*

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Wow nice Jeku, kudos to you im looking forward to it

But all that work and your sig still says wordtris? tsk tsk

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Quote: "now my plans for world domination via pong are finished "


It didn't work for Higginbotham so what makes you think it will work for you?


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Raven: update us please! We can't just let this thread fall into obscurity without seeing some of your screenshots!

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It won't i've just been sorting some things out today.
Still hope to see more of everyone elses' creations rather than just have people hyped (or skeptical) about my work.

Right now i'm building the website, my brother is polishing off some better AI cause again he told me mine sucked; So we can't do a trailer until he is finished really. Although I still think i'm keeping the bit where the dog runs into the door cause it cracked me up ^_^

After working with the X-Box all day i wanna just relax to be honest, so once the websites majors are done i'm gonna chill and probably get and early night.


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there is no game!

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Yup, there is no game . What exactly is keeping you from showing us one of these killer screenshots you supposedly had around 3 days ago, Raven? Your mom STILL using the internet ?

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Whoah!

I just managed to mould a DBPro sphere into a perfect replica of Christina Aguilera using the power of the print command alone and got it running at a reasonable 4000fps. Wait, I'll upload a screenie...


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Ahh crudcakes!...

The little girl next door is using my modem lead as a skipping rope - gonna have to wait a few days.


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