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Delkian

Look for calls to os.system in d3gui.py. It's called from two different locations, one of which is in join_game() and another in join_manual_game(). join_game() is called when you click and join a game on the server list whereas join_manual_game() is called when you use the `Join Manual IP' option ...

Delkian

Unfortunately I'm not a C++ coder but this project really sounds interesting. I could help with something if there's something I can help with. :-)

Delkian

Grendel wrote:I think he ment Mac's

Whatever. The same applies with the exception that I don't have a Mac. Some other people do.

Just did. Will post if there're any results..

Thanks!

Delkian

Change that to:
"Thanks for paying for your computer, sorry you can't use it with 95% of the software on the market."
And you will have it just about right.

Not really.

I can't expect some software written for Windows to ever run on my Linux system, and I don't. On the other hand, if there is a ...

Delkian

~20-30 cm is quite optimal.

Delkian

Your kidding, right? :roll: You realize that we are talking about Michigan here... not California.
I'm not kidding. I don't know where you live, even less how far away your guests are coming from, and I have absolutely no idea what the difference between Michigan and California is in whatever ...

Delkian

Snow doesn't suck.

As for parking space and other such stuff, that's why you don't tell everybody to use their own car but organise one car to be used for bringing everyone and their computers to you. Much less parking space needed.

If the guests live too far away for that... well it happens.

Delkian

psychology is bull**** imo. no one really knows what anyone is thinking
The point is hardly to know what other people think but rather to find patterns in behaviour. Those can be found, although it obviously doesn't always work.

People who praise it as the solver of all problems aren't right ...

Delkian

http://www.iki.fi/mpw/images/desktop-jan05.jpg

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It just might create some cheating problems at first. But then, I guess those who want to do that can do it already.

So, yea, of course it would be cool. Getting it to happen is another thing.

Delkian

Then that clown at the UN calling our aid "stingy" 15 million upped to 20. I think I read where the whole EU gave 4?
I don't know what had been done before the 28th (the date of your post) but Sweden alone has now given (or decided to give, I don't know which) 75 million USD, and Britain is among ...

Delkian

MD-2389 wrote:Theres an island off the coast of Africa that has a mountain thats a ticking timebomb.

La Palma... it's a beautiful island, by the way.

Yep, OT.

Delkian

It would have been funnier without political commentary because the photos have no connection to politics whatsoever and thus the comments contribute nothing, they only take away.

Delkian

It can't launch D3.

Well, it can, but it can't give it the IP address.

However, even though it doesn't give the game the IP address in any way the latter would understand it, to me it looks like it does pass the IP address to the game without a preceding, corresponding command-line argument (e.g ...

Delkian

XQF 1.0.2 has been released and it can fetch the server list from descent.cx.

Delkian

University of Helsinki.

Here, you can go to the university of your choice. No criteria to get accepted, if you pay the $450 yearly fee you're in :)

Funny, here it's exactly the other way around. There are criteria for acceptance, but there's no yearly fee. (Material like books etc. obviously ...

Delkian

A suggestion:
Customizable command-line parameters for the game -- that is, changeable without editing them in the source code.

I still don't know Gtk and right now I don't have time for that either, so I can't really implement this easily.

Delkian

Gren, U are absolutely right on that
Like I said, the difference is that having a tool like Vortex for Windows doesn't take anything away from the users of the other systems. An incompatible version of the game does. Not writing a tool for all platforms isn't active splitting of the community ...

Delkian

If the source is available, maybe.

Edit: According to quick googling, it isn't.

Delkian

Grendel wrote:Edit: Funny, last time I checked Vortex is not available to Mac/Linux users.

No, but it's not incompatible with IRC clients that work on those systems.

Edit: quote fix

Delkian

In the worst case, pen-paper technology must be used.

I wonder if something like d3launch for Linux (discussed in another thread) would be possible on the Mac. It probably depends largely on the way Mac D3 stores its configuration.

Delkian

(Partially) OT:

Some people play to become better players. Mastering the game is an end to them. These people play for the feeling they get from the game -- they get it from the pleasure of managing to improve their gameplay and from the competition.

For others, this famous 'skill' may be one ...

Delkian

Norton's virus definition subscription policies pissed me off so I trashed it. As much as you pay for Norton you should be able to keep updated and protected without having to pay them one single cent ever again.
Since antivirus software has to be updated heavily -- even more so than most other ...

Delkian

IMO minimum framerates are much more interesting than maximum or even average ones.

I have the impression that framerates actually vary quite a lot in D3, so even if you get a high maximum framerate, it doesn't mean that the minimum is all that high, and that's what counts, if you ask me.

Delkian

That's one of the features that the Linux version of D3 lacks. There's no --pilot command-line parameter.

As usual, a list of the (documented) command-line parameters recognised by the game can be displayed by running "descent3 --help".

Delkian

Krom wrote:A voodoo3 and a pentium 3 @ 1 GHz would do 100-200 FPS.

Minimum?

Delkian

As stated before, there are members of this community who are willing to work on it and see it through to its completion. Hopefully, something will come out of this to resolve the issues and benefit us all.

It can't be completed without the source code, and that has not been published. I'm not at ...

Delkian

Suncho released a 1.4 patch with a no-cd crack in it. That he had permission to do.

Stress, not Suncho, released the 1.5 patch. Or did Suncho have permission for that, too?

Delkian

Ironically, those who would clearly benefit from the patch most are Mac and Linux users, as well as anyone who wants to run a server on Linux.

Plus of course people who want to play on such servers.

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it was reopened, thereby sending a precident that things like that were okay.

Xciter wrote in said thread:
It looks like Kevin Bentley and Matt Toschlog are ok with this patch being released as is... if so it's ok with me.

Thread reopened.

Whatever that means, I don't suppose anyone has got ...

Delkian

Ok, taking this in another direction- isn't the company that owns the rights to the patch either dead or hanging by a thread? Doesn't the patch become open domain once (I assume interplay) goes under? (didn't they a couple months ago?)
The copyright of the code was owned by Outrage, not Interplay ...

Delkian

Nightmare USA wrote:I don't blame you for wanting to encourage players to stick with 1.4 becuase that is your opinion, but not report it?

PlanetDescent, as part of the GameSpy network, may have more legal concerns than you.

Delkian

iten wrote:Until you've played with Linux, you have no idea how you can have fun breaking your computer.

Very true. With Windows you don't get that experience -- it breaks all by itself.

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Delkian

To be frank, I'm not too sure about that either, but that's the impression I've got.

Delkian

XQF uses qstat (or at least its code) to fetch and handle server lists, but I'd assume it starts up games and other such stuff on its own. That's why I mentioned qstat with regard to fetching a server list from descent.cx.

Delkian

Actually there is even a graphical client that can read Descent 3 server information, and that's XQF . The problem with it is that it can't read the server list from descent.cx, and I don't know of any other publically usable master server that would have a useful list of D3 servers (Gamespy's ...

Delkian

Just as a little side note, has even a Windows server 1.5 been released?

Delkian

... and in the end you'll end up implementing a Vortex clone for Linux. ;-)

Seriously, though, if it's not very complex, some basic functionality for querying servers themselves might be helpful for pinging and also possibly for getting basic server information.

This is no feature request -- I ...

Delkian

Pinging has one problem. As far as I know, usually D3 servers are pinged by querying their status and measuring the time it takes for the status response to be received, or something like that -- in any case, it's not done with icmp echo requests.

Thus, some servers may have a firewall blocking ...

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Edit:
Upside_Down (haven't used this in a while, though)

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