The Official Status Thread
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@PJH said:
If you're collecting
Not deliberately
Well I would have given you a couple of more badges but
200 OK (Fuck Off)
keeps happening when I try...
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Trying some Rice-a-Roni: The San Francisco Treat ™
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They reject yours in 5 minutes then approve his 2 hours later?
Strangely enough, both were accepted. Lets see which completes first?
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Oh man, I always wanted the Right-to-left override badge...
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Status: While I'm dicking around with Amazon Music, I decided to upload my DropBox folder of super-rare or weird video game music, including the copy of Pac-Man Fever I ripped from CD. (Yes. I own the CD of Pac-Man Fever. Yes. The album was put on CD.)
Just finished Wizards and Warriors (no, not the Nintendo one everybody's heard of, the obscure 2000 PC RPG) and the Lemmings for Macintosh soundtrack, next up is Wizardry 8's.
Which... now that it's on Steam is actually widely available. But for a long time it was rare, ok? LET ME LIVE MY DREAM!
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super-rare or weird video game music
not the Nintendo one everybody's heard of, the obscure 2000 PC RPG
now that it's on Steam is actually widely available. But for a long time it was rare
LET ME LIVE MY DREAM!
Confirmed: Blakey dreams of being a hipster.
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Both? Which of us three escapes your wrath?
He probably meant the old and new versions of the badge.
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:glare:
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Hey, I risked getting banned on meta.derp for that badge!
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Status: Submitted ticket request to publish the test website for the first time (on an established webserver). Since this is a new site, this means someone with the know-how needs to set up things initially (hint: It involves more than ITCM copying files and telling the site to restart). This of course results in my ticket stalled while a second ticket (this one's real this time, guys!) is created to do the actual site set-up.
Oh, and those DNS entries required to get this server recognized inside the network under the site name? Another ticket.
Filed under: Yo dawg, I heard you liked tickets...
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But the question is, did you remember to file the ticket to request permission to open a ticket for the DNS changes?
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did you remember
Yep! SRV20160122_076_tsaukpaetraa was just approved by the supervisor! We're good to go and make the request!
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You need a presidential prisoner release form.
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You need a presidential prisoner release form.
No, that's actually not required here. However, once approved the DNS ticket will require a Post-Implementation-Review item attached with signatures from at least two end-users that they could access the new names.
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I posted it in Status, no clue how it ended up here.
EDIT: now it's in Status and this post makes no sense, SUCK IT
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permanantly ... At least for now
Do you know what permanantly means?
Neither do I, but I do know what permanently means, and it's not compatible with "for now."
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How did you get Wizards&Warriors to run?
I always had the problem that the city hubs relied on this obscure video format to make the shop, inn and other places clickable.
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How did you get Wizards&Warriors to run?
I played it when it was first out, on Windows 98. EDIT: and even on Windows 98, where it ran, it was really delicate and crash-y.
I remember even then it didn't work on Windows 2000. It's coded like complete ass. There's one guy on that Gog thread who says he got it working in Windows 7 64-bit but he didn't provide enough specifics.
In any case, if the engineers at Gog could get System Shock 2 and Dungeon Keeper II running on modern OSes, they could get Wizards and Warriors running. Game's probably too obscure for them to ever bother with, though.
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Being a software developer, I spent about 3 times longer looking for a quality program to do bulk .ogg -> .mp3 conversions than it took to just rubber-band all the files open in SoundForge and hit Control-F2 (Save As), Enter, Control-F4 (Close) 16 times.
Just last week I actually had this conversation with my cousin who develops software.
Him: "Do you know an easy program to convert jpegs to pngs?"
Me: "Like, for bulk operations? Or just a few files...?"
Him: "10-15 files. Everything I find is pretty complex for such a simple operation. My parents need to convert some images and I don't want anything too complicated for them."
Me: "Open them in Paint, save as PNG..."
Him: "Why didn't I think of that?"
Me: "I have no fucking clue, but you have a propensity for overcomplicating things."
When your only tool is a hammer, and all that.
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@Rhywden said:
How did you get Wizards&Warriors to run?
I played it when it was first out, on Windows 98. EDIT: and even on Windows 98, where it ran, it was really delicate and crash-y.
I remember even then it didn't work on Windows 2000. It's coded like complete ass. There's one guy on that Gog thread who says he got it working in Windows 7 64-bit but he didn't provide enough specifics.
In any case, if the engineers at Gog could get System Shock 2 and Dungeon Keeper II running on modern OSes, they could get Wizards and Warriors running. Game's probably too obscure for them to ever bother with, though.
The game itself ran for me. It was just the city hubs where the missing codec made everything supposedly clickable ... not-so-clickable.
I think it was one those weird interactive video codecs.
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The game itself ran for me.
Recently? Or back when it came out? What OS version?
I have the CDs, it might be worth a go if you have tips on getting it running on Windows 7+.
One thing I forgot, even on Windows 98 the OS it was built for, it wouldn't work if 3D acceleration was turned on. You had to use software rendering.
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The correct answer was ImageMagick.
Though, I guess if it was for a parent, that's definitely not the correct answer.
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I fear it was WinXP. And even back then I was cursing this stupid codec a lot.
Sorry.
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I wager it won't run at all.
I just checked and my disk 2 has a decently large scratch in it. Might not work. Gonna try anyway. Short sentences.
233 MHz Pentium II processor
64 MB of RAM
US version Microsoft® Windows 95/98 operating system
100% Windows 95/98 compatible computer system (including compatible 32-bit drivers for CD-ROM, video card, sound card and input devices.)
740 MB of uncompressed hard-drive space, plus 140 MB for the Windows swap file.
Quad-speed CD-ROM drive (600k/sec sustained transfer rate)
DirectX 7.0a for Windows 95/98 (included)
100% DirectX 7.0a-compliant video card (Note: For 3D Acceleration, 16 MB of video memory or higher is required.)**
100% Windows 95/98 compliant true 16-bit sound card and driver
100% Windows 95/98 compatible mouse and driver
100% Windows 95/98 compatible keyboard
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Short sentences.
Breath man, breath!
Also, I hear there's plenty of life-hacks to obviate scratches from disks (at least long enough to make an image of it).
I gotta check my own disk collection now, it's been in a cool-dry place, but you never know...
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> 233 MHz Pentium II processor
64 MB of RAM
US version Microsoft® Windows 95/98 operating system
100% Windows 95/98 compatible computer system (including compatible 32-bit drivers for CD-ROM, video card, sound card and input devices.)
740 MB of uncompressed hard-drive space, plus 140 MB for the Windows swap file.
Quad-speed CD-ROM drive (600k/sec sustained transfer rate)
DirectX 7.0a for Windows 95/98 (included)
100% DirectX 7.0a-compliant video card (Note: For 3D Acceleration, 16 MB of video memory or higher is required.)**
100% Windows 95/98 compliant true 16-bit sound card and driver
100% Windows 95/98 compatible mouse and driver
100% Windows 95/98 compatible keyboardHuh. I could probably get XP running on a computer with those specs. Actually, I think I did once, though that machine only had 96 Mb RAM...
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The RAM would be the only thing XP would have problems with. That's fine specs for Windows 2000.
They seem to install the files off CD in utterly random format, my poor CD drive's seeking like crazy. It would have been faster to image it.
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FTFY.
Have you SMELLED it? Some things didn't return to normal after All Hallows Eve...
utterly random format
Yeah, file list in the installer is not the same as the file list of the disk.
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Time for disk 2, cross your fingers.
EDIT: damn, too scratched. Seems to just be wavs in the "speech" directory, so maybe they aren't critical to game function.
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What's awesome is that even in Windows 10, trying to do i/o on a busted DVD leads to Explorer.exe freezing up.
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A bug that gets lower priority every single year. "Fix that? Pfft. Nobody uses optical disks anymore."
I'm trying to copy the speech sound files with Explorer to see if it's smart enough to skip the bad ones.
Oh file EC006600_42.wav YOU ARE MY NEMESIS!
HOLY SHIT now the CD drive spindle sounds like a dremel... uh... I hope it doesn't shatter the disk
I understand why scratched CDs are a huge PITA for the CD-ROM drive, I do not understand why there are no reasonable time-outs for it. It's like a solid 5 minute wait before Windows gives up.
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MMO Status: So we switched to the US West server. We need to see if we can move the character of my friend who got really annoyed at us for doing so over. Sure, if someone here hosts, my friends will hardly be able to play depending on the connection, but that happened with the random guy in Christchurch who was hosting a raid a few days ago anyway, and now we can actually find high level people and buy items on the market.
I went with that pillar guy, since I had one from two years ago, with 36,000 skill points and 30 days of unfair equipment. So much safer than the girl with the shield...
I feel like I said all of this yesterday... Anyway, this game is unquestionably better than that horrible mess Ben plays, apart from the lack of plantpeople.
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Ok, so there's God knows how many corrupted files on this CD, and the CD-ROM takes like 5 minutes to time-out on each one, so finishing this CD copy will take roughly 47 eons.
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Oh file EC006600_42.wav YOU ARE MY NEMESIS!
Find another wave, rename it, copy that file.
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Ok, so there's God knows how many corrupted files on this CD, and the CD-ROM takes like 5 minutes to time-out on each one, so finishing this CD copy will take roughly 47 eons.
Try ripping an iso and copying from that...it'll probably fail faster.
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I don't have any CD ripping software on this computer that I am aware of.
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You could try this--first result from "make an iso windows 10". I haven't tried it because I have Roxio at work.
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I could. Or I could do nothing and just let it work.
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Ah the Marathon games.
Poor bastards who never did Mac Classic are all "Aren't those vaguely related to Halo?"
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Being a software developer, I spent about 3 times longer looking for a quality program to do bulk .ogg -> .mp3 conversions than it took to just rubber-band all the files open in SoundForge and hit Control-F2 (Save As), Enter, Control-F4 (Close) 16 times.
If you were a real developer, you'd spend a few hours writing a shell script. Then several more hours converting it to a real application. Then the rest of the weekend hammering on it until it's solid. Then publish it on github and tweet about it. Then try to remember what you wanted to do in the first place.
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I could. Or I could do nothing and just let it work.
Your call. Maybe you could have a nice drink from your oil bottle while you wait. But burning it would probably take 43 eons less than what you're doing now.
Unless the drive times out burning the iso. I hadn't thought of that before.
Feel free to have that drink, though.
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Then try to remember what you wanted to do in the first place.
That's why I always write down what I want to do. If only I could find my list where I put my notes...
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LATE NIGHT STATUS:
Dad woke me up and hesitantly admitted he might have completely ruined his Windows 7 installation. He wanted to download Windows crack from torrent sites. He downloaded about 100 Chinese viruses instead.
Me: Wait, are you sure you didn't click on one of those fake download buttons?
Dad: I... don't think so.
Me: So you downloaded a torrent file? And it opened a torrent client?
Dad: No, no, it was like an exe installer.
http://runjumpfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/you-chose-poorly.jpg