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akula65

Google is building a site about 30 miles from where I live:

http://www.wataugademocrat.com/2007/0122web/google.php

They got a heck of a break on taxes.

akula65

MidiV says planning for the next Russian LAN party is under way:

http://rdo.unirep.ru/indexe.shtml

Let him know if you would like to participate.

akula65

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel ... 1275561033

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At a minimum, if you are willing to run the fix program in your Descent Version 1.5 directory, check the file size on the DESCENT.HOG file and let me know what it is, that would be helpful. The fix program takes less than a minute to run on a fast Pentium III system and several minutes to run on old...

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Recent posts on this board and at PlanetDescent suggest that there is enough demand to warrant development of a patch to fix the bug in the official Descent I Version 1.0=>1.5 patch which eliminates music after Level 7. I have created a 16-bit patch using Open Watcom Version 1.6, and it converts the...

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Cool. Thanks for the feedback. I guess there IS some need for such a patch.

Hey Krom, if you think the thread needs to be deleted for CYA reasons, I would certainly understand.

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The file length should be 940 bytes. Here are MD5 and SHA1 checksums for DESCENT.SNG: MD5: 2cda062750c19302533965dcb2dc2257 descent.sng SHA1: c868d5223bf22bb66d6a60f35bbed402801deef8 descent.sng If you look at DESCENT.SNG with a text editor it should look something like this: descent.hmp hammelo.bnk...

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Sorry to hear you have a bad copy of Descent 1.5. In order to download the copy of DESCENT.SNG at the 3D Realms Forums, you do have to be a registered user and logged in. I just tested the download, and it works fine. For better or for worse, you can't post downloadable material on this board, but s...

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Here are some links that may be useful if you can't find a pack: Orion Nebula Project (Version 1.01) http://www.descent2.com/orion/index.html (Description) http://web.archive.org/web/20020219214834/www.descent-network.com/cgi-bin/detlef.cgi?game=D1&list=d1c http://hjem.get2net.dk/dittehus/lac/de...

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http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/strapreplace.jsp

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AWE 64 Gold Getting Started:
http://ccftp.creative.com/manualdn/Manu ... nglish.pdf

AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS Commands:
http://www.computerhope.com/ac.htm

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The Version 1.0-to-1.4a patch is available here: ftp://ftp.interplay.com/pub/patches/desc14a.exe The Version 1.4a-to-1.5 patch is available here: ftp://ftp.interplay.com/pub/patches/dreg14a5.zip The specific problem with the Version 1.0-1.5 patch is that it installs a bogus version of the DESCENT.SN...

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The Wayback Machine may be of some help:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://vortexofsound.com

I wouldn't bet money on being able to download drivers directly from any of the instances, but perhaps you can find some links or other useful information.

akula65

The page you cited lists XP or Vista as a requirement. Do you use it under Win98 SE? My understanding is that Logitech has discontinued support for Win9x in more recent versions of the WingMan software as well.

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Looks peachy, but it's a shame the driver support is limited to XP and Vista (some of us will insist on living in the past).

akula65

Well, it was a bust for me. I drove about 25 miles to a place that would give me an open sky. At 11:45 PM EST, about 80 percent of the sky was clear, but clouds were approaching from the NW. By 12:15 AM, 80 percent was obscured, and the clouds were thickening. I threw in the towel at 12:30 AM. I did...

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Is this what you were looking for?:

http://descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?t=6557

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Might be a big Leonid show late Saturday night/early Sunday morning in the Eastern U.S. and Western Europe:

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/061114_leonid_news.html

akula65

You enumerated a list of issues, what might be called \"hot-button issues\" for you. Those issues are certainly relevant at the present time. You may also want to give some thought to what issues are likely to be important in the decades ahead, and evaluate whether given candidates (partic...

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MidiV has posted some photos and screenshots here:

http://rdo.unirep.ru/partyc/

He indicated that more photos are likely to be posted later.

Attendance was apparently not what it has been in the past.

Thanks for the report, MidiV!

akula65

Dedman, I think one other point to consider in your deliberations is what your expectation is from daycare as opposed to school. In my post, I made the same mistake a lot folks made in thinking that the institution you were referring to was a school, when you did in fact state that it was a daycare ...

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Dedman, if the approach used by the school extends to all activities and subjects, then there may be cause for concern. But if you are talking strictly about language acquisition, then I wouldn't be too concerned. I taught an introductory linguistics course to undergraduates for two years as a gradu...

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MidiV has posted some information for the upcoming LAN party in Moscow: http://rdo.unirep.ru/indexe.shtml Perhaps the Russians can take on the DO LAN folks since these events overlap. He also has a link to information about Interplay abandoning the Descent trademark (this info from Aenn Seidhe Pries...

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If you want quantity, you can get single file collections at the following sites: D1 and D2 Levels at Pooterman's: http://www.pooterman.com/ PlanetDescent: D1: http://www.planetdescent.com/site/files/d1/missions/packs.asp D2: http://www.planetdescent.com/site/files/d2/missions/packs.asp KoolBear's S...

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I was looking at this page http://web.archive.org/web/20000511012738/www.xtremebuilder.com/misc.shtml and it occurs to me that the D2 Popular Mission Pack which is mentioned might have what you are looking for. If you mouse over it, you can see that it is called Best_Levels.zip. Perhaps one of the o...

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From Stealth's Hangar (19 July 2006): The next Revival will be August 12th at 8:30 pm cnt time. hope yall are ready for it! it's gonna be big!!! Stealths hangar is going to be shut down by stealth in September. He said people don't visit enough and i have become quite buisy so i haven't been handlin...

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Butcher,

Have a look at this thread.

You might do an MD5 or SHA256 checksum comparison on your DESCENT2.EXE file to see how it compares with the ones in the other post. It sounds like you have a version that is different from all three of mine based on the date on the DESCENT2.EXE file.

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I didn't want to derail Butcher's thread ( http://descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?t=10700 ), so I decided to start a new one. I installed all three of the Descent II versions that I have and gathered some information. If you have additional versions, please post comparable information. CD-ICD-083-0 (<==...

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You might want to watch the auction sites for this title:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/desce ... collection

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KB, you da man!

http://www.koolbear.com/cgi-bin/dl/dirw ... chaos2.zip

EDIT: I stand corrected. The above link is for Version 1.0. The following link is for Version 1.0.2:

http://www.dfiles.de/download/d2/missions/chaos2.zip

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi has Levels of the World: http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=offtopic;action=display;num=1106731767;start=0#0 He is registered on this board, but I would suggest you post in the This & That off-topic section of FalconFly's site (you will be sure to get his a...

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It seems to be pretty common knowledge that a \"bad\" D1 Version 1.5 patch was released at some point which made the music disappear after Level 7. So community sites have generally advocated updating from a Version 1.0 install to Version 1.4a and then installing a Version 1.4a=>Version 1....

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It's old news, but the Express Editions of Visual Studio 2005 are apparently free downloads : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=126606&SiteID=1 Somebody was supposedly able to use Visual C++ to compile the Freespace Source Code Project's build: http://www.hard-light.net/forum...

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Well, some of the old timers can probably give you better advice, but here are a few things you might try: Orion Nebula Project http://members.tripod.com/~DCentral/reviews/onp.htm http://www.koolbear.com/cgi-bin/dl/dirwrap.cgi?rt=count&path=Descent/levels/d1/orion.zip (Original) http://web.archi...

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I don't know if these are preserved elsewhere, but I stumbled across them on the Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/199706301512 ... istms.html

akula65

Thanks. I'm glad you found what you were looking for.

And thanks to KB for continuing to make all of this historical stuff available.

akula65

Well, there are quite a few Russian emigres on the U.S. squad as well:

http://www.uschess.org/news/press/uspr0621.php

It's amazing how the former Soviet republics can export so many grandmasters and they still have enough left over to clobber the rest of the world without too much difficulty.

akula65

Uebergeeks of the world, unite!

Root for your national team!

http://www.chessolympiad-torino2006.org/eng/index.php

MidiV must be pleased, as both the Russian Men's and Women's teams are likely to get a medal (at least).

Go Team USA! Woohoo!

akula65

Carnage was another Interplay contest level from 1997. You may be able to get it from this page on the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/19991002020544/interplay.com/descent/missions.html I can't seem to make a connection at the moment, but things will likely clear up later. If you can't g...

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I don't know why, but searches for \"Forsaken\" don't seem to reveal anything. There are threads like this one though:

viewtopic.php?t=4484

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