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The Lion

No, a just means everyone: user, group, and world. It's not a permission;
it tells chmod who to set permissions for. Doing chmod a+rwx is the
same as chmod ugo+rwx.

The Lion

Unless you meant u+s (the setuid bit) you don't have to worry about it gaining
root privilege without your knowledge. (flip: don't forget that one :))

The x bit just determines 'execute' permission, i.e. who can run the program.

Remember, the file 'ownership' attribute normally only specifies who ...

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Come to think of it, I've never seen them use Omega - would be interesting...

The Lion

Slightly OT ... but about a month ago I added an anaglyph stereo 3D mode to ProjectX (Forsaken source port) . The benefit is that you don't need any special (and windows-only iirc) nvidia driver or monitor refresh rate to make it work - it renders both red and green/blue/cyan every frame.

http ...

The Lion

Suggestion - make the PXO module compatible with current services/tools used for D3:

IRC for chat
d3.descent.cx (and maybe master.gamespy.com) for server/game tracking
d3stats.de for ranking

Then, the PXO module will be optional but still useful.

The Lion

You can run regedit in a terminal window to edit the Wine registry using an interface identical to Windows's regedit. Descent 3's settings are located under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Outrage\\Descent3 . Set (or add) the entry named PreferredRenderer (a DWORD value) to 2. This should select ...

The Lion

Homes are already being inspected in some parts of the Netherlands.

http://dutchconcerns.blogspot.com/2009/ ... rolle.html

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InnoSetup

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Sirius wrote:I can practically guarantee he/she/it has never played Descent, at least to any significant extent.

True, but I did see him in at least one (BI3) game, which was kind of a surprise I guess.

The Lion

What does xgmx really mean?

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Three can play that game, apparently.

The Lion

I chose the missile platform bot. Yeah the driller is fast and
aggressive and good at doing some damage even if you're
cautious, but one homer will kill it and its damage is limited.

The missile platform on the other hand can completely screw
you over for making one single mistake.

BTW, what's the ...

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recordmydesktop should work if you give it the --full-shots option (documented).

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xkcd.com on Flow Charts

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Use it to lure devil worshippers and poke fun at them.

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... \"left-handed\"?

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Anyone else notice the \"SATURN\" files in those images? As in
Descent: Destination Saturn, the half-full version of Descent 1.
Or half empty in this case...

Anyway - I don't recommend Kali as it requires registration
even to just chat on their networks, sealing itself off from the
rest of the ...

The Lion

Descent.exe - isn't that just the shareware version?

PlanetDescent still has shareware 1.4.

The Lion

Poppler is a PDF rendering library that includes utility programs to
extract text and images from PDFs, among other things. If these
utilities don't work the way you need them to, the Poppler library
may aid a programmer in writing one that does.

Notes: (1) Poppler is copylefted free software (GPL ...

The Lion

Well, excuse our paranoia (I guess we should have googled around), but we generally
don't see this kind of advertising from gaming services here. This and the automatic
redirect to the download (even if it's on the download page) are what makes people
suspicious; don't worry about the `sparseness ...

The Lion

The Forsaken community got an email similar to this, and indeed
is also on the list.

Advertisement through forums and email, binaries only... I wouldn't
trust this one bit. Besides, the Descent community doesn't need to
be split up even further; Kali already took care of most of that.

The Lion

The (remains of) the Forsaken community can be found on
irc.freenode.net channel #forsaken. They also have a website
(accessible via http://tiny.cc/fskn), which is rather poorly
maintained but still contains some useful stuff.

The Lion

Sounds like you need to compile using MinGW/MSYS instead.

Not sure what options you need to use to ensure binary compatibility
though (assuming you're still using msvc for the rest of your code).

The Lion

Total Video Converter is just a rip-off of FFmpeg.

MPlayer also uses FFmpeg (legally), and it provides Windows
binaries in addition to source code/RPMs. How did you try to
compile FFmpeg anyway?

The Lion

Yeah, Cedega is based on a very old Wine since they can't rip any code from
the newer, LGPL-licensed versions. I'd say let them die; Wine has gone a long
way since then and can now run many games with few or no problems.

As for Codeweavers - they rely on Wine and are funding development of it.

The Lion

@cope - fake missiles, you mean. As Foil said, most of it is D3 these days.

Still, there are several people on IRC you could ask for a D1/D2 game.
(QuestionableChaos: yes, I've seen you join and leave #dxx-rebirth a few
times; you need to stick around for a bit longer in order to find someone
to ...

The Lion

OSF just an Interplay ACM renamed.
Oh wow ! Why haven't I ever read this before...

I've seen this question more than once, and wondered about it myself,
but I never found an answer, although I could run MusicTester and
capture the sound.

So thanks a lot! I tested it by running acmtool on an .osf ...

The Lion

There's an event generated when a matcen spawns a bot, which can give you
its object handle.

Finding out when such newly generated bots are destroyed is another matter.
I'm pretty sure it can be done, but maybe not using just DALLAS since it only
lets you tie events to pre-existing objects.

You'd ...

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Ok, you should leave out missiles then.

One more thing: how about leaving out the AB cooler (assuming that's what
you meant by \"afterburner\")? Standard AB is more than enough for dogfights;
cooler just makes it easier to do hit'n'run (speeding through the level and
getting away).

There's another ...

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Looks cool.

You can put in missiles to make it more interesting as long as
you don't overdo it. 1 or 2 smart missiles and 2-3 single homing
missiles scattered around the level should be fine, in addition to
a few concs.

Also consider using Hostile's modded plasma cannon (the one
used in Athena and ...

The Lion

Von #07 is Stadium anarchy.

The Lion

Major corporations have nothing against open source software, they may have something against a common open source license.
The common "open source" license in question is the GNU General
Public License, and it is in fact much older than open source itself,
which has only existed for a decade ...

The Lion

If you can run the server under wine , a simple (no need for
\"advanced\" scripting IMO :)) script could poll the process
periodically and kill and restart the server if necessary.

If the server doesn't work with wine, and has only a windows
version, it might still be possible using cygwin ; I'm ...

The Lion

You could ask people on IRC for a game. Most of us use DXX-Rebirth to play online.

The Lion

Has anyone else here googled \"xgmx\"?

Edit: while you're at it... posts from his other account on this board.

The Lion

Since this seems to have turned from wasd into a general config thread...

A/Z, S/D/F/V, Spacebar for movement;
Joystick (Thrustmaster Fox 2 Pro) for weapons and rotation.

The Lion

Yesterday's Ctrl+Alt+Del comic: \"Spored\".

Figures.

The Lion

There are several people on descentforum.net (#descent) and
Gamesurge IRC (#descent3) who play D1/D2 (including me).
You could ask for a game there.

The Lion

Nice. What synth/soundfont was that?

The Lion

Krom wrote:
Code: Select all
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.

Be careful, you might get sued.

The Lion

A note you could add:

You could symlink some files and directories instead of copying them,
such as d3.hog, demo, and missions.

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