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I think the last one was in 2004 (i found it whilst searching tw's forums)

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You might find some old players hanging out on the SVS (standard VIE settings) forums http://www.svszone.com/forum/ I (only) started playing in 2004, you could try some of the other zones forums for example TrenchWars forums.trenchwars.org are pretty active (quite a few retired players there) Have you got any of the original stuff from back then, it might be interesting to see the fanzine for us "newer" players, to fill in some gaps in the history of this game The game is still surprisingly still going..population peaks around 1000-1200 daily...but probably has changed somewhat since you played, most zones use their own settings, which change the gameplay substantially from the original from what I understand, i'm a relatively new player

Or use the latest version of open office...it can open all the office 2007 files now.

You're both wrong...its the number of results...not the number of people searching for that phrase.

Why not just use a standard VPN or SOCKS proxy. You can setup OpenVPN on your server. Or use a 3rd party service (there are many) Or you can use SSH to tunnel Continuum. I've done all of these. A special piece of software isn't needed. TCP is even easier to proxy than UDP pretty much any generic proxy software will work with chatnet.

update your zone list http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=11952

You need a laptop with hard disk shock protection mine (IBM Thinkpad) parks the platters automatically when im moving it, if you don't have it you need to be real careful when moving them. Active Protection System: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System

Something worth trying is installing continuum to C:\Continuum instead of in the program files directory...thats helped a few guys running vista

I like the way the script is criticised, yet no attempt to write a better one, or constructive suggestions for improving the current one are made Its just trolling if you're not going to add anything... I personally don't think its great, but i've watched movies with much worse...

I do a great english accent...not sure which part it would suit though...maybe for a script with an evil villian

Try using dxdiag.exe and test your DirectDraw capabilities. (post a log if possible) Samp: seemingly identical problem (same upgrade you did) http://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/board/message?message.uid=51234 I've had some good results, using customised drivers from http://www.omegadrivers.net/omega_drivers.php here before but its not for the faint hearted Also have you compared FPS in windowed and Full Screen mode? EDIT: just noticed how old that post was but this advice still applies to then OP Update to SP3. SP1 is very slow compared to SP2 and SP3 and has alot of bugs that needs patching. Also Load up process explorer and see if anything is running in the background that shouldn't be

If you use hardware acceleration (OpenGL or DirectX), java (java3d) supports both and so does c# (opentk, XNA, SlimDX), you probably would get a huge speedup on the screen drawing whichever programming language you use. 2D graphics (Orthanganol Projection) in OpenGL for 2d graphics is pretty easy as you can set it up to measure everything in pixels.

Ya this is still around in Continuum, someone asked me a while back to try and hack it to work with sounds over 64k in length, but i failed But if use short sounds it does work, but i think zones can disable it if they want it.

I wonder how they backup the data

I Personally think it probably isn't worth trying to convert it away from VB. Windows 7 is going to be around, i don't think microsoft has announced anything after, alot of people suspect Windows 7 might be the "last" windows release. So Whilst I wouldn't start a new project in vb6, i think porting DCME will be such a huge task, and its such a nice editor already it might not be worth it Also part of me suspects that Continuum might not make it past windows 7 as well

i don't understand how its died so suddenly...i remember playing it this year ometime and it being pretty active...what happened :/ I agree with Jab, i'm sure someone else would be happy to pick up the hosting of the zone(s) if freak doesn't want to support it any longer...

Just remember to get the multiplayer version, its substantially more fun than the single player mode

Cool The engine supports pretty much every 3d modeling program (they should all be able to export to at least one of the formats listed. Currently supported textures file formats: * JPEG File Interchange Format (.jpg, r/w) * Portable Network Graphics (.png, r/w) * Truevision Targa (.tga, r/w) * Windows Bitmap (.bmp, r/w) * Adobe Photoshop (.psd, r) * Zsoft Paintbrush (.pcx, r/w) * Portable Pixmaps (.ppm, r/w) * Quake 2 textures (.wal, r) Currently supported mesh file formats: * Irrlicht scenes (.irr, r/w) * Irrlicht static meshes (.irrmesh, r/w) * 3D Studio meshes (.3ds, r) * B3D files (.b3d, r) * Alias Wavefront Maya (.obj, r/w) * Lightwave Objects (.lwo, r) * COLLADA 1.4 (.xml, .dae, r/w) * Microsoft DirectX (.x, r) (binary & text) * Milkshape (.ms3d, r) * OGRE meshes (.mesh, r) * My3DTools 3 (.my3D, r) * Pulsar LMTools (.lmts, r) * Quake 3 levels (.bsp, r) * Quake 2 models (.md2, r) * Quake 3 models (.md3, r) * DeleD (.dmf, r) * FSRad oct (.oct, r) * Cartography shop 4 (.csm, r) * STL 3D files (.stl, r/w)

I know there hasn't been a quantative update in the last few months on the progress of this project. I've come to realise the time spent learning C++ will be substanically less than the time spent trying to recreate or intergrate some existing C/C++ libraries into c# Boring licencing change information The project is also going to cease to be "free". This only effects people planning on using the project commerically, with a turnover of over $250,000, i doubt this be an issue for anyone . It will still be open source, but because of the 3rd party libraries, there will be some alterations to the licencing. This is all pretty techniqual, but basically means you can play for free and edit the source, the only problem comes if you want to sell the game, if can earn $250,000 selling it, the licence fee of $5,000 (for RakNet) shouldn't be a problem I just like to meantion this because some people get very picky about whats "free". I've taken the decision to move the project in a new direction, my previous approach of rewriting everything from scatch, whilst very educational, and has enabled me to grasp a good understanding of both 3d graphics and networking, is not a good way of developing a complex application. I've spent a few months looking at a number of libraries and experimenting. The Graphics & GUI Engine : Irrlicht http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/ (zlib) Platform: Linux, Max, Windows(and many other platforms) both DirectX and OpenGL. Supports: 3ds, obj, md2 many common formats for models Network Library: RakNet http://www.jenkinssoftware.com/ (non-free lib, am using the INDY licence) RakNet has been developed by a former subspace player (the engine was inspired by the design of subspace) he also developed Galactic Melee (which some of may remember). Its very easy to use, has high performance and has been used in some AAA game releases. Platform: Linux, Mac, Windows and others Physics Engine: Undecided (depending on the "rules" of the arena/zone it may well be custom) Noteable meantion: Wings3d is an easy to learn 3d modeler (i think samp linked me it on an older thread) http://www.wings3d.com/ even i've managed to produce some nice looking spaceships wtih it (well apart from the texturing) Game Concepts ------------- The game will incoprotate many different styles of online play into one engine The Matrix, Reboot running Subspace as the OS are my inspiration. I hope to have a multiplayer fully playable demo release with the next few weeks. The demo release will be a multiplayer version of snake and possibly some other classic titles, space invaders may feature I know this project has taken alot of time and gone though alot of phases, but I feel like i'm close to taking it somewhere exciting.

Acctually for WoW i can believe that, you need a credit card to play to start with...plus the slow boring pace of the game suits old people That said i'm edging towards 30 now...not good lol

Leveno make some nice business laptops, that are pretty durable too, we've just ordered this one for work, but its probably over specced for you needs http://shop.lenovo.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/sl-series/sl500

i take your phrase and raise it http://translationparty.com/tp/#2312149

You know subspace works on the mac now

Any zones i've missed out please let me know and i will make sure they are added on the list, i'm sure im missing a few, but my continuum zone list doesn't have them all.