As Khalek mentioned it 'should' work and shouldn't require the original.dat.
1) Download and unpack the latest Linux client (2.60) 2) Download and install Allegro 4.1 if its not already installed. 3) Rename current.exe to ac2game.dat 4) Run./ags-setup to set ags up 5) Start the game with:./ags 6) If it complains about a missing liballeg.so.4.1 then you may need to simlink/copy the 4.1 version of liballeg.so to whereever your system keeps its libs.
The game hangs X for me when I do this, maybe an older version of Allegro might help.
If you get it working let the version numbers of the libs and core program you used.
Although the game was written in Adventure Game Studio (which has a Linux client) the Linux client requires the raw.dat file, which the author hasn't supplied.
The win32 version 'runs' under WINE but the mouse code in win32 AGS doesn't play nice with WINE, to the point of making the game unplayable.:(
GameSpy: Gearbox has consistently expressed a desire to bring cooperative play to the PC version of Halo. What work has Gearbox done in this regard, and do you foresee co-op coming in any future updates?
Marc Tardif: The team has done quite a lot of work towards bringing co-op to the game. We, like most gamers, have lusted after a networked cooperative feature in Halo PC (since the Xbox version did not have that feature). We don't think that split-screen Halo on the PC is the right answer, and it's troublesome for a lot of reasons to rewrite all of the game code to support single-player networking. Our position now is to launch HaloCE and the HEK and see how the community takes off and then make a decision about how to work with the community to prioritize what it wants most out of the game.
Which really boils down to, "Well, Ummm, Maybe.".
Sad really, I enjoyed Halo on the PC and would have loved to go through it with a few friends in cooperative mode.
Re:samba rocks - until you hit oplocks!
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Erm, isn't that a completely insane thing to do
Yes and no.
I don't know the specifics of your situation, so this very well may be an extremely bad idea for you, hence the "RTFM" comment.:)
The system these configuration entries came from is a server that hosts numerous files which many people read, but only one or two people need to write to (and only one of those on a regular basis).
The problem being that the annoying win32 program being used refuses to function unless it believes it has exclusive read and write access to the files, even though it never actually writes to the files (in most cases).
It¦s not an elegant solution, but it solved the problem here with no ill effects since it was installed over a year ago, but yes, it has huge potential to cause file corruption on a system where the same files are concurrently modified by multiple users.
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The following settings resolved that issue for me:
Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of material available online
This must be some new anf generous definition of the word 'content' that I haven't come across yet.
My Commodore 64 was the best games machine I've ever owned, one game where the packaging really stood out (for better and worse) was "Dr. Who and the mines of terror."
This game was great, the packaging featured a picture of the TARDIS on the front with a image of the Doctors brain on the back, inside (along with the 'tape') were numerous documents that really added a lot to the game.
There was however one item that had gave no clue as to why it was included, a credit card sized piece of card in a protective sleeve with three symbols printed on it.
I played through much of the game (about 90% as it turns out) and didn't find a use for the card, as time went on I lost parts of the packaging (including the card).
When I finally went back to the game I found myself stuck at a door, the door required those three symbols from the card to be set correctly to get though, I was screwed. Not till I obtained an "Action Replay Cartridge" and turned "collision detection" off, was I able to get past that damned door.:)
"The researchers analyzed the Rafflesia's mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)"
So let me get this straight, this plant is force sensative?
Re:Be entertained you whiney twits
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Well said.
Many people I've talked to knew full well of the past work of Peter Jackson and although they realised in advance that humorous additions would happen they only seem able to harp on about how much of the film didn't flow correctly, or how changes and additions that Peter Jackson made were unneeded and ruined the overall feel of the film.
The film is good, all films have their good and bad points, accepting that the film was good (great) won't detract from your precious novels, they still exist untouched as a separate entity.
The film is an adaptation of 3 books squeezed down to 9 hours. It was designed to grab the attention of the largest number of people possible with minimal changes to the feel of the original work, something I think Peter Jackson has managed to carry off very well.
I was kidding round, but if you want to get pedantic:
The exact text you quoted refers to the electric field of the human interacting with the electric field of the transceiver.
As a society we walk the line between potential health risks and technological advancement all the time, cell-phone towers, the burning of fuels in vehicles, pretending there's 'zero' risk is kidding yourself.
It only fully hit home when discussing "The Matrix Reloaded" with a few friends a few weeks back, but "The Matrix" has a good chance at being "The New Star Wars".
If the Wachowski Brothers can pull off 'something special(TM)' with the third Matrix movie then it'll live on for quite a long time as a classic cult sci-fi/fantasy trilogy, something the latest set of Star Wars films show no sign of doing.
I (as did most of us) loved the original Star Wars films; I still watch them from time to time. I've watched the first Star Wars film (TPM) about three times and may never watch it again, it lacks something... the same unfortunately goes for the second, which has left me with no desire to be there on opening night for the third Star Wars film.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that this will happen, maybe the third Matrix movie will fall flat on its face and fail to deliver, but its set up for a way better chance than what looks to amount to another shallow CG laden Star Wars movie, hell rewatching the older Star Wars movies recently I was surprised by how good the old spaceship models look when compared to the new CG versions.
I think the best quote I've ever seen about the whole "Star Wars vs. Matrix" situation was by a Matrix crew member who summed it up perfectly with:
On a basic level, though, "The Matrix" was simply good storytelling. "I've heard the 'Star Wars' people boast about shooting frames that are 97 percent digital, and lo and behold, the movies are soulless," says John Gaeta, visual-effects supervisor for all three "Matrix" movies. "They traded the whole idea of depth in filmmaking for this supertechnological hype. It helped us focus our own philosophy: the story drives everything."
The JPEG is actually a vbscript that uses a windows media player control to access the CDROM drive.
Try refreshing the multi.html page, as I mentioned above, after XPSP1 (actually the IE6SP1 which is included in it) is installed if the same image is repeated a lot in one page then IE just shows the place holder or the "Image Error" icon.
If you have 'a lot' of the same image repeating on a webpage (like in a generic forum) you'll probably have seen this.
The more times the same image is repeated the more likely this is to occur.
If that wasn't enough if you've got IE5+ and Media Player 7 installed people can mess with your CDROM drive and lockup IE (no patch yet for this either):
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 From: Alan Cox Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:04:35 -0500 (EST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Vulnerability: CAN-2003-0127
The Linux 2.2 and Linux 2.4 kernels have a flaw in ptrace. This hole allows local users to obtain full privileges. Remote exploitation of this hole is not possible. Linux 2.5 is not believed to be vulnerable.
Linux 2.2.25 has been released to correct Linux 2.2. It contains no other changes. The bug fixes that would have been in 2.2.5pre1 will now appear in 2.2.26pre1. The patch will apply directly to most older 2.2 releases.
A patch for Linux 2.4.20/Linux 2.4.21pre is attached. The patch also subtly changes the PR_SET_DUMPABLE prctl. We believe this is neccessary and that it will not affect any software. The functionality change is specific to unusual debugging situations.
We would like to thank Andrzej Szombierski who found the problem, and wrote an initial patch. Seth Arnold cleaned up the 2.2 change. Arjan van de Ven and Ben LaHaise identified additional problems with the original fix.
Did the day of release of Quake 3 cause a surge in video card sales? O_o
No it didn't, but Doom 3 'requires' graphical processing power far ahead of the current average users graphics card, Quake 3 was pushing the boundrys but not nearly as hard.
It's not just that Doom 3 will/may be the benchmark for the next few years it's that a lot of games are going to be released using its engine, so buying a card that can run Doom 3 sweet now means you're pretty much set for the next generation of games produced using the D3 engine.
"Microsoft Forced To Translate Office Into Nyorsk"
Did anyone else read this and instantly think that some judge on the antitrust case had been hitting the eggnog way hard when he handed out this 'pentalty'?
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I personally couldn't get it working.
.dat.
./ags-setup to set ags up ./ags
As Khalek mentioned it 'should' work and shouldn't require the original
1) Download and unpack the latest Linux client (2.60)
2) Download and install Allegro 4.1 if its not already installed.
3) Rename current.exe to ac2game.dat
4) Run
5) Start the game with:
6) If it complains about a missing liballeg.so.4.1 then you may need to simlink/copy the 4.1 version of liballeg.so to whereever your system keeps its libs.
The game hangs X for me when I do this, maybe an older version of Allegro might help.
If you get it working let the version numbers of the libs and core program you used.
Although the game was written in Adventure Game Studio (which has a Linux client) the Linux client requires the raw .dat file, which the author hasn't supplied.
:(
The win32 version 'runs' under WINE but the mouse code in win32 AGS doesn't play nice with WINE, to the point of making the game unplayable.
... Angst ridden Anakin action figure (now with LAVA SURFING ACTION!)
Which really boils down to, "Well, Ummm, Maybe.".
Sad really, I enjoyed Halo on the PC and would have loved to go through it with a few friends in cooperative mode.
I don't know the specifics of your situation, so this very well may be an extremely bad idea for you, hence the "RTFM" comment.
The system these configuration entries came from is a server that hosts numerous files which many people read, but only one or two people need to write to (and only one of those on a regular basis).
The problem being that the annoying win32 program being used refuses to function unless it believes it has exclusive read and write access to the files, even though it never actually writes to the files (in most cases).
It¦s not an elegant solution, but it solved the problem here with no ill effects since it was installed over a year ago, but yes, it has huge potential to cause file corruption on a system where the same files are concurrently modified by multiple users.
Of course you'll want to RTFM on those commands first so you know what you're letting yourself in for.
A quick Google search found a page with quite a few of the documents from the packaging, including that damned card.
My Commodore 64 was the best games machine I've ever owned, one game where the packaging really stood out (for better and worse) was "Dr. Who and the mines of terror."
:)
This game was great, the packaging featured a picture of the TARDIS on the front with a image of the Doctors brain on the back, inside (along with the 'tape') were numerous documents that really added a lot to the game.
There was however one item that had gave no clue as to why it was included, a credit card sized piece of card in a protective sleeve with three symbols printed on it.
I played through much of the game (about 90% as it turns out) and didn't find a use for the card, as time went on I lost parts of the packaging (including the card).
When I finally went back to the game I found myself stuck at a door, the door required those three symbols from the card to be set correctly to get though, I was screwed. Not till I obtained an "Action Replay Cartridge" and turned "collision detection" off, was I able to get past that damned door.
"The researchers analyzed the Rafflesia's mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)"
So let me get this straight, this plant is force sensative?
Well said.
Many people I've talked to knew full well of the past work of Peter Jackson and although they realised in advance that humorous additions would happen they only seem able to harp on about how much of the film didn't flow correctly, or how changes and additions that Peter Jackson made were unneeded and ruined the overall feel of the film.
The film is good, all films have their good and bad points, accepting that the film was good (great) won't detract from your precious novels, they still exist untouched as a separate entity.
The film is an adaptation of 3 books squeezed down to 9 hours. It was designed to grab the attention of the largest number of people possible with minimal changes to the feel of the original work, something I think Peter Jackson has managed to carry off very well.
I was kidding round, but if you want to get pedantic:
The exact text you quoted refers to the electric field of the human interacting with the electric field of the transceiver.
As a society we walk the line between potential health risks and technological advancement all the time, cell-phone towers, the burning of fuels in vehicles, pretending there's 'zero' risk is kidding yourself.
... "CancerNet". :)
They're just begging for a 'real' test... ... such as everyone downloading this:
:p
;)
ar405eng.exe (5.41 MB)
from their webserver
5.41MB per slashdot reader should provide a test worth of such a fat pipe
If the Wachowski Brothers can pull off 'something special(TM)' with the third Matrix movie then it'll live on for quite a long time as a classic cult sci-fi/fantasy trilogy, something the latest set of Star Wars films show no sign of doing.
I (as did most of us) loved the original Star Wars films; I still watch them from time to time. I've watched the first Star Wars film (TPM) about three times and may never watch it again, it lacks something... the same unfortunately goes for the second, which has left me with no desire to be there on opening night for the third Star Wars film.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that this will happen, maybe the third Matrix movie will fall flat on its face and fail to deliver, but its set up for a way better chance than what looks to amount to another shallow CG laden Star Wars movie, hell rewatching the older Star Wars movies recently I was surprised by how good the old spaceship models look when compared to the new CG versions.
I think the best quote I've ever seen about the whole "Star Wars vs. Matrix" situation was by a Matrix crew member who summed it up perfectly with:
I agree wholeheartedly.
The JPEG is actually a vbscript that uses a windows media player control to access the CDROM drive.
Try refreshing the multi.html page, as I mentioned above, after XPSP1 (actually the IE6SP1 which is included in it) is installed if the same image is repeated a lot in one page then IE just shows the place holder or the "Image Error" icon.
I can and do fault them for this.
I'm currently (as in the last month or so) talking to MS trying to get them to release a bugfix for IE...
Anyone with XP and SP1 installed go to this page: http://doomx.net/test/multi.html and experience the pain.
If you have 'a lot' of the same image repeating on a webpage (like in a generic forum) you'll probably have seen this.
The more times the same image is repeated the more likely this is to occur.
If that wasn't enough if you've got IE5+ and Media Player 7 installed people can mess with your CDROM drive and lockup IE (no patch yet for this either):
http://doomx.net/test/test.jpg
Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25
From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:04:35 -0500 (EST)
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
-----------------------
Vulnerability: CAN-2003-0127
The Linux 2.2 and Linux 2.4 kernels have a flaw in ptrace. This hole allows
local users to obtain full privileges. Remote exploitation of this hole is
not possible. Linux 2.5 is not believed to be vulnerable.
Linux 2.2.25 has been released to correct Linux 2.2. It contains no other
changes. The bug fixes that would have been in 2.2.5pre1 will now appear in
2.2.26pre1. The patch will apply directly to most older 2.2 releases.
A patch for Linux 2.4.20/Linux 2.4.21pre is attached. The patch also
subtly changes the PR_SET_DUMPABLE prctl. We believe this is neccessary and
that it will not affect any software. The functionality change is specific
to unusual debugging situations.
We would like to thank Andrzej Szombierski who found the problem, and
wrote an initial patch. Seth Arnold cleaned up the 2.2 change. Arjan van
de Ven and Ben LaHaise identified additional problems with the original
fix.
Alan
With the help of babelfish (and 15 minutes of correcting it's massive mistakes) I've translated this document:
n y. htm
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/d...030303/so
Into english, you can access it here:
http://www.doomx.net/blueray/
Complete with pictures of the media and player.
Did the day of release of Quake 3 cause a surge in video card sales? O_o
No it didn't, but Doom 3 'requires' graphical processing power far ahead of the current average users graphics card, Quake 3 was pushing the boundrys but not nearly as hard.
It's not just that Doom 3 will/may be the benchmark for the next few years it's that a lot of games are going to be released using its engine, so buying a card that can run Doom 3 sweet now means you're pretty much set for the next generation of games produced using the D3 engine.
Out of all the 'links' that have been posted in the comments of this article this one is the scariest.
.mil workstations or at least proxies...
Open access to a list of IP addresses of
"Microsoft Forced To Translate Office Into Nyorsk"
Did anyone else read this and instantly think that some judge on the antitrust case had been hitting the eggnog way hard when he handed out this 'pentalty'?
The site was giving me problems so I dumped my cache here, better safe than sorry :)
http://doomx.net/www.xpde.com-screenshots/
Should I be scared or amused that my first thought when I read your post was "That is *SO* cool, I want one".