The General forum... Must every board have one? (Rhetorical question.)
(The hierarchy goes board->forum->topic->post I presume. Sometimes the meaning of board and forum are swapped.)

Aside from a few concentrated spots of a particular topic (such as TCRF wherein I posted earlier), I don't quite understand what is the point or purpose of this board. Can anyone elucidate?

Originally posted by Xkeeper

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(as a side note, I had to remove your avatar before, because it was turning into the no-hotlinking 2000x2000 image. it looks like it has been fixed, though.)

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It has not been fixed. I just used an alternative URL to it.
I will fix it, though. How did you like my idiot.gif though (from viewpoint that it is not directed at you)?

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I have probably asked you about the board history once or more before, but I have good capacity for forgetting things... Tangible benefit: Spoilers don't work well on me.
And had TASVideos/NESVideos not been taking most of my time back then, I would probably have been a regular here instead. :-)

EDIT: No forum search feature? :o

Originally posted by Xkeeper

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You used to be in the IRC channel back in the day, even. (In fact, I think you used to be on a previous incarnation of this board...)

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Yes, I had registered on the previous version of the board and had more posts there than I have here now; that much I remember. I did not remember being on the IRC channel, but then again, I have been quite random and unattached about then in general.


I see what you mean re: whitelists not being updated. Yes, it's a difficult compromise. I have many images on my server but an abysmal upload bandwidth. I want to be in control of in which situations those resources are used.
Unfortunately machines are like that: machines. They do what they're made to do, with no judgement to the situation. At least as long as people don't figure out how to upload a mind to a computer.

Originally posted by Ijah

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Originally posted by dotUser

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Hey Bis, can you uh, add some color:#; definition to your layout please?

Also, I figure I should say "welcome to being active!" since it looks like you don't post a whole lot here. And you appear to have enough history that welcoming you would be silly.

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Changing min-height to 240px would also be advised :3

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Thanks.

Why 240? 175 seems fine to me... I'll compromise and put 210
I'll poke the colors in though. Is one "color:" enough or do I need something I cannot do with only style="" definitions?

Originally posted by Ijah

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No, only one color: addribute needs to be defined, it's just some other board themes here use dark fonts, and black text on your layout goes baaaad.

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Allright.

Hmm, default mood avatar does not equal to 1 here. That's like the post editing bug on tasvideos, except more serious :-/ On the plus side, they're available to everyone. Yay.
I'm not sure why I made them conditional to ${secret_factors} on tasvideos. Maybe I did not trust users enough.

Oh, so 0 is not "disable". There's no "disable", then?


There is, presumably, this option... yes there apparently is that option.

No love for the perpetual testing initiative (puzzle editor)?
I am disappoint(ed).


I made a few test chambers myself.

I found it a neat diversion.

Unlike Hammer, the Puzzlemaker has a very short learning curve, meaning people can dive into puzzle-making right away and immediately. You don't need to invest particular effort in using the tools. Instead, you can concentrate on what you want to accomplish. Well, most of the time, when the editor's limitations are not getting in the way.

Sure, it's limited in what you can do, but artists are not defined by their tools. Good artists make good stuff even with bad tools. Surely everyone has seen amazing drawings that have been made in mspaint, for example.

And no, I don't think that "reflex twitch portaling go", i.e. puzzles that require impossibly accurate/rapid maneuvers, makes for good puzzles, either.

Originally posted by Foxhack

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Isn't it possible to make a map layout in the editor, then edit it some more in Hammer?

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It is.

Originally posted by Metal_Man88

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More transparent scrolling layouts I see! The trend I helped get moving remains popular, heh.

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Ah, yes. I am not sure whether I want to keep it fixed/scrolling, but I figured that this lets people see more of the board at the background at least until I start writing posts of the length more typical to me.

Thanks for the explanation.

Well, Jul is also the Swedish word for Christmas, and shares the common root from which the Finnish word for both Christmas (joulu) and a feast (juhla) comes.
For example, santa claus = julgubben in Swedish. And after watching this video (or these two) it should not be unclear what's my opinion of that :-)

Also, I kind of approve of listening to What is love in a 10-hour loop. It's a catchy song with a great singer, a good melody and a good background music.
Stupid lyrics, though, which caused me to initially hate the song.

The term "just us" is really quite flexible and abstract though.

I never realized that "justus" is syllabilized like that. I saw that somewhere in Xkeeper's works before, but I never thought of that. For me it has only been a Roman name. (Also, an acquiantee of mine used to call me by that name for whatever reason I still don't know really long time ago.)

Wow! Congratulations on the semi-open door. I wish you make the best choices, Xkeeper.

Implications check: They employ fans?

Do you refer to using the PC speaker in its squarewave tone format (as used by most of the 286 games), or using it to drive PWM music (PCM-like, but with a high-pitched background noise), such as many 386 demos and MOD players?
Because when you allow PWM, you can pretty much get anything.

Also, do you count SN76496, the chip in Tandy 1000 (a PC with 8088 that I have) that gave the computer capability for three-channel sound and changing volume but otherwise sounds exactly like the PC speaker?
About year ago I created this video, in which I write in assembler and demonstate a program that plays NES music on the Tandy 1000, and at parts it sounds pretty authentic: http://youtu.be/gjuHxjdv3ZE (music begins at 8:26).
It is a successor to this other video, in which I demonstrate the soundchip in GW-BASIC: http://youtu.be/e3L_Ceat4Ss

Incidentally, I also demonstrated how the chip can crudely approximate PCM sound even without PWM tricks, by simply reprograming all the signal generators very rapidly (but not so rapidly as to emulate PCM/PWM) in a precisely calculated manner. The sound in this video is produced through an emulated SN76496: http://youtu.be/YBxq7k45pBo - Surprisingly, the speech is understandable for most parts, as long as there is not much background noise.

Unfortunately I don't particularly know any good cases for PWM-less PC speaker music (not that it doesn't exist). FM/OPL is more my thing :-)

I agree that data storage requirements are not going to be a factor in the long run.

But this will make the art of focus pullers void! And that can't happen.

(In a similar manner as home cassette recorders, and later CD copiers, robbed performing artists of their work, you know.)

I have to say, knowing exactly what is involved in creating a hack like this (at least for Rockman 1 and 2, which I am quite familiar with), makes this twice as impressive. There's hardly any lag in it, either.
And the fact that you created it for all the six games five games, if I understood correctly.

I see you solved the problem of limited CHR-RAM space by vanquishing the shots of the previous weapon the instant the weapon is switched. That is probably the only other option to waiting until the shots disappear.

Originally posted by Gabu

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How become forum member?

No really, I get very intimidated when I want to join new forums, but I have no idea what the general, unspoken attitude they want is. I can read the rules as much as I want, but I'm still uncertain since, well, rule breaking, unintentional or otherwise, is generally looked down upon.

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Written by a person with over 8400 posts on this forum?

I guess everyone suffers the same acclimation problems. But then again, climate on a board is merely a sum of all of its participants, which includes even the new guy. (It is the same with languages.) Go ahead, shape the world to your liking.

You may get it wrong, but at that point interaction has already begun.

It is easier if there is a clear topic in mind and you've got something clear and defined that you wish to contribute. On more chat-oriented ones on-the-other-hand... I do not have experience to tell.

101 pages in a 101 thread... That's something.