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Yakity Shmakity for 8/21/98

Don't ask me what's going on here with all this updating crappola, it's just happening. I'm busier but I seem to have more time to work on my web page. Hmm, probably those bloody long complete compiles I'm doing of the Sin dll. You wouldn't believe how much longer C++ (which Sin uses) takes to compile than regular C (which Quake2 uses). Oh well, a ten minute compile for changing everything under the sun is still better than compiling for a few hours like the LDs usually have to, hehe. Sorry mapper dudes, but Sin maps take just as long to compile. :P

Quick blurb here because I don't have a .plan file yet. For those of you who don't yet fully appreciate the monsterour joys of Deathmatch, you should try playing it for at least just a bit on a LAN. You'd be hooked forever. I didn't like DM at all just a few months ago, but now I'm making a whole new DMing experience. Hehe, what that is I can't say yet. However, Speed Demons should love it. Just thought I'd jingle a few of your chains. ;)

OK, as the crowd says, "Get on with it!" I present to you yet another Custents map... which I actually recieved several months ago, hehe. Hey it saw while I wasn't updating, so lay off and go the the Custents Inside page to see what new wonders await you... inside. Hehe, sorry that was a pun that couldn't be helped. :)

Yakity Shmakity for 8/12/98

Hehe, forgot to change the background music last time I updated. :P The new song's called Blocked and was sequenced by a Corpse. Sounds like something I'd make up, but no I'm not the only one on this planet that's messed up in the head. If I was, this would be a pretty boring place, ya know? ;)

BTW, if you haven't gotten the MOD plug-in to hear my succulently selected musical score... Then do it! This stuff rocks... Totally dude! Damn, who let that surfer guy in here...

Say now, where'd that spell checker button come from? Don't remember having one of those in my web page editor before... hm...

Oh, just remembered one last thing, hehe. We (meaning 2015, not Telefragged) are trying to get finger files, but our email server "doesn't do fingers cause it's a potentially great security risk"... Oh no, that means that almost %90 of the Internet is at great risk. 8-o   ... bloody wankers. Fear not, we'll get 'em, even if we've gotta make fake ones... gee now who'd do that?

Yakity Shmakity for 8/1/98

Before you even wonder what the hell happened to me or think that I've completely lost it, just keep in mind that I've been so busy that I actually forgot that I had a web page there for a little while... Ok so that probably made you think that I've lost it even more, but so what. I'm here and you're not. Ha! Hehe, ok I'm done. It's just that I'm starting to wish I could take a turbo powered jackhammer to mile-stones and the guy that thought them up. /-| Sure they're really a good thing deep down, but it's in a parental kind of way that no matter how much you love them you still wanna see how hard you can wring their neck... ya know?

OK, for a total departure from how I've been running things here for the past few months, I've got some actual content for you this time. *gasp* It's a new map in the Custents Inside by some cool ass nut ball named Michael Casaday. Why is he cool ass you say? SiNple, because he had the smarts to make a Quake 1 map using Custents 6. ;)

Yakity Shmakity for 4/19/98

Hi all. Well, it looks like the big ol' cat's been let out of the bag by others, so I guess I can blab about it too. You know that RL thinggy I said that I'd been extremely busy doing? Well, that thing's the Sin Add-on pack. :) Yup, me and my new home-boys at 2015 got the gig. This should explain why I've said that I won't be doing any more work on Custents at all. I'm actually still at home finishing up the current semester (exams bite!) but after that I'll be moving down to Oklahoma to join the guys and kick some seriously Sinfull butt. ;)

This may sound biased since I'm working on the add-on pack for it, but Sin's just so frikin awesome! They've done stuff to the Quake2 engine that just make me wanna drool. And although I haven't seen it yet, the guys tell me that Ritual is making god awfully good use of it all too. They've described a few of the ABO's (you should know what those are by now) that are going to be in Sin, as well as a few that they're planning for the add-on. Let's just say that if you try to keep track of everything at al times, you'll get majorly contused.

OK, that's enough drooling over what I'll get to play, I mean work, with. hehe. BTW, I will still be keeping up this page, cause it's mine... plus I don't think they'll let me get my hands on the "official" web sites html. Why, what ever could I do to it? >) hehehe

I'll have more for you guys when I get it straightened out in my head just what I can and can't talk about. laters.

Yakity Shmakity for 3/29/98

I've received several emails either asking for some help on using Custents, or making added support for level editors other than Worldcraft. Bottom line, I just can't do it. RL thang, get it? However, I think I know of a good way to take care of this problem, which seems be quite a big one. Those of you who know how to make entity support files for editors other than Worldcraft can make them! See, simple really. :) All the documentation needed to do such a thing is included with Custents.

So, to ask formally, would those of you who know how please make up entity support files for the editor(s) that you use other than Worldcraft? Full credit and all that Jazz will be given to the authors. All such support files that I receive (please have them in neat little zips) will be posted ASAP on the downloads page and a small update will be posted here to let everyone know that it's available.

I hope this will take care of this multi-lingual, I mean editor, problem sufficiently, cause it's the best I can do. There is always another option for you guys... use Worldcraft! :)

Yakity Shmakity for 3/24/98

Dang, several people have been having problems with the file not extracting, sorry about that. I've made a simple little fix to it, and it should work like a charm now. :) If you have Windows 95 or NT, download the custents.exe file again if it gave you problems before. Otherwise, I've just uploaded Custents 6.0 in an plain zip file, so those of you with Windows 3.1, DOS or something else like Unix can be appeased and also get Custents 6.0. :)

Yakity Shmakity for 3/23/98

Like I said, Monday at the latest. ;) Yup, I've actually finished putting together Custents 6.0, and it's now up and available for download. Woho! Also, it's my first one, but the installer turned out pretty good.

Anyway, go to the Custents page for word up on what's new (holms?). Map long, and prosper. :)

One last thing I thought I should mention. Due to the new twist in my RL (and L for that matter), no further work will be done at all on Custents, that includes any bug fixes that I may have inadvertently missed. Sorry, but I'll have neither the means nor the time to do so. I will try to keep tabs on the Custents Help Board however, to answer any questions that I can as I have in the past.

Peace, love, and rock&roll to all'a ya! I'm off to go where no wart has never gone before...

Yakity Shmakity for 3/21/98

Woho! My computer now kicks ass once again! :D You wouldn't believe how much of an attitude problem a Diamond Stealth II can possibly have, yiesh. :P

Anyway, now that I've got my computer back, on to the main event. I didn't lose as much time as I thought I was going to, so unless something major comes up, it looks like I'll be releasing Custents by Monday at the latest. That cool or what? :) Welp, back to adding in those pretty little final touches. laters

Yakity Shmakity for 3/17/98

Bad news guys, dispite my really wanting to stick to my set deadline for a Custents 6.0 release withing one more week or so, it may not happen. My computer system's been acting up to the point where I'm probably going to have to resort to taking the whole thing into the local computer shop. I think it's that new motherboard that's in there, ack. )-P I'll try to get it in and outa there as fast as I can so that it'll hopefully be back in time to impliment any needed changes after the beta testing to still pull it off. The way this bugger is acting though, It may be faster and more effective to just drag it out into the streets, shoot it, and wait for it to emerge as a totally changed system after it's near death experience.

Yakity Shmakity for 3/12/98

What the heck's going on here, I'm doing another update and it's still the same month number? :-o Hehe, shutup, I'm permitted to make fun of myself, we like doing that... hehehe. :P

Anyway, just letting you guys know that Custents 6.0 if finished, sorta. It's finished in the completed sence, but not really. It's still gotta go through beta testing, which is going to take just one more week. I've even got a nice and spiffy installer program on it this time. :) Of course, it'll still also be available in the regular un-scented version, zipped.

If you think you're up to the challange of beta testing Custents 6.0, email me: gnrlwart@telefragged.com, but only if you're gunna be able to do it within this next week. I've gotta have some kind of a deadline for this thing sometime you know. :)

OK then, till next week, hang loose.

Yakity Shmakity for 3/5/98

Just doing a pulse check for you guys so that you know that I'm still alive here. Things are still cranking away on Custents 6.0, but there been a bit of a... well, major delay... Apocalypse2 is going to be competely different, so I got the ok from the rest of the guys to go ahead and add the rest of the stuff from Apocalypse to the mix. This means that Custents 6.0 is gunna be having alot more new stuff than I thought, so I'll be another few weeks getting it out. This time I'm going to be passing it through a group of beta testers before releasing it, so there won't be that problem of there being a whole stroodle of glaring bugs in it when you guys get it. Please note that although I'm going to be extending the realm of what Custents handles (like adding monsters), it will still be maintained as a "map abilities enhancer", only adding to the things that mappers can do and add to their maps. The rest will still be up to you. ;)

Yakity Shmakity for 2/5/98

Hey, just doing an update here about the comming of Custents 6.0 (no really, I mean it this time). As you all should know by now, Apocalypse is going Quake2. Because of this, all the entities made for it are going out the window, unless... Custents 6.0 saves the day. Yup, the long, dreary wait for Apocalypse to be released so you can use it's entities is pretty much over. All the entities that will have no direct equiveleny in Quake2, or that are already taken care of in Quake2 (like glass) will added to the final version of Custents. Some of the stuff that we want to keep as super cool surprises (like the ropes) will not be in there though. Don't worry though, there'll be pleanty of new stuff, including the one that I think is most important: multiple target support. You'll love it. ;) Anyway, getting on with it (no, not the naughty kinda getting it on) I'm taking suggestions for anything else that you guys would like added in. This will be your last chance to get your golden Quake editing egg put into Custents. Please note that I do not intend on taking another forever on getting this out, so try to suggest things that won't take forever to make. I'll try to add everything that sounds diverse and usefull in several different ways. Specific purpose things won't be comsidered unless they requested by several people or sound very cool. ;) Alrighty, gotta go and work some more on the documentation (yick), laters all.

Yakity Shmakity for 1/25/98

Hehe, that Christmas music was up a long time hu? :P That's ok though, I liked it. :) I've decided on something to do with my music. I'm gunna try to have a different main song each time I update. Of course, if one of those bizzare "less than a month" updates happens, I might not change the music. ;)

OK let's see... what do I have new that you guys might be interested in? Oh yea, the Custents Inside list is longer (go check out the new Mars, and Nike), and I've got some Apoc stuff to tell ya.

First off, yes, we pulled a Microsoft and missed our target release year. :P However, we're not letting it die, I love that puppy too much to let it do that, and so does Steve Fukuda. So, it's still in incubation and being worked on. Maybe we'll have to change its name to Apoc98 or something... let's just hope we don't see any Win99's flying around. :o

Oh yea, and there's one other new thing that's going on with Apocalypse. I don't think Steve has mentioned this yet, but it's going to be a Quake 2 add-on, and yes, it's still going to be freeware. Remember though, if you ever really wanna send us money anyway, go right ahead. ;)

Even though I am going to be working for 2015 (woho!) I'll still be able to keep working on Apocalypse. "But General," you might say, "if you've finally gotten off your lazy ass and gotten a job, how are you going to have any time to work on Apocalypse. You're already supposedly busy up the wazoo." To that I say, ha! Because I'm not really starting till about May, which means plenty of time to port Apocalypse over to Quake 2. Granted, I won't be able to help any more after that, but if you try to tell me that porting a Quake mod over to Quake 2 is a simple matter for someone who hasn't been able to work with the Quake2 source yet (Don't got a compiler yet) then just bite me.

OK, I've done my first decently long update in a long while, so I guess I can stop rambling now, hehe. Later all, and remember to follow the motto of The Trench, "Walk the fine line between sanity and reality."

 Yakity Shmakity from yesteryear... I dunno what it means, I just heard it in some medieval movie. :P