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Thanks, I’ve finally found time to add all mods to the website:
http://www.i-war2.com/downloads/category/46-chessking-s-stuff
Space. The final frontier.
Thank you, Chessking! 🙂
I am very busy at the moment. I will start putting these in the Download section very soon.
Space. The final frontier.
Thank you, Chessking! 🙂
I am very busy at the moment. I will start putting these in the Download section very soon.
Space. The final frontier.
The limit for posting data is 40MB (time-limited to 10 minutes of upload time) on this whole machine.
The reasons for this are security-related: If I increase it to a Gigabyte I also have to increase the limits for all the PHP scripts that are running here. People could easily attack the machine with large requests and bring it down.
Whatever you try to upload here – if it’s bigger than 40 megabytes you can split it into 40MB parts with 7zip or maybe better – upload it to Dropbox. I can fetch it from there and transfer it here via FTP. 🙂
Space. The final frontier.
The limit for posting data is 40MB (time-limited to 10 minutes of upload time) on this whole machine.
The reasons for this are security-related: If I increase it to a Gigabyte I also have to increase the limits for all the PHP scripts that are running here. People could easily attack the machine with large requests and bring it down.
Whatever you try to upload here – if it’s bigger than 40 megabytes you can split it into 40MB parts with 7zip or maybe better – upload it to Dropbox. I can fetch it from there and transfer it here via FTP. 🙂
Space. The final frontier.
[quote=”7upMan” post=19318]I just point out that Americans tend to have a very strict beliefs towards morals, beliefs that not many other cultures can share.[/quote]
That may be true but European countries aren’t without flaws either. Americans may censor the word “Fuck” or go crazy when they see nipples, but I come from Germany and sometimes we are more oppressing than other countries. Just some examples:
– People are forced to pay for cheap TV programmes, even threatened with jail time if they can’t or won’t pay
– There’s a lot of hatred against immigrants, politicians even debate to let them pay for using our roads
– Bavaria is a state that is very different to all of the other 15. They claim to have the best school system but they behave like neandertals all the time. Also, religion plays a big role in Bavaria and is even taught at schools. Having the Christian cross in the classroom is standard in Bavaria.Add to it that evolution and atheism are now the only beliefs that can be legally taught in public schools
I don’t think that is neccessarily a bad thing. If people want to believe in a book that hasn’t been updated for centuries (no offense, but societies DO change, the Quran has the same problem), they can do it.
I don’t think of Atheism as a belief. I think of it more as a non-belief. Atheists don’t have a god or a bible. They simply choose science as the center of their judgements.
If a religious person comes to me and tells me that I have to believe in god (that happened) I always ask this person where they would be without science. No TV, no fancy Samsung Galaxy, no cars…even religious people can’t ignore science anymore. So I think this is the best way people can be taught at school.
If they find god or something else they can believe in later, it’s their decision and their life. It’s not like schools are forbidding this.
Space. The final frontier.
[quote=”7upMan” post=19318]I just point out that Americans tend to have a very strict beliefs towards morals, beliefs that not many other cultures can share.[/quote]
That may be true but European countries aren’t without flaws either. Americans may censor the word “Fuck” or go crazy when they see nipples, but I come from Germany and sometimes we are more oppressing than other countries. Just some examples:
– People are forced to pay for cheap TV programmes, even threatened with jail time if they can’t or won’t pay
– There’s a lot of hatred against immigrants, politicians even debate to let them pay for using our roads
– Bavaria is a state that is very different to all of the other 15. They claim to have the best school system but they behave like neandertals all the time. Also, religion plays a big role in Bavaria and is even taught at schools. Having the Christian cross in the classroom is standard in Bavaria.Add to it that evolution and atheism are now the only beliefs that can be legally taught in public schools
I don’t think that is neccessarily a bad thing. If people want to believe in a book that hasn’t been updated for centuries (no offense, but societies DO change, the Quran has the same problem), they can do it.
I don’t think of Atheism as a belief. I think of it more as a non-belief. Atheists don’t have a god or a bible. They simply choose science as the center of their judgements.
If a religious person comes to me and tells me that I have to believe in god (that happened) I always ask this person where they would be without science. No TV, no fancy Samsung Galaxy, no cars…even religious people can’t ignore science anymore. So I think this is the best way people can be taught at school.
If they find god or something else they can believe in later, it’s their decision and their life. It’s not like schools are forbidding this.
Space. The final frontier.
I always wanted to build such a PC, too.
I’m thinking about getting an old Thinkpad. A22p or A30p. It has 1600×1200 resolution and the best hardware for Windows 98 and old games. And it’s portable! 🙂
At the moment I am playing on a Quadcore with Windows XP and it works. I got an old Soundblaster Live with a Gameport and I can use the Sidewinder with it without a problem.
It’s possible to hack Gameport support into later Windows versions, but the Sidewinder uses very strange MIDI commands for the effects, they don’t work. 🙁
One day I will build a USB adapter. Theres a tutorial on the web for it. Soldering iron, here I come!
Space. The final frontier.
I always wanted to build such a PC, too.
I’m thinking about getting an old Thinkpad. A22p or A30p. It has 1600×1200 resolution and the best hardware for Windows 98 and old games. And it’s portable! 🙂
At the moment I am playing on a Quadcore with Windows XP and it works. I got an old Soundblaster Live with a Gameport and I can use the Sidewinder with it without a problem.
It’s possible to hack Gameport support into later Windows versions, but the Sidewinder uses very strange MIDI commands for the effects, they don’t work. 🙁
One day I will build a USB adapter. Theres a tutorial on the web for it. Soldering iron, here I come!
Space. The final frontier.
I have an old Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro. It’s the version with the big motors inside that just looks like a block.
The cons of it: You need a MIDI port and Windows XP for the effects to work
The pros: When I turn the strength all the way up, it really hurts my arm. Very realistic 😀
The Thrustmaster should be more than suitable for Diaspora. It took me 1-2 hours to get used to the keyboard setup, though. I think the default layout is horrible and I configured it more I-War like.
Space. The final frontier.
I have an old Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro. It’s the version with the big motors inside that just looks like a block.
The cons of it: You need a MIDI port and Windows XP for the effects to work
The pros: When I turn the strength all the way up, it really hurts my arm. Very realistic 😀
The Thrustmaster should be more than suitable for Diaspora. It took me 1-2 hours to get used to the keyboard setup, though. I think the default layout is horrible and I configured it more I-War like.
Space. The final frontier.
The Ori were poorly executed, in my opinion.
I absolutely loved the Ori. Fanatic conquerors driven by their religion and hatred for everything that stood against it – that is material for badass villains.
I also loved the shots when they were just standing in front of the Stargate reading their bible while destroying the whole planet – beautiful! I thought their appearance was way too short – I mean, Apophis was around way longer than the Ori (and no offense, but I always thought he looked a little bit cliche-homosexual).
The same goes for Star Wars. Everyone is crazy about it, but while I have seen all the six movies, I just don’t get it. It’s like a child’s story, and I always wondered how grown-ups could get into it.
I’m not alone! Someone finally understands me! :woohoo:
For me, Jar Jar Binks really killed it. Some utterly bad CGI thing CAN ruin a whole movie.Does anybody here know “Seven Days”? It just came into my mind. It’s a TV show about time travel, but it’s comedic and messes with all the Science Fiction shows that were out at that time.
At one time, the protagonist steps out of his time capsule in a park and there is a guy asking him were he came from. His response: “Don’t worry, we’re doing a low-budget science fiction series”. I never laughed so hard.
[video width=425 height=344 type=youtube]t4oYs1aTD-4[/video]
Space. The final frontier.
The Ori were poorly executed, in my opinion.
I absolutely loved the Ori. Fanatic conquerors driven by their religion and hatred for everything that stood against it – that is material for badass villains.
I also loved the shots when they were just standing in front of the Stargate reading their bible while destroying the whole planet – beautiful! I thought their appearance was way too short – I mean, Apophis was around way longer than the Ori (and no offense, but I always thought he looked a little bit cliche-homosexual).
The same goes for Star Wars. Everyone is crazy about it, but while I have seen all the six movies, I just don’t get it. It’s like a child’s story, and I always wondered how grown-ups could get into it.
I’m not alone! Someone finally understands me! :woohoo:
For me, Jar Jar Binks really killed it. Some utterly bad CGI thing CAN ruin a whole movie.Does anybody here know “Seven Days”? It just came into my mind. It’s a TV show about time travel, but it’s comedic and messes with all the Science Fiction shows that were out at that time.
At one time, the protagonist steps out of his time capsule in a park and there is a guy asking him were he came from. His response: “Don’t worry, we’re doing a low-budget science fiction series”. I never laughed so hard.
[video width=425 height=344 type=youtube]t4oYs1aTD-4[/video]
Space. The final frontier.
[quote=”7upMan” post=19307]Are all those mods available on this site in the download section?[/quote]
I think I have added everything except Torn Stars. I will add that based on your feedback – but since Google claims the official website may have been hacked, I won’t copy anything from there at the moment.
Schmatzler, does the game feature Newtonian physics or not? I never really found any into about it.
It doesn’t completely, but that is a good thing. From the official FAQ:
Are you going to be using Newtonian physics?
Nope. The show doesn’t so we won’t be either. The show uses a cross between Newtonian and “Aeroplanes in space” which we are trying to reproduce. Going to a fully Newtonian model would actually result in combat being less like the show. Given that we are aiming to be as close to the show as possible that’s simply not going to happen, no matter how many people tell us it would be cool.
You’ll still be able to do all the cool manoeuvres you see in the show though.
Space. The final frontier.
[quote=”7upMan” post=19307]Are all those mods available on this site in the download section?[/quote]
I think I have added everything except Torn Stars. I will add that based on your feedback – but since Google claims the official website may have been hacked, I won’t copy anything from there at the moment.
Schmatzler, does the game feature Newtonian physics or not? I never really found any into about it.
It doesn’t completely, but that is a good thing. From the official FAQ:
Are you going to be using Newtonian physics?
Nope. The show doesn’t so we won’t be either. The show uses a cross between Newtonian and “Aeroplanes in space” which we are trying to reproduce. Going to a fully Newtonian model would actually result in combat being less like the show. Given that we are aiming to be as close to the show as possible that’s simply not going to happen, no matter how many people tell us it would be cool.
You’ll still be able to do all the cool manoeuvres you see in the show though.
Space. The final frontier.
