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Forum Games / Re: Explosive mafia
« on: June 24, 2014, 11:35:33 PM »
Joooooiiiiiiiiiin. People are going to be dyin' left and right! ...I swear that's a good reason to join 
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Forum Games / Re: Explosive mafia
« on: June 23, 2014, 11:32:16 PM »
If I must. Timballisto here, reporting for explosion duty.
Bodies are going to litter the floor around here...
Bodies are going to litter the floor around here...
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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2014
« on: May 28, 2014, 12:42:00 AM »
Huh. Interesting. This text to speech thing is pretty amusing.
Yeah, I don't think most people (myself included), at least in the midwest US, would say that boat and load are rhyming words. South of me the difference might be even more pronounced. The d in load is held a lot longer than the t is in boat. If you went north of me though, around Wisconsin and Minnesota, it might be harder to distinguish the t from the d. Not 100% sure on that one.
Also, I thought what you said about st<vowel> was interesting, so I switched the t out for a d in the word stow and tried saying it. I also had my dad do it. There's definitely a difference there for us.
...Phonemes are cool.
Yeah, I don't think most people (myself included), at least in the midwest US, would say that boat and load are rhyming words. South of me the difference might be even more pronounced. The d in load is held a lot longer than the t is in boat. If you went north of me though, around Wisconsin and Minnesota, it might be harder to distinguish the t from the d. Not 100% sure on that one.
Also, I thought what you said about st<vowel> was interesting, so I switched the t out for a d in the word stow and tried saying it. I also had my dad do it. There's definitely a difference there for us.
...Phonemes are cool.
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Fan Corner / Re: A RollerCoaster Tycoon tribute to Lemmings
« on: May 27, 2014, 03:20:10 AM »
Nice design! It's all loose and whatnot. All of my wild mouse rides are usually compacted into a little box.
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Forum Games / Re: Family Feud 2014
« on: May 24, 2014, 06:49:49 AM »
I am once again extraordinarily average. Can I get points for managing to land in the middle twice?
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Non-Lemmings Gaming / Re: MouseCraft announced
« on: May 19, 2014, 11:47:23 PM »
Evidently I should make a game called SomethingCraft. Seems to be the hip thing to do these days.
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General Discussion / Re: IPXWrapper over the internet...
« on: April 22, 2014, 05:16:53 AM »
In case anyone was interested...
I've taken the first real step to getting this working. Broadcasts now work correctly, so I can see a friend's game of Warcraft II in the games list. Can't join it though, crashes the server when I try. That's because packets that have a specific recipient aren't being submitted quite right yet (I'm not getting my port numbers back out of my packets correctly, I'll fix that soon). Either way, I'm excited, because now I know that this can be done! = D
EDIT:
And, it's working! I was able to play a game with a person on another network. In fact, I was able to create a game with three people from three different networks, but we never launched the game. Two people on the same network still causes issues, but, still, it's working!
I've taken the first real step to getting this working. Broadcasts now work correctly, so I can see a friend's game of Warcraft II in the games list. Can't join it though, crashes the server when I try. That's because packets that have a specific recipient aren't being submitted quite right yet (I'm not getting my port numbers back out of my packets correctly, I'll fix that soon). Either way, I'm excited, because now I know that this can be done! = D
EDIT:
And, it's working! I was able to play a game with a person on another network. In fact, I was able to create a game with three people from three different networks, but we never launched the game. Two people on the same network still causes issues, but, still, it's working!
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Forum Games / Re: Mafia -- Lemmings Edition
« on: April 20, 2014, 07:21:10 AM »
A bit late to the party here, but, yeah, a typical mafia game has no more than 1 detective and 1 doctor (miner, blocker) in the game, unless large numbers of players are involved (> 14 or so), and the dead aren't allowed to talk once they're dead.
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General Discussion / Re: IPXWrapper over the internet...
« on: April 14, 2014, 06:01:37 PM »
There is no way to specify a remote destination or destinations for the IPXWrappers to send stuff to, the only things you can set in the configuration are the port to broadcast to and the network interface. I'm thinking that each node broadcasts routing info to the rest of the network, and that those nodes pick it up and make transmissions based on that info. I haven't been able to confirm this looking through the IPXWrapper code yet. My hope is that I can dump the broadcast packets onto the other network and have it work that way. It depends on whether or not the broadcast actually does what I think it does, and if the routing information is valid on the remote network (it might be if the sending address on the packet is used).
Yeah, perhaps a VPN would be a good way to go, but I knew that coming into this. I'm not sure why I want to make my own thing, maybe for the reason you said. It would be cool if I could actually get it to work.
Yeah, perhaps a VPN would be a good way to go, but I knew that coming into this. I'm not sure why I want to make my own thing, maybe for the reason you said. It would be cool if I could actually get it to work.
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General Discussion / IPXWrapper over the internet...
« on: April 14, 2014, 04:23:52 PM »
Hi all! I'm still alive.
I recently unearthed my copy of Warcraft II, which is awesome. I've also made a slew of multiplayer scenarios, which is also awesome. What's less awesome is, while I can play other people over LAN, I have no good way to play against someone remotely.
I can play over LAN thanks to this thing which emulates IPX, but there's no way to get it to communicate with other networks out-of-the-box. Also the source code isn't a complete mess, but, it's not exactly a joy to read through either.
So, to solve this problem, I've started writing something in Java which can take the UDP packets the IPXWrapper spits out and transmit them to another network(s). So far I can intercept packets the IPXWrapper broadcasts and then rebroadcast them on the remote network and vice-versa. This may be enough, if it gives the IPXWrapper instances the information they need to route packets between the two networks (I'll know whether or not this is the case later today), but it's possible I may have to find a way to intercept packets from the private sockets for each IPXWrapper instance (ie each running instance of Warcraft on the network). I haven't had a chance to fully test this thing yet.
I'm telling all of you this because I know some of you here will be better at writing something like this than me. Network programming isn't exactly something I'm an expert in (I had one class in college). That said, anyone have any advice or know of something I'm not accounting for? Would anyone like to help with this?
I can send people the source code if they want it.
I recently unearthed my copy of Warcraft II, which is awesome. I've also made a slew of multiplayer scenarios, which is also awesome. What's less awesome is, while I can play other people over LAN, I have no good way to play against someone remotely.
I can play over LAN thanks to this thing which emulates IPX, but there's no way to get it to communicate with other networks out-of-the-box. Also the source code isn't a complete mess, but, it's not exactly a joy to read through either.
So, to solve this problem, I've started writing something in Java which can take the UDP packets the IPXWrapper spits out and transmit them to another network(s). So far I can intercept packets the IPXWrapper broadcasts and then rebroadcast them on the remote network and vice-versa. This may be enough, if it gives the IPXWrapper instances the information they need to route packets between the two networks (I'll know whether or not this is the case later today), but it's possible I may have to find a way to intercept packets from the private sockets for each IPXWrapper instance (ie each running instance of Warcraft on the network). I haven't had a chance to fully test this thing yet.
I'm telling all of you this because I know some of you here will be better at writing something like this than me. Network programming isn't exactly something I'm an expert in (I had one class in college). That said, anyone have any advice or know of something I'm not accounting for? Would anyone like to help with this?
I can send people the source code if they want it.
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General Discussion / Re: Hat, Scarf or Gloves?
« on: March 05, 2014, 06:43:15 PM »
For temporary excursions outside, none of the above. For extensive time outside while skiing or working with snow... All of them, but if I really had to pick just one, I'd say gloves? This is sort of like asking me if I find the steering wheel or the gas tank on my car more useful.
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General Discussion / Re: "Dumb Ways to Die"
« on: September 01, 2013, 04:45:40 AM »
Dude...What the heck did I just watch.
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General Discussion / Re: Where are we all?
« on: August 13, 2013, 11:06:15 PM »
Apparently, way back when, I must've voted in this. I neglected to say however that I'm from the US.
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General Discussion / Re: Rodent Showdown!
« on: August 10, 2013, 06:55:35 AM »
Why is there no hamster option...
Out of the available options, I have to say capybara simply because of the name.
Out of the available options, I have to say capybara simply because of the name.
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General Discussion / Re: Forum History
« on: July 20, 2013, 10:27:59 PM »
Wow. Okay, that's a lot of really cool info, especially the old user lists. I'd forgotten most of the people on them. More people made it here from Lemmings Universe than I thought. What level questions do you have möbius?