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Monkey
October 3rd, 2000, 06:56 PM
Great work, Hurdler and Boris! The new selection of texture filtering is great! I would like to know what they mean and do (besides what I can plainly see). The nearest is the coolest thing ever. I really was never too much of a fan of the dither that OpenGL and Glide puts on things with low resolutions, so this was a great gift for me to play with 'original' graphics with all the benefits of OpenGL, like complete freelook and lighting effects.

Unfortunately, I have problems with the new legacy as well.

For one, every time I try to do 'listserv', my computer crashes. It is terrible, for it crashes even the mighty NT based Win2k. I have yet to see a program do such a thing to NT(at least nothing that wasn't intended to crash it), so that's kinda weird.

Another gripe is a new bug. It seems I cannot connect at all using TCP\IP. It just crashes and gives me Windows errors (There is a bug in the program, please wait while we record the errors blah blah blah).

Another thanks for working on a great app., but the bugs really suck.

Great work, Boris and Hurdler. As soon as Client Prediction is completed, nothing will rival DooM Legacy Multiplayer.

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"I quickly jumped onto the other side of the fence, assuming there limited ability to make a vertical incline would save the day. I was wrong. It seems that, just as my confidence grew that I was saved, the midgets had me bested. Wings they grew, and what wings they were. There shirts ripped, and wings erected from there backs. Now there were 20 bald winged midgets that must have each had a 7 foot wingspan. I certainly ran, hoping that they could not fly faster than my sprint, but yet again I was proven wrong. The scalps glistened as they flapped faster and faster, gaining on me every second. My heart raced, and I began to feel weary. I was surly tiring, and I was going to be there furry feast. I pushed on for another 60 feet, fell to my knees, and passed out."

-Clipping from my 11th Grade English assignment.

Hurdler
October 4th, 2000, 05:52 AM
I know this is a stupid question, but are you sure you've properly installed TCP/IP? Is there someone else here who have any problem with win2k, tcp/ip and legacy?

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CyberFurY
October 4th, 2000, 06:18 AM
I normally run Legacy on Win98 w/IPX, but just for the heck of it I tried firing up a solo coop game and took turns playing on 4 of my computers. TCP/IP, just like IPX, runs just fine on my PCs. One of the PCs was Win2K Pro(my server), and much to my suprise, it worked. So far its about the only game I've tried that doesnt crash Win2K. I dont know if Monkey was tring it in GL mode, but it works fine in software. I cant try GL mode cause I dont think it will work on the Matrox Mystique in the server.

(to the Legacy staff or anyone who can help)
On a unrelated note, I'm still have clipping problems in all my WADs. I just cant seem to get ZedNode to work properly. It wont create the output file. Please take a look at my second message on the 'gl problems' post if you haven't allready.

Hurdler
October 7th, 2000, 10:06 AM
I think I've fixed the Win2k problem, check it out (same zip file, same version for backward compatibility) http://www.newdoom.com/doomlegacy/zips/legacy_1-30-2_win32.zip

BTW, Ferrari would be happy to see the addition of "No server currently running" if there is no server running at the time you do the listserv ;-)

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Member of the DooM Legacy Team

Ferrari
October 7th, 2000, 08:05 PM
http://www.newdoom.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Monkey
October 8th, 2000, 08:35 AM
WOW! Hurdler, both the bugs I earlier mentioned have been fixed. Your so cool http://www.newdoom.com/ubb/biggrin.gif *kiss kiss kiss*

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"I quickly jumped onto the other side of the fence, assuming there limited ability to make a vertical incline would save the day. I was wrong. It seems that, just as my confidence grew that I was saved, the midgets had me bested. Wings they grew, and what wings they were. There shirts ripped, and wings erected from there backs. Now there were 20 bald winged midgets that must have each had a 7 foot wingspan. I certainly ran, hoping that they could not fly faster than my sprint, but yet again I was proven wrong. The scalps glistened as they flapped faster and faster, gaining on me every second. My heart raced, and I began to feel weary. I was surly tiring, and I was going to be there furry feast. I pushed on for another 60 feet, fell to my knees, and passed out."

-Clipping from my 11th Grade English assignment.

Hurdler
October 9th, 2000, 08:07 AM
Hehe, if you knew what I changed in the source code to make it working:
[
if (!msg->length) //Hurdler: fix a bug in Windows 2000
return 0;
]
It was that simple http://www.newdoom.com/ubb/wink.gif
Now, I should shut up my big mouth and let people think it took me a hard week-end of coding to fix the problem ;-)

And here is what you can expect in the next version, instead of using that stupid listserv command ;-) : http://www.newdoom.com/doomlegacy/shots/connect.jpg

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Member of the DooM Legacy Team

[This message has been edited by Hurdler (edited 10-09-2000).]