New ACC 1.47!

[Spleen]

They won't telefrag anymore if you extend player and give him the -TELESTOMP flag (or to be more precise, take away the TELESTOMP flag by putting in a -TELESTOMP statement).

Unfortunately, if someone fails to teleport, the illusion of continuity would be destroyed in an even more serious way than getting telefragged.

So invisible line teleporters are still something that you want to use sparingly. If we ever get build-esque overlapping sectors, I think people would find ways to use them to make already awesome levels even awesomer in ways we haven't even thougt of yet, similar to what happened with the addition of bridge things and stacked sectors. It's not that multi-story buildings are inherently exciting, but that the little added bit of flexibility acts as a multiplier of possible awesomeness in a level.

Maybe one day EE's portals will be implemented into ZDoom... after Doomscript...... *hopes*

Maybe not...

[Graf Zahl]

I doubt it. The engines are just too different.

Eternity's portals are also strictly software rendering so both GZDoom and Skulltag will have problems with them. I think when doing portals it should be done right, i.e. not force them into Doom's way of doing things but restructure the engine to handle portals more naturally. Then handling them with hardware rendering won't be a problem.
Doom's BSP-based renderer is as badly suited for portals as possible.

[randi]

So, I now have the "new" (refurbished) drive from Seagate. Unfortunately, it is a different firmware and PCB revision, so the logic board swap didn't work. I will now attempt to scavenge something up from ebay, since I have about two weeks yet to send back the broken drive before Seagate charges me for the replacement.

So for now, I'm holding off on installing the drive in the hope that I just can clone the data off the old one onto it.

BTW, the top of the drive uses T9 screws, but the logic board is attached using T6 screws.

(Also, I guess it's too late to have a 1337 release of ZDoom. )

[Graf Zahl]

Hey, you at least got a 1337 release of ZDBSP!

[timmie]

Indeed. But that's one of the reasons why at work I insist that every single project and every development branch of every project has an SVN repository. If a HD gets lost then, all data is restorable. Unfortunately this is something that seems to be very, very hard to communicate to some people, especially professional developers who haven't used version control before.

Yeah, we have user branches at work for our engineers to check stuff into that seems even remotely important (we use Perforce). I can't imagine working without version control now. Beyond the whole storing your data in a remote repository that should be getting backed up regularly, being able to diff previous revisions to see what changed is absolutely invaluable.

[randi]

If only foresight was as 20/20 as hindsight!

[Ceeb]

I find it bizarre that the 10 year old, badly-maintained computer my uncle left for me when he died has never had a hard drive failure, with either one. These are ancient, crude pieces of technology yet they still work.

And Randy is the fifth person I've heard of to have a new hard drive take a crap.

[Rachael]

Manufacturing standards, from what I've seen, decline every year. Soon we'll be having these really sweet computers that can count do 8 billion in under a second... if only it didn't spark and smoke the 4th time you turned it on.

I had an 8086 computer once (god that's enough to make one feel old, eh?) and before my mom threw it in the dumpster the thing ran perfect, and it never crashed.

[Project Shadowcat]

Manufacturing standards, from what I've seen, decline every year. Soon we'll be having these really sweet computers that can count do 8 billion in under a second... if only it didn't spark and smoke the 4th time you turned it on.

I had an 8086 computer once (god that's enough to make one feel old, eh?) and before my mom threw it in the dumpster the thing ran perfect, and it never crashed.

Never throw away your older equipment, someone else can always make use of it later if you can't. My last laptop for instance I was able to sell to a Hispanic couple for 200 USD.

[Remmirath]

That's true, but no one would give you more than 10 bucks for an old 8086.

[Project Shadowcat]

That's true, but no one would give you more than 10 bucks for an old 8086.

You'd be surprised who could use what. My dad has a weather machine-dedicated computer still running Windows 98 on a Pentium II. Still running great, if a little slow even for its time.

[Gez]

Don't underestimate growing complexity as a factor of frailty. For the same reason, a Citroen 2CV or even older Ford Model T are much more robust than a recent car full of electronics with very complex engines.

[Spleen]

Don't underestimate growing complexity as a factor of frailty. For the same reason, a Citroen 2CV or even older Ford Model T are much more robust than a recent car full of electronics with very complex engines.

The car itself may break less, but the passengers inside will break more due to lack of safety features. I would feel safer in some newer cars (not all of them) than any older car. Computers aren't exactly like this.

[zwouth]

I will now attempt to scavenge something up from ebay, since I have about two weeks yet to send back the broken drive

I hope I didn't give a false hope that this will definitely work. I'm not sure this is something that I would spend (much) money on. It's a bit of a gamble.
I do sincerely hope that it does work though.

BTW, the top of the drive uses T9 screws, but the logic board is attached using T6 screws.

Thanks for the info, I didn't have any newer Seagate drives here to check. Sorry my info was bad on this.

[Hirogen2]

I believe most everything on the hard drive was either replaceable or expendable. Nevertheless, there are certain things I am sad to see go. This includes an archive of every ZDoom version I have ever released, both public and private.

There's still http://prdownloads.sf.net/zdoom that has some of the old stuff. Mostly what's on zdoom.org/files/old too, but there may be some more, dunno.

You .. did have a backup, did not you?
Now it's time to make a backup of that SVN repository before something worse happens. Too bad it is not as easy as a simple git-clone, oh nm.

In case this is 'too sensitive': can access to SVN-subdirectories be restricted to non-anonymous users just in case this shouldn't be visible to the general public?

Too sensitive? You're not ripping off some proprietary code, are you?
(The answer to the question: I believe so.)

Code: Select all

[/zdoom/zdoom/branches/gz]
gz = rw
* =

(Call me a git DVCS advocate, but you could push your sensitive stuff to mancubus:/home/gz without exposing it to the web. What boggles me most is that if you start using branches, you want to merge them at some times, and SVN just keeps no record of where things were merged from, which makes it a PITA to follow what came from where.)