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Spring Site Design

A while ago I started a new project. This was a secret project, and I told only a handful of important people a few weeks later. In light of tim blodjiks somewhat troublesome disappearance the work on the svn site had gone stale and progress had not continued. Tim said he would return to finish […]

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Blog Spring

Penniless Voices

I have come to the conclusion that voicing grand opinions and schemes on the spring forums is worthless. Having seen the effects of efforts such as neddiedrows campaigns or Arghs vast threads of enlightenment, I have concluded that these efforts to change how people work do not work. They have an effect indeed but the […]

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AFLobby Glest lobby development Spring

AFLobby Beta 4.2

Not many changes here aside from a few minor tweaks inspired by gota, and a bugfix for the registration page crash reported on the glest forums.  An installer has also been uploaded. Edit :: Since darkstars lost all its files not long ago Ive decided not to put this version back up as I think […]

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AFLobby Glest lobby development Spring

AFLobby Beta 4.1 & Glest

Aside from a few minor aesthetic tweaks to make her and there such as glest logos on glest battles to make them easier to pick out, AFLobby is pretty much ready to go. With the new Glest 3.1.1 supporting command line parameters, what a better time to go?

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AFLobby Blog lobby development Spring

File Wikis

I did say I would add a few twists to my file hosting to set it apart didn’t I?! Well I’m not sure how unique this is, not that it matters, but I have solved a problem faced by spring for years.

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Blog lobby development Spring

File Hosting

With the recent mess up at Unknown Files and the absence of iamacup, UF has remained down for the last week. In its place has risen 2 new hosts ran by sefidel and JJ, however these are not the best solution and have their own problems.

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AFLobby lobby development Spring

AFLobby Beta 4

A long overdue release with a lot of fixes, and new additions, including support for lua and map options. AFLobby beta 4 Installer AFLobby beta 4 zip

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AI Spring

My Official Stance on the Music AI

A while ago I wrote a proof of concept group AI. It used the windows MCI APIs to play MP3 files based on what was happening in the game, thus generating dynamic music playback.

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AFLobby Blog Glest lobby development Spring

AFLobby beta 3.9.9-4 experimental

The recent update to 0.76b1 has introduced several protocol changes. One such change that wreaks havoc on the current stable AFLobby is the introduction of two new ranks with make AFLobby crash almost immediately. The other change is the introduction of SETSCRIPTTAGS and the deprecation of UPDATEBATTLEDETAILS. AFLobby 3.9.8.1 and several alpha versions of 3.9.9 […]

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NTai Realtime Strategy Spring

NTai and 0.76B1

For a brief window after the release of 0.76b2 there was a compatible NTai being built by buildbot that everyone could have used. Despite the window lasting 4-5 days nobody bothered except me, and it is now too late to find svn versions of NTai that still work with the current release of spring. But […]