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• Windows Version 1.3.1
  • Binaries Only - 1.5 meg
    
  • Full with Source - 2.4meg
  
  
• Linux Version 1.3.1
  • Full with Source - 3.9 meg
    
  • Source Only - 0.5 meg

Just a message from Yarekim.

So if you happen to create lvzs with over 127 images, you may want to upgrade. Otherwise, nothing else changed.

Oh and by the way, he doesn't accept new hosting requests, naturally. :-P

Eitherway, didn't I say I'm quitting the forums?
Hmm yeah, so, if anyone will be looking for me I'll be at halo's forums or whatever.
If I'll play the game at all, I'll either be at chaos or halo.

And I probably won't bother answering your newbie questions anyway, so RTFM.

Yeah, same to you buddy!

So, there you have it:

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Apparently, if you google images for SubSpace, the first thing you come about is from a Russian site display the help screen with a like to ss.vie.com.
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Oh, and www.subspace.cc has NOTHING to do with SS.
There's also a domain called www.subspacegraphics.com but it too has NOTHING to do with SS.
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That was it!

Join us again next year.

*F3-rocket*
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I think I'll start stealing news from SubSpace Times site...

We (I) are talking about the new "great deal - by first look" of google, the 100MBs free of charge email account.

To those of you who have signed in with it, or planning to, I would suggest that you do not, ever, never, corrospond with anyone on it without using PGP, at the least not untill this issue is resolved and we, the public will get some more information about the giant information hogger's plans.

As for more details about this new email plan of google known as g-mail, I'll adress you to an article over at the register.

The possibilities are truely creepy, to say in an understatement.

It does matter how this turns out, but eitherway, it won't end good, in the very least for the long run.

In an essence, this was the opening shot, and the FBI has just declared war.
Many enemies were formed to the US gov. today, and may of these foes might form alliances in the future.

Time will tell...

::burp::

Ugh, time to loose another button in the belt...

Yap.

To the general player public:
Next time, please adress a more realiable source of information for some actual facts (you can count on me or MGB for instance), before you let yourself wrongly be decieved by the such as this (april fool's or not).

Here's the plan:

1) The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini and the rest of them 'good old boys'. We will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No more sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France would welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself, don't hide here. Asylum would not ever be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers.

5) No "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non polluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else.

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere". They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides' most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if any anyway.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, it would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

9b) Use the buildings as replacement for the twin towers.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer.

Now, ain't that a winner of a plan.

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'" - Robin Williams.
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In other non-important and unrelated news:
Since I'm pretty useless, old fashioned and am only used as a tease coushin or whatever in MGB's forums, which I got quite tired of, I've decided to ban myself from them.

Funniest thing, my access code is comprised of a sentence which I have long gone now ceased to fullful.

Yes indeed, AOL's snappy new "Instant Messenger" does contain WildTangent - their "partnership" in popup advertising is part of their new "buddy games" "feature."

WildTangent is a "borderline" trojan - actually defined as "adware" and where we cut the mustard is a complicated legal thing that Nancy can explain better than I can. But legally, most of the WildTangent stuff is not "officially" a trojan except for one part.

The reasoning is this - WildTangent DOES place a working uninstaller on the control panel. If you go there to the "Add/Remove software" item and remove the "WildTangent" stuff, almost ALL of it does go away. The "WCMDMGRL.EXE" item will remain running and will not come out. This ONE piece is the actual "trojan" ... the other item detected by a few others is the "updater" for it. A fresh new one was made for AOL exclusively so THEY could provide advertising. Also, another factor is that when people go to install anything containing "WildTangent" there ***IS*** a VERY clearly stated warning of what WildTangent is and what it does from a privacy standpoint in the license agreement prior to installation. Folks don't read it though.

Unlike the "WCMDMGRL.EXE" item though, the "WCMDMGR" portion is controlled directly by AOL-IM itself and that's why the AV didn't get it at the same time - it wasn't running or TRYING to run until the firewall nabbed it first and locked access in my best estimation of what happened.

As to the registry entries, those would belong to the entire SET of WildTangent files and the "game pieces" belonging to it.

What you'll want to do (of course, ditch that AIM first) is go to your Program files folder and have a look at all the "WildTangent" subfolder. There'll also be more in the \(windows)\WT folder ... there's a lot of stuff in there. Running the "Add/Remove" from the control panel however for "WildTangent" WILL remove all this. AOL however has decided to make SURE that if you remove it, they can put it back, thus the other bit of the "surprise" ...

I would also like to remind people that, the news suggestion box, as well as the news themselves consequently, is actually not for you to use as a mean to convey people personall messages, advertise your zone or ask questions.
For that you may use the forums, it's the reason for their existance.

If I find the time to visit your zone, and I'll like it, I might plug it, but that is all upto me.

Kisses and flowers.

And a happy smack across the head for MGB.
Now I know where all those spamming slimeballs got my email from.

Go Spam Assassin server filters! They do block them all very well.

Yeah, I'm not a happy guy.
And yep, those are game boxes upthere.
Recognize the X-Com?
To the left of it is Crusader:NR, then x-wing, and many more.
To the right of it is wing commander 4, diablo 1, starcraft, freespace, fifa...
To my right is PC CRT, to my left is TV.

Hmm...yeah, this is all.

The bad boy has been caught, saddam insane is now getting the proper welcoming treatment.
I wish I still had that neat clip of hunting saddam, yeah...let's hunt saddam and shoot him in the head, lets beat the herm, anyway...
To celebrate I've produced a new banner in the "UR GAY/STFU/OWNED" spirit:

SSHQ Recent News:
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in d:\subspacehq\www\cgi-bin\newspro\news.txt on line 24

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Well, MilleniumMan&Friends's 3D SubSpace seem to have released some sort of a demo of a sort or another, so go grab it somewhere on their latest site.

On an additional, personall, note and only since I'm bored and I like jabbing Correy at times, god ain't I evil?:
As it seems, mackieman only found about the project lately?
Hats off to SSHQ news fetchers. :P

On an unrelated note, I've checked the "suggestions" box (if you notice right above the news, there's a suggest news linky-button), and it seems that some of you confuse the concept of news with that of zone propoganda or our help section of the message boards.
Please refrain from making that mistake.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/28641

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 04, @02:49PM
from the but-guys-what's-the-big-deal dept.
00420 writes "VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, made plans to shut down its new Site Finder service Friday, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo controversial changes. Of course they're not taking it down because it affected the internet, they're just doing it to keep good relations with the technical community. (Seems a little late for that doesn't it?)" The shutdown is not complete yet, though: VeriSign hasn't changed their wildcard DNS entry (64.94.110.11).

Also, incase you haven't noticed, since some days ago, if you type-in a mistyped .com or .net domain, you'll be redirected to verisign's site finder, I don't know about you, but that thing just pissing me off.
Apperantly, I wasn't the only one.

No real news...I'm bored...forgive me... =/

Long live SubSpace!

server.zip - 1,277k - Full server
subgame14.zip - 202k - Upgrade only

Anyway, BDE grouped with this company (Horizon = SilverPlatter, Horizon's DEx = Alloy(tm) P2Ptech) to make this Peer2Peer technology for their new project - www.altnet.com.
A big Peer2Peer network for sharing information, vending songs for artists and hosting MPOGs.
SubSpace was supposed to be their prime flag ship product in the last section, to prove that this tech really works.

So, even that silverplatter has bitten the bullet, I doubt that BDE (the owners of BDE own the SS rights under a cash-company called Ozaq2) are going to stop there just because of that.
What they'll do with SS from there...well, this is a whole another unknown issue and your guess is as good as mine.

But getting all excited over Horizon/SP filing chapter 11, is hardly justified.
Because they just created the networking technology, if you will, part of "SS2", they were not developing the actual game.
And thus, I do not see a reason for them to make a big impact, as I'm sure BDE will rush to grab the tech, develop it further to completion, and the game itself is probably still being in continued development by whichever section of BDE which was handling it so far.

For those that make programs for lvz's, if the uncompressed size and compressed size are equal, then you can skip the uncompression. Also when compressing, if the compressed size larger than uncompressed data, you can set the uncompressed data in there, and have the two size values set to each other. You cannot do that with the CLV2 section yet though, which is a bug in continuum where it doesn't check if already uncompressed.

server.zip - 1.3 meg
subgame13.zip - 582 k

Continuum 0.38pr5 is now available for public testing. It is downloadable from Sonera site:
http://subspace.edome.net/files/ContinuumSetup038pr5.exe
This time it is full install package. If everything goes well, 0.38 final will be released next week.

lvztoolkit.zip - 138k

Password recovery by e-mail feature has been added to SSC database server. Feature will be rolled out in 2 phases:

1. Setting e-mail address phase, starting from January 29 During this time users are able to set their e-mail address by issuing command ?setemail email@add.ress. Users who haven't set e-mail address using that command will notification message to set it when they log in.

This phase will last 2-4 weeks.
NOTE: New accounts that are created don't get that question, as e-mail address is also asked by Continuum when new user is created.

If, and if yes, under what circumstances ?setemail will be available after end of this phase is not decided yet.

2. Normal operation
When user loses password for some name, he can log in using different name and ussue command ?lostpassword playername which causes new randomly-generated temporary password to be sent to e-mail address associated with the user name. Regular (original) password for that user will still work, new password is additional password, player use to log in and change regular password. Temporary password is valid for 24h.

PriitK

A player has been stealing user passwords using MSIE security holes. As far as I've gathered currently he was going around in several zones, telling people to check web site http://bcproductions.hypermart.net. Everybody who visited that site with MSIE, got their c:\program files\continuum\profile.dat file silently uploaded to that site.

I [PriitK] fell into that too, but as I don't keep any sysop, bang, billing passwords in profile, no damage was done. Sigh, it is really time to raplace MSIE with something more secure :( More info about unpatched IE security holes:
http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/

Note about old board: I plan on having it viewable for another month (the time I have it set to going into archive mode for the last years), but you cannot post anything. The main page will redirect you over to the new forums if you don't click on a link in 20 seconds, enough time for those who don't know where to click to go to new site, and enough time for someone to check back on an old message. After a month, the cgi itself will be replaced with a redirecting script to the new forums, since I know a bunch of websites like to link directly to the cgi itself.

Along with build 23 are assurances that previous complaints and crashes have been alleviated or at least explained in the F.A.Q.

+ Multiple plugins can be loaded on a single bot.
+ Glitches, which had plagued the earlier builds, are now gone.
+ There is a large selection of plugins; I am actively making new ones based on demand.
+ Entirely open-sourced. You may request plugin source code by e-mail

Visit http://venus.spaceports.com/~catid/

SSX now has a website, you can reach it in here.
It is only just started to build up, so don't expect much and there are broken links.
Hopefully with time, it shall grow.
Though I doubt xalimar will be the one to constantly update it (he's a very bussy man), so if you think you can contribute, you might wish to apply to staff, though I suggest you gather a few recommandations first, xali won't rush to hire people on the fly like most zones are getting their staff (full of dum newbs&petty kids, HAR!).

Hope you all had a nice creamy cake and a day off to relax.
May there be many more to come.

No, it isn't a mistype of the work ass (sorry Shanky), but something else; A Small Subspace Server. I've been getting plenty of emails in the last while about people wanting to make their own servers, but not having enough knowledge or the required skills for it that I'll post a little update. Please don't send me emails with requests or wanting to help.

Asss is a new server that was created by someone in SubSpace. I won't say his name right now, otherwise he would get a flood of messages/emails like I know I will. :( It was started a while back as a linux server, but I helped with it so it compiles for both linux and windows. It does not support any client except VIE as of yet, though it will support continuum in the future, hopefully. We do have a server-side bot system thought up, and a chat-only public protocol in the works. No, we will not make a *(your name here) command for you that lets you kill everyone instantly, you can make a server-side bot later that can do that for you.

The only thing I would need of public help would be just this. I need a copy of the .lib, the .dll, and any required .h's for making a program to use Berkeley's DB library, version 1.85. I know of a copy at Nightmare.com, but have yet to have any luck, or others, with compiling it. If you can get a copy of this compiled into a .lib, a .dll, and any required .h's to be able to use it, send it along to me at mgb@minegoboom.com.

Sorry, I have been rather busy with work and done only needed maintenance tasks for the Subspace during last months and this situatation is likely to continue at least for a month.

My comments about the suggestions:
1. 45 degree wall angles -- easily doable. I'll probably make it more general in the way that instead of current fixed tile number system where tile properties are fixed with tile number (ie tile #171 is safe zone, #172 is goal, #176-191 are fly under, etc) level will have additional piece of information called "tile properties" where you can define all kinds of parameters for all the tiles (0-255). Properties for a tile would include:
* special tile functions: safe zone, goal, door, etc
* tile type solid or passable
* layer for that tile, fly over, fly under, etc
* color it is shown on radar
* extra stuff like tiles that doesn't allow antiwarp, tiles that doesn't allow mines, etc
* tile angle
* etc

2. Support for 16 or whatever bit graphics is easy too but there are several problem with that:
* main problem: lack of graphics artists contributing to Subspace. I mean we have searched for people to re-do Continuum graphics, but haven't found nobody, at least nobody good. And beeing good when doing graphics is more important than number of colors.
* download size for lvl and lvz-s will go up. there is already some whining about it

3. Also easy from programming perspective, only problem for users finding free key combinations for it :)

Suggestion #3 was for strafing, ie: going left/right without turning

4. It makes sense only if you are viewing game board at the angle just like in Infantry. And what is the point to clone Infantry, go play it at Sony online if you like it :)

Suggestion was to have vertical bouncing bombs, such as with some of infantry's weapons

PriitK

So, for you future map makers/graphical artists, come help us :) We need a nice map editor to support abilities to change tile types around (i believe someone is making a new map editor also, called Continuum Level Editor), and we need new, pretty 16bit color graphics. Mmm.. more shades of gray..

Woot! I don't lag anymore...

Added proxy detection to /*einfo. Proxy is detected for Continuum 0.37 and later clients. You need to set server IP address in server.ini [Misc] ServerIP for it to work.
* Undetermined - SS 1.3x or Continuum 0.36 clients
* SOCKS5 proxy - User is using Continuum's built in SOCKS5 proxy
* Using proxy at localhost - player is using proxy ran in same machine as Continuum client. There is no other reason to do so than monitoring or tampering with packet stream
* Using custom proxy - player is using custom proxy. Suspect cheating.
* Using NAT - player is using router or firewall doing NAT translation
* Not using proxy - no proxy was detected between client and server

Fixed timer desync and slow FPS sysop messages. Before "Unknown interity violation" was displayed

New cfg variable: Misc:StartInSpec - if set, players entering arena are always put to spectator mode

New server.ini variable: Misc:ForceContinuumOnly - if set server will ignore ContinuumOnly variable is all cfg files and require Continuum in all arenas

New command: *objset +/-(object id),+/-(object id0,... - sets state of listed map/screen objects. +(object id) shows object and -(object id) hides it. For example "*objset +1,-20,+13" shows objects 1 and 13 and hides object 20.
Command is meant to replace *objon and *objoff commands and it can be sent to player privately or to whole arena. Command is meant for humans to use, for bots there is special packet for toggling objects states which is much more efficient. See BuildLevel documentation for more info about the objects. [Continuum 0.37+]

PriitK

All prereleases have NO security checks in them. This means that you cannot use any prereleases as a subgame continuum loader.

In other words, the only zone you can connect to without having names in VIP or being a Smod/Sysop is the SSCU Continuum testing zone.

Thanks to the Smod in 17th Parallel for finding this bug in the program. Best of luck to the programmers out there hopefully working on a nicer .lvz maker.

Its on all (or most of) the current Directory servers so you have no excuse! check it out

The Channel is "#ShankyHelp" on Dalnet, a list of Dalnet Servers and a Chat Applet can be found at www.dal.net

If you do not have an IRC Client yet you could download mIRC at www.mirc.com or just use the Chat Applet on the Dalnet Website.

The above file is the original example ini file created by priitk for the beta testers to learn from. This file can give you a hint at what .lvz's can do with the next version of continuum.

Still no release date, since when one problem is fixed, 2 more come up, but it seems as if .37 is getting pretty close to being finished..

Moral of this story: Yank out those crappy built-in speakers if your hosting stuff in a building like that. :)

A new version has been update, in both HTML and TXT format. The old version is still there, incase you want to make fun of my horrible grammer and spelling errors when I was a LOT younger.

BTW: Great Job Stil :)

Also, ?message and ?messages have been finnally officially released. For info on how to use it, look in the commands page under the list of ? commands, it is the last two in the list, right above the sysop commands.

SSAwards

-MnM