Archive - June 2002
| Monthly Update: New DOTM and Story |
| Posted by redink1 on Sunday June 2nd, at 11:26 AM |
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The May 2002 Download of the Month is now ready to be voted on. It was another slow month... only one D-Mod, though 4 Development files were released. In case you don't have any idea what this silly DOTM thing is, check out the Awards page. Also, the June 2002 interactive story is ready for your contributions. Last month turned out pretty good... 52 chapters. ( Read More ) |
| Reviewing Reviews.. |
| Posted by WC on Tuesday June 4th, at 04:58 PM |
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I have recieved a couple of complaints of validated 1 liner reviews, and some that were inappropriate. If you find any reviews that you belive shouldn't/don't deserve to be validated, please e-mail me and I will be sure to investigate it. ( Read More ) |
| Ask Tal good to go! |
| Posted by Tal on Tuesday June 4th, at 08:15 PM |
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Well, I'd explain why it wasn't running earlier, but I think I'll just put it this way: I am a dunce. If you don't know what Ask Tal is, it's a weekly column where I answer 5 (maybe 10 if it's popular) reader questions, Dink-related or not. What do you get? Mildly humorous reading that may prove to be even a tiny bit helpful later in your grand life. So submit those questions now! UPDATE: Eh, I forgot to note this...Ask Tal is published every Saturday. So if you have to have your question answered before then, hit the board. 
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| New Dev File: Desert Tile Graphics v1.1 |
| Posted by redink1 on Wednesday June 5th, at 10:59 AM |
| DethLord has released Desert Tile Graphics v1.1. These tiles are said to actually look like desert... whereas the other desert tiles have been criticized for not looking like desert at all. |
| Desert Storm: New Dev Files |
| Posted by redink1 on Thursday June 6th, at 10:14 AM |
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DethLord has released an update to his Desert Tiles Graphics, which are now in 50x50 proportions and have hills. Meanwhile, SimonK launched a counter-offensive with his Stone of Balance Desert Tiles, which are the Desert Tiles from Stone of Balance, suprisingly enough. Also, JamesPerley's old Desert Tiles lost its battle yesterday without a shot being fired... and are now under the guise of Autumn Tiles. |
| Updated Dev File: WinDinkEdit .911 Beta |
| Posted by WC on Saturday June 8th, at 01:15 AM |
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Gary Hertel has stopped working on WinDinkEdit, so I have taken it under my wings and I will fix it/add to it when ever it needs it; I hope this will test my current programming skills. You may Download WinDinkEdit .911 Beta and test out it's new fixes and junk (view comment to read about those). Special Thanks to Tal for uplaoding this since RPGPlanet hasn't issued me my account (HINT HINT RedInk). P.S. Don't e-mail Gary Hertel about bugs and features, BUG ME! UPDATE: Problem with MFC .dll's needed fixed in version 0.911 beta! ( Read More ) |
| New Dev File: Eyeball Enemy |
| Posted by redink1 on Saturday June 8th, at 10:25 PM |
| Simon Klaebe has released graphics for an Eyeball Enemy for use in your D-Mods. Simon says (pun intended), "Thought I'd submit these graphics as I don't think I'm going to be using them for my DMOD. I've included readme file that hopefully helps install everything. It is basically a giant eyeball - that uses touch_damage to hurt Dink. (A modified pillbug, I guess)." |
| Ask Tal 01: The End of the Beginning |
| Posted by Tal on Saturday June 8th, at 10:56 PM |
| Nothing. |
| New Dev File: UltimateMidiCollection |
| Posted by WC on Sunday June 9th, at 12:05 PM |
| This morning imacrazyguy blew up my msn account begging for me to post this so here it goes. imacrazyguy has just release a new development file called The UltimateMidiCollection. If you can't guess what this is, you should go join Dukie. |
| DOTM Results: Hanging Chads *Update* |
| Posted by redink1 on Sunday June 9th, at 02:45 PM |
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Time to rewrite history. See, when I programmed the awards part of info.cgi, I really didn't know what I was doing. So today I decide to end the May 2001 DOTM. And the script said SkeletonX won with 6 votes. I wanted to see who voted and such, so I viewed the raw database... and SimpleGraphics had 9 non-duplicate votes. Then I knew something was screwed... So to sum things up, this changes a couple of the previous DOTMs. As Good As Eternity actually tied End of Time v2.00 in January 2002. So AGAE gets a DOTM. Milderr!! 3 beat Once in a Lifetime by one vote in April 2002... so OIAL loses its DOTM. Update: Easy DinkC and Dink Smallwood French also lost their DOTY awards... I forgot to check the DOTY results yesterday... All of the other results were correct... well, the numbers changed, but the results stayed the same. Oh, and as for the May 2002 DOTM, mimifish's SimpleGraphics won. Congrats. |
| Updated Frontend: PlayThis 3.0 |
| Posted by Tal on Monday June 10th, at 09:14 PM |
Paul Pliska has released PlayThis 3.0, the frontend that differs from others by running when you double-click a dmod.diz file. For a complete (and better  ) description, along with changes/bug fixes in this version, view the comments.
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| Updated Dev File: WinDinkEdit 0.92 |
| Posted by Tal on Monday June 10th, at 09:29 PM |
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WC has released yet another new version of WinDinkEdit, bringing it up to 0.92. View the comments for a list of what's new in this version.
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| New Dev File: Custom Songs Midi Pack |
| Posted by WC on Tuesday June 11th, at 03:53 PM |
| AmoebaLord has release a new midi pack called AmoebaLord's Custom Songs Midi Pack. It seems to be a preatty good midi pack, but now days, with all these midi releases everything sounds good eh? Again, this file is hosted on my server and when another member gets on, it will be on The Dink Network server. |
| Updated Dev File: WinDinkEdit 0.93 |
| Posted by Tal on Wednesday June 12th, at 11:37 PM |
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Yes folks, the mystical WC has released yet another version of WinDinkEdit, this time bringing it up to 0.93. For a list of the additions to this version, view the comments.
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| Updated Dev File: Eyeball Enemy v2 |
| Posted by redink1 on Friday June 14th, at 11:32 AM |
Simon Klaebe has updated his Eyeball Enemy to v2. He says,A revised version of Eyeball sprite. I adjusted the death graphics as it didn't look good against dark backgrounds. I plan on doing junior eyeball - smaller model, plus it will have an attack. Maybe next week. |
| New Dev File: Alternative Heroes Tutorial |
| Posted by redink1 on Friday June 14th, at 11:38 AM |
| SabreTrout has released an Alternative Heroes Tutorial which explains which characters work best as new heroes, and how. |
| Ask Tal 02: Illegal Cerebral Goodness |
| Posted by Tal on Saturday June 15th, at 11:49 PM |
| Nothing. |
| Updated Dev File: Alternative Heroes v1.5 |
| Posted by redink1 on Sunday June 16th, at 12:47 PM |
| SabreTrout released an updated version of Alternative Heroes yesterday, bringing it up to version 1.5. It includes a new document and sample scripts. |
| New Dev File: Eyeball Junior |
| Posted by redink1 on Sunday June 16th, at 12:49 PM |
| Simon Klaebe released Eyeball Junior yesterday, which is a smaller and attacking version of his previous Eyeball Enemy. |
| Dink Network: Accepted File Changes |
| Posted by redink1 on Sunday June 16th, at 01:05 PM |
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Due to a few problems I've had with people submitting worthless files, I've added a few new rules for submitting files that are to take effect immediately. Files released before will not be deleted, they'll be 'grandfathered' in. For a more detailed explanation of the rules, read the comments.
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| New D-Mod: The Creeping Sands |
| Posted by Tal on Sunday June 16th, at 05:36 PM |
| SimonK, well-known for the D-Mod Stone of Balance, has released The Creeping Sands v0.3, a D-Mod romp that he created in a matter of days. It has not been beta tested, so keep in mind when you play that there may be bugs in the game. Also, the D-Mod comes in at just over 3 MB, making it a fairly large download for a romp. |
| Simon Klaebe Updates |
| Posted by redink1 on Thursday June 20th, at 11:06 AM |
Today Simon updated The Creeping Sands to v0.5."Fixed the riddle rock so that it doesn't give the riddle after its solved. Fixed some map/hardness errors. No longer freezes if you have a level up after killing the end boss."Two days ago Simon updated Eyeball Junior to version A. A very, very minor update, the script didn't have an sp_strength before; now it does. There was also a small update to Isle of Croth bringing it to v1.3. "A bug with the machine in the temple not recognising the Light Sword if you only armed it inside the temple, instead of walking in with it" There was also an 'invisible' update to the full version of Stone of Balance v2.11. Ever since v2.03, the 'Burst' intro graphics were not included. If you don't have the burst intro, make sure to download it seperately. |
| New 'Dev' File: FIAT Journal v0.99 |
| Posted by redink1 on Thursday June 20th, at 11:13 AM |
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I've released my FIAT Journal for all to see. What is it? Well, back when FIAT progress was going slow back in early 2000, I decided keeping a journal might motivate me to work faster. As it was, I was a whole month late at the start. For more, read the comments.
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| Recondite Eleven: Deranged |
| Posted by redink1 on Thursday June 20th, at 11:53 AM |
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Recondite is supposed to be a weekly article about anything I want to talk about (usually Dink related). But I never submit it on schedule, and it comes out whenever I feel like. This time, we have some good Poll Comments, FIAT v1.00 blabber, Monkeys, and the benefits of whoring. Its all in here! View the comments to read.
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| Dink Network: 'New' Area |
| Posted by redink1 on Thursday June 20th, at 01:49 PM |
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I just put the Articles section up. You may be thinking I've gone a bit insane (as it does happen occasionally), because there has been an articles section for quite some time. For a more in-depth explanation, read the comments. ( Read More ) |
| New D-Mod Demo: Bane of the Magi |
| Posted by Tal on Sunday June 23rd, at 12:32 AM |
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A certain somebody was obviously in a rush to roll blunts after uploading this file, so I've decided to do the news post. Ric has released the demo to his upcoming D-Mod Bane of the Magi. I can't seem to find any good references to the story in the readme, but the features sound interesting, if anything. The file weighs in at about a meg and a half. |
| Ask Tal 03: No Use for a Frickin' Title |
| Posted by Tal on Sunday June 23rd, at 03:04 AM |
| Nothing. |
| New Misc File: Dink MIRC Chat Client |
| Posted by WC on Sunday June 23rd, at 06:51 PM |
| Since there is a new Dink Chat on MIRC and not all people know how to set up MIRC on their PC's I have made a Pre-setup MIRC client that the only thing that needs to be set up in order for you to enjoy this dink chat is you need to input what nick you want and you e-mail. Download Here, it is about a meg (thats smaller than the regular client so I don't wana hear no crap, dial up users!) |
| New D-Mod Demo: Three New Heroes |
| Posted by redink1 on Sunday June 23rd, at 08:45 PM |
| theprophet has released a demo to Three New Heroes. It aims to be an ambitious D-Mod, so it might be worth downloading, I haven't tried it. |
| New Development Files |
| Posted by redink1 on Wednesday June 26th, at 06:01 PM |
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Simon Klaebe has released a pretty thorough tutorial on Creating Enemy Sprites. It covers the process of creating new enemy sprites, using Eyeball Junior as an example. The zip file includes both Microsoft Word and HTML formats. Simon Klaebe also released some Grass to Pavement/Stones Tiles. Pretty self-explanatory. And finally, I uploaded Music Sculptor, a really old Midi program. Beuc suggested it, so I hope it is of use to your loony musicians out there
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| Discussion Eleven: Walkthrough Hosting |
| Posted by redink1 on Wednesday June 26th, at 06:23 PM |
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Since Kyle isn't around as much as he used to be, I've decided to create a discussion for the heck of it. There has been a few debates on the board about DethLord's Walkthrough Mirror, and (maybe) this discussion will get down to the bottom of it. Read the comments for more. ( Read More ) |
| New Dev File: UltimateMidiCollection - The Second Volume |
| Posted by WC on Sunday June 30th, at 12:21 PM |
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imacrazyguy has gone and released the UltimateMidiCollection - The Second Volume. This midi pack was made totally by imacrazyguy and even with a midi that is 32 min long in length, the file size is only 6k in size! P.S. Tal appears to be missing in action so don't expect a ask tal (since it's allready late). |
| New Dev File: Spare Tiles |
| Posted by WC on Sunday June 30th, at 12:45 PM |
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Well, he has done it again. imacrazyguy has created a pretty nice peice of custom tile sets. So all you developers, go download Spare Tiles, just incase you get a flat.
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| New Dev Tut: D-Mod Check List |
| Posted by WC on Sunday June 30th, at 01:22 PM |
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Our good friend Jveenhof has made a check list that all authors really should go through before releasing their d-mod to the public and getting flamed like Jveenhof did when he zipped up his d-mod wrong. Here it is! Phew, alot of stuff happening today. |
| Current Events: Dink Chat |
| Posted by WC on Sunday June 30th, at 04:14 PM |
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I have decided to do my own little thingy like Recondite and AskTal. This one will be a current events briefing about recent events in the dink community. I haven't decided if I'm going to do it twice a week, once a week, or as needed. Maybe I'll let people give me feedback and I will decide based on that. Well, this post of the Current Events will feature the European Dink Chat held today at 20:00 GMT and 12:00 PST and the DethLord Scandal. View the comments to read more. ( Read More ) |
