Forum: FreeStars
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Topic: InterGalatic Internet
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InterGalatic Internet |
Mon, 25 October 2004 11:17 |
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mithro | | Crewman 3rd Class | Messages: 7
Registered: October 2004 Location: Australia | |
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Firstly I apologise if somehow I have sent this to the wrong people.
Hello fellow 4X space game developers,
I'm the lead developer of the Thousand Parsec project (http://www.thousandparsec.net/).
Through my travels to gather support for my project I have found many other similar (although not exactly the same) projects. Each project has a unique and extremely interesting point of view, however all the projects seem to have fairly small communities.
A naive person would think that we would be better to join all our efforts and work on one single project, however you'll all understand the impossibilities of this ever occurring. However we can all share both communities and ideas (and possibly through this code).
What I am proposing is developing a game neutral site (include neutral towards my own project) in which all these similar games can be promoted, discussed and which will help bring together our respective communities. This site would be completely non-commercial and would be funded through my own pocket and donations. I plan to call this "thing" the "InterGalatic Internet" and will reside at http://igi.cc/.
I have setup a mailing list http://igi.cc/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo in which we can hopefully discuss issues such as;
* What should be included on the website
* Ways to promote cross pollination
* Ways to aggregate (or syndicate) news and other similar
Even if the website is a total flop I still hope it will have brought us fellow developers together.
Please subscribe to the list if you are somewhat interested.
Thanks for your time and hope to chat to you all soon.
Tim Ansell aka Mithro
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Topic: FreeStars Documentattion
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Forum: Circular File
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Topic: Neat
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Topic: New Ways to Spend Time
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New Ways to Spend Time |
Sun, 18 March 2018 18:58 |
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talkingbologna | | Senior Chief Petty Officer | Messages: 86
Registered: November 2016 Location: 1947 | |
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Never had time to keep up with times, really. Just went through my woefully undersized computer (148GB) and deleted 58 gigs of games I haven't played in long enough that I figure I won't again till I'm ready to reinstall it. My Asus has alright power,
Intel i5 dual core 2.27GHz
4GB RAM
Radeon HD 5470
Nothing especial but good enough for most games on or near minimum quality settings. This being said, can anyone recommend a game playable on a computer? That Banished looks pretty cool, but today I'm piqued by Star Wars (just finished Rebels show (not a word about kids cartoons!)).
I'm also interested in building my own computer to make this one look like a room full of magnetic tape and vacuum tubes. I've read that there are thousand dollar graphics cards and terabyte solid state drives on the market, but next year it'll be half that price with something better already available, so I'll probably stick to a total system @ $2000 (maybe less to start, with upgrade potential). Maybe Mac or Linux?
Would anybody have any suggestions on that, as well?
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Topic: Stars Map...Game In Progress
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Topic: Gehan Gunasekara: Let's lead the spooks a merry dance
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Topic: Take a look at Mak
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Topic: Event Horizon 2
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Event Horizon 2 |
Sun, 21 October 2012 10:51 |
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ekolis | | | Messages: 51
Registered: May 2006 Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA |
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I don't remember if I ever posted about Event Horizon on here, but in case I didn't, EH is a simple 4X game developed by Nick Dumas (Suicide Junkie) and myself. You've got a hex grid of sectors from which you can mine resources, and your ships are constructed of only four components: Hull, Thrusters, Weapons, and Shields. I've got some screenshots and downloads here:
http://edkolis.exofire.net/eventhorizon.php
Well, Nick and I are working on a sequel!
Event Horizon 2 will be much more detailed than EH1, and we're starting out by building a hex-based ship designer and a turn-based tactical combat game, then building the strategic layer around it. We've got a mostly functional ship designer, and Nick said he'd be working on tactical combat this weekend. (Last I heard on Friday, he had combat mechanics working, but no GUI to issue commands.)
I've got some screenshots of the game linked at the bottom of the EH page I linked above, and Nick has some more on his site:
http://imagemodserver.dyndns.org/nick/GreenEggsAndHam/EH2/pi ctures/
I've also started work on a web GUI using Javascript, so eventually you could actually play directly from the website!
Mr. Flibble says...
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Topic: Earth developing a primitive minefield?
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Topic: gtalk's down...
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gtalk's down... |
Thu, 26 July 2012 08:52 |
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my gtalk has never been this alone before
Hopefully it's up soon.
[Updated on: Thu, 26 July 2012 08:53]
I know my minefields.. but I'm a chaff sweeper.
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Topic: My god, its full of instagram!
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Topic: Code Heroes
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Topic: How many can you save?
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Topic: One amazing horse
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One amazing horse |
Thu, 04 August 2011 17:34 |
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BlueTurbit | | Lt. Commander
RIP BlueTurbit died Oct. 20, 2011 | Messages: 835
Registered: October 2002 Location: Heart of Texas | |
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Watched the movie Secretariat the other day on Starz. Wow! That was an amazing horse. No other horse has come close to that performance in over 35 years.
Recorded a clip of the final race for the triple crown. Just wow!
Did a lot of video compression to make this small, for easier viewing, about 15Meg size, so quality is a little low in some parts.
How often do you get to see the end of the movie first?
Triple Crown clip
[Updated on: Thu, 04 August 2011 17:39]
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Topic: Imo chat
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Imo chat |
Thu, 14 July 2011 23:47 |
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'llos
Does any use IMO? I have a couple of invites spare to their new imo network.
(IMO is a web chat client that does MSN, Skype, Yahoo, Google Talk, Facebook, AIM, ICQ, Jabber, VKontakte, Myspace, Hypes & now their own network)
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Topic: last flight of shuttle discovery lifts off today
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Topic: DVDFab DVD copy program FREE today only
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DVDFab DVD copy program FREE today only |
Thu, 27 January 2011 10:57 |
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BlueTurbit | | Lt. Commander
RIP BlueTurbit died Oct. 20, 2011 | Messages: 835
Registered: October 2002 Location: Heart of Texas | |
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I've been using the "Giveaway of the day" site for quite some time and some goodies pop up often.
Today's offer is a good one. Highly praised DVD Fab program, regular $50, free today, if you download it within about the next 16 hours from the time of this post, and register it before the time expires.
Important: if you don't register it within time limit stated on the page, you'll only have a time-limited demo installed, instead of a registered version. Registration instructions always come with the downloads in a text file.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/dvdfab-dvd-copy/
If you haven't already, subscribe to the Giveaway of the day site to get daily notifications of freebies in your email.
[Updated on: Thu, 27 January 2011 10:58]
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Topic: Another decent show canceled
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Another decent show canceled |
Mon, 14 September 2009 14:41 |
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neilhoward | | Commander | Messages: 1112
Registered: April 2008 Location: SW3 & 10023 | |
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No more Defying Gravity on CTV.
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Topic: cool
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Topic: Looking for players for a Stars-like game
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Looking for players for a Stars-like game |
Sat, 08 November 2008 13:58 |
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ddickie | | Civilian | Messages: 1
Registered: November 2008 | |
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I'm looking for 16 players for a game that is a poor man's version of Stars! Why play a poor man's version? Well, it is different and variety is the spice of life. It's been around in various forms for about 15 years, but it is a custom game with a very small player base.
It is free. There is a java based (and web distributed) front end, although most of the complex commands are still done via text commands, and it helps to have some general computer skills.
the URL is http://www.dickieville.com/Dave/mhgc.htm
Please contact me at dave@dickieville.com if interested!
Thanks,
Dave
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Topic: Stress Reliever
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Topic: Slave Hack
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Slave Hack |
Thu, 06 March 2008 16:46 |
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Ron | | Commander Forum Administrator Stars! AutoHost Administrator | Messages: 1232
Registered: October 2002 Location: Collegedale, TN | |
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A neat online hacking simulation, can play with/against other people, or form a clan.
If you register after using http://www.slavehack.com?id=autohost that link, I'll get some Support Points.
Ron Miller
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Topic: Nomicide
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Nomicide |
Mon, 04 February 2008 17:20 |
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For those of you who dont know, a Nomic is a game where modifying the rules of the game is the primary activity of the game.
<blatant_plug>Nomicide is a Nomic run on Livejournal and new players are always welcome </blatant_plug>
For the curious, there's also a Nomic Wiki and Agora, a nomic that has been active for 14 years(and you thought Stars! games were long).
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Topic: DMotR
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DMotR |
Wed, 04 April 2007 16:22 |
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vonKreedon | | Lieutenant | Messages: 610
Registered: March 2003 Location: Seattle, WA USA | |
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Here's a link to a site that has the following premise:
Quote: | Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage madness. Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash roleplayers who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos, and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&D campaign.
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The author, Shamus, uses vidcaps from the LotR movies to create comic strips of the gamers/NPC/etc. as they move through the campaign. Very funny. Check it out at:
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?cat=14
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Topic: Thousand Parsec participating in Google Summer of Code 2007
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Thousand Parsec participating in Google Summer of Code 2007 |
Sat, 17 March 2007 08:21 |
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Thousand Parsec is a vibrant free and open source project, creating a framework for 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate) space strategy games. We are happy to announce that this year we are also participating in Google Summer of Code as a mentoring organisation. We have prepared a special page with information and ideas for students, who would like to work on a task for Thousand Parsec. Join us, it will be fun, you'll gain a new experience, learn something new, play games and if you finish successfully you can even get 4500$. The deadline for submissions of student applications is 24th of March.
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