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Screenshot Captor / Re: Why I gave up on it
« on: September 02, 2007, 04:26 PM »
Trouble with 'lite' versions is maintaining two builds - by having an option to turn of advanced features and the updating mechanism which reduces the download size it means there is only one version to maintain. It also means that a user can switch on the extra features if they find they need them without having to download and install a new version.
-Carol Haynes (September 02, 2007, 04:15 PM)

Or to harp on about profiles - if there were standard profiles for the basic different types of capture users could get up and running with those, and only need to delve into the more coplex stuff if they needed to  ;)

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Living Room / Re: Bloons Tower Defense - Very Well Done
« on: September 02, 2007, 04:20 PM »
Interesting approach hamradio  :up:

How did you get the image in the spoiler section? And how did you rename the button labels?

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Living Room / Re: Tower Defense Game of the Week: Budapest Defenders
« on: September 02, 2007, 03:33 PM »
I like this one - except that your snipers never shoot the raiders closest to the embassay, even though the AI is smart enough to work out the best route there  :huh:

Haven't quite managed to complete expert without any losses but I'm working on it  :D

Some of the high scores posted are a bit dubious too  :o

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Living Room / Re: Bloons Tower Defense - Very Well Done
« on: September 02, 2007, 03:23 PM »
But it cost you 15 lives  ;)

Here's a shot just before the end of the last stage - obviously no danger of any of the remaining bloons getting past the tack towers at bottom left (i'd post the final shot but the congratulations message covers the locations of my defenses).

And don't click below if you don't want to know how I did it  :)

Click for proof :)
Screenshot - 02_09_2007 , 21_07_10.gif


Spoiler
Didn't use ice or supermonkeys - in fact, didn't sell anything- what you see is what i bought.

The trick was to build up the monkeys first, then the tacks, then the bombs.

Concentrate on locations which cover parts of the track that are actually far separated from each other, that's why the central column is so useful, and the north regions are useful because you hit bloons early but still have a lifeline for any that get through.

When you build your monkeys, go west, central, north, west, central, north.

With the monkeys, don't be tempted to upgrade them until you've got all 6. Then upgrade monkeys. Once you're on to the tacks upgrade as you buy, though you don't need the extra range for some of them.

I thought it was a pretty good game, though it'd be nice to have an expert mode. Wasn't keen on the other bloon games though.

Good find   :D


Edit: resaved with the image in spoilers - thanks hamradio :)

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Living Room / Re: Batch file - start service, run program, stop service ?
« on: September 01, 2007, 06:21 AM »
Perfect  :D

Thanks OGroeger

This is what I ended up with within 5 minutes of installing Autohotkey for the first time:

[Select]
runwait, sc start "O&O Defrag" , , hide
RunWait "C:\Program Files\OO Software\Defrag Professional\oodcnt.exe"
runwait, sc stop "O&O Defrag" , , hide

which seems to work.

I'm going to find out more about Autohotkey to see what else it can help with.

Thank you  :)

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