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Developer's Corner / You could instead be making your own dungeon crawler game

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2017, 10:28 PM »

From Rock, Paper, Shotgun today:

If you are reading this now, you could instead be making your own dungeon crawler. That’s the magic of DungeonScript, a fairly simple browser-based game-making tool intended for first-person dungeon crawlers. After a little studying, you could be making your own dungeon crawlers and sharing them online for us all to play.

Looks pretty cool -- I'd love to see someone here make something..

https://www.rockpape...sed-game-maker-tool/

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Living Room / Re: Where was DC mentioned today?

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2017, 02:30 PM »

Someone has suggested to me that it might have been a mention by Kim Komando.

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General Software Discussion / AVG sntivirus possible false positive report this morning on win 7 system files

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2017, 07:19 AM »

Just a heads up that AVG antivirus *might* be throwing false positive alerts on some valid windows 7 system files this morning, prompting people to freak out about a non-existent threat and delete valid files.

I got these alerts on one of my machines this morning and suspect it is an error.

Read more here:
https://support.avg....d=906b0000000DtiEAAS


Note: This has nothing to do with DC software, just posting it as a heads up.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2017, 11:45 PM »

Dog rescues baby deer from drowning:

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: I lost my key

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2017, 11:54 AM »

You can get a new key at any time from this page:
https://www.donationcoder.com/Keys

Let me know if you have any trouble with that and I can assist ([email protected]).

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Finished Programs / Re: FINISHED: Hourly chime software (like Cuckoo for Mac)

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2017, 03:46 PM »

In cases like this I think the simpler thing is find a utility that can change the volume of your chime wav files to be what you want.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2017, 11:11 PM »

The sourceforge link is for the second runner-up app they posted about at the end of the article.  The first 3/4 of the article is about Automatic Screenshot Captor and it links to us correctly.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2017, 04:35 PM »

Timing is a bit off.. Feels to me like the latest mention must have been in an email newsletter somewhere..

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on July 19, 2017, 10:39 AM »

DC member Ballue told me about a nice writeup of Automatic Screenshotter here:
http://www.guidingte...eenshots-windows-pc/

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DC Website Help and Extras / DC member wraith808 agrees to join spammer-killing squad

« Last post by mouser on July 18, 2017, 10:38 PM »

Just a heads up, long time forum member wraith808 has agreed to transition from ever-vigilant reporter of spammers into an officially sanctioned and licensed-to-kill moderator.  Spammers you have been warned.
Thank you, wraith    Go get 'em 

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Living Room / Re: Where was DC mentioned today?

« Last post by mouser on July 18, 2017, 10:24 PM »

Come on now, what's the real answer!?!!

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on July 18, 2017, 06:58 PM »

I should have a new version before the end of the weekend.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on July 18, 2017, 04:34 PM »

That's a good idea.  I can whip up a new version soon with an option for this.

There are two ways it could be done:
1. Let user specify a filename pattern on "File Saving" tab that as usual but add an option that tells AS to overwrite existing file if it already exists (instead of autonaming with counter).
2. Have an option that does file saving uniquely as it currently does but ALSO saves some generic filename ("lastcapture.png" for example) and always overwrites.

Which would be more useful?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by mouser on July 18, 2017, 03:06 PM »

Hammock update:

Of all the improvements I've made to my place, the hammock install has been the best.  It is a napping machine.  Love it.

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Finished Programs / Re: FINISHED: Hourly chime software (like Cuckoo for Mac)

« Last post by mouser on July 18, 2017, 11:40 AM »

 

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Finished Programs / Re: FINISHED: Hourly chime software (like Cuckoo for Mac)

« Last post by mouser on July 18, 2017, 10:58 AM »

Maybe one way to let user customize the chime souds without adding any gui options, is simply to let user specify sound file "Whatever.wav", but before playing the sound file, check if "Whatever_X.wav" exists and play that if it does, where X = hour number from 0-23 (or 1-24 whatever).  That way if they want they could use a different sound file for each different hour of the day.

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Living Room / Re: Where was DC mentioned today?

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2017, 09:29 PM »

Come on, folks! Where was it?

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Finished Programs / Re: FINISHED: Play a sound when a color appears on screen

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2017, 07:13 PM »

Just want to say how great it is to see when people rise to a challenge!  Nice work, p3lbox! Can't wait to see the reply of surprise from the person who requested this.. 

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Living Room / Where was DC mentioned today?

« Last post by mouser on July 17, 2017, 12:18 PM »

We've gotten about 15 donations this morning so far (monday july 17, 2017) -- that can only mean that we were mentioned somewhere -- in a newsletter or on a blog or something?
Welcome to our new donors! Thank you and please make yourself at home -- we are a friendly bunch.

Now who can shed some light on where we were mentioned today (or maybe this weekend)?

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Living Room / Re: Hard Drive SMART Stats - from the BackBlaze Blog

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2017, 11:32 AM »

With the price of hard drives my opinion these days is that the first sign of the smallest amount of trouble from a drive means the data gets migrated off it and it gets put into retirement.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Twist app - "My Company Tried Slack For Two Years. This Is Why We Quit."

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2017, 12:07 PM »

That's an interesting post -- thanks for sharing.

I have been very impressed with Slack as a tool for active group discussions, but I can definitely see their points.  And I like the idea of an app for calmer more organized communication/coordination   

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm so fed up with (software or hardware) KM / KVM switches working so badly

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2017, 09:35 AM »

I've recently had some good luck with a high-end kvm purchased cheap on ebay. It was this model, which supports usb switched wireless keyboard/mouse:
https://www.iogear.com/product/GCS1794/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching URL files stored in the Windows file system

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2017, 09:21 AM »

 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching URL files stored in the Windows file system

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2017, 08:55 AM »

I can't remember specifically but I normally check for lines starting with // to indicate comments. if it doesn't work let me know and i'll add it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching URL files stored in the Windows file system

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2017, 08:45 AM »

wraith -- I was going to reply to your issue but I couldn't think of anything useful.. what did your problem turn out to be?