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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2013, 03:15 PM »

How will that work?

-Deozaan (November 21, 2013, 02:52 PM)

I've no idea. You're the coder/gamer/designer
I can see that it might be problematic - you cant 'steal' simple mouse movements I guess.
There may be other ways of implementing?
Possibly a bit complex:
Mouse + two keys (say Ctrl+Appskey) = Fire
Mouse + one of the above keys (Ctrl) = Rotate
-
that's problematic too I guess...

Gamewise, as said above, the union of the two is problematic imo. But maybe I should just look at it as a challenge!

Maybe also the option to use Left/right-arrows to rotate - that might be good -
Plus another key to shoot. That could be the keyboard alternative to the mouse.
EDIT// and eventually we could move (?) with the spacebar...

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2013, 03:04 PM »

I find that the one with physics (asteroids collide with each other) is less of a challenge and less fun because:

• Asteroids that are on a collision course with your turret will often collide into another asteroid before reaching you, changing their course so that they are no longer an imminent danger to you.
• Asteroids tend to clump together due to their collisions with each other.
• Asteroids tend to slow down and move in the same direction, due to their collisions with each other, making it easy to pick them off in groups.

-Deozaan (November 21, 2013, 02:52 PM)

as a beginner (okay, I used play asteroids in the arcades a long time ago) these are all advantages - but yes, I take your point that they are less of a challenge.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2013, 03:02 PM »

I would request the ability to use a key to shoot if that's possible (my mouse arm/hand is overworked).

-tomos (November 21, 2013, 02:49 PM)

Part of the problem is that rotating is coupled with shooting  (you may well have be aware of this). As the asteroids increase, this can be problematic - you want to look first, see which is approaching fastest and shoot at that, otherwise you create too many moving parts/particles and things just get too hairy...

[cross-posting]

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2013, 02:49 PM »

^okay, that installed very easily, didnt even need a browser restart.

I'm not going to be much help with your query - I got so involved in both games that I barely noticed a difference
I'll let you know if that changes - played both twice so far.

Click to aim and shoot

I would request the ability to use a key to shoot if that's possible (my mouse arm/hand is overworked).

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Living Room / Re: The Amazing Video for Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2013, 05:04 AM »

Brilliant!
Sometimes very funny - from what I've seen: I was laughing out loud at the house viewing for one.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2013, 02:50 PM »

In the original Asteroids arcade game, the asteroids passed "through" each other. IRL they would mostly pass over each other anyway, so it's not that unrealistic.

Note that both links go to the WebPlayer version of the game, which works in most browsers on Windows and OSX, but not Linux, sorry.

-Deozaan (November 20, 2013, 11:50 AM)

"Unity web player - install now"
that's just a plugin, right?

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General Software Discussion / Re: CryptoLocker and CryptoPrevent

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2013, 09:52 AM »

There's also the beta version of HitmanPro.Alert with Cryptoguard.
[...]
Free! I've installed this on my father's PC...  and now it's on mine too 

-paulobrabo (November 20, 2013, 09:37 AM)

does that work okay with your anti-virus? - which anti-virus?
Sounds like you dont have HitmanPro anti-malware installed as well (?)
TIA :-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: CryptoLocker and CryptoPrevent

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2013, 06:24 AM »

Is this CryptoPrevent safe -and advisable- from this source?

-bit (November 19, 2013, 09:04 PM)

I ran an older version from that site (under file properties it says product version is 3.01) on Win7 & Win8 machines, and havent had any problems with anything.
The version I used allowed whitelisting - it looks like the newer version doesnt. Guess I should update it...

EDIT//
Updated from within the app. The interface/process works very well (requested to reapply the settings - which I did; have yet to reboot).

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2013, 04:19 AM »

Sorry for the delayed response:

tbh I wasn't sure what it was, but I *thought* it was a nebula that had been shot through.
If it is an asteroid, I would give it more shading, probably on the right and lower sides, to give it a more three-dimensional look.

Of course, how an asteroid looks that has just been blasted, is uncertain...

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2013, 01:50 AM »

The cannon is better bigger (on the left). I like the dark background on the right as well (not sure which background I prefer).
Is that meant to be a smiley in the shot out area?
I'd try making the shot out area darker (maybe with fading edge?) if that's possible.

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2013, 01:39 AM »

@Shades, +1 to what Deo says above. It's bang on topic, and I wouldn't have heard about it if you hadn't posted about it ;-)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V3 Discussion

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2013, 11:57 AM »

ith form display I don't know if there's a way to do Control-f search through.

-MilesAhead (November 19, 2013, 11:19 AM)

would be very nice if possible.
Dopus have a filter for their preferences:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Does anyone know how I may remove Trojan Dropper:MSIL/Livate.A ?

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2013, 10:40 AM »

Re imaging, etc., my experiences [Win. 8] were:

Backup / create an image:
Win+W to search settings > search for 'Windows 7..." - open "Windows 7 File Recovery" -a weird hangover name, in spite of it simply being called "Backup or Restore" in Win7.
~ Restore seems a bit buggy here - it cant find my image/backup on an external usb hd. But if I use the restore disk (dont forget to create it!) I can find the backup okay. Helped by Windows 8 forums tutorials (NOTE: I just wanted to check that it could find the backup - I didnt need to restore, so I didnt try to).
System Restore - Win+W to search settings for same and you're covered (also available via control panel)

-tomos (November 15, 2012, 02:41 PM)

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2013, 05:49 AM »

Brooklyn - The Gentlemen's Rant

JLE via Google+
if you love hipsters, then you'll hate this rant...

RaveriusMax
but, if hipsters are supposed to hate it, then wouldn't that make them love it even more?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 25.x scrolling sucks

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2013, 10:52 AM »

If I could bring it up blank then the page open would go to it instead of IE.

-MilesAhead (November 18, 2013, 10:11 AM)

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by 'page open' - but IIUC, this'll work:
install the 'Session Manager' extension. In the options, select "Prompt for a session" for "At startup always load..."

If I click on a link, and FF is not open, it will open the page. The Session Manager dialogue window opens too - I can ignore it or cancel it, or open the last/or another session (will open in a second window).

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General Software Discussion / Re: software to edit pdfs

« Last post by tomos on November 16, 2013, 01:17 PM »

Tracker Software has just released version 3 of their PDF-XChange Viewer Pro software and changed the name to PDF-XChange Editor because it supposedly now allows in-place editing of PDF files.

-xtabber (November 15, 2013, 06:07 PM)

thanks!
I found that page (and linked pages) very confusing though in terms of their different versions. The comparision chart might help (me/others) a bit:
http://www.tracker-s...cts-comparison-chart

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on November 16, 2013, 12:36 PM »

With Screenshot Captor, the dialog tomos showed is for splicing (with effects added).
But it might be more straighforward to FIRST do a normal crop, and then from the SpecialFx2 menu, choose "Border" and then last submenu item is "border effect splice style (ragged effects)"
which will give you this dialog:

-mouser (November 15, 2013, 11:59 PM)

whoa, that's great
Can also do fade out with that - here's with top + bottom faded:

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on November 16, 2013, 12:27 PM »

smh...you guys seem to have too much time on your hands and choose to spend it doing...of all things...this?  

-app103 (November 16, 2013, 12:27 AM)

nah, it's just a case of spending too much time on dc *anyway*, and then happening to notice all those nice numbers

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do I control font size in PDF?

« Last post by tomos on November 16, 2013, 12:24 PM »

May I ask this, is PDFCreator hyperlink aware?

-tslim (November 16, 2013, 03:13 AM)

it sounds like that will be a problem - see http://forums.pdffor....org/discussion/8402

Yap, that is why I am looking for recommendation of a good word to pdf conversion utility.

-tslim (November 16, 2013, 03:13 AM)

I find it hard to believe that Word doesnt have the capacity to create a 'normal' PDF. Have you checked out all the available options? It sounds like that your only problem is that the font is not being embedded: try a search on the big old internet, I'm sure you'll find the solution:
https://startpage.com/do/search?q=word+how+to+embed+fonts+in+PDF&l=english_uk
 

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on November 15, 2013, 05:33 PM »

^ and viola, we have post # 888 from Techidave:

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on November 15, 2013, 05:32 PM »

P.S. How are you doing the "faded shots"? I only know how to capture the whole thing!

-TaoPhoenix (November 14, 2013, 10:39 PM)

Start with the full capture.
Select the bit you want to crop (in theory you can fade within, or outside, this selection - but with my settings at any rate, it always crops and fades outside the selection)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: control panel app searches

« Last post by tomos on November 15, 2013, 05:22 PM »

just drag and drop to a new folder

-skajfes (November 15, 2013, 04:16 PM)

alt + drag and drop (?) (to create shortcuts)

Yeah, for some reason it only works (with FARR anyway) when you make the shortcuts.
See:
https://www.donation....msg287394#msg287394
(and following post)

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General Software Discussion / Re: software to edit pdfs

« Last post by tomos on November 15, 2013, 05:11 PM »

I think they only allow it tomos if the original form was created to be edited.

-techidave (November 15, 2013, 05:06 PM)

I dont have to deal with many forms, but I'm not sure there. This is simply overlaying text. It does nothing to the original PDF in terms of actual editing - it's just that the text is placed on top of it, and then saved.

But I may well be wrong there - as I say, I have little experience here. (lol just saw your post above!)

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Living Room / Re: YouTube finally forces creation of google+ A/C to comment

« Last post by tomos on November 15, 2013, 05:02 PM »

I was actually considering starting a thread for alternatives to gmail. If a moderator doesn't split the last few posts into a new thread, I would politely ask people to stick to, or get back to, the YouTube topic :-)

Thank you!



^that was to shock you into submission

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General Software Discussion / Re: software to edit pdfs

« Last post by tomos on November 15, 2013, 04:52 PM »

Doesn't PDF-XChange Reader allow editing of sorts - well adding text to forms anyway. I thought even Adobe Reader allows that now too?
Or do you need something more?



In PDF-XChange Reader, there is a "Comment and Markup toolbar" (View>Toolbars>)