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All this new stuff

Yes, the news posting cgi obviously works…so far. Hopefully (as Que has found out), posting news won’t be as stressful and should help aleviate some of our time for other things, such as making new columns. BTW, I’m currently finishing up the research to be used in my next column, The VT6X4 Tweak Guide.

You may have also noticed that a lot of the major pages at S–L.com have the extension .shtml. This is because of the new visitor tracking system I put in place tonight. To use SSI (Server-Side Includes), the page has to be Server HTML (shtml) and the SSI is what sends all the visitor information to the database. Using this, I think we will be able to find out what our most popular sections are and enhance those even further.

That’s about it for now. I’d have to make a 10 page post if I wanted to describe my “20 Days of no news”, so I think I’ll skip that.

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CGI for S&L

Sweet Fuck…

…I got the news cgi to work.

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Jul 3, 2001

Just a quick post for today, I should have a lot more in a post tomorrow or so. This is what I’ve been doing: beat Jerec’s ass down in Dark Forces 2, 3/4 the way through Deus Ex (haven’t played in a couple days, though), the ranks are in now for the S&L TFC RANKING PROGRAM (but it still has yet to be ported over to CS and INF), and the new clan section is up. I was kinda surprised at how quickly and efficiently I got the clan section done, took about 6 hours. That doesn’t include the CS subsection though, as that is Loog’s business (but would include the INF section). Okay, that’s it.

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Jun 26, 2001

I’ll make an attempt to keep this short…no, there isn’t a new version of the TFC Ranking Program, but more on that later. I just wanna say that I’m extremely proud of my l33t $Kl!llZ (or whatever those cyber posers say) from playing Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II again. The first time I played it (about two years ago), I was already cheating by level 4 (fly mode, mostly). This time I haven’t cheated once and I’m already to level 17. All my restraint from killing friendly NPCs paid off, too, cause this time I got to pursue the light side of the force. I really didn’t want to have to kill Jan after level 15. She’s a damn fine woman and I hope she gives my a striptease when I kick Jerec’s ass. Anyways, here’s some screenshots:


My father just came in with the new PCGamer (August) and what’s on the cover? Why, it’s JC Denton sporting two FN P90s! Deus Ex 2…Badass! Also, looks like Raven is gonna make a Jedi Knight 2 with the Quake3 engine…Badass! It’s a good day to be a gamer, my friends.

And of course, I took an hour or two yesterday and today to do a few bug fixes and additions to the TFC Ranking Program. Remember, YOU can only edit the database ONCE (to create your member file). There’s going to be a reason for this later on. Here’s my plans for the next beta version (v1.3b probably):/p>

  • Text dumps (for the rank log and error log); it’s already in but needs some fine tuning (like scrolling)
  • When a death score of 0 is entered, the program with automatically compensate so there’s no divide by zero error; again, this is already in
  • Minimum kill score of 10; this won’t be too hard to add
  • Member rank and rank scores can be read from the “Read Database” function
  • Better error handling; doing my best with that
  • I’d like to add some encryption to the dat files; now that will be a lengthy bit of coding :(
  • Anything else you’d like to see, just lemme know and I’ll do it if possible
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Jun 24, 2001

I was certain that it would be at least one more day, but it only took some time yesterday and 6 hours today to finish coding the official beta (v1.0b) of the TFC Ranking Program. I actually added 18kb to the program since yesterday’s v0.65b. I want all S&L members to test it with their own scores (doesn’t have to just be from TFC) and even pass it around to any gamers you know for them to test.

tfc-rank.exe (64kb)

You can only edit the database once to add yourself; the password is again “yoda”. The ranking system is totally functional, except it will only produce a rank score (reason for the beta). If you run into any errors, be sure to check the (new) errorlog.txt for details on what went wrong.

Because I suck at QBasic and my last achievement in using it to program was StoryTeller 2000, I’ve released the source code below so anyone who wants to can check my code and possibly make it more efficient. The passwords have been removed from the code, so don’t think you’ll find them in the source, biatches.

TFC.TXT (22kb)

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Jun 23, 2001

I completed the next beta version (0.65b) of the TFC RANKING PROGRAM. The passworded sections are defaulted to be preaccessed (at least until version 1.0b).

tfc-rank.exe (56kb)

New to this version is the (suggested) member list and the database eraser/recreater. The major fix I made was when opening the database files (or any supporting files), if the file is not found, it will not produce blank fields (or crash the program) but instead a FILE NOT FOUND! error.
The ranking system is still not in, because I was perfecting some of the arrays and most of all the “actual scoring.txt” documentation. Please tell me if you see any “TFC module” errors, immediately.

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