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09/09/2001
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Still looking for a job. My wife and children are
already in Texas. Very, very busy.
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Anyone know Richard Garriot? I'd sure like to work
for him. :)
08/22/2001
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My house is sold and the closing is on the 31st, so I'm
moving. Where am I moving you ask? I *DON'T KNOW*. :)
Actually, I'm moving to Texas. I currently live in Connecticut. However,
this is a two stage move - family first so the kids get into school, then me
after I have a good job there. I have a good job in CT, I expect to
have a better one in TX. So, I may or may not have any time to work on
Trespasser for the next month or two or three. I'm looking in the Austin, TX
area, so if anyone knows of a company that needs a good database analyst or
webmaster/developer, let me know.
07/25/2001
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The screen size patch
is now available. I created a simple exe that will patch any of the
Trespasser EXEs. A great big thank you goes out to Mark Grant (aka
MrLaggy) for figuring out this patch. Unlike some of my other work,
this patch is tiny - 18kb, so download it today.
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I'm looking at engines to do a Total Conversion of
Trespasser. Right now the only two that I think would be worthwhile
are the Crytek (X-Isle) engine, and the MAX FX (Max Payne) engine. If
you know of any others, send me some email. The biggest criteria for
the engine would be physics, foley effects, and 3d sound.
7/15/2001
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Jurassic Park III comes out on Wednesday,
7/18/2001. It's interesting that no PC computer games have been
announced to coincide with the premier. :(
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I haven't worked on TLE in about a month. My wife is
studying for the bar right now which she takes on July 25-26. (Yes, it is a
2 day exam.) I'm going for a weekend car trip on the 27th-29th, and then she
is taking the kids on a weeklong camping trip. So, I should be able to
work on TLE, undisturbed, in the first week of August. I'm going to
try to have it capable of changing object positions then. (Which is what
Wajas needs it to do for his special edition.)
06/02/2001
06/01/2001
05/31/2001
05/24/2001
05/21/2001
05/20/2001 (8:32pm EST)
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The Trespasser Level Editor
(TLE) (Alpha version 0.01c) is available for downloading. This
minor update includes the full system files in with TLE. It's really meant
just for Wajas and tRaptor to test out and see if it works. (And it doubled
the size of the runtime files, making the download 44.7mb.
Sometimes I just really hate MicroSLOTH.)
05/20/2001 (10:32am EST)
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tedmg0913earthlinknet sent me an update for the OTP on
the demo level. I've updated the OTP
page.
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The Trespasser Level Editor
(TLE) (Alpha version 0.01b) is available for downloading. This
minor update includes the system files in with TLE. It's really meant
just for Wajas and tRaptor to test out and see if it works.
05/20/2001 (12:01am EST)
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The Trespasser Level Editor
(TLE) (Alpha version 0.01a) is available for downloading. This
minor update corrects the problem with the wrong install directory. If
TLE works for you, please let me know. If it doesn't work for you, I'd
like to know that also.
05/19/2001 (5:30pm EST)
05/19/2001
05/16/2001
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Dawn (my wife) graduated last Sunday. So I've had a
little bit of time to work on TLE.
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I'm cleaning up and setting up the menu needed for TLE.
Hopefully I'll finish up the little
things I need to get done and have it ready early Saturday morning. (My time of
course. :)
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My first try at packaging it made it 3.5mb in size. That's not too bad but
it doesn't include the runtimes. TLE requires the Access 2000
runtimes. Here's the bad news - they increase the file size by
35mb. Fun huh? When compressed, the runtimes are only 15mb, but
it's still a lot.
04/29/2001
04/21/2001 (shortly after midnight :)
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Fixed the problem with the Scavenger
Hunt savegame by JPMan. Try it out.
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If you come across a problem with my site, please let me
know. :)
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TLE is coming along. The Load TPA and Export Audio
screens are working. The Edit/Import Audio and Save TPA screens are
next. Screen shots are available.
Alpha-test should be available next weekend.
04/14/2001
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I'm hard at work on the Trespasser Level Editor, mostly
doing the boring but required stuff. I'm hoping to have the
Load/Save/Import/Export/Edit routines and screens completed and working for
audio by next weekend. Then it will take another week (I hope) to
finish the Load/Save routines for the GRF files. The Import/Export
routines & forms for GRFs will take at least another week. The
Edit routines are probably going to take two weeks on their own - you'll
understand why when you see the finished product. :(
04/07/2001
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The site is back up, the host having fixed their
problems. I've got more space and bandwidth now. Also, they
promised that there would be better response times.
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Working feverishly on the Trespasser Level Editor.
I'm programming it in Microsoft Access 2000 & visual basic. I
think this means it will be a huge download. Time for everyone to get
DSL. :)
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My birthday was yesterday, but the site was down.
I'm 36 now. I think I need to change my nick to "OldGeezer".
:)
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With the host moving to a new host themselves, they
screwed up my wonderful error page. I've fixed
it now.
03/19/2001
03/17/2001
03/15/2001
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Scallenger presents the first Trespasser
Mission. It's an interesting saved game with a twist.
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Life has been interfering with Trespasser but I'm
shutting life out this weekend so I can concentrate on Trespasser. :)
03/10/2001
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Coming soon: Microsoft Access program to load the
complete assets from Trespasser. To be followed, at a later date, with
ways to actually do something with that data. :)
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What's up & WTD stored in savegame - see RE
history latest news.
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Note on voting: voting that you both prefer and dislike
the same person is rather silly.
03/06/2001
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Interesting new bug found!
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Features
list updated.
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Just finished installing a new 45gb hard drive.
It's working nicely but it took me the whole weekend to finish reinstalling
software. Outside there is over 2 feet of snow, so the snow flakes are
back. Shovel away the snow.
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More voting
results in. If you haven't voted
yet, please do.
02/27/2001
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More voting
results in. If you haven't voted
yet, please do.
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TrespasserSecrets.iwarp.com will be deleted today.
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Geothermal plant progress news.
02/20/2001
02/19/2001
02/18/2001
02/13/2001
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Second voting
results in. If you haven't voted
yet, please do.
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Added a link to Milkshape 3d on the utilities
page.
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Some people have experienced problems installing and
using TLAE. If you are one of them, visit the utilities
page and download COMCTL (if you got an error complaining about COMCTL32.DLL
missing) or DCOM (if you had any other error) for your version of Windows
and run them to install. Let me know if this helps. If it
doesn't help, let me know what error you are getting.
02/08/2001
02/06/2001
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Why so many updates in so few days? Snow man,
SNOW! The storm that hit Connecticut dumped about two feet on me, and
then the wind blew another foot or two onto my driveway. Sucks to be
me. :) When I do updates this quickly, I'll keep up to a week of them
bolded.
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Added new review - Screenshots.net. This isn't
actually a review, but it has a couple of never-before seen
screenshots. The control room screenshot has been added to the
Geothermal plant original pics
section.
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For those not watching, the Geothermal plant features
list is growing. Visit the forum
to suggest your own.
02/05/2001
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Added voice-over poll page to the Geothermal plant
section. Visit the page and vote on who you'd like to have as the
voice of Anne in the new level. Warning: This page takes a long time
to load (200 seconds on a 56k modem). Since it has taken me several
hours to get it working, I'd appreciate everyone who has an opinion about
the voice they'd like to hear as Anne fill out the poll. This poll
page should work in Netscape 3+, IE 4+, and Opera. I've only tested it
in IE5.5. Please email me if the page doesn't work for you and you
have one of the browsers listed.
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Added the option to make Trespasser Secrets
your home page (IE only) to the menu bar. I'm sure everyone
wants too! :)
02/04/2001
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Corrected the text in the Geothermal Plant section. Added
annoying sound. :)
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Added features page
to Geothermal Plant section.
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Updated my 404 page. (Reload
the page a few times, there are two sounds. Javascript required to
hear the sounds though. The page takes about 30 seconds to load on a
56k connection.)
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Made the Humor page more user friendly.
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Included a link in the Secrets section to the Trespasser
patches on the Dreamworks site.
02/01/2001
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Welcome to the new Trespasser Secrets web site. New
domain name and a new host (WorldZonePro.net)
and 100mb of space to play with. This should be enough for...
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The
Geothermal Plant section is all about the creation of a new
level for Trespasser. The new level won't be ready for a while yet,
but I'll be posting updates there as I work on it.
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The Reverse Engineering and
Isle Sorna sections have been moved out of the Secrets area to
the main navigation bar.
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Know a site, review, or preview I missed? Let me
know about it!
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Got some Trespasser/Jurassic Park humor that belongs on
my humor page? Let me know about it!
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Comments and suggestions on the new site design are
appreciated.
01/31/2001
- The new Trespasser Secrets website is up and running. Change your
bookmarks, favorites, and links to http://www.TrespasserSecrets.com
and then head on over! TrespasserSecrets.iwarp.com will self-destruct
sometime in February.
01/18/2001
- Revamped website coming soon. Info about the new
Geothermal level will be available at the same time -
2/1/2001. (Maybe even earlier if I'm able to work that
fast.)
01/06/2001
- I'm back from vacation. The weather sucked big time.
I've got some video of all the Jurassic Park stuff at
Universal, and as soon as I get a firewire card, I'll create
a few movies and post a few vidcaps.
- Hopefully I'll be working on some more RE of Trespasser
this week.
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