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It's been awhile!
« on: November 03, 2011, 01:51:38 am »
It's been a very long time since I visited the boards.  So I wanted to stop in and say hello!

It seems this place has gotten a lot quieter since I was last here.  It seems that Vista and Windows 7 have put a major dampener on the activity on the Dynaverse and on the boards too.

I haven't played the game in a very long time, and I would like to dust things off.  It doesn't look like there have any campaigns going on for a long time now.   Perhaps if everyone still has the contact information of other people in the past maybe we could attempt to get something together?

As far as the Vista/7 issue, I don't know if people have tried to use a Virtual Machine to run SFC: OP, but I was able to get SFC: OP to run on both Vmware and VirtualBox.  I've actually got them running pretty well.  I went ahead and posted a tutorial in the guides section in case the information would be of help. 
(Link is http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php/topic,163392093.0.html)

Now all I have to do is find my ship that's been in mothballs for years, and clean out the cobwebs...
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2011, 09:38:22 am »
Another warrior returns from the land of the dead...
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2011, 11:41:57 am »
Holy sh*t.... Elf... we need to talk lol !!

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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2011, 07:59:22 pm »
Hello DarkElf....Another FPF pilot back from extended leave!!!!   :)
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2011, 11:01:46 pm »
Still in orbit....
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2011, 12:34:38 pm »
Photons! When do we get photons?!
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2011, 03:03:45 pm »
For all that is holy, Elf long time no see.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2011, 09:19:53 pm »
Never say never....umm, whoops.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2011, 01:33:00 am »
Hiya Elf glad to see your around still
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2011, 10:12:00 am »
So there are still people floating around this place
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2011, 07:02:06 pm »
Must be SFC old folks month.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #11 on: November 16, 2011, 05:23:33 pm »

  The old ones yes we are real and not a tale told to small ones around a campfire :)

 Wanderer, good to see your still breathing.
 
 Elf, its been a long time.

you guys back or just visiting, personaly I am hopeing your back!
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2011, 03:14:07 pm »
Quote from: FPF-Wanderer on November 15, 2011, 07:02:06 pm
Must be SFC old folks month.

Hey! I resemble that remark!   :D
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2011, 03:29:51 pm »
Wow 3 more old FPF members popping up.  Good to see ya all~! :)
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2011, 03:30:41 pm »
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2011, 09:48:21 pm »
Great to see the crew still checking back from time to time.

If Tracey and JB show up, I'll have a heart attack.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2011, 07:33:24 pm »
I still play on the forge occasionally, keeping my ship dust free.  :)
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2011, 10:01:01 pm »
Glad to see so many people still doing well!

Does anyone think we could drag enough people out of hiding to run a small server?
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2011, 10:17:31 pm »
Depends on whether enough people can get that virtual machine going. I'm still running XP pro so I'm good to go. 8)
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #19 on: November 24, 2011, 01:28:55 am »
Still on XP here. Been thinking about this game a lot for the last year or so. Hoping to land plasma on an unsuspecting cargo vessel again some time in this life.

Respects...
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #20 on: November 25, 2011, 11:28:43 pm »
Nice to see so many old names !
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #21 on: December 10, 2011, 03:51:12 pm »
not old as deadman but close good cya you all scraped the ship metal some gold no steel and bought carbine fibre 5th wheel and a electic car whoo hoo.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #22 on: December 10, 2011, 07:30:07 pm »
Geez, even Ternado shows up, now there's a blast from the past.  I think the Universe is calling us home.

Yup, same old crew, lol.  FPF, KBF, 1AF, our assorted allies and respected enemies.

I find it interesting that this topic has been viewed almost 600 times...and there always seems to be 2-3 "Hidden" users logged in...I'm looking at you, Tracey and Dogmatix...

Lets see, what's new with me...my sister took over taking care of mom and dad...spent a year and a half as the kitchen manager for a group home feeding formly homeless mentally ill folk (very cool job, 'til they shut down the home)...now the Food & Beverage Mngr for our family restaurant (Gatsby's Diner, actually, for those who watch TrippleD, not to toot my own horn)...

Still on XP, still got my OP disc around somewhere, still love old-school TOS SFB models.  ;D

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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #23 on: December 11, 2011, 08:55:50 am »
We need to do some IP games then. Running XP as well and have FS' OP 4.1 installed for the Forge. Friday evenings would work best for me. I'll need to install teamspeak again if people want to do this.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2011, 03:37:43 am »
Quote from: Ternado on December 10, 2011, 03:51:12 pm
not old as deadman but close good cya you all scraped the ship metal some gold no steel and bought carbine fibre 5th wheel and a electic car whoo hoo.

hey, not usein a coffin yet, and they keep telling me I have a pulse and that I am breathing so I am still good to go :drool:
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2012, 09:15:55 am »
Holy Crap, I thought Elf had died or something.  Good to see you're still around.

People still play this game?   Did that new OP+ every become standard?
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2012, 01:36:45 pm »
I'm running 4.1 and so is the forge. New additions to 1st generation X-ships and more variety with pirates.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2012, 09:41:11 am »
Quote from: FPF-DieHard on January 20, 2012, 09:15:55 am
Holy Crap, I thought Elf had died or something.  Good to see you're still around.

People still play this game?   Did that new OP+ every become standard?

Hey DH how's it goin?  What are you playing for games these days?
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #28 on: January 23, 2012, 04:02:05 pm »
Quote from: FPF-Bach on January 23, 2012, 09:41:11 am
Quote from: FPF-DieHard on January 20, 2012, 09:15:55 am
Holy Crap, I thought Elf had died or something.  Good to see you're still around.

People still play this game?   Did that new OP+ every become standard?

Hey DH how's it goin?  What are you playing for games these days?

DDO now (Dungeons and Dragons Online) is my current drug of choice.  We tried getting an SFC turn-based campaign going a few years ago but it kinda faded.  Just too much effort required for the reward.

it's a shame as this was the best combat system in any game I've every seen, I only hope one day somebody else runs with the IP and makes something modern.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #29 on: January 25, 2012, 01:40:11 am »
I was thinking of the Wanderer just lastnight was he ever going to return as to the advice he gave me.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #30 on: January 25, 2012, 03:17:06 am »
Quote from: FPF-DieHard on January 23, 2012, 04:02:05 pm
Quote from: FPF-Bach on January 23, 2012, 09:41:11 am
Quote from: FPF-DieHard on January 20, 2012, 09:15:55 am
Holy Crap, I thought Elf had died or something.  Good to see you're still around.

People still play this game?   Did that new OP+ every become standard?

Hey DH how's it goin?  What are you playing for games these days?

DDO now (Dungeons and Dragons Online) is my current drug of choice.  We tried getting an SFC turn-based campaign going a few years ago but it kinda faded.  Just too much effort required for the reward.

it's a shame as this was the best combat system in any game I've every seen, I only hope one day somebody else runs with the IP and makes something modern.

I remember the work you were doing on it DH. It is in my little notes of to be done.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #31 on: February 27, 2012, 02:43:22 am »
I played back alot of SFC:OP back in the day; I remember you Darkelf do you guys remember what happened to ghostrider? I logged onto my old gamespy account under XmarksdaELf and Sonofkorhal and I have Netman on my friendslist aswell as other kbf members. I was apart of a new clan back in the day calld KOL and then I started to affiliate with the Elf on the Op servers on gamespy; there were only a select few of us with elf at the end of names at that time; I used to Dynaverse alot aswell and plan on loading it back up and trying to catch up with some old friends
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #32 on: March 20, 2012, 12:34:22 am »
Ah, Ronin.  You're bringin' a tear to my eye.  Man, I miss the good old days (grief and all).
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #33 on: March 20, 2012, 07:14:53 pm »
Quote from: FPF-DarkElf on November 22, 2011, 10:01:01 pm
Glad to see so many people still doing well!

Does anyone think we could drag enough people out of hiding to run a small server?

Maybe more than you might expect, considering......

*winks*

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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #34 on: March 28, 2012, 04:43:04 pm »
Wanderer, Capt. Jeff, DieHard123 and Dizzy all walk into a bar...

I wrote a story about that one. ;)

Wow, cool buncha peeps posting in this thread. I hope that server hits warp speed, Frey.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #35 on: March 30, 2012, 08:59:34 pm »
Quote from: Dizzy on March 28, 2012, 04:43:04 pm
Wanderer, Capt. Jeff, DieHard123 and Dizzy all walk into a bar...

I wrote a story about that one. ;)


That has the potential to be one of those legendary nights people talk about for twenty years.  ;D  I'd love to hear your take, Dizzy.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #36 on: April 02, 2012, 12:25:00 pm »
Quote from: FA Frey XC on March 20, 2012, 07:14:53 pm
Quote from: FPF-DarkElf on November 22, 2011, 10:01:01 pm
Glad to see so many people still doing well!

Does anyone think we could drag enough people out of hiding to run a small server?

Maybe more than you might expect, considering......

*winks*

Regards,

At this point in time do we really still need "subtle" hints?
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #37 on: April 08, 2012, 01:01:53 am »
Subtle hints are what a girl always uses.....our fingers aren't large so we have to be careful how we wrap you men around them.

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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #38 on: April 08, 2012, 10:13:58 pm »
SFC: EAW Community Edition has seen some significant progress recently. This is the version for sale on D.NET for $6, the original SFC:EAW. This work will be a patch, or standalone installer for that.

I don't know how much is 'under wraps', but some information Frey has stated in other threads already is that the code for SFC:CE has been ported to Visual Studio 2010 (which is a significant undertaking). This has allowed us to repair some old bugs. Among them is a working Dynaverse on Windows Vista/7/8, and more.

I hope soon to be involving Beta testers to help find bugs related to the conversion. Most of the big stuff is just about worked out.

PS: There is a reason Frey is *hinting* at the server upgrades.
http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php/topic,163392513.msg1123031219.html#msg1123031219
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #39 on: April 10, 2012, 01:43:07 pm »
More details please, is it stable?  Does it's D2 run on modern OSs?  Can we get more than 3v3 in a fleet?  is it still using peer-2-peer or finally going client server?

Unless legal issues are preventing it, and with SVC's IP involved that wouldn't surprise me, the more details the better.
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Re: It's been awhile!
« Reply #40 on: April 10, 2012, 01:48:19 pm »
Right now the focus is on a stable build with everything that worked in XP working in Vista/7/8. No new features at this time.

This is a patch to EAW. Not SFC 4, unfortunately.

Right now the team is small. But right now the new version runs, albiet with a few bugs, but they are being sorted out with time. The serverkit is also being updated. But that is just newly started and more preliminary.

The benefit to being in VS2010 is it is easier for us to manage and find old/new bugs and fix them. The down side is that EAW did not have the the balance fixes OP did.
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