[Risu2112]

Okay, first off sorry for the lack of updates, I slacked on the project over the last week or so but I'm back in action now.

I've got my self thinking again, I really botched up the PE screen, gonna take a few hours of work to get it running again..

Now while I was messing every thing up, I managed to change some things. Most notibly is the planet lander no longer has a robot cruising around in the buffer, the robot is stationary, and fakes it's existance with counters and overlays. (this made it a little faster and cleaned some stuff up).

Now, hot spots still piss me off.
I am gonna try to change them again. Rather than have them generated in the buffer, they will be generated on the player view screen. (using the counters for detection). I wanted to do it this way at first, but the screen scrolls with the lander so it was a pain. however now I am thinking I can pull it off, if I can, hot spots will be like they were in SC2, where something of a arc of fire will trace around the screen and wreak havoc on your lander if they collide. (right now its stationary jets of flame shoot out of the ground without warning.)


Whatever, hope this works, :\

[Risu2112]

it STILL cuts off the first post on a page any hope to get this fixed?

[Kuddy]

And yet it only happens in this thread.

[qwertie]

Maybe its cause the thread was started when that bug existed.
Starting a new thread might fix it , ya never know.

[Risu2112]

So I was installing Mechwarrior 4 Mercs that came out the other day. Got as far as 65% complete when the installation was interupted by a significant cloud of smoke comming from my hard drive.

more to come.

[Kuddy]

Oh, crap. Not again.

[asgromo]

Ohhh my god. First- calm down. Second- tell us how much you lost.

[qwertie]

MY GOD! NOT AGAIN! HOLY CRAP! NOOOOO.

[joshdw1]

Do you have backups?

[Risu2112]

Okay, here is the deal.

Old hard drive is shot, I managed to pull a few files off of it, but when it came to SFmzx it was no good.
I have lost everything megazeux, save for 3 charactersets and a sam file (all of which aren't even part of SFmzx.)

Yes, this sucks. Yes, I did lose EVERYTHING. And yes, There will still be SFmzx

Over the last 9 months (after initial problems with the hard drive) SFmzx has been backed up 7 times on 5 different computers. However the most recent update is about 2-3 months old and it's gonna be tricky to get.

If I cannot get that copy of it, I have already succeded in getting an older (~5 month old) back up. I will hold out for the newer one still.

All of the back ups are in various states of disrepair, so this will definatly add some serious time till the release of the game.

BUT REJOYCE! FOR DESPITE THESE SET BACKS I WILL STILL WORK ON THE GAME!

[asgromo]

Well, I'm happy you're still working...

[GetDizzy]

/me has a nervous breakdown

[Risu2112]

Okay, got my hands on the most promising back up so far, the game was dated 8-1-02 so about 3 months ago, there is a more recent one that I will still look for, in the mean time this Journal will prove MOST valueble because I can go back to that date and see exactly where the hell I was at .

[Revvy]

Damn it, this was so promising. Good luck Kenokhi.

[Steel_Dragoon2000]

do you have a readwrite cd drive? If not you should just use a few floppy disks to backup your game. I used to have problems with my hard drive, as some of you might remember, so I finally resorted to saving my game on 2 or 3 floppy disks.

[Risu2112]

I am almost ready to start working on the game again.
I still hope to track down my SC2 mods. no one has used them in a game.

Wait calen used one of them. I hate you calen

[qwertie]

You better start making weekly backups, or atleast monthly.

this is going to be so cool, It must have the longest devlopment time ive ever seen
in am game that i will ( or have ) played.

[Peeves]

Hey, I back up my game whenever I change it .

P.S. I lost one game in a hard-drive crash, now you know why I'm obsessed with back-ups.

[Steel_Dragoon2000]

So... How's the game going?

[bomber_nuke88]

Hmmm... I just read 8 pages of journal. Looks quite promising. Could we have an update? Pretty please?

-The Nuke

[Risu2112]

OKAY I DID IT! I got Mzx back on the computer and OPENED the backup of SFmzx.

I didn't actualy do any work, but I looked at it. I will probably look through some more of it tonight, and mabye might even get back to work!

[RoSS]

KenOhki2112, on Dec 7 2002, 04:39 PM, said:

OKAY I DID IT! I got Mzx back on the computer and OPENED the backup of SFmzx.

I didn't actualy do any work, but I looked at it. I will probably look through some more of it tonight, and mabye might even get back to work!

How old is the backup?

[Frobozz]

KenOhki2112, on Nov 10 2002, 11:48 PM, said:

Okay, got my hands on the most promising back up so far, the game was dated 8-1-02 so about 3 months ago, there is a more recent one that I will still look for, in the mean time this Journal will prove MOST valueble because I can go back to that date and see exactly where the hell I was at .

That's the most recent according to these posts Ross.

[Risu2112]

I have just been struck by a large wave of motivation..

[Risu2112]

Well heres what it looks like,

I will scrap most of the neat stuff that was lost in the HD crash, here is a list of things I AM going to fix from my current backup (subject to change without notice)

(mind you this list was twice as long before tonight)

• Stars in system are all jacked
  
• re establish the fuel cost to land on a planet
  
• Encounter detector needs lots of work (for hyper space)
  
• The component sale bug is back in full effect (sells your engines just for fun) gotta re-fix this
  
• The new font I made has to be reapplyed to all the character sets
  
• I might add the in system orbital paths back, they really did make the board look and preform better

Thats it for now, I'm sure there are like 10,000 other things that will creep up on me though.

[Risu2112]

hahaha I sat here playing SFmzx for 3 hours, thats pretty damn long considering I only have 2 planets accessible and 1 enemy ship type to fight I'll stress it again, the game may be a bitch to learn, but once you get a good understanding of it it's very addicting.

And now, BALANCE CHANGES!!! WOOO!!
(this is my favorite part)

*Cannons now take 50% longer to charge, (they are shooting to fast and over shadowing the shorter ranged harder hitting lasers)
*Cashback values, when you buy a new component for your ship, you can sell it back at 80% it's initial value (minus repair costs if you damaged it) this went up from only 66% This is a big one, because now you get more money back when you upgrade from say a class 2 laser to a class 3 laser. (I might even raise it to 90%)
*Hot charging the shields: A player may in sticky situation turn off his shields and recieve energy to his ship equal to the amount of shielding discharged (the more shield points you had the more energy you would get.) as it turns out, it gives you too much energy, so I'm gonna lower it by about 50%
*Escape push: as is you can run from a fight by pressing "Q" twice, when you do this your ship stops moving and you cannot fire. You remain vulnerable for a short period of time untill you warp out of combat (this process gulps down several units of fuel). I think you warp out to fast, so I am increasing the vulnerablitly time by 300%
* Combat salvage: If you are victorious in combat, you get free reign of all the scrap metal and junk from the defeated ship. I have roughly trippled the amount of salvage you get from wrecked ships (now you can pirate )

I'm sure I'll find more numbers to mess with shortly...

This post has been edited by KenOhki2112: 19 December 2002 - 11:22 AM

[RoSS]

/me salivates.

[Revvy]

Love it. Keep it up.

[GetDizzy]

Yumm.

Man, this is going to be right up there with Adlo and Weirdness in the best MZX games ever column.

[Risu2112]

Updated list (smaller now!), got a lot done tonight...

• Stars in system are all jacked
  
• re establish the fuel cost to land on a planet
  
• beautify starport.
  
• The new font I made has to be reapplyed to all the character sets
  
• I might add the in system orbital paths back, they really did make the board look and preform better

This post has been edited by KenOhki2112: 21 December 2002 - 10:49 AM