Chronic Logic

Yeah, but X-Chat rocks for people who know what they're doing. Why futz around with all that bizarre mIRC plugin stuff when you can write perl code and it just works? 8-) Mmmm, perl.

Anyway, back to our previously established irc-client-bashing.  Just because mIRC happens to have some IRC networks hard-coded into it (bleck) does not mean that every IRC client has every IRC network hard coded into it. Someone might be at work, not have mIRC, and would have to use a Java client. They might use Mac's at work. They might even run *gasp* Linux! 8-)

--Rob

Edit: I just checked. X-Chat is aware of the existance of quake-net, along with the several hundred other networks it's aware of.  It was quicker for me to google for quakenet, find the server list, and type /server foo.blah.bleck into the server tab. But I'm a fast reader and typer.

(Edited by robt at 3:23 pm on Oct. 3, 2002)

And for those that have never heard of quakenet, and wouldn't have the faintest idea where to find a server to connect to...

http://staff.quakenet.org/servers.phtml

--Rob

I was going to reply and say 'Yeah, well, look, I did a /ctcp version of the #linux channel on oz.org', because it's a bit unfair getting voting from a windows site, but I did do that and mIRC was still dominant. So I'll just shut up 8-)

However, I'm going to find an x-chat site with a vote and post that! Hah! 8-)

--Rob

Oh yes, so there is. *blush* But I was playing with Wine last night upgrading it to the latest versions to match Mandrake 9 etc..
I -did- manage to get it to work, eventually. Turned out I was just being impatient, there is a -very- long (eg, about 1 minute) startup time!
It did work, but for some reason didn't seem to grab the mouse properly, and I still had my X-win cursor in the middle of the screen, which was bouncing around in a strange manner, as though it was getting every second mouse event or something like that. Odd. Pontifex I works properly, in that the X-win cursor vanishes, leaving me with the pontifex 'X' cursor.
I'm going to have to download the triptych linux version now 8-)

--Rob

I've been fiddling around with wine, trying to get it to play PFX2 under 2.4.19.. PFX1 runs like a dream, as smooth as silk and a pleasure to play... But PFX2 (and, for that matter, triptych) seem to 'lock up' a section (640x480) in the  middle of the screen.. I can move windows around, but that section of the screen is frozen in place until I ^C wine.

FYI, it's a mandrake9 box (with freshly recompiled DRI/X/Kernel), athlon 1.6G (2000+) Radeon 8500..

--Rob

Seems to be an issue with SDL grabbing the mouse. I tried a few other Win32/SDL games adn they all seemed to have various issues. So I s'pose I should tell the wine guys about it, but pfft. I can wait for the Linux PontifexII. I can. Honest. Do you need a tester? 8-)

Oh, and it crashed when I tried to alt-tab back to it to find out what level I was on..

OK.. I'm on Medium 3, and joints don't seem to work. I try to build a bridge, I realise that the new items 'pull' when it's time to raise the bridge, but I can't seem to specify where I want the bridge to open at.. I tried clicking on where I want a joint to be and pushing 'j' (which flashed 'setjoint') but nothing happened.
Also, a hardware issue. I'm running an Athlon 2000+, with a Radeon 8500.. A reasonably grunty system.. Yet, at 1024x768 fullscreen, it's very very jerky.
Should there be a 'bugs' forum? 8-)

--Rob

Well, I've gone and downloaded Mandrake 9 and upgraded my entire linux distro just to make sure that I'm going to be up to date and ready to play the Linux client!

Any guestimate on how far away the linux client is?

--Rob

It's actually the 18th here now (Australia) -- I was hoping to wake up and find a new pontifex for me to play with! Argh. But that's ok, I'm patient 8)