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[visi.com] 
Login name: nathan    			In real life: Nathan Mates
Directory: /home/nathan             	Shell: /bin/tcsh
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Job: Network Programmer, Battlezone 2, developed by Pandemic Studios http://www.pandemicstudios.com , published by Activision http://www.activision.com [Note: in this, I am *NOT* speaking officially for either of those, I'm only speaking for myself.]

5/13/00: One of the major annoyances with the 1.2 beta series (now up to b27) is an occasional 'All players lost recyclers and factories' early exit from a MPI game when this is not the case. This has been reported a bunch of times, but it's always seemingly random. If at all possible, those of you with b27, I'd like to see if you can get a case of this that happens fairly reliably.

[And there's no info in the .log file about this; don't bother sending those in. A recording might have enough info to nail it down; if you put

/record earlyexit.bin

on the BZ2 shortcut properties line (not console), and exit to windows between games (to refresh that record file), that may work.]

5/5/00: Drop by http://www.pandemicstudios.com/bzii/downloads.htm for a little bit of a new treat. I quote from that page:

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Wondered how to make a multiplayer DLL for Battlezone 2? Wondering how to make a DLL compatible with BZ2 1.2? [Not officially released yet] Check out this handy archive, which includes the complete source code for BZ2 1.2's Deathmatch DLL, and a MS Visual C++ project to build it. This is unsupported source code, but should provide a good start to making your own.

--- snip

Have fun!

5/3/00: While the 1.2 patch for BZ2 has *NOT* officially yet been released, I've updated my nettips document at http://www.visi.com/~nathan/bz2/nettips.html to cover some of the things in it. [Obligatory disclaimer: The features of 1.2 are subject to change, and this document may not bear any resemblance to the official 1.2 patch.] Don't ask me where to find it, but some of the fansites and discussion boards have links to the leaked betas.

This is the 468th access this week, and the 1550th access since May 17th, 2002.

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