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Offline Sirbomber

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« Reply #25 on: February 23, 2010, 11:48:17 PM »
Great, now we gotta get somebody to apologize to Dan Duncalf...
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Offline Kayedon

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« Reply #26 on: February 24, 2010, 12:16:54 AM »
@CK9: Why not both?
@SirBomber: Well, censors have always been evaded. And they will be. FOR TEEM MEES HALl! *insert Blaeyargh thing I can't remember how to spell*

Also, let's do an "Apology for rash members who disregard public suggestions petition."
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« Reply #27 on: February 24, 2010, 01:20:19 AM »
...naw, I highly doubt it's a case of both.  I think #2 is more likely.

and everyone who has bugged Dan for the source code sould get together to compose a formal appology.
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« Reply #28 on: February 24, 2010, 02:49:20 AM »
"Greeting, Dan Duncalf.

I'd like to apologize on behalf of Member Name #1, Member Name #2, etc. etc. from Outpost Universe for constantly harassing you for source code."

Thank you,
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Offline Larrythepoet

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« Reply #29 on: February 24, 2010, 03:45:10 PM »
On his website he said he would divulge an easter egg if someone could beat him 1 on 1 at Outpost. I asked him if the challenge  still stood today and he sent this:

""Just checked my web page, and couldn't believe that challenge is still there.  If there are any easter eggs, or cheats not already documented, I don't even remember them.  I was happy however, that nobody found the cheats, they actually had to be provided.  Dan's dog referred to Dan White's dog.  It was an inside joke on the team.  I could be wrong... but I think Santa appears in similar circumstances to the dog, but when the date is 12/25 and involves a different terrain type and tick modulo.  Since there are a few assembly guys on the board, have them set breakpoints around GetSystemTime and/or GetLocalTime and that may give them some insight.

-- Dan""

I'll stop talking to him now :P  
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Offline Spikerocks101

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« Reply #30 on: February 24, 2010, 03:48:13 PM »
I recall Hooman found that out.
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« Reply #31 on: February 24, 2010, 04:13:52 PM »
Hooman already unearthed Dan's Dog (easter egg version). There's references to Santa, but it was unimplemented/unexposed.
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« Reply #32 on: February 24, 2010, 06:23:25 PM »
Did he ever figgure out the trigger for either one?
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« Reply #33 on: February 24, 2010, 06:32:09 PM »
The dog: http://forum.outpost2.net/index.php?showtopic=3958 .

Santa still walks......
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« Reply #34 on: February 24, 2010, 06:44:17 PM »
oh yea, duh, lol
 
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« Reply #35 on: February 28, 2010, 10:54:19 PM »
Whats this part about "dan's dog" got to do with anything?
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« Reply #36 on: February 28, 2010, 10:56:28 PM »
LOL just answered my question :D
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« Reply #37 on: March 01, 2010, 12:04:54 AM »
I have absolutely tons of time to actually try and recreate the source code, now if only I knew how to actually code...  <_<

~Conestoga  :op2:  
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« Reply #38 on: March 01, 2010, 12:29:13 AM »
step one: go to your local barns and noble
step two: look in the coding book section
step three: sit down with one of the books and read it until you understand it

I've actually seen some decent sketches there from people who had nowhere else to go, heh
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« Reply #39 on: March 01, 2010, 02:24:13 AM »
We should add a new rule to the forum signup process: "Don't pester the game creators for source code". :P

That Santa Walking info is interesting. It'd be nice to figure that one out. There's only one place where those Windows API functions are called. It seems to be from some standard C library code. That code is only called from 3 places. I haven't noticed anything too interesting looking so far though, other than one of those places being when saving games. I can't think of any reason to get the time when saving games, particularly since I didn't see any saved game times listed in any of the dialog boxes.


I'd been tempted to take up Dan on that offer a while back, but I suspected the page was somewhat old and the challenge game unlikely to happen. I always assumed that challenge was regarding the cheats, but I'm not so sure anymore. We know there are 4 cheats, and we've found 4 text strings that activate all of them, but we don't really know what the 4th one is officially. We just found a somewhat random string using a brute force dictionary attack for that one. It would have been nice to know what the "official" 4th string was though. The first 3 are posted all over the net.
 
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Offline Sirbomber

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« Reply #40 on: March 01, 2010, 07:40:16 AM »
The fourth cheat is "Dan's truck could crate more stormy." and I don't care if anyone else says otherwise.  Let's instead focus on unleashing SantaWalking upon New Terra!
« Last Edit: March 01, 2010, 07:57:43 AM by Sirbomber »
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