New network testground

My family has 3 routers. An old D-Link, a new Linksys N router, and another router that looks like a mac. After cleaning out my closet, I moved all my old computers, the old PC, an old iMac running Yellow Dog Linux (Soon to be ubuntu) and the iBook into the closet, and networked in with the router that looks like a mac (white and clear plastic and sort of round.) I am now making a rather small network and testing nfs and various other things on the network. I haven’t connected the closet router to the outside internet, but I can use a mac laptop to inject the wireless signal into an ethernet wire to install software. An interesting and continuing experiment. Expect more updates.

Filed under: Computers, Linux, Mac, Networking, Technology, Ubuntu

Aquaria #2

Hi all,

 

Well, we are on beta 3 of aquaria, and the beta testers have gotten licenses  to go beyond the demo area. This is very exciting and I have gotten pretty far. I am stuck on the fish cave, and how to get the song, and also on the Sun Temple boss. Thinking of getting an account on the Bit-Blot forums to ask for help.

     About 5 more weeks until school starts, This year should be better than last, had the worst teacher I ever had last year, any way, enough of chatting, let’s get talking.

    At the end of the year, I had promised my self that I would buy a variety of things, including Guild Wars. Now GW is a windows only  game, but, I have CrossOver Games. CrossOver is a port of Wine to mac, the version I got was made specifically for games. My name character’s name is Indigo Casson, if anybody wants to say hello.

     I have found a very nice wordpress theme called Duffy. It looks very nice and has a kind of olden time look, as well as a kind of fantasy medieval theme. If you search on google for “infocreek free wordpress themes”, you should get it, it is about the second theme down on the list. Unfortunately, I cannot use my own themes on wordpress.com, so I must wait for until I have a website of my own.

 

Good Luck,

 

-Indigo

Filed under: Gaming, Life, Mac

New stuff in Life

Hi all

 

Still no new news from Ambrosia. While browsing the thread where the aquaria beta testers hang out until the beta is released, it was mentioned that CodeWeavers have released CrossOver. With it, they made CrossOver Games. CrossOver Games is design specifically for games and for the ones they support, it works perfectly. Now, there is a linux and mac version, so I can test the app. For a long time, some friends of mine have played Guild Wars for some time. Now me, not having the required PC, couldn’t play with them. I went through a tenuous time during last summer because I was trying to duel boot my mac using Boot Camp, so I could play Guild Wars with them. This failed, and the only reason I didn’t blog about this is because I had a back up, so I didn’t lose anything really important. So, when I heard that I might be able to play with them, I immediately downloaded and installed the app. I had an old Guild Wars installer lying around from some experiments with my other, out dated, PC (these didn’t work.) I gave the app the installer, and after hanging around for a bit, it spit out a working version of Guild Wars. I could see the login screen, read the news, even look longingly at the place where I might put in my access code. But no, I didn’t have any access code, so I quit the app. Then I remembered that my friends might have had some demo keys for Guild Wars lying about, so I asked them if they did. They said that they didn’t have any keys, and that they were amazed that I had gotten GW working on my mac. I tried some other apps, but they didn’t work, so, I tried installing Half Life 2. Well, I needed an installer for that, and I didn’t want to go hunting for one, so I gave up that. I also tried the PC version of Aquaria, but that wouldn’t install, so I am back to square two, because I have a way, to play a game, just I don’t have a game. Well, thats all for now, bye!

 

-Indigo

 

A.K.A Geeklob

Filed under: Gaming, Life, Linux, Mac

Aquaria

Hi all,

Last Wednesday, (the 23 of April). I had a dream. This dream had me at school, checking the Ambrosia Software website, where then had announced the release of Aquaria for Mac. Aquaria is a cool side scroller, the windows version of which, was made by Bit-Blot. When I woke up from this dream, I got up, and checked the Ambrosia Upcoming Page. Ambrosia’s Upcoming Page is where the Ambrosia team say what games they have coming up in the near future, along with beta, alpha, and release candidate information, plus a little blurb on the game or utility. The page said that the game was in closed beta, when it had previously been in alpha. It included a link to a thread on the Ambrosia Forums where you could get more information. I clicked on the link, wanting to get into the closed beta. This thread had information on where I could email, what to put in the title, and what to put in the body, if I wanted to apply to be a beta tester. I, of course, sent off my email detailing the needed information. Here is a transcript:

I have an iMac core 2 duo, and a 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel. I have the latest version of tiger (10.4.10 or 11).

I really hope that I get to beta test. I had a dream that evolved aquaria, so I check the website.

-Indigo Casson

Yeah, I was in a hurry. For the rest of Wednesday, and most of thursday, I waited, check my email constantly. finally, at 4:44, on Thursday, Apr 24, 2008, I got the email. It said that I was accepted, and I would be getting an email in about a week. I told my family, and now I wait. Still no email as of 4:18, on Saturday, the 26th. Here are a few videos for your entertainment:

So that is 7 minuets of Aquaria game play. Good bye, Good Luck, Have Fun!

-Indigo

A.K.A Geeklob

Filed under: Gaming, Life, Mac, Technology, cool stuff , Mac, Aquaria, Ambrosia Software, Bit-Blot

hi all

what i got for christmas. a lot of stuff

1. Sketch Fighter 4000 Alpha
2. Lineform

and a lot of books and stuff that i don’t remember. my mom got an ipod, and an extremely discounted MacBook Pro. she loves it. you may have noticed that there where some test posts that i did from textmate! i can’t edit any posts on it but i can post :Di have gotten a lot of tech books.

1. Unix for Mac
2. Linux in a Nutshell
3. Programing Ruby
4. Ubuntu for non-geeks

i am steadily chewing through item 1 and item 3 and i should review item 4. i need a new ipod. i think it would be a video ipod. i don’t yet need an iphone but it would be cool. what with all the cool new features.i am using parallels a lot.

i am getting into magnets. i saw on mythbusters, some hockey puck sized mega-magnet. so strong that the used metal bars and leverage to get them loose! it is really cool and it would be fun to have some very power magnets

Indigo

Filed under: Life, Linux, Mac

Sketch Fighter 4000 Alpha movie

hi all

I have some more links for Sketch Fighter 4000 Alpha movies, there are only two of them and they are rather out of date but they are still cool. check them out!

movie 1

movie 2

I think that this will me an awesome game. check in here in the future for more updates!

Indigo

Filed under: Entertainment, Gaming, Mac

Tribal Trouble one of the best RTSs out there! (digg story)

great game. cross platform, Windows, Linux, and Mac can play! and it has multiplayer! you should realy check it out!
no realy, you chould check it out!

read more | digg story

Filed under: Articles, Gaming, Linux, Mac, Technology, cool stuff

Sketch Fighter 4000 Alpha

hi all

if you haven’t noticed , i am a total mac geed, and, that i like good games for the mac. well, Ambrosia software has released some really cool screen shots of a new game that lost minds is developing. it is called Sketch Fighter 4000 Alpha. long name for such a cool game.
here is a quote from their website.

Remember those super-cool space ships you doodled on graph paper, waging massive intergalactic battles in History class with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance? Well they have sprung to life in Sketch Fighter 4000 Alpha! Bringing together line artwork created with One Pen together with a killer resolution independent OpenGL graphics engine may seem like an odd juxtaposition… that is until you give Sketch Fighter 4000 Alpha a whirl! (from the ambrosia upcoming section)

it is not very well know but the progress log has had 18,228 views. i have been asking on Redline multiplayer if anybody has heard of it but no one has. but here are some of the key elements

—– Audio —–
* Original sound-effects with stereo panning
* Original seven song mp3 soundtrack

—– Gameplay 1P —–
* Save stations to save your progress
* Minimap showing what areas you’ve explored
* Five interconnected different regions to explore
(The Wasteland, The Factory, The Volcano, The Ice Caves and The Forest)
* Seven major bosses and four mini-bosses
* Weapon system with four base colors and four delivery methods, making 16 weapon combinations
* Missiles, shield and ship upgrades

—– Gameplay 2P —–
* Cooperative or competitive play
* Six different arenas for both modes of play (one of which is unlocked when you finish the one player game)
* Elastic tether connect the players for unique gameplay (came from the ambrosia forums )

you can check out the screenshots in my flickr set. you can see the progress log here. I think that it is going to be awesome. if you really like good games, you should check out Ambrosia’s other software and games here

Indigo

Filed under: Entertainment, Gaming, Mac, Technology, cool stuff

iClip lite

hi all

this my first review on this blog and i hope it goes well!

iClip lite
iclip lite is a widget version of iClip. basically, what it does is it unloads your clipboard into a cind of a well. i have found it very useful.

it doesn’t any settings but its usability makes up for that, over all, it is a very creditable little widget

GL

Filed under: Mac, Technology

2006 macworld and dalmations

hi all

ah 2006! i am going to the macworld expo next week. it is going to be fun! im listining to 101 dalmations. i just started. i am going to the market with my father soon.

GL

Filed under: Books/Movies, Mac