Some changes in the background

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## Some changes in the background

a) I noticed that the script I used for the Engines, Tools and Wads Archives listings was “slightly” outdated. So I updated it and also fixed the file filters. There are many more files shown now, especially engines.

b) I changed the urls for the news posts to fancy-shmancy ones. That will probably give search engines tickly feelings when crawling. If you notice anything being broken, please tell me. I do need to find a way to make the map descriptions themselves more known though. Only Yahoo has decent results. Apparently using XML/XSLT was a very bad idea when it comes to search engines…

c) Not many will know, but I’ve been hosting files for the now long-abandoned Q1C (Quake 1 Complete) project for several years. Some german guys packaged a couple of maps, mods, engines etc with .bat files for an easy-to-use glittery “eye-candy” thing. The reason why I am mentioning this is that I will delete the files next week. If you want to grab them: q1c/Q1C_R1.zip (700 Megabytes) and q1c/Q1C_R2.zip (210 Megabytes). Unless you are a obsessive collector, you won’t have any need for this. Hey, I won’t keep them, isn’t that a sign for being on the mend?

x) Is any KDE user visiting this site? Could you tell me if Konqueror renders the map description pages correctly (like this) or does it just display the plain text? Cheers.

y) The FOV poll is idiotic as metlslime pointed out. I don’t have a good idea for a new one at the moment, shout if you do.

z) Yes, I have to update both the maps and the speedmapping listings… Motivate me!

01.03.2009 in quaddicted.com | 11 Comments »

### 11 Responses to “Some changes in the background”

1. rudl Says:
   01.03.2009 17:36

   Tested with Konqueror 4.1.4
   plain text

2. Wilem Says:
   01.03.2009 18:59

   “Hey, I won’t keep them, isn’t that a sign for being on the mend?”

   You could shoot them up onto Quaketastic if you wanted to have somewhere to store them.

3. Spirit Says:
   01.03.2009 19:33

   rudl: Damn, seems like Konqueror is stupid. :)

   Willem: No, thanks. I don’t consider it worth archiving.

4. lazy_bum Says:
   01.03.2009 20:43

   Konqueror 4.2.0 plain text

5. negke Says:
   01.03.2009 22:12

   Play Quake Live with me, you gaywad!

   If you managed to motivate yourself enough to write this news post, you should also be capable of updating the two listings?

6. Spirit Says:
   01.03.2009 22:32

   I played some Quake Live earlier today, also sent you a friend request back but it was eaten by a stupid bug. Since I always have to “cross-boot” I rarely play.

   And yes. I should! Maybe tomorrow, heh.

   About Konqueror, I discovered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers#Web_technology_support earlier and decide to just not waste any more thoughts on it. :)

7. rudl Says:
   01.03.2009 22:54

   I prefer Opera anyway ;)

8. Ron Says:
   03.03.2009 09:08

   Hello there,

   Thanks for making this website, it’s the most complete site for Quake related stuff, and you don’t have to log in with Fileplanet, that’s a big plus too.

   I have a question, maybe one of you can help me with. A couple of years ago I found this tool for making a spiral staircase in Worldcraft. All you needed to do was give 2 values, 1 for the number of stairs and the other, ehm, I forgot what the other was for. Anyway, if I remember correctly it was created by the people/person who made the Demon King mod, but I’m not sure about that. If anyone still has that tool, could you please share it with me, I could really use it.

   Thanks,

   Ron

9. Spirit Says:
   03.03.2009 17:40

   Thanks for the kind words!

   No idea. Try asking here: http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=4&start=8285 (just copy’n'paste in the form at the bottom and submit)

10. Ron Says:
    06.03.2009 11:10

    Thanks, I’ll have a look around there.
    Keep up the good work !

11. metlslime Says:
    04.04.2009 07:48

    uh oh… you’ve been forum-spammed.

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