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Sat here writhing in agony with my neck and back, but anyway, it's been a while, been really busy... well not really. This evening I was playing BF2 and was having usual lag problems and for some reason, I decided to try it in single player in very high res, 1280x1024 in fact, I was surprised to see the game run quite well and looked great, so I had a thought, maybe my recent problems with BF2 aren't necessarily hardware related... sooo I launched the server browser and found a low ping Karkand server - Super Infantry Clan, the game loaded no problem and to my utter amazement the game was running... not just running, but was running better than I have ever had it running, great hitreg, nice graphics (bear in mind from the screenshot below I hadn't turned anti-aliasing on). Click the image below for the original screenshot (JPEG 147KB).


In other news, my application for a Flex Builder 3 licence was accepted, thank you Adobe! Also, I may very possibly be joining EAF... Speaking of BF2, I'm just 4000 points away from ranking up to Sergeant Major! Soon I will have crossed the 30k gap, and after that, just 10k points later is my butter bar (2nd lieutenant)! Codeined up now to the eyeballs, I'll leave you with the news that I am considering changes to HWDN, including making a nice new design and adding a BF2 leaderboard module to the main page. Oh yeah - I'm getting rid of AdSense for HWDN, it's just not economically viable and it screws up my HTML validity!

If you're an unemployed developer, you can apply for Adobe Flex Builder 3 at https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/. I'm not sure exactly how Adobe decide if you're accepted or not for the unrestricted (for personal use) version, but in the mean time the program will work for 60 days, of course, I applied, I'll keep you updated if I get any news...

Started work on HWDN today, cleaning up layout, reverted to XHTML 1.0 Strict, adding new pages, adding custom error pages, making a header image and navigation and generally improving the site. Thought about reusing the old HWDUDN (Hellwrath.ubersource.net) layout from 2007, although probably won't. Oh yeah, ads have returned, courtesy of Google, I have decided on having one large graphical ad at the bottom of each page and am pretty sure it doesn't spoil the site too much, I'm hoping the ads will bring in at least a few pence that can go towards funding my hosting for HWDN and my other sites.

So, yesterday I got round to reinstalling 'Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now' on my W2K machine, to my dismay however, I had trouble running the game, when starting the carma2.exe launcher it gave me the options of either 'Direct Draw Software' or 'Direct 3D' with '3DFX (Glide)' greyed out, I tried Direct 3D, the game loaded up and I started the race, I think the graphics were terrible, very low res, worse was to come, after about 3 minutes, the game froze and annoyingly I had to reboot my PC.

Next, I figured there would be a patch, so I went to the SCI Games page and downloaded the Carmageddon 2 patch. Anyway this didn't help much, so to cut a long story short I have now got Carmageddon 2 running on my Windows 2000 machine in high resolution using Glidewrapper, after installing it, I could then run the launcher as usual, select '3DFX (Glide)' and lo and behold - I was playing Carmageddon 2 in glorious 1280x960 resolution! Take a look at the screenshot below and see for yourself! What a game!

I'm sorry, I don't know either... but here it is.