My, what a nice blog this is, and what a huge picture this is to put in a blog. Oh well, never mind,for a first post, this seems okay. It is a little getting used to, though, a lot of unknowns when I start. But I hope we can have a good site with this here system. The picture? From Thief 3.
We have revamped the site a bit, hope you like it. If there are some small left overs of the previous site, then our apologies.
Captain speaking here. We found a new host that delivers more options (and hopefully more stability). First impressions have been excellent, so I have high hopes. If you see this message, it means the DNS has propagated, and the move has been completed. There might be some minor inconveniences here and there that have to do with the move, but everything will be okay in the end.
Here’s a nifty gem for you! EarthClock is a little app by Arjan Dikhoff (Captain Corny) that displays a realtime view of the earth, and overlays a clock. That’s all! The realtime view is accomplished by downloading images every 5 minutes from “Earth and Moon viewer” by John Walker. Basically, you can watch the earth slowly revolving from a choice of views, and it’s a clock too. Version 1.0 Beta introduces some nice eye-candy, which unfortunately comes with some pretty expensive image manipulations (alpha-blending and most notably bilinear filtering). The good news is that EarthClock is now skinnable (see readme.txt for information for creating skins)! Grab this shiny pearl at the EarthClock page where you will also find screenshots and more information!
Just for fun, Mr.Mouse snapped some shots of old c64 progs that were created back in the late 1980’s-early 1990’s under the USB and XeNTaX label. 😛 My my, wasn’t that bad! 😀 Well, perhaps only all bad until 1991…
For any interested in that, Mr.Mouse uploaded his programming CV, listing the things he coded over the years. From the pre-teen age of 9 until now. 😉 Good to find a hint of quality progression in there. 😛
Only two weeks after the very first release of XeNTaX’ open source project OpenMex we are proud to release the next alpha installment! Version 0.2 offers you increased functionality and more game resource archives (GRAs) to explore! Now you can open HALO *.MAP, Lock On *.CDDS and Sacrifice *.WAD GRAs! Here’s the detailed release info by programmer Captain:
Michael W. Zuurman set up the open Game Resource Archive Format (OpenGRAF) database to make public all known GRAFs in the community. In addition, its purpose is to reveal all GRAFs that are supported by the old MultiEx Commander and the new and shiny OpenMex! It will slowly but steadily grow in time, because it takes time to write it down (all 100+ formats). Anyone who has knowledge of a GRAF (game resource archive format), please send in this information so we can include it! Oh and if you’re wondering why we took the cross of a grave as the OpenGRAF symbol, translate “grave” into Dutch and you will get “graf” 🙂
We have now opened a new Games Discussion forum on XeNTaX Forums, and you are welcome to post anything game related there. The rules are not that strict, because we are not a commercial institution. We do this for fun. Click to go to the forum!
The XeNTaX History can now be viewed again at this page. It will be updated if more information is available. For now we have listed the major events. Click to read the whole story and who is and was XeNTaX over the years.
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