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Games / (spoilers) the stanley parable: ultra deluxe
« on: April 27, 2022, 10:15:35 PM »
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1703340/The_Stanley_Parable_Ultra_Deluxe/
played through the game today, quite an experience i must say
the bucket is easily the best character

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Games / postal 4 released
« on: April 21, 2022, 10:55:54 AM »

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Off Topic / all drama threads are now too old to be posted in
« on: April 19, 2022, 07:39:34 PM »
the drama thread with the most recent post in the board, https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=327806.0, is now too old to be posted in
world peace achieved

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i have been having a certain curiosity for a few years. you can see instances of this in some of my old threads from a few years back:

(2014) CHALLENGE: Get Blockland to run on low specs
(2015) [CHALLENGE] Run Blockland on extremely low specs (this one actually generated some pretty good responses)

the ultimate question that ive been having for a while is: what is the absolute bare minimum hardware that blockland (including v0002 and the retail versions) can be run on (as in the game boots to the main menu and loads freebuild without crashing or throwing some fatal error)? im not looking for the game to be perfectly playable per se, hell i'd count it even if the game crashes when you go and try to put a single brick down.

over the past couple years ive gotten access to some toys (including a 20 year old pc and the ability to use new emulators such as 86box). here is what i have found:
- blockland v0002 and its derivatives (e.g. rtb v1.045) can run on ridiculously old hardware. i managed to get v0002 running on an emulated i486dx2 (a cpu from 1992!), 3dfx voodoo2, and windows 95. you can see the results in the images below (click to expand):



- as for retail versions of blockland, i have managed to get v21 r2001 to run in the past on a machine with an 800mhz celeron, 512mb of ram, and a voodoo3. see below image:


please note: the below text gets quite technical on the details of running retail blockland on old stuff. it's fine if you don't understand most of this
with retail blockland things get tricky:
* no retail version of blockland can run on windows 9x (95/98/me) as far as my testing has gone and according to statements from badspot. kernelex (an extension of the 9x kernel that allows for a few somewhat newer programs to run) doesnt work either so there isnt really a chance here.
* retail versions from v1 to v13 natively support windows 2000, later versions require the patching in of dll files in order for the game to run on 2k. see a guide a wrote a couple of years back
* blockland v21 versions later than r2001 require windows 7 at minimum as a different version of visual studio is used among other changes intended to protect against rce exploits
* every attempt i have made to run retail blockland under emulation has resulted in failure. i have tested cpus ranging from the 486 to the pentium 3 (using an 86box fork called pcbox that adds support for it) and i have also used windows 2000 as the os + a combination of blockland versions v1.03 and v13 however despite this i get the below error thrown at me every time.

investigation into event logs seems to suggest that either retail blockland is trying to use non-existent cpu instructions (maybe it requires mmx/sse?) or in the case where these instructions are present there are simply bugs in the 86box/pcbox emulators that cause bl to fail to load. as such if any of you somehow still happen to have old ass pc hardware lying around that would be preferable


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Games / halo 3 servers are shutting down on january 13
« on: January 09, 2022, 12:42:00 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMxVGZDdFzU
on january 11, turn on your xbox 360/one/whatever and get back on
we're going out with a bang

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Off Topic / both bogdanoffs have died
« on: January 03, 2022, 11:51:57 AM »
https://www.nouvelobs.com/coronavirus-de-wuhan/20220103.OBS52819/igor-bogdanoff-est-mort-six-jours-apres-son-frere-jumeau-grichka.html#modal-msg (source is in french, Igor’s death is just breaking so english sources are lacking)
sminem wins

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Off Topic / todd and aaron's game awards 2021
« on: December 31, 2021, 09:42:09 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAgnBwcOKGw
returning to earth after being abducted during last year's awards, game critics todd and aaron give an insightful and inspirational review of the gaming and popular culture events of the past year.

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remember like last year when blockland went steam only because of that rce
an rce was found in log4j which is used in a stuffton of java applications for logging purposes, and it is apparently being actively exploited
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell
in regards to minecraft: server versions 1.7 to 1.18 are vulnerable and require version-dependent mitigations. https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/important-message--security-vulnerability-java-edition

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Off Topic / Whamageddon 2021 (game end)
« on: November 26, 2021, 07:09:43 AM »

since 2018, the forums has been regularly haunted by the spirit of wham. i arrive yet again to continue this field trip to whamhalla which will begin on december 1.
previous threads:
2020 - https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=326813
2019 - https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=324941
2018 - https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=321681

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Off Topic / john mcafee commits Self Delete
« on: June 23, 2021, 02:41:49 PM »
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/23/john-mcafee-found-dead-after-spanish-court-oks-extradition-for-tax-crimes-.html
you cannot make this stuff up
edit: whoever is running john mcafee's instagram account posted the Q letter minutes after his death and people are hunting me down
please send help

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Games / roblox is adding voice chat
« on: February 27, 2021, 01:04:48 PM »

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Games / splatoon 3
« on: February 17, 2021, 04:18:24 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUYDXVDLmns
open world borderlands-esque splatoon game apparently(???)
oh stuff here we go

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Off Topic / todd and aaron's game awards 2020
« on: January 02, 2021, 12:28:39 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17oED6DO1o
during these uncertain times, life has become increasingly difficult for gamers across the globe. in this informational content, todd and aaron discuss the important highlights of our past 365 days.

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Off Topic / Whamageddon 2020 - Over! Did you win?
« on: November 30, 2020, 06:50:46 AM »

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Games / minecraft CAVE UPDATE
« on: October 03, 2020, 11:16:16 AM »
releasing summer 2021


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