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The MAZZTer Death Star
Joined: 25 Sep 2003
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Posted: Feb 07, 2009 20:42 Post subject: |
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The forum was probably rebooted shortly before we all re-signed up :p
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Lionel Fouillen Gamorrean
Joined: 27 Sep 2003
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Posted: Feb 07, 2009 22:54 Post subject: |
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Exactly, the site engine (and maybe design as well) changed, hence we all had to resign up.
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Ghost Returns Ree-Yees
Joined: 29 Jan 2009
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 07:27 Post subject: |
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I can't recall when I first signed up for this site. I think it was about the time Hoerby came out with this trilogy. I kept trying to retrieve my old accounts a few years back, but they'd been inactive too long.
Good to see this site is still up.
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Lionel Fouillen Gamorrean
Joined: 27 Sep 2003
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 19:12 Post subject: |
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I first signed up in 1995 on a site called Ackbar's Homepage. That was the DF reference site back then. Then it disappeared but the community turned towards 2 new great sites: one from a webmaster named Geoffrey Elliott and another one called The Code Alliance. All this vanished as well.
I forgot exactly where DF-21 comes from. Isn't it the reviewed version of something else?
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Taton Trandoshan
Joined: 25 Sep 2003
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 19:36 Post subject: |
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If I recall correctly, the original site was called DF99. Scapey would know for sure.
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Burning Gundam Kell Dragon
Joined: 28 Sep 2003
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 21:41 Post subject: |
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I was under the impression it was the Crows Nest or something.
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The MAZZTer Death Star
Joined: 25 Sep 2003
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 21:51 Post subject: |
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Crows Nest was a different site that disappeared one day IIRC.
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Lionel Fouillen Gamorrean
Joined: 27 Sep 2003
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Ghost Returns Ree-Yees
Joined: 29 Jan 2009
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Posted: Feb 08, 2009 23:37 Post subject: |
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Yeah, it was Ackbar's homepage that had all the WAX and LFD files posted, along with all the levels.
I must've spent an aggregate of a couple weeks DLing levels from that site with my old 33.6kbps dial up.
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Jackson Dark Trooper Phase 2
Joined: 24 Sep 2003
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Ghost Returns Ree-Yees
Joined: 29 Jan 2009
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Posted: Feb 09, 2009 09:53 Post subject: |
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Heya Jackson. Yes, your name does ring a few bells. My how the years have flown by.
My first encounter with DF addons was... oh, let's see here... maybe close to a year after the game came out. That's when I got my latest edition of PCGamer, and there were a couple of Jason Burton's levels on the demo CD.
Then the DF community got up in arms about PC Gamer publishing their levels, and that's when I signed onto AOL and joined the DF community there circa late 1995 or 1996. I then moved to a different ISP when AOL was having their big meltdown. That's when I started to really explore the net, and that's about the time Ackbar's site went up.
That's when I discovered loads of user made levels. Some favorites; "Ties that Bind", "Lahara Hotel", "DF96", "Return to Hoth", "The Great Tatooine Water Hunt", and plenty others.
It feels good to be back. I won't post here like I did in the past, but will drop in on occasion.
I'm really looking forward to replaying all those levels with free look and accelerated graphics. Go Lucius.
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Emambu Dianoga
Joined: 17 Apr 2004
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Posted: Feb 10, 2009 05:46 Post subject: |
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Mattias on the other hand...
People like him are the reason I'll never trust anyone from Norway! But I do kinda remember you, as well as the drama surrounding Dark3D. You sure pick interesting topics to get us all reminiscing.
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Anyway, it's good to see this place still exists and there are still some familiar names floating about. I've been meaning to come back and check for a couple years now, but (shockingly) never seemed to get around to it. If that doesn't remind you who I am, nothing will.
The more things change, right Scape Goat? And I say that like I'm some staple on these forums, so I guess coming from me it should mean absolutely nothing. Still, good to see old schoolers checking in now and again, agreed. I eagerly await your reply to this message sometime in 2011.
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Scapegoat, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long long time. Your Ari G.'s second cousin right? Twice removed of course.
I always thought he Steve Buscemi's long lost brother...
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I first signed up in 1995 on a site called Ackbar's Homepage. That was the DF reference site back then. Then it disappeared but the community turned towards 2 new great sites: one from a webmaster named Geoffrey Elliott and another one called The Code Alliance. All this vanished as well.
Yep, Ackbar's Homepage was my first regular site in the DF community too. I think it was for a lot of people. Just like my first DF addon levels were some of Don Sielke's old ones, like Escape from Secbase II which I think was coded through a text editor. Definitely well before Yves Borckmans. I also frequented Tola Dalton's DF site a lot later on, since it was an accumulation of every addon released at the time. Anyone remember that site?
Oh, and hi to you all. In case you don't remember, or never went to the site, former reviewer from TACC here, putting in his two interested cents for DarkXL also. Saw the screens, read the description. I am very interested to see what comes of it. I still play DF from time to time, so I've always harbored a hope of seeing a game I recall so fondly get a well deserved face lift.
---Emambu
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Ghost Returns Ree-Yees
Joined: 29 Jan 2009
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Posted: Feb 10, 2009 22:51 Post subject: |
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Yeah, I know how to pick em
One of my favorite DF level authors/makers was Tim Smulders. I think he made "Return to Hoth" or "Icebase". It was a snow level that had lots of interesting custom textures. He also made an insanely difficult level for his personal use which he posted on his website (another DF site that's evaporated). Another fav
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Scape Goat Dark Trooper Phase 2
Joined: 23 Sep 2003
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Lionel Fouillen Gamorrean
Joined: 27 Sep 2003
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Posted: Feb 11, 2009 20:43 Post subject: |
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It's incredible that we are still here. The game was released in 1994, right? I hope this site and community never disappear...
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Burning Gundam Kell Dragon
Joined: 28 Sep 2003
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Posted: Feb 12, 2009 07:20 Post subject: |
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This seems to be the hot topic these days, and the similarities are so striking that I just have to post this.
Stephen Fowler
English version of Mattias Wellander.
I don't care too much for reality TV, but after hearing about this guy I watched a YouTube link posted midway that was of last week's episode of Wife Swap. I noticed the same bashing and elitist attitude that Mattias had. Sad to know that people like that actually exist.
But I have to be fair. A lot of what this guy put this poor woman through is probably much worse than what Mattias put some of us through.
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Lionel Fouillen Gamorrean
Joined: 27 Sep 2003
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Posted: Feb 12, 2009 08:00 Post subject: |
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We should make a new add-on level for DF. Mission title: "Opening old wounds". Who could create a WAX file of Mattias? Which logic do you think would be best assigned to it ?
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Ghost Returns Ree-Yees
Joined: 29 Jan 2009
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Posted: Feb 12, 2009 09:06 Post subject: |
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Heh, well, his photo's still on his ICQ page for anyone so inclined...
And I'm breaking my promise not to post on this topic again
I'm still baffled by his "American is Evil, but I love your movies and culture" thing. I just can't get over that.
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Weregoose Gamorrean
Joined: 05 May 2008
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Matt K Dark Trooper Phase 1
Joined: 27 Sep 2003
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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 13:46 Post subject: |
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We're having a reunion and no one told me?
Shame on you guys.
I wasted a lot of typing on Mattias. Even took his side (once, I think, and I might have been on painkillers at the time). But ohhhhh man. Once Bush got elected, that fella went off the deep end.
I remember when he was just a quirky European we all tolerated because of Dark3D...
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Burning Gundam Kell Dragon
Joined: 28 Sep 2003
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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 14:31 Post subject: |
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It's just a matter of time before we see who else shows up. Welcome back Matt K
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Lionel Fouillen Gamorrean
Joined: 27 Sep 2003
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klasodeth Trandoshan
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
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Burning Gundam Kell Dragon
Joined: 28 Sep 2003
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Lionel Fouillen Gamorrean
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Burning Gundam Kell Dragon
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Void Dianoga
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
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Posted: Feb 20, 2009 09:44 Post subject: |
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Wow...good times. I'm actually the author of the post quoted in the first post of this thread. I used to go by the screen name Void ZoSo here, and went through a lot of aliases on Massassi (...kept getting banned for some reason...). I actually just dropped by to look for how to install Dark Forces under Windows XP and found this thread. I forgot how balls-out insane Mattias was.
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Lionel Fouillen Gamorrean
Joined: 27 Sep 2003
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The MAZZTer Death Star
Joined: 25 Sep 2003
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Void Dianoga
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
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