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Ultima 7 Wallpaper (High Res Widescreen)

Posted on March 7th, 2010 @ 11:31 am by Zerker

Well, since 1152 x 864 isn’t a very snazzy resolution any more, and since I still have the vector source for my Ultima 7 logo wallpaper, I decided to re-generate a high res 2560 x 1600 version of the wallpaper.

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Dungeon Mapper Updated

Posted on January 17th, 2010 @ 12:10 pm by Zerker

I’ve updated the original Dungeon Mapper post with an updated version of the tool. Major improvements include:

Save & Load features
Variable dungeon size
Scrolling
Zoom in/out
More floor and glyph types

Let me know how you like it so far.

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Dungeon Mapper 0.2 alpha

Posted on January 10th, 2010 @ 8:59 pm by Zerker

DungeonMapper screenshot

So I’ve been playing a bit of Arcana lately on the SNES, and due to the inadequacies of the built-in automap, I’ve been trying to keep my own map. Unfortunately, the “best” solution I’ve found so far is still grid paper; Dungeon Crawl Map Maker without the Bullshit is pretty close, but it’s far too slow and fidgety with the current mouse interface.

So I’ve decided to start writing something myself. The goal of this program is to be fast, precise and keyboard-driven. The idea is to simply move a cursor around the map and quickly draw walls & floors without constantly switching and clicking all over the place. This is a preview version to get people’s opinions on the idea and control scheme, etc.

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GSPlayer/Mort Player/Nitrogen Mod Plugin 1.01

Posted on November 28th, 2009 @ 12:49 pm by Zerker

A Mod Plugin for GS Player or Mort Player. This has been developed with the help of the BASSMod sound library by un4seen developments. If you’ve never heard of Mod Files, just head over to The Mod Archive, where you can download plenty of awesome mod files.

This is version 1.01, which has been updated to support Nitrogen’s quirky way of interacting with plugins. Please comment below if you have any issues.

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Import M3U

Posted on January 2nd, 2008 @ 5:33 pm by Zerker

Import M3U is an applescript designed to import the contents of an M3U playlist into a new iTunes playlist. The default import only seems to handle M3Us describing internet locations; no matter how I formatted my playlist it would not import it. I wrote this to ease my transition to iTunes since I had previously used M3U for all my music playlists. (more…)

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Delete Empty Folders

Posted on December 29th, 2007 @ 12:39 pm by Zerker

And the first of my small tools is now online!

Delete Empty Folders started with the difficulty of finding leftover folders after uploading work to configuration management. The original version of this was actually just a simple Windows Script using everyone’s favourite File System Object to parse around. That version was eventually given a simple GUI but doesn’t really do anything else.

Moving forward, I was messing around with the .NET SDK at home and decided re-creating this simple tool would be a good exercise. Only this time, I started with the GUI upfront and added in the capability to delete files as well (since standard Windows delete stops as soon as it can’t delete one thing). I also added drag+drop support, which is very handy for this sort of program. Later on, I also added the capability to clean up hidden files and such.

Modes:

Deletes folders with no remaining files
Deletes all files in a path; reports errors without stopping
Deletes UNIX-style hidden files (any file starting with a period, like .DS_Store)
Deletes Windows/DOS-style hidden files (hidden attribute set)

This program is written using the .NET Framework 2.0, so you will require the redistributable before you can run the program. There is no installer, simply copy the EXE file to the directory of your choice.

Download (244 KB)

Download Source Code (75 KB)

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Live Again

Posted on December 24th, 2007 @ 9:58 am by Zerker

Well, looks like the site is fully working again… finally… so I guess I should post some things again, huh? I have a few programs and things that I wrote semi-recently, so I’ll start putting them up here and there.

And maybe post some other stuff too. Wild, I know.

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Updated!

Posted on December 10th, 2006 @ 8:48 pm by Zerker

Well, I have finally updated my page again! And this crazy update has hopefully made it easier for me to… CONTINUE updating the site. Enjoy! All the old content should be accessible from the archived categories on the side panel. Let me know if anything is out of place. And yes, I had fun forcing the post dates to match the date I originally created the level/icon/etc in question. Any future updates will take the current post date, however, so nobody will miss anything (even if I upload something really old). Please leave any comments/suggestions or whatever, even on really old things. I’ll see them, don’t worry.

So, as a brief tour, all the old levels and files are filed away into their appropriate categories, with the most recent ones spilling into the news view below. Instructional pages and the Underworld 2 Gallery can be found in the pages section on the left. And now I have auto-RSS, thanks to Wordpress. Enjoy.

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GSPlayer/Mort Player Mod Plugin 1.0

Posted on December 3rd, 2005 @ 5:03 pm by Zerker

Version 1.01 of the Mod Plugin has been released with support for Nitrogen.

A Mod Plugin for GS Player or Mort Player. This has been developed with the help of the BASSMod sound library by un4seen developments. If you’ve never heard of Mod Files, just head over to The Mod Archive, where you can download plenty of awesome mod files.

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System Shock Backgrounds

Posted on October 8th, 2001 @ 12:39 pm by Zerker

This is my gallery of System Shock backgrounds made from resampled cutscene artwork. Each image also has the System Shock logo added to it, which was created by carefully tracing a low-res title image in Corel Draw. If anyone wants my traced file in any sort of Vector-based format, gimmie a shout. If there’s enough interest, I’ll even put it up for download here.

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