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Oct 31, 2001, 6:53am

Hi,

I recently developed a small MFC app that works like AW Ear, with the
difference that it doesn't use the AW SDK (i.e. it's not a bot) or MS
Agent technology. It's speech capabilities are based on the Microsoft
Speech SDK. If you want to help me test it, please see
http://www.xs4all.nl/~runay for details.

I also plan to bring back HexBot, after fixing some minor bugs and
recompiling it with the latest AW SDK.

Happy Halloween.

Rene

Oct 31, 2001, 11:28am

I never actually downloaded it because it was gone before I had a
chance, but if it wasn't a bot this Radon was either a genius or he
had some help from others. I don't know anything about VB, but in VC++
the only way to accomplish this is to hook the thread of another
application, intercept specific Windows messages and use some form of
interprocess communication (IPC) to transfer the data. For a 14 year
old this would be quite an achievement.

Rene

[View Quote] >I dont think AWEar used the AW SDK.
>
>-Joe

Jan 20, 2002, 11:29am

And while you're at it, could you possibly remove the porn link from
your site? It will take more than a dirty picture to shock me, but you
seem to forget that a lot of AW citizens are children (even) younger
than yourself.

ReneS

[View Quote] >Hey Baron,
>
>Thankyou for alerting me and other about that file. I had no idea that it
>existed on my server, many users have access to that server and be assured
>I'll be ripping through my logs to find out who it was.
>
>I'll also be changing the password to oriox and giving it out to all except
>the person responsible.
>
>I'm sorry to anyone that had problems removing the sub, I'm acutally 15 to
>anwser any questions raised in the previous thread and Sub7 isnt my thing.
>
>-Gamer
>
>

Jan 20, 2002, 2:30pm

You missed the point, Agent1. The page contains Active Worlds material
and is advertised in this news group, which is teeming with 12-14 year
olds. Furthermore, I am not imposing my values on anyone because
pornography has nothing to do with values, as has theft or murder.

ReneS

On 20 Jan 2002 09:50:27 -0500, "agent1" <Agent1 at my.activeworlds.com>
[View Quote] >You shouldn't try to impose your values on other people. I've seen
>Oriox.com, and I don't think it's specifically for children, anyway.
>
>-Agent1
>
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Jan 4, 2002, 7:26pm

Hi all,

I just discovered that there is yet another consequence to be
considered. But I'll start at the beginning, and without getting (too)
angry because frankly I am beyond anger. My citizenship expired about
a week ago and I hadn't renewed yet. The day before yesterday I just
happened to log in (as a tourist) and heard the news. I considered
myself lucky and renewed right away. Today I wanted to log in again
but it seems they pulled another fast one because now I am confronted
with a forced upgrade to 3.2. The problem is that 3.2 won't run on my
old(ish) PC, all it does is freeze up and crash. And since it's right
after the Xmas holidays, I'm flat broke and even if I wasn't the
required hardware investment would still be considerable. So, now it
seems that not only the tourists are banned but the users of low-end
computers as well. For now I don't see any other alternative than ask
my money back and leave. It's sad that it has to end this way. Like so
many others, I have been a member of the community almost since day 1
and I have been a paying customer since the day they started charging.
I can still remember the day I was in the hall of the main hub of the
space station (Worlds Chat) looking out the window, and asking someone
about the blue planet. I was told it's called Alpha World, an entirely
new world powered by next generation technology. So I tried it, cits
were free so what the hell. At first I wasn't too impressed, it was
kinda slow, wasn't much too look at and there was only one avatar. But
in the end I decided I never wanted to leave. And now I have to.

ReneS

Jan 4, 2002, 8:20pm

Thanks for your support. I'll try this first thing tomorrow.

ReneS

[View Quote] >Rene,
>
>I was exactly in the same position as you yesterday. I was forced to take
>the upgrade and when I upgraded there was no text at the sign-on screen,
>only a sign-on box with round buttons and at the bottom the only option was
>to cancel. I reinstalled with the same results. I wrote to Roland (poor
>guy had to take my wrath) and he sent me this link. Try completely taking
>AW off your computer, but before you do, save your teleports, contacts and
>telegrams (back them up). Then use this link:
>
>http://objects.activeworlds.com/downloads/awb32.exe
>
>It should work for you, but if it doesn't try contacting
>support at activeworlds.com and send a copy to roland at activeworlds.com
>
>It worked for me, hope it works for you.
>
>Sinew

Jan 5, 2002, 4:05pm

Thanks, it seems to be working now. I haven't yet tested it
extensively but I did walk around for about 10 minutes without any
problems. Funny thing I noticed about awb32.exe is that it no longer
requires the upgrade, so I imagine this is a new executable but with
the same name. I also changed to software mode (which is surprisingly
fast compared to 3.1) and lowered the frame rate and visibility.
Textures still take forever to load (it took 2 visits to AWGate to get
them right) but at least I can still get there.

ReneS

[View Quote] >Rene,
>
>I was exactly in the same position as you yesterday. I was forced to take
>the upgrade and when I upgraded there was no text at the sign-on screen,
>only a sign-on box with round buttons and at the bottom the only option was
>to cancel. I reinstalled with the same results. I wrote to Roland (poor
>guy had to take my wrath) and he sent me this link. Try completely taking
>AW off your computer, but before you do, save your teleports, contacts and
>telegrams (back them up). Then use this link:
>
>http://objects.activeworlds.com/downloads/awb32.exe
>
>It should work for you, but if it doesn't try contacting
>support at activeworlds.com and send a copy to roland at activeworlds.com
>
>It worked for me, hope it works for you.
>
>Sinew

Jan 5, 2002, 4:21pm

I just did that about a year ago, when I replaced my harddisk. After
that I never had any problems with any software, not even with AW 3.1.
But for 3.2 the specs of my PC are just too low (from my point of view
this was an upgrade from 3.1 to 3.2). A P200 with 32 Mb RAM and a 2 Mb
(PCI) video card just doesn't do the trick (or barely, as it seems to
be working now, more or less).

ReneS

On 4 Jan 2002 18:48:42 -0500, "blasto" <GovDion at subdimension.com>
[View Quote] >Yep, unfortunately, it's almost impossible (but definately impractable) to
>get something compatible with all hardware. There's just so many that
>there's going to be problems along the way. I don't know why that would
>happen since that update just made tourists disabled... I'm guessing your
>computer is pretty fragile. It might be time to reformat. ;)
>

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