Saint Seanzy's Inferno

Meh

I was looking at a few  DooM II related PWADS tonight. One looked like it could have went somewhere while the other two… Well let’s just say I wasted my time :( Off to bed now.. I think I may sleep decent tonight!

BTW Updates soon

Doom PWAD Status Report

So as I said in my last post things are picking up around here. It’s getting rather busy fairly quickly. Honestly this is a godsend for me as I was becoming rather bored with myself. My brain seems to be ADD in the seance that I need logical stimulation in order to retain happiness. As a free mason I find that lodge activities cover a fair amount of the logic.. The rest of course is hobby related stimulation.

On Monday I was able to play an active role in a Master Mason degree for one of the local lodges in the area where I reside. I had a blast.. I find that the men I work with at this particular lodge supply me with an endless amount of joy and relief from the mundane. I also have some news concerning my little gaming project!

….I’ve started… Concepts are beginning to take shape in my mind into something I can use.. I’ve been looking at my options for level textures on this here internet since I’m not really “artist inclined” to make them myself… Actually that’s not true but for the moment we will say it is.. I’ve found out so far that over the years a good number of people have spit out some awesome looking eye candy for different PWAD projects.. These textures and doodads to be are invaluable for a first run project. As I feel at this time my ultimate goal is to create something that is Playable and enjoyable not just pretty to look shit loads of garbage props and square levels like most first time PWADs tend to be.

I find working with this legacy gaming project to be a real test of my imagination. Since DOOM did not really have a storyline that followed like the movie cut scenes we find in games today. One must be created and done rather simply but descriptively.. Then dropped into ether a ReadMe file or the PWAD information file if submitted to IDSoftwares Archive.

I’ve also found that Classic games had a very passive way of telling the story though the Manual. The base of the story being only a few paragraphs then the rest being told through brief rundowns of each episode descriptions as well as NPC Enemy descriptions. Hell I will even go as far as saying the item descriptions involved story elements. I do plan on following the same routine with my story. So do expect something a little more then just a few megs of senseless clicking.

I do plan on producing something as to where the project sits in the next few weeks. But for now I must bid you farewell and safe tidings. Thanks for reading!

Ode To New Beginnings

Good evening everyone,

With august closing up and a new page starting as September turns over a couple of exciteing things begin to develop in this individuals life. To start off things I begin to actively pick up the ball in the world of Freemasonry again. Regular business starts back up and allot of work resumes in the Lodges I participate with. On the 11^th of the month I turn 27 years old as well as celebrate the birthdays of several friends in the weeks following my own.

I also thank god for life in this month. As we all know September and more so the 11^th was a day that the United States will never forget. I to have a tie that’s pretty far out on a personal level. Six years ago on the 19^th of the month I reflect on an event that about ended my life. I used to be an avid Motorcycle rider and on that date in 2004 went through one hell of an accident that in most cases would have meant serious injury or as said death. Thankfully this did not occur on ether end of the spectrum.

Every year since the accident I’ve spent my time in deep reflection. Wondering why.. Sometimes holding a pity party but most of the time just out right partying. However I see a different ball beginning to roll this time around. I really don’t think I will have the time to think about myself this year. Honestly I see this as a good thing.. Life go’s on and one cannot be caught up fighting the things he cannot change.. Yes this sounds like a very typical thing to say once someone moves on and sets aside those things that have caused trauma. But for me this doesn’t mean moving totally on.

I’ve spent some time thinking about a few things in my life that I have yet to finish. Old chapters in the world of personal interests that I thought about writing and never even attempted to. Some of these chapters to some would seem mundane.. out dated and pretty much useless on the grand scale. But they are to me the perfect catalyst for future endeavors.

I actually plan on starting with the easiest and most relaxing thing on the “Get Er Done” list… Like I said some of the thing’s I have on my list are not things that would be considered “high priority” but with the hustle and bustle that’s going on around me it’s a good way to fill up the few hours of idle time I do have during my days..

I plan on creating and posting to the world my take on the video game classic “DooM”. Video games have always been a way for me to unwind and for years I’ve wanted to do this. Plenty of ideas went on paper. And plenty of times I’ve posted them on blogs much like this one with no effort other then that put into getting that goal finished. I look at the hobby as a Digital art form. I figure no one has the intent of creating something that the rest of his or her peers will not appreciate. But like anything artsy some people are good at it and some people are bad.

I’ve put to much worry into thinking “Well someone has already sparked and published my idea” so whatever I come up with will just flush into the big pit of cookie cutter gaming experiences. This year… Since I will be 27 for the first time ever in my life.. I will make the attempt to be a designer for the first time and let the creative juices flow for the sake of the enjoyment of the hobby..

All I can say is god be with me as this is not the only thing on the plate… This is just the beginning

The Blue Power Ranger Was Gay… So what’s news?

So opinion time folks. I was looking around the good ole interweb for information on the up and coming Rum Diary movie when I came across a short lived article just recently posted about the “Blue Power Ranger”… If any one remembers this toe head spandex wearing loon you probably just said… “Yeah he was a fucking fruit”… I’m sure even the most hardcore ass pounding executive would recall the blue power ranger in his mind and think “Fag”…

You see this series came out when I was in JR High School. Myself nor my friends really cared for it. The Rangers then, sit right where Twilight sits now for me.. I never watched it.. I never will watch it.. I also was under the impression that being a fruit was required to be a power ranger…. In fact I was so sure I thought the female power rangers where pretty much cannibalizing vagina while the men of course liked the local flavor of bratwurst

They caused a shitload of idiot kids to Play Power Rangers around the school yards and ALMOST thinned out the gene pool with some self termination bleach.. Hell I remember a group of my friends telling me how the school house banned anything power ranger due to this.. But again I never cared because It didn’t effect me.. I at that point was still locked into Duke Nukem 3D and Grand Theft Auto…

Anyhow I guess old blue did an interview about his time as a Rectal…Errr.. Power Ranger on the show… Apparently he was/is a Homosexual and was  FUCKING FIGURE! I guess everyone from the Producers down to the bitch that grabs the snacks “Constantly teased him for being gay”… Since I had never watched the show I found this part to be absolutely hilarious and I quote

“Yost revealed just what happened behind-the-scenes when his character was written off the show (and sent to live on another planet)” “Basically I just felt like i was continually being told I was not worthy of being where I am because I’m a gay person. And I’m not supposed to be an actor. And I’m not a superhero.”

They sent his ass to another planet… hahaha… to totally destroy any chance of his return to the program.. LMAO….. And apparently the stress of being a berated gay blue power ranger caused the dude to suffer a decent mental break down after he left the show.. I was not able to determine if this was epic Tiny Tim level break downs.. or if this was “Star Wars Kid” level break downs… But I guess it wasn’t that bad.. He seems to be fine now working on a show that sells the idea and also pays due homage to adultery … The all star quality programming “Temptation Island”…..

Well in closing.. I found the entire article to be absolute comedy.. I thought also about the types of children who watched this programming back in the day. All where very christian kids.. Most of them would have cut off a left nut or tit for some Mortal Kombat but settled for what the parents let them watch. Perhaps deep down there is something that can be said about the relation between the Peter Puffer Haters and their christian audience?

Artwork at a affordable price

The biggest problem with the Internet is the amount of people who steal artwork to  compensate for a number of issues. Ether they lack the talent to create it themselves. The art work they want is to price to buy.. or they can’t do much if the art work they buy due to a lack of PSD files and other resources needed to make minor tweaks.

Low and behold a few rouge websites have been setup with such a mind frame. Artist from all over the world have flocked over to a fairly new website called “Graphic Leftovers” to give the Internet community at large a chance to own some custom editable artwork for pennies on the dollar . The website has everything from website artwork such as buttons widget box’s and backgrounds. To actually print ready merchandise such as T-shirt art work, sticker art coaster art and much more.

The site is pretty easy to navigate simple searches to advanced searches can be done to produce examples that may fit your need. For example.. Looking for something retro? Just type vintage or retro in the search bar to produce a few pages related to that. Looking for skulls? Same thing.. One can even  define search.. Let’s say we are looking for Robot Stickers or skull stickers.. again just like any search type in what you are looking for and dog will hunt :)

You can also pretty much follow your favorite artist on the website.. find everything they have to offer in one place.. And even receive updates about them via email.. So now for the catch… haha no catch actually.. Once you buy the artwork it is all you… Change it, keep it the same…. Anything is possible.. and no limit is placed on where you can use it.

Once you visit the site “Like” the site on Facebook for major site  updates and a small nit community of artists at your disposal… enjoy!

Go check it out!

Howto play Wolfenstein 3D(Wolf3D) without DOSBOX

Hello again… I’m pleased to say this website is starting to see activity again. Though pretty minimal I can’t complain as I haven’t been doing the standard Internet pimping of social book marking my own articles and spamming the shit out of message boards begging for readers. Nor do I really plan on doing so. I’m going to be away from my PC for the weekend as I will be out adventuring in the Uinta Mountains discovering previously discovered Spanish trail sites/markers and mines. I find this to be relaxing for me.. I also enjoy living history rather then reading about it in a book.

I decided if I’m going to be posting super nerd topics.. I might as well talk about Wolfenstien 3D a bit. That and I really have nothing relevant to say but want to say something.. I guess you could say I like to hear myself talk.. Anyway I used to spend hours killing Pixel Nazi’s and watching Pixel blood fly across my 14 inch PC monitor. To this day I enjoy Wolf3D.. Problem is with most of these games they are so Geriatric that it is almost impossible to go totally old school unless you have an equally Geriatric machine to play them on. I do still personally maintain a DOS Machine in my array of computers.. Though rare to see it out and in use anymore I do have it.. For those of you who do not have such hardware… Like most things solutions do exist

I’ve decided to post for you a few “Working”ports for you to try out if you wish. The stipulation is Some ports only work with certain versions of the game. And you must be aware of what version of the game you have. Apogee & Activision had created several versions (Basically updates of the game as time passed) Furthermore the Demo Shareware versions are coded different… Sadly When the ports where created nobody really thought to combine support for each version into one packaged deal. There are two reliable ports however that will work with MOST versions of this classic shooter.

The first one I have for ya is NewWolf… I’ve tested it with v1.2 and v1.4 and Shareware from Apogee.. And it seems to run the Activision versions as well.. The second is Wolf4SDL.. This port seems to be by far the most supported.. Lot’s of texture updates.. Support for Console Game Systems ,PDA’s and Hand Held Game Systems.. Linux and I THINK Mac support…

NewWolf Official Site

Wolf4SDL Official Site

Now you also have the option of playing Wolf3D via Zdoom.. This version is a total conversion and not quite as nostalgic as playing the real deal. It works pretty well and you get about 2 years better graphics as it inevitably is DOOM with a Wolf3d twist. Also with a little googleing you can come across a Zdoom port of the real deal. I will tell you now it’s not worth the trouble. The game is very much Alpha and has not been touched in the means of updates in years.. Your best bet to play is the first two mentioned.

Lastly you have some options to dive into some Fan related Wolf3D works. Custom maps/sprites/editors and so on have been being created by the mega tons since the game came out. A pretty good website to reference is wolfenstein3d.co.uk. As this website has not been updated in awhile you may have a problem grabbing some of the files.. However with a little help from Google you should have no issues obtaining what you are looking for.

Anyhow this does require you find or own a Copy of the game in order to play.. Use your best judgement in finding A copy

FOnline Getting Started

Welcome to part II of my FOnline Review/Experience/Loss of sleep/Super Happy fun time. if you have no idea what I’m talking about or are interested in getting into some Fan made Fallout Online Visit Part One For Game info

Alright so I pretty much got off work today and felt like a pile of steaming shit. To relax I decided I’d begin setting up FOnline on my computer. Upon initial install I found out that I needed my Fallout 2 CD and two files stored on said CD. These files are the “Master.dat” and the “Critter.dat”. Lucky for me I do have my F2 CD so it was no problem in obtaining them. For those of you wishing to play that lack the retail CD’s options are available to you.

Option 1 of buying the retail versions of Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout tactics as a bundle from amazon.com for about $15.00USD.. Used for about $6.00USD. For those wondering this version works on the Newer Windows Operating systems. So even if you wanted to enjoy the old school Fallout’s offline you could do so :)

Fallout Trilogy - 3 Pack Compilation

Option 2 is to locate the Master.dat and the Critter.dat via your favorite search engine .. However this only allows you to Enjoy Fallout 2 online and Modded for MMORPG play.

You could also find a torrent and download a pirate version of F2. Though I would not recommend it. Among all the reasons not to pirate the one that should make the most seance is the virus and Malware factor that comes from this type of Software.

Anyway so far this looks pretty neat.. The game server seems to have plenty of active players as well as active Administration to deal with problem players, Cheaters,  BOTs and other pissy little things that make online gameing a turn off for some folk. For now this is all I have for ya.. I’m going to begin playing tonight more then likely.. Will let ya know what my findings are

One more thing….

I’ve been discussing at length some nerd related topics on Facebook with a few of my retro gamer buddies. It’s sad to think we are a dieing breed but we are. At the same time our endangered species like any has it’s moments. Call it an economy thing or just plain vigorous intent to see what it was like back in the “day”… Whatever you call it some folk are getting into the classics. The problem is a lot of the games do not run on modern PC’s. Furthermore some folk just do not have the mental brass to spent hours researching how to doc’s concerning emulating or porting these dinosaurs to the modern operating environments.

Most of the famous Retro’s have been made Open Source. With that in mind many many Port tools have been created . Some are better then others and most suck no matter what they try to do. I do plan on posting some information on this topic in the next few day’s. I’d do it now… But I do think since I wrote my documents things have changed in the world of emulation.

For example some of the porting tools allow one to play a variety of games where as some are specific. The idea for me is to make things as lightweight as possible even with the amount of Disc space one can pump into PC systems. One example of a bloated game is DOOM. Since it’s creation doom has seen quiet a few user designed levels or “WADS” Depending on how one plays the game will give you an idea of how much space will be needed.

Someone who still is interested in online play might be more susceptible to downloading a torrent full of legal WADS designed for multiplayer environments. On the other hand one might be in it for the pure true and true game and only require a few WADS to get his enjoyment out of it. More to come later

Of things to come

So I was thinking about how much time and effort it really takes to fire up a personal website. I like the idea of private hosting.. I’ve done a lot with this”Brand”. Saint Seanzy’s has been a home for many ideas and finished product. I built Wordpress themes, PHP scripts, Add ons for some of my favorite PC video games. Hell I even did a short and semi producing affiliate marketing I used to host this domain on a fairly decent private server owned by an old employer/friend. However his lack of interest in his own project left this domain homeless after two years of existence.

After a few months of 404 and bullshit redirects I decided to utilize this social blogging site to toss around ideas/videos/personal updates… pretty much whatever is the norm for the “Personal Website” scene. I have no desire or intent to go beyond this. I have a life outside of the Internet… And honestly I’m just not that into the security updates anymore.

So again like I said this has become what I hope to be an extension on my current social networking abilities. A log of events so to speak. Don’t expect much in the form of Epic tales of fiction or some poets corner. All this is… Is what does not fit in a 400 character box…

- Kirk out