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No, super-crappy. I used to have a Dynex mouse up until a couple of years ago and it would like to randomly click or forget to click.

Ah, the test map you had up earlier this week. AWESOME map, Constitution - simple while still being incredibly frustrating at times.

Not sure about Lucid yet (since I just did the upgrade this morning and haven't had time to try out my games yet), but on Karmic (9.10) I never needed to use any drivers or calibrators for my logitech pad. Once I installed the "joystick" package (available through Synaptic straight from in...

I'd guess that the 16MB card runs off the Rage128 (r128) drivers referenced by the ati wrapper, while the 64MB card uses the radeon driver (like the other cards mentioned so far in this thread). All of the info I had gathered previously had only mentioned the radeon driver specificially and I didn't...

Elfie!! Good to see you back (and thank you for making me realize how old I'm getting :P )! Badgerking is still around and has undergone some interesting changes since the last time you were around, though I wouldn't quite call it "popular" at the moment. Good changes. Interesting gameplay...

Okay, looking through bug reports, I discovered that DRI in the radeon drivers became broken with the release of Mesa (DRI and GLX) 7.6 and still hasn't been properly fixed. The suggested fix right now is to downgrade libgl1-mesa-dri to version 7.5.1 (libgl1-mesa-glx may remain at the current highes...

Which I had tried. The game would go full screen upon switching the video mode, but would fail if you ever pressed F1. Also, even after a successful exit (after saving settings), it seemed the client would "forget" and go back to trying to set an improper mode, as detailed above, the next ...

Okay, I finally got fullscreen working correctly with my Radeon 9250 in Karmic using the standard "radeon" open-source drivers and found that the issue lies in how bzflag is getting its initial display mode from the X server. When first run fullscreen straight from the command line or laun...

And clearing away and re-installing the driver packages doesn't solve the problem, which really sucks, because it's the only driver (xserver-xorg-video-ati and xserver-xorg-video-radeon) that's stil vaguely supported for ATI cards that aren't covered by Catalyst 9.10... EDIT: Found a minor fix for n...

No joy. Running bzflag with no command line options produces an error message similar to above, while using the '-window -geometry" options results in a segfault when the menu comes up (I get a display for less than a second before losing the window and getting the segfault error in the termina...

Chiming in to report that I'm having the exact same situation (bzflag segfaults on load, but glxgears/other ogl packages run fine) with an ATI Radeon 9250 under 9.10. Might need to bug report this to Canonical and AMD as this may be compatibility issue between Karmic and older (dropped before Cat7) ...

While we're on the subject, I would also suggest his Home Sweet Home map. It's an incredibly fun concept and map that I'm really surprised has fallen from popularity the past year.

Great movie!

Map looks good, too. I'll have to give it a try as soon as I get home.

Or perhaps you could just send him straight to the Saitek website (www.saitek.com), which carries the latest drivers for the ST290 Pro on all flavors of Windows and OSX. Remember, all you need is the drivers (they ARE required). The programming software is optional and won't really help with BZFlag....

You're Pacific Daylight Time right now, Positive Gravity. And you still haven't specified which map to meet on.

Actually, I rather like the idea as it fosters two different tactics for the teams involved. Purple, being on the high ground, can focus their tactics on assault and capture, with some defense. Red, being on the low ground, would focus their tactics on defense, with some assault and capture. It make...

I'm adding this to my database of maps to get other friends of mine interested in BZ with.

Actually, that looks about normal for you...

Yeah, I don't have a picture for this post. I'll take one next time I play, if I remember.

What do you have set for: Options > GUI Settings > Radar Shot Length Options > GUI Settings > Radar Shot Size Options > GUI Settings > Radar Shot Line Radar Shot Line determines whether shot lines are displayed leading the shot or trailing it. Radar Shot Size determines how large the "pip"...

Personally, I would suggest adding short-walled pools or moats to break up the open spaces. Those edge zones are definitely too open, but you don't want to clutter it with massive amounts of small objects. The simplicity and sparsity are part of what makes it so incredibly beautiful. And to echo Sni...

ACK! Looks like user info has gone back to being on the right side of posts (they were in their normal place - to the left of the person's post - the last time I was here). Looks like I'm just going to have to start getting used to scanning across the screen when I read through here...

Ah, now this just looks beautiful!

So now how's the work on the backend going?

I actually use a Saitek ST290 joystick to play. Nice, cheap little digital stick and usually reponds very well in game. The fact that ALL of my important functions are right at my thumbtip is a good bonus, too. ;) You should actually do a forum search for "joystick" - this topic has come u...

But priorities are base funcationality, such as list server and group support. Oh, don't get me wrong - I fully recognize that functions such as the list server and group support are INCREDIBLY important, but those are BZ-in-general issues that relate to the forum. In regards to issues that are ver...

I would definitely put working on the Theme as a high priority - the default one is practically unreadable.