See what Scampie said.

And a merry Christmas to you, too. 

Peej has internet access? How can he afford it!? Crazy holiday season. 

http://www.bmedia.org/archives/00000223.php 

Hi Quake Types

I'm frustrated with something that perhaps someone out there can help me with. I have a 2nd PC which is this:

Pentium II - 266
2 Voodoo 2's in SLI
128Mb RAM
Sound Blaster Live! Value
No modem or LAN card and no internet connection
Windows 98SE

Here's my frustrating problem and I have tried scouring the web for answers but they either don't exist or you have to be a programmer to understand it. I've done clean installs and patches on 3 Quake 2 engine games (Quake 2, Sin and Heretic 2) and none of them start. I get a WinSock Initialization Failed popup and that's it - no game. FitzQuake gives the same error message but it is good enough to know that I'm not in multiplayer and I can play SP just fine.

I only want to play single player. I've downloaded from microsoft the winsock files but no luck. My PC is pretty clean - there's not much on it.

Can anyone help me? 

that error in Q2, but WinSock is the programming API to access TCP/UDP protocols via Win32. Since you state that you don't have a network card, Win98 might not have installed basic TCP/IP support.

Either try the Q2 command line option -noudp or install Microsoft Loopback Adapter to get TCP/IP installed. For that you don't need any network card hardware but the protocol stacks will be installed so any program that require them should at least load. 

anyone know of a program that can shrink images to 50% of their size (regardless of their initial ones) completly automatically?

or is there a way to do it with Photoshop 7.0? 

Irfan view can do batch conversion and resizing. 

Thanks aguiRe for the suggestions but unfortunately neither worked. (actually, I couldn't find a Loopback for W98SE but I tried something called virtual networking). I ended up following most of the steps in this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;288133

I think the cure was deleting the Winsock2 registry key and removing and reinstalling the TCP/IP and Dial Up Adapter (which had previously been there.) I also extracted the winsock.dll and Wsock32,dll from the cab files on the CD. My other machine which had DSL internet once ran into a Winsock2 problem after I installed and removed iMesh. I recall that the Sympatico support tech walked me through something that seemed very similar to this.

Don't know how this crap got corrupted in the first place but at least I can now play some Q2 while I'm away from my main box.

aguiRe - Thanks for helping me in many ways. I'm still cleaning up my map but I'm away from that machine for awhile. Too bad since I'd like to do some more editing over the holidays. 

HI HOW RU? I HERD QUAKE ONE WAS FOR NEWBS ONLY ESPECIALY WHEN DEY R TEH HAX0RZ WIF CUSTOM MAPS & ENGINES!@!@!!! BOXERS!!! 

posting drunk.
girls are weird.
springsteen is god-fucking awesome.
norah jones is shag-worthy.
I'll be ashamed of this post, come morning. 

wrath, that wasn't anywhere near incoherant enough. try again 

i'm drubke enough that if shambler was here id' fucking shag him, whituout hesitation,

cock.
ballss.

cybear is short. i',m tall. mortherfunke. fuckflap. 

still weak. I expect so much more out of you. 

well shit man, I'm confused...
You asking for random hammering on some keys or a fully fledged rant on why this place is a shithole? 

I want to hear YOUR VOICE! I want to hear it loud and powerful and to strike fear into the children of the world! I want to see you rise above the world before it's breaking and know that it's by your hand that the seas run red and the cats cry in the night. I want to see your mad rantings against the strange and surreal evils that shape and destory our land, filling it with the very maggots of stupidity and ignorence! I want you to become our leader into this land of milk and honey!

or I just want you to post strange revealing details that we can laugh about tomorrow morning. 

your flattery will not go unnoticed when the angels descend letting loose the trunpets of war, raining death down upong the works of men.

However, it is very un-characteristisc should I rant AGAINST the evils that shape, destroy the land. Don't you think?

Now, the voice?!

The disciple prays for the voice, to strike terror in the hearts of... whoever.
To let the fear loose amongst the... cats... In the night, apparently.

The voice! To bring you the breaking of this world, and by the hands of this voice let the waters run red with the blood of tiny, considerate folk.
Yeah, whotever...

I see your "leader in the land of milk and honey", raising you one "exoskeleton of carnage and bloodshed - sitting content upon a pile of bones and guts". 

trumpets... TRUMPETS! 

Has anyone ever found any *decent* HL map packs? ie ones that aren't just another crappy rehash of the same storyline.

I've tried Darkstar and They Hunger, both of which were annoying and crap. Though I grant you that that might entirely be because they are for half life.

Hello, by the way. 

... wrath is teh funnaey 

Sweet Half-Life was great, and Poke646 was pretty good. 

sweet HL is ok, poke646 is pretty good looking but gameplay is so-so. I thought Darkstar was one of the better ones, if you dont like that, you probably just dont like HL.

Absolute redemption is worth it for checking out episodes 1 and the great non-linear episode 3. I also liked Deliverance, Gut Reaction, Edge of Darkness, the genuius play design of Peaces Like Us and the ALIEN-seque Someplace Else. Take in mind that the the first 3 are standard HL stuff though. 

I'll check them out. 

I thought darkstar was wicked, particularly the first half of it. The flooded area just after the explosion was awesome. Imho They Hunger started fairly well, then got really boring so I stopped playing. I think Damaul said there was a good bit on a train later on. I didn't play the sequels.

Yeah, poke646 is very good too. I thought ETC and ETC2 were both enjoyable if in a VERY similar vein to the original game - and they weren't without problems.

Also, I know gunman chronicles or whatever it was called wasn't a free expansion, it was certainly a good laugh.

If you have a network and some mates, check out sven coop. The level quality is quite poor but it's just so much more fun with a bunch of players. The chopper attack in the canyon is particularly fierce. 

Sweet HL is alright, I guess. Like HL, more of the same. Stuck in the Xen bit in the big purple cavern. Killed all the monsties but can't figure out how to progress (most annoying bit of HL imho).

Started playing Deliverance but it was too bloody hard.

They Hunger is entirely mediocre, I think. I played through Uplink, which was okay, too. The other ones like poke646 I could only find on evileplanet so I didn't download them (nice to see that the qmap account still works though!)

I've had a go on some Sven Coop before, good fun until you die and have to traipse all the way through the map to get back to your mates. And you're right, the level design really is tosh.

Ta for all your comments. 

yeah I should have given a heads up on deliverance, it's bloody difficult but worth it for some of the mega cool scripted sequences.