Tom Speirs

Log (British) = Turd (American).

Yeah, so was I I can be a little dry at times.

Also please zip up and post gameex.ini. Orc, I dont have the bandwidth for that kind of material anyway.

Can you post your log please, what was the last version of GameEx that worked for you?

Just 2.0

Its fixed in 9.19. Now available. As for the issue above, thats probably because GameEx is trying to play a video and it cant. It was not playing background videos before when it should have. Id check your theme folders for avi and mpegs.

Its probably not a good thing, but it works for me

28th March, 2008 - GameEx 9.18 Fixes and performance update Fixes background videos not playing if the theme has anibak turned on (slightly animated backgrounds) Fixes issue where all video previews could be alphablended. Ths might involve a good performance increase on some systems Fixes having background videos makes gameex not startup Fixes several directdraw erros that could cause gameex to error and finish Drawing text to the display has been optimized a little An automatic optimisation is performed by GameEx on systems that are running slowly after a period of time to turn off AniBak Hopefully GameEx will run on more systems now, and Ill see a few less error reports coming in Also contains updated Italian translation by sbaby There will also be two new themes available shortly with fixed video backgrounds that will only work best with this release and going forward thanks to the fixes. They will be uploaded shortly. COM and Abyss I know its like a hundred releases in a week. But you should all know by now, I go in spurts

I dont recall anyone getting banned for putting there opinion across in the right way. It is the internet after all Unfortunatly we are or could become high profile here, so its for the best, honestly.

So true there. It would be awesome to have a Joust tornement or something with you guys. We do have to tow the line here though. It has not hurt us so far by doing that.

Hi Oggalz, Thanks for your hard work. Unfortunatly I've been contacted by several people saying your plugin breaks a few open source licenses. Can I request that when you release it you simply follow the license agreements and provide the license.txt etc and a copy of the source code? I am happy to host it if size is a problem if you just contact me. Thanks for your understanding. I really dont want to but unless we can meet the license agreements I am going to have to remove the plugn. Tom.

Sorry Brian, there is a point there. I tried to keep my mouth shut earlier as you do so much, and I did not want to be a party pooper Figured it was better coming from someone else first. Sorry, I know we have enough trouble with mothers, girlfriends and wifes trying to kill our fun as it is;)

Change of mind. For now Im just going to release what I have. Please do spread the word about the new release when its up in a minute. I think a lot of folks would like to know. Cheers.

Thanks, but doesnt look look like it. Ideally I just need some .net code to handle the pallets.

No guarantees with an app such as this obviously, but it should be OK.

Yeah probably best to keep aspect. Thats pretty easy, the real hard thing (or maybe its not) is converting the pallete to 16 colors, and at least trying to do a fairly inteligent job of it.

If youve checked back to the forum, yourll see Im releasing a new version shortly which should do this. http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=5226

It does, but what I was thinking though is if it would convert images that where not 640 x 480 by 16 colours.

Good one. Maybe HK can help me out with this, but the issue Im going to have there is converting the pallete to 16 colors.

Im going to be releasing a new version of Instant Sheller shortly. Thanks to forum member Inigo Montovia who has provided me with information on how to remove the login cursor. The other addition will be an option to not chnge the shell application if you dont want to. I was just going to go ahead and starti testing it and release, but I thought id be nice and go ahead and ask for any other requests (sensible) you guys and girls may have? Let me know.

Thats exactly what I was going to say. Sounds like GameEx is trying to play a preview video and cant.

Yes, it should have.

One other change in this release. GameEx won't start the screensaver if its minimized. So now if your just listening to tunes you wont be hassled.

25th March, 2008 - GameEx 9.17 Another day, another GameEx enhancment This version introduces a "last played" module/list. Similar to most played but listing games you played in order of when you last played them. There are also updates to the code that handles videos previews. Hopefully for the better, but if you encounter any problems with video previews or snaps please advise

Thats great to hear