Month: January 2001

The woes of dealing with a hosted environment (Or, now MidnightRyder.Com died for a couple days), Jumpman: 2049 stuff, mo’ business, and new developers tools…

MidnightRyder.Com was down for 4 days grand total. I’m not real happy about it either. Here’s what happened:   MidnightRyder.Com has been running SLOW for a while now, so I complained to my host. They said, no problem, we’ll just move you to one of the new boxes – plus, the box I’m on is …

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Back to work on Jumpman: 2049, business stuff, and something new for me – ADVERTISING!

Something I’ve never really done before – advertising. Yep, I sell a game without advertising it really. Yeah, I plop it down in all the search engines and shareware sites, but, I really don’t do anything with it. Well, with the release of Boulder Panic! 2 DX (the version I’m finally happy with, and after …

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First entry of 2001 – Boulder Panic! 2 DX release (and bug!), the whole Microsoft VBA deal, and more…

So, about 2 AM last night, I released Boulder Panic! 2 DX – the new version of BP!2 that moves everything to DirectX 7. It took quite a bit of hammering and tweaking, but, everything looked good. I had already tested the graphical compatabiliy (ie – does the graphics show up perfectly on all machines …

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