Which means my XNA3 CTP version of my rom/emulator/tv/movie launcher needs some tweaks and some major rewrites (as if it didn’t need them already) to make it work with the beta.
But at least I might be able to stand a chance of releasing it under the XNA license (not for the 360 mind you, but XNA3 CTP projects weren’t allowed to be released – the beta might be, and if not then I’ll wait until XNA3 goes live).
Stay tuned on that note at least. Working on fixing a few glitches I ran across in another BS program I put together because I hate dumprep.exe, and with any luck I’ll get that up here in a bit (knowing me though, a bit = 2 months).
So yeah it’s been an interesting few days. I did absolutely nothing of consequence, other than reinstalling XP on my media system. There’s some debate among users of the webhosting company I use as to whether the mysterious power-cycling harddrive is a failing power supply or a failing drive.
I’m going with failing drive since now when I plug it in it grinds like someone riding a guard rail in a race. Blech.
Least it’s only the Quantum Fireball 3gb I pulled out of some horribly old POS and not the 640 that’s actually got useful information on it. Dodged a bullet there.
Good enough; PCAlive and the EmuLauncher are linked up again, they’re under Programming Bank on the left.
Honestly that’s all I’m doing for tonight; I’ll try to borrow my moms camera and take a picture of the arcade tanksticks externals and internals, just so theres another article I can post.
Hope everyone likes the new look, its a ton easier to navigate than Joomla was (for me at least) 
A REALLY old thing I put together in Game Maker. I almost feel embarassed for not doing it in c#, but I’m working on an XNA based c# version right now anyways.
For now, you’re stuck with this, and it’s attrocious at best – it’s a pain to add new things because it’s extremely specific on how it wants things.
If you want support on it you’re on your own but there are demo files included (DOESN’T INCLUDE ANY ROMS OR EMULATORS) to show where the files and parts go.
LauncherV2.zip [Download]
PCAlive is an older program I need to do a rewrite of VERY badly – it’s built on .net 3.5 which means it has a stability problem – it gets a mysterious error message every once in a while if you don’t have .net 3.5. 
In any case though, the program’s simple – add the host/ip, port, and a name to display it as, push “Add 2 Active” and the program’ll let you know when it fails to connect to that system.
Here’s a small catch: the program doesn’t properly verify the server is actually -responding-. If it’s a webserver for instance, it might be able to connect but the webserver might have frozen or is under high load and can’t actually serve pages. If my rewrite goes according to plan (so don’t count on this ever happening) I’m going to try getting it set up so PCAlive can actually send a request to the system in question, and wait for a response.
For now though, here’s the link to the app. Tested on XP SP2 Pro but not on Vista cause I don’t have Vista.
Sysalive.zip [Download] OUTDATED; Look for SysAlive3’s latest releast in the Repository!
Source used to be available on request, but at the moment I’m keeping it close to the vest – it’s not anything Google couldn’t help you do over
Seems like I make a habit of this – every two or three months I decide to totally redo the site in a new system, whether it’s a crappy custom system of my own, then Joomla, and now Wordpress.
Try to bear with me if you can; none of the stuff on the other system is intact at this moment and I’m working on repairing and re-linking everything in the correct categories.
And I’m GLAD to say Offworld, that crappy sprite comic I did, will NOT be coming back. Thats one blight I’m glad to be rid of.