Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Voria GameWorks Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 17:52:48 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 57 Message-ID: <35747430.BB61A548@mail.datasys.net> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 241.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) I'd just like to invite everyone to come and check out the new Voria GameWorks Website! The last web page we had was too complex, so we now have a super-simple webpage that is a cinch to update as well as read but without compromising the design or layout. On average it's updated twice a week now. The site resides on a non-sony server so that anyone can view it, but any file containing yaroze executables will be downloaded from the Yaroze server. All of you being Net Yaroze members, downloading any file with a Yaroze executable will be transparent although it might ask you for your password before it will let you download it. Not only are we sporting a really cool new web page design, but I just put a very useful utility I wrote online as well. The Utility, called "combine", takes all your datafiles (Being TIM, VB, VH, SEQ, or whatever) and compiles them all into one big file, while also generating C header information. When I wrote it, I tried to make it as flexible as possible - and I ended up making it so flexible I cannot imagine how it could get easier to add any file to your project! For example in our Orbs project, to add, say, a graphic all we have to do is make the tim and copy it to the datafile directory. The next time I "make" the project, it automatically takes every file in this directory, makes a big datafile, and makes a C header file containing macros and memory offsets of the corresponding data. (The details for setting up such a system are in the small manual included in the zip file) The source code is included so that you can add features as you wish, I just ask that if you come across a really useful feature that you added, that you share it with me so that I can add it to future versions. I don't mean to brag - the program is so simple it's nearly stupid. I just didn't want you to pass it over; as I want to see what other net yaroze members think of it. The code is heavily commented, and should be fairly easy to figure out. You can download this utility from the projects section. Well, come check out the site! Here's the URL: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/voria Tell me what you think, and anything that you think the site needs, or needs changed. -- 'Darco darco@NOSPAM@bigfoot.com Please replace "@NOSPAM@" with an "@" to email me. UIN: 1454810 (You can page me at http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1454810) WWW: (sorry, page is down) Voria: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/voria PGPKey: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/pgpkey.txt