Archive for August, 2005

Well seeing as how dumb xero-tech.net is and how my site was down at the time of its release, I will post about it now.

Valve has an offical teaser trailer out for Half Life 2: Aftermath. You can check out the trailer, screen shots, and much more at Game Spot.

Okay so Zyrisk stumbled across this way to fly around using an airboat and only 4 balloons, but after awhile he forgot how much power was required and were. I, (SmurF) tested around and found the power again. Along with the new version of Gmod, there has been alot of good add on mods to Gmod such as Gmod+. We built our airboats with guns and made a cool little mini game.

The Mini Game:

1- Build in airboat that can fly WITHOUT thrusters helping it to LIFT or move FORWARD.
2- Build it so you can attack enemies with it
3- Split up into teams
3a- This is addition to the game if you want to do this too. Build a base with your team.
4- FIGHT!

RULES:

-You may ONLY USE 8 BALLOONS AT MOST to give lift to your airboat
-You may use ONLY 4 THRUSTERS EQUALING 10000 POWER all together
-You CAN NOT use thrusters on the bottom, sides, front, or back of the airboat. Only on the top.

TIPS:

-We suggest that the only weapon that can be allowed to shot an airboat is the airboats gun. The airboats gun does not destroy the balloons, but does hurt the player inside.
-The airboat with gun works alot better then the regular airboat

HOWTO:

1- Spawn Airboat (With gun)
2- Add two balloons to the front at 1067 power (as shown on tutorial.dem)
3- Add two balloons to the back at 1041 (as shown on tutorial.dem)
4- Add two thrusters to the front/top of the air boat at 2500 power.
5-Add two thrusters to the top of the engine at 2500 power.

All of this is shown in the tutorial.dem

DEMOS:

- tutorial.dem
- flyairboat1.dem
- flyairboat2.dem
- flyairboat3.dem
- flyairboat4.dem

Okay well the all crappy host xero-tech.net didn’t even mind emailing me or telling me in the forums that I had to re-request free hosting. Ever since xero (old owner) sold xero-tech to the new owner, it has sucked. I have had massive down times.

I have called an all out war on xero-tech for deleting all of my files, and banning me in there forums because I wanted my files.

I have moved to a new host that is giving me better service, I do have to pay now, but its all good it’s only $4 a month The host I have now is called Torelliwh.com, and they are great!!! Excellent service.

I have lost all the comments people have made on posts. I had to redo all of my posts. Lucky I had a screenshot of my webpage before it was deleted so I could remember my posts. Umm…lets see here…oh, please leave comments again. I can promise you that eric-taylor.com will not be down for a long long time.

1- Hotel California — The Eagles
2- Stairway to Heaven — Led Zepplin
3- Hot for Teacher — Van Halen
4- Bohemian Rhapsody — Queen
5- Every Breath You Take — The Police
6- Stranglehold — Ted Nugent
7- La Grange — ZZ Top
8- Runnin’ with the Devil — Van Halen
9- My Best Friends Girl — The Cars
10- Wheel in the Sky — Journey
11- The Wall — Pink Floyd
12- Horse with No Name — America
13- I Want My MTV — Dire Straights
14- All Right Now — Free
15- Life in the Fast Lane — The Eagles

Making this was really hard for me because I love so many Classic Rock songs. I couldn’t quite decide what I wanted for number one. It was a battle between “Stairway to Heaven” and “Hotel California” Please comment on what you think of the list.

Yup, so… like always, there is always away around everything. Windows still sucks, and I’m still waiting for Mac OS S to come to PC, and for games to go to Mac OS X. When the day comes, I’m so moving to Mac.

Windows Hacked Article

Here are some screen shots of the Insurgency mod for HL2.