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Some Team Fortress 2 Fun

Looks like I’m getting better at playing Spy ;)

Prince of Persia – Source Code Notes

Here’s some retro geeky awesomeness… Prince of Persia source code notes!

Download (404kb)

WoW – “Market Watcher” addon

I found an addon yesterday, called “Market Watcher“, which monitors Auction House prices of items you set and then draws graphs so you can see how the prices have changed. From the site:

Market Watcher is an addon that scans the auction house and records data for specified items and assists in daily auction house shopping in general. When the addon is set to record, a price history can be displayed to assist in determining a value for items of interest.

What makes Market Watcher unique from other auction house addons is that it records multiple scans instead of just the most recent. This obviously uses a great deal of memory, so only scans of items specified by the user will be recorded. The saving of multiple scans allows for a more accurate determination of value, and allows the addon to deduce if some auctions were actually sold, so you can see which auctions are actually selling as opposed to basing a value off the prices of auctions that may not be selling at all.

While it’s a great addon, it does something I don’t like: it doesn’t let you open your trade skill windows while the Auction House window is open – the reason for this is because (normally) opening a trade skill window closes the Auction House window, but if you’re using the Auctioneer addon there’s an option to “protect auction house window” to allow you to have both open. To remove this “protection”/”feature” of Market Watcher, open “MarketWatcher.lua” in your “Interface\AddOns\MarketWatcher” folder, and find “UIParent:UnregisterEvent(“TRADE_SKILL_SHOW”);” (line 255 in the 5th Aug 2009 version) and put two minus signs (–) in front, to comment it out.

You’ll need to restart WoW, or do a “/reloadui” to apply these changes.

WoW Item Info desktop app

Just a quick post to tell you about a new app we’ve made, called “WoW Item Info” (we’ll probably re-name it), which lets you view a World of Warcraft item’s info anyway – it’s a program with runs in your system tray, and when you highlight text (the item name) and press Windows key and W (Win+W) if fetches the item info from WowHead.com and displays it. There may still be a lot of bugs, and there will be a new version released shortly.

Note: Might not work in Skype, depending on your “Pressing Ctrl+V will” settings (under “IM & SMS”, under “Show advanced options”)

UPDATE: Fixed an issue reading in the icon, preventing the program from working :| Will probably release a new version shortly with a better quality (larger) icon.

Credits:
AutoHotKey – http://www.autohotkey.com
WowHead’s API – http://www.wowhead.com
Titan’s “xpath” – http://www.autohotkey.net/~Titan/#xpath

Download: WowItemInfo1.1.zip (201kb)

Greets to:
Ultrazor, Kymeara and Durgath. Taera (various EU realms)
GameThreat (http://www.gamethreat.net)
“Pap en Vleis” on Twilight’s Hammer EU (http://www.papenvleis.za.net)
“Murder of Crows” on Bronzebeard EU (http://www.murderofcrows.ws)

TF2: de-rez: Team Fortress 2

I found this Team Fortress 2 video here, thanks to ubercharged.net:

TF2: “Your Performance As”

I found this on “Kovorka’z Gravel Pit” and like it, so here it is:

I’ve been trying to get back into playing as Spy, I think I’m in the middle of the graph at the moment ;)

TF2: Gogol Rush video

Another really good (funny) TF2 video, called “Gogol Rush” :)

Hypn’s QFG2VGA Beard Hack

I wrote a hack that lets you keep selling the Whirling Dervish’s beard to Keapon Laffin in the remake of Quest for Glory 2, like you could do in the original version of the game (it was a bug). It’s probably really buggy, and might crash your game and/or corrupt your save game(s) so use at your own risk – and what ever you do, please do NOT report bugs while using this hack on the AGDInteractive forums… this hack is not their doing/fault/problem/whatever.

That said, feel free to download: Hypn’s QFG2VGA Beard Hack v1.0.zip (3kb)

UPDATE: this hack only works on version 1.0 of QFG2VGA, and not on the latest version they’ve released.

Quest for Glory (fan) art

There’s a thread on the Quest for Glory 2 remake’s forum dedicated to fan art – which I saw today for the first time. One of the forum members, by the name of “Lady Pyro”, has some incredible sketches that are definitely worth checking out.

My two favourite are below, along with coloured in versions by Hollister. Check out the thread here: QFG Artwork

The Dark Fortress (TF2 video)

A scene from “The Dark Knight”, reenacted by Team Fortress 2 :D