The new home of RoN is...

bumblearse · Mon 23/02/2009 23:14:29

I 'm happy to say that RoN has now found a permanent home here at AGS, and that this forum is now the 'official' RoN forum. However, there still needs to be a place to go to find out more about Reality and that place is:

www.realityonthenorm.info

It's not ready yet, but we're taking on board a lot of the comments that have been made and will be online soon.

Cheers,
James

Dualnames · Tue 24/02/2009 09:36:23

Great, that's really great news!!!

Dataflashsabot · Tue 24/02/2009 09:55:53

W00000t!!!1 awezomezerz!

Layabout · Thu 26/02/2009 11:45:22

You should celebrate with a site redesign. Nice to see you now have a decent domain name.

Radiant · Thu 26/02/2009 23:09:52

Wait, what happened to HOTU, then?

Gilbert · Fri 27/02/2009 01:57:06

Did you even read this?

Renegade Implementor · Fri 27/02/2009 04:25:41

Long story short- HOTU's webhost went bankrupt.

bumblearse · Sat 28/02/2009 23:49:04

I think you may be right. I'm working on something right now.

But in the meantime you'll just have to put up with the old one...

Cheers,
James

Quote from: Layabout on Thu 26/02/2009 11:45:22
You should celebrate with a site redesign. Nice to see you now have a decent domain name.

rbaleksandar · Sat 14/03/2009 19:45:58

How can I don't know about zis?

Damn, guys, you should make some advertisement here

Love the idea really.

Renegade Implementor · Mon 16/03/2009 02:13:29

Just an update: The resource page has been updated and reorganized a bit. The links should work, in theory, however there are any broken links, pm me and let me know so I can fix it. There's really nothing new on the resource page - this was just to get everything back up to date. I'll dig through the files I have and see if I can't find unreleased graphics to put up.

Next I'm going to go through the games pages and get those sorted and see about replacing all game pages that were lost.

RickJ · Mon 16/03/2009 02:41:16

I don't know if it's just my computer or what but the PDFs on the resource page take forever to load and then I still can't read them. Do these documents have source? If so I would be willing to convert them to DocBook/XML and from the XML generate HTML, PDF, and CHM.

All the links on the resource page seem to be connected to files. And thanks for adding the dates to the file names.

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Also (you're probably aware) the template is out of date and doesn't work with the latest AGS. I would attempt to update it for everyone but I am away from my computer; borrowing my brother-in-law's laptop at the moment.

DeviantGent · Mon 16/03/2009 03:24:33

Yes, I noticed the template didnt work when I tried to import it into the primer. Anything I can do to help with this? It might be an idea to give it an overhaul?

RickJ · Mon 16/03/2009 03:41:15

If you some one can bring it up to current AGS version I would be willing to refine it from there, provided folks more familiar with the RoN universe have some ideas of what needs to be done.

DeviantGent · Mon 16/03/2009 05:06:51

If I recall, it's essentially cosmetic stuff - RON sign as first room, customised icons and menus, things of that ilk. It hasnt been touched since 2004, so I'm sure there are some new icons that could be utilised.

Several ideas leap out - either the ones for the Drunk Punk Allen demo, or the snazzy interface designed for the LotD remake Ive got sitting on my compy. I'll take a look and see if that would work.

Renegade Implementor · Mon 16/03/2009 12:45:19

The PDFs were generated from PageMaker (I don't have the exact version number handy), and are simple text. Could/have you tried downloading one and seeing if it's openable/readble when the file is on a hard drive. I generally find PDFs on the internet slow to open and prefer to have them on a hard drive.

RickJ · Mon 16/03/2009 15:50:06

Yes. After disabling FireFox3 Adobe plugin I am able to save PDF to hard drive and open. If plain text versions are available I would still like to experiment with making a DocBook version.

Renegade Implementor · Sat 21/03/2009 00:17:03

Update time - I've gone through and updated the download links. That means that (in theory) the games are once again available to be downloaded.

There are a few links that don't work of which I'm aware of:
- The German version of Phantom Inheritance - I don't have a copy of this version. If someone does have it, please let me know so I can replace it.
- The original dos version of The Postman Only Dies Once - Again, I don't have a copy of this version. If someone does have it, let me know... etc. etc.

The games from 2008 have had their games pages re-added. There's a slight technical fault that's temporarily preventing me from finishing the pages, however there should be no problem in getting the games themselves.

If there are any links that don't work OR if there was a game from 2008 that hasn't been included yet, pm me and let me know.

StickmanLtd · Tue 02/06/2009 17:43:34

Glad to know that its back! After two harddrive crashes an an incompetent webhost, I don't know if I even HAVE the files for my RON demo that I made a while back, but c'est la guerre.

It wasn't a very good demo anyway.

Kweepa · Tue 18/08/2009 01:24:52

I just got around to playing "The Crazed Chicken" which is the highest rated game on the site. Someone clearly gamed the scoring system. It doesn't help drawing new players in when the first game they download is literally written by a 7 year old!

DeviantGent · Tue 18/08/2009 12:11:32

I remember this, and thought it odd. There doesn't seem to be a scoring system on the site now, presumably it's getting reset/overhauled.