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So, what's up with the vavoom site?

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:57:39

zZaRDoZz

Most of the wads listed under projects have broken links. The vavoom wiki looks like it's under a spam attack. Just logging into the forums is now a nightmare. <!-- s:cry: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cry.gif" alt=":cry:" title="Crying or Very sad" /
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:28:49

b0rsuk

Vavoom is just much less popular than some other source ports, notably Zdoom. There aren't many people to take care of things. As a result, the maintainers (Janis and Firebrand) aren't too motivated. Most projects have simply been abandoned, this is wher
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:54:21

Crimson Wizard

[quote="b0rsuk":29uig57n] There's another active project - Korax Mod, also for hexen. For reasons I don't understand they insist on having their separate forums (because they can ?) Lol what? a) KMOD was first designed for Dooms
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:55:58

Firebrand

[quote="zZaRDoZz":2e1qsepy]Most of the wads listed under projects have broken links. The vavoom wiki looks like it's under a spam attack. Just logging into the forums is now a nightmare. <!-- s:cry: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cry.gif" alt
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:55:42

zZaRDoZz

Firebrand said:
What is needed is people (outside of the developers) that tests MODs, things that are already done and work in ZDoom, for example, with Vavoom, so that problems can arise and be tracked down, as it has been done in the last
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:51:47

b0rsuk

[quote="zZaRDoZz":4bo6fct7]Firebrand said: It just so happens I've been testing some of the simpler zdoom mods with vavoom. Anything made for Gzdoom or skulltag is a hit or miss proposition of course. Zdoom itself is evolving though, adding voxe
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:05:39

zZaRDoZz

B0rsuk said: While I understand Zdoom compatibility is nice, perhaps you're focusing too much on it ? For me the killer feature of Vavoom is VavoomC. Almost everything I can think of can be implemented in VavoomC.
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:32:39

Firebrand

For the wiki, I plan to update the wiki software (or maybe even find something less spammable, but I'm not sure if there's a decen wiki software other than MediaWiki). As for how close to compatibility with ZDoom, my only goal is to make DECORATE compati
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:03:05

zZaRDoZz

Sorry for knocking the thread I started off topic Firebrand <!-- s:oops: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt=":oops:" title="Embarassed" /><!-- s:oops: --> . It's good to see some life around here even if it is just under the surface. Jus
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 06:01:45

b0rsuk

zZaRDoZz: It never ocured to me that 'z's in your nick may be meant to show devotion to Zdoom <!-- s:-) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:-) -->. Firebrand: While we're at, you could start by implementing Push
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:03:07

Firebrand

[quote="zZaRDoZz":3g0u306o]Sorry for knocking the thread I started off topic Firebrand <!-- s:oops: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt=":oops:" title="Embarassed" /><!-- s:oops: --> . It's good to see some life around here even
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:17:11

RambOrc

[quote="Firebrand":j92qa1ju]For the wiki, I plan to update the wiki software (or maybe even find something less spammable, but I'm not sure if there's a decen wiki software other than MediaWiki). Or just add a couple of entries to LocalSettings like I did on the Korax Wiki, for small Wikis with a limited number of authors it's easy to block all spam.

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