Uru Complete Chronicles Fly Mode

Okay, so I was looking Myst Uru pictures on Google, and saw that it was possible to get into the big volcano in New Mexico. Plus a bunch of other places that I had never been. Well, I started looking and discovered that it was due to a developer tool called Flymode!

Now with the demise of Uru Live (which I never got to experience), I found that this tool is pretty rare out there and most websites have been taking them down. However, I found that someone on the UruObsession website found it and posted it on SendSpace. The flymode tool can be found here, thanks to highwaykind.

Here is their post that was included with the link:

After a disastrous attempt to install the POTS add on I bought when it came out ( I have my box, not the CD -> no key to activate the thing, no option to GET the key since I "live outside some area where, legal stuff"), I bought Complete Chronicles on Ebay (for 10 bucks), which arrived today.
And I'm very happy to report I'm FLYING!!!

Since it's so hard to find the patch online (probably too old?), here's a link of all the patches I found.

for CC I used the 1.3 one

Unzip, copy exe to game folder. backup python.pak, run patch.exe.

In game: hit ESC to enable fly mode. Space for up/down, ESC again to "drop" (exit flymode).

Enjoy!

Standard disclaimer; use at own risk, ONLY use OFFLINE (if URU comes back as MORE ) :)

I have yet to test it...and I just made the huge mistake of uninstalling Uru from my machine, but I WAS running a bit low on diskspace. Maybe another day.

Back from MS and other news about new website

Okay, so we're back from Mississippi (actually almost a month now). We got back on August 7, and I haven't gotten back to this thing until now. It was REALLY FUN!!

On another note, I've started two websites. Google Webmaster Tools says that linking between sites increases publicity and ranking, so here we go: http://ppsstudios.brinkster.net and http://www33.websamba.com/ppsstudios/. Brinkster will be the main one for now, although I just discovered that they're sticking invisible ad tags on the bottom of all my pages, so I can't use sitemap and things like that. Oh well. Anyway, the most in-depth thing on there is probably going to be the Elephant Joke Fan Club. Only members can see the real pages, and it isn't too in-depth yet. The idea is that if you like elephant jokes in the right way, we'll consider letting you in, but if you just plain don't get them at all (they don't make sense), you can't belong. Whatever.

Up2Date

Heading down to Mississippi in a day (actually, more like 18 hours) to visit friends. Everyone thinks we're crazy, going at a time like this, when it's all hot and stuff, but we felt we needed to get it in before school started. Actually, it's so close to that deadline that they were planning to start school right in the middle of our trip, before we had planned it of course. Well, they've probably rethought, so we'll have a great time seeing them anyway.

On another note, ever heard of Pivot Stickfigure Animator? Me neither, until last week when I saw a couple Youtube videos showing stickmen running around. Apparently, it's a program entirely dedicated to animating stick-men!! Pretty neat-o. I sure like it. It's a bit tough to get good at though. I've gotten a couple decent videos out of it, as they show silouettes of the previous frame. Anyway, here's the link: http://www.geocities.com/peter_bone_uk/pivot.html. Personally, I'd go for the 1.3 Beta version, as samples you find on the web are not always compatible with the regular one. However, the beta has a stupid warning every time you open the program which is a text file warning you of how this program might not work because it's a beta. Well, I think that right there is a beta bug that can use some fixing. Put a "Don't show this again" checkbox or something.

Connected cont.

So deviantArt pasties aren't customized to your specific channel so it has been removed

Connected

How freaking connected can you be in the web? I've got a Google account with a ton of subscriptions there, and a DeviantArt account (which I haven't touched in a year, but am now). So I just uploaded a ton of my difference backgrounds. I'll add the "pastie" at the bottom of this window. Basically like the youtube video carousel.

How connected can you be? How many subscriptions...how many things to say? Who knows? ACK!!