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Umm what about Freddie's post?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...743#post239743


It would be best if you do that so that it will reduce the stress on you and let yourself focus on your new hack instead of deal with people here.

Just a thought.

Fair enough. No more screenshots :banana:

/me points out once again that he's not selling the hack, but rewarding people who have already supported him.

If Amy wants to debate with me on whether or not hacks should be free, I am up for it, but not in this thread.

I appologize if I insulted you, john, your Tetris hack is great, but I am sure you understand where I am coming from.

I think we all know what the real problem attitude is, right Ninth?

I'm 100% behind you John (maybe in front of you as well, when the bullets start flying)

Hey, you ain't paid me yet??? :D

LMAO!!! https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2002/08/2.gif

This whole thread has got me interested in Flash and ActionScripting myself...hell, this is how I learned VB, VC++, PHP, Perl, Java, JavaScript, etc. ad infinitum...by doing what I needed to be doing for my business.

Hats off to John for this...I was thinking of doing this myself once I downloaded his Tetris hack, but if he is going to do the Arcade I am surely not going to duplicate it...

People: either donate to the hack or build it yourself. No more complaining, please...life ain't a free ride. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2002/08/1.gif

Or donate to me! - what a hack would do with donations I'll never know! ;) :D :banana:

Boy, this thread sure went off since I last saw it.

I think that John is free to sell his work if he'd like, and it has been done before on vb.org so it's not like it's something new (for example, Overgrow's original Karma hack). In fact, there are people here who sell their "vB Modification Ability" to others, essentially becoming freelance vBulletin hackers.

The license agreement, I believe, covers the modification and redistribution of the actual vBulletin code itself. Since I hack like this is really a complete add-on using the existing codebase, it should be perfectly legal to re-sell.

That being said, I don't like the idea of selling hacks, and I don't see what the big deal is. I've had a working arcade on my forum for two or three days now. The only thing I am missing is more games (like the ones John has) that work with the system. I could release MY arcade hack, but without more games, it is basically just a different version of John's Tetris hack. Plus, since I started over from scratch, the database structure in mine is completely different from the Tetris hack, and the two are no longer compatible.

Anyway, I guess my point is/was, it's not worth fighting over.

As soon as I have enough for a new licence and a digital camera, I'll do a public release :)

That's not really fair towards the donating people dont you think? ;)

futureal - I saw your breakout flash and I love it, it's realy cool - and I got 13th place on my first try (lucky for some).

Just one small suggestion, that music loop is VERY VERY annoying!!! ;)

Trust me, it'll be a long time ;)

LOL John. But there is no between, it's selling or free you know. And if it's for sale, please make it affordable for anyone. Personal, i believe the internet is sharing but when someone has put a tremendous workload in a project...? If there's a good balance in the work-price then you're selling this bigtime. When and where, and how...against what price?

I know, I know. Essentially I'm selling it, and that's not unreasonable. Most people are fine with it, only the people with the "I can't have it so no-one else can" attitude try to ruin it for everyone else.

Testing now by the way :)

Haha, I thought the music loop was great! :p Actually I was not the one who coded the Breakout, that was my other admin. My flash skills are quite limited -- mainly by the fact that I don't have Flash Studio! haha

I have all sorts of cool ideas for the arcade thing. I have integrated it with vbStats most recently, I will post a screenshot of that later on.

I could do a version of my hack, but I am already shuddering at how much work I would have to do to adapt it to a "standard" vBulletin install. My templates are all heavily modified to fit my forum, and a lot of the code I did for the arcade is based on functions I hastily wrote and stuck in random places that would need to be re-done so as not to embarass myself. :)

If I do release it at a later date, it will likely be as part of a larger package of stuff that is all integrated together.

I'd be willing to donate for this hack, my only question is price. I'm almost 16 years old and I doon't really have much money... I would, however, be able to dig up maybe $10-15... If that's enough.

Keep it to PMs, apparently it's wrong to talk about selling hacks here :s

lol @ "almost 16" - you're 15, admit it! ;)

I turn 16 tomorrow.. August 26th, I'm taking my test to get my license August 28th. :banana:

Happy Birthday :D

John un block me on aim i was just pointing out a fact based on what you said.

I can proble get you all the money for the hack. So unblock me please.

That's not the point! When it's finished, I'll say it's finished. You don't have to ask whether it is every few hours.

Secondly, I was pointing out that I'm not going to start messing about with pricing schemes. It's not ready yet anyway, so I'll get in touch when I've fully tested it.

I only asked it you were testing it yet. Since you told me a few hours ago you would be testing it in a few hours.

Yes.

Yes I am :banana:

Ill leave you alone till its done.

:\ it seems to work fine, but I can't find anyone else to beta test it. my three beta testers have disappeared!

Why don't you give it to the people that are going to get it anyways?

It's sometimes hard to beta test and find problems with novice vB users (I have no idea of people's skill levels) - these three people all know vB well.

Can you all lend a hand beta testing?

http://www.eovie.com/forum

A quick sign up (no need to verify email) and then go to http://www.eovie.com/forum/arcade.php

Thanks, let me know if there are any major bugs. :)

i pm'd you about a donation john

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? :D

Don't make me turn this car around!

I love the look of it so far john, I can't fault it in anyway (apart from a few minor HTML bits that would be easy to tidy-up :))

Good job.

I didn't find any bugs, John, but I'll look again when I have time.

Looks good btw. :banana:

Your server is painfully slow.

:rolleyes:

it's fast enough for me, maybe you could upgrade to a cable connection? :)

Hmmm.... I didn't find any errors, but I did notice a few things to improve your games:

1. Pacman gets faster after he eats the big dots.
2. Snake's controls aren't very good. Quick U-turns are very difficult to do. If you can make them more responsive, it will be great.

I AM on a cable connection. And I had it fixed this morning, so for the most part it runs great. All other webpages loaded fine for me. And after a while, the server also worked fine.

Answers:

1. I think he's supposed to
2. Snakes controls are fine with me

It all looks good to me!