Hey, Tall. I would have e-mailed you, but you don't display your e-mail. I just posted this in a place that you seem to check often. Anyway... I was recently playing Domination, and two things came up.

First off, I was recently playing my brother a lot , and got to the ranking of Chief Warrant Officer 4. This morning, when I tried to open my file to do Target Practice, it said "This file is hacked." and I couldn't open it. If you could give me your e-mail or we appointed a date to meet on AIM and got my file back, I would appreciate it, as I like my ranking.

Second off, I was really bored today and opened up my packet sniffer. I quickly determined the protocol that Domination used for its online games. Then, using MacTelnet to verify what it could do, I opened REALBasic and contstructed a Domination robot. It's really cool, and I'd like to show you it. This would also require us meeting up by e-mail or by AIM.

Hope to talk to you soon.

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Hi there, my e-mail address ought to be all over my website. Anyway, it's Oaks64@hotmail.com

I'm kind of over my programming phase and I don't plan on continuing to support Domination or the like. To "de-hack" your file, try stuffing it and then unstuffing it. It's a long story, but that might solve the problem.

Yes, you can use Terminal to send packets into Domination's internet port as well. I assume that your robot scans incoming target placements and immediately sends a shot command back to the host, is this correct? If it's not, I don't know what you need a robot for

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About the player files: I'm trying that this second. (edit)...and it doesn't work. And now every time I start up Domination and create a new player file, it says that these new ones are hacked. I tried to re-install it... but it is not working. (/edit)

About the robot: These are the things it does:

? keeps track of the money won by both players
? handles nukes as if it were another Domination client
? has ten levels of difficulty, ranging from easy to impossible
? has an unlimited supply of money miracles
? taunts the other player (not with the sound taunts... yet)

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(This message has been edited by ferazel_09 (edited 04-06-2003).)

That's really weird. Domination should never not accept newly created files. Is your system date correct?

To do audio taunts, have the robot send the following message:

SndChat07/taunt#

Where # is an integer from 1-9 (inclusive).

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Dr. Tall says: Taller is Better
(url="http://"http://drtalll.tripod.com")Dr Tall Land(/url)

Okay, I'll try that. And you don't need to tell me to send that large string... I can just type:

send "Chat", "/taunt#", true
(sends the "Snd" and the first parameter, followed by a number (length of the second paremeter) and the second paremeter. if the third paremeter is true, then it will append a zero to one-digit lengths. you see, I organize my code. :p)

I don't know what's wrong with the computer. I'll try using the download copy of Domination... it seems to work on my iMac. On my PowerBook (the computer giving me trouble), I installed it with the installer.

And I'd still like to talk with you on AIM! Come on, let us try to meet some time.

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Your robot seems to have all the features! Full marks. When can you be online?

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Dr. Tall says: Taller is Better
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There isn't much of an open time for me. I should be online most of Saturday and Sunday... but any time until the Monday after next will work-- spring break. I'm not really supposed to be on the computer right now. I should have my computer/internet rights back by Saturday, so just try to sign on then. When I find out more, I'll e-mail you. By the way, ferazelhosting.net mail is down right now, so e-mail me at ferazel@spymac.com.

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I think I can be online more Sunday, we'll see I guess.

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(url="http://"http://drtalll.tripod.com")Dr Tall Land(/url)

Please move non-Ferazel topics to Just Games, please.

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