I would like to get to hl.avara.org

I can't find hotline connect anywhere, and I would like to hl.avara.org. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or have I made some mistake so fundemental that you can't reply for laughing.

You need the Hotline client software. I forget exactly where you would get such a thing.

And they did make a version for OS 8. I saw something in a MacAddict about it. The cover had a picture of a jolly roger with the old Mac OS logo instead of a skull.

Actually, Avaraline currently uses the KDX hotline software. I'm not sure where you can get it, though.

Avaraline hasn't use Hotline Connect for a while, as far as I can tell. When I first signed on (about a year ago), they were using Frogblast and went through about three format changes since then, until they finally(?) settled on KDX.

My 300th post. Yay. I have accomplished in nearly two years what many people have done in a month.

This post has been edited by Robert Marlin : 27 July 2005 - 08:49 PM

That's not Avaraline you're talking about Robert, it was an imitation set-up by avara hating (ex)players. The REAL avaraline has always been a Hotline server and it is still active today. You can connect to it via "avaraline.net".

What?!? I'm confused!

They both have avara hating (ex) players.

Except half of the people on avaraline.net have recently started playing again.

Hmmmm. I'll take another look. However, as I recall, half of the people on Avaraline cannot take up playing Avara again because they don't use Classic (OS 9).

Last I knew (or think I know) is avaraline on KDX is the one being run by Robin Hood (Urban Wielg (sorry if I misspelled you name dude). The one on hotline (also, for hotline try www.bigredh.com, that used to be their website) was the one being run by others. Didn't really like the one on hotline, so I would suggest staying away from there (assuming what I remember is correct).

Hope this helps.

There's even an OS X version of Basilisk II. And use your own ROM.

An OSX version of Basilisk? Wow, I thought it was only a matter of time before they did that. Awesome.

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And use your own ROM

Or steal it

Anyways, to my experience, AvaraLine (run by Puck, I think) is full of people who just talk about porn and drugs all day long--not my kind of people. They don't actually play Avara, although they all did so at one point.

This post has been edited by Katana !!! : 01 August 2005 - 09:14 PM

OK, I'll pass it by then. I was hoping to find some stratagy guides there. It's a little humilliating to be continually creamed by KeeL.

OK.

Always jump.
Maxing on boosters is not necessarily the way to go, especially if you are using something besides the light hull.
The kill shot is almost invariably done with nades.
Learn how to overload secondaries (load one, grab nade powerup).
Have an insta-fire key for nades, and probably one for missiles.
Use stereo sound. Really, it helps. Somebody spawns left, you hear it through your left channel, look left, and don't get a mad HECTOR on your tail.
Learn your way around the levels-gravity, layout, everything.

And less seriously...
If you have three monitors, hack the game so you have a monitor for front, left, and right-side views, like power users can in BZFlag. Oh, and make sure it's hardware-rendered.

And, Katana, the FBI will be knocking on your door. You know how Steve Jobs is about pushing the latest Mac OS.

Thanks. I'll try to remember that.

Katana !!!, on Aug 1 2005, 09:10 PM, said:

Anyways, to my experience, AvaraLine (run by Puck, I think) is full of people who just talk about porn and drugs all day long--not my kind of people. They don't actually play Avara, although they all did so at one point.
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Not sure at what point you "experienced" this. Allow me to clear a few things up.

The only person ever to talk about porn and drugs all day long was redcap, long banished/exiled from the glorious oasis that is Avaraline(.net). In fact, last I knew, he was starting to hang out at the server run by Robin Hood, Basti, and their ilk. Not sure if he followed them during their transition to Wired, and from Wired to KDX, though.

We've started to play Avara again, on occasion. It is somewhat rare, however, due to the hassle of using Basilisk (at least for our Windows users).

And finally, Avaraline(.net) is no longer run by Puck, but Vertigo. Or poverty and his league of Shadow Assassins, if you believe the KDX guys. Puck stopped visiting, or at least conversing with us quite awhile ago. And, I'm sorry to announce--Puck actually passed away in January, as a result of the cancer he had struggled with throughout a sizable portion of his life.

Oh gosh. Seriously, that's sad. I was unaware.

I've never messed with Basilisk, but I can tell you that, under Linux:
You don't mount a real hard drive under Basilisk unless you are logged in as root.
You never use virtual memory on a Basilisk disk image, especially if the image itself is fraggy, like it probably is under NTFS.
I have yet to get online under Basilisk, because it has no clue that that stream of packets was sent to it. Probably fixable with a new version of the TCP/IP control panel, but I'm not sure.

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FBI knocking on your...

Well, a few days ago this huge helicopter was flying right over the house...O_O

Chinook? Probably the army.