Robin

The NHS is big. Very big. And we just won contracts from the Ministry of Defence in Canada and Australia. Lots and lots of work to do, especially considering all our in-house software is developed by us.

That was after Origins had been released. How is it old?

Black on grey does not work. At all.

@DDunit: > Why would you take the pink one? It's orange and it's not mine. @Sealbreaker: > becks tastes like shit, but nice setup you have there :) I just buy whatever is on offer and put it in the fridge till it's too cold to taste. @MrMiguu: > What is your job in the medical field, Robin? /curious I thought it would be pretty obvious. Software developer.

You're a fantastic source of information for my programming questions. Thank God this forum was created.

Lol @ Konfuze's GUI in OHMYGODMYEYES red.

@crzy: > Why does it have to be you robin? Why not find someone else to do it? I understand your retired and all from helping the site. Hell I hardly come here any more due to college and work. I'm sure you can find willing members to help convert things or even make a new layout. Because no one else can do it. The few people who have the skill to do it don't have the time. I still enjoy working on Eclipse and getting people in to game design. It's just time consuming. @Skweek: > As much as it would make Robin cringe, why not just open up EO as something everyone can actually add to. I know that it will result in bugs galore, but IIRC from lurking years ago, everyone had stuff to add and there was a lot more content posted. I think Soul was working on something like this a while after Robin retired. Could've been someone else though. > > Also, ignore any fail sentence structure, I just woke up. That'll do absolutely nothing. No one on this website knows how to program. Those who do don't want to mess around in an old VB6 engine. Besides, that's just ruining the effort I put in to the engine in the first place. Community projects never work.

You don't. The source should be in it's own folder.

No.

He's a child. Just ignore him. Connection spam shouldn't cause any problems other than filling the textbox, however. There is already protection against that in Origins. If you're using older versions of Eclipse then you're stuck. None of my predecessors had any understanding about security. I know it's very easy to make yourself an administrator in any Stable or Evolution game.

That's actually a stanley knife, but my God does it look like a dildo.

@Marshy: > A new forum system isnt going to fix any of the problems that are currently present. No. It gives a solid foundation for a new CMS system, forum-integrated plugins and generally make the place look nice. It would be very easy to integrate a user-friendly, closed-source engine similar to RPG Maker with the community. Just not SMF. This forum design is constantly getting broken by plugin additions and no one seems to bother fixing them. Hell, that Google+ bollocks completely destroyed the footer but no one ever bothered fixing it.

@CalebTH: > Please don't think less of me when I ask what SP6 stands for. Yet it has a dedicated step in the tutorial. You keep telling me you read the tutorial yet keep proving you haven't.

@Rusher: > -snip- That's the point. The community don't want to do anything. They want to sit in this thread blaming me for everything whilst sitting on their high horse. ;] I've been doing everything myself for years. Evan keeps the site running and Soul used to keep the newbs happy with posts, but that's about it. Every single new development over the last 3 years has been done by Rory and I. The simple fact is that most people don't have the talent or drive to do anything good. The reason I always work my way to the top of anything I decide to participate in is because I have good ideas, know how to bring them to life and I know how to make them look good. Claiming it should be other people's responsibility to help out is all very well and good, but I've been saying the exact same thing since I took over all the development. All I get is a bunch of spoilt fucks acting like it's my job to look after them. But as I said, the forum as it is now is impossible for me to maintain. It's ugly, outdated and generally dead. If I'm going to put the time in to developing a truly user-friendly engine then I need to get something out of it through a premium membership systems which covers lost wages from time spent on it. Whether the other staff members would let that go through or not is a completely different story.

Do some freelance work. I can make like £70 a day doing things online.

Install SP6.

@Gweneth: > Oil huh….. > > Hmmmm...... Haha. I'm a 20-something single guy with a nice face who works in the medical industry. I've never had more guys hitting on me. No need to take matters in to my own hands when I have so many contacts. ;]

> If this doesn't work don't bother posting. Go download a full version of VB6. :rolleyes:

@Anna: > I like your mirror. Every single one of my friends has the exact same mirror set. They were the cheapest you could get from a load of supermarkets a few years back. xD @renzo: > I take it the toilet paper is for cleaning spills and such and not because you shit at your desk when your to arsed to use the washroom.. Haha. I was actually using that to wipe my hands whilst building the desk. The shelf extenders were covered in oil so I got my hands filthy whilst screwing them all together.

But I finally did it. **Before:**  **After:**  

Says it right there in the official tutorial. Just because you never bothered to look in to it doesn't mean I never explained it. Portable cannot be used for licensing reasons. To fix it you need to use the fix provided. @Robin: > Right from the start I need to send you off to find stuff out yourself. It'll probably come back and bite me in the arse. You need a copy of _Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise_ or _Visual Basic 6.0 Professional._ If you know what you're doing you can also use _Visual Basic 6.0 Portable_. This, however, is an illegal re-pack and requires a bit of extra work to get running. I'll cover this as an optional step at the end. @Robin: > **(Optional) Step 4 - Portable** > > VB6 should now run just fine on your computer if you installed it all properly. If not, uninstall everything and do it all again. If you follow the steps properly then it will work. > > Now, I promised a step telling you how to get the illegal re-pack working. To be honest, this is something Microsoft themselves released to bypass their licensing issues. It's called 'VB6Cli.exe' and you download it here: **[Download link.](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194751)** > > Download it, install it and it should allow you to now run portable. Keep in mind you still need the Origins runtime files installed and, as far as I know, SP6. > > If this doesn't work don't bother posting. Go download a full version of VB6.

What isn't working?

@crzy: > Why not change over to Mybb or phpbb? What don't you people understand about my usergroup? xD I'm done. I promised people I'd re-do the forum and site before I left and I did. I haven't done anything on Eclipse since March. Now I'm working a 40 hour week it's difficult for me to find the time to do anything. The spare time I do get is spent with family and friends or working on Crystalshire. I'll see what Evan does with the site over the next year or so. If nothing crops up I'll think about opening up a new closed-source RPG Maker style engine based off the new Crystalshire eventing system with some completely new forum software. The site as it is right now is completely pointless, but if I could open up a premium version of the engine which was linked in to the forum then I could do some great things. I really won't have time until around this time next year, however. Life is way too hectic as it is.

Impossible to make anything good with SMF. Everything looks like shit and the plugin system is a whore to work with.

Yes.