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  • Did you know? (Trainz)

    Did you know? (Trainz)

    That the Trainz forum is now 25 years old today?

    They went live on the 01/08/2000 to promote what was Trainz Community Edition. I joined the forums on the 14/08/2000 looking for a train simulator that was more engaging than what I was using, that’s when I discovered after many hours of trawling through search engines (I can’t remember which one I used, Yahoo maybe? Google wasn’t on the horizon). For those in Trainz, if you noticed, my KUID author number (Koolthingz Unique IDentification) is actually a very low 30051. Yep, that low.

    Auran as it was back then, had a LOT of big plans for Trainz, digital downloadable content was thought of way back in 2002, but didn’t happen until much later. Despite being in the community for a long time, I’ve also only met 2 employees from Auran, I wonder what they are doing now? Ironically, that was in London Victoria way back in 2004. I should really visit n3v, but getting to Australia is a bit more difficult and possibly requires a long stay.

    One other thing, I was actually 14 when I joined, I’m now nearly 40! How time flies.

    Of interest, I’ve got a draft blog post as I write this of a very rare version of Trainz that I plan to update in the future, let’s just say this, its rare as it never was released. The NDA has long expired, so I don’t think I’ll come to any disrepute over it. All I will say is, that you will be surprised, it was talked about, it exists but never made it to market, it was abandoned almost just before it was released.
    I think it’s because the Apple Mac’s were going through their second transitioning stage, I can’t remember the exact reason why the plug was pulled. I also still retain the computer I was testing it on as well, it’s on the shelf of shame in my room,
    untouched from when I played with it years ago in 2 forms. Again, if I get a chance to talk about it and spend some time in my really packed diary to finish the post, I’ll explain more.

    Hopefully, I’ll finish it before Trainz turns 25 and it will be interesting to see if n3v still has the original source code, I don’t think they do.

  • The site looks like its getting bigger

    The site looks like its getting bigger

    All through looking through my hard drive. I know a lot of people have been looking for my content for years and isn’t available anywhere anymore – this is what this site was suppose to address, but while clearing out my hard drive and putting what is left as there is a lot of duplicates on said NAS/Hard drive, I came across this folder from a previous site:

    I had to edit some of the files out, but yes, that is a LOT I need to put up, in addition to what’s up already. This will take a long time to sort, so don’t expect anything to be instant (sorry). To add it and document everything, probably takes around 30 minutes an object – plus I need to validate and check it works on modern Trainz (TS2019+) which some items won’t. Pack it, etc.

    I also found a reskin file for the Class 141, so that will be uploaded ASAP, so if anyone wants a fiddle, be my guest. It will be the second source item on the site (finally). Then there is the issue of space. I may run out. If that happens, I’ll start hotlinking everything off the site or talk nicely to the owner, but I got 5GB and still got some way to go. For those interested, the size so far of what’s in that folder is:

    Ok, not as bad as I thought, but getting that way!

    Look out for more to add of older releases in the future. For reference, if I remember correctly, this was put onto a self hosted server. Yes, I had one of those in days gone by, Internet Information System 6.0 tied to an IP address and on 24/7, I could do it all over again as I have the equipment. Its just the time and knowhow as I would use Linux these days, with a VPN server for more fun. A good way to use up your capacity. The connection is fast enough, around 2.5GB/s fibre, but then its limited to the port of the computer – which is 1GB/s as it is an old Lenovo.

    Going off subject slightly, for those messing with PCs and have a network to yourself, I seriously recommend having a play around, but just for gods’ sakes! Isolate your computer! Its how you learn. Also remember, a new hole in the network is a new hole that introduces security risks.

  • Past work..

    I probably should talk more about my past and present work, yet these days, I generally don’t tend to.

    PiggiesSWT

    Here is an item that took me around about a month and a half to draw using Microsoft Visio, way back in I think 2008, I vaguely remember being either at college or uni at the time and it was meant to be a avatar for the Trainz forum, it was! So was it’s off springs (livery).

    If you want to use it, you have all right to do so, I’m not looking for money for it, unless you want to give me a donation which will be appreciated and I would say “you don’t have to give me credit”, it should be, its nice if you could give me credit, but you don’t have to.

    Just Right Click or Apple Click and save as.. depending on your OS (I use a variety, so its upto you).

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