My, do I agree with Dan or what? I haven't experienced making a game like this myself, but I do realise that making different scenarios (male AND female!)...
im new here, and i'd just like to say that im also a fan of the game. Prior to joining this group, i was trying to read the game files for the pc version and...
another is available at http://greensmurf.com/ae the actual HTML display hasn't been changed yet except for the links to blackforge have been changed to...
I think it would be interesting to have a downloadable, offline version of Alter Ego. Or more specifically, a mobile one. I was on the internet on my cell...
There is a downloadable zip file in the 'files' section (look left) that you can play in DOS. That probably wont help you very much mobile, but if you're ever...
Thinking about it. It does sound like a good project for a Pocket PC port. I think I might take that on. I'll have some time off during the Christmas season...
The website is in Perl, not Java. In other words, good luck. ;-) (The Perl code is available on the website, however.) -Dan -unless you love someone- -nothing...
Hi Dan, Some people would like to save their game to move between computers, browsers, etc. Saves could be enabled by adding two more pages: "Save game" would...
... That's a clever idea... Could be good for debugging as well. I'll definitely look into that. I've found some free time to play around with this recently,...
Please do not post links to link-catcher games like this. They are annoying, and not very fun. -Dan -unless you love someone- -nothing else makes any sense- ...
i get the smae thing danigoblin88 <danigoblin88@...> wrote: When I click this link it gives me a nudist site...are you sure it's the right one? ... you ...
... No, that link has been broken for some time. I've removed it from theblackforge.net. -Dan -unless you love someone- -nothing else makes any sense- e.e....
Dirk Babig has kindly provided us with a new mirror page: http://alterego.babig.de/ (Note that it's in Germany!) Thanks, Dirk! -Dan -unless you love someone- ...
Hi all I am setting up a new mirror and I encounter the following problem: When calling game.pl, the server responds with: Software error: Can't locate object...
... Sorry for not getting back to you on this earlier. SizeLimit is a module I grabbed from CPAN that's used to prevent the perl processes from ballooning in...
Hi Dan & all Ok, SizeLimit is deactivated and the game seems to run fine. Got Sizelimit installed too, but there seems to be a problem having two versions of...
How do I switch over to the School, Date, Status etc. on the computer version of the game? I have played the online version and it was simple, I just can't...
Sorry to all but I can't mirror the game anymore. I just received a call vom my webhoster telling me that I killed the server a few times and it was because of...
Hi Dirk Do you have any information how the server got killed? Btw, if anyone wants to play, there's my mirror at http://alterego.polemik.ch Regards, George...
Hi George, yes I have. When I installed Alter Ego, it didn't work. I had to disable the following two lines in the game.cgi: use Apache::SizeLimit; ...
Hi Dirk Interesting, I had the same problem on my server, which I host myself at home. I too had to disable SizeLimit to get Alter Ego up and running. Now it ...
... I needed to use SizeLimit to keep the thing from running out of memory. (*kicks himself to release a multithreaded version instead of a multiprocess...