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Reply to Does anyone know how to reach Tiggz? in WinCustomize Talk Stardock Forums

I try to reach out ever year or so and never recieve a reply. It *could* be he's avoiding me . . . but I think he's out of reach. :(

Reply to Is Multiplicity developemtn dead in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

[quote who="sdRohan" reply="2" id="3759907"] No, Multiplicity is still very popular and well supported by Stardock. [/quote] "well supported" is not the same as still in development. Can you provide any sort of feature path?

Reply to What's happened to Object Desktop?? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

WB skinning was easier back in the day. (As was ObjectDock, ObjectBar, and DesktopX.) You almost ahve to be a professional to knock out even the simpliset of skins. Has there been any thought to simplifying the creation process by changing the skinning engine? Does SkinStudio need a rewrite? (MS locked things down too. That makes it much harder to do anything. [I will always miss you DesktopX.])

Reply to Object Desktop subscription - Shady business practices? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

I've said it for years and I'll say it again . . . teh fact that it's a subscription could be more clear on teh product page. Taht this topic comes up as often as it does (even if it's pretty infrequently) is indicative of an issue that could be fixed.

Reply to Want separate desktops in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

Check out the "Pages" function of Fences: https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/ There's even a 30 day free trial.

Reply to The games that made you...you in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Pong/Tennis Break Out HiRes Breakout Zork (and all the Scott Adams interactive fiction) Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure (!!!!) Castle Wolfenstien subLOGICS's Flight Simulator (I & II) X-Wing (the entire series!) Descent Galactic Civilization Portal

Reply to Your online community origin? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

~'95, '96 - CompuServe groups - Focus on X-Wing and Star Wars, some Grateful Dead AOL groups - OS/2, Star Wars Newsgroups - Stardock products IRC Stardock/Wincustomize forums Facebook Reddit

Reply to Open source skins? in WinCustomize Talk Stardock Forums

Reasonable people being reasonable and unreasonable people *acting* reasonably makes for a better community. Good on you all!

Reply to Open source skins? in WinCustomize Talk Stardock Forums

[quote who="neone6" reply="16" id="3756169"] Lurker or not, I don't agree with you on this one Zubaz [/quote]Fair enough. His assessment was kind of an jerky thing to say.

Reply to Open source skins? in WinCustomize Talk Stardock Forums

Voluntarily releasing a skin or two with a license that allows redistribution (with credit) might aslo be a way of getting a new generation of skinners in the game. It doesn't take awya from the work a skinner and it doesn't allow a new skinner to take credit for work they didn't do. I don't see teh harm. (I do see harm in treating a reasonable question/questioner as a pariah . . but I'm just an old lurker, riht?)

Reply to Economic Singularity: The Gods and the Useless in Life, the Universe and Everything LittleTinyFrogs Forums

Learn to love the robots now . . while they still think you mean it. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/udt-its072319.php

Reply to WindowBlinds 10.81 released in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="60" id="3753555"] My typos are getting worse and worse. Basically stumped. [/quote] I didn't notice nay typos but then again, I'm not teh best jusge of the genre.

Reply to Other game types in The Video Game Machine Stardock.net Forums

I was looking at this article of the best video games the year you were born and was thinking about how fun it would be to make a Pac-Man non-clone with VGM. And PONG! ;)

Reply to A few things on first run - UI/UX in The Video Game Machine Stardock Forums

While grabbing the screenshot (above) I noticed the bottom two section of the enemy list had some issues. Legendary adn Deadly expanded and contracted as expected but there were some placement problems

Reply to The Video Game Machine = The Game that makes games in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

"Kirby's Adventure" came out in '93. VGM could do that. So did "Sam & Max Hit the Road" VGM could probably do that too. (I REALLY want point and click in VGM) You know what else came out in '93? [spoiler] GalCiv for OS/2 came out in '93. [/spoiler]

A few things on first run - UI/UX in The Video Game Machine Stardock Forums

Playing a game: There should be a Play control on the selection of a cartridge in addition to the double click to start a game. I think clicking on the the large cartridge image should also start the game. The play button in to lower right is a Stardock convention but moving my mouse there is a pain in the ass. Why? Small font is small. Too small. (Or I'm old) (Just picking out my hero required squinting. The help text at the bottom of the editor (whil

Reply to Object Desktop in 2019 in Stardockians Stardock Forums

Is anyone still skinning Xion? That was a powerful skinning engine that was really easy to created with because it used layers (and layer names) as controls. I wish SKS used something similar. The old ShadowFX was really powerful (and fun) but as shadows were incorporated into Windowblinds it became less exciting. I LOVED the dynamic lighting (that you can sort of see in the CursorFX shadows if you enable it).

Reply to Fences Trying to Connect to Dropbox in Fences Stardock Forums

Fences has (had?) a version check that leverages dropbox. Support should be able to provide a registry key to disable it.

Reply to Happy 18th Birthday, WinCustomize! in WinCustomize News Stardock Forums

Some of teh best people I've met on the internet are here at WC. Happy brithday and MANY MORE!

Reply to NOW AVAILABLE: Object Desktop 2019 and Exclusive DeskScapes 10 Beta in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

It's lovely to see the WC library integration. It's much better than what we did with IconPackager "Featured". When on the "Apply Effects" section a larger preview would be nice. It's unlikely that the user will want or need the thumbnails of other dreams; why not use the lower half for effects and the top half for preview?

Reply to Stardock Announces Siege of Centauri in Siege of Centauri News Stardock Forums

Does anyone else ever wonder why bases in TD games were built where they were? I mean it . . I'm at a low risk of attack in most restaurants but I still try to sit in a strategic spot in case of emergency.

Reply to Object Desktop in 2019 in Stardockians Stardock Forums

For what it's worth, skinning for Xion using named layers was an amazingly simple and fun and fairly powerful system. It's worth looking at something like that for the designer-side of the equation for WindowBlinds.

Reply to DeskScapes DreamMaker in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

[quote who="AzDude" reply="2" id="3735615"] I've made almost 3000 dreams with Dream Maker but I never saw that link [/quote] I know (knew) the Stardock and WinCustomize websites and products like I know my own house. Things may be tucked away but they are still there I I *mostly* know where they are. (And I probably have some hacky HTML in many of them. <img src="https://web.stardock.net/images/smiles/themes/digicons/zubaz_emo.png" alt="zubaz_emo"