The bug with E4M2 of the DarkPlaces was fixed by Berserker

[bFeared]

Don't play STALKER or Metro 2033!!!
Don't use Render Monkey!
Remove Half-Life 2 from HDD!
Hands off from WinRar!!!

Is a big conspiracy, anywhere hidden hands from Moscow, they not only put worms in your PC, they also use hidden lasers from deep space every night, just blast human brains peoples from democracy's countries.

So, save your brains now, use Tin Foil Hat!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...TinFoilHat.jpg

Stalker and Metro 2033 sucked in my opinion.
Render monkey? Wasn't that by AMD?
Half-life 2 wasn't developed by Russians it was by Valve whom is NOT russian.
WinRar was developed by a german.

You're making zero sense.

[MaraST78]

All STALKERs were quite good stuff. Nonetheless, GSC is from Ukraine, not Russia. Yes, there is a difference.

I don't have a single reason to like Russia (since I'm Czech and 1968 can't be erased), but saying that it's not good to trust any Russian is just way too much.
People tend to put country and people in one bag and that's a big mistake. That could also mean that every American is a megalomaniac idiot that can't count to ten w/o getting sweated e.g., which is apparently not true.

[jeank]

bFeared

Render monkey - lead programmer Natalya Tatarchuk.
WinRar - creator and developer Eugene Roshal, born in Chelyabinsk, USSR
Half-life 2 have Russian developer.
BMW GPS systems use our developers, Comodo Security systems use, lot of companies use.

So, you're making zero sense.

[jeank]

GSC is from Ukraine, not Russia. Yes, there is a difference.

Actually, not differences. I remember some personal from STALKER team and later A4Team (Metro 2033), who use same Russians forums, take road to Moscow, if that need, learn same things and do same things as Russians. There no differences at all in that cases.
I know because i am from Ukraine and i do same things and may be with same peoples.

[MaraST78]

Well, yes.
I was talking about the fact that Ukraine is not part of Russia, as some people may think.
There are even people who still think that Czech and Slovak republics are one country you know.

[jeank]

Is sadly in both cases.

Our counties fall in same kind of impact - divide et impera

[metchsteekle]

There are even people who still think that Czech and Slovak republics are one country you know.

They're in denial because Czechoslovakia just happens to be the most entertaining word to say on Earth.

[Death Ray]

To bring some clarity on what is in this *.rar:
1) "Who is Berserker?" - A programmer, who has his own port of Quake 2 and is now working on Quake 3 port. Here is his homepage along with port screens.
2) "Who is Maphfus?" - Yep, it's his first post but you could simply google "marphus quake" to see if he is a bot or a real person. Here is google-translated topic on Berserker's forum where Marphus is making a compilation of DP quake along with HD textures and models. So he isn't a bot or kind of a communist spy.
3) "Why should I dl and open .exe file I know nothing about?" - Who told you that there's exe file only in the archive? It goes along with the source code, so you can compile it yourself to ensure it's not malware.

PS:

Never trust a Russian.

And THAT was insulting.

[bFeared]

Hey, now. (I am partially Czech, by the way)
How have Russians in general earned my trust?
The same can be said for the damned frenchies/pole's.

Now, generalizing may not sound like a good thing but EVERYONE does it, whether you like it or not. I'm not saying EVERY single Russian cannot be trusted, I'm just generalizing.

I've met some really cool russians/poles (not frenchies, though) who I happen to talk to.
It's like how people generalize women being weak. It has to be common enough for that generalization to become one, not saying it's true in all cases, though. (that's a different topic, though)

[metchsteekle]

That's when i realized that we've gone somewhat off-topic... and that I'm not about to help the situation.

[foq]

I'm quarter Czechoslovakian. Bitches.

[R00k]

Alright guys.

I didn't say squat about origin of country, of the patch.
All I said was, warning, it wasn't compiled by LordHavoc.

Someone else brought nationality to the table... mostly as a joke.

Russian? That must be malware! Doesn't anyone remember the cold war?

Who told you that there's exe file only in the archive?

You can download the source and exe files here:

Could have just left it at source, to be honest.

You could have even linked to the forum where the information was obtained...
Cool little forum there! http://translate.googleusercontent.c...YFRSSCvSxM8fgA

[LordHavoc]

This topic seems rather derailed and I am disappointed by the subject of nationality becoming somehow involved...

As for my own builds, the Windows portion of the builds are all cross-compiled from Linux (Linux and Mac binaries are made natively on their respective platforms), so the likelyhood of an infected exe from me is probably near zero.

The suggestion of not running exe's from people you don't have a history with, is a wise one, and would indeed save considerable amounts of time and money in the IT (information technology) world.

Of course it is more practical to just run an anti-virus program and be cautious, rather than outright refusing everything one encounters based on a perceived nationality-associated reputation.

Back to the topic of the fix and the emails...

I received a rather ambiguous email on 2010-06-18 from Maphf Maphus, contents are as follows:

Dear Lordhavoc

E4M3 map doesn't work with full lighting on the engine darkplacesengine20100408.

r_shadow_realtime_world "1"
Best regards

Yegor from Moscow

I did not react to this email as it was not clear and I was busy at the time.

I received an email about E4M2 crashing on 2010-07-08 from JKestler, he also mentioned it was already reported on quakeone.com .

Somewhere in the range 2010-07-08 to 2010-07-15 a friend on IRC pointed me to the thread http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-hel...shes-e4m2.html which seems to have started on 2010-05-17 and the build affected was made on 2010-04-08.

On 2010-07-15 I committed fixed code to svn, I'm not sure if I fixed it that day or previously (as in my post on that thread I said it was fixed a couple weeks ago, indicating that I had been sitting on the fix for a while).

A friend pointed me to this topic on 2010-09-26 and I replied to this topic.

I received an email about E4M2 crashing on 2010-09-26 from Maphf Maphus containing the same contents as the first post of this topic.

I welcome the assistance of Berserker even if indirectly, but this is bug is definitely fixed.

However I really do need to make an updated stable build.

[Baker]

I've thought about replying to this thread several times, but didn't know how to say what I wanted to say correctly.

I guess it works like this: there have been countless Russian contributors to Quake over the years and there are Russian Quake fan sites. Scrama is Russian. Son's Quake .. which some features were adopted into JoeQuake and therefore Qrack was written by Russians. A number of the quakeworld.nu contributors are Russian.

I don't think someone is going to write an evil DarkPlaces modification.

Maybe for something like Halo Reach or a current popular game, but this is a great game with a greater future but it is a 15 year old game with a small existing audience. Some of the posts seem a bit, I guess like LordHavoc said, "disappointing" and misguided. For someone to even modify DarkPlaces takes a lot of expertise and time.

[jeank]

However I really do need to make an updated stable build.