Info: 2024 Game Updates

[lukerduker123]

I was fourteen when I first started playing this game. I turned twenty-nine last week so I'm not nearly as old as everyone else, but it feels kinda bittersweet seeing the game finally wrapping up. It's been a long, LONG ride, but it's been real fun. I hope this game continues to get enjoyed far into the future -- it scratches an itch nothing else can.

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

I can't assume everyone looks at the MBT Thread so, I've "cut and pasted" Dons latest post from there to here knowing most are focused on this Thread at this time.

I wish the news could be better...

From MBT Thread Post #1935

"Guys

On january 13 slipped and fell on ice in my backyard. It was sudden and I KNEW I Had hurt myself as soon as I hit the ground
AS A result I do not know if I am capable of moving forward with the games and ASSEMBLING.THE PATCHES HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY RESPONSIBILITY[/b]...only time will tell but I May not be able to carry on and I am just putting EVERYONE on notice about that my ONE HOPE is that I start gettin better soon

Don"

I leave you with your thoughts for his family and more importantly Dons health and full recovery.

Regards,
Pat

[DRG]

Can someone please help me?. I am trying to create an 89x89
pink square and no matter what I try to enter into the shp file list I keep drawing a blank

[scorpio_rocks]

:d :d :d

[DRG]

I'm dead Serious I need help remembering how to do this I hav e had a serious head injury and if I do not get assistance the MBT patch is dead in the water

[MarkSheppard]

Dear Don;

Sorry for taking so long to get around to this. I've been a bit distracted/busy.

How are you holding up?

Can someone please help me?. I am trying to create an 89x89 pink square and no matter what I try to enter into the shp file list I keep drawing a blank

Are you trying to make a transparent square or a pink-ish square?

There is a specific color that is designated "transparent" by the game code; it's pink-ish in color.

The exact value of this transparent color is:

#ffe6e6 (HTML code to cut and paste into Paint Shop Pro Color Picker)

R: 255
G: 230
B: 230
H: 255
S: 255
L: 243

ANYTHING THIS COLOR WILL BE TREATED AS TRANSPARENT (BLANK) BY THE GAME CODE

If you're trying to add a transparent bitmap into an existing SHP file using SHPEd, I can walk you through this process tomorrow.

[DRG]

Thanks Mark but I had my eureka moment about this a week ago....... all good now but I was trying to create a standard transparent pink 89x89 Icon square and striking out........then the light came on




I would advise anyone to avoid head injuries....... it is a PITA -------It took me two weeks to figure out how to do what I had been doing for 27 years

Don

[carp]

I had a major stroke in 2016. I lived, so there's that, but recovering from a brain injury isn't like any other injury. First off, the brain doesn't hurt, so you don't know what's knocked out of kilter until you try to use it and it doesn't work. Nine years later, I still stumble over things I know I knew, until I get a clue, and I, too, have those EUREKA moments. Don't ever try to rush brain healing. The skull is a bone, the brain isn't. I asked my nervous doctor if these episodes were remnants of the stroke or old age creeping in. He told me to assume both.

I wish you well and sincerely hope you didn't get as knocked about as that stroke worked on me. I read the first few posts in this string when it was posted, but never wanted to know if people were badgering the update to hurry, so I just now saw this old January news. Be well, and celebrate every day. That's the gravy of every brain injury, every day.

You give good advice. Don't get a brain injury. I might add, skip shingles too, and if you are married, try to avoid the Clap. That would be the only time it turns fatal.

[DRG]

Thanks. Glad you survived your stroke, The "little" one I had in 2015 only messed me up for about a month.

I am getting better, I felled a dead tree yesterday with a chainsaw and dropped it within inches of where I wanted it to fall. I know trying that 2 months ago would have been foolish (stupid actually).There are still days I struggle with things that not long ago I did not think twice about which can be incredibly frustrating but I know I am making progress more often forward and much less often backward but this one was something that initially I got up from where I slipped on the ice, made sure nothing obviously was broken and continued on for over a month before I had to admit "something was wrong". Recovering from this has been harder that recovering from the open heart surgery then the "small" stroke a month later.

I would like to meet the clown who came up with "the golden years" for old age and introduce his nuts to my foot.

[zovs66]

We are quite the survivor's group here.

While I did not have a stroke I did have a widowmaker heart attack with a 13% chance of survivability back on August 20th 2023. Here I am almost two years later, 70 pounds lighter and surprisingly healthier then I have ever been I think (mind, body and spirit).

I think that those of us that have faced and escaped an early death have a much different perspective on life then what others and ourselves once had. Doing our best to not take for granted those that love us (we we them) and spending as much time with them as possible. Work just is not that important anymore and games are just a nice distraction, but the really important things are what really matter in the end.

I am getting closer to my sixtieth year of existence and noticing a lot of friends and family are passing on before me, my mother passed in 2020, but my father is still ticking at 87 years old, I hope he sees 90 and maybe even 95, his mother lived to be 102.

God bless you all and love those near and dear to you.