pingu windows noooooooooooooo!

[Thomas Makel]

Hi, i am Thomas from the Netherlands, and i downloaded :
Pingus 0.4.0 - Don't use!
Windows - http://pingus.seul.org/files/pingus-0.4.0-binary-win32.zip [5.9 
Mb]
I didn't think it could do any harm so i tried it... and it fried my monitor 
(LG Flatron 795ft plus) which can handle pretty much anything. It happened 
right after executing the file.I did like that monitor a lot but i also want 
to try this game on Ubuntu, but if certain code f***ed up your hardware, 
would you be eager to try the alternative.

Still looking forward to playing pingus.
No hard feelings.. Thomas

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Re: pingu windows noooooooooooooo!

[Chat Noir]

Thomas Makel wrote:


Hi, i am Thomas from the Netherlands, and i downloaded :
Pingus 0.4.0 - Don't use!
Windows - http://pingus.seul.org/files/pingus-0.4.0-binary-win32.zip 
[5.9 Mb]


Why didnt you use the current release? (0.6.0)

With Regards
Lachesis


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Re: pingu windows noooooooooooooo!

[David Philippi]

Am Donnerstag, den 24.11.2005, 23:51 + schrieb Chat Noir:
> Why didnt you use the current release? (0.6.0)

Probably because it's not linked on the homepage? Maybe the new binaries
from Jason Green should be linked to from there at least as beta?

Bye David



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Re: pingu windows noooooooooooooo!

[Jason Green]

On 11/24/05, Thomas Makel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, i am Thomas from the Netherlands, and i downloaded :Pingus 0.4.0 - Don't use!Windows - http://pingus.seul.org/files/pingus-0.4.0-binary-win32.zip
 [5.9Mb]I didn't think it could do any harm so i tried it... and it fried my monitor(LG Flatron 795ft plus) which can handle pretty much anything. It happenedThe old Windows binary didn't set a default Refresh Rate, and I don't know how the code actually decided on one.  So, theoretically, if your monitor couldn't handle certain rates, it's possible it might have caused trouble.  The new (development release) Windows version is here:
http://cmhousing.net/pingus/Pingus-Setup.exeThere are plenty of bugs left, but there shouldn't be any remaining hardware-crashing bugs to my knowledge.  Sorry for the mishap!
Jason
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Re: pingu windows noooooooooooooo!

[Joe Cooper]

Jason Green wrote:
On 11/24/05, *Thomas Makel* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


Hi, i am Thomas from the Netherlands, and i downloaded :
Pingus 0.4.0 - Don't use!
Windows - http://pingus.seul.org/files/pingus-0.4.0-binary-win32.zip
 [5.9
Mb]
I didn't think it could do any harm so i tried it... and it fried my
monitor
(LG Flatron 795ft plus) which can handle pretty much anything. It
happened


The old Windows binary didn't set a default Refresh Rate, and I don't 
know how the code actually decided on one.  So, theoretically, if your 
monitor couldn't handle certain rates, it's possible it might have 
caused trouble.  The new (development release) Windows version is here:


http://cmhousing.net/pingus/Pingus-Setup.exe


There are plenty of bugs left, but there shouldn't be any remaining 
hardware-crashing bugs to my knowledge.  Sorry for the mishap!


For what it's worth, I don't think Pingus can possibly be to blame for a 
fried (modern) monitor, no matter what kind of rates it sent.  All 
modern monitors have synch out-of-range protection.  They go blank when 
an unsupported range is sent.  It's just a coincidence that it happened 
to fail when starting Pingus caused a mode change.  The next time the 
monitor power cycled or changed modes, it probably would have gone out 
just the same.



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