1998 vs 2008

[Electric Ir]

Just hopping by to see how things are going around here. What's up? Has there been any news at all? Who's still active? Ten years have gone by, and I wonder who's still out there from the old gang. As for me, this is my first login since february 2007.

Cheers.
~E

[Unhit]

L
O
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:ddddd

[Electric Ir]

I was wondering how long it would take to answer, Niels. :-)

[Stijn]

het is de elektrische wolf!

bliksemflits hier!

[FQuist]

Hey Cees.

Well, big news is that JJ4 is being made. :rainbow: For the rest...

<- Active.

[Stijn]

By the way #[TF] is still active!

[n00b]

Somehow during that time Battery Check gained a huge cult following in Asia leading to interest in JJ2 by the populace. The result is that the game is popping up more often on warez forums.

[MSB3000]

Hello there.

[KRSplat]

Electric Ir! Hello
Once upon a time, I interviewed you :D

[Jimbob]

Well hallo thar ;p
<-------- As for me, I have just started making levels in July/August 2007. You should check out some of the screens I have posted ;p

[Speeza]

Me thinks your trying to advertise your levels :d. Uhh not much has really happened. Nothing big anyway.

[Slaz]

Hello there Electic! There hasn't been news as big as the announcement of JJ3 back in the days yes, but lately there are many exciting downloads released, like some very detailed tilesets and of course an unfinished version of Tomb Rabbit 2! And multiplayer is still active, there are new clans aswell as many of the old ones. Let's say you have missed things here, but nothing is dramatic.:p

[Raven aka StL]

Glad to hear from you again, Electric.

[[GpW]Urbs]

hi electric, we're here, although some of us are way(and i mean way) less active

[Fawriel]

I remember yooouuuuu.

Do you remember meeee?

[Xobim]

Uh, hoi?

[ShadowGPW]

present.......

[GpW] is kinda dead, even tho The New Spaz did try to work on a new page
http://gpw.mysticlegends.org (Aka project V4)

[Violet CLM]

*isn't from the old gang* :(

[Vegito]

O rly

[Nonomu198]

A gang? So this is like.... a GANG!? Does that makes you a gangstar? I am not from any rival gang, don't kill me!

...now let's see... 1998-2008... my sister happened. I like 1998 better. But 198 is still my favorate.

[[GpW]Urbs]

no no, not dead, i believe we have 4 players at least, NS, me, pyro and sacrush. And no, we're not recruiting so dont even bother pleading. Unless ur a girl with a webcam:)

[Nonomu198]

Urbs;424799']no no, not dead, i believe we have 4 players at least, NS, me, pyro and sacrush. And no, we're not recruiting so dont even bother pleading. Unless ur a girl with a webcam:)

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/8852/gpworlyjs3.jpg
O realy


Btw when was the last time any of you played? And played in a public server?

[CrimiClown]

Alive and kicking!

... oh wait.

[Newspaz]

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/8852/gpworlyjs3.jpg
O realy


Btw when was the last time any of you played? And played in a public server?

January 8th, during the holidays when I actually had time to waste. So nyah ;P

Oh by the way, how many links on that site are actually working? I'm pretty sure none of them are. It's just a design test (hence the interesting news items).

Urbs makes a good point about the webcam though.

[ShadowGPW]

btw, i played yesterday.... i'm not uber active, but join for a few rumbles some now and then ;P

[sreeja]

I just joined to this site.Is any member from 1998 to 2007.It is so appreciable.

[Bobby aka Dizzy]

I'm still here! Good to see you stop by Electric.

[Raven aka StL]

btw, i played yesterday.... i'm not uber active, but join for a few rumbles some now and then ;P
Meh, bug me whenever you're gonna play, even for a bit.
I just love nostalgic stuff.

[[GpW]Urbs]

oy im pretty sure that me, ns and sacrush(not sure bout pyro) all played in jdc. and i actually had 2 very good 2v2/3v3 runs together with sj... sure i lost my duel against enig, but up till now nobody's been able to solve that enigma:)

anyway we take our gaming seriously...

Imagine us like being master roshi (db series), we like to do a kamehameha wave every once in a while but in general we prefer porn. So as said, girls with webcams can train under our rigourous regime to learn the old arts.

[Electric Ir]

Glad to hear from you again, Electric.

Who the (-) are you? ;)

[Nonomu198]

I didn't watch DBZ for ages, but didn't all the other guys gut all super strong and roshi was like totaly weak and old and everyone loled at him for beig so lame while they were like "AHHHH UBER KAMEHAMEHA X9999!!! MOREZ POWER!!"?


Who the (-) are you? ;)

But that's the wrong.. nvm.

[Grytolle]

Who the (-) are you? ;)He has this thing where he pretends to know people he senses to be cool ^__^

[Cpp]

Heya, electric. Good to see you again.
~Ol

[[GpW]Urbs]

yes icon guy, but he always had style and porn:)

btw cool comment gry:)))))))

[Raven aka StL]

Who the (-) are you? ;)

Wallace :)
... I doubt you remember me, but... oh well. :|
That's how things are these days.

[Electric Ir]

Wallace :)
... I doubt you remember me, but... oh well. :|
That's how things are these days.

Haha, I was just kidding. Like I posted, (assuming it hasn't been deleted), Niels forced me to answer that. Never mind that. ;)

[Vegito]

Bah why did you have to ruin that, Electric D= ;(

[Raven aka StL]

... Because it would be / is stupid, maybe... ?

[ShadowGPW]

-do-not-take-all-to-serious- /hint mode off

[Mercurio]

Urbs;424799']no no, not dead, i believe we have 4 players at least, NS, me, pyro and sacrush. And no, we're not recruiting so dont even bother pleading. Unless ur a girl with a webcam:) Clanmembers in name only it seems. :( Not much clan activity left though we did have an attempt to get a CnC3 div last year... but it died. :+

Anyways didn't even have internet yet in 1998 but I did play JJ2 singleplay and via split screen. :)

[Grytolle]

-do-not-take-all-to-serious- /hint mode offIndeed! Take it elsewhere! Serious is boring.

[[GpW]Urbs]

just because u can't be serious that doesn't mean its boring!!! I'm not boring...

[Grytolle]

Really?

[[GpW]Urbs]

so i keep telling myself.

[mirrow]

Wow 10 years :o

I m getting old!!

[Enigma]

Mirrow sighting!

*takes a picture and blinds him with the flash, hoping that that will make it easier to trap him here*

[Skeven]

I'm still here. I guess. I don't think I was playing 1.23 back then though xD.
Probably dabbling in TSF.

One question though... is Derby still around?

[ShadowGPW]

Dopefish got hungry Skeven...

[Anakin[CC]]

Hiya Electric, well i occasionaly play a game/round, but my router really killed me :X

[Grytolle]

Well it works with portfix, doesn't it?

[RêÐxÑïñjà]

Not very active anymore, but it's been a while Electric. Good to see you. :-)

[Grytolle]

Welcome back! Do start playing again!

[Stijn]

Well the anniversary bash is nearing which would be a good opportunity for all wise old men to show their faces!

[Aiko]

Heya Electric!! Nice to hear from you.

[Slaz]

This years Bash was kind of cool but I've not seen that many of the 'community legends' or how I should call the few of this threads above posters. Atleast these kind of events are giving public servers a purpose these days..

[Ae]

Hi!

[Stijn]

Sightings in no particular order:

Aiko
Mez
Poison IvEE
Salamander
Dreama
Tweety

And of course Monolith, Disguise, Shadow, Dethman (#jj2 only though), Cobra/Ninjapixie, etc... but those are still #jj2 regulars.

Nevertheless I really enjoyed this bash, even though there were quite some problems surrounding hosting (PURPLEJAZZ TEST YOUR PACK NEXT TIME). n00b summarized it nicely (PITS+HELLDOOOOOOME+CRASH?=Bash).

[Nonomu198]

Don't forget (-)(-)(-)(-) (breasts)

[ShadowGPW]

hey! I was inside the game!!!!!! Several hours even... I think you even saw me!

biggest suprises for me were, DethMan, CaptainSpam and Aiko.

[Violet CLM]

Dethman (#jj2 only though), ...but those are still #jj2 regulars.

wait what now?

[EvilMike]

#jj2 is where all the cool people go to have fun

the jcf is for chumps!!!!

[Speeza]

#jj2 is where all the cool people go to have fun

the jcf is for chumps!!!!

No , the jcf is where people acturlly want to talk about the game , #jj2 is all chit chat.

[Grytolle]

yeah it's all about the game here! 8D

[NovaStar]

No , the jcf is where people acturlly want to talk about the game , #jj2 is all chit chat.

chump!!!!

yeah it's all about the game here! 8D

chump!!!!

[Vegito]

Yeah I've seen quite some "oldies" too :O
Surprisingly

Do stay here anyways <3

<s> And take the source code with you </s>

[White Rabbit]

Dethman (#jj2 only though)
Chatlogs or it didn't happen.

[EvilMike]

16:47 (EvilMike) tickbot quote dethman
16:47 (Tickbot) "lol" -DethMan (559)

[Raven aka StL]

How come I got the image that Dethman was playing too, for a few moments?
Anyway, I missed it along with a majority of the bash, (-).

[ShadowGPW]

DethMan was but CTO'd

[Txl Kill]

10 years going strong

[TexanGal]

Makes me feel old... I haven't seen JJ2 stuff in forever :)

[KRSplat]

If everyone from 1998 had a big war against everyone from 2008, which year would win?

[Nonomu198]

Well, since this game attracts kids or teens, the 1998 guys are now 20+, I bet they can beat the nowdays players. Heck, some of them gut gun licence. And guns.

[Slaz]

1998 had more players, 2008 has few but way more skilled (and addicted lol)..

[Unhit]

y 1998 had no gry

[FQuist]

Bring it on.

[Jimbob]

<s>:<hi>lol:</s>

[Ricerind]

I miss 1998. It was a much simpler time.

[Blobby]

I've been coming and going over time, remember a lot of you guys. Don't think I've been joined since '98 but have been using the site since then, and loving JJ2!

[Jerrythabest]

Hmm back in 1998 we had Windows 98... that was an awesome OS to play Jazz2 on (as it didn't screw up the title bar... but it was an awesome OS anyway, even if only for the fact that it was the OS I grew up with). But in 2008 we have JJ2+ and J2O. And an internet connection. It's a hard choice.

Anyway, the bash was good. Esspecially the GroundForce server!! :)<!-- only the pits sucked, but I think you've found out about that by now --> I wonder if there was a bash in 1999 too (and in 2000,...). I wish I could have been part of this community so much earlier :'(


Byes all! :) I'll stick around here.

[Nonomu198]

<!-- only the pits sucked, but I think you've found out about that by now -->

Agreed.


Byes all! I'll stick around here.

wait what O.o

[DDP]

I feel old...

I picked up this game on Goozex and patched it up for online play... sadly no one is playing.

Why did I ever think it would be cool to have a wrestler's name as my nickname?

[LOLZ84]

Hmm back in 1998 we had Windows 98...

HA HA HA! Heck yes! I remember that OS when I was in preschool as well as 1st and early 2nd grade. That was definitely the OS I grew up with. I remember playing SuperKarts, a racing DOS game that was developed in the United Kingdom when we got our first Win98 PC way back in 1998 when I was 4 years old. *sighs* Memories... :)

For those of you are wondering, I first played Jazz Jackrabbit in about 2001 I believe...or maybe that was 2002.... *shrugs*

[Erik]

I grew up with Win 95 and some ancient version of Red Hat Linux :(

[Slaz]

I grew up with old plain MS-DOS 6.0 including Windows 3.1 (cause that was used at my home and first school lol). My next computer used Windows98 and that was the one I started playing JJ2 on when it was released in 1998. And I haven't used any version of Linux other than Ubuntu (one year ago).

[Vegito]

I grew up with old plain MS-DOS 6.0 including Windows 3.1 (cause that was used at my home and first school lol). My next computer used Windows98 and that was the one I started playing JJ2 on when it was released in 1998. And I haven't used any version of Linux <s>other than Ubuntu (one year ago).</s>

So that is my story of jj2. Just not the Ubuntu part.

[LOLZ84]

You know what's wierd?

If I recall right... I think Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was originally intended for use on Windows 95, as it was announced in Winter of 1995 (I think.) shortly after the very last episode of Jazz Jackrabbit 1 was released, which was Holiday Hare 95. And I believe was going to come out about 1996.

But it was delayed two years ahead towards 1998. However, on the back of the case, it still said it was intended for Windows 95, even though you could pretty much run every Windows 95 program in Windows 98. This was probably due to the terrors of Internet Explorer 4 that were going about back in the day that made Win95 based computers slow as heck.

[Jerrythabest]

I wish new Windows versions had such great compatibilities with older programs.

Anyway, I think it's weird that JJ2's title bar doesn't get the XP theme (at least not for me) which sucks if you try to click its title bar buttons: XP's (themeless) buttons are thinner and they only become visible over the 'traditionally big' JJ2 title bar buttons when you click them. So I have to click the left part of the maximize button to minimize JJ2, which I happen to forget all the time.

[Slaz]

I always set my Windows theme on the classic style cause I don't give for a stylish workspace in my OS.. But somehow, and I'm talking serious, I kind of miss the old Windows9x versions. XP is stable and all, but 98 had full DOS support and no useless and bugging new 'features' and updates. Anything older than Win2k is currently considered unsupported, as current hardware won't be compatible with Windows9x (especially graphics adapters, drivers, and hardware connections). On the other hand, I'm kind of surprised that Jazz2 does still run on Vista (NT 6.0) other than sound issues on the WindowsMM driver.

[Jerrythabest]

Sometimes I miss 98 too =( Tho most of these bugging new features can simply be put away by disabling their services (Start->Run->services.msc)

[Violet CLM]

If I recall right... I think Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was originally intended for use on Windows 95, as it was announced in Winter of 1995 (I think.) shortly after the very last episode of Jazz Jackrabbit 1 was released, which was Holiday Hare 95. And I believe was going to come out about 1996.

You're good. Aside from Lagunicus, JJ2 was announced November 15th 1995, and was originally supposed to be released Christmas 1996. My recollection was that JJ2 was supposed to be DOS-compatible, beyond just 95, but I'm not finding my sources right now. :|
Anyway, I would tentatively blame the JJ2 title bar on Caption.

[Xtreem]

My recollection was that JJ2 was supposed to be DOS-compatible, beyond just 95, but I'm not finding my sources right now. :|

On the back of my box for JJ2 + TSF it says Windows 95/98 or MS-DOS 6.0, It never included a DOS version of JJ2 though.

http://upload.digiex.net/files/g9ptehf5i9ofgc0w7uox.jpg

[LOLZ84]

That would be actually be pretty cool if they released Jazz 2 for DOS so people still using Windows 3.1 could play Jazz Jackrabbit 2 on their old 486/Pentium machines. :)

[Nonomu198]

That would be actually be pretty cool if they released Jazz 2 for DOS so people still using Windows 3.1 could play Jazz Jackrabbit 2 on their old 486/Pentium machines. :)

Maybe 10 years ago. But how would JCS work on DOS?

[cooba]

They didn't plan on releasing a level editor from the very start, I figure.

[Jerrythabest]

Anyway, I would tentatively blame the JJ2 title bar on Caption.I really wonder how JJ2 chooses the tiles it displays in the title bar on caption.

[Sonyk]

there's a caption setting in JCS for the tiles in the tileset window...
<!--unless this was INTERNET SARCASM which i can't detect-->

[Jerrythabest]

*dies*

Always wondered what that thing did. Now, what happens if you don't set any captions?

[KRSplat]

Now, what happens if you don't set any captions?

The title bar implodes.

[Jerrythabest]

Does that mean you have a bigger resolution, or a smaller window, or what?

[Nonomu198]

...You get a normal dark to bright blue shades. Can't you test it on your own? ._.

[Jerrythabest]

No, I don't have JJ2 installed at the moment.

[Nonomu198]

Then install it. It takes 5 min. How lazy can you be?

[Jerrythabest]

How lazy can you be?Very.


Anyway, this is not about 1998 vs 2008 anymore. So to get things back ontopic, ... okay someone else may get it back ontopic this time.

[Slaz]

Guess that someone will be me..

If I remember this correctly, wasn't Jazz2 originally supposed to be played on 320x200, or in other words the DOS resolution, aswell? When playing the OEM version, you can still see backgrounds and other level design made for a resolution lower than 640x480. Also, Jazz2 on DOS is an interesting thought. It would have given us way less compatibility at the time when Win2k/XP became popular without DOSBox being invented yet lol, but some of the computers I've used in 1998 were unable to run JJ2 cause those still used Windows3.1 and DOS.

[Jerrythabest]

Thank God it's not a DOS game, we wouldn't be here right now then I think.

[OldSchooler]

I could be asking the same question- this is the first time I've joined a forum relating to the JJ games and it is nice to know that the games still have an active player base. Although I have not played JJ2 very much, JJ1 was by far one of my favorite games years ago.