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YogCraft and Server Texture Packs

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes.

I have been running a private Minecraft server for myself and some friends for a while now. We have been playing through a variety of Modpacks, starting with Tekkit then Voltz and yesterday we switched over to YogCraft.

On Minecraft servers you have the option to force users to download and automagically install a texture pack when they join. I’ve never tried this before but I thought I’d give it a go as I was starting a new server. The way it works is that you need a zip file containing the texture pack somewhere publicly accessible on the internet and you modify the server.properties file to tell it where to find it. I tried this but immediately realised that there is a limit of 10Mb for texture packs served in this way and the one I had was 38Mb!

Typing Symbols on a Mac

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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Something that has always bugged me is the way that you enter symbols on a Mac. I can never find what I’m looking for and tonight was no exception. I wanted to type a musical note earlier this evening, couldn’t find it so I had a quick look online. I found an article that mentioned opening the Special Characters window, which I had already looked in but then it said to choose the Symbols section.

360 Controller with Lion Continued

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:30:00 +0000

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Following on from yesterday, I downloaded Borderlands from the Mac App Store along with Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Portal and Portal 2 from Steam.

Borderlands worked immediately with the 360 controller. A good start.

Portal 2 also worked straight away but sadly none of the other Steam games recognised the controller. I tried the exec 360controller command in the developer console but that didn’t make any difference either. Having done more reading online it appears that the Mac version of Steam doesn’t support gamepads with the source games. An article written in May 2010 mentions:

360 Controller + Mac + Steam != Fun

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000

Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes.

I saw a lady on the gadget show playing games on a MacBook Pro with a 360 controller and as I already have two wireless controllers for my 360 I thought it was worth investigating. A little bit of research online told me that you need a Microsoft dongle to make the wireless controllers work with a computer or I could buy a wired controller for less than the cost of the dongle.