With one year of down time looming close, I made a push to figure out what was wrong. Turns out all the files had got lost in the transfer to the new host. Thankfully I had more than one backup, so hopefully all is now restored.
MS V-Chat Worlds Rediscovered
With one year of down time looming close, I made a push to figure out what was wrong. Turns out all the files had got lost in the transfer to the new host. Thankfully I had more than one backup, so hopefully all is now restored.
Sorry folks, I moved to a new host recently and managed to break the site. Normal service will be resumed as soon as I’ve figured out what I’ve done.
I got to thinking that, short of a real multi-user environment, it would add interest to have some of the original avatars in the worlds – they could even wander about. I’ve done a few experiments and it’s starting to look fairly close to the original: (apologies to JamesC for nicking his name, but I…
The V-Chat worlds all automatically play their background sound loops. These were included in the originals as song1.wav and often song2.wav. After trying a few options I settled on using howler.js to play these sounds, which has proven really easy to use and works across every platform I’ve tested it on. Today I added the…