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I sent a reply back:
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Dear MIT,
That won't work. EXEs mean virues in my area. Are you sure there's no secondary uploader for dial-up users?
WindozeNT
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I hope this can be fixed soon.
WindozeNT

Last edited by WindozeNT (2010-06-24 18:57:14)

Whenever I can get a laptop, I'll also have high-speed WiFi and will attempt to upload there...but that won't happen for a long time or so.
WindozeNT

Hey, look! My first successful upload!
WindozeNT

Uploading other projects was a major failure. It appears to only upload projects less than 100 KB. (The Pac-Man movie was 75 KB). Either that or I was lucky to send it while wearing my favorite Pac-Man hat!
WindozeNT

Right now I'm making a Windows XP simulator. So far, I've got to the desktop icons and Welcome screen. As for my Windows 98 simulator, it needs cleaning up.
WindozeNT

coka wrote:

WindozeNT wrote:

Right now I'm making a Windows XP simulator. So far, I've got to the desktop icons and Welcome screen. As for my Windows 98 simulator, it needs cleaning up.
WindozeNT

Cool! I can't wait to see them, if they can be uploaded. 

By the looks of things, 100 KB is the upload limit for dial-up, so it kind of sounds like a fat chance...but really, if you looked at the welcome screen of the XP simulator, you'd probably think it really is Windows XP. That's how realistic it looks. That's because I use real screenshots of Windows XP. Windows 98 Simulator uses hundreds of thousands of broadcasts, but XP simulator and others from now on use varibles to call an event. Still, XP still has broadcasts to use Windows Explorer and other programs, whenever I get to them.......
And one small question, do you have a PC Speaker? It's that thing that beeps at bootup on some CPUs.
WindozeNT

Sweet! I found this program that lets you play music through the PC Speaker. The site that hosts it is usually down 90% of the time so if you want it I can send an exe installer for it. Also, read my comment I posted on my project. Look for the "secret" I mention in the latest. Try clicking everything you see in it to find it. In the meantime, I'll be programming Windows Explorer in my XP simulator, which is 1.4 MB for something that's 18% done.
Peace out,
WindozeNT

I still have upload trouble but I've almost found out what's going on...
As it appears, the Scratch server only replies to projects 100 KB or less with dial-up, which means I might have to highly compress my projects for it to work, although it might ruin all my Windows simulators (especially the Windows 98 simulator).
WindozeNT

WindozeNT wrote:

Also, will Scratch 1.x files work in Scratch 2.0?
WindozeNT

Not that I know of, but Scratch 2.0 will be available for download, as well as online in the browser window!

WindozeNT wrote:

How big will Scratch 2.0 be?
WindozeNT

I'm not entirely sure, though I would imagine something about the size as Scratch 1.x.

coka wrote:

WindozeNT wrote:

How big will Scratch 2.0 be?
WindozeNT

As coolstuff mentioned, the download will probably be near the size of Scratch now. Also, I was wondering how your internet works with online Flash applications. Can you run this site (http://www.designblocks.net/create) fairly fast? This might run similar to the speed of the Online version of Scratch 2.0.

See, the thing about DesignBlocks is that it a very pared down version of Scratch that you can't really do all that much with. I *think* the real Scratch 2.0 will probably we a lot heavier than that.

coka wrote:

coolstuff wrote:

See, the thing about DesignBlocks is that it a very pared down version of Scratch that you can't really do all that much with. I *think* the real Scratch 2.0 will probably we a lot heavier than that.

That's what I thought right after posting that link, but if that is troublesome for WindozeNT, then we know that his/her internet connection will probably have a very tough time with Scratch 2.0 online. 

With a 28.8 KBPS mega-slow dial-up connection, this is like waiting for a 1.2 MB flash  file online to load:
Chug......Chug........Chug.......Chug.........
I have a hard time even loading projects online! Thankfully, I have a program that reads HTML source and lets me download .SWF, .MP3, .WAV, .MP4, .FLV and others through my download manager. That means I can go to the online scratch page and download it! Because my dial-up connection couldn't beat a snail in a roundtrip race around a dime, it might take a week or so. 
Oh yeah; bu-bu-bu-BUMP!
WindozeNT

coka wrote:

WindozeNT wrote:

How big will Scratch 2.0 be?
WindozeNT

As coolstuff mentioned, the download will probably be near the size of Scratch now. Also, I was wondering how your internet works with online Flash applications. Can you run this site (http://www.designblocks.net/create) fairly fast? This might run similar to the speed of the Online version of Scratch 2.0.
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WindozeNT's Signature wrote:

http://i45.tinypic.com/jpvp5i.gif

I like your new signature! 

Thanks! It's to advertise my project to get more downloads, loveits and favorites. No remixes yet, but I don't know how to upload a project as a remix, (any ideas?) else I'd upload the faster, less choppier version. As you've noticed, I've fixed Blinky's eyes to look straight at you, as if a small beg to go to the project. The second one will add Inky and the last intermission sig will add Pinky. A 3-in-1 project with all Pac-Man Intermissions will add Clyde to the sig. At the moment, I'm working on a project (currently at the beginning, which is programming a small uninteractive Pac-Man game) following the ghosts' lives outside of Pac-Man. I got the idea from last night's dream of the same story. I don't have a sig idea yet for it...but it will come!
WindozeNT

EDIT: To my surprise, TinyPic still has it stored in their servers.
EDIT 2: If they already deleted it, then it's on Scratch's local servers.

Last edited by WindozeNT (2010-07-16 19:10:46)