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Austin
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It's finally all coming home.
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12 Nov 2007
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Hi all,
I'm back from my holiday in England and I had a very nice time, thanks for asking  .
HaP informs me that his forwarding address which is used for the HoverRace roomlist has been taken away from him, and he is unlikely to get it back. As a result HoverRace players cannot currently access the roomlist, and therefore cannot play online!
This game has been a mix of split sites thrown together to offer a way to play HoverRace over the past 3 years, and has slowly come back together, with the tracks and records returning to HoverRace.com; so this is the last piece in the puzzle, with the roomlist returning here.
I realised that even though HoverRace.com resolves to an IP shared by many websites hosted by my host, making it not possible to put the roomlist on here, I can use my username to access it when it resolves.
What this means, is that with a combination of www.hoverrace.com's IP address and /~sirbrock/imr/rl.txt on the end of it, it will load the IP dynamically each time you open the game.
HoverRace's roomlist address is written into the game itself, and can be adjusted using hex editing. The only issue is that this is not a practice everyone will be able to perform, so instead, a new install and patch will be made available for all players to download instead.
There is also potential for my PHP IMR to be used, which would mean I could let my computer rest at night (the HR.com Normal and Hamachi room run off of my PC).
I would like to thank HaP for a great service he offered to HoverRace for 3 years; without it, we'd of been buggered  .
Watch this space  !
4 Comments
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Comment #1 is by OldFriend at 18 Nov 2007 02:38 am:
Nice to see it all come back together. I think that the old website design and download queue from Grokksoft, should be added and have some decent layout for track searching added to it.
I have many ideas but I figure the
forum is best to talk about this.
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Comment #2 is by Austin at 07 Feb 2008 10:13 pm:
Please do OldFriend, I would appreciate that.
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