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February, 2014 | Niotso
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A New Implementation of The Sims Online. All posts for the month February, 2014. Solution to a particular BSOD on startup on Windows 7. On February 23, 2014. The details of the BSOD were this: “Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer. * * STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A97E8, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)”. Okay, so this time, I booted back on to the flash dr...
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July, 2012 | Niotso
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A New Implementation of The Sims Online. All posts for the month July, 2012. On July 28, 2012. Yesterday marks an interesting day: the HIT disassembler has just been completed and can correctly disassemble every HIT file in both games, The Sims 1 and The Sims Online. And interestingly, 47 of the 96 HIT instructions are unused, entailing us with a lot less research. Here is the disassembly for the “sims loadloop” function, exported in newmain.hit:. Proudly powered by WordPress.
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December, 2012 | Niotso
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A New Implementation of The Sims Online. All posts for the month December, 2012. On December 23, 2012. Here’s the box and arrow layout for the Concessione DiPizza Professional Kitchen. Good job! And applied to the final version of EA-Land (2.1667.5.0) using this tool. So what else has been accomplished in the half year since the last status update? Niotso switched to git and is now hosted on Github. Binaries and third-party libraries were purged from the history and are instead now uploaded to http:/...
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April, 2012 | Niotso
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A New Implementation of The Sims Online. All posts for the month April, 2012. Where I’ve been for April 2012. On April 27, 2012. The loading process depicted by the Niotso engine. I’ve been busy with two things: studying for my 5 AP tests (albeit calculus and computer science are gimmies) and preparing for my Google Summer of Code project which was just accepted. FileHandler now only exports its public functions, so the DLL has shrunk down to 331kB. My thoughts on third-party help. On April 6, 2012.
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March, 2012 | Niotso
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A New Implementation of The Sims Online. All posts for the month March, 2012. The situation with SimAntics, and why IFF research has been rescheduled for later. On March 16, 2012. So the question then is, why don’t we start figuring out SimAntics? Let me explain the situation. This function creates, sets up, and returns the pointer to a C object, which the game uses to control the virtual machine. We can successfully interact with it, with some code as follows:. Let’s look at the upside of things&#...
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February, 2012 | Niotso
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A New Implementation of The Sims Online. All posts for the month February, 2012. On February 25, 2012. Three videos have been added to the Niotso YouTube channel. In the first video, I explained I would scan various items, and also submit the track checksums of the soundtrack CD to freedb and AccurateRip. With that in mind, here are the official CRCs:. I am not sharing these files on the Internet. Scans will be posted here when I get them done. On February 19, 2012. What the renderer is still missing, th...
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A New Implementation of The Sims Online. Join the Niotso Mailing List. Sign up to the Niotso mailing list to receive emails when the development phase changes (e.g. we progress from alpha- beta) and therefore new tester slots are open. Keep in mind that slots for testers prior to stress testing are limited and given out on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information, read the Release Schedule. And keep yourself updated. Proudly powered by WordPress. Theme: Parament by Automattic.
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A New Implementation of The Sims Online. Solution to a particular BSOD on startup on Windows 7. On February 23, 2014. The details of the BSOD were this: “Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer. * * STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A97E8, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)”. Okay, so this time, I booted back on to the flash drive, went into the repair tool again, an...
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June, 2013 | Niotso
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A New Implementation of The Sims Online. All posts for the month June, 2013. Select-A-Sim and Create-A-Sim cracked. On June 10, 2013. A fundamental event occurred today. But it requires a backstory. On February 24, 2013, I created a project called TSO-SE, with the following README.md:. TSO-SE TSO-SE ("The Sims Online Server Emulator") is not a serious project, but a curious one attempting to see just how far the game's original protocol can be cracked. How to do it yourself. Make a backup of sys/gameentr...
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A New Implementation of The Sims Online. Everything you see on this page can be downloaded from the repository, in source or binary form. Libvitaboy rendering of a TSO head in OpenGL. Niotso Character Animation System Demonstration. Proudly powered by WordPress. Theme: Parament by Automattic.
