Supa Comix

Hey everyone, we’re back again posting news left right and center. So we have a lot to let you know of:

Firstly we are moving steadily with the new website. Although it will not be completed by the 1st of July unfourtunatley. Once again i have restructured how it will work and so that has been a major set back with the website development. Other major things include that i have to do another website for my Open University course, as well as that we are also going camping for about 3 weeks from the 2nd of July to the 26th meaning that we are going to be away for a while.

Secondly, a lot of some minor projects are starting to take shape so they should start to see content after our return or even, if you’re lucky, before we go away. So watch this space for new content.

Thirdly, our minor project MyWikiBB is undergoing some slow development, but when we come back and when i have the time to update it i will have Alpha 3 ready. It’s nothing major in the way of something that you can interact with but it is some updates for how such a project is going.

Right so if you are a fan of the Supa Comix youtube channel you may have noticed that Mac Vs Windows now has no audio and My Name is Macbeth has been removed. This is becuase the greedy fat cats at Warner Media Group have deemed that our videos which make no money and are mainly just for fun have used their copyright and its wrong.So our fun and happiness must be resolved becuase they cannot get a gold plated hummer for their sons third birthday. But fear not i will be re-releasing the videos with the audio track edited so that it doesn’t contain their music.

A lot of people enjoyed the videos and its sad that someones greed affects that, and thus i intend to make sure that i can get better versions up on the internet so that we can still enjoy it. However if you want to have some fun with videos and stuff where you use a song of your favourite bands then i suggest that you do not upload it to youtube. Upload it somewhere that has a stronger back bone.

In retrospect this is something that new Supa Comix is going to resolve. And if you are having fun with a video we’re not going to allow WMG to bully us into removing it unless we get a proper court order. However the main aim is to allow you to use resources such as musicians and composers who submit their music for free for your use on the website. So such events are not happening and that both you and the composer of the music get to make something.

Edit we now have the new version fo My Name is Macbeth up on youtube again. This one with the conflicting audio removed, you can watch it here. We will get the other video up when we can find the original video file.

Well we have had a busy week, we now have the new version of the Mybb Forum Plugin: Latest News has now gone into Version 1.2. The new version now backs up every template that it adjusts, so that when you uninstall it the plugin returns everything back to normal. Download here.

Along with that we also have the 4th Episode of our Left 4 Dead Podcast which you can listen to here.

The Supa Comix website is coming along fine now, i am chugging quite quickly through the admin section of the website meaning that once thats done things should start to fit together a whole lot easier. Anywho thats all for now folks.

So we have another episode of our Left 4 dead blog now up and ready for you to listen to, along with that we also have a steam community group for you to join if you wish. You can listen to the episode here.

In other news, i am now working on the actual Supa Comix website. Though the administration area is still under construction for the website but we’ve had some great ideas for it and its only a matter of time before it is finished.

Although at the moment i am logged down with some Open Uni work i am currently working towards the Mybb Latest News Plugin Version 1.2. It’s not far away now but a few people have left reviews which had some good ideas for improvements for it and i am currently in the process of sticking those in. So expect to see them out soon.

Me and Adele should hope to start work on the next Episode of Is It Because I’m Green soon in the hope to get one last episode out before Christmas so stay tuned for news about that.

We have a new review of the Half Life 2 Total Conversion Mod: Die In Pain Rest in Peace Warm Up (DIPRIP) and it went up against 3 days of play time and got an excellent review.

In other news i am working overtime on the new Supa Comix website which is currently taking up a lot of my time. And thus the time spent playing this Mod was some time off from the website. But we have just fixed on a template and a new way to take Supa Comix its just a matter of time before the new website is completely finished.

The other good news is that with it Supa Kode is getting done as well, i will be creating an area within the forum for that projects basic data but i am toying with making a temporary website but more will be about that later.

Well i have just written a review of the single player mod for Portal: Portal Prelude. Click the image to read the review which can be found on the Supa Comix forums.

In other supa comix news i intend to using the myspace account that we have for supa comix in a vague attempt to get more interest for the website. Though there are a lot of projects that are currently being made we need to really work at getting it going a bit more. Though if you have a myspace add us as a friend here.

Also i will be working towards getting some kind of website up for Supa Kode, though it will require some form of documentation which unless i find a good thing to do it for me i may have to write myself just so that it does what i want it to do.

The new blog

Well as i have purchased Left 4 dead, a valve game, i have decided that in prepartion for this awesome looking game i will blog my adventures and other things that go on within this game. This is a mini project and i intend to see where it goes.

Due to the lacking activity within the team forum section of the zombie stress 2, i have decided that this mod will be on hold until the summer of 2009. If you are working on things for Zombie Stress 2 then you can continue to develop them but there may be no more official development of the mod until next summer.

Right then, its now the end of the month meaning that the newsletter will soon be posted tomorrow. So stay tuned for that, if you want to be in the newsletter just join the forum where your activation is automatic.

The Latest News plugin has now been confirmed on the Mybb website, you can view that here.

I have written a blog post on my blog which you can read here.

I am aware that the supa comix forum sports a mybb forum logo but that is becuase i uploaded a new version of the code and the image got replaced, but fear not i shall have it repaired tomorrow.

I am also planning to write a neat little script which will display browser popularity, if you come directly from entering www.supacomix.co.uk into your browser your browser name will have been added to the database meaning that i can see which browser actually is popular on this website. Mostly curiosity but it may prove very useful.

Anywho thats all for now, though note if you are a member of the zombie stress team please be aware that there is a thread awaiting your attention within the team forum. So please check that out.

Well today i have released an updated version of the Latest News plugin for Mybb forums. It is currently awaiting activation on the mybb website.

The new version includes:

- A fix for a problem with an array on the plugins main file

- Support for BB code

- Support for adding a ?fid= to the end of a url to fetch the latest threads from that forum.

Download and find out more here.

But i have some other news regarding it: due to me removing my old blog i have been without a personal blog for my to blog on and with me finding things out and wanting to tell stories about whats happened i wanted one. So i now have one at blogger.com, this blog is where i will post code findings and other personally related things for you to read and view. With this i have also added Adeles personal blog of Life, The University and Everything. Well more news and information coming out soon.