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<newsitem author="Festini" time="19:23:54" date="23-05-2008">
	<title>DSA-Route</title>
	<text>
		<p>Added DSA-Route plus source code to downloads page. There's also the <link 		uri="http://festini.device-zero.de/mappack.rar">map pack</link> with all the regional maps.</p>
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	<related name="DSA-Route">/Programming/Downloads/index.xml</related>
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<newsitem author="Festini" time="20:59:41" date="17-05-2005">
	<title>New Column</title>
	<text>
		<p>I have no idea why I'm still calling it a column, so please don't ask.</p>
		<p>At some point you have or will come into contact with Serenity. Maybe you saw the trailer or maybe
		  your co-workers just won't stop talking about it. Either way this might shed some light onto this 
		  whole thing.
		</p>
	</text>
	<related name="Serenity">/Writing/Columns/Serenity.xml</related>
</newsitem>

<newsitem author="Festini" time="7:47:53" date="29-11-2004">
	<title>NetSabacc and minor changes</title>
	<text>
		<p>Can you tell I love CSS? Finally having a popup menu that doesnt require 5 versions of crappy JS for every browser.</p>
		<p>Else, an online version of Sabacc is ready to be downloaded. Still lacking artwork and not fully completed, but all that's missing is looks and minor changes.</p>
	</text>
	<related name="NetSabacc">/Programming/Downloads/netsabacc.zip</related>
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<newsitem author="Festini" time="12:56:40" date="28-6-2004">
<title>Updates to Framework</title>
	<text>
		<p>Mainly added a little comfort and new console options (turning automatic lod selection on/off, allowing the water to be turned off).</p>
		<p>That and a bunch of highly embarrasing bugs have been removed. Good news, 8192x8192 terrains can now be loaded using either vertex arrays or unaligned data on nvidia cards (you can load them unaliged on ati of course, just dont expect any fps that a float has enough precision for and have your task manager ready).</p>
	</text>
	<related name="Framework">/Programming/Downloads/jstart.zip</related>
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<newsitem author="Festini" time="8:36:42" date="14-2-2004">
	<title>Minimal Updates and Changes</title>
	<text>
		<p>The updates are all concerning the JSFramework and are done every few days, so a new version is showing up in the download section regularly. The source is uploaded from time to time, but not as often. Anyone with a newer graphics card who wants to download it: let me know if there are extreme slowdowns when setting the VBOShort option in config.cfg to 1.</p>
		<p>The change: no more workarounds and hacks for Internet Explorer. CSS is old enough by now and if MS doesn't care about standards then I dont care about ugly "fixes" for their browser. Others don't seem to have any trouble getting it right. In other words, if you use IE and the layout is broken: tough. You made the decision to use it, live with the consequences.</p>
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<newsitem author="Festini" time="14:50:23" date="5-8-2003">
	<title>New and Old</title>
	<text>
		<p>I decided to rewrite the terrain renderer from scratch. Its using the VBO-extension, blends a little differently between base and detail textures (you can now color the terrain or even override the detail textures a lot easier). Texture Compression and finally a quite nice occlusion culling make it worth the time invested.
		</p>
	</text>
	<related name="Downloads">/Programming/Downloads/index.xml</related>
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<newsitem author="Festini" time="18:00:38" date="5-6-2003">
	<title>OpenGL MiniGUI</title>
	<text>
		<p>After uploading the source a while ago I finally have the first real dialogue to show. Its not nice to look at and too much os-like, but without an artist it's better than nothing. The binary is a character creation screen for a game im working on, while the source is the updated source and old "playground". The testform.h files should show how to use it. No other documentation so far.</p>
	</text>
	<related name="Downloads">/Programming/Downloads/index.xml</related>
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<newsitem author="Festini" time="13:26:42" date="22-5-2003">
	<title>New Columns</title>
	<text>
		<p>Finally uploaded a column that was wasting space on my hard drive for too long. While i was at it I wrote two more and took the liberty to make the old one the last one. But you will never know anything about that. At least you wouldnt if I hadn't just told you.</p>
	</text>
	<related name="Columns">/Writing/Columns/index.xml</related>
</newsitem>

<newsitem author="Festini" time="14:06:16" date="18-4-2003">
	<title>Letzte Worte</title>
	<text>
		<p>Well, the above will at least be the last words in german for a while. With less than 10% of the visitors from german speaking countries i can't go on and use a language that half the german youth doesn't understand anyway. So, in case you're not understanding a single word.. it would be pointless to finish this sentence.</p>
		<p>I'll go over some parts of this site and translate them, but don't expect to find both languages in the end. If you don't speak english, how did you manage to go "online" anyway?</p>
	</text>
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