Showing posts with label Tat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tat. Show all posts

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Tat's Trivia Bot, v 3.6

Tat's Trivia Bot 3.7


Update: Latest Tat's Trivia Bot 3.69

See latest blog and version 3.61

See Tat's Trivia Bot, 3.65Though, I'm mostly out of the scripting game. I did half a decade ago, make one of the foremost trivia scripts ever, with more features than anything else anybody else could dream of. So, it's still pretty much top of the market, in a niche and aging market, but with advances in mIRC occasionally things break as some backwards compatibility breaks down. So I dusted off the old skills and found what changed and de-broke it.

Tat's Trivia Bot v.3.6

Well, it turns out the functionality between mIRC 6.35 and mIRC 7.1 has a noted difference in $read. If you call $read on a non-existent file, it will hit an error message and stop processing. Before it would continue but return $null to the $read. So $read($trivfil), then checking if there was anything there, caused it to crash correct answers in 7.1, because it wouldn't go beyond $read. So I searched the file and made sure to add a check to all the $read commands to see if the file exists before trying to read from it.

Previous blog notes about the script are good. Also, I use to own Tatarize.com which is worth noting for the sake of people googling me. And I do have an outpost at tatarize.nfshost.com. And the Mediafire host has question files etc that are worth looking at. If you want to get in touch. I have a yahoo.com mail account and Tatarize has always been my name for pretty much everything, so if you do a little math you can figure my email (not explicitly said for the sake of spam).

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Genetic Art: 118 polygon Tat


A few weeks back there was a quick claim to fame for an individual who created a nice 50 semi-transparent polygon version of the Mona Lisa using a genetic algorithm (bit more hill climbing than actual GA) and since I am presently doing something mildly similar (though for a completely different reason which will end up being fruitless). I figured I'd play around with his program a little bit to see if I could do anything fun with it.

Behold PolyGon Me sitting on a couch.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Tat's Trivia Bot, Tatarize

Tat's Trivia Bot 3.7

Tat's Trivia Bot 3.69
See Tat's Trivia Bot, 3.65See latest blog and version 3.61
See latest blog link: 3.6

Download Tat's Trivia Bot 3.56
http://tatarize.nfshost.com/

Update There's a newer blog link with 3.58 etc.
http://godsnotwheregodsnot.blogspot.com/2009/11/tats-trivia-bot-v-358.html

A number of years ago as a fun project I programmed a mIRC trivia bot. I pretty well finished and let the product sit there for a long time and finally didn't care to renew my web hosting. Mostly because the webhost I used was kind of crappy and wanted something like $100 a year. For a site that I myself rarely visited that was a pretty tall order. So I let the site drop though, like all things, there are still some following for my old script. Did you know you can play Doom 2 online now? In the quake engine? Like I said, still followings for everything. Although, the parallel doesn't hold because my Trivia Bot is almost certainly the most feature rich on the market even though I haven't done anything with it for years now.

Why do I bring up this dreary story of my former niche fame as a mIRC coder?
-- Google.

When I google "Tat's Trivia Bot" it links to mIRC Scripts where my trivia addon has consistently been the top download for years. Let that be a lesson for some of the other script sites out there. Don't demand people host their own tiny scripts because when they stop caring and their websites go down... you don't get the script anymore because you don't have it.

In any event. I'm almost unfindable for Tat's Trivia Bot because, largely, I have one small reference to Tat's Trivia Bot off towards the side and that's not enough to drive traffic to my site if people search for My (Tat) Script (Trivia Bot). So on the offchance that I'm googled, I'd like to be found. Tat's Trivia Bot.

As for my scripts themselves, they can be easily downloaded:
http://www.geocities.com/tatarize/index.html


I believe Tat's Trivia Bot 3.56 is the latest version released. My own internal version refers to itself as 3.58 and includes about two minor bug fixes and a xmlbuild function (because what is a tiny mIRC script without the ability to output xml to be read by RSS feeds?).

In any event, my hope is that my blog, and moreover, this post will show up when people google my old work.