Obstacles

Well, I was about to start on Toadman 3, but then I realized that I had no sprite editor to draw the graphics with. I used to use Pixel Plus 256, but it's a DOS program and my laptop won't run it, because either I have Vista or because my graphics card doesn't support 320X200 resolution. I can use DosBox, but that's just not convenient. I don't have Photoshop, and Gimp is a nightmare to work with.

Instead, I've been working on my own sprite editor in the mean time. Just something simple but good enough to get what I want done. Besides, I've always wanted to make a sprite editor, one that's customized my way. I hope to having it functioning well enough in a couple weeks so I can start using it.

Forum Back Online

Delta Code's forum is back online. I added a simple CAPTCHA system for now. CAPTCHA is just some fancy acronym that basically means any test to fight off web bots. The test I added is a validation code. The code you enter must match the code displayed in the adjacent image before you can post to the forum.

We'll see how the system works. If it's not enough, then I'll have to make it more complex in the future.

Forum Under Attack

Delta Code's forum has been spammed heavily lately, that's why it is currently down.

When I first made it, I didn't add many spam defenses since, let's face it, Delta Code's not that popular of a site.

But the site has received a large boost in unique IP hits. The visitor counter has shot up from about 10 a day to about 1,000 a day. I highly doubt that these numbers are credible. Spam and spider bots are likely the culprit.

So until I patch up the forum's weak areas, it'll be down for the time being.