{"id":654,"date":"2010-10-24T21:03:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2013-01-23T17:43:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T16:43:27","slug":"ultrabundle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puppygames.net\/blog\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Ultrabundle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By now, some of you may have noticed the existence of a certain Ultrabundle<\/em> floating around on the Puppygames site. This is an experiment to see what happens when you, er, sell stuff ridiculously cheap. The results are quite interesting. Apart from a slight problem when Markus accidentally tweeted about it just as it went live (instantly killing our server as a deluge of Minecraft fans descended upon its weedy single core 1.6GHz processor with 512MB of RAM and 10mbps ethernet connection), it seems to be doing pretty well.<\/p>\n

To cut a long story short, and following the tradition of the Minecraft stats page<\/a> (except less, hm, dynamically updated at the moment – maybe Chaz should pop that on the front page!), we’ve sold 300<\/strong> Ultrabundles in the last 48 hours, and even while I typed this blog post another 3 came in. 4 sorry. Although that is something of a mockery compared to the 15,000 sales at three times the price that Minecraft made in the same time period \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

In traditional Puppygames style it’s not without its teething troubles of course. We’ve got a small problem with international characters in addresses sent from BMT which I’ll be thinking of a way to fix, which causes your registration not to “stick” and you have to keep registering – annoying. And Linux users using Sun JDKs are having some problems running Droid Assault, though it seems to work fine using OpenJDK here on Ubuntu.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately… <\/em>I’m just about to move house. Like, in about a few hours’ time. So I’ve got to pack this computer up right after the blog post and I won’t get back online for a few days to fix anything or deal with any troubles. Chaz will man the email support and fob everyone off (politely) until I get back online again.<\/p>\n

In other news – we were supposed to be releasing Revenge of the Titans 1.61 tonight but I completely forgot I was moving house when I wrote the schedule. So instead we’ll release it on Hallowe’en, and after your brains have been fried in Minecraft Hell, you can unwind with a short burst of the extreme frenetic terror that is Survival Mode. Survival Mode is awesome. I think it’s my favourite bit of the game so far.<\/p>\n

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Chaz Edit: if you’re having Linux version problems<\/strong> there’s some help (maybe) after the jump…<\/p>\n

Edit: and if you’re having problems with Ultratron<\/strong> and you have Norton<\/strong> installed read on too…
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Linux issues<\/h4>\n

Big thanks to ninjaguardsheep and Steven Saus for the following info, which has been collated from www.omgubuntu.co.uk<\/a>. Please bear in mind I’ve no idea what any of means – so any mistakes please point them out \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Hopefully Cas will fix things when he’s back online …<\/p>\n

Droid Assault error:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Linux users receiving error ‘JNLPSigningException[Failed to validate signing of launch file. The signed version does not match the downloaded version.]’ will need Open JDK packages for your distro installed for Droid Assault to run.<\/p>\n

Ubuntu users can get it by opening a terminal and entering: sudo apt-get install icedtea6-plugin<\/p>\n

Other distros can get it here… icedtea<\/a><\/p>\n

Creating launchers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The .jnlp files are installers not launchers for the game. After installing they *should* put a launcher on the desktop. You will have to activate these by giving them permission to run as programs – right click, select properties and check ‘Allow executing file as program’ under the permissions tab.<\/p>\n

Only Ultratron is creating a launcher on the desktop:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(using Ubuntu) Edit the properties as above and then copy it twice for Titan Attacks and Droid Assault:<\/p>\n

cp Ultratron.desktop TitanAttacks.desktop
\ncp Ultratron.desktop DroidAssault.desktop<\/p>\n

Edit the properties for each. You’ll see a path that looks like this:<\/p>\n

javaws “\/home\/USERNAME\/.netx\/cache\/http\/www.puppygames.net\/applets\/ultratron.jnlp”<\/p>\n

Change ultratron.jnlp to titanattacks.jnlp or droidassault.jnlp as appropriate. The icon files are:<\/p>\n

\/home\/USERNAME\/.netx\/cache\/http\/www.puppygames.net\/applets\/invaders_icon.gif
\n\/home\/USERNAME\/.netx\/cache\/http\/www.puppygames.net\/applets\/droidassault_icon.gif<\/p>\n

You should have functional launchers at this point.<\/p>\n

Also, if you move these launchers to the .local\/share\/applications folder in your home directory they will appear in the menu.<\/p>\n

Norton<\/h4>\n

Ok, so I’ve only had one report of this happening so far, but I’d be surprised if there was just the one case of this knowing Norton\/Symantec, so I’ve added this to our support page too …<\/p>\n

Game will not start, and desktop shortcut is missing it’s target file.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Norton has been reported to delete ultratron.exe when installed… without telling you!<\/em><\/p>\n

You’ll need to reinstall the game, excluding the game’s program folder (eg. C:\\Program Files\\Ultratron) from scanning. This folder will need to be added to both the Scan Exclusions section and the Real Time Protection Exclusions section in Norton’s settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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