News

May 4, 2005
HCl, TanGO and I are working on new patches and enhancements for the Vision engine (WCP/SO) at a pace we never experienced before. Teamwork really brings it all together ! Expect new entries in HCl's website's Information area soon.
May 2, 2005
A few months ago I worked on a better menu editor wich allows for exporting/importing menu images like buttons, background, etc. It also has a very basic builtin hex editor to allow to modify each chunk is a 'tree' view and a palette editor for the images in there. I forgot about it after Standoff's project leader Eder had finished using it to make the new menus for Episode 2; but I'll try to fix the little bugs that require workarounds and make it available soonafter.
January 10, 2005
The prologue of another great mod for SO, Standoff has been released ! I worked on the mod, so I feel proud :) The project leader Eder wanted to edit the menu screens for the second part, so I made him a small editor. You can download it in the files section.
November 8, 2002
Fans rejoice ! Unknown Enemy is out ! (I you want to know, I made mission 8.) As for this site, don't hold your breath for new stuff. I have not much spare time to make new programs, but keep checking from time to time, I might come up with something :)
November 7, 2001
Moved again, thanks to the CIC I've got a new home. I also updated some links.
April 17, 2001
Quick update. I am very busy, got two jobs, wife expecting twins, BUT trying to help with Unknown Enemy. Check this project out, as it's really promising. Also updated the links in the links section.
October 20, 2000
After months (preparation and celebration of my wedding), work on adapting the TRE decompression routine for Delphi has resumed. For those who are sceptical, integrating assembly code ripped from WCP's main EXE into a structured language like Delphi isn't easy as baking apple pie. Stay tuned, but don't expect it to be ready soon.
May 16, 2000
I had to move again. Sorry for the inconvinience. Please update your bookmarks for http://www.popsiclepete.cjb.net so you'll ever find me wherever I have to move. This is also valid for HCl's WC site, witch will be located at http://www.popsiclepete.cjb.net/hcl/wc.htm soon.
May 4, 2000
I am now working (in my few spare times) on a windowed TRE manager that would support not only extracting, but also creating the TRE, deleting and adding files in it. Then I intend to use the code to make a mission distribution system "a la winzip" using TREs.
April 18, 2000
This page and (HCl's archived pages) have moved to the Wing Commander Development Center ! I also intend to work on some projects in the near future with the WCDC, so stay tuned !

Also updated the link to Thomas Bruckner's site, who will also be hosted on the WCDC from now on.

As I write this update, The Wing Commander Source Code Release Project has a little less than 170 signatures. Tell your friends, tell everyone to sign on !
April 3, 2000
Sad news, fellow WC fans. The Wing Commander CIC has reported in their March 30, 2000 news entry an Origin's internal note telling the employees that the company would focus only on Ultima Online and therefore will drop their plans for Wing Commander, at least for now. This means we may have to wait a long time to see any new Wing Commander, if we ever. For WC fans, this is the time to get involved in the fans projects. Problably the most important (and easiest for every fan to contribute) is The Wing Commander Engine Source Code Release Project witch basivly require for every fan who wants to contribute only to sign the petition. You don't have anything to lose, but plenty to gain by just sending you name and e-mail adress to Quarto(mmajewski@usa.net), Jumper (jumper@wcescrp.cjb.net) or me (popsiclepete@hotmail.com). Thanks.
February 4, 2000
Now that I host HCl's old WC editing site, it will be located at http://members.xoom.com/PopsiclePete/hcl/wc.htm. I also updated the link in the links section. Also updated are the link to Thomas Bruckner's site and Unknown Enemy.
December 22, 1999
First, I'd like to thanks our WC editing Guru HCl for for the work he's done for all the WC fans those past years. You'll be missed, Mario.

As alot of WC fans would have liked his site to remain on-line, we arranged to keep it up here. Stay tuned, it should be up soon, but PLEASE don't expect new updates each day as it will most problably never be updated once it's there. The reason I ask you this is that HCl's site is BIG, and I don't want any trouble with XOOM's administrators complaining my site generating too much traffic :(

I also hope to find people to keep the WC1 conversion project alive. It should be easy as most of the ships conversions are already done. If you think you could help, e-mail me !
May 14, 1999
Noticed some changes on my page ? I had to make SOMETHING for a class I have, so I changed the page a bit. I know, the frames may not be great, I had to use them. I also posted my newest version of my WCP mission compiler console for HCl's mission compiler. You can find the mission compiler on the file page of his site. The new version of my console should help reduce bugs when making new missions by creating automaticly the CRC table (declarations), and it has other nice features. It still requires the user to know how to code the missions though :)
May 4, 1999
I wanted to rip of the wingman voices in WC2 and found no utils to do it. So I made mine :) You can grab it here. I tried it on every speech file I found and it worked, but again, I might have missed something. E-mail me if you find any bug !
April 21, 1999
Since there seems to be ALOT of confusion about what my conversion programs can or cannot do, and even what it does seems confusing, I made a little page about my audio convertion tools. Please read it and e-mail me if you have any more questions. I've seen many people asking many questions about these tools but never to me. I'd like to clear thing up.
April 14, 1999
I took a little 15 minutes this morning to make this page less annoying than it was :) and I also added some descriptions to the files. It's still not pretty, but yet better that a white page, isn'it ? BTW, as XA reserch isn't done yet, I will continue to consider WAV2IFF and IFF2WAV as beta. As soon as I can learn something on that format, I'll work on upgrading them (or replace them).