17.06.00 – 23.06.00

Whoops! I did it again, I left the letter at work and for some
reason my auto upload/backup script didn’t kick in. Sorry once again
for a late issues, I blame it on M$.

As of late, a lot of new of new shells have been popping up
but it seems as if there support, both users and third party coders, is
to say the least lacking. I realize that LiteStep is one of the most
popular shells because of its long life and massive user base but give
these new shells a chance. If you don’t they will cease to exist and
you may never know what your missing. Do you think that LiteStep has
always been as popular as it is now? I don’t think so. Just because
a new shell may be unstable at first, that is just about the time you
want to start using it and giving the coder(s) input on what you find
wrong with it and what ideas you may have. A project like LiteStep
pretty much has all the core features its going to have but a new shell
coder would more than likely be happy to include something you want if
you do some bug testing for him/her. So my point is, don’t shrugs off
all these new shell just because there not LiteStep. Give them a
chance and I think you will be pleasantly surprised by what you get.

- demigod

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[ Top News Stories ]
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- stepForum Open For Business (11:07 20.06 na)

stepForum is a webboard set up for anyone interested in
LiteStep or DarkStep to go and post about news, bugs, themes,
anything. It has an easy to use interface, saves prefs,
simple html, etc. If you run another shell, or are interested
in other shells, mail one of the moderators and a section
can be opened for it.

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[ Modules ]
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- scrsaver 1.2 ~ Pavil (11:23 20.06 ls)

scrsaver is a bang command module that allows for control of
your current selected screen saver.

New in this version:

+ Added !ScreenSaverStop bang.
* Optimized

url – http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel/
e-mail – pavel.vitis@seznam.cz
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel/)

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- lsplaylist 20000620 ~ MrJukes (10:36 13.06 ls)

This is a full mp3 player in both module and .exe format.
The module has all the standard mp3 player functions, all
wrapped up into a loadmodule. The app is skinnable, so he’s
hoping that we’ll get as many skinners as possible to put out
some skins for playback.

New in this version:

- Fixed a bug where it would lock up when playing a song with
no ID3 data.
- Fixed a transparency drawing problem. It would cut off the
left part of the image.
- Made shuffle a little more random.
- Fixed another drawing bug where it would cut off the right
part of the image.

%%UPDATE%% (12:52 22.06)

- Hopefully fixed the mousewheel problem.

- Added an equalizer. It is very basic right now, but it works.

- Made skinning a lot easier. You should now have a skin.ini
in the directory where all the skin images are located. This
holds all information about dimensions and images and such.
All other user preferences are still in lsplaylist.cfg. You
probably want to start over to make sure your skin is
compatible.

- I made my skin available for download. Try it out, it is
much better than the default.

- Added skin changing support. Right click in the main window
and choose “Change skin”. It doesn’t even stop the music!

- Added something called a GButton. They do nothing at all but
are useful for displaying an image in the main window. Look
at my skin, playback-skin_jukes.zip for details on how this
feature works.

url – http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/anders/Playback
e-mail – mrjukes@purdue.edu
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net)

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- cdtray 1.0 ~ Pavel (14:40 22.06)

cdtray.dll is a simple module that has three functions: eject,
close, and toggle. These are achieved via bang commands,
though he states in the readme that the toggle band command
is not supported by all cd-rom drives.

url – http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel/
e-mail – pavel.vitis@seznam.cz
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net/pavel/)

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- LSCount 1.1 ~ MrJukes (12:43 223.06 ls)

“If you haven’t visited litestep.net recently, you may be
unaware of LSCount. It is a module I have written that is
designed to try and get an accurate count of the number of
Litestep users. It would be appreciated if everybody who runs
Litestep could download and run this module. You can get the
most recent builds from
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/anders/lscount. I’m not on the
mailing list, so if you want to respond, reply to me at
mrjukes@purdue.edu . Thanks for your time and please please
run the module.”

url – http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/anders/lscount
e-mail -mrjukes@purdue.edu
(source: LS Mailing List ~ LSCount)

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[ Web Sites ]
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- LiteStep.com back again (11:40 20.06 ls)

My sitechecker came up with a change on litestep.com instead
of a domain error so I shoot over there and to my surprise
there it was. Nothing has changed since it went down but
keep and eye out.

url – http://www.litestep.com
(source: http://www.litestep.com)

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- Mindjunction Gets A Make Over (12:46 23.06 na)

I hopped on over to mindjunction and noticed that not only
were the updates(!), but there is a whole new look. Swing
on over there and keep posting those ideas!

url – http://www.mindjunction.com
(source: http://www.mindjunction.com)

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[ Programs ]
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- lsDrinks 2.17.1 ~ nf0 (11:37 20.06 na)

lsDrinks is a news gathering app that can list a ton of
various site updates into an .htm file or as shortcuts in
various folders. It requires Perl to be installed in order to
run.

New in this version:

- Fixed several sites including betanews.com and themes.org

url – http://www.10500bc.org/lsDrinks/
e-mail – nf0@10500bc.org
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net)

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[ Misc ]
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- NT Login Screens ~ J (12:50 23.06 ls)

Looks like J made up some NT/w2k login screens. Shoot over
to his site to check out the set that he has.

url – http://www.interq.or.jp/jupiter/philsci/porch_workshop_lsdoc/logon_screen.htm
e-mail – philsci@jupiter.interq.or.jp
(source: http://floach.pimpin.net)

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[ Top News Stories ]
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- Soylent Green, New V2_OS GUI (12:53 20.06 v2)

Another new GUI for V2_OS is in the works. From the ss’s of it
it looks pretty sweet. Not much on the specs rite now as it is
in version 0.0 and nothing to download as of yet. I’d keep
an eye on this one though, looks like its going to be pretty
sweet.

url – http://www.sci.fi/~murina/sg/
(source – http://www.v2os.cx/)

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[ Programs ]
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- SealAMP 2.0 ~ Florian Xaver (12:28 20.06 sel)

SealAMP is a mp2/mp3 player which features oszilloscop, you can
read and change/write the id3 tag, shows info about the mp2/mp3,
you can play forward/rewind, etc.

New in this version:

- Can read m3u file in the file list
- Other minor changes

url – http://members.aon.at/seal/
e-mail – free.seal@aon.at
(source: http://members.aon.at/seal/

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[ Web Sites ]
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- SEAL Source Archive ~ DthWlkr (12:35 20.06 sel)

“I have started a SEAL archive. It is for SEAL source, SEAL
script, or any thing else that may come up. I need help here
creating it. I need more source code. I code some but I will
need help creating the archive. I can’t go around and all the
source code my self. Plz help out and submit code. I will add
the code along with who submitted it and who wrote it(if they
are different).”

url – dthwlkr.homestead.com/seal.html
e-mail – the_ZETA_WOLF@hotmail.com
(source: http://pub8.ezboard.com/bsealsystem)

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[ Intresting ]
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- Pimpwar.com (12:53 23.06 na)

Pimpwar is an old BBS door game that has been ported to
a web interface. You basically play a pimp and you have to
stay alive and wealthy while maintaining your group of whores
and thugs, defending your turf, and a ton of other interesting
things. Drop on over, it’s a load of fun.

url – http://www.pimpwar.com
(source: http://www.pimpwar.com)

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[ Programs ]
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- QuickMenu Public Beta ~ SnoCorp (14:06 23.06 na)

“Some brand new stuff here. QuickMenu is a simple menu program
for launching other programs. It comes with a menu maker that
takes any directory (ie Start Menu) and makes a menu file from
it. It only comes with one skin since it’s so new but it’s
fairly easy to make your own. It’s described in detail in the
readme. Give it a try!”

url – http://ldi.virtualave.net/
e-mail – snocorp@idirect.ca
(source: http://ldi.virtualave.net/)

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