Category Archives: Announcements

Time Keeps on Ticking Away

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Eric DeBrosse

The Rolling Stones once said “Time Waits For No One”.  The thought of this really bums me out.  There is never enough time in the day to do what I want!  Not only did I have the flu in January, … Continue reading →

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Network Driver

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Eric DeBrosse

Well, I’m still working on the network driver code for the engine.  I just can’t seem to get everything exactly the way I want.  Network code is just so hard to troubleshoot!  However, I’m sure it will come together soon … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 2018!

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Eric DeBrosse

Well, it’s a new year already!  I look forward to continue working on the Orion Engine SDK and the Been There Game software.  I feel this is going to be a great, productive year! I logged into the game servers … Continue reading →

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Christmas Break

Posted on December 16, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

Well, I finally have a fairly complete plan for the new network architecture.  I’m hoping to fully utilize my Christmas break, by working on the code!  I pray nothing at my day job comes up, that could steal my time … Continue reading →

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Web Site Performance

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

I have several domains and sub-domains that I like to have forwarded to various places on the Orion Engine site.  For example, support.orionengine.com redirects to www.orionengine.com/support/.  I used to use GoDaddy for this trivial service, but the performance and reliability … Continue reading →

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Entering the ‘Been There’ World Again

Posted on September 24, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

I reached a major milestone today!  The game server software suite is working again (now it’s all native 64-bit code) and successfully installed on the new server hardware.  Today, I was finally able to login to the game world again … Continue reading →

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3D in the Real World

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

Finally finished working on this two-gripper robot.  He is one of three in a machine that we recently programmed.  I used some game AI on him, lol.  He is pretty smart.  The customer was pretty impressed. Ok, so robots are … Continue reading →

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Orion Engine Plugin System

Posted on August 13, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

I’ve been pretty busy at work lately, which has hindered my development on the engine some.  However, I’m still pushing forward! The plug-in system (used by the Orion Engine SDK, Orion Script, Orion Genesis, Been There Game, etc.) has been … Continue reading →

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Booting Up The Old Hard Drives

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

Finally have everything updated and running in 64-bit.  I ran into some rather interesting scenarios where what worked in 32-bit, didn’t fly at all in 64-bit.  Anyway, it’s too hard and boring to explain here (lol).  The good thing is, all of the … Continue reading →

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Win64 and my ENTIRE weekend!

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

Well, I got the engine SDK, and all of the tools and applications running again under Visual Studio 2017.  Now, I’m trying to convert everything from the older Win32 (x86) architecture, over to the Win64 (x64) architecture.  Actually, I’m making it … Continue reading →

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