Been a Long Time

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

Well, it’s been a while since my web site was up and running. Like 5 years or so? LOL.  I miss the Orion Engine, I still think it has great potential! Sometimes life gets in the way, and you simply stay busy surviving. I’m ready to bring this project back from the dead! Stay tuned!

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Still Here and Kicking

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Eric DeBrosse

I recently moved all of the servers into their own room.  And yes, I brought the source code server back up.  I’ve been eagerly reviewing the engine code.  The Orion Engine is one heck of a massive code base.  There are certainly some really great gems in there.    I finally have some time, and the funds, to get back into some serious development again.

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Message Forum Spam

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Eric DeBrosse

It amazes me how people are so aggressive at spamming my message forums with their bots.  Guess I’m just going to have to disable all of the forums for now, until I’m actually ready to use and moderate them.

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Team Foundation Server Back Online

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Eric DeBrosse

The Team Foundation Server ended up having some bad memory.  So, I replaced all of the memory.  I went ahead and upgraded it from 2 GB to 4 GB while I was at it.  It’s back online now.  Development has resumed again on the engine.  I’m finally making some progress with the attribute sorting methods!

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TFS Drive Failure

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Eric DeBrosse

My Team Foundation Server suffered a hard drive failure recently!  I hope to get the system back up and running again soon.  I need it in order to resume development on the engine.

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Team Foundation Server – Up & Running

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Eric DeBrosse

The new server hardware is up and running now.  It’s a Pentium dual-core system with 2GB of RAM.  This box will be used as the new source code repository.  It’s running Team Foundation Server 2010.  I used to use the database server to host Visual Source Safe 2005.  But now, the existing database server is just going to be used for the game databases only.

All of the Orion Engine solutions and projects are now converted to Visual Studio 2010.  Also, everything has been successfully added to Team Foundation Server 2010.  Once the source code tree grew really large, Visual Source Safe just became too slow and cumbersome for remote developers to use.  I’ll be able to use my new Team Foundation Server to allow outside developers/partners to easily access portions and/or all of the local source code repository.

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Upgraded to Fedora 13

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Eric DeBrosse

I finished upgrading the operating system on the web server/gatekeeper server today.  I installed a fresh copy of Fedora 13 Linux.  Everything seems to be working fine so far.

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New Server Hardware

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Eric DeBrosse

I have the entire source code tree upgraded to Visual Studio 2010. However, I’m still using Visual Source Safe 2005 for my source control. I’m in the process of building a new dual-core server that is powerful enough to run Team Foundation Server 2010. I still need a SATA hard drive and another stick of memory. I was going to use my database server, but I don’t want it to be loaded down with all of this other stuff.

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Team Foundation Server

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Eric DeBrosse

I’m in the process of upgrading the source control (version/revision tracking) for the Orion Engine source code.  I’m moving from an ancient Visual Source Safe 2005 database to Team Foundation Server 2010.  I need to upgrade the memory in the server, before it will let me configure TFS.  I hope I can get the TFS server up soon.  I’m also upgrading the entire source code tree to use Visual Studio 2010.

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Need People to Help

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Eric DeBrosse

I need to find motivated people who want to try and help me continue this project.  I need to find tool programmers, and 2D/3D artists.  If you are interested, then feel free to contact me.

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